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Updates on Monday 25 April 2016
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Showers, locally heavy and perhaps wintry over high ground, will clear away southwards this evening.
It will feel cold with a slight rural frost developing. Low temp 2C (36F).
You can get more details on the BBC weather site.
Marie Indge
Radio Oxford Sport
Your top sport stories this evening:
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Marie Indge
Radio Oxford Sport
Tickets for Oxford United's last home game of the season are selling out fast, external, with the club also hopeful of a four-figure crowd for the Carlisle on Saturday.
More than 900 tickets from a total allocation of just under 2,500 have been sold so far to U's fans.
Two wins from the final games will guarantee automatic promotion from League 2.
Two months after the collapse of the boiler house at Didcot A Power Station, it's been announced explosives will be used to bring down the half of the building which is still standing.
Image source, Thames Valley PoliceMark Anthony, editor of Demolition News, has been in touch with the families of the three workmen still buried under the rubble.
He says they are "outraged" at the news.
Quote MessageThere is outrage - ultimately they have a single focus and that's getting their loved ones back home. I think this is a double whammy for them. Not only is there no date for that blast, but they will see it as some kind of desecration.
Mark Anthony, Editor of Demolition News
Chris Brown
BBC News
The top stories in Oxfordshire this evening:
Oxfordshire Guardian
Hundreds of Scouts, Cubs and Beavers took to the streets of Bicester on Sunday, external to celebrate St George’s Day.
Police have issued an appeal for witnesses after a fight broke out at a private party at a community centre, external.
Prescribed drugs are failing to control the pain for many arthritis sufferers, according the charity Arthritis Research UK, external.
Image source, PAThe condition that causes pain and inflammation in joints affects about 10 million people in Britain.
Many say they top up the medicine with a mix of over-the-counter pain relief.
Professor Tonia Vincent from Oxford University is also director of Arthritis Research UK and says everyone is affected differently.
Quote MessageIt's the chronic nature which patients find so debilitating. Some patients have different types of pain, which means they are more difficult to treat. So some painkillers work in some patients but don't work at all in others.
Professor Tonia Vincent
Oxford-based charity Oxfam is warning the most vulnerable people in Nepal are at risk of missing out on reconstruction aid following last year's devastating earthquake.
Angnu Sherpa is trying to rebuild his business in Nepal following the earthquake
The resturant near Lukla, where most people begin their climb to Mount Everest base camp
BBC Oxford reporter Georgina Sullivan is in Nepal and spoke to Angnu Sherpa a tourist guide who owns a resturant near Lukla, where most people begin their climb to Mount Everest base camp.
He told her of the fear when the 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the country - the largest there in 80 years - killing some 8,000 people.
Quote MessageMe and my wife were in the dining hall and [when it happened] we all moved outside. All the houses were damaged and our hearts nearly died. That night we made a tent and spent the night out there. We stayed there for four or five months.
Angnu Sherpa
A bus operator has driven home the importance of teamwork after winning an award for its service into the capital, external.
Banbury's Castle Quay shopping centre could struggle to fill the BHS store should it close down in the wake of the company going into administration today.
Image source, Getty ImagesThat's the view of Oxfordshire retail consultant Keith Slater, as it emerged some 164 shops and almost 11,000 jobs are at risk.
The company decided to bring in administrators after talks to sell some of its 164 UK stores to Sports Direct collapsed over the weekend.
Administrators are looking to sell all or part of the 88-year-old department store group, although it will continue to trade in the meantime.
Quote MessageYou can rent any number of stores in there [Castle Quay] at the moment, current occupiers would like to get out of their leases. They've been talking to Sports Direct but of course they already have a store in Castle Quay, so why would they want to take over the BHS one?
Keith Slater, Retail consultant
Chris Brown
BBC News
Patients are being urged not to come to hospital emergency departments from tomorrow for two days unless they have a real emergency, as junior doctors stage a 48-hour strike.
Image source, ReutersPaul Brennan, director of clinical services at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said he was sorry the two sides in the increasingly bitter dispute had not found an agreement.
He added urgent and emergency provision (including maternity, oncology, renal dialysis, trauma and other urgent services) would continue, but non-urgent operations and outpatient appointments would be rescheduled.
Advice for patients is available on the NHS website, external.
Fewer homes are being planned for green belt land around Oxfordshire.
Just over 3,500 are set to built in the protected areas, according to research by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). That's down 22% on the figure for March last year.
Oxfordshire was the only area highlighted by the CPRE to see a fall.
Image source, David Gould @bizcostmgt"People are just not coming into Oxford and therefore the footfall is way, way down, and without the footfall we can't survive," says Prescilla Carter, of Unique Creations ceramics studio in Summertown.
Major roadworks at three roundabouts in Oxford that have seen long delays are affecting trade, retailers say.
Read MorePolice are appealing for information after two birds of prey were found with gunshot wounds in south Oxfordshire, external.
Image source, ThinkstockRed kites have been protected by the RSPB since early in the 20th Century
The red kites were found injured in Oakley Wood, near Crowmarsh Gifford, on 29 March and 5 April. X-rays have shown that both birds contain shotgun pellets.
On 22 March another red kite was found dead in Oakley Wood, but the cause of death is not known.
The red kite is subject to the longest continuous conservation project in the world, with the RSPB thought to have been involved continuously in its protection, external since 1905.
Quote MessageFortunately incidents of this nature are very rare in the Thames Valley and a thorough investigation is under way. The two birds were lucky to survive ... I’m appealing to anyone who might have information that could assist us with our investigation.
PC Robert Searle, Thames Valley Police wildlife officer
Fatbergs, made up of fat and oil mainly from food outlets dumped into drains illegally, are building up under Oxford's streets.
We joined Thames Water engineers to see first hand the effect of this greasy mess.
How city's drains are being blocked by waster fat, oil and grease
The booming baritone of Brian Blessed rang out across Chipping Norton at the weekend. The actor, famous for his appearances in films such as Flash Gordon and Star Wars Episode I, and a range of Shakespeare plays, appeared at the town's literary festival to share the story of his life, external.
Nursing students at Oxford Brookes pulled on their trainers and ran around the university's Harcourt Hill campus to raise money for a mental health charity, external.
