Summary

  • Updates from Tuesday 27 June

  • Reading bus crash: Pedestrian's lucky escape

  • University apology for marking error

  • Sikh couple's claims over adoption agency

  1. That's all for todaypublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

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  2. Oxford hospitals testing cladding for fire safetypublished at 17:56 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    Paul Brennan, director of clinical services at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: "The trust has been reviewing its fire safety procedures and systems following the tragic events in London.

    "Patient and staff safety are our highest priority and we will implement any changes necessary to ensure that our buildings are safe.

    "We have invited Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service to review our facilities with us and this has taken place.

    "We have also proactively engaged the services of a specialist independent fire safety consultancy, Trenton Fire, to advise us on our current arrangements and make recommendations for improvements.

    "We are in the process of having samples of panelling analysed for fire safety."

  3. Firefighters reassure tower block residentspublished at 17:51 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

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  4. Oxfordshire flood alerts overnightpublished at 17:48 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    The Environment Agency has issued a number of flood warnings overnight for Oxfordshire:

    • River Cherwell from Lower Heyford down to and including Oxford
    • Sor Brook and the Bloxham Brook and their tributaries
    • River Ray and its tributaries from Shipton Lee to and including Islip
    • Ginge Brook for the Steventon area down to and including Sutton Courtenay

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  5. Warehouse fire closes road in Tottonpublished at 17:41

    Firefighters are tackling a blaze in Totton, Hampshire, this afternoon.

    The fire broke out at a derelict warehouse near Jackie Wigg Gardens and Brockenford Lane at about 16:44 BST.

    Crews from Redbridge, St Mary's and Eastleigh are on the scene and have requested police attendance.

    Roads surrounding the warehouse have been closed and a spokeswoman for Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service said it was "under control".

    She had the fire "involved tyres".

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  6. Arts funding to increase by £45,000 in Oxfordshirepublished at 17:35 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    Seven organisations in Oxfordshire will together receive £13,198,060 over four years from Arts Council England, an increase of £45,000.

    But Oxford University is set to lose £140,000 a year under a new deal from the government outlined today.

    The funding settlements are:

    - Modern Art Oxford - £3,569,388

    - Modern Poetry in Translation - £200,000

    - Oxford Contemporary Music - £743,132

    - Oxford Playhouse Trust - £1,517,896

    - Pegasus Theatre Trust - £1,199,892

    - The Story Museum - £700,000

    - University of Oxford - £5,267,752

    Four of England's biggest arts venues have also had their public funding cut to help boost culture in the regions.

  7. Village HGV one-way plan 'is madness'published at 17:31 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    The narrow road gets blocked on "a weekly, sometimes daily basis" when HGVs meet oncoming vehicles.

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  8. Almost £2.5 million is to be spent addressing concerns on two busy north Dorset roadspublished at 17:17 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    Improvements will be made to the A350 and the C13 between Blandford and Shaftesbury, after a number of incidents involving HGVs.

  9. Police investigate 'serious assault' in Rydepublished at 17:06 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    Police on the Isle of Wight are investigating after a 20-year-old man needed hospital treatment following a serious assault.

    It happened on Ashley Road in Ryde after 3.50pm yesterday.

    The victim told police he was attacked by three men wearing hoods who he didn't know.

    Officers said he was treated at St Mary's Hospital for a cut to his head - which may have been caused by a blade.

  10. CCTV footage shows man hit by bus in Readingpublished at 16:50 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    CCTV footage shows the shocking moment a man was hit by a bus on the street in Reading.

  11. Post-Brexit pledge for EU fusion projectpublished at 15:32 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    The government pledges to pay its "fair share" towards an EU backed nuclear project after Brexit.

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  12. Post-Brexit pledge for EU fusion projectpublished at 15:22 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

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    The Joint European Torus is based at Culham Science Centre

    A European research project into nuclear fusion will continue to receive funding from the UK, if the European Union agrees to keep it in Oxfordshire.

    Around 1,300 people work on the Joint European Torus (JET) in Culham, which is home to the world's largest fusion reactor.

    In total 88% of the running costs are paid by the EU, but the UK's contract to host JET ends in December 2018.

    Today ministers committed to paying its "fair share" of the project if the EU extends the UK's contract to 2020.

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    Our exit from the EU has not altered our desire and willingness for the UK to continue playing a leading role in furthering our scientific understanding.

    Jo Johnson MP, Science minister

  13. Fatal Ferrari crash driver in courtpublished at 14:44 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    Alexander Worth, 13, was killed when a Ferrari being driven by Matthew Cobden crashed on a farm road.

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  14. Villagers say HGV one-way plan is 'madness'published at 14:43 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    Residents in a village where lorries regularly get stuck say encouraging the vehicles to use the route at all is "madness".

    The C13 in Melbury Abbas has been beset with problems, including being shut for more than a year because of landslips and with HGVs getting wedged as they meet oncoming vehicles.

    Dorset County Council has been given £2.5m of government money to upgrade the C13 and the A350 which run parallel with each other between Shaftesbury and Blandford.

    Part of the plan is to make the roads one way for HGVs to avoid them meeting each other on the narrow stretch but villagers want a weight restriction instead.

  15. Philip Pullman set to name character after Grenfell Tower victimpublished at 14:31 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    Oxford author Philip Pullman is likely to name a character in his upcoming book after a 15-year-old girl believed to have died in the Grenfell Tower fire.

    The writer is part of the Authors for Grenfell campaign, external, auctioning items to help raise money for those affected.

    Philip PullmanImage source, Getty Images

    A teacher bid £1,500 to secure the name of his former pupil Nur Huda El-Wahabi in the book, who is believed to have died along with her family.

    Other people have since added to his bid, which now stands at over £17,000.

  16. Fatal Ferrari crash driver in court for causing death of boy, 13published at 14:01 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    A man has appeared in court charged with causing the death by careless driving of a 13-year-old boy when he crashed a £1.2m Ferrari.

    Matthew Cobden, 38, of Long Lodge Drive, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, appeared at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court in connection with the crash which killed Alexander Worth.

    The accident happened after Mr Cobden had been unloading the Ferrari F50 for a photoshoot for Evo supercar magazine in North Warnborough, Hampshire, in August last year.

    The court heard when Alexander, of Kings Worthy, near Winchester, asked if he could take a photograph of the car, Cobden offered to take him for a ride.

    The short journey ended when the mid-1990s supercar crashed into fencing.

    The case has been referred to Winchester Crown court for 26 July.

  17. 'Woke' and 'post-truth' added to Oxford English Dictionarypublished at 14:01 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    The Oxford English Dictionary is getting political in its latest update, with "woke" and "post-truth" now included.

    The original meaning of woke is to awaken after sleep but the word now has other social connotations.

    Black Lives Matter protest

    "By the mid-20th century," says the Oxford English Dictionary, external (OED), "woke had been extended figuratively to refer to being 'aware' or 'well informed' in a political or cultural sense."

    Post-truth was 2016's word of the year.

  18. Couple's 'heritage' blocks them adoptingpublished at 13:23 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    A Sikh couple claim their skin colour was the main objection for the adoption agency.

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  19. Building regulations 'found to be wanting'published at 13:20 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

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    Windrush Tower is one of two that will have their rain-screen cladding replaced

    The leader of Oxford City Council says it is "very worrying" cladding which was banned in Germany and the US was able to be used in the UK.

    Yesterday the authority announced cladding will be removed from two high-rise blocks in Oxford after it failed fire safety tests.

    Leader of Oxford City Council, Bob Price, said the cladding was certified as low risk and met building regulations when they chose it, but new tests - following the Grenfell Tower fire - had raised the bar.

    He believes building regulations have been "found to be wanting".

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    We have, as a country, for years and years had building regulations which have allowed cladding of this type to be used, whereas it was banned in Germany and the United States - so I think the big question mark is why that was allowed to happen.

    Bob Price, Leader of Oxford City Council

  20. Two arrested after pub fightpublished at 12:36 British Summer Time 27 June 2017

    Two men have been arrested following a fight in a pub in Banbury early on Sunday morning.

    A 25-year-old man sustained a cut to his face, which is believed to have been caused by a glass, in the incident at the Banbury Cross pub on Butchers Row.

    A 23-year-old man from Banbury and a 25-year-old man from Bicester were arrested on suspicion of inflicting grievous bodily harm without intent, and have been released under investigation.

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    This was a nasty assault which has left a man with a serious facial injury... We are appealing to anyone who witnessed the incident to please come forward.

    Det Con Anneliese Palfrey, Thames Valley Police