A TEENAGER accused of kicking another boy's face, leaving him with a broken jaw, walked free from court yesterday. The 17-year-old, who cannot be named, had tears in his eyes and said: "Thanks everyone", after a jury at Oxford Crown Court found him not
AN APRIL Fool joke about wind-powered buses backfired on an Oxford radio station when callers jammed the switchboard. Dozens of people phoned Thames Valley FM in Banbury Road, Summertown, yesterday when travel presenter Warren Lee announced during the
POLICE logged more than 60 incidents over a five-year period at a nightclub, Witney magistrates heard. Reg Neale, the owner of The Palace nightclub in Witney's Market Square, is appealing against Witney magistrates' refusal to grant him a liquor licence
JAN Staechmann is fighting to be fit for tomorrow's visit of Coventry to Grasham Oxford Cheetahs in the Elite Speedway League. The Dane suffered leg and elbow injuries and is extremely sore after hurtling into the stricken George Stancl at Monmore on
DYING mum Tobi Mills had her dream come true when she swam with dolphins in clear, blue Florida water. Tobi, 43, of Haldane Road, Blackbird Leys, has just two months to live after breast cancer spread to her liver. She gave up chemotherapy treatment so
TWO hi-tech Oxfordshire firms were named today by Prime Minister Tony Blair as producers of Millennium Products - with a chance of seeing their wares exhibited in the Millennium Dome at Greenwich. Mr Blair today announced the first batch of innovative
THE people of Cholsey will decide for themselves whether they want a Diana memorial garden in the village or not. Pensioner Gladys Sadler, 72, of Honey Lane, has won her fight to make the parish council think again about its original plan. She and 30
A HOTEL could reopen next week despite a dispute between the owner and former managers. The Marlborough Arms Hotel, in Oxford Street, Woodstock, will reopen on April 9 if new manager Paul Kinshott gets a drinks licence. It closed without warning on March
RACIAL attacks and harassment will be tackled in Oxford with the help of a £224,000 grant. Oxfordshire Racial Equality Council (Orec), which is heading a group including Oxford police, the city and county councils, both universities, Oxford Utd and victim
NEIGHBOURS were used to seeing former Wolfson college lecturer Dr Nikolaus Polgar shuffling along the road, his tattered coat tied together with string. They could have been forgiven for thinking the reclusive old man, who lived in a dilapidated house
OXFORD Hawks may serve a writ on the English Hockey Association following their decision to re-instate them into the Inter-League relegation play-offs this weekend. The EHA wanted to be generous to Harleston Magpies who, although admitting that they broken
