DEBENHAMS is to spend £35m revamping its department store in Oxford, creating 50 jobs. Shoppers will enter the new store through a four-storey illuminated atrium on the corner of George Street and Magdalen Street. Four shops in Magdalen Street will be
A COW escaped from its field and nearly ended up on the A34 dual carriageway after a fence was vandalised. The animal escaped from Raleigh Park, Botley, Oxford, after a vandal cut through the fence. It was seen wandering on Harcourt Hill, North Hinksey
VILLAGERS in Kidlington whose homes were ruined by the floods at Easter will be able to air their concerns at a public meeting. The parish council has invited Evan Harris, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, and representatives from the Environment Agency
FUN-LOVING Oxford University students are being warned to keep the noise down at summer balls after council bosses pulled the plug on a late-night concert. Noise pollution staff who work for the city council's environmental health department were called
IT was never going to be easy to dog-trek across the North American continent. But Bicester traffic cop Pc Mark Howard had no idea that the hardest bit would be holding on to his sanity. The accident investigator helped cancer survivor Wendy Smith become
Oxford City 1, Sutton United 6 By RICHARD TILLEY CITY'S hopes of salvaging some consolation from what has been a wretched season were dashed in the final of the Ryman League's Guardian Insurance Cup at Harrow Borough last night Relegated from the Premier
FORMER Miss Oxford beauty contestant Yvonne Smith has taken a new career to the skies - literally. The pretty brunette has modelled, lived abroad as a holiday rep where she met her stunt man boyfriend, and is now a long haul air stewardess for British
As the NSPCC launches a new helpline for abused children, reporter GEMMA SIMMS talks to a woman whose childhood was ruined by her violent father TANYA Zakiyya's childhood memories aren't ones she'd like to remember. Like the vivid flashbacks of her father
As part of the drugs out campaign, launched by Rotary clubs in Oxfordshire, with the backing of the Oxford Mail, reporter GEMMA SIMMS reports on an ex-addict who climbed out of the pit of despair... MAGGIE used to steal from family and friends - from
AN ATTEMPT to hold-up an Oxford newsagents failed today when the would-be robber lost his nerve and fled. The man walked into Martin The Newsagent, in Banbury Road, Summertown, and demanded cash from a terrified shop assistant at about 8.45am. Police
OXFORD Mail motoring writer David Duffy has been named provincial press motoring writer of the year. The national accolade came just four weeks after he was voted regional business journalist of the year for the second year running in the BT London and
COLLECTOR Roger Keable has cashed in on the hype surrounding the Titanic by selling a record produced to commemorate its sinking. Mr Keable, of Witney, is now £75 richer after selling the 78rpm disc, released a few months after the liner sank in 1912.
MORE than 100 people packed Chipping Norton Town Hall last night to protest at the proposed closure of two hospital beds in the town. The Oxfordshire Community Health NHS Trust is considering two options in its bid to cut £1.5m, both of which include
AN OXFORD policeman stopped a cyclist riding without lights and recognised him as a murder suspect, a court heard. Pc Bruce Robinson told a court in Northern Ireland how he remembered John Purcell's face from photos he had seen at the police station.
SHOP owner John Sheppard turned up to open his doors to customers for the first time at the store's new address - only to find burglars had broken in during the night. The former president of Abingdon's Chamber of Commerce has now called on the town's
WHITE Horse Harriers' mens teams grabbed an excellent second place in the opening Southern Men's League Athletics fixture at Ashford on Saturday. Key performers in an under-strength line-up were under 17 sprinter Nick Lillywhite and middle distance man
LANDLORD Mike Pearce spent many distressing months sitting at the bedsides of his parents who both lost battles against cancer. The burly Eastender, who now runs the Ampleforth Arms, Collinwood Road, Risinghurst, Oxford, will never forget what they suffered
HUSBAND and wife Stuart and Karen Anderson took three children to a holiday camp for Christmas after snatching them from the care of social services. The couple, of Overmead, Abingdon, had pre-arranged the holiday at Butlin's in Bognor Regis under a false
