Updates on Friday 29 April 2016
News, sport, weather and travel updates will return on Tuesday
Chris Brown
BBC News
That's all from BBC Local Live for today.
We'll be back from 08:00 on Tuesday with the latest news, sport, travel and weather updates for Oxfordshire.
Join us then.
South Today
Coming up on BBC South Today at 18:30: We speak to the son-in-law of one of the men missing under the rubble of Didcot power station who is angry at plans to use explosives to bring down the remainder of the boiler house.
Image source, Thames Valley PoliceMeanwhile, we hear from a Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust governor who resigned today in the wake of a damning CQC report.
And we take a leap with The Falcons - the RAF display team at Brize Norton.
Any showers will clear through the evening.
Cloud will disperse and winds will become light, allowing temperatures to fall away and a frost to develop in some rural areas by Saturday morning.
Lows of 2C (36F).
For a 10-day forecast visit the BBC Weather site.
Angela Walker
BBC South Today
Take a leap with The Falcons - the RAF parachute display team based at Brize Norton.
The Falcons are the premier military parachute display team
Jerome Sale
BBC Radio Oxford Sport
The top sport stories this evening:
BBC Travel
You can get the latest on the BBC Travel site.
Chris Brown
BBC News
The top stories in Oxfordshire this evening:
Oxford United Women have been granted a three-year female regional talent club tier 1 licence, external.
Image source, Oxford United WomenThe club is one of only 13 in the country to gain the status.
Richard Blackmore, manager of the team, said they would now have the opportunity to play a large role in shaping the future of female football on a national scale.
The owners of Didcot power station have announced a new demolition company will come in to "assist" in recovery work.
RWE Npower has not named the new company which will be brought in to help with the controlled demolition work planned for the partially collapsed boiler house.
Coleman & Company, which was leading the demolition work at Didcot A power station station when it collapsed killing one man and leaving three others buried under the rubble, will "still play a role on the site", RWE added.
A new chairman for Southern Health NHS trust has been proposed by NHS regulators, in the wake Mike Petter's resignation yesterday.
NHS Improvement wants to appoint Tim Smart as chair of the trust - he's previously been chief executive of King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for seven years.
The regulatory body says he will lead a review into the "adequacy of the trust's current leadership".
Quote MessageIt is clear that dramatic change is needed urgently at Southern Health. Our action today in proposing the appointment of Tim Smart - a very experienced NHS leader - at the top of the organisation will speed up this improvement. Tim's appointment, along with other action we've already taken, will support this trust to provide the quality of care that people using its services expect.
Jim Mackey, Chief executive of NHS Improvement
An MEP who dishonestly claimed about £100,000 in expenses with a "sustained pattern of stealing" has been jailed for four years.
Peter Skinner
Peter Skinner, 56, who was Labour MEP for the South East from 1999 to 2014, was found guilty of three charges after a trial at Southwark Crown Court.
He claimed thousands of pounds for support staff which actually funded jewellery, restaurants and hotel stays.
Oxford's Weston Library is among six buildings in the county to win a regional architecture award.
Image source, University of OxfordOxford's Weston Library
The RIBA South Regional Awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects, external were handed out at a ceremony last night.
Also included on the list were:
They'll now go forward to the national awards in late June.
Oxford's two MPs have joined calls for further resignations at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, external after a "shocking" watchdog report said it repeatedly failed to address serious concerns about patient safety.
Adam Williams
BBC Sport
Oxford United striker James Roberts is hoping to put an "awful" year behind him by helping the club win automatic promotion from League Two.
Image source, Rex FeaturesJames Roberts
Roberts' 16-year-old brother Ben died after he was hit by a car in October.
He has also been plagued by persistent hamstring injuries, but made a return to the first team earlier this month with Oxford third in the table.
Chris Brown
BBC News
The top stories so far today:
Victoria Cook
BBC South Today
A father-of-two has been sectioned indefinitely under the Mental Health Act following a fire at a house in Oxfordshire.
Residents of the house in Blackbird Leys jumped from an upstairs window to escape the fire
An application will have to be made to the justice secretary for any future release of Martin Nganga, 47, into the community.
He was found guilty last May by a jury of arson with intent to endanger life, after setting fire to a house in Blackbird Leys.
The government has responded this afternoon to the publication of the damning CQC report into Southern Health NHS trust.
Quote Message"We know that, over a period of several years, too many patients were shamefully let down by the standards of care provided at Southern Health. Since this inspection, the trust has developed an action plan and is working with regulators to improve safety. However we are clear that standards must improve dramatically - if they do not, we won't hesitate to take further action.
Department of Health spokeswoman
Three fire engines were rushed to a shed in Abingdon on Wednesday following reports of a rapidly developing fire, external.
The first residents of a new "eco-town" in Oxfordshire have moved into their new homes, external, the developer has said.
Image source, A2DominionA2Dominion's construction of the first phase of the North West Bicester development began in April 2014.
Elmsbrook, which is currently under construction, is the first part of a masterplan to create up to 6,000 homes at the site.
Labour's shadow minister for mental health, Luciana Berger MP, has demanded action and accountability is taken in the wake of the damning CQC report into Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Quote MessageThis report makes for really shocking reading. More than two years after the tragic death of Connor Sparrowhawk and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust is still not adequately protecting the thousands of people in its care. For these failings to be allowed to continue is unacceptable. The lack of accountability, at the highest levels of the trust, is beyond the pale. For patients and their families, this latest action plan is simply too little too late. They need to see robust action and real accountability and they need to see it now.
Luciana Berger, Labour and Co-operative MP for Liverpool Wavertree
