OXFORDSHIRE health officials yesterday gave out conflicting answers about when exactly a six-year-old girl was confirmed as having swine flu. Oxfordshire PCT first alerted the public on Saturday afternoon that the youngster — who had recently
PATIENTS have been promised they will share fewer wards and facilities with members of the opposite sex after Oxfordshire’s hospitals were given £1.2m. The Department of Health has allocated Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust £1,010,300, Oxfordshire
FIREFIGHTERS have won the OX5 Cup for being the fastest team in the charity fun run in aid of Oxford’s Children’s Hospital. The 25-strong team was led by Kidlington firefighter Richard Bowley – pictured receiving the cup from Newsquest Oxfordshire’s
PENSIONERS have been warned to be on their guard for thieves who distract them by pretending to be foreign tourists – before stealing their cash cards. Police are investigating after hundreds of pounds were stolen from pensioners shopping at Sainsbury
GERMAN car maker BMW Group, owner of the Mini plant in Cowley, Oxford, has unveiled a massive drop in its fortunes. The company has reported a £175m pre-tax loss for the first three months of this year. This reverses a £568m before-tax profit achieved
Announcing a list of people she has decided to ban from coming to Britain because she doesn't like their opinions, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith declared, 'If you can't live by the rules that we live by, the standards and the values that we live by, we
Jenson Button may have recently toasted his dynamic start to the Formula One season, but he knows the fight has only just begun if he is to be crowned world champion. Three wins from the opening four grands prix have catapulted Button into a 12-point
Wine competition details from the Oxford Mail, printed 30.04.09 South Africa’s coming to Oxford! The Wines of South Africa are launching their Great South African Wine Trail the 15th of May, and will be turning Gloucester Green into a South
OXFORD’s first Fashion Week started with a bang – with more than 400 people attending two sold-out catwalk shows. Last night, models strutted down the runway in more than 40 outlandish creations in a fashion concept show to celebrate unusual
Tilly Holder produced one of her best performances to finish fifth in the Welsh Ladies' Open Strokeplay Championship at Royal Porthcawl. The 22-year-old Oxfordshire player carded rounds of 75, 79 and 78 to record a five-over-par total of 232. In-form
Paul Dolton hit a hole-in-one as Frilford Heath saw off Burford 2-1 in Section 1 of the Shaw Gibbs Oxfordshire Foursomes League. Dolton struck his ace on the par-three 177-yard 11th hole at Burford, while playing with Alex Gavrilovic against Simon Hopkins
North Oxford’s Lee Jackson has qualified for the Glenmuir PGA Pro Championship – the flagship event for Britain and Ireland’s top club professionals. Jackson shot a two-under-par 70 at Hadley Wood, Barnet, to finish one shot behind joint winners Peter
Oxfordshire ladies’ captain Jayne Laurie, from Chipping Norton, has named her squad for Midlands South County Week at Ladbrook Park, Solihull. Oxon will face Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Worcestershire & Herefordshire and Berkshire
FRILFORD HEATH Peugeot Coronation Foursomes: 1 F Banks & M Chaundy 38pts, 2 P Kendall & D Peters 36, 3 J Adams & J Docherty 35. Macgregor Quaich – Silver Div: 1 J Binning 38pts, 2 M Glennie 37 (cb), 3 M Chaundy 37 (cb). Bronze Div: 1 J Hill 37 (cb)
ONE of Yarnton’s best-known characters, Harold Lambourn, holder of the Burma Star, has died after a short illness. He was 89. Harold Lambourn, right, was born in Little Blenheim, Yarnton, on April 9, 1920 and lived in the village for all but the last
A GLAMOROUS and glitzy musical is set to get audiences tapping their feet at Oxford’s New Theatre. Almost 50 members of Oxford Operatic Society will be swapping their work clothes for sequins and hotpants when they star in the 1930s-themed musical 42nd
DIDCOT Girls School has been told to crack down on a small core of troublesome pupils after getting marked down in its latest inspection. An Ofsted report highlighted “the disruptive behaviour” of some students less than two months after the headteacher
THE “most influential schoolgirl in astronomical history” has died at the age of 90. Venetia Burney Phair was just 11 when, over breakfast in North Oxford, she named the former planet Pluto. Sitting with her grandfather, Falconer Madan — a former head
IF YOU were thinking of a Spring break in a European capital city, but the collapse of the pound against the euro has made you think again – Edinburgh has the answer. Not only is the Scottish capital one of Europe’s most beautiful cities, it’s far enough
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Agatha Christies’s fans fear they could see a new traffic junction built opposite her old Oxfordshire home. Website christiemystery.co.uk, dedicated to the legacy of the writer, has backed a campaign by residents to ‘Save Winterbrook’ — claiming proposals
After being diagnosed with kidney cancer, Clive Stone launched a campaign for the right of cancer sufferers in Oxfordshire and across the country to receive the life-extending drug Sunitinib. In February, the National Institute for Health and
THE decision to allow the controversial removal of bus stops from Oxford’s Queen Street has angered bus users and disabled passengers. The £985,000 scheme was ‘called in’ by 11 Liberal Democrat county councillors who were concerned the plans would increase
With Oxford United failing to get back into the Football League, Didcot Town could soon be the county’s top soccer team – and it’s all down to one man. Promoted to the British Gas Premier Division via the play-offs, the Railwaymen are now
A BICESTER resident furious at the way an eco-town has been “fast-tracked” with little public consultation wants to launch an action group. Tony Ives plans to host a meeting in two weeks to encourage people to launch a campaign fighting the Cherwell
CHILDREN joined in songs and poetry for the relaunch of a library at an Oxford school. About £5,000 has been spent on revamping the library at New Marston Primary School with new fixtures and fittings, new books, and a new checking-out system. To mark
FOOTBALL. BRITISH GAS BUSINESS SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Division 1 South & West play-off final: AFC Totton 1, Didcot Tn 2 (aet). FTL FUTBOL HELLENIC LEAGUE. SBJ insurance brokers Cup final: Almondsbuey 1, Carterton 0. Chairman’s Reserve Cup final: Henley
SATURDAY. CRICKET. SERIOUS CRICKET HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE. Div 1: Banbury v High Wycombe, Henley v Radlett, Welwyn Garden City v Oxford. Div 2 West: Aston Rowant v Falkland, Thame Tn v Wokingham. THE OXFORD TIMES CHERWELL LEAGUE. Div 1
Richard Redford made a big impact on his first outing as an Oxfordshire skip with a crushing victory in the 118-114 win over Wiltshire in their first Middleton Cup trial game at Banbury Central. The Banbury Borough man’s rink of George Schwab, David
Radley's Steve Wren had an outstanding day with three victories as they finished an encouraging second in their first Southern League Division 3 West match of the new season at Andover. In a tight match, the host club won by 141/2 points, but there were
Wanrage trainer Henry Candy has his sights on top sprint honours with Amour Propre following his charge’s stunning reappearance at Newmarket on Saturday. The three-year-old colt showed an impressive turn of foot under Dane O’Neill to slam Hoh Hoh Hoh
Radley finished second in their first National Young Athletes League meeting at Uxbridge. Highlight of the day came from under 13 Christian von Eitzen, who clocked a club record of 4mins 46.6secs in the 1500m. Megan Humphreys (under 13) shone in the
Headington School led the Oxfordshire challenge with two wins in the Wallingford Regatta held on Dorney Lake. In addition to winning the women’s junior 18 eights and the junior 14 quads, they also recorded second places in the junior 16 fours and junior
Danielle Anderson moved back to the top of the UK rankings in the javelin at under 17 level after a fine display in the Birmingham Rowheath Open on Monday. The Oxford City ace threw an impressive 43.16m to win the event and go top of the junior rankings
Oxford Downs’ hopes of fielding South African ace Johann Myburgh have hit a stumbling block. The west Oxfordshire club are still hoping to register the 28-year-old, who has been playing first-class cricket for Canterbury Wizards in New Zealand and is
Richard Redford made a big impact on his first outing as an Oxfordshire skip with a crushing victory in the 118-114 win over Wiltshire in their first EBA Middleton Cup trial game at Banbury Central. The Banbury Borough man’s rink of George Schwab, David
Reigning Johnsons Buildbase Oxford League men's individual champion Keith Sheard was knocked out at the quarter-final stage by Alan Oliver, writes PETE EWINS. Sheard failed to cope with the Dolphin table and lost 2-0. Oliver, who plays for Vikings,
A body found in the River Thames has been identified as a missing man from Benson. Alan Douglas, 59, went missing from his home in Littleworth Road early last month. Police divers found a body in the Thames at Wallingford on Monday,
Simon Gillett has dismissed suggestions he is a nothing more than a pawn in a political game being waged by Bernie Ecclestone. The suggestion is Gillett will fall flat on his face in his efforts to redevelop Donington Park to the tune of £100m
A RUNNER has won his place in the Guinness Book of Records as the fastest person dressed in a full clown outfit to complete a marathon. Paul Fernandez, from Radley, near Abingdon, completed the Gloucester Marathon in two hours 50 minutes 44
Wonderful to see so many families and children visiting the wonderland of anthropology that is Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum, reopened last week after its £1.5m overhaul. But talk about autres temps, autres moeurs — other times, other customs
A body found the River Thames has been identified as a missing man from Benson, near Wallingford. Alan Douglas, 59, went missing from his home in Littleworth Road for almost three weeks last month. Police divers found a body in the Thames at Wallingford
Space: the final frontier. This is the maiden voyage of a shiny, new Starship Enterprise under the captainship of director J. J. Abrams. Its mission: to revitalise a flagging yet beloved franchise, to breathe new life into iconic characters; to
Simon Gray developed a genre of literature all his own in The Smoking Diaries, his four-volume ‘suicide note’, as some saw it, written between 2004 and his death last August. Part day-to-day log of activities, part autobiography, part wild and comic flight
A man is due in court this afternoon charged with the attempted murder of his ex-partner. Benjamin Thompson, 26, of Hurst Street, Oxford, was released last night from the city's John Radcliffe Hospital, where he was recovering from stab wounds
A summer-long exploration of the joy, disappointment, and even tragedy of young love has begun at the Globe Theatre, with a new staging of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, familiar to many in Oxford through his six-year
A 26-year-old man was charged today with attempted murder. Benjamin Thompson, of Hurst Street, Oxford has been remanded in custody and will appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court this afternoon. The charge relates to a stabbing in Hurst Street on Wednesday
For their 50th birthday celebrations, Hampstead Theatre have chosen to revive Michael Frayn’s Alphabetical Order, which premiered there in 1975. Set in the cuttings library of a regional daily newspaper, Frayn’s first full-length play considers
A dapper figure gazes implacably on the fraught family conference at which the failings of the Conways – partly their own fault, partly the consequence of the troubled economic times – are given a painful airing in the presence of their solicitor
In one of the best books to focus on the Never Ending Tour, Lee Marshall argues that Bob Dylan decided to dedicate himself to touring as to escape from the nostalgia that threatened to freeze his stardom in the sixties. Just as Like A Rolling Stone had
Twelve-year-old Lyra lives in a dusty corner of an Oxford college. It could be a lonely existence, for there is no immediate sign of her parents. But she has her daemon Pantalaimon and a friend called Will for company, so life could be a lot worse
‘We’ve come all the way from London, and our name means ‘Good on yer’,” we were told at the start of the second Garsington Opera spring concert. The group specialises in klezmer, and other traditional East European folk music, conjured from a violin
Music at Oxford celebrated 25 years of attracting the best singers and players to perform in the city with a wonderful concert on Saturday night featuring two of the brightest stars of the operatic stage. Soprano Dame Felicity Lott (pictured) and
David Nixon of Northern Ballet Theatre has made a speciality of telling a dramatic story in sequences of dance that make both the events, and the feelings of the characters, clear. Wuthering Heights, one of hisearliest, is also one of his strongest, most
The exciting thing about the Francesca Shakespeare’s work is that it continues to evolve, though it is still greatly influenced by frescos and medieval art which made such an impression on her during her time as an art student in Italy. That was more
For Jane Hope paintings are everywhere – in San Francesco with electric wires silhouetted against the clear sky or Oxford with bare branches. In her rich allotment her onions have pride of place with their curly roots while her spring Cabbages, seen from
Artist Brenda Hayden succeeds in her intention of creating pieces that invite one to explore one’s own vision and understanding of what makes up the coast. She uses a wide range of media, including found materials, shells and the like, the result of
‘Thank goodness for Artweeks,” says Sami Cohen, Principal of d’Overbroecks College, which is sponsoring the festival for the third year running. He sees the festival as a vibrant celebration of Oxfordshire’s arts and crafts. Once again, d’Overbroecks
One of the great things about Artweeks is that it provides a platform for young and up-and coming artists to show what they can do. Some young artists exhibiting this year are doing so for the very first time, and are therefore a little nervous
Nestled into an Artweeks exhibition, in Chipping Norton Town Hall are displays by two textile artists, whose mastery of stitching, colour and fabric is consummate. But while both Anne Griffiths and Judith Gussin use mixed media with a strong emphasis
A 20-year-old man is due in court today after a pedestrian suffered severe head injuries in a collision in Oxford’s city centre. Oliver East, of Bell Lane, Wheatley, is charged with dangerous driving and causing grievous bodily harm. The charges relate
Hospitals in Oxfordshire have been given £1.2m to increase the availability of single-sex accommodation. The Department of Health allocated the funding to improve accommodation, including washing and bathing facilities to help improve patients’ “privacy
Hospitals in Oxfordshire have been given £1.2m to increase the availability of single-sex accommodation. The Department of Health allocated the funding to improve accommodation, including washing and bathing facilities to help improve patients’ “privacy
SIXTY motorists were stopped by police in Abingdon town centre this morning for not wearing seatbelts. Police carried out the spot-checks in Ock Street between 8am-10.30am. They spotted 60 people not wearing seatbelts, who then all received a roadside
Sixty motorists were stopped by police in Abingdon town centre today for not wearing seatbelts. Police carried out the stop checks in Ock Street between 8am and 10.30am. They spotted 60 people failing to wear seatbelts, who then all received a roadside
Police have charged a 20-year-old man in connection with a crash in St Aldates, Oxford, in which a 60-year-old man was seriously injured. At about 7pm on Saturday, February 7, a silver-coloured Peugeot 306 collided with a pedestrian near to
Donington Park chief executive Simon Gillett is "100% certain" the East Midlands circuit will host the 2010 British Grand Prix despite ongoing doubts over the financial viability of the project. A £100m revamp of the circuit has stuttered amid the
The number of binge-drinking women has nearly doubled in recent years, according to research led by an Oxford Brookes University academic. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that almost one in six women aged over 16 now drinks more than double
Drivers have been forced to go slow on the A34 this morning following an accident near Didcot. The crash, involving a car and a 4x4, happened after 7am near the Milton interchange, blocking one lane of the southbound carriageway. A spokesman for South
It’s amazing what you can end up talking about with volunteers at the Botanic Garden. This week saw the second of our Family Friendly Easter activities. I was fortunate to have a very able team of volunteers who gave their time to come and help
Oxford United skipper Adam Murray should after all be fit for the start of next season. The good news came after a scan on his foot injury revealed he does not need surgery. And it’s the same for key defender Luke Foster, who also went
A SAD tale today from Richard Underhill who is speaking about life without his wife Sarah. Pc Underhill tragically died in hospital after suffering a rare pregnancy condition, Aminiotic Fluid Embolism (AFE). Thankfully, doctors were able to save the
A BAN on more roadworks should be called in Headington. Pity the poor residents in London Road, for whom life has become unbearable. The £1.3m improvement scheme has now over-run by two months and workers are slaving away into the early hours to get
A £1.3M road improvement scheme which has choked one of Oxford’s main routes for almost a year will over-run by at least two months, it emerged last night. Families living close to the London Road improvement scheme, in Headington, say the
RICHARD Underhill never contemplated bringing up his newborn twins without their mother, but six months ago that nightmare turned into a reality. Collapsed in a toilet at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital in October last year, his police officer
