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Updates on Thursday 3 December 2015
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Holly Green
BBC Weather
The cloud will build this evening, bringing with it rain which will sometimes be heavy.
There will also be strong winds before it clears overnight, leaving lows of 4C (39F).
You can get a 10-day forecast on BBC Weather.
An Oxfordshire branch of the Samaritans, external is on a recruitment drive to find volunteers to answer the phones to those in desperate need of help.
The charity in Banbury received almost 22,000 calls to its helpline in the past year and a further 20 people are needed to help the 56 volunteers in the town answering calls.
Volunteer Ruth Brown said: "We have quite a bit of feedback from our callers who say that by talking to us they have been able to move forward or seek help. Overall, I think we do reduce suicide."
Gym equipment free for the public to use has been installed in Oxford parks after a £316,000 investment.
The equipment, including exercise bikes, running machines and crossfit machines, can be found on five fitness trails to be officially opened on Friday, external.
Each of the stations has instructions on the exercises that can be done, with some including QR codes to allow people with smartphones to watch a brief demonstration.
Victoria Cook
BBC South Today
On South Today tonight: Businesses in Witney have signed up to a new campaign to help vulnerable people in need of extra support.
Nearly 20 shops in the town are working with the district council as part of the Safe Place project.
It means those with learning difficulties, dementia or mental health needs will be able go into that shop for further advice.
Andrew Humphrey
BBC Local Live
Oxfordshire's top stories this afternoon:
A four-year-old girl received a head injury after a collision with a car in West Way in Oxford.
South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) was called just after 15:30 and took the victim to the John Radcliffe Hospital.
SCAS said the car was travelling at approximately 20mph.
A crowd of excited Blackbird Leys residents gathered at the Church of the Holy Family last night to celebrate theestate’s first lights switch-on, external.
Al Ryan
BBC Oxford travel presenter
You can keep up-to-date with on the BBC Travel site.
There was a fire at the telephone exchange on London Road in Oxford this morning.
Crews from Oxford, Wheatley and Didcot attended, and removed an industrial battery from the building that was found to be the source of the fire.
Peter Cooke
BBC South Today
It's that time of year when you might be thinking about buying your Christmas tree, but a tree grower from Oxfordshire has had the difficult task of selecting one for 10 Downing Street, external.
It's the third time Andrew Ingram, from Christmas Common, has won the honour, and the 20ft (6m) fir was chosen and felled earlier.
It will go on display outside the prime minister's home next week.
Jamie Cullum, Soul II Soul, Lemar and Wilko Johnson are all to star at the Cornbury Music Festival, external, organisers have announced.
The festival, which runs from 8-10 July, is running a full Friday programme for the first time next year.
A vigil is being held in Oxford this evening, external by groups who "stand in solidarity with the Syrian and Iraqi peoples".
Oxford Students' Arab Cultural Society, Rhodes Must Fall Oxford, Oxford Campaign for Racial Awareness and Equality and Oxford Students' Palestine Society organised the event, which is taking place in Cornmarket Street at 19:00.
A highly skilled team will be racing against the clock to repair the gates of Banbury Lock, external in just seven days tomorrow.
Andrew Peach
BBC Radio Oxford
On the show this afternoon: Come the spring, you'll be able to take a direct flight from Oxford Airport to Edinburgh after the Department for Transport announced a share of £7m of taxpayers money will go to a company called Linksair to help them start-up this route.
Of course people have tried to run this route in the past and failed.
We'll be finding out how hard it is to run a regional airline and assessing the chance of success for the new venture.
In the early 1930s Albert Einstein visited Oxford three times, staying in Christ Church and lecturing on his theory of relativity.
His biographer Andrew Robinson is giving a talk this evening on the time he spent in the city.
The free event begins at 17:00, external at the Blue Boar Lecture Theatre at Christ Church.
Following the death of a woman at Didcot Parkway station earlier, Thames Valley Police says it is no longer searching for Deborah Yalcin, external, who was reported as missing this morning.
Formal identification has not yet taken place, but police believe the body is that of Deborah Yalcin.
Her next of kin have been informed.
A nine-year-old girl was the victim of an attempted robbery in Witney, external yesterday.
At about 15:30 the girl was walking along a cycle path near Hollis Close when she was approached by a man carrying a small knife and demanding money.
The victim ran away towards Coggs Hill Road.
BBC Radio Oxford
An exceptionally rare antique organ that used to be played at the Odeon on Magdelen Street, Oxford is up for auction at Ewbanks Auctioneers, external.
The current owner Peter Webb told Annie Othen about its history and unique sound.
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