Talent show finalists take stage
9:13pm Wednesday 23rd July
Thirteen hopefuls will compete on Saturday to be crowned the winner of Abingdon's Got Talent.

PM thanks Land Girls
7:17pm Wednesday 23rd July
She was made to wait more than six decades, but today 84-year-old Jessie Brown from Oxford was finally rewarded for her efforts as a Land Girl with a special ceremony with Prime Minister Gordon Brown at Downing Street.

Life sentence for 'savage' attack
6:58pm Wednesday 23rd July
A groom who turned his best man into a human fireball then fled to Oxford has been jailed for life.

Signal fault delays trains
6:01pm Wednesday 23rd July
Train services between Didcot Parkway and Swindon are being delayed by a signal fault at Challow, near Wantage.

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1 Life sentence for 'savage' attack 2 Tories come clean on expenses 3 Police carry out roadside checks 4 Signal fault delays trains 5 Garden for fire victim 6 PM thanks Land Girls 7 Student faked hall burglary 8 Talent show finalists take stage 9 Yemi drops a reminder 10 Patterson drops hint Today | 7 Days 1 Baldry and Howell go head-to-head with Flint 2 Go-slow hit by no-show 3 Green guerillas target 4x4s 4 Mums make breastfeeding stand in Parks 5 Eco-protesters let down 4x4 tyres 6 Miss Oxford bows out of competition 7 South Oxon 'disappointed' at estate plans 8 Environmental campaigners target 4x4s 9 Parents face questions over knives 10 Fuel protesters hope for big turnout