Police carried out surprise checks on pubs across an Oxford estate last night.

Officers visited the Bullnose Morris in Blackbird Leys about 8.30pm.

Landlady Bridget Harrison-Steele said the operation was one of the police's regular checks on licences and toilets.

She said: "It was just normal police checks that they do. Nothing happened. They come in and it reduces any problems."

Ms Harrison-Steele added she had heard several other pubs in Blackbird Leys had been visited by police about the same time.

No one from Thames Valley Police was available to comment.