A deacon from Oxfordshire will be singing the gospel and assisting at the Pope's funeral in St Peter's Basilica in Rome. Paul Moss, 28, who went to St Mary's Catholic School in Bicester and Magdalen College School in Oxford, has been studying for the
Beverley Savage at the service in Bicester's church of the Immaculate Conception Thousands of people across Oxfordshire have been paying their respects to the Pope at services, while others watched the funeral today on television. Twice as many worshippers
Part of the Thames Path in Wallingford is to be closed for 18 months during construction of Oxford University Boat Club's new boathouse. Walkers will be diverted round the back of Chalmore Gardens. Access will be kept open for emergency vehicles and residents
Kazuo Ishiguro says of his most recent novel that "the reader is on a sort of parallel journey" with the diffident 31-year-old narrator Kathy. Like her, one slowly realises the truth about her life and that of her friends Tommy and Ruth; they are clones
Residents have been betrayed, says Bicester's MP, after Government ministers cancelled a meeting about the future of the town's community hospital. Banbury MP Tony Baldry had organised talks with the minister responsible for community health, Stephen
Physiotherapist Rachel Marffy is limbering up to treat some of the tens of thousands of runners competing in this month's London Marathon. Married mother-of-four Mrs Marffy, 44, of Aston Upthorpe, near Didcot, works as a physio at The Park Club Physiotherapy
Two crashes involving lorries caused rush-hour tailbacks on Oxfordshire's roads for the second day in succession. As reported in the late edition of yesterday's (Thursday) Oxford Mail, both crashes took place yesterday morning (Thursday) on the M40, reducing
A large part of the problem of Oxford's air pollution and traffic congestion is because the streets are choked with buses. As far as I remember, this came about when instead of having one bus company providing public transport, we had two. Suddenly we
An accountant was racially discriminated against and unfairly dismissed by an Oxford University college, an employment tribunal has ruled. A tribunal panel in Reading made the ruling against Keble College and criticised it for doing "very little" to implement
When housing schemes are prepared these days, crime prevention is one aspect that is given top priority. Alleyways are usually avoided so that criminals have no hiding place. But half a century ago, little attention was paid to such detail, as residents
A man was found guilty of systematically raping and sexually abusing a young girl over a nine-year period. A jury at Oxford Crown Court convicted Richard Corke, 38, of Sinodun Road, Didcot, of six counts of indecent assault, six of rape and one of sexual
An Oxfordshire man who tried to fatten up his ailing North Yorkshire computer firm in readiness for flotation has been jailed for three-and-a-half-years for fraud. Disgraced company director Charles Forsyth, of the wealthy Clan Forsyth, lied to financiers
Oxford East MP Andrew Smith has demanded a meeting with Government officials after £240,000 of funding was suddenly cut from a training scheme for ethnic minorities. Trainees taking courses at the Ethnic Minority Business Service in Cowley have been told
Wantage MP Robert Jackson, who defected from the Tories to Labour in January, is breaking a "solemn promise" not to campaign in the constituency, according to his political rival. So far, Mr Jackson has not canvassed support for Mark McDonald, Labour's
A blow has been delivered to campaigners who are seeking to save a pair of hotels in west Oxford from demolition. Plans by Christ Church to demolish the River and Westgate hotels, in Botley Road, to make way for a new hotel and riverside flats are opposed
Oxford University is facing a major revolt over a multi-million pound library overhaul, that would see millions of books moved to the city's Osney Mead industrial estate. Transferring one of the world's greatest books collections on to land beside a flood
You report that the Ferry Sports Centre in Summertown, Oxford, has reopened after a £3.4m refurbishment (Oxford Mail, April 5). I expect that past pupils of the nearby Cherwell School in Marston Ferry Road are chuffed to bits at this news. After all,
A country pub near Abingdon has closed its doors at short notice. The Harcourt Arms Hotel, in Nuneham Courtenay, which is owned by the Wellington Pub Company, stopped trading late last week amid claims rent had not been paid. It is the only pub in the
