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
BAR staff called the police when two warring groups of travellers started a mass brawl outside their pub. Trouble started when 30 people were asked to leave the Chester Arms in Chester Street, off Iffley Road, Oxford, last night. Once outside, the two
AN OFF-DUTY soldier raped a young girl behind a school classroom despite her repeated pleas for him to stop, a court heard. The frightened 15-year-old told how soldier Craig Lovitt, from Oxfordshire, had sex with her in the grounds of Bicester Community
PATIENTS at Oxford's hospitals may be feeling under the weather - but at least they get the best in in-house entertainment. Radio Cherwell, which broadcasts to four of the city's hospitals, has been named Thames Valley Station of the Year for the second
MARK Roberts is at his wits end - his phone keeps ringing the emergency services all on its own. He said a fault on the line had led to 40 emergency calls going out in the last fortnight and he and his wife, Sarah, 22, of Field Avenue, Blackbird Leys,
DETECTIVES hope bite marks left on the hand of a sex attacker will help in the hunt to catch him. The pervert's attempts to indecently assault a 21-year-old woman walking home alone were foiled when she managed to put up a struggle which left her attacker
THE mystery prankster who is giving old folk in his village a new lease of life has struck again. Last year he doctored the traditional sign warning drivers about old folk out walking to show an old man riding a unicycle and juggling his zimmer frame.
A CURIOUS house built for Sir Francis Drake's descendants in rural north Oxfordshire is opening its landscaped gardens again. Bignell House in Chesterton last threw open its gates to the public in the summer of 1994 when a fair was held on the 20-acre
A FORMER Manchester United star is brewing a plan to transform Oxfordshire's coffee business at a stroke. Midfielder Mike Fleming was in the squad that won the European Cup in the sixties and was mates with George Best and Bobby Charlton. Now he wants
CHRISTMAS comes just once a year - or so most drinkers thought until they walked into a pub in Oxford last night. Regulars of The Crown in Cornmarket got into festive spirit without the hassle of buying presents, burning the turkey or putting up with
SUSPECTED raiders ramm-ed a police car injuring a policeman after a break-in at a golf club. Police were called to Lyneham Golf Course, near Milton-under-Wychwood, after reports of a break-in at 2am on Sunday. They followed a car to Charlbury where the
YOUNG computer buff Sara Willis has an ideal job - she reviews computer games and programmes and then keeps them. Sara is part of a 12-strong panel who review new products for US computer giant Microsoft. The 12-year-old, who lives in Handborough Close
Tottenham Res 4, Oxford Utd Res 0 OXFORD United's young side, including four YTS lads, did well to keep the score down to four against a star-studded Tottenham outfit worth over £25m. Spurs included Frode Grodas, David Howells, John Scales, Jose Dominguez
THE B-Line Oxford Boys League are considering going to the very top of the football ladder after an appeal to the Football Association to overturn an OFA verdict was rejected, writes MERVYN COLLINS. Swindon Robins protested to the league about referee
MUM Serena Davis has given birth to a girl, finally breaking the spell where previously all the babies conceived in her street were boys. The 34-year-old, who lives in Willowbrook, Stanton Harcourt, was dying to know whether or not she would put an end
IN a throbbing Oxford nightclub, two respectable women listen to the latest dance classic and turn to each other and grin. Dance-mad clubbers Helen Wheeler and Peta Donaghy have just landed their dream job - and are determined to make the most of it.
HEARTBROKEN dad Lloyd Doble told of his anguish today after his daughter's killer husband was jailed for life for burning her in a holiday cottage. Natalie Rhee, 25, whose parents Lloyd and Georgina live at Field Garden, Steventon, died in the fire at
