Five things from Oxfordshire

Here are five stories from Oxfordshire which have been attracting attention this week.

Ania Kordala, 28, said she had been excited at the prospect of hearing former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard speak on Tuesday.

But she was asked to leave the Women and Leadership talk because her 16-month-old’s “babbling” was picked up by a camera at the event, she said.

The university said it was a “regrettable miscommunication”.

Beate Howitt is a cover model for the first time – aged 80.

The retired teacher, from Oxford, recently won a modelling competition after her friend entered on her behalf, without her knowledge.

She will also be on the cover of the next edition of Goldie magazine.

Ms Moran, the MP for Oxford West and Abingdon and tipped as a candidate for the Lib Dem leadership, posted a statement on Twitter saying she “wanted to respond to rumours”.

The row in Glasgow began over a lost computer cable, she said.

She said she initially faced charges but they were subsequently dropped.

An online petition for climate change to be given more prominence on the curriculum has attracted more than 50,000 signatures.

The petition was launched by four school girls from Oxford, who say there is growing demand for pupils to be taught more about the impact and solutions to tackling climate change.

The government says the subject is already covered in science and geography.

The Woodland Trust has 160,000 such trees listed, but it says there could be thousands more.

Kylie Harrison-Mellor, from the trust, said it needed to know where they were to be able to protect them.

The trust ranks Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire as having the largest collection of ancient oaks in Europe.