An 11-year-old boy charged with stabbing a pupil in the leg on a school bus will appear before Didcot youth court on March 9.

He is charged with causing grievous bodily harm to another 11-year-old schoolboy on board a bus taking children home from school in Abingdon on November 15 last year.

The alleged victim was treated for a wound to his thigh at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.