:00:24. > :00:44.the do 120 Thames Valley officers prepare for raids at 11 locations,
:00:45. > :00:49.all linked to child exploitation. Ten men are arrested in total. The
:00:50. > :00:53.majority of today's raids took place here in Aylesbury. News is already
:00:54. > :00:56.spreading and I have had lots of people coming up and talking to me
:00:57. > :01:04.about it. Police want to reassure the local community. Five of those
:01:05. > :01:10.arrested so far have declared their ethnicity as Pakistani. One
:01:11. > :01:16.Bangladeshi, one Indian, and one of black Caribbean heritage. This is
:01:17. > :01:20.not about ethnicity. No matter what someone's ethnic background, it is
:01:21. > :01:25.up to the police to protect victims and bring offenders to justice.
:01:26. > :01:29.Police are working with Buckinghamshire county council on
:01:30. > :01:33.the investigation. It is only weeks since the council's children
:01:34. > :01:38.services were branded inadequate. If we looked at the Ofsted report, we
:01:39. > :01:41.would see this is an area working with child sexual exportation that
:01:42. > :01:46.Ofsted cited as one of our strengths. We have invested more
:01:47. > :01:50.money over the years and recently, into putting more workers into place
:01:51. > :01:56.to work with schools, with Barnardos. We really do see this as
:01:57. > :01:59.an absolute priority. Today's arrests only took place because two
:02:00. > :02:04.victims came forward to police. Officers say with they were not
:02:05. > :02:11.teenagers at the time of the incident. Police say they may well
:02:12. > :02:16.be other victims in the local area and are now doing all they can to
:02:17. > :02:20.come forward `` to encourage them to come forward.
:02:21. > :02:23.The Prime Minister David Cameron says he's shocked at the decision to
:02:24. > :02:26.allow a convicted rapist to become a taxi driver in Milton Keynes.
:02:27. > :02:28.Nadeem Kiani was granted a licence in 2011, despite serving
:02:29. > :02:32.Three people have resigned, including the mayor of
:02:33. > :02:34.Milton Keynes, who offered the man a character reference.
:02:35. > :02:46.News there was once a rapist among the rank is still sinking in here.
:02:47. > :02:51.Taxi drivers in Milton Keynes are struggling to understand how he was
:02:52. > :02:58.ever given a licence. Particularly as councillors knew of his criminal
:02:59. > :03:03.past. He was granted a licence in April 2011. Even though he was
:03:04. > :03:11.convicted for a series of violent rapes in 1994. He was jailed for
:03:12. > :03:14.eight years. Speaking to a journalist on three Counties Radio,
:03:15. > :03:20.the panellists said he was shocked by the bad decision. Authorities
:03:21. > :03:24.should check whether taxi drivers are fit and proper people, they
:03:25. > :03:27.should do bureau checks, and it is obvious in this case that the
:03:28. > :03:33.council followed the correct procedures but made a bad decision.
:03:34. > :03:38.This man stood down as the town's mayor after it was revealed he gave
:03:39. > :03:45.a character reference. Two other councillors have also resigned. The
:03:46. > :03:48.BBC has made repeated attempts to contact Shafiq without success. He
:03:49. > :03:54.told Milton Keynes citizen that he did not know about the man's
:03:55. > :03:59.previous convictions at the time he gave the character reference. He
:04:00. > :04:03.told the local newspaper he felt he was made the scapegoat for the
:04:04. > :04:09.decision of others. The case has called for a review of procedures at
:04:10. > :04:11.the council. It has emerged several other drivers had criminal
:04:12. > :04:17.convictions. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire have
:04:18. > :04:19.been selected as areas where badgers will be vaccinated, to try
:04:20. > :04:22.and stop the spread of bovine TB. Animals in counties that border
:04:23. > :04:24.Gloucestershire and Somerset will be given
:04:25. > :04:27.the vaccination from next March. The government says it will help
:04:28. > :04:29.farmers with half In two weeks' time,
:04:30. > :04:37.Scotland will be going to the polls to decide whether or not
:04:38. > :04:39.to become an independent country. But, what do people in Oxfordshire
:04:40. > :04:42.think? Our Political Reporter Helen Catt
:04:43. > :04:44.has been to Henley, 500 miles from the north east coast
:04:45. > :05:06.of mainland Scotland, to find out. It was Scottish band The Proclaimers
:05:07. > :05:13.he once told us they would walk 500 miles. We are voting yes for
:05:14. > :05:18.independent Scotland because we want to see a fairer and more just
:05:19. > :05:26.society. We think that is much more possible if we run all our own
:05:27. > :05:30.affairs. Henley on tends is 500 miles from the north`eastern tip of
:05:31. > :05:34.the Scottish mainland, but it is not hard to find Scottish influence
:05:35. > :05:41.here. Even if county council comes from north of the border. I need to
:05:42. > :05:45.go back to Scotland every year and sniff the air. Living here, he will
:05:46. > :05:51.not get a vote. If I had a choice, I would like Scotland to remain part
:05:52. > :05:57.of the United Kingdom. Scotland has fought above its weight for the last
:05:58. > :06:00.300 years in helping to make the UK what it is. A yes vote later this
:06:01. > :06:04.month would start the end of Britain as we know it, so are people here
:06:05. > :06:10.interested in what is happening north of the border? I'm not
:06:11. > :06:15.involved or behind it at all really. Fairly interested. I was in Scotland
:06:16. > :06:23.a month ago, and it seems that they are very confused about what they
:06:24. > :06:27.want. I am very interested and frustrated that we don't have any
:06:28. > :06:31.say in it. Scotland's future direction will be decided by people
:06:32. > :06:38.currently living there on 18th of September.
:06:39. > :06:40.Football, and Oxford are out the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.
:06:41. > :06:42.They lost 2`0 to Cheltenham in the first round.
:06:43. > :06:45.Oxford have only won one match so far this season,
:06:46. > :06:50.We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow.
:06:51. > :06:58.The weather's next. Good night.
:06:59. > :07:06.There will be a fair amount of cloud around tonight, and it will stay
:07:07. > :07:12.very mild. Temperatures falling to around 14 Celsius, around 12 Celsius
:07:13. > :07:15.in the countryside. A lot of cloud first thing tomorrow morning. That
:07:16. > :07:19.will start to thin and break during the morning to offer decent amount
:07:20. > :07:22.of sunshine. The best of the sunshine through the afternoon,
:07:23. > :07:28.allowing temperatures to rise higher than today, up to 23 Celsius, with a
:07:29. > :07:33.relatively light wind. Staying settled thanks to high pressure over
:07:34. > :07:36.the next few days. They may be more cloud than sunshine. The sunshine
:07:37. > :07:42.will be bright with sunny spells in places. Next, the National
:07:43. > :07:48.Good evening. Thankfully over the next few days temperatures are not
:07:49. > :07:52.that likely to be too close to the 14 degrees we saw across North West
:07:53. > :07:57.Scotland today under grey and gloomy skies. But more akin to the 23
:07:58. > :08:00.degrees we saw in Northolt under fairly sunny conditions. Over the
:08:01. > :08:05.next few days we have a south-easterly drift that. Pushes
:08:06. > :08:06.away the cloud we've seen across Scotland and