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  • Updates from Thursday 18 October

  1. 600 Oxfordshire music students to sing at Royal Albert Hallpublished at 16:42 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

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    A total of 600 students from the Oxfordshire County Music service will be performing at the BBC Proms this year.

    The event at the Royal Albert Hall in November will celebrate the best young musicians from across the UK.

    Conductor John Lubbock said it was a "brilliant idea" to have children from all over the county sing together.

  2. Swimming pool shut for half-term holidayspublished at 15:31 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    A swimming pool in Wokingham, Berkshire, will be closed until the end of the school half-term, its management has confirmed.

    Carnival Pool in Wellington Road had to shut last week due to a burst water pipe.

    Places Leisure, which runs the pool for Wokingham Borough Council, has confirmed it has ordered new pumps, but it won't be open again until Friday.

  3. Owner of 'out of control' dog sought after double attackpublished at 15:29 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    A man has been attacked twice in a fortnight by what police describe as an "out of control" dog in the same park in Poole.

    In this first incident, the victim, a local man in his 40s, was cycling through Bourne Valley Park when he was approached by one of two Alsatian dogs, when the pedal of the bicycle struck the dog, which reacted by biting the victim’s leg.

    On 14 October, the same dog approached the victim, who had to put his bike between him and the dog before asking the owner to control his pet.

    Dorset Police have released a picture of the suspected owner, who uses a walking stick, in the hope of identifying him.

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    The owner is described as a white man aged in his 70s or 80s who uses a walking stick

  4. Yacht hit by ferry could cost '£200k'published at 14:38 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    The Red Falcon ran aground on Sunday after striking yachts moored off East Cowes.

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  5. House explosion captured on CCTVpublished at 13:55 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    The blast on the street in Poole sent bricks and debris flying in all directions.

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  6. Decline in nightlife hits 'struggling cabbies'published at 13:47 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    The impact of a declining nightlife is having a "devastating" impact on taxi drivers in Oxfordshire, it has been claimed.

    People are going out less than they used to - with the number of UK nightclubs falling from 3,144 in 2005 to just 1,733 in 2015.

    Jaffa Hassan, who drives a cab in Bicester, said: "The night crew are really struggling, there's a big turndown in the amount of work they do.

    "Whenever I go out, I am shocked by how quiet business is."

    TaxiImage source, Getty Images
  7. Yacht recovered after ferry crashpublished at 13:15 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    The yacht, called Greylag, was hit by the Red Funnel ferry in thick fog early on Sunday.

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  8. Image shows extent of blaze at historic water towerpublished at 12:05 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    Firefighters have been tackling a large blaze at a manor house's historic water tower near Blackwater, Hampshire.

    The disused 25-metre high tower, in the grounds of the Grade II-listed Minley Manor, was extinguished early this morning by fire crews.

    Hampshire fire and rescue has tweeted a picture showing the extent of the blaze.

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  9. Amputee crash PC 'to go back to work'published at 11:52 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    PC Tom Dorman aims to return to policing "within a year, to catch criminals and look after people".

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  10. Woman raped after meeting man on night outpublished at 11:25 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    A woman has been been raped by a man on a patch of grass in Swanage, Dorset, having met him on a night out.

    The woman, in her 20s, met the man in Bar One in the High Street before he attacked her at about 04:00 BST on Sunday in Hillview Road.

    He is described as white, aged in his 20s and of medium build, with a beard and short light hair that is longer on top.

    He is believed to have been wearing green or khaki-coloured trousers, a T-shirt and possibly had a tattoo sleeve on his right arm.

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    The rape took place on Hillview Road in Swanage

  11. Rail workers begin five-day strikepublished at 10:27 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    The walkout will be the longest yet in the dispute over the role of guards on trains.

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  12. Harassment 'normalised' for young women - Basingstoke MPpublished at 09:32 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    Maria Miller has called on the government to take urgent action to tackle sexual harassment in public places.

    The Basingstoke MP chairs the Women and Equalities Committee, which wrote the report having studied the issue for nine months.

    The report claims women and girls across the UK face relentless harassment on the street and not enough is being done to stop it.

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    It's all pervading and as if women have accepted this as part of their lives. The report is there to challenge it and provide ways to respond.

    Maria Miller, MP for Basingstoke

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  13. 'Patchy' service for SWR commuterspublished at 09:14 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    Commuters using South Western Railway (SWR) trains will face a reduced service for the rest of this week due to strike action.

    Members of the RMT union are taking action in the long-running dispute over the use of guards on trains - walking out from today until Saturday.

    SWR, which runs lines from Southampton, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Basingstoke, says it's aiming to run two out of three services today.

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    The service is going to be patchy. Inevitably, South Western Railway is focusing on the big passenger flows into London Waterloo. So if you are on those trains you will probably OK. Where it falls down are on lesser-used routes towards the margins.

    Paul Clifton, BBC South's transport correspondent

  14. Historic water tower 'could collapse' after manor house firepublished at 08:46 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    A fire on the grounds of an historic 19th Century Grade II listed manor house in Hampshire has been extinguished, Hampshire fire service has said.

    The force said it extinguished a fire at a water tower at Minley Manor, near Fleet, at 05:00 BST and there is no danger to the public.

    Crews are still at the scene and will be there reinspecting the area this morning due to concerns the tower could collapse.

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  15. Tuesday's weatherpublished at 08:24 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    It looks like it's going to be a lovely day today.

  16. PC told public how to save his lifepublished at 08:18 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    PC Tom Dorman says people ran out of their homes to stop "catastrophic" bleeding in his leg.

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  17. Usual traffic hotspots are flaring uppublished at 08:10 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    There are queues on the A33 coming into Reading after an earlier bump, but it's a case of "your usual" in terms of heavy spots across the region this morning.,

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  18. South Live: Tuesday 23 Octoberpublished at 08:06 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    All the latest headlines from across Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

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  19. Quadruple amputee in Africa mountain challengepublished at 00:17 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    Alex Lewis will attempt to summit Ras Dashen mountain in Ethiopia in January using a special buggy and rock climbing.

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  20. 'Our children died fighting against IS'published at 00:13 British Summer Time 23 October 2018

    Eight Britons are known to have been killed fighting with the Kurdish militia against the Islamic State group.

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