The Daily Telegraph

An Oxford University spin-out has invented a new smart material, external that promises to slash the energy required to power a smartphone screen.

Oxford's private flat residents can now recycle food waste in the city, now that the council has started delivering more than 5,000 caddy bins.

The food is used to generate electricity for 8,000 homes or turned into fertiliser.

Residents interested in becoming part of the scheme can email the council, external to request to take part.

It's been properly cold this wintry November day. But it hasn't stopped you getting out and about, sending us your pictures of Oxfordshire. 

Image source, Georgina Webb

This sent in from Georgina Webb on Twitter: "Check out the smoke plume from Didcot 'Power' station this morning. The picture was taken by my dad Terry on his run this morning!"

Do you have a great picture of our frosty Monday? Email it to us here and we'll showcase it on Oxfordshire Live.

Henley Standard

A Henley removals and storage firm ismoving across town, externalafter more than a century.  

There has been a series of Poppy Appeal tin thefts in Thame, external.

Collections have been taken from:

• The Coffee House, Buttermarket
• Cafe Bobo, Greyhound Walk
• St Mary's Church, Church Road
• Masonic Hall, High Street

None of the places had CCTV footage and Thames Valley Police is appealing for anyone with information to come forward.   

Oxford Mail

Apioneering website set up by an Oxford grandmother, external is proving you don’t need to leave the house to feel a little less alone.  

South Today

On South Today this afternoon: 

The prime minister will announce more details about the future shape of the South's military forces this afternoon.

Image source, Getty Images

David Cameron will give details of an additional £12bn of equipment spending, as he outlines the Strategic Defence and Security Review in the House of Commons.

Join Roger Finn for the full details at 13:30. 

BBC Travel

The A41 is queueing for about a mile heading into Bicester village and the northern bypass is looking very slow eastbound.

You can get the latest where you are with the BBC Travel site.

There will be some brightness this afternoon, but high cloud will push down from the north.

You can see the latest forecast on the BBC Weather site.

Ross Heaton
BBC Oxford Sport

Oxfordshire's top sport stories this afternoon:

• There has been no formal approach to sign in-form Oxford United striker Kemar Roofe, the club's chief executive says
• Two Oxford Brookes rowers have been banned for two years after testing positive for stimulants
• Former U's caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby has been sacked as manager of Gateshead

Andrew Humphrey
BBC Local Live

This lunchtime's top stories in Oxfordshire:

• Residents ask for more information about a plan to build a pipeline between two Oxford hospitals
• The county council is encouraging employers to be supportive towards foster carers
• A number of Poppy Appeal collections have been stolen in Thame, external

This picture of a blazing low sun and golden sky was taken by BBC Weather Watcher Rosie in Burford.

Image source, Rosie

If you want to learn more about Weather Watchers, where you can share your weather reports and photos, check out the website.

About 80 people took part in a demonstration at the weekend calling for Chipping Norton's children's centre to be saved from the county council's budget cuts axe.

Image source, SaveTheAceCentre

Protesters gathered outside the ACE centre on Saturday, before moving to the town's market place.

Under the proposals, external, the authority would replace 44 existing centres with eight "children and family centres" located in the neediest areas of Oxfordshire.

Wallingford Herald

Wantage's Grade-II listed convent could become the headquarters for 13 CofE schools, external in Oxfordshire.

UK Anti-Doping has banned two Oxford Brookes University rowers, external from all sport for two years.

Sybren Hoogland and former Great Britain Under-23 member Timothy Grant tested positive for stimulants.

The results came from in-competition tests at the Ghent International Regatta in Belgium on 9 May 2015.

Phil Mercer
BBC Radio Oxford

Temperatures touched -3C (27F) in parts of the county overnight, and it was a chilly scene in Witney this morning, where BBC Oxford's Phil Mercer was reporting on the frosty weather.

If you have any pictures of the county as the season turns, send them into us and we will feature them on Oxfordshire Live.

Tom Turrell
BBC South Today

As Oxfordshire battles to recruit more foster carers, employers in the county are being asked to be more lenient with their staff.

The county council wants as many organisations as possible to sign up to a special agreement, external making it easier for people to look after vulnerable children.

The proposal includes allowing employees to take some unpaid leave and being understanding if they are occasionally late.

Henley Standard

Another £10,000 has been given to the YMCA in Henley to help house young people, external.

Joe Nimmo
BBC News Online

A £14.8m upgrade to the heating and hot water systems at Oxford's John Radcliffe and Churchill hospitals, including the laying of a one-mile pipe between the sites, is"critical" to meet future demand, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust says.

Image source, PA

A spokeswoman for the trust says: "The new energy systems will offer both hospitals better resilience and less reliance on the national power grid in the high demand months of winter, reduce energy costs as well as reduce carbon emissions from both sites."

An Oxford Brookes University researcher has created an app which parents can use to track the vocabulary development of their young children. 

The information will help academics understand how language develops in children, and I'll be speaking to the lead researcher just after 11:00.