Christmas break pledge over roadworkspublished at 11:32 British Summer Time 19 October 2018
The works, which have led to two-hour queues, will resume on Sunday with a southbound lane closure.
Read MoreUpdates from Monday 8 October
The works, which have led to two-hour queues, will resume on Sunday with a southbound lane closure.
Read MoreThe Queen will visit Bracknell's Lexicon shopping centre later.
It's just over a year since the site opened.
During her visit the Queen will tour the development and Union Square, meeting staff, architects, builders and developers.
She'll also unveil a plaque to mark her visit and hear a performance from the Berkshire Maestros Band.
Commuters using London's Paddington station are being warned there could be further disruption today.
The chaos was caused by damage to 500m of overhead power cables inflicted during a train test run on Tuesday.
Network Rail engineers have been carrying out repairs but one line will remain out of action for electric trains.
Some disruption continued between London and Reading on Thursday.
The 37-year-old from, Benfleet in Essex, has links to Bournemouth and south London.
Allow Twitter content?
This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.
Concerns are raised about patient safety, bullying and racism at St Mary's Hospital in Newport.
Read MoreBBC News Travel
Allow Twitter content?
This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.
Allow Twitter content?
This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.
Emergency crews had to walk across marshland to reach the crash site near Bembridge in July.
Read MoreIt weighs over 1,000kg and will soon be heading to London to be put on display.
A pumpkin that was grown by twin brothers, from Lymington in the New Forest, weighed in as the heaviest ever grown indoors in the UK.
Ian and Stuart Paton beat their own record and have now set their sights on the world record.
The brothers have been growing giant pumpkins together for over 40 years and say it's "pretty cool" to have grown "the third biggest fruit that's ever sat on the face of the Earth".
Allow Twitter content?
This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.
Allow Twitter content?
This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.
Allow Twitter content?
This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.
Alex Osborne
BBC Weather
Allow Twitter content?
This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.
BBC News Travel
Allow Twitter content?
This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.
All the latest headlines from across Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Read MoreUnison and Unite say strikes could take place if Southampton council shuts two care homes.
Read MoreThree of the four closed lines into Paddington reopen but passengers have faced further disruption.
Read MoreA woman was sexually assaulted in a taxi in Abingdon in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Thames Valley Police said, external at about 01:30 a woman in her 20s caught a taxi from Park End Street in Oxford.
During the journey she fell asleep, but woke up at about 01:45 to find the driver undoing her trousers. He then sexually assaulted her.
The victim got out of the taxi near West St Helen Street, Abingdon, and the driver followed her for a short distance, before walking off after she approached a member of the public.
The driver is described as an Asian male with short black hair and stubble.
This week Anna Burns was named the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize, becoming the first author from Northern Ireland to triumph.
Milkman beat competition from Everything Under by Oxford's Daisy Johnson - who, at 27, was the youngest nominee in Man Booker history.
Daisy is still in good spirits though, and has since tweeted that she's working on her new book.
Allow Twitter content?
This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.
Twenty-four thousand smuggled cigarettes were seized in Witney, Oxfordshire, yesterday.
Trading Standards and Thames Valley Police officers raided a property in Highworth Place with sniffer dogs and found the suspected counterfeit cigarettes which have a market value of £12,000.
Jody Kerman, Oxfordshire County Council’s operations manager for trading standards, said: "Illegal tobacco poses an additional threat to our children and communities, because it is sold at pocket money prices by criminals who may not be interested in asking for proof of age.
"We’re committed to helping people live safe, healthy lives; cracking down on the illegal tobacco trade is one of our top priorities."