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Live streaming cameras are being used to improve care for patients who are airlifted to hospital in Oxfordshire. 

The equipment, which has been given to paramedics working on the Thames Valley Air Ambulance, allows doctors advising them to see footage from the scene. 

Image source, JULIAN HICKMAN

Consultant Dr Syed Masud, the clinical governance lead, describes the system as "completely secure, but allows consultants, or anybody else who is appropriate, to be seeing that footage and give advice by actually seeing the live situation that the team are dealing with."  

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A property in Wantage has been closed by police because of anti-social behaviour. 

The building is on Reeds Close and is said to have "presented a catalogue of anti-social behaviour". 

The closure order, which was granted by Oxford Magistrates' Court earlier this week, was supported by the site's owners Sovereign Housing. 

The notice prohibits all people other than the resident of the property from being on the premises for three months.

Widespread evening sunshine will be followed by a clear and rather cold night though frost is not likely except in a few sheltered rural spots such as Eynsham. 

Minimum temperature 2C (36F).

The closure of Deer Park Medical Centre in Witney leaves 4,000 people looking for new doctors.

The clocks go forward for British summertime on Sunday, but one Oxford college is ahead of the curve. 

Christ Church is five minutes and two seconds ahead of Greenwich Mean Time because it did not alter its clocks when British time was standardised. 

The dean Martyn Percy said it can get very confusing.  

South Central Ambulance Service has donated one of its ambulances to the Mongolian Health Services.

However, the vehicle's got to get there first, and three medical students from Oxford University will make the 5,000-mile three-week trip from Oxford on Sunday, driving through Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Russia, as part of the Mongolia Charity Rally.

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Afterwards Emily McFiggans, Jennifer Southern and Alex Blakes will stay in Mongolia for two months, working in hospitals there and giving English lessons to local doctors.

"We’ve been planning the project for more than a year”, Ms Southern said. "Between revision and this project, we’ve had little time for anything else - but it’s been worth it. Now we can focus on getting ourselves and the ambulance to Mongolia in one piece."

Phil Pimlott, assistant director of operational quality and compliance, said: "We renew our vehicles every eight years or so. This ambulance has reached retirement age, but it’s in great working order. It’s nice to know that it will be put to good use by the charity."

Martin Eastaugh
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This week Home Time presenter Howard Bentham and film critic James Luxford discuss The Lost City of Z. 

It follows a British explorer over several years as he searches for a lost city deep in the Amazon. 

James says it's an interesting film for people looking for something a little different from the normal noisy blockbuster. 

Also: Life, a sci-fi horror starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds, and Chips, a comedy based on the US 1970s TV show.  

Natalie Verney
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Oxford University has fallen three places in rankings looking at student experience. 

still placed it in the top ten though, at number seven. 

Oxford Brookes came in at number 77. 

Harper Adams University in Newport has claimed the top spot.

Bickering council leaders insist has not been wasted.  

It's the semi-finals stage of the FA People's Cup this weekend and you'll be able to keep up with all the action on our live text pages from 10:00-18:00 on and

There'll be loads more cracking goals like these ones, analysed by the Football Focus team after the first round.

Dame Katherine Grainger has joined in the fun of the 24-hour spinathon at Oxford Brookes' Harcourt Hill campus.

Dame Katherine is chancellor of the university and is the most decorated female Olympian, with one gold and four silver medals.

Having appeared at five consecutive Olympic Games, today's efforts were no doubt a breeze, but it's great to see her doing something funny for money.

Image source, Oxford Brookes

An 8ft (2.4m) boa constrictor in a Banbury field on Saturday is still in the custody of the RSPCA.

Image source, RSPCA

The animal welfare charity said no one has yet come forward to claim the 12.2kg snake, which was discovered near a housing estate in Banbury.

It is not known how it came to be in the field, but Deputy Ch Insp Melanie Fisher said the reptile was now doing well despite the cold weather.

A team of British scientists have made a major breakthrough in the treatment and diagnosis of tuberculosis. 

Researchers in Birmingham and Oxford have been able to use genome sequencing to isolate different strains of the disease, which means patients who might have waited months to get the right drugs can now be diagnosed in little more than a week. 

Public Health England says it’s the first time the technique has on been used on this scale anywhere in the world.

Did you know 200 organisations in our region are currently being supported by Comic Relief?

One of those is Oxfordshire Family Support Network to help older carers of people with learning disabilities. 

It's received £119,000 over three years, and the charity says that money's made a difference to many.

British scientists say they now isolate different strains and so diagnose sufferers within days.

Our roving reporter Lilley Mitchell's been busy this morning. Oxford Brookes Harcourt Campus was on her Red Nose Day itinerary, where they are 12 hours into a 24 hour spinathon.