Picture Editor Leah McLaren picks out her favourite images of the year

 

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MARCH: This delightful image by Damian Halliwell shows five-year-old meningitis victim Charlotte Nott with her first pair of blades

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APRIL: This fiery performance was captured by Andrew Walmsley at The Extreme Stunt Show when it roared into Oxpens Road, Oxford

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JUNE: Antony Moore reflects the colourful fun at the annual Oxford Pride parade

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FEBRUARY: Jon Lewis catches Prince Charles admiring the Said Business School where he sat in on a lecture during a visit to Oxford

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MAY: It was walkies for the biggest and smallest ever patients at Larkemead Vets, Boris the mastif and Dudley the Chihuahua. Ed Nix took this picture of them with vet Sarah Packman

 

 

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JULY: Antony Moore was on the scene of a hostage drama in Kidlington and caught the moment when police rescued one of the children

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SEPTEMBER: Antony Moore caught David Walliams as he joined the warm-up for SwimBritain Open Water at Blenheim Palace

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OCTOBER: Kids entertainer Elly Crowther shows Ed Nix a square pumpkin grown at Millets Farm

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DECEMBER: Damian Halliwell took this picture of a scene of crime photographer recording the area around the graveyard where the body of teenager Jayden Parkinson was found

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AUGUST: This year’s Wilderness Festival turned into something of a costume drama thanks to Empire of the Sun, taken by Andrew Walmsley

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NOVEMBER: Antony Moore didn’t get too close when fire-eater Gwylim Williams blew away the crowds at the 22nd Oxford Sea Scouts fireworks display