LABOUR lost four seats and held on to a fifth by just two votes in a series of results which suggest its control of Oxford City Council could be slipping after almost 20 years. Sitting Labour councillor Gill Sanders was defeated by the Liberal Democrats
lSHY artist Robert Wraith described the Queen as "fascinating and funny" during the hours they spent together while he painted her portrait. Mr Wraith, 46, of Holton, near Wheatley, spent nine hours alone with the Queen while he depicted her on canvas
PAUL Hurry powered to his best performance of the season as a rampant Gresham Cheetahs ran the Robins ragged with a 58-32 win in this Speedway S tar KO Cup clash at the Stadium last night. The youngster paid 18 point maxiimum was easily his best of the
MEMBERS of Sir Winston Churchill's family joined local people and visitors to rededicate the grave of the great wartime leader. The service of rededication yesterday for the Churchill family graves at Bladon churchyard, near Woodstock, followed a £350,000
A DRINK-swigging driver led police on a bizarre chase through south Oxfordshire at the wheel of a stolen dumper truck. He was believed to be the same man who had earlier halted a train travelling from Bristol to London in open countryside west of Wantage
GRANDFATHER Kevin Clynes hugged his wife after he was cleared by a jury of indecently assaulting a 14-year-old boy. Mr Clynes, 59, of Bretch Hill, Banbury, was accused of molesting the boy on three separate occasions after first approaching him in the
WHILE millions bombarded phone lines for World Cup tickets, Hannah Wheeler booked her place at France '98 in style. The sixth former at Oxford High School was one of a handful of winners of the Allons en France '98 worldwide essay writing competition.
FAMILIES flew into a panic when thousands of bees moved into their neighbourhood - and refused to buzz off. The swarm of bees gathered on a wall outside Forester Tower, at Wood Farm, Oxford, yesterday afternoon. The city council's neighbourhood office
A WIDOW who took a wealthy landowner to an industrial tribunal claiming unfair dismissal on behalf of her late husband has agreed an out-of-court settlement. Widow Carol Hunt, of Chesterton, near Bicester, acted for her husband Victor, who had worked
WHILE most grandparents take their grandchildren on day trips and spoil them with gifts, Pamela Thomas, 56, misses out. The grandmother is heartbroken because her son, who split from his first wife and their two children, has remarried and moved away.
"AT Blenheim," Sir Winston Churchill famously observed, "I took two very important decisions: to be born and to marry. I am happily content with the decisions I took on both those occasions." There have been times when Sir Winston's decision to be buried
THE music is pumping, the crowd is 'up for it' and the atmosphere is buzzing for Oxford graduate Melissa Harrison, who can't get enough of nightclubbing. The editorial assistant, who left Lincoln College with a first-class honours degree, is so addicted
