A CARE worker was struck by the autumnal fog settling over the Vale of White Horse on his way home and ran to capture it on camera before sunset.

Laurence Williams took the photograph from the Downs, between Uffington and Childrey, as the fog settled between trees and houses on Monday afternoon. The 27-year-old, of Sparsholt, near Wantage, said: “I was on my way home and it looked amazing.

“I got my camera and walked up the hill before the sun set.

“It was quite eerie. It was so thick there was quite a distinctive line between where it started and where it finished, but it was beautiful at the same time, very peaceful.”

Much of the county woke to a similarly misty outlook yesterday and the Met Office said dull conditions are expected to persist into today until strengthening winds clear the fog away.