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Coming up tonight: tributes to the baby girl

whose body was found near a footpath in Oxford -

dozens pay their respects at her funeral

For someone who has been on this earth for such a short time you have

touched the minds and hearts of people across this communitx and the

entire country. Everybody should have someone to say goodbye.

We'll also have the latest on a major police investigation

Nine men have been arrested in early morning raids in Oxford -

over historical child sex abuse offences

And later on: tracing the p`st with 2,000 fossils -

the plumber from Dorset displaying his collection

More than 100 people have paid their respects at the funeral

of a baby girl, whose body was found near a footpath

Despite numerous public appeals, the baby's mother

The coroner ruled she was stillborn when she was discovered in February.

Police named the girl Raihana and invited the public to attend

They didn't know her or her mother, but people came from far and wide

to share their compassion for a baby born sleeping and abandoned

Even though we don't know who this little girl is,

She is one of our own, one of our community

and we stand here today as lembers of the community

and we care that she has a dignified and loving funeral.

Despite repeated appeals for her mother to come

forward, police have not been able to trace her -

so they named her child Raihana meaning "Heaven's flower".

Over the last two weeks we've been inundated

with messages of support sympathy but above all

We just want to pay our respects. I feel really sorry for the b`by and

the mother as well. My heart goes out to her. It's really hard. I d

like to show our love and rdspect. To have nobody there when she is

buried is just too much. Solebody has to be here to show our love and

respect. Among the mourners -

Suzi Horsley from Headington, and wants Raihana's mother

to know she's not alone. I would hope that she knows

that the public does not condemn her in any way

because what she's been through is horrifying, she lust have

been terribly terribly frightened and I hope that somewhere somebody

knows and is looking after her. It was in February that a b`by's

body was found by a member of the public wrapped in a black bag

close to a footpath in Marston. Unharmed and still with her

umbilical cord attached - a coroner later ruled

she'd been stillborn. More than ?2000 has

so far been raised in Raihana's a charity supporting

bereaved families. It's very taboo and although

awareness is being raised and people are starting to break the shlence it

is incredibly isolating and it is so important for people to know there

is support out there. Raihana had touched the hearts

and minds of not just this community but across the entire country

and he made her a promise to keep Next tonight - a doctor frol Oxford,

who gave evidence for the ddfence is appealing

against being struck off. Doctor Waney Squier,

worked as a consultant neuro-pathologist at the

John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Her lawyers told the High Court

she'd not been dishonest The 67-year-old insists she disputes

the mainstream view. The case is expected

to last the week. Nine men have been arrested in early

morning raids in Oxford on suspicion of historical

child sex abuse offences. It's claimed the offences are linked

to two teenage girls in Oxford They're appealing for

what they think could be Peter Cooke was at the police

briefing - early this morning. 5am at a police

training warehouse in Oxfordshire. A pre-raid briefing to officers

ahead of an operation tackling childsexual exploitation

in Oxford. This is the first time the ledia

has been given access to an operation

targeting this sort of crimd. Operation Rolo, as it's called,

is the largest of its kind ever

undertaken by Thames Valley Police. More than 150 officers

raiding 11 addresses across Oxford. This investigation involves alleged

offences against two teenagd victims This morning,

officers arrested nine men This is the fourth

major operation of this kind carried out by the force

in the last four years. Detectives also launched

a witness appeal today, linked to one

of the alleged victims. She was kidnapped

by a group of Asian men in 2004 At the time, she was

16 years old but was not sexually She was told that

she was going to be sexually assaulted and she was

driven to Cuttesloe Park, having been let out of the vehicle,

she managed to escape from the men Eventually,

convinced that they had gond, she started

to walk back towards Oxford. The police are now trying

to trace a passing motorist The lady was between 40 and 50,

at that time, that was 12 ydars ago. Curly red or brown hair

and she could have The force says it remains

committed to supporting I'm aware that people

may hear this and it may remind them of something

that's happened to them which they If that's the case,

I would encourage people to We will listen to you and

we will support you. The men arrested today

are being held and questiondd Brain tumours kill more children

and adults aged under 40 than any other cancer,

so why isn't more money being spent That's the question

being posed by a charity in Milton Keynes which has started

an awareness campaign. At the moment, just one per cent

of cancer research funding Symptoms can range from blurriness

to headaches and nausea. Mosirmi Bakshi has been

to meet one family affected Two generations of one family

grabbing some playtime before the children head off to nursery in

Milton Keynes but there is someone Caroline's mother Virginia succumbed

to a brain tumour at the agd of 56. A much loved mother of four,

she died before her She was a trained archivist

but she gave that up to have four daughters,

she always wanted for daughters That's the saddest thing

for me and my sisters. We all have children now and she's

has never met any of them. We can't ask her for her advice

and we can't come and ask to babysit the children,

or any of those things. We know that all

the grandchildren are missing out so much

not having her there. Just 1% of national cancer research

funding is spent on a number this Buckinghamshire

charity wants to see changed. This pernicious disease

is the biggest cancer killer of children and adults

under the age of 40. It's been cruelly underfunddd.

In fact, it's been acknowledged in a funding report that by the

Petitions Committee that successive governments have failed

brain tumour patients. Enough's enough we need

parity of funding and we nedd And the work to drive up

survival rates takes place Here, tumours are put

in cell cultures and new drugs are tested on them to

see whether the cells live or die. But the research is

cripplingly expensive. With more funding we could lake

quicker progress trying to find new therapies and bho

markers and drive them into clinical trials for better

treatment and diagnostics. Caroline's mother died

almost a decade ago. In that time, treatments

have barely changed. More money could mean more survivors

and more families spending The shortlists for the Great British

High Streets have been annotnced Chipping Norton has made it

for the second year running - challenging Thame for the bdst

small market town. Meanwhile, Banbury will contest

the best town centre award. Judges are due to visit

the nominated finalists, before the winners are

announced in December. An Oxfordshire restaurant h`s been

named the fourth best restatrant in the world by the trip advisor

website as the best in Brit`in and the fourth best in the world.

I'll be back with the headlhnes at 8 o'clock and another news

Sally Taylor is next - with the rest of today's stories.

of American Football glamour to Guilford

Campaigners calling for improved funding for schools in West Sussex

have handed in a petition to Downing Street. The head of every state

school in the county has signed a letter to the Prime Minister Theresa

May, asking for an extra ?20 million in emergency funding. They claim the

authority has the worst funded in the country and without the extra

money they will have to makd cuts. Schools in a part of Berkshhre

are so desperate for teachers that they're appealing to parents to help

plug gaps in the classroom. The Downland Teacher Alliance

is looking for graduates who might It covers a series of primary

and secondary schools near Newbury. But a rural location in an `rea

of high housing costs means extra difficulties for the

school when it comes When you put repeated

adverts out for maths teachers and then look in the Times

educational and you see the amount of maths jobs that are going,

it makes you realise that actually, this isn't the route we need to go,

we need to look differently and bit With the school's outstanding

status from Ofsted, getting teachers to stay

here once they've seen The difficulty's getting thdm

through the gate in the One group who know the school

already are its pupils' pardnts So a letter has gone home to see

who might be interested in going back to school to retrain

on the job as teachers. In today's year ten physics class,

former NHS radiologist Nicola. They wanted to use the skills

and the degree I already had worked so hard for many years ago, and I

always fancied teaching, I think it's a fascinating profession,

and from what I've seen so far, Our trainees do three

days in school and a day training with us specifically,

and then some days over the year with Oxford Brookes Univershty,

who do the PGCE and the accreditation side of things

while we do the actual practical Of course long-term success

will rely on continuing From a department that even

by Whitehall standards has It's the opposite of

Nimby-ism; those who oppose In Surrey, a group of residdnts

fed-up with a site that's bden derelict for more than a decade

are backing a regeneration scheme. The Brightwells site in Farnham

is home to the old Redgrave Theatre but redevelopment has consistently

been met with opposition. Now those who are keen to sde

the town move forward Sounds like you're very biased.

There are two sides. Those who want to see this rather rundown corner of

Bono and redeveloped feel that up till now their voices haven't been

heard. -- fine. Somewhere for the kids to come in this area of town is

just run and depressing. Whdn the bigger we will be to come hdre

rather than drive to all thd shot, they can be here, down the road bit

safer and closer. Plans for new shops, restaurants, cinema `re well

advanced promised judicial review of the local council 's actions as to

1600 people people signing one residents petition of support. We

don't want any further delaxs. We have a derelict building in Farnham,

we want to regenerate its and we want people to come here and enjoy

it, and Brightwells is the way forward. Opponents say they are the

stamping block. The only thhng that is standing in the way is that our

council, Waverley, cannot obtain commercial funding and 14 ydars it

has failed to do so. One of the reasons it has failed to do so is

that shopping is changing, `nd there is a lot of shopping in this

development, a lot of retail. Clicks are replacing bricks and people

aren't doing so much shopping. The flexible solar to online brhckbats

for the scheme's opponents. With any debate you have debate on both

sides, particularly online where things become more vocal, pdrm may

be offensive on both sides. One side thing both sides agree on is that

Farnham is losing out. He might once have been forgiven for

equating the myth of the grdy pound rather than a digital econoly but

with 400 digital agencies in the town, the seaside report thd direct

result is gaining a petition is a digital hub. Such is the spded of

its growth that one in five of its posts is unveiled. We are looking at

how the sector is planning to deploy its own future. The point is to do

something, so whether it's building a website, or getting involved in

charity work... Turning the tables on the employer. Leila is 16 and

interviewing Arabella, the founder of a branding and web design agency.

The chat will become a pod cast available to online. It might be

better just to engage with ts as people because we are honest enough,

we're bold enough, can give you the answers you need, and by engaging

with the right people, you're more likely to be able to attract them to

employment in the future. Bournemouth and Poole's Dightal

economy has been run over stccess but sustaining that growth `nd

filling empty positions has been a challenge. There is a big shortage

of talent out there, the cldarly in digital roles, there is an `mazing

amount of momentum and noisd happening about this area, we are

all very excited about that, and one of the key challenges is to maintain

that. The that 1000 14 to 18 year today work invited to see what the

landscape offered them. The need for digital skills is increasing. I

would be surprised there was in an organisation or agency that doesn't

have vacancies. There are always jobs on offer. Industry leaders want

to engage this generation now, the next wave of talent who

instinctively understand technology better than anyone else. Wh`t

they're looking for is much more to do with fitting in with the company

culture then it is to do a particular convocations, although

incredibly important to start off, to engage your passion with

something. While salaries on the coast don't match London, nowhere

has grown as rapidly as Dorset. The focus now is what can be done to

keep this digital economy in the fast lane.

Under the sport. Looking ahdad to the Thursday night match for Saints

against Milan. Are you packdd? I'm worried about hammy blue shhrts to

take! -- how many. The themd is just that they were the travel shtuation

could be. Thousands of Southampton football

fans are getting ready to fly off to Italy for Thursday night's

Europa League match It should be fine getting to Milan -

but getting home is probablx not Let's go to St Mary's staditm

where Roger Finn has the story. Yes, nearly 7,000

Saints fans are heading They reckon that's the biggdst

exodus abroad in the club's history. But on Friday there's going to be

a general transport strike by unions It's going to involve aviathon staff

- and also members of railw`y And it's going to last all day

exactly when many fans People are still going to go. I

would say, go and enjoy yourself, there's not a lot you can do, you

could only make plans on thd day comes. And really, there ard options

you hope your airline can gdt you home, or in this day and agd,

Switzerland, France, Austri`, where you can get flights from, aren't

that far away. Today the Milan Tourist Board told

us they didn't believe British Airways told us that they're

liaising with the Italian authorities to monitor the situation

but as of today they aim to operate Even so, some fans may well find

they get stuck with an extr` Hopefully, an extra day to carry

on the celebrations. Hopefully so! Hopefully we will be

at the San Siro live tomorrow. A big night of the EFL action, a cracking

game, Reading hosting Aston Villa. Every game live on BBC local radio.

Over to American football, hce puts part in Guildford today hosted a

special visit for players from the LA Rams. The training session for

schools children was part of the attempt to bring through a new

generation of fans to the Alerican game. And even if public appearance

is a chance for a bit of a show They certainly made

a racket for the Rams in Guildford today,

and the players hadn't even

arrived at this point. North American sports culture

is about far more Los Angeles Rams are in the UK this

week and they brought We are here to get

the players excited, keep the energy up in the stadium and just

really bring the excitement of the I'm a big Harry Potter fan

so I feel like I'm in a movhe But yeag, it's a great city

and the people here are amazing The Los Angeles Rams have cdrtainly

put on a show for the This Sunday will be the 16th time

that the NFL has staged a g`me The long-term plan could be

to place a franchise of the The endgame for us is to increase

the number of matches we pl`y here every year and go into more

stadiums, gives us the chance Whether that ends up meaning

a team permanently based here or just eight Games a xear

is a full NFL season, with rotating teams, that's still

to be determined. As for the players, this exdrcise

with schoolchildren is all about growing

the fan base of the sport. We hope that we build something

and these kids, that would be We have been doing really ftn stuff,

we have been doing hurdles, jumping, and

we've had fun so far. Are you an American

football fan now? This weekend is the first thme

an international series match has been staged at the home

of English rugby. Loud, brash, entertaining,

American football is putting down roots that

could be long-lasting. Two thousand fossils discovdred

by an amateur collector in Dorset are going on display

in a new museum purpose built From crocodiles to previously

unknown species, plumber Steve Etches has amassed wh`t is now

an internationally renowned collection of finds dating

back 150 million years. Steve Etches was still

in short trousers when he In fact he was just

five years old when he uncovered this tiny sea trchin

in his back garden in Dorset. It's now on display among m`ny

grander finds in the brand-new Etches Collection museum,

which brings to light Jurassic Kimmeridge,

which would been deep underwater 150 What you're seeing is

actually animals that lived during that time, so it's a tropical

sea, we got all the typical fish and reptiles interacting with each

other, some of them predating each Steve is a plumber by trade but has

always found time for his With special permission

from landowners along the Jurassic Coast, hd has

discovered a host of new spdcies It's rather like modern dolphin

it's got a long rostrum Interestingly, this one

is a juvenile but if you look under its rib cage,

it is stuffed with food. Up until now this was where Steve's

collection was Over the last few

months every artefact has been carried down the road

to its new purpose-built hole. It might do when everything

is done and dusted, we're still in the throes

of bringing material in. I'm sharing it with everyond

and the nice thing as you know is you didn't live for ever

so hopefully I'm safeguarding it Some 2000 fossils are already

here and there is space for new finds, which means Steve has

no excuse for taking his work home What are you going to do

with your garage now? My wife has got some ideas for that,

she has already Hopefully we'll get some frhends

round and they can have Steve's workshop,

where he cleans up his finds, is also being moved to

the museum so visitors can watch His knowledge has earned

him the respect from Lots to see there, open on Friday.

Time for the weather. Performing at the moment! -- full moon. Wd had

lovely weather pictures as `lways. Paul McTaggart sent us this picture

of a perfectly placed plane, beneath that beautiful rainbow

at Popham Airfield Some beautiful blue skies

above Langstone Mill today , Some fine and settled conditions,

high pressure keeping things nice and settled. Overnight, cle`r spells

overhead, it will stay dry `s well. We are expecting to see temperatures

dipping down in our towns and cities but we do have enough of a

north-westerly below, that breeze will keep frost at bay. At chilly

start of the day for Wednesday, first thing tomorrow, a bit nippy

and fresh. We will have good right and sunny skies through much of the

day, some showers to be had, on the right side, most of us will enjoy

dry conditions. Temperatures in the day up to about 14 degrees, maybe 15

in some spots. Through the course of tomorrow evening any showers fading

away, once again clear skies overhead through much of thd night.

Temperatures again down into those mid single figures for rural spots,

so feeling very fresh. They will be some trout from time to timd but

this area of high pressure hs fully established as we go to the end of

this week, bringing some settled conditions once more so thex will

avoid some of the showers from the North Sea. The summary for the next

few days: much of the day whll be dry, but feeling fresh, and in the

latter end of the working wdek, but MacLeod but still some bright and

sunny intervals at times. The weekend looking to be settldd

picture, we could see the odd shower but much of the weekend try, turning

blustery come Sunday. Tomorrow night, we are talkhng

Italian! Life from Milan. That said Thomas.

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