The Friends of Raleigh Park will host the event in Seacourt Hall, Botley, on April 25 to commemorate the centenary of Raleigh Park being gifted to the people of Oxford.

The celebration will feature a panel of speakers discussing the history and significance of the park’s donor, Raymond Ffennell, and dedicatee, Professor Sir Walter Raleigh.

The future of the park, designated as a local wildlife site, will also be a topic of discussion.

Speakers will include historians, CEOs of preservation trusts, and representatives from various organisations.

The following day, a new centenary bench, made from historic bench supports and timber from the Great Oak, which fell in 2015, will be commissioned in the park.

From songs about scotch eggs to a youth worker belting out a comedic diss track, the likes of Glantaf Boys, Christy Coysh and Ren DMC all hoped to impress judges Simon Cowell, Alesha Dixon, KSI and Amanda Holden this evening.

But during Saturday’s show, it was World Wings who were given Amanda’s second golden buzzer (the first being Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone Farmers Choir).

The dance group performed to a medley of songs including Lil Boo Thang before being showered in golden confetti.

As the auditorium roared, Amanda said World Wings’ energy was “amazing”, while Alesha described it was like a “ball of fire”.

Meanwhile, in a moment of excitement, KSI walked on stage to offer one of the dancers his iconic bandana.

Of course, World Wings were given four yeses by all judges.

Taking to X, this viewer posted: “I like them. Nice group of talented hardworking youngsters. And I love all styles of dance as an art form – even if overdone on #bgt Happy for them.”

Another put: “World Wings are certainly flying high after that audition.”

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Who has been given a golden buzzer on BGT 2026 so far?

All the acts from series 19 of BGT who have been lucky enough to receive a golden buzzer at the audition stages, hoping to make it all the way to the final and be in with the chance of winning £250,000 (and a spot at the Royal Variety Performance), are:

• Australian para athlete Paul Nunnari – golden buzzer 1 pressed by Simon Cowell (February 21)
• 16-year-old magician Rafferty Coope – golden buzzer 2 pressed by KSI (February 28)
• Antigravity – golden buzzer 3 pressed by Alesha Dixon (March 7)
• The Hawkstone Farmers Choir – golden buzzer 4 pressed by Amanda Holden (March 21)
• Comedian Ted Hill – golden buzzer 5 pressed by Ant and Dec (March 28)
• Singer Matty Juniosa – golden buzzer 6 pressed by Simon Cowell (March 28)
• Braunstone Community Primary School – golden buzzer 7 pressed by guest judge Stacey Solomon (April 4)
• World Wings – golden buzzer 8 pressed by Amanda Holden (April 11)

BGT continues on Saturday, April 18 at 7pm on ITV1 and ITVX.

In her latest book, Novel Crime Scenes: Twenty Deadly Landscapes, Christina Hardyment explores the landscapes behind 20 crime novels, examining how real places have fuelled fictional mysteries.

Due to be released on April 16 by Bodleian Library Publishing, the book considers locations ranging from Devon’s misty moors in The Hound of the Baskervilles to the vibrant streets of Brick Lane in Ajay Chowdhury’s The Waiter.

The book journeys across Britain, tracing the literary geography of crime fiction from John Buchan’s Galloway Hills to Ellis Peters’s Shropshire, Margery Allingham’s Essex, Colin Dexter’s Oxford, and Peter May’s Hebrides.

Times journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves said: “Hardyment walks appreciatively through dark imaginings, paying enjoyably grateful, sometimes quizzical tribute to the spirit of landscape in classic crime fiction.”

Each chapter uncovers the real-world setting behind the fiction and features specially commissioned maps of these ‘deadly scenes’.

Ms Hardyment also considers what these settings meant to the authors, often by retracing their steps or exploring the locations herself.

Aimed at both armchair detectives and literary travellers, the book offers new perspectives on familiar tales and spotlights lesser-known crime fiction destinations.

Christina Hardyment is a writer and journalist specialising in literary geography and medieval history mysteries.

She is also the author of Novel Houses and Writing The Thames and lives near Oxford.

For more information or to contact Christina Hardyment, readers can reach out to Emma O’Bryen at emma@obryen.co.uk.