Three fallen servicemen will be brought back to the UK from Afghanistan on Thursday.

The plane carrying the bodies of Captain Rupert Bowers and two as-yet-unamed servicemen will land at RAF Brize Norton at about 2.30pm.

The cortege will pass the memorial garden on the edge of Carterton at about 4.30pm and arrive at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford at about 5.30pm.

Captain Bowers, 24, of 2nd Battalion The Mercian Regiment, was killed by a homemade bomb in Helmand province on Wednesday. The two unnamed servicemen, a Royal Marine and a soldier from Adjutant General's Corps, were killed by an Afghan National Army soldier in Helmand on Monday.

Timings are subject to change, check oxfordmail.co.uk for latest details.