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A red fire engine with its blue lights flashing travelling on a road, with new-build houses behind it.

Fire station set for £700,000 improvement works

The plans for Faringdon Fire Station are part of a council's plan to decarbonise its buildings.

A landscape view of a mist filled valley and clear skies. Rising above the mist is a barrow hill at Brightwell cum Sotwell. There is a solitary tree standing at it's peak.

Oxfordshire's Big Picture: Sunday's image of the county

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Oxfordshire.

A wall leads through the shot to a small church which stands in front of a sunset sky full of purple and orange hues. There are contrails from aircraft criss-crossing the scene. In the foreground a puddle on the path catches a reflection of the top of the church tower and the sunset behind it.

Oxfordshire's Big Picture: Saturday's image of the county

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Oxfordshire.

A patchwork of fields runs to the horizon. In the foreground, frost can be seen on the grass and in the distance mist covers the fields and trees. The rising sun creates a golden glow in the sky above the fields.

Oxfordshire's Big Picture: Friday's image of the county

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Oxfordshire.

Flood water covers the entirety of a children's play area with the water level up to the top of the children's swings. Two pieces of climbing equipment are also submerged as is a picnic bench in the right of the picture.

Oxfordshire's Big Picture: Thursday's image of the county

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Oxfordshire.

A bench stands in flood water which has gushed through a woodland. Trees and hedges can be seen around the edges of the flood waters. The sky is clear and blue.

Oxfordshire's Big Picture: Wednesday's image of the county

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Oxfordshire.

A flooded river has come right up to trees running alongside it. The water is brown and has engulfed some hedges. There are fields in the distance on a clear and sunny day.

Oxfordshire's Big Picture: Tuesday's image of the county

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Oxfordshire.

A low sun is in the sky glowing yellow over a field. It looks as though some of the field has been ploughed with a strip of grass remaining on the right-hand side. There is a tree line in the distance.

Oxfordshire's Big Picture: Monday's image of the county

Showcasing the best images sent to us from around Oxfordshire.

Al Sylvester in two pictures. On the left: On a hospital bed in just his boxer shorts, connected up to wires and a nasal cannula. On the right: Looking joyful during a marathon, his fingers on each hand raised in the air.

Sepsis sufferer warns others to look up symptoms

Al Sylvester originally thought he had the flu when he became ill during a run.