ASPIRIN can help prevent people losing their eyesight as they get older, Oxfordshire scientists have discovered. Dr Nageena Malik and her team at the Open University Research Centre, Boars Hill, made the find after linking worsening eye condition to sugar
BUS fares in Oxfordshire have soared by up to 15 per cent. Ticket prices on services run by Oxford Bus Company and Stagecoach have gone up by 20p on some routes. Both companies swiftly defended the price-hike announced on the same day - saying fares had
OPERA singer Quentin Hayes sang his way out of trouble when he was mistaken for a skinhead member of the National Front. The terrified baritone, who lives in Witney, was cornered by two 6ft tall men but was spared after booming out an aria from the Barber
OXFORD Hawks preserved their National League status with a dramatic 4-3 win over Norton in their second Inter-League play-off match at the National Hockey Stadium, Milton Keynes on Saturday. It was their second successive play-off victory after a 2-1
MARK Bradstock's Letcombe Bassett stables near Wantage were in mourning today following the tragic death of Do Rightly in the Martell Grand National. The nine-year-old chestnut gelding broke his neck and died instantly when he took a crashing fall at
A SCHEMING husband was jailed for life today after killing his wife in a cottage fire to pocket £250,000 life insurance. Jong Rhee, 34, used funds from a joint bank account to finance his gambling habit and then killed Natalie, 25, in a fire at the holiday
SCIENTIST Dick Cooper came up with an ideal method of producing flat television screens - as he stared at the wall tiles in the gents. A major problem with the manufacture of flat panel display screens is that so many have to be thrown away as imperfect
A NEW sign warning motorists of crumbling roads the county council can no longer afford to mend has gone up in Oxfordshire. The sign, on a minor road near the village of Wootton, north of Woodstock, will be followed by about a dozen more Danger: Failed
OXFORD colleges will be prevented by law from charging students higher fees to make up for falling Government grants. The Higher Education Bill, now before Parliament, would allow the Government to get back from universities any money raised through charging
WORLD famous interior designer David Hicks went to his grave in the style he demanded. Mr Hicks, of The Grove, Brightwell Baldwin, who died last week, aged 69, was buried in the south Oxfordshire village on Saturday following a funeral service in the
QUICK-thinking dad-of-three Neil Snedker rescued his daughter from a blazing bedroom after a candle set the ceiling on fire. He and his wife Julia, 33, of Cumberford Hill, Bloxham, near Banbury, have now sent out a warning to other parents to be very
OXFORD United's players have been warned that they must get their act together for next weekend's big local derby with Swindon. Midfield battler Martin Gray didn't mince his words after a 3-0 defeat at Port Vale on Saturday, one of the heaviest defeats
Port Vale 3, Oxford Utd 0 UNITED were never three goals worse than Port Vale in football terms at Vale Park on Saturday, but they had a nightmare at set- pieces and it cost them dear. They conceded two sloppy first-half goals on a muddy pitch and in very
