A report on Oxfordshire and Thames Valley Air Ambulance

Brasenose Lane in Oxford city centre, a street onto which three colleges back.

G-TVAL, the current EC135 operated by the charity.

The University of Oxford's Chemistry Research Laboratory.

G-HBOB, the previous helicopter used by the charity

The Abbey, Sutton Courtenay, a ‘textbook’ example of the English medieval manor house.

The Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA), previously the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance, is an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter-based air ambulance covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the South East England region.

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One of the nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes.

Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric hill figure on the Berkshire Downs.

Harwell Science and Innovation Campus seen from the air in September 2015; the JANET academic computer network is headquartered there.

Terramycin, an early antibiotic developed by Pfizer in Kent, synthesised by American chemist Robert Burns Woodward, and led to the common antibiotic doxycycline.

South Foreland Lighthouse on Dover cliffs.

BritNed connects from the Isle of Grain in Medway to the TenneT network in the Netherlands.

England population density and low elevation coastal zones. South East England is particularly vulnerable to sea level rise

View of South East England coast from northern France.

The Litlington White Horse situated in the South Downs.

How the region voted in the 2016 European referendum; in the South East England region, only the Spelthorne district in Surrey strongly wanted to leave the EU; propensity for the EU followed the M3 and M4 corridors, western Oxfordshire and central parts of Sussex, including Brighton and Hove.

Reading School often gets the highest percentage of Oxbridge acceptances for a state school in England.

Tom Tower of Christ Church, Oxford; in 1920, the University of Oxford was the first in the UK to award degrees to women.

Redhill with the diesel Class 166 service run by First Great Western to Reading as the line has not got the Third rail electrification fully installed on the North Downs Line

Most main routes in the region are radials from London. Shown here is the A21. It is one of the major north–south routes connecting London and commuter towns and the coast

Vodafone HQ north of Newbury; it arrived as Racal-Vodafone in 1983, when Bayer also arrived; Vodafone is the world's second-biggest mobile phone company (the world's largest privately owned) with £40 billion of revenue and 464 million customers, and profits of £11bn; it has around 19M UK customers, and by value makes up about 5% of the FTSE 100.

Horlicks factory in Slough; GSK Slough makes 14,000 tonnes a year.

Jealott's Hill Research Station (pesticides), former ICI Plant Protection Division.

Sheilas' Wheels outside the head office of esure in Reigate; esure was started by Peter Wood.

Esso UK is based in Leatherhead; Esso have around 1,100 petrol stations in the UK - 14% of all stations, and pays around £7bn in UK tax, and own the Brent oil field; the site is also the worldwide base of ExxonMobil Aviation Fuels and Marine.

Martin-Baker Mk 9 ejection seat; Martin-Baker seats have saved around 950 RAF pilots, and around 7600 pilots around the world, and were developed by Sir James Martin (1893–1981) from Northern Ireland.

Argos head office on Avebury Boulevard in Milton Keynes; Argos was established in 1973 from what was the Green Shield Stamps company and shops, and since 2016 has been owned by Sainsbury's, formerly Home Retail Group.

Ordnance Survey headquarters at Adanac Park.

National Air Traffic Service headquarters at Swanwick.

The AA's headquarters at Fanum House in Basingstoke.

Virgin Atlantic on Manor Royal in Crawley; Virgin has 12 747s compared to BA's 56, but both have around 18 of the new Airbus 380; Gatwick now flies 40 million passengers a year, a world record for a single-runway airport.

Around 1,000 Minis are made each day in Cowley; BMW bought the plant in 1994 and has made around 3m since 2001; there are 4,500 staff and around ten miles of conveyors; the engines are made at Hams Hall in North Warwickshire.

Williams F1 at Grove, next to the Great Western Main Line and A338, north of Wantage.

BBC Research was based until 2010 in Kingswood Warren near Reigate in Surrey on the A217, which was responsible for developing stereo and HD TV broadcasts and teletext.

Michael Whyte on Highpark Lad at the British Jumping Derby at Hickstead in June 2011.

The Bat & Ball Inn, Clanfield, the birthplace of cricket.

It consists of the counties of Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex.

The charity-funded air ambulances are Kent Air Ambulance at Marden, Kent; Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance at Thruxton, Hampshire; Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance at Dunsfold Aerodrome, Surrey; and the Thames Valley Air Ambulance at RAF Benson.