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  • City's 20mph limits to start from September

    REDUCED speed limits of 20mph on almost all of Oxford’s residential roads will take effect from September 1, County Hall said. Work on Oxford’s 20mph speed limit will begin in three weeks when council officers begin erecting 1,450 new limit signs as

  • Schumacher returns for Ferrari

    Michael Schumacher is to sensationally come out of retirement to race for Ferrari in the absence of the injured Felipe Massa. Seven-times world champion Schumacher, now 40, has not driven competitively since the season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix in

  • GREYHOUNDS: Thursday's Oxford runners

    7.35: EGMONT KATHY, Fighter Pilot, Springville Fast 2, Horseleap Emily 3, Sorrell Lass, Zigzag Honchess. 7.50: Snazzy Love 2, ROADSTOWN BETH, Dysert Crystal, Bronco Gold 3,True Davey, Norton Joker. 8.05: Easter Dolly 2, Steel Diamond, Smooth Boat 3,

  • BOWLS: Hawes makes it perfect ten

    Oxford City & County’s Katherine Hawes captured her tenth Oxfordshire women’s singles title with a hard-fought 21-18 victory over Margaret Morris on finals day at South Oxford. Hawes made it a double success by teaming up with Carol Gaskins

  • BOWLS: Headington bow out

    Headington went out of the National Top Club Competition with a 5-0 defeat by Cornwall’s Stenalees in the regional semi-finals at Cheltenham. Headington 0, Stenalees 5 (Headington first) – two woods: S Claridge 10, K Richards 16; four woods: N Rae-Welsh

  • BOWLS: Oxon's women in final agony

    Oxfordshire suffered a heartbreaking 106-104 defeat by Nottinghamshire in the Henselite Johns Trophy final on the opening day of the Women's National Championships at Royal Leamington Spa. Having reached the final for the first time, Oxon won on three

  • BOWLS: Central tighten grip in title race

    Banbury Central A stren-gthened their grip in the race for a sixth successive title in the Oxford & District League, sponsored by Yarnton Nurseries, with a 6-0 victory at Bicester. RESULTS Division 1 Bicester 68 (0pts), Banbury Central A 90 (6) (Bicester

  • BOWLS: County Under 25s star

    Oxfordshire ran out 88-64 winners over Bucks in the Home Counties Under 25s League at Long Crendon. Oxfordshire 88 (13pts), Bucks 64 (1) (Oxon rinks first) Rink 1: C Gilkes, R Full, S Hastings, R Clanfield 19; M Gomme, T Pirouet, C Bunce, S Burgin

  • Continue the carnival spirit

    I was glad that the Oxford Mail commended Erica Steinhauer for all the work she put in to keeping an element of the Cowley Road Carnival alive. We were told that the road closure would cost £30,000. One of the last things Craig Simmons did as county

  • The Insider

    Have you seen Peter Tatchell, the Green Party Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Oxford East? We only ask because an email popped up on our screens this week with a link asking for donations towards his campaign. And that got us thinking. When

  • Thanks for your help

    WHAT would we do without the help of the Oxford Mail? Thanks to your support, we now have our bus shelter. I would also like to thank county councillor John Sanders, and the people of Littlemore. If we do not shout about things, we will never get them

  • We don't want a burner anywhere

    IT IS just as well that Jonathan O’Neill and anti-incinerator campaigners in Ardley are not the decision makers who may choose where, if at all, a waste incinerator is located in Oxfordshire. In Ardley, they consider it okay to put one alongside a power

  • Gangs target city's visitors

    THREE separate gangs are thought to be responsible for a string of attacks on foreign students across Oxford. We have reported on 18 robberies in the city since July 6 and ten have been on young visitors. Four attacks on foreign students

  • Few burglars leave forensic evidence

    BURGLARS leave behind forensic traces at just three per cent of break-ins in Oxfordshire, as crooks become more aware of police tactics. In the past year, while investigating the county’s 1,846 burglaries, police found 126 fingerprints and 59 DNA traces

  • Sex trial: Jury still out

    A jury will resume its deliberations today in the case of a man accused of a string of sex attacks on young girls. Brian Hoverd, 46, of Charterville Close, in Minster Lovell, is on trial at Oxford Crown Court after denying 11 counts of rape and 11 allegations

  • Children's Atlantic trip annoyed me

    READING the story about the Halsall family going on an Atlantic trip, leaving in July 2008, and spending five months at sea annoyed me very much (Oxford Mail, July 19). How is it that these children could be off school all that time when other parents

  • Illegal workers arrested in shop raid

    FOUR illegal workers were arrested in a raid on a supermarket. Immigration officers raided the Londis store in London Road, Headington, Oxford, on Tuesday – in an operation to see if staff were entitled to work in the UK. The raid came after a tip-off

  • Vote shock hits beauty pageant

    MISS England organisers last night admitted they were reviewing their own rules after it emerged Miss Oxfordshire voted for herself more than 1,000 times. Student nurse Zoiey Smale racked up 2,013 votes from the public – who voted with text

  • TV stolen in Kennington home raid

    Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses following a burglary at a house in Kennington. Burglars broke into the property in The Avenue, after smashing through a patio door some time between 8am and 6pm yesterday. They stole a 32-inch flat-screen

  • Car set alight in Banbury

    Police are appealing for witnesses after an arson attack on a car in Banbury. Officers were notified of the arson attack in Waterworks Lane by Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service after they were called to the scene at about 4.45pm on Saturday. Police

  • Schools will get extra care cash

    Parents have been encouraged to find out about before and after school clubs following a £1.3m cash injection into county schools. The money comes from a £167m pot of Government cash for children and young people who are “economically disadvantaged”

  • 'We still aim to buy boatyard'

    THE managers of a heritage trust in Jericho are putting in place final preparations to make an offer to buy a former boatyard site. Last week, city council leader Bob Price announced plans to ask the Government to give it powers to make a compulsory

  • Schools will get extra care cash

    Parents have been encouraged to find out about before and after school clubs following a £1.3m cash injection into county schools. The money comes from a £167m pot of Government cash for children and young people who are “economically disadvantaged”

  • Judge orders drug dealer to forfeit £4,442

    A FORMER public schoolboy who ran a drugs empire from his home has been ordered to pay back thousands of pounds of his ill-gotten gains. Gregory Manning, 31, was jailed in December after admitting three charges of possessing drugs with intent to supply

  • Horse team tackles deadly menace

    A TEAM of conservationists has embarked on its annual mission to clear the county’s hedgerows of a plant which can be deadly to animals. Dinah Harris, from Hailey, has pulled together a team of volunteers in an effort to root out the dreaded ragwort.

  • Arcane way to pass weekend

    An intimate gathering of music lovers in a meadow in a tiny Oxfordshire village is set to take place for the third year running. The Arcane Festival was set up by a group of friends in 2007, and this weekend 500 people are expected to get together

  • FREDERICK BROOKS: 38 years as projectionist

    FREDERICK Brooks, who worked as a projectionist at the Palace Cinema in Witney for 38 years, has died aged 86. Mr Brooks, of Waddard’s Meadow, Witney, retired from his role at the Palace in 1982, after the cinema was taken over by a London firm. Then

  • PETER WHITE: Embassy guard hit the headlines

    PETER White, who has died aged 85, hit the headlines in 1986 when he single-handedly disarmed nine Yemeni rebels who had tried to enter the British Embassy in Aden. Mr White, from Chinnor, was head of security at the Middle East embassy when

  • Jericho boatyard trust aims to buy site itself

    THE managers of a heritage trust in Jericho are putting in place final preparations to make an offer to buy a former boatyard site. Last week, city council leader Bob Price announced plans to ask the Government to give it powers to make a compulsory

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  • Dashwood turnaround

    THE headteacher of a school taken out of special measures has said the school was now on course to become outstanding. Dashwood Primary School in Banbury was put into special measures in November 2007 after being rated as inadequate. A recent visit

  • MP Baldry volunteers for Nepal visit

    Banbury MP Tony Baldry is heading to Nepal over the summer for volunteer work. Mr Baldry went to the region last year as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Voluntary Service Overseas organisation. He along with other MPs were called political

  • Tennis courts reopen

    PEOPLE across Banbury have no excuses for not getting fit — three refurbished tennis courts have just been opened. The courts, in People’s Park, were closed in June while contractor Record RSS set to work. And last week the firm finished two

  • Jazz festival rolls into town

    BICESTER’S streets will be alive with music as the eighth annual jazz festival rolls into town. Musicians will be playing in Garth Park, Bicester Village and Wyevale Garden centre over the weekend of August 8 and 9. In a joint initiative between Bicester

  • Keeping a battlefield watch

    A FORMER Bicester school pupil has been training a select few troops to operate a life-saving remote control spy plane. Lieutenant Jason Jump, 25, used skills he picked up during a tour of Iraq to teach other soldiers how to use the ‘eye in the sky’

  • Mums rally round for young Thomas

    MUMS rallied around to help a five-year-old boy who is one of only ten youngsters in the UK to suffer a rare premature ageing condition. Thomas Laurie needed a new walking frame and when mum Catherine’s friends found out, they wasted no time in raising

  • £30m wire contract

    HIGH-tech company Oxford Instruments has won a £30m contract to supply 58 tonnes of superconducting wire to Iter, Europe's giant nuclear fusion machine. Iter, being built at Cadarache in the South of France, is the final step towards a prototype power

  • Fifty drivers caught in Culham speed checks

    Fifty motorists were caught breaking the 30mph speed limit near Culham in south Oxfordshire this morning, including one motorist who was clocked driving at 56mph. The crackdown took place on the A415, outside the European School, between 8am and 10am

  • ATHLETICS: Bell is star of the show

    Oxford Tri’s Jane Bell won the women’s race and Ian Loades was second in the men’s competition at the Thame Triathlon. Clubmates Tim Doole and James Currie were second and third in the 25-29 year-old category, while Hanno Nickau won the 45-49 section

  • ATHLETICS: Radley stay on track for Premier crown

    Radley moved a step closer to their quest to finish top of the Southern Womens League Premier Division after finishing second in Saturday’s meeting at Tilsley Park. In the senior section, Aislinn Baird smashed the club record in the hammer, throwing

  • BAR BILLIARDS: Nelson turn up the heat at the summit

    Nelson A closed to within a point of Group B leaders Marlborough Club with a brilliant 5-1 away at Headington Con Club in the Buildbase Oxford & District League. Ian Gordon (2,550), Craig Mace (3,780) and a good game by Lewis Stratford (7,180) won the

  • RUGBY LEAGUE: Cavaliers get a pasting

    Oxford Cavaliers ended their season on a low note as they went down to a 48-18 hammering by Northampton Casuals in a friendly at Stratfield Brake. Cavaliers went ahead early on when hooker John Connaughton spotted a gap before running 70 metres and touching

  • GOLF: Walton lifts second title

    Ashley Walton won the Frilford Heath Club Championship for the second time after shooting level par on the club’s three courses. The former Berks , Bucks & Oxon winner, with rounds of 73 and 70 on the Blue and Green courses respectively

  • 50 drivers caught in speed check

    Fifty motorists were caught breaking the 30mph speed limit near Culham today, including one motorist who was clocked driving at 56mph. The crackdown took place on the A415, outside the European School, between 8am and 10am. Drivers travelling along

  • Robbers armed with iron rods

    ROBBERS carrying iron rods pushed a 14-year-old foreign language student to the floor before stealing his wallet and mobile phone. The Taiwanese student had just got off a bus at The Oval in Rose Hill on Monday at 9.15pm, and was walking with a friend

  • Another foreign student robbed

    Police today appealed for witnesses after a 14-year-old foreign language student was robbed in Oxford. The Taiwanese student had just got off a bus at The Oval in Rose Hill at about 9.15pm on Monday and was walking with a friend towards the

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  • BMW pulls out of F1

    BMW has announced it is pulling out of Formula One at the end of this season. The German car manufacturer called an emergency press conference at its Munich headquarters to reveal it was ending its involvement in F1. The landmark decision

  • Ferrari optimistic over Massa

    Fears that Felipe Massa's Formula One career could be over following his freak accident in Hungary last weekend were eased when a Ferrari spokesman delivered further good news regarding his recovery. Massa is in a serious but stable condition at the

  • Schumacher could make Ferrari return

    Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher could be set to make a return to Formula One as Ferrari look for a short-term replacement for the injured Felipe Massa. Massa's condition has improved in the past 24 hours with doctors taking him

  • Homes are vital

    We have lost count at the number of meetings held, inquiries into and arguments about plans to build homes on the edge of Oxford. But the development earmarked for Grenoble Road is vitally important for the future of the city. Scores of people born

  • 'Sci-fi saved my daughter'

    A teenage girl whose heart stopped three times owes her life to a miracle operation and the work of a little known Oxfordshire charity, her mother said last night. Sophi Barton, 16, from Steeple Aston, near Bicester, was admitted to Oxford’

  • ATHLETICS: Hannah misses out; Nathan gets the nod

    Oxford City's Hannah England has been left disappointed again after she was overlooked for the Great Britain squad for the World Championships in Berlin next month. But clubmate Nathan Douglas has earned the nod for the men's triple jump team. England

  • Don’t take our medics for granted

    Aged 16, it is fair to say that Sophi Barton has been through the wars. Suspected meningitis, an infection that caused a giant abscess to form in her heart, and then suffering three cardiac arrests was probably more than enough for one lifetime. And

  • Protesters plead for homes not to go in green belt

    New houses could be built on the Green Belt south of Oxford as early as 2013, it emerged yesterday. In May, the Government gave the go-ahead for 4,000 new homes to be built south of Grenoble Road as part of its South East Plan, a blueprint for development

  • Mugger targets foreign tourists

    Tourists have been targeted by a knife-wielding would-be robber in the latest in a string of attacks on visitors to Oxford. The knifeman cycled up to a 54-year-old American woman and her daughter in New College Lane at about 4.30pm on Monday. He pulled