Wrexham 2, Oxford Utd 0 Oxford United found themselves reduced to ten men for the second successive away game at Wrexham last night, and once again paid the price with their former striker Jefferson Louis the chief tormentor. In their opening Blue
Today was a slow day. I was free this morning so thought I would go and see a random sport that I would not otherwise watch – beach volleyball. The plan was to go to the police with my photo for the dog and then to volleyball. It is a 15 minute walk.
Today was a slow day. I was free this morning so thought I would go and see a random sport that I would not otherwise watch – beach volleyball. The plan was to go to the police with my photo for the dog and then to volleyball. It is a 15 minute walk.
Students made sure that Peers School, Littlemore,went out with a bang today. The school, in Sandy Lane West, recorded its best set of GCSE results, with almost double the number of pupils achieving A* to C grades compared to last year. It was the
Students made sure that Oxford's Peers School went out with a bang today. The school, in Sandy Lane West, Littlemore, recorded its best set of GCSE results, with nearly double the number of pupils achieving A* to C grades compared to last year. It
A surgeon and mother-of-three who suffered from depression took her own life in a hotel room in Oxford, an inquest was told. Emma Hormbrey, 39, of Mill Street, Stanton St John, was found dead in a room at the Holiday Inn Express, in Grenoble Road,
A semi-professional Prince William lookalike who appeared on Blue Peter and Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes died in his sleep, an inquest heard today. Matthew Turpin was suffering from an undiagnosed heart defect when he died on March 31. The 24-year-old
There were smiles and tears across Oxford today as months of waiting came to an end when pupils picked up their GCSE results. Pupils gathered anxiously at their schools and colleges to find out if they had made the grade. Many of the city's schools
The celebratory mood the county's pupils enjoyed during last weeks A-Level results was replicated today as Oxfordshire celebrated outstanding GCSE results. Early indications showed the number of pupils achieving five or more A* to C grades had increased
Oxford's kings of feelgood country-rock, The Epstein, have played some of the most interesting - and unlikely - venues around. From The Jericho Tavern and the main room of the Zodiac, Olly wills and his band of merry pranksters have graced the likes
They broke down four times and had to rely on the hospitality of strangers from some of the world's most desolate nations. But after a month behind the wheel of an old banger, father-and-son team Steve and Will Merrow-Smith, from Oxford, have completed
A 45-year-old woman driver died this morning after two cars collided head-on near Wantage. The accident happened on a bend in the B4494 shortly before 6am, just south of the town. Firefighters cut the drivers free from the vehicles in Chainhill Road
Oxford could get a new train service to London, via Bicester, under a £200m plan drawn up by Chiltern Railways. Chiltern's scheme, developing an idea it first suggested several years ago, would complement the East-West Rail Consortium's proposals to
A combined effort has turned the garden of Didcot Community Hospital into a showpiece just in time for the hospital fete on Bank Holiday Monday. The clean-up project started with the gardening club set up by Style Acre, a local charity which supports
Neighbours in an Oxford street got together to build community spirit with an old-fashioned street party. People living in Pegasus Road, Blackbird Leys, and surrounding streets enjoyed a barbecue, live band and bouncy castle at the afternoon event on
A surgeon and mother-of-three who suffered from depression took her own life in a hotel room in Oxford, an inquest was told. Emma Hormbrey, 39, of Mill Street, Stanton St John, was found dead in a room at the Holiday Inn Express, in Grenoble Road, next
It's Friday lunchtime and I'm in the Dog House. Not because I've been misbehaving, mind you. I'm seated in the Dog House Hotel in Frilford Heath, near Abingdon, and judging by the smiles on my fellow diners' faces, I'm about to be well fed. The Dog
Patients and the public are being invited to join a scheme as part of an attempt by Oxfordshire hospitals to win foundation status. Membership is free and open to everyone aged 12 or over, whether or not they have ever been a hospital patient. It means
A semi-professional Prince William lookalike who appeared on Blue Peter and Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes died in his sleep, an inquest heard today. Matthew Turpin was suffering from an undiagnosed heart defect when he died on March 31. The 24-year-old
A four-day music extravaganza will begin on Friday in the centre of Woodstock. Woodstock Live will include bands performing a range of music types from a vantage point in the centre of town. Legendary 1970s rockers Mr Bigwill headline tomorrow night's
A second successive summer of foul weather means the curtains could come down permanently on the county's largest independent theatre production company. The Oxford Mail has been told any that shows staged by Creation Theatre Company after spring next
Gosford Hill School. Happy girls (from left) Sophie Lawrie, Rachel Evans, Nichola Fairgrieve, Gemma Beardsley, Becca Washington, Lucy Wild,
Gosford Hill School, Kidlington. Jack Emmings jumps for joy with better marks than he expected
Wallingford pupils who were happy with their GCSE results. L to r. back. Layla Churcher, Christian Morris, Jono Bond, Grace Steele. front. Sinead Higgins, Jenny Williamson, Taura Wood, Amanda Smith, Ellie Burns.
Pic of 18 of the "top twenty" students at Wood Green School, Witney, who all gained 10 or more A* and A grades at GCSE.
Oxford City coach Mike Ford says there can be no time for sentiment when they face his former club Bedford Town at Court Place Farm in the Premier Division of the British Gas Business Southern League on Saturday. Both sides have lost their first two
Didcot Girls School GCSE results. L-R: Natalie Render, Jen Pilcher and Margary Pepper celebrate some great results!
Top achieving GCSE students at Chipping Norton School, Daniell Jefferies and Dolly Murton
Ambitious plans have been unveiled to improve playing fields in Botley in an effort to stop vandalism and graffiti in the area by increasing use of the facilities. North Hinksey parish councillors have drawn up a five-phase plan to improve the Louie
GSCE Results John Mason School left to right: Chris Stable, 16; Ruth Swift, 15; Alastair Gregory, 16, and Kayleigh Pratt, 16.
If it weren't drizzled in so much emotional syrup that you can almost feel your molars rotting in your gums, Roger Kumble's comedy might be a little creepy. The central character is a police chief (Lawrence) whose idea of fatherly love is to publicly
Ambitious plans have been unveiled to improve playing fields in Botley in an effort to stop vandalism and graffiti in the area by increasing use of the facilities. North Hinksey parish councillors have drawn up a five-phase plan to improve the Louie
The countdown to the 2012 London Olympics starts on Sunday with flag-flying events throughout Oxfordshire. With Britain already poised to have one of its best-ever medal hauls at the current Beijing games, the handover for the London Games in four years
A woman who made her neighbours' lives a misery for the past two years has been evicted by a housing association. Following a court hearing, the Vale Housing Association evicted Kerry Mayhew from her home in Saxton Road. Vale took the action after
Based on a madcap '60s television series created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, Get Smart is a comic caper about an accident-prone yet sensitive secret agent who might just be mankind's last, great hope. James Bond and Jason Bourne need not fear: if
The sequel to Guillermo del Toro's 2004 fantasy, based on Mike Mignola's comics series, is every bit as fast and furious as its predecessor, melding dazzling production design with wry humour and explosive action sequences. Having sketched the origins
A four-year-old boy obsessed with Batman, his magazine-editing mum who is having an affair with a bloke from the Home Office, and a teenage asylum seeker from Nigeria who calls herself Little Bee - these are the characters at the heart of Chris Cleave's
Prolific striker Jimmy Deabill is ruled out for Kidlington after injuring himself in a freak accident. The big front man sprained an ankle while getting out of his car in midweek, and is likely to be out of action for a few weeks. Kidlington entertain
Children who cleaned up an Oxford estate are taking a pride in their community and environment, one of the city's senior street wardens has said. Malcolm Taylor said a litter pick up by junior wardens in Blackbird Leys had restored his faith in young
Home Counties Premier League Title-chasing Oxford will not underestimate basement boys Falkland whom they visit in Division 1 tomorrow. That is the view of captain Jason Harrison, who got an unexpected chance to see their opponents in action last
In Oxford you are no more than 10 metres, 10 minutes or 10 Great British pounds away from a great night out. We are spoiled for choice; the city is saturated with culture, entertainment and fun. And one form of entertainment that spans all of the above
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Oxford City newcomer Roger Browne arrived on the local time trialing scene with a real impact. In his very first race he won the Mid Oxon-promoted Stanton Harcourt '25' with a time of 59mins 52secs. Browne led home Oxonian's Peter Oliver, who clocked
Wallingford secured 12 wins over two days at the Oxford City Regatta. Their men's novice eight won their first ever event' despite boating some late substitutes. In the double sculls, Wallingford took the novice double sculls, while brother and sister
Local newspaper archives can provide a mine of background information to authors writing a period novel. The adverts are particularly useful, as Oxford-born author Bethan Roberts soon discovered when she began working on her second novel The Good Plain
In thousands of bedroom across this county, and millions across this country, his poster hangs. He's a teen, with a genuine, 24-carat 'Ken and Barbie' face; a smile more Photoshopped than any Girls Aloud pull-out, and a hair style that says "I care
SATURDAY. FOOTBALL. BRITISH GAS BUSINESS SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Premier Div: Oxford City v Bedford Tn, Rugby Tn v Banbury Utd. Div 1 South & West: Burnham v Abingdon Utd, North Leigh v Uxbridge, Thatcham v Didcot Tn. FTL FUTBOL HELLENIC LEAGU Premier
I agree with your comment that some routes in Oxford have too many buses (Oxford Mail, August 15). It seems crazy that some areas have buses galore, while elsewhere people are fighting to get a more frequent service or a service at all. Carl Butterworth
There have been lots of stories lately about banks having financial problems. But have you noticed that the vast majority are former building societies? When this conversion was first allowed, concerns were raised by many that it was asking for trouble
The Duchess: Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire Amanda Foreman (Harper Perennial, £7.99) Foreman has been criticised by more staid biographers for sexing up this story about an 18th-century heiress. She makes much of the fact that Georgiana was the great-great-great-great
Mothers and daughters - who would have them? Here are two books with this particular relationship as the main theme. They are very different books, with a complicated, topsy-turvy, seesaw balance and imbalance between the generations. Salvage by Jane
North Oxford B are relegated from Division 1 of the Wilson OLTA's Ladies 3-Pair League and Goring look like joining them after both suffered heavy defeats last weekend. While North Oxford A, who have a 100 per cent record, look to be marching inexorably
David Manners, The wrong approach (Oxford Mail, August 12), appears to have misunderstood the Health and Safety Executive's role. As I previously explained, the HSE was informed of the building collapse in Iffley Road, Oxford. However, Oxford City
A boy watches as a father and son are sucked into the quicksand of Millom's seawater estuary: "At the sweet age of nine, I saw my coastline commit double murder." In Gareth Thompson's gripping second novel Sunshine to the Sunless (Definitions, £5.99),
Am I the only one who believes Russia is doing the right thing in South Ossetia? It appears to be looking after the rights of its people, and fought to protect them. There is a precedent to this action. When the government of Argentina thought the
Ray Holton (Oxford Mail, August 18) believes building 15,000 so-called eco-homes at Weston-on-the-Green just three miles down the A34 from Bicester will generate plenty of affordable housing. This is questionable. Building 15,000 more homes per se
Poirot gets the Tin-Tin treatment in the latest edition of Agatha Christie's classic whodunnit. Murder in Mesopotamia has been published as a graphic novel in an impressive effort to bring the "Queen of Crime" to a wider audience. This treatment makes
A widow has hit out at the "immoral" thieves who raided her garden twice in a month. Christine Buller said she was afraid to leave her house for fear the thieves would return after her moped and crash helmet were stolen. The 66-year-old said the
"Work, said Oscar Wilde, "is the curse of the drinking classes". The great man had, clearly never been to Oxford's Park End Street (though he had spent some time down the road in Reading, I'm led to believe). If so, he'd have known that it's not work
WITH the Guide's leaky tent still lavishly smothered in Cropredy mud, there has been barely time to breathe before another weekend of al fresco madness is upon us, with this weekend's Reading Festival. While Reading gets all the attention for 'out of
Watch out, there's a mason about. Worry not, though, because these days Oxfordshire's 2,300 Freemasons proclaim themselves to be less secretive than in days of yore - and they are keen to recruit more candidates for initiation as brethren of their craft
Polemical punk Henry Rollins talks to Tim Hughes about turning his back on rock, and declaring war on hypocrisy. Punk rocker, poet, writer, actor, traveller and raconteur, Henry Rollins is a modern day renaissance man. He is also an individual with
A widow has hit out at the "immoral" thieves who raided her garden twice in a month. Christine Buller said she was afraid to leave her house for fear the crooks would return after her moped and crash helmet were stolen. The 66-year-old said the £2,500
We ask Oxford's party people what attracts them to this sweaty monster of a festival. More than 80,000 music-lovers are making their way to Reading today, for the hottest rock festival on the planet. Over the weekend they will be treated to hundreds
There's one in every hospital ward - someone who, through length of residence, knows everything, including the condition of, and prescribed treatment for, their fellow patients. And I don't mean the ward sister. This week, armed with obligatory grapes
Martin Whitmarsh believes the old phrase 'discretion is the better part of valour' will serve McLaren well this weekend. Valencia's newly-designed street circuit, with the Mediterranean and harbour serving as a dramatic backdrop, makes its Formula One
So, from where I left off - the epidural is amazing! I know for next time to ask for one alot sooner! I start pushing when the midwife says it's time, and she also asks husband to get our baby outfit out ready - it's all getting very close and exciting
So, from where I left off - the epidural is amazing! I know for next time to ask for one alot sooner! I start pushing when the midwife says it's time, and she also asks husband to get our baby outfit out ready - it's all getting very close and exciting
A bicycle worth about £3,500 has been stolen from a house in South Oxford. The bike is a Santa Cruz Bullit with the serial number KU2F6389. It was stolen in a burglary that took place in Lake Street on August 12. Pc Lisa Heaton of the Oxford burglary
Former Oxford United chairman Firoz Kassam has pulled out of a deal to develop historic Alexandra Palace in London. The millionaire hotelier, who still owns the club's Kassam Stadium in Grenoble Road, Greater Leys, has ended negotiations with the
Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted by a gang of hooded youths in Banbury. A man and a woman who are both in their twenties, were walking past Wood Green Leisure Centre and as they turned into Park Road they saw a group of
A hunger strike at Campsfield House detention centre in Kidlington is now over, a Home Office official confirmed today. Up to 70 detainees had been on hunger strike over the past fortnight, with a group of Iraqi detainees refusing food the longest.
Police are appealing for the public's help in tracing a bicycle stolen in Oxford that is worth thousands of pounds. The pictured bike is a Santa Cruz Bullit and worth an estimated £3,500. Its serial number is KU2F6389. It was stolen in a burglary that
Former Oxford united chairman Firoz Kassam has pulled out of a deal to develop historic Alexandra Palace in London. The millionaire hotelier, who still owns the club's Kassam Stadium in Grenoble Road, Greater Leys, has ended negotiations with the palace's
A hunger strike at Campsfield House detention centre in Kidlington is over, a Home Office official confirmed today. Up to 70 detainees had been on hunger strike over the past fortnight, with a group of Iraqi detainees refusing food the longest. Yesterday
As someone who has spent seven years or so buying and selling organically-certified wine, I thought I was pretty well up to speed on all things environmental when it came to the world of wine. That was until I came across the world's first LEAF marque
GCSE results at Cheney School. Ellie Doyle, left, who attained five A* grades and three A's, and Jo Hart, who got three A*'s and nine A grades, both are aged 16.
Good advice is worth its weight in gold. Citizens Advice (CAB) is a long established charity which offers information on debt and benefits, employment, consumer and legal rights, and relationships. The Oxford branch has 37 volunteers and nine paid advisers
CHRIS KOENIG recalls the time when Oxfordshire was for centuries a centre of brick-making There may not be much building going on, at the moment, but any materials used are almost certainly being transported from many hundreds of miles away and
VAL BOURNE says smaller plants are losing out to the taller varieties A lot of my time is spent hanging around in nurseries and lingering longingly by plant stalls - a habit developed over 40 years as a plantaholic. This year I have noticed a new
An Oxford widow has won £61,808 at a city bingo hall - less than a fortnight after a Bicester woman claimed £61,900 at the same venue. The latest winner, a 38-year-old mother of three, struck gold at the Gala Club at the Ozone, next to the Kassam Stadium
The cuckoo and yellowhammer are among the species suffering the sharpest declines in the British Trust for Ornithology's latest survey, writes ELIZABETH EDWARDS I am evidently not alone in having missed the sights of the yellowhammer and the
The UK's largest group of works by Cézanne celebrates the Courtauld's 75th anniversary, writes THERESA THOMPSON Given the popularity of Cézanne today, the ready acceptance and enjoyment of the paintings by the artist considered the father of
An Oxford widow has scooped £61,808 at a city bingo hall - less than a fortnight after a Bicester woman claimed £61,900 at the same venue. The latest winner, a 38-year-old mother of three, struck gold at the Gala Club at the Ozone, next to the Kassam
THERESA THOMPSON visits the exhibition at the Tate Modern that celebrates the American artist Cy Twombly in his 80th year Cy Twombly is 80 years old this year. Tate Modern celebrates the American artist's birthday with the first major survey
NICOLA LISLE talks to soprano Mary Plazas, the new Honorary President of Wallingford's Music at St Peter's concert series Music at St Peter's had a sad start to its 23rd season, when its long-serving Honorary President, Lady Barbirolli, died in January
A new multi-million pound arts centre is set to put Didcot on the cultural map. NICOLA LISLE talks to director Emma Dolman One of Didcot's rather dubious claims to fame is its inclusion in Crap Towns: The 50 Worst Places to Live in the UK. But it
High-flyers across Oxfordshire are celebrating after achieving a bumper crop of GCSEs. At St Edward's School, Oxford, 97 per cent of grades were at A* to C - with 40 pupils achieving at least seven As and A*s. At Headington School, Oxford, five girls
The wait was finally over for thousands of teenagers across Oxfordshire as they opened their GCSE results this morning. Pupils are starting to gather at schools across the county to find out if they had made the grade. At Cheney School, in Headington
A woman driver died this morning following a crash between two cars on a road near Wantage. The accident happened shortly before 6am on the B4494 between Wantage and Farnborough. Firefighters cut the drivers free from the vehicles on Chainhill Road
An environment campaigner has vowed to appeal after being convicted of trying to escape from Abingdon police station. But the 41-year-old, known as The Ninja Ant, was cleared of possessing an offensive weapon after earlier taking a sword to Oxford Crown
Police have increased patrols and knocked doors to reassure families following a spate of robberies in and around an Oxford park. Gillians Park and the surrounding streets have seen nine people robbed - two at knifepoint - in just over a month.
Arsonists set fire to two cars in Jericho, Oxford, during the early hours today. Firefighters were called to the incident in Walton Well Road shortly before 3am. No one was hurt in the blaze and Thames Valley Police are investigating.
Arsonists set fire to two cars in Jericho in Oxford during the early hours this morning. Firefighters were called to the incident in Walton Well Road shortly before 3am. No-one was hurt in the blaze and Thames Valley Police are now investigating.
Inspector Lewis took on one of his toughest assignments yesterday - saving Oxford from a controversial new housing development. Actor Kevin Whately, who plays the popular screen detective, took a break from filming in the city to make a passionate
Inspector Lewis took on one of his toughest-ever assignments yesterday - saving Oxford from a controversial new housing development. Actor Kevin Whately, who plays the popular screen detective, took a break from filming in the city to make a passionate
Kevin Whately's impassioned plea to save the Castle Mill boatyard in Jericho, Oxford, from the developer's bulldozer is not just symbolic - it's a gauge of the depth of feeling on the issue. Yesterday, as a public inquiry into the plan for 54 flats
An East Oxford pub is hoping to help beer lovers beat the predicted Bank Holiday weather gloom by serving up pints of sunshine. While rain is forecast over the weekend, The Chester Arms is hoping to bring some seasonal cheer by serving pints
Pen pals Harry and Josie Bridges wrote to one another for more than three years during the Second World War - without ever meeting. Today, more than six decades after first putting pen the paper, the couple, of Cromwell Close, in Marston, Oxford, celebrate
