Tomorrow: Some sunny spells around and it will feel quite warm and humid. Outlook for Saturday and Sunday: Saturday will be unsettled with sunshine and showers. It should be dry with sunshine on Sunday. Story date: Thursday 06 May Converted for the new
A FIRM that helps keep Britain shopping is spending £3.1m on a company specialising on worldwide electronic commerce. Computer company Torex, based at Stonesfield, has bought up Systems Guidance Limited, which provides computer-based supply systems for
Protesters campaigned against the eviction of eco-warrior Wild Owl in a cemetery next to land owned by Merton College. The college evicted Wild Owl from a bramble patch at St Cross Street cemetery, Oxford, to clear the site for new student accommodation
A mother's plans to take her disabled children on holiday were almost ruined after money went missing in the post. Julie Howells, 23, of Kingfisher Green, Greater Leys, Oxford, posted £140 worth of postal orders for a holiday with her two children and
Widower Henry Kaluza welcomed news of a European-wide ban on asbestos after an inquest confirmed that his wife had died from exposure to the killer dust. Former dinner lady Wendy Kaluza, 57, of Oakfield Road, Carterton, died in February of mesothelioma
Sally Trench knows all about the terrors of the troubled Balkans. When the Bosnian problems first arose, she led relief expeditions. As well as helping to get tonnes of supplies into the country, Sally used her experience as an education welfare officer
One of the talents behind hit TV series The Vicar of Dibley has scooped the radio industry's top award. Paul Mayhew-Archer, 46, of The Chestnuts, Abingdon, who co-writes the Vicar of Dibley with actor Richard Curtis, also writes hit radio show Old Harry's
Residents are furious after plans were revealed to build more than 200 student bedsits next to their homes. They fear that the extra traffic generated by the students could lead to an increase in the number of accidents - and the visual impact of the
A former butler to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch was today starting a 12-month jail sentence for fraud. Philip Townsend - who once lived in Mr Murdoch's penthouse close to Buckingham Palace - looked visibly shaken as he was sentenced at Birmingham Crown
An elderly woman may have been rushing to see her grandson when she was knocked down and killed by an ambulance on an emergency call, an inquest heard. Jessie Phillips, 74, of Ashgrove, Headington, Oxford, died after she was struck by an ambulance as
Visitors to Portmeirion, in Wales, will be forgiven for thinking they've walked into a sixties timewarp. Because once a year fans of The Prisoner, a cult TV show, re-enact scenes there from their favourite series. And Glenies McCairns is one of them.
Chaos is set to hit Oxford's ring road again later this year as a stretch of carriageway is closed for six weeks. Anxious traders, who claimed to have lost millions during the A34 roadworks last year, branded the news "catastrophic". Contractors have
