OXFORD commemorated the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Sunday, when hundreds of lanterns were launched from Donnington Bridge.

It marked the 65th anniversary of the two atomic bombs being dropped on Japan by the United States on August 6 and 9, 1945, bringing the Second World War to a close.

Deputy Lord Mayor Denise Sinclair launched the first lantern into the Thames.

There were also talks, poems and music to commemorate the occasion.

The candle-lit event, based on a traditional Japanese religious ceremony, was organised by Oxford branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and the Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.