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  • Updates from Thursday 18 October

  1. Businesses' anger at premises losspublished at 13:36 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    Fifty tenants have to leave the site where 3,500 homes are to be built.

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  2. Music stars rally behind 'important' venuepublished at 13:34 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    The Cellar in Oxford is under threat after a risk assessment found the fire escape was not big enough.

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  3. Driver sought for asking if boy wanted liftpublished at 13:08 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    Police said a man tried to invited a boy into his car in Long Wittenham.

    It happened on Monday lunchtime in High Street when a man driving a car thought to be a Volvo, slowed down alongside a 12-year-old boy and asked if he wanted a lift.

    The boy refused.

    Police say they're keen to speak to the driver of the car - who's described as white, tanned, and aged between 50 and 60 with grey hair - to understand what happened

  4. Appeal for missing Witney womanpublished at 12:41 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

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  5. Businesses to be evicted for new homespublished at 12:03 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    Up to 50 businesses in a Hampshire village are to be evicted to make way for up to 3,500 homes.

    Some firms on the Bury Farm Industrial estate in Curbridge say they've only been given a few months notice to move.

    Winchester City Council says it's working to help businesses on the Bury Farm industrial estate relocate.

    Peter Gibb, the owner of Car Body Repairs said the council was being "greedy" and "didn't think of any consequences" to businesses.

  6. Colleagues say amputee PC is 'an inspiration'published at 11:33 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

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    PC Tom Dorman asked members of the public to put a tourniquet on his leg

    A police officer who aims to return to work after having his leg amputated has been hailed "an inspiration" by the Thames Valley Police Federation.

    PC Tom Dorman lost the limb after his marked police car was hit in a collision in Maidenhead, Berkshire, in September.

    He’s vowed to return to the job "within a year, to do what every police officer does, catching criminals and looking after people," he told BBC Breakfast.

    Federation chairman Craig O’Leary said it was "quite emotional" seeing the 26-year-on talking on TV "with such passion".

    He added: "We’re only talking eight weeks ago when he was injured and had his leg amputated, and to see him sat on a national breakfast TV show, championing the cause of tourniquets and saving lives is absolutely testament to the type of man that he is."

  7. Plans for gas power station in Oxfordshirepublished at 10:55 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    Plans have been put forward to build a gas power station south Oxfordshire.

    Proposals have been submitted to develop land at Lobb Farm in Tetsworth.

    The station would need five, 12-metre high chimneys, and concerns have been raised about the impact on nearby residents.

    The power station could generate up to 50MW of electricity.

    Andrew Troup a director of Statera Energy, which is behind the plans, said the impact would be minimal.

  8. Man pushed to ground and robbed at knife pointpublished at 10:28 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    A man was robbed at knife point in Reading after two men offered to sell him a phone, police have said.

    Thames Valley Police said a man in his 20s was in Friar Street when he was thrown to the floor as two men tried to steal his rucksack.

    One of the men pulled out a knife and put it to the back of the victim during the attack on Saturday at 01:00 BST.

    The victim gave the two offenders his bag and managed to run away.

    Items stolen included a phone, cash, a tablet computer.

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  9. Today's weatherpublished at 09:52 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    It's going to be cool and rather cloudy across our patch.

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    Weather, Tuesday 30 October

  10. Three taken to hospital after A40 collisionpublished at 09:14 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    Three people have been taken to hospital after a collision which closed the A40 for several hours last night.

    Firefighters cut both drivers out of two cars after they collided near the Asthall junction at about 17:15 GMT - one car overturned.

    South Central Ambulance Service said three people, including an elderly couple in the vehicle which overturned, were taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital.

    The ambulance service added no people involved sustained serious injuries.

  11. New community centre to be built in East Oxfordpublished at 09:00 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    East Oxford residents are set to get a new community centre.

    The building that currently houses Bullingdon Community Centre will be demolished and replaced with a new facility.

    A revised project budget of £1m is being put forward to Oxford City Council's capital programme, and it is hoped work will start in spring 2019.

    The decision comes after the original project for partially rebuilding the centre raised problems.

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    The site in Peat Moors will be demolished

  12. Plans for college to teach university degreespublished at 08:30 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    Plans have been revealed to create a new "university centre" in Berkshire, which would allow hundreds of students to study degrees at Newbury College.

    The site would allow people to study courses in a number of areas - including Digital Technology, Engineering and Business and would be run by the college.

    But before plans are finalised, the college would need to have its course validated by an established university, which hasn't yet been decided.

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    The plans would allow students to study degrees at the college

  13. Respected artist to visit Ashmolean Museumpublished at 08:11 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

    An exhibition of work by contemporary artist Jeff Koons is coming to Oxford's Ashmolean Museum.

    After being invited by Oxford University art history students to visit the museum, Mr Koons decided to bring 17 of his most important works to the city - 14 of which have not been shown in the UK before.

    The show will include important works from the 1980s in which the American artist made his name, as well as some of his more recent pieces.

    The exhibition will run from February to June 2019 and will be curated by Koons himself.

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    The exhibition will run from February to June 2019

  14. South Live: Tuesday 30 Octoberpublished at 07:09 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October 2018

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

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  15. Bomb hoaxer 'wanted to be hero'published at 20:30 Greenwich Mean Time 29 October 2018

    Sergio Costa who put a fake bomb in public toilets to "be a hero" was jailed for two years.

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  16. Terror accused 'not raising mini Nazi'published at 18:41 Greenwich Mean Time 29 October 2018

    Adam Thomas named his son after Adolf Hitler but says far-right activism has ruined his life.

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  17. 'Evicted' football club offered potential new homepublished at 17:59 Greenwich Mean Time 29 October 2018

    Former club Newbury Town FC at Faraday RoadImage source, Steve Daniels
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    Football has been played at Faraday Road for more than a century

    A council has said it will "explore options" for providing a new home for Newbury Football Club as part of a future refurbishment of Northcroft Leisure Centre.

    The club left its Faraday Road ground in June after West Berkshire District Council refused to grant a new lease.

    It has since been playing home matches five miles away at Brimpton.

    The council said it had been unable to commit to the length of lease that the club's league required.

  18. Chief constable first on scene of crashpublished at 17:50 Greenwich Mean Time 29 October 2018

    Francis Habgood, of Thames Valley Police, climbed into an overturned car and waited with the driver.

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  19. Dorset travel latest: Dorchester road reopenspublished at 17:41 Greenwich Mean Time 29 October 2018

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  20. Police object to Reading split bar planspublished at 17:26 Greenwich Mean Time 29 October 2018

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