Based in Blackbird Leys, the Sorrell Road Allotment Project is supported by local allotment users who provide seeds and plants for the plots. It is a sustainable project which has, over the years, made a variety of storage spaces, weather resistant shelters and outdoor furniture from reclaimed or donated wood.

The platform, which has been procured by the Office of the Police and Commissioner, will be made available free of charge to retailers, Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and Business Crime Reduction Partnerships (BCRPs) across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes.

As part of this week’s policing activity through Operation Sceptre, the Office of the PCC has shared a series of video presentations following the Thames Valley Knife Crime Conference hosted on 27 June in Milton Keynes.

Matthew Barber, visited No5 Young People to find out how almost £10,000 of funding from the PCC’s Community Fund is helping to support young people at risk of permanent exclusion from school.

Around £1.9 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency is to be paid back to victims of theft as a result of work by the South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU).

Matthew Barber, Police and Crime Commissioner for Thames Valley, has welcomed the ban on nitrous oxide.