Updates from 23 February 2016
South Central Ambulance Service has sent a hazardous areas response team, three ambulances, the air ambulance, two officers and a rapid response vehicle to the scene of the Didcot Power Station incident.
Image source, Elliot Harvey
Al Ryan
BBC Oxford travel presenter
The A4130 is closed at Basil Hill Road - that's the road that runs parallel to the power station.
Eyewitness Elliot Harvey tweeted us from Didcot, saying there was an "explosion then a dust cloud" on the site of the power station.
The fire and ambulance services are also present.
Adrian Redhead has tweeted this image of apparent damage at the Didcot Power Station site amid a number of reports of an explosion.
Image source, Adrian RedheadThames Valley Police has confirmed it is at the scene.
We are receiving reports of an incident at Didcot Power Station involving police and emergency services.
More on this as we get it.
Image source, Elliot Harvey
Dave Gilyeat
BBC News
A rare Viking hoard of arm rings, coins and silver ingots unearthed in Oxfordshire has been declared treasure by an Oxford coroner.
Image source, Trustees of the British MuseumIt was buried near Watlington around the end of the 870s, when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Mercia and Wessex were fighting for their survival from the threat of the Vikings.
The struggles were to lead to the unification of England.
Al Ryan
BBC Oxford travel presenter
The 16:16 Great Western Railway, external service from Didcot Parkway to London Paddington has been delayed by 39 minutes due to urgent repairs on the track.
Al Ryan
BBC Oxford travel presenter
There's slow traffic on the A34 southbound at A4130 (Milton Interchange) in the roadworks area.
Sophie Law
BBC Radio Oxford news
Joe Rukin, from the Stop HS2, external campaign, said the amendments to the plans for the rail link were not enough.
"The Chilterns is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty," he said.
"What's the point of having that designation, having that supposed protection, if you're not going to tunnel through that entire area?"
BBC Travel
There is congestion on the A40 London Road to the B4027 junction, following the closure of the M40 entry slip road.
Traffic is also slow southbound at junction 8, M40 (Oxford), because of the accident investigation work.
Following the clarification that David Cameron's comments yesterday about not standing for re-election were a reference to his role as prime minister, and not as a local MP, Adam Lawrence tweeted us to say, external: "Sadly they'd elect a donkey in Witney if it wore a blue rosette."
In contrast, Liam Walker tweeted, external: "I hope he stays on!"
The prime minister says he is not standing for re-election
Dave Gilyeat
BBC News
The top stories this afternoon:
The final report, external by a committee of MPs looking into the plans for the HS2 high-speed rail link has been released.
Image source, HS2/PASome amendments to plans have been included in a bid to lessen its impact including a longer tunnel under the Chilterns.
This year's Oxford Literary Festival, external has a whole host of interesting speakers booked, including Sir Ian McKellen, Jacqueline Wilson, Garry Kasparov, Maureen Lipman, Melvyn Bragg, and BBC Radio Oxford's very own Bill Heine and Susie Dent.
Image source, ReutersTaking place 2-10 April, the organisers have made the festival's pocket guide available to download, external.
Robyn Cowen
Presenter, Radio Oxford Sport
Oxford United, external boss Michael Appleton has urged his side to answer their critics on the pitch tonight as the U's travel to Exeter City, external in League Two.
Image source, ALLSPORT/Getty ImagesUnited go into the match at St James Park off the back of consecutive league defeats
"Luckily I don't listen to phone-ins, I don't read forums, I don't read papers," he told us. "The easiest thing in life is to be negative, and there's a lot of negative people, especially in football."
Football lovers from around Oxford will converge tomorrow at Oxford City Football Club, external in Marsh Lane for the annual football forum.
Hosted by Oxford City Council, external in partnership with Oxfordshire FA, external, the authority will update football clubs about its work to improve facilities in Oxford, while clubs will have the opportunity to raise any issues they may have.
Mark Lygo, executive board member for leisure, sport and events, said: “This is an opportunity for anyone involved in football in Oxford to have their say on the future of the sport in the city.”
Holly Green
BBC Weather
We've got some good spells of sunshine through this afternoon but it is going to feel quite chilly, with temperatures only getting up to about 7C (45F).
There's a chance too of a couple of showers.
A four-year-old girl has been injured in a suspected hit-and-run in Oxford, external.
The pedestrian was hit by a black or dark-coloured Audi in Mortimer Road near to the junction with Nowell Road at about 16:15 yesterday.
The girl, who received cuts, bruises and abrasions, is being treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
The parents of a British man who reportedly travelled to the Middle East to join the so-called Islamic State group have been bailed again by police until 24 May.
Image source, Jack LettsJohn and Sally Letts, from Oxford, said they were arrested after they sent their son Jack money for food and new glasses.
Mr Letts' parents said he had converted to Islam but dismissed claims he had joined so-called Islamic State as "false" and said he travelled to the region for humanitarian reasons.
South Today
Among the stories on South Today on BBC One at 13:30: