Updates on Tuesday 12 April 2016
News, sport, travel and weather updates resume at 08:00 on Wednesday
An £11million relief road, external has been "a long time coming" say residents and councillors who have campaigned for more than 10 years to have it built.
Dan Downs, Weather Forecaster
It's dry, bright and sunny for much of Oxfordshire, but increasingly through this afternoon we will start to see some showers arriving, and they'll tend to be rather slow moving and heavy.
Not everyone will see them, it will be a bit hit and miss, and away from the showers temperatures are not doing too bad, with highs of 15C (59F).
South Today
On BBC South Today on BBC One at 13:30 you can find out more about how the victims of the tainted blood scandal have taken their fight for justice to Westminster today.
There's been a long-running campaign by the families, including some from Oxfordshire, and MPs will debate whether the government's doing enough to help them.
Dave Gilyeat
BBC News
The top stories this lunchtime:
A difficult decision on the future of Denman College, the jewel in the crown of the Oxfordshire Federation of Women's Institutes, is on the cards this year, external.
Alex Regan
South Online
England's health watchdog will look at how NHS trust services learn from the deaths of patients with learning disabilities.
Image source, Sara RyanConnor Sparrowhawk
The nationwide review comes after Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust was criticised following the death of Connor Sparrowhawk.
The 18-year-old drowned in a bath at an Oxford mental health facility after suffering an epileptic fit in 2013.
Inspectors found the trust's review of deaths was not robust enough.
BBC Travel
One lane is closed on the A40 London Road westbound in Oxford between Thornhill Park And Ride and Headington Roundabout, because of repairs.
Victims of crime can now directly confront criminal, externals as part of an extended "restorative justice" scheme in the Thames Valley.
The Right Reverend Steven Croft's appointment was met with a round of applause after he was unveiled at Church House in Kidlington this morning.
The Right Reverend Steven Croft speaks about his new appointment.
Dr Croft will be the most senior clergyman in the Church of England for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
Ross Heaton
BBC Oxford Sport
Oxford City, external are away to Whitehawk tonight in National League South. It's a game that has been re-arranged because the original fixture was abandoned due to floodlight failure at the Sussex ground.
And Oxford United's U-18s take on MK Dons at Abingdon United's Northcourt Road this afternoon. Kick-off is at 13:00 and is free for all spectators.
Dave Gilyeat
BBC News
The top headlines in Oxfordshire this morning:
Thames Valley Police, external has released CCTV images of a man wearing a knitted elephant mask robbing a wine shop in Eynsham.
Image source, Thames Valley PoliceThe robber with his distinctive elephant mask with pink trunk
The robbery took place at 21:42 on Saturday at Eynsham Cellars in Mill Street.
Police said after threatening the shop assistant with a knife the robber - also wearing a thick black coat with the hood up, skiing gloves, grey jogging bottoms and white trainers with red stripes - stole cash and then made off on a bicycle in the direction of John Lopes Road.
Funding into brain tumour research needs to be increased to match other diseases, according to Vicky Price, a mother from Henley who was diagnosed with the disease four years ago.
Image source, PADebbie McGee has signed a letter calling for more brain tumour research funding
A letter in The Times today, signed by the likes of Paul Daniels' widow Debbie McGee, BBC sports presenter Jacqui Oatley, boxer Ricky Hatton and the widow and daughter of footballer Emlyn Hughes, says funding needs to increase by £30million per year to match that of other cancers.
MPs will debate the issue next week.
Quote MessageI think it's shocking really, they just need so much more money to carry out the research. It's not a lot money they get and there's a lot that individuals have to raise.
Vicky Price, Brain tumour sufferer
Before his official announcement as the new Bishop of Oxford, Dr Steven Croft tweeted Psalm 131.
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Dave Gilyeat
BBC News
The new Bishop of Oxford, the Right Reverend Steven Croft, has called his appointment a "really great honour".
The new Bishop of Oxford, the Right Reverend Steven Croft
"A great trust has been committed to my charge," he told the gathered press.
Dr Croft, 58, lived in Oxford for five years and married his wife Ann in the city, before moving to Sheffield where he served as bishop.
Originally from Halifax in West Yorkshire, he studied at Worcester College, Oxford, and then St John’s College, Durham, where he trained for ordination at Cranmer Hall.
Quote MessageI look forward to getting to know you, to working with you, to serving all the communities of this Diocese, and to seeing God grow the church in this place, by God's grace, for many years to come.
The Right Reverend Steven Croft
The new Bishop of Oxford will be the Right Reverend Steven John Lindsey Croft.
The news was announced on Radio Oxford by the Right Reverend Colin Fletcher, the Bishop of Dorchester and Acting Bishop of Oxford.
The Right Reverend John Pritchard stepped down in October 2014.
Al Ryan
BBC Oxford travel presenter
The new rapid access care unit at Townlands Hospital in Henley will not be open until the summer, external. The delay was revealed by Dr Andrew Burnett, south-east locality clinical director for the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, during a media tour of the £16million health campus last week.
Paul Jenner
BBC Radio Oxford
Campaigners angry at government plans to reform payouts to people infected by contaminated blood will be heading to the House of Commons today for an urgent debate on the issue.
More than 7,000 people, many of them haemophiliacs, were infected with HIV and Hepatitis C during medical treatment in the 1970s and 80s.
David Leadbetter, from Witney, who is attending the debate, is one of the people living with Hepatitis C as a result of the treatment.
Earlier this year he told David Prever how he felt when the doctor told him the news.
Thames Valley Police has released a picture of a man who went missing, external yesterday.
Image source, Thames Valley PoliceSandeep Flora
Sandeep Flora, 27, was last seen at about 16:14 at the Littlemore Hospital in Oxford.
Quote MessageHe has no access to medication and we are concerned for his welfare. If you see Sandeep Flora please contact police immediately.
Sgt Alex Field, Thames Valley Police, Cowley police station
