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  • Fighting fans disgrace club

    Nine Oxford United supporters have been banned from attending football matches anywhere in England and Wales after clashing with rival fans. Oxford United general manager Steve Hanks The men, all from Oxfordshire, were involved in a fight in a Chester

  • Women escape fridge blaze

    Two elderly women had a lucky escape from their smoke-filled home near Abingdon after a fridge caught fire. Fire crews were called by the residents to tackle the blaze in Wootton, at 10.35pm on Saturday. The fire service control room operator told the

  • Delay 'would be risk to theatre'

    Wallingford's Corn Exchange Theatre faces closure if a £500,000 refurbishment project does not go ahead, it has been claimed. General manager Philip Burton told a meeting of the Sinodun Players, which owns the theatre, that any delay could mean closure

  • Football: Purple nets do the trick for Letcombe!

    GLS Football Hellenic League - Letcombe 2, Pewsey Vale 1: Letcombe's new purple nets worked wonders as they ended their goal drought to return to winning ways in Division 1 West on Saturday. The match was effectively decided in the last three minutes

  • WEEKEND RESULTS CHECK

    Scores from around the county COCA-COLA LEAGUE TWO Oxford Utd 0, Darlington 2. SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Cheshunt 2, Banbury Utd 0. Div 1 West: Thame Utd 0, Bedworth Utd 2. FOOTBALL LEAGUE YOUTH ALLIANCE SOUTH CENTRAL CONFERENCE Under 18: Oxford Utd

  • Football: Poor Banbury lose to bottom team

    Southern League: Banbury produced their worst performance of the season as they crashed to defeat at Cheshunt, who are firmly rooted to the bottom of the Southern League Premier Division. Cheshunt are no better than a mid-table Hellenic League outfit,

  • Football: Larman brace boosts Town

    GLS Football Hellenic League - Abingdon Town 4, Fariford Town 2: Tom Larman struck twice as Abingdon Town eased their Premier Division relegation worries with an important victory over fellow strugglers Fairford at Culham Road on Saturday. An action-packed

  • Monday, January 23: They're the shame of the game

    Oxford United have got enough problems on the pitch without so-called fans like the ones featured on our front page today making matters worse. When they were in a fight with Chester City supporters, they probably did so in the misguided belief that they

  • Site of historic divide to get blue plaque

    The notorious Cutteslowe Walls which once divided a north Oxford housing estate are to be commemorated with a Blue Plaque. The Cutteslowe Walls are finally demolished The Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Board has agreed to erect the sign to provide a permanent

  • Fence blocks shortcut across dual-carriageway

    A new 10ft fence has put an end to people dicing with death by taking a short cut over a busy stretch of the A40 in Oxford. City councillor Patrick Murray next to the new fence Residents voiced fears last September that it was only a matter of time before

  • Fears pet dog Charlie was taken by animal rights militants'

    A dog owner whose pet has gone missing from her Oxford garden claims animal rights protesters may have stolen it. Caroline Howkins said Black Labrador Charlie was dognapped on Wednesday from the shed he was kept in at their South Hinksey home. She had

  • City-wide alcohol free zone is 'almost inevitable'

    The streets of Oxford could become alcohol-free zones as problems with drinking hotspots in certain parts of the city spiral out of control. Gameskeeper owner Carol Benney is fed up with drinkers outside her shop Residents living at the edge of a zone

  • Estate's singers try out for TV talent show

    Amateurs, experts and the downright awful were put through their paces at the first audition for a fly-on-the-wall documentary transforming ordinary singers into a classical choir yesterday. Deidre Thomson was first in the queue at the auditions Singers

  • Morse spin-off looks good for business

    Tourism in Oxford is expected to get a boost from "set jetters" - people who visit film and television locations - when the new Inspector Morse spin-off starts. The Randolph Hotel, in Beaumont Street, which has strong links to the popular detective series

  • Gateway to riches

    Is Russia flexing its muscles again to the West with the recent events in the Ukraine? Both Russia and America went to war in Afghanistan over oil and gas. America is now involved with British soldiers in a conflict in Iraq. Some 500 years ago, continents

  • Clovers boss robbed by bandits in Brazil

    An Oxfordshire shopowner claims he is lucky to be alive after being held up and robbed by gun-toting bandits while on holiday in South America. Owner of county-based Clovers discount stores, John Hudson, of Morton Avenue, Kidlington, is furious that the

  • Smokers have human rights too

    How sad to see that your paper has stooped to using Government spin towards a group of your readers you obviously despise and detest. I am referring to your front page, 91 per cent of you say: Ban it now. New call to stub out smoking (Oxford Mail, January

  • Football: Young Thame losing touch

    Thame United 0, Bedworth United 2: Thame are cut off nine points adrift at the bottom of the Southern League Division 1 West table after slipping to their fourth successive defeat. Bedworth created more chances and looked more dangerous than the young

  • Football: TEN-MAN OUP STUN CHIPPY

    Oxfordshire Senior Cup - Oxford Univ Press 3, Chipping Norton 2: Oxford University Press completed a giant-killing act when they claimed the scalp of Hellenic League side Chipping Norton in Saturday's third-round tie. The Oxfordshire Senior League side

  • Social services accused of dumping' youngsters on city

    Social services has defended the way it cares for vulnerable youngsters after it was accused of "dumping" them on Oxford City Council. Bill Baker, former Oxford Lord Mayor and current deputy city council leader, said Oxfordshire County Council was failing

  • Football: FRUSTRATION FOR U'S

    Oxford United's players, management and fans felt a massive sense of injustice at the Kassam Stadium on Saturday as their wretched home form continued. Darlington recorded a 2-0 victory after Simon Johnson escaped a red card for elbowing new signing Andy

  • Try composting

    Oxford City Council is proposing to give wheelie bins to residents and undertake alternate weekly collections of general rubbish and recycled materials (Oxford Mail, January 13). Readers concerned about rotting waste in their wheelie bins, due to bi-weekly