02/09/2014 BBC Oxford News

the do 120 Thames Valley officers prepare for raids at 11 locations,

all linked to child exploitation. Ten men are arrested in total. The

majority of today's raids took place here in Aylesbury. News is already

spreading and I have had lots of people coming up and talking to me

about it. Police want to reassure the local community. Five of those

arrested so far have declared their ethnicity as Pakistani. One

Bangladeshi, one Indian, and one of black Caribbean heritage. This is

not about ethnicity. No matter what someone's ethnic background, it is

up to the police to protect victims and bring offenders to justice.

Police are working with Buckinghamshire county council on

the investigation. It is only weeks since the council's children

services were branded inadequate. If we looked at the Ofsted report, we

would see this is an area working with child sexual exportation that

Ofsted cited as one of our strengths. We have invested more

money over the years and recently, into putting more workers into place

to work with schools, with Barnardos. We really do see this as

an absolute priority. Today's arrests only took place because two

victims came forward to police. Officers say with they were not

teenagers at the time of the incident. Police say they may well

be other victims in the local area and are now doing all they can to

come forward `` to encourage them to come forward.

The Prime Minister David Cameron says he's shocked at the decision to

allow a convicted rapist to become a taxi driver in Milton Keynes.

Nadeem Kiani was granted a licence in 2011, despite serving

Three people have resigned, including the mayor of

Milton Keynes, who offered the man a character reference.

News there was once a rapist among the rank is still sinking in here.

Taxi drivers in Milton Keynes are struggling to understand how he was

ever given a licence. Particularly as councillors knew of his criminal

past. He was granted a licence in April 2011. Even though he was

convicted for a series of violent rapes in 1994. He was jailed for

eight years. Speaking to a journalist on three Counties Radio,

the panellists said he was shocked by the bad decision. Authorities

should check whether taxi drivers are fit and proper people, they

should do bureau checks, and it is obvious in this case that the

council followed the correct procedures but made a bad decision.

This man stood down as the town's mayor after it was revealed he gave

a character reference. Two other councillors have also resigned. The

BBC has made repeated attempts to contact Shafiq without success. He

told Milton Keynes citizen that he did not know about the man's

previous convictions at the time he gave the character reference. He

told the local newspaper he felt he was made the scapegoat for the

decision of others. The case has called for a review of procedures at

the council. It has emerged several other drivers had criminal

convictions. Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire have

been selected as areas where badgers will be vaccinated, to try

and stop the spread of bovine TB. Animals in counties that border

Gloucestershire and Somerset will be given

the vaccination from next March. The government says it will help

farmers with half In two weeks' time,

Scotland will be going to the polls to decide whether or not

to become an independent country. But, what do people in Oxfordshire

think? Our Political Reporter Helen Catt

has been to Henley, 500 miles from the north east coast

of mainland Scotland, to find out. It was Scottish band The Proclaimers

he once told us they would walk 500 miles. We are voting yes for

independent Scotland because we want to see a fairer and more just

society. We think that is much more possible if we run all our own

affairs. Henley on tends is 500 miles from the north`eastern tip of

the Scottish mainland, but it is not hard to find Scottish influence

here. Even if county council comes from north of the border. I need to

go back to Scotland every year and sniff the air. Living here, he will

not get a vote. If I had a choice, I would like Scotland to remain part

of the United Kingdom. Scotland has fought above its weight for the last

300 years in helping to make the UK what it is. A yes vote later this

month would start the end of Britain as we know it, so are people here

interested in what is happening north of the border? I'm not

involved or behind it at all really. Fairly interested. I was in Scotland

a month ago, and it seems that they are very confused about what they

want. I am very interested and frustrated that we don't have any

say in it. Scotland's future direction will be decided by people

currently living there on 18th of September.

Football, and Oxford are out the Johnstone's Paint Trophy.

They lost 2`0 to Cheltenham in the first round.

Oxford have only won one match so far this season,

We're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow.

The weather's next. Good night.

There will be a fair amount of cloud around tonight, and it will stay

very mild. Temperatures falling to around 14 Celsius, around 12 Celsius

in the countryside. A lot of cloud first thing tomorrow morning. That

will start to thin and break during the morning to offer decent amount

of sunshine. The best of the sunshine through the afternoon,

allowing temperatures to rise higher than today, up to 23 Celsius, with a

relatively light wind. Staying settled thanks to high pressure over

the next few days. They may be more cloud than sunshine. The sunshine

will be bright with sunny spells in places. Next, the National

Good evening. Thankfully over the next few days temperatures are not

that likely to be too close to the 14 degrees we saw across North West

Scotland today under grey and gloomy skies. But more akin to the 23

degrees we saw in Northolt under fairly sunny conditions. Over the

next few days we have a south-easterly drift that. Pushes

away the cloud we've seen across Scotland and