Updates on Monday 8 February 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 on Tuesday
A community centre is the latest place to be targeted in a spate of break-ins, external police believe is a one-man crime spree.
BBC Radio Oxford
Concerns about increased traffic in Steventon from an extended Truck Festival have not been completely allayed by a proposed diversion, the chair of the parish council says.
Truck Festival's capacity has been increased to 9,999
Matt Harrap, who organises the music festival, described the plans as "robust", but Steventon parish council chair Dick Bosley still has worries.
Quote MessagePeople who have been coming for several years will probably think we know a shortcut and carry on using the old route. It won't be a complete solution but I think that as long as there are steps in the right direction we'll be happy.
Dick Bosley
Radio Horton has donated £375, external towards equipment and services at the Horton General Hospital following two successful fundraising events over the Christmas season.
Peter Cooke
BBC South Today
Two men accused of the murder of a woman who was shot in the head in Abingdon in November have pleaded not guilty.
Billy Johnson, 20, from Ripon Court, Corby, Northamptonshire, and Charles Noble, 20, from Kempton Avenue, Northolt, Ealing appeared this afternoon at Oxford Crown Court.
Kerry Reeves, 26, died two days after being shot in Abingdon on 3 November.
The £200m development of land in the Oxpens area of Oxford has been welcomed by the city council.
Leader of Oxford City Council Bob Price
The site, between the Westgate shopping centre and Oxford railway station, is the largest remaining development area in the city centre and forms part of a larger regeneration project for the city.
Quote MessageWe are delighted to have been able to establish this commercial partnership with Nuffield College and to bring together the whole of the Oxpens site for development. Oxpens will unlock major private sector investment and new jobs.
Bob Price, Leader, Oxford City Council
The Guardian
The government’s anti-terrorism laws aimed at universities risk having a “chilling effect” on academic debate, external and a “deadening impact” on research, according to former director of public prosecutions Ken Macdonald who is now a warden of Wadham College, Oxford.
Traffic is building on the A4074 in Littlemore after a fallen tree partially blocked the road in both directions between the Henley Road junction and the Baldon Lane junction.
You can get the latest on the disruption caused by Storm Imogen on the BBC Travel site.
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Linda Serck
BBC News
A new neighbourhood with up to 500 homes plus offices, academic buildings and commercial space could be built in a £200m revamp of Oxford's west end.
Image source, GoogleThe Oxpens area is between Oxpens Road and the River Thames
The city council and Oxford University's Nuffield College have signed an agreement to form a joint venture company to build on at least 16.7 acres (6.8 ha) of land in Oxpens.
The housing will include social housing and homes for key workers.
Winds could reach gale force in places at times this afternoon, with blustery showers and sometimes heavy rain.
You can get a full forecast on the BBC Weather site.
Ross Heaton
BBC Oxford Sport
This afternoon's top sports stories:
As more heavy rain is expected in the county, the Environment Agency has issued flood alerts for:
An earlier flood warning on the River Cole has been lifted.
You can check the situation where you are with an Environment Agency map online, external.
Gusts of up to 65mph are expected inland as Storm Imogen moves across the country this afternoon.
Winds of nearly 80mph have already been recorded in coastal areas, and more heavy rain is expected in Oxfordshire before the storm clears this evening.
You can see Ben Rich's forecast for Storm Imogen's impact here.
Andrew Humphrey
BBC Local Live
Oxfordshire's top stories this afternoon:
A range of measures have been suggested by air quality experts commissioned by South Oxfordshire District Council to look at ways to reduce harmful vehicle emissions.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe action includes restricting certain types of traffic from using the bridge into Wallingford, and banning cars parking on certain streets in Watlington.
The council is running a consultation on the recommendations, and you can view them in details and have your say here, external.
A bid to take control of £4bn of spending, external for transport schemes and health and social care has been submitted to the government by Oxfordshire’s political leaders.
Residents and businesses are being asked for their opinions about car parking in west Oxfordshire.
The district council has launched an online survey, external to help them understand drivers' concerns and ideas.
Quote MessageFree car parking throughout the year is a real success story for West Oxfordshire, benefiting residents, tourists and businesses alike. It has helped our local economy remain buoyant; we want to keep it that way by making sure our car parking facilities continue to meet a growing demand.
David Harvey, Cabinet member for the environment, West Oxfordshire District Council
BBC Travel
A lane is blocked on the M40 northbound between J11 at Banbury and J12 for Gaydon because of a broken-down vehicle.
You can keep up to date with the BBC Travel site.
Bethan Phillips
Political reporter, BBC Radio Oxford
The Truck Festival organisers have been given permission to expand their capacity to 9,999 people.
Steventon Parish Council had objected to the increase because of the amount of traffic the event brings to the village.
But festival organisers outlined a new plan which would divert traffic away from Steventon.
BBC Radio Oxford's Phil Mercer braved the elements this morning to climb to the top of the University of Oxford's engineering building to take a look at its sunlight measuring Campbell-Stokes recorder.
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Oxford University's Amy Creese explains that the device works by focusing the sunlight onto a special card, burning a line which indicates how long the sun was shining that day.
