A lorry ploughed into two parked cars in Bampton prompting calls for HGVs to be banned from using the village. An MRS Distribution lorry collided with a car parked in High Street, at 4am on Friday morning. The car was pushed 20ft along the road and
Didcot Town made it eight GLS Football Hellenic League Premier Division wins in a row with an impressive 6-2 success at Witney United on Saturday. Stuart Beavon gave Didcot a tenth-minute lead, stabbing the ball home under keeper Paul Tassell, but Witney
Names, addresses and telephone numbers of doctors in Oxford, Abingdon, Bicester, Didcot, Thame, Wallingford, Wantage and Witney. Abingdon Bicester Didcot Oxford Thame Wallingford Wantage Witney Abingdon Dr J L Murray 12 Bradstocks Way
A HOSEPIPE ban is to be introduced across Oxfordshire after the county's water shortage reached crisis levels. The hosepipe and sprinkler ban will hit eight million customers in the Thames Valley from Monday, April 3. The restrictions, the first for
COCA-COLA LEAGUE TWO Stockport County 2, Oxford Utd 1. SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Banbury Utd 2, Bath City 3. Div 1 West: Bromsgrove 4, Thame Utd 0. GLS FOOTBALL HELLENIC LEAGUE Supp Cup 2nd round: Hounslow Borough 0, Chipping Norton 3; Penn &
Banbury went down 3-2 to Southern League Premier Division leaders Bath in an ill-tempered game watched by a crowd of more than 500 at Spencer Stadium on Saturday. And they can feel a little unlucky as the visitors created few chances and were fortunate
Struggling Thame were outplayed by mid-table Bromsgrove, losing 4-0 in Saturday's Southern League Division 1 West fixture. It was the 13th time this season that the young United team have conceded four or more goals, and apart from a 20-minute spell
Two goals from Justin Miller ensured Oxford City picked up a point at Royston to keep them on track for the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division title with a 2-2 draw on Saturday. On a surface that was not conducive to good football, City
A hosepipe ban is to be introduced across Oxfordshire after the county's water shortage reached crisis levels. Former Lord Mayor of Oxford John Power, secretary of the Oxford and District Allotments Federation described the ban as "completely unnecessary
Thieves used sledgehammers to smash their way into an Oxford newsagent today and stole cigarettes worth £5,000. Police are appealing for information after three men forced their way into Dillons newsagent in Elms Parade, Botley, during the early hours
A florist and garden centre business in rural Oxfordshire that once cooked beetroot in open coppers and supplied Oxford's covered market is celebrating its 100th birthday. The Richard Mathews centre in Harwell Road, Sutton Courtenay, began life in 1906
The future of a neglected community hall in Witney which is under threat will be discussed at a public meeting. People are being urged to join the fight to save Ceewood Hall on the Smith's Estate by attending the event, at the building, on Wednesday (
Southern League - Bromsgrove Rovers 4, Thame Utd 0: Struggling Thame were outplayed by mid-table Bromsgrove in Saturday's Southern League Division 1 West fixture. It was the 13th time this season that the young United team have conceded four or more goals
Dozens of comments about plans to build 1,585 houses on the edge of Bicester have been received by Cherwell District Council. Twenty-eight individuals and organisations submitted comments about the proposed development on land between Bicester and Chesterton
COCA-COLA LEAGUE TWO Stockport County 2, Oxford Utd 1. SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Banbury Utd 2, Bath City 3. Div 1 West: Bromsgrove 4, Thame Utd 0. GLS FOOTBALL HELLENIC LEAGUE Supp Cup 2nd round: Hounslow Borough 0, Chipping Norton 3; Penn & Tylers
A lorry ploughed into two parked cars in Bampton -- prompting calls for HGVs to be banned from using the village. An MRS Distribution lorry collided with a car parked in High Street, at 4am on Friday morning. The car was pushed 20ft along the road and
Villagers in Holton have become the latest to protest against the parking habits of Oxford Brookes University students. Residents say their quiet village is being turned into a car park for the university's Wheatley campus with about 40 cars descending
An investigation is under way after nine staff in one department of Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary had their credit cards used in a budget airline flight scam. Managers at the hospital in Woodstock Road and Oxford police have launched a probe to find out
A mother is demanding that a derelict pavilion be demolished as soon as possible because it is acting as a magnet for trouble makers. Kathleen Bye, whose home in Croft Road in Marston, Oxford, overlooks the disused building, says she has had footballs
Oxford United have missed out on at least two top-class players by Firoz Kassam pulling the plug on Nick Merry's proposed takeover. Former United boss Jim Smith was the manager Merry would have brought with him and he was understood to have lined up three
Sorry to hear that the Church of England's bid for the £2.5m house in Pullens Lane, Headington, has fallen through, but -- don't despair. If the Church Commissioners would like to drive round Barton, there are a couple of houses up for sale there -- if
Wind, rain, toxic water and even night-time intruders -- life in the woods is proving a challenge for law graduate Hugh Sawyer, but as he told Debbie Waite, he wouldn't swap it for all the fluffy duvets in the world. Each evening, city gent Hugh Sawyer
In the developing saga of the purchase of a house for the yet-to-be-announced replacement Bishop of Oxford, there now appears the need to add to the claim of sheer stupidity in the selection of an inappropriate dwelling by the Church Commissioners --
Royston Tn 2, Oxford City 2: Two goals from Justin Miller ensured Oxford City picked up a point at Royston to keep them on track for the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division title. On a surface that was not conducive to good football, City got
Banbury Utd 2, Bath City 3: Banbury went down to Southern League Premier Division leaders Bath in an ill-tempered game watched by a crowd of more than 500 at Spencer Stadium on Saturday. And they can feel a little unlucky as the visitors created few chances
GLS Football Hellenic League League: Witney Utd 2, Didcot Tn 6: Didcot made it eight Premier Division wins in a row with this impressive display at Witney United on Saturday. Both sides deserve credit for producing an exciting match on a heavy pitch.
First Thames Water urged customers to turn off the tap when they clean their teeth -- now they are getting tough by introducing a hosepipe ban. If customers do not heed the advice, and there is further dry weather, then water meters could be imposed,
Masked robbers stole thousands of pounds from an Oxford newsagents on Saturday morning -- the third raid in the area this year. Two men in balaclavas forced a female shop worker to open the safe at Balfour News in Cherwell Drive, Marston, before making
Builders left residents -- including two vulnerable pensioners with panic alarms -- without telephone lines for three days after accidentally cutting through cables. Contractors working for Oxford City Council sliced through underground telephone lines
Texan-style classroom discipline is coming to an Oxford school after teachers voted overwhelmingly to back radical changes to the way the school is run. Behaviour guru Prof Jerome Freiberg flew in from the United States to Peers Technology College in
Oxford City athlete Nathan Douglas insisted he made the right decision to compete at the World Indoor Championships - despite failing to pick up a medal in Moscow. Douglas, ranked third in last year's world triple jump rankings, had considered pulling
Oxfordshire County Council leader Keith Mitchell says there is no place for political correctness in Oxfordshire (Oxford Mail, March 8). How fascinating. Is he really saying that he would like to go back to the days when casual sexist and racist epithets
Each evening, city gent Hugh Sawyer gets off the bus and makes his way home for a good night's kip. But rather than bedding down in Egyptian cotton, he sleeps in the woods, on a mattress of leaves and bracken. The 33-year-old Oxford law graduate spends
A hosepipe ban is to be introduced across Oxfordshire after the county's water shortage reached crisis levels. The hosepipe and sprinkler ban will hit eight million customers in the Thames Valley from Monday, April 3. The restrictions, the first for
Fernando Alonso heads to the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday after a gutsy victory in a dramatic Bahrain Grand Prix. The Enstone-based Renault F1 driver won a wheel-to-wheel battle with Michael Schumacher to start his title defence with maximum points
