A SCHEME to introduce young people to the world of business in Oxfordshire has been praised as the best in Britain. Oxfordshire Young Enterprise chairman Nigel Barfoot, of Unipart, said 700 students at schools and colleges were involved in this year's
THE British nurses freed from Saudi Arabia made a terrible mistake in selling their stories before persuading the country of their innocence, according to publicist Max Clifford. Mr Clifford, speaking at the Oxford Union last night, said the pressure
WIDOW Frances Cripps - believed to be Oxford's oldest citizen - has died peacefully at a rest home in Oxford at the grand old age of 106. Mrs Cripps, who liked a tipple of three gins a day, passed away at the Woodlands rest home in Woodstock Road on Monday
OXFORD United manager Malcolm Shotton has already spoken to six players as he seeks to boost his squad for next season - but Aberdeen midfielder Dean Windass is not one of them. Shotton was linked with the £400,000-rated former Hull player at the end
SOMETHING has to give when Gresham Oxford Cheetahs clash with Poole Pirates in an Elite League speedway encounter at the Stadium tonight (7.30pm). Neither side has so far picked up any league points, and for Cheetahs it's a great chance to get their season
LETTERS have continued to pour in from Middlesbrough fans praising Oxford United supporters for their marvellous behaviour and the way they joined in the party atmosphere at the final match of the season. One Boro supporter said Oxford's fans were the
A CORONER wants to know how teenager Ben Mills was able to hang himself with a sheet inside a young offenders institution. Ben, 18, from Thame, killed himself two days after being remanded in custody for theft. An inquest yesterday heard he was found
GRIEVING Mr Bean star Rowan Atkinson, above, who lives at the Old Rectory, Waterperry, was in Northumberland yesterday for the funeral of his mother Ella, 84. The Blackadder actor arrived with his wife Sunitra, right, at St Andrew's Church, Corbridge,
BAILIFFS and police will move in tomorrow morning to begin ejecting a group of travellers occupying more than two acres of sports pitches at Sandford On Thames. An order for immediate possession of the land was granted to Magdalen College School at Oxford
ARSONISTS are thought to have started a blaze which caused an estimated £60,000 of damage at a stud farm. The fire broke out on a truck which was parked near the stable block at Lovegrove Stud in Checkendon, near Wallingford, early yesterday (Thu May
A £10,000 REWARD is being offered for information which could lead to the capture and conviction of armed robbers who grabbed £250,000 of jewellery from an Oxford shop. Two men armed with handguns burst into Rowell Silversmiths in Turl Street at 9.20am
ACTOR John Nettles was joined by extras from Wallingford's theatre group during filming in the town. The film crew returned to Wallingford to shoot another episode of TV's Midsomer Murders. The actor was joined by members of Wallingford's Sinodun Players
ONE-DAY captain Rob Williams returns to lead Oxfordshire for their MCC Trophy cricket clash with Staffordshire at Walsall on Sunday (11am). The Bicester and North Oxford batsman missed the county's encouraging 69-run win over Huntingdonshire in their
