23/06/2014 BBC Oxford News

exclusively to the fathers of Coventry teenagers who have

A jury has heard a 17`year`old from Didcot was murdered

after her ex`boyfriend discovered she was pregnant.

Ben Blakeley has admitted manslaughter

but has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jayden Parkinson.

Jayden Parkinson's disappearance last December sparked a major

They were helped by dozens of residents in Didcot and

The investigation took a grhm turn after a 17`year`old boy came forward

Police declared they were launching a murder investig`tion.

Jayden's boyfriend, Ben Blakeley, was then charged with her murder.

The police were then searchhng for her body.

After two weeks of searching, police eventually cordoned

off this graveyard at All Saints Church in Didcot.

They discovered her body in the grave of Alan Kennedx,

The court also heard that when Ben Blakeley's arrest hit the news,

a former care worker of his got in touch with authorities.

She recalled a conversation she d had with him as a 13`year`old.

He had said, if I ever have to get rid of a body, I would put ht

When she asked why, he said, because the bones would get mixed up

and nobody would ever think to look in the grave.

The jury were told today that they would not have to look

at any upsetting or disturbhng photographs but they were shown

The post`mortem concluded her bruises were consistent with

Her brain injuries indicated she died by strangulation.

The trial is set to last here for around three weeks.

An 82`year`old woman is in hospital after being struck by a par`chutist

He had veered off course and careered into a crowd

The man, a member of the RAF Falcon display team,

The moment a public display went badly wrong.

This was the Oxfordshire`based RAF falcon team moments before,

putting on a show at the Weston Air Festival in Somerset.

They fall at speeds of more than 100 miles an hour

and are supposed to land in designated drop zones on the beach.

But this time, one of them veered off course,

crashing into a burger van and hitting an elderly spectator.

The 82`year`old woman was more seriously hurt and was flown

In a statement, the mystery of defence said they wished those

involved a speedy recovery but they would not make any more comments. An

investigation is now under way and it will centre on the preparations

made by the full content based here at Brize Norton before their jump

and the safety measures in place on the ground.

The Somali community have expressed anger

at moves to reclassify a traditional herbal stimulant as a class C drug.

From tonight, the plant derived substance known

Chewing it is popular with Somali migrants.

One group in Milton Keynes say the change is discriminatory.

The World Health Organisation agree it is not seriously addictive.

The owners of a waste transfer site near Wallingford damaged by fire

at the weekend say they believe the hot weather may have catsed

It took 60 firefighters almost four hours to bring the flames

under control at Grundin's Dwelme facility on Saturday night.

The firm has apologised and says it is assisting

As a teenager, she saw members of her family

tortured and killed as part of the Rwandan civil war in the mid`1990s.

20 years on, Liliane Umubyeyi has built ` new

The 36`year`old now has a f`mily of her own and graduated from Oxford

You may find some details in this report upsetting.

Three years after studying hard for her degree.

Liliane Umubyeyi from Kidlington is now making the most of her free

Around 48 hours ago, she was joined by her family to

celebrate completing a degrde in international relations.

The graduation ceremony was held at Oxford Brookes Universitx.

If I have to describe how I felt, it was overwhelming.

But she had never imagined her life would be full of happy moments

20 years ago, the small African country, Rwanda,

800,000 people were brutallx murdered in a civil war

At the age of 15, Liliane lost most of her family who were killdd in

I remember when I got to this country,

The first thing I asked, do you ever clean something

He said, I'm afraid I cannot do that.

She says although it has been tough to move on, having her children

and doing charity work for other Rwandan survivors has helped.

You can never forget and whdn we are talking about people being killed,

I sometimes say, I wish thex were shot dead, but seeing how brutal

they were murdered, it was as if they were butchered like anhmals.

Now as a mother, I hardly think about myself very much because I

It really occupies me and has given me the joy

They have dominated the skyline for decades

but the clock is now ticking for the first three of the six huge cooling

The three southern towers will be demolished on Sunday 27th Jtly

by a specialist team using high explosives.

Experts say it will take less than a minute to bring the towers down.

That's it for now, we're back in BBC Breakfast tomorrow

morning but for now, goodnight and the weather is next.

The showers will gradually disappear this evening and temperaturds will

this evening and temperatures will fall to a very mild 13 off teen

degrees. Really quite humid and tomorrow night, you will be glad to

hear, less humid. The wannabe see a few showers for northern and eastern

areas. Most places seeing a lot of dry weather with some bright and

sunny spells. More cloud in the morning and a high of 21 degrees.

Very pleasant conditions also on Wednesday. Rio is expected later on

Thursday. Wednesday. Towards the end of The

Week, it will be more unsettled. Good evening to you. Well, for many

of us, another fine day, a nice start to The Week, but not such a

great end to Monday because across East Anglia and the south-east we

had thunderstorms. Some big downpours, for example, over

Cambridgeshire. Most of us missed that and it was a fine end to the

day. Let's get on with the forecast. Tomorrow, more warm sunshine. It

will be warm over the south of the country. If you live in Scotland, it

will feel fresher. This is the forecast for the overnight period.

It is similar to the last few nights - clear, calm weather. No

thunderstorms. 15 Celsius, the overnight low in London. Fresher for

our friends in Orkney and Shetland. Tomorrow starts off sunny for