Phil Mercer

A volunteer team using cadaver detection dogs to search for the body of a British child who disappeared in Australia more than 50 years ago has found an "area of interest".

Police suspect three-year-old Cheryl Grimmer, originally from Bristol, was taken from a beach in Australia.

Phil Mercer, a journalist in Sydney, reports on the deadly shooting at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach and what authorities are saying about the attack.

Bishop of Oxford, Dr Steven Croft, will retire from his role in the summer after nearly a decade.

Sam Sandberg uses satellite the collars on her cattle at Lyneham Heath Farm near Chipping Norton.

Sam Sandberg uses satellite the collars on her cattle at Lyneham Heath Farm near Chipping Norton.

In June 1972, a handful of students gathered at a pub for what would turn out to be the first meeting of Reading's Gay Alliance.

Radio Berkshire's Phil Mercer meets activist and Reading Gay Alliance co-founder Martin Kaufman.

Three young men swap their party lives for the serenity of a Carmelite Priory in Oxfordshire.

Ethan Gudge - South of England; Phil Mercer - in Oxford Welcoming three influencers into a Catholic priory in the English countryside as part of a reality TV programme was "transformative", the friars involved have said.