Oxfordshire's luckless women suffered a fifth straight defeat at County Week yesterday – injury robbing them of any hope of victory. They went into their final Group 5 match against Hereford & Worcester knowing only a win would keep them off bottom spot
CHILDREN at an Oxford school have created their own guidebook to the city. A group of eight Year 6 children at Cumnor Primary School spent about three months working on the book after spotting a gap in the market. And now the youngsters have been selling
UP TO 1,000 people are set to descend on a tiny village today for the 13th Truck Festival. Organisers are pictured putting up banners which will fly over Hill Farm, Steventon, for the festival, which is running over three days for the first time in its
A pedestrian escaped serious injury after being hit by a bus in Oxford city centre today. Holly Winman, a spokesman for Thames Valley Police, said the 70-year-old man suffered minor injuries in the accident in Castle Street shortly after 9am. She said
A 23-year-old man has admitted killing his best friend in a drunken car crash. Frank Yeung was giving Richard Waddington a lift into Oxford on the A4074 near Sandford on December 4 when they crashed. Yeung, of Titup Hall Drive, Wood Farm, Oxford, was
AN Oxfordshire MP is to help create a new planning law which is set to end plans to build 4,000 homes south of Oxford’s Grenoble Road. Henley MP John Howell, who drafted a policy paper on planning before the General Election, will serve as a Parliamentary
THEY can remember pupils getting the cane for bad behaviour, caps as part of the uniform and a headmaster known as the Boss. Past pupils of Henry Box School, formerly Witney Grammar School, are planning a get-together to coincide with the Church Green
CREATIVE juices were flowing in one north Oxfordshire for its annual scarecrow festival. For the fourth year running the gauntlet was thrown down to Wardington residents to use a scarecrow to depict a song. Among the 14 creations who
HEADTEACHER Duncan Spence took his last assemblies this week. The Wychwood Primary School head is retiring aged 58 after eight years at the west Oxfordshire village school – and 34 in the profession. Mr Spence, who is married with two
A HEADTEACHER who spent 30 years teaching in the county took her last classes on Wednesday. Daphne Elliott has been headteacher at Cropredy Primary School for three years, and a teacher at the school since 2002. She began teaching in 1971 and took
A WALLINGFORD headteacher who has spent her whole career teaching in Oxfordshire says she will be swapping schoolchildren for grandchildren as she prepares to retire. Jenny Forder, 58, has run St John’s Primary School, in St John’s Road, for
AS the NSPCC’s fund-raising manager for the region, Rebecca Steele’s job is never boring. From coffee mornings to charity runs and moonlit balls, the 31-year-old from Oxford is in charge of looking after hundreds of volunteers in the Thames Valley who
THE final tile has been placed on the roof of a long-awaited community centre in Witney. The finishing of building work at Madley Park Community Centre was celebrated with a topping out ceremony, where Witney town councillor Roger Curry, who has over-seen
RESIDENTS in a Banbury street proved community spirit was alive and well. More than 200 people living in the Queens Road area of the town gathered for a traditional street party. Bunting and balloons were hung across the neighbourhood and residents
Oxford Zoomers scored another victory when they took the team prize in the third round of the RYA Team 15 South Region Championships in Ashford, Middlesex. Strong winds made conditions tough, but Zoomers produced a series of fine displays. Alex Parker
Let’s be crystal clear, in the world of premium 4x4s, the Range Rover reigns supreme. So any other model competing for the top spot, even when it carries a Range Rover badge on its bonnet, must face some serious scrutiny. As the name suggests, the Range
In Pixar’s seventh film the cars are, quite literally, the stars. The film tells the story of Lightning McQueen, an arrogant but talented rookie racing car who is on the cusp of reaching the big time. All he needs to do to achieve his dream – and get
Back in the 1950s the penny finally dropped that small cars capable of doing more than 20mpg might be a good idea. So Sir Alec Issigonis came up with the Mini and that started the ball rolling, with other manufacturers sensing that he might be on to
WELSH voices raised the Oxford Town Hall roof at a special charity concert, and raised £4,000 for two worthwhile causes in the process. The world-renowned Morriston Orpheus Choir, from Swansea, headlined the event to benefit Help for Heroes and the Oxford
A BID to have St Anne’s College’s 1960s gatehouse listed has been rejected, clearing a major obstacle to the college’s £10m plans to transform its Woodstock Road frontage. St Anne’s wants to demolish the gatehouse as part of its scheme to build a new
STAFF at a science museum in Oxford face an uncertain future following a major cut in funding. The Museum of the History of Science in Broad Street is the only Oxford University museum to have suffered a funding cut in the latest round of grants from
A GROWING number of passengers at Oxford railway station are getting to grips with ticket vending machines, reducing the length of queues at the ticket office. In 2006, when new touch-screen ticket vending machines (TVM) were introduced at Oxford station
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SATURDAY FOOTBALL Friendlies: Oxford Utd v Leicester City (3), AFC Totten v Oxford City (3), Banbury Utd v Mickleover Sports (3), Thatcham v Didcot Town (3), Brockenhurst v North Leigh (7). CRICKET SERIOUS CRICKET HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE
BIG increases in gravel and sand extraction in Oxfordshire needs to be urgently reviewed, ministers have been told. With fears mounting that large areas of Oxfordshire’s countryside could be under threat, the Government has been told to act
YOUNGSTERS Imogen Hunt (from Faringdon) won the under 8 title at the Penny & Sinclair Junior Championships at Esporta, Oxford. Abingdon’s Zach Lion-Cachet was runner-up in under 8 boys event, while there were wins in the consolation events for Danny
DIDCOT magistrates are to be commended for applying an antisocial behaviour order on Craig Elmslie despite one not being requested by the police. Elmslie was given a suspensed prison sentence and an Asbo to keep his clothes on after being arrested for
A FLASHER who exposed himself in the grounds of a care home has been given an antisocial behaviour order forcing him to keep his clothes on in public. Craig Elmslie was caught in the garden of the home performing a sex act in the moonlight
In-form City of Oxford RC returned from the National Championships in Stra-thclyde with seven sets of medals around their necks, writes MIKE ROSEWELL. And these successes led to four City crews being selected to represent England in the Home Countries
Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League Manoj Parmar returns from a two-match ban to captain Thame Town in tomorrow’s crunch trip to new Division 2 West leaders Reading. The experienced batsman and wicket-keeper was suspended by the league after
Dan Rivers, from Didcot, will be representing Great Britain in the world junior air rifle championships in Munich next week. The 19 year-old, who is a member of the Wantage Target Shooting Club, is the captain of the British junior team.
Oxford's two universities have entered the Oxfordshire Cup for the 2010-11 season. Oxford Brookes and Oxford University Greyhounds join six other clubs in the first round draw. Brookes will host Oxford, with the Greyhounds, who won the cup in 1976,
THERE is still time for Oxford United supporters to secure a place in the ‘Fans v Fans’ game at the Kassam Stadium on Saturday, July 31. The match will take place at half-time when the Oxford United legends take on a Celebrity XI. With all proceeds
A DIDCOT mum has completed an epic cross Channel swim to raise £3,000 for Macmillan cancer nurses. Fay Dellimore, 47, spent the last hours of Tuesday’s epic 17-hour-long swim in darkness, battling against the tide to complete the 21-mile trip
CONCERN has been raised over plans to force nurses at city hospitals to take a one-hour unpaid lunch break. A doctor last night said the move could put patients’ lives at risk and hit nurses in the pocket, while a union said the move was part
Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League Banbury captain Ian Hawtin is not ruling his side out of the Division 1 title race. Hawtin, whose team visit Aston Rowant tomorrow, is keeping positive despite seeing his side slip 37 points behind top
THE Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust has had a difficult fortnight after its ham-fisted attempt to close the Silver Star baby unit. Despite that, we must believe it when it says it has in place a robust system to ensure nursing cover is sufficient despite
DEPUTY Prime Minister Nick Clegg urged residents to question him on the economy when he visits Abingdon tomorrow. The town is the first stop on the Liberal Democrat leader’s tour of town halls, and he will answer questions from 2pm at the Guildhall in
May I through your letters page implore the powers-that-be at Oxford United not to inflict on us loyal supporters the annoying vuvuzela. It has no place in British football, and if brought to the Kassam stadium in numbers could be a safety issue – announcements
IT HAS been reported that that the Government will not allow people with multiple sclerosis access to the cannabis-based drug Sativex. I have had a diagnosis of MS for nearly 40 years. I wonder if the relevant ministers experienced the
Thank you for publishing the lovely Rewind picture of the air drill by the RAF’s 18 Squadron, from RAF Upper Heyford, on Empire Air Day in 1935 (Oxford Mail, July 20). The photograph shows the light bombers flown by the squadron up to 1939. The aircraft
It is utterly astonishing that our county council appears ready to gamble huge sums of public money on the outcome of the public inquiry into the Ardley incinerator (Oxford Mail ViewPoints, July 15). In a move seemingly inspired by Alice in Wonderland
IT’s officially two years until the London Olympics and leisure centres in Oxford are holding free activities this weekend to celebrate. Starting today, centres across the city will open free to the public. In Summertown, Ed Oakley, operations manager
FIREFIGHTERS spent two hours tackling a grass fire at a nature reserve next to Port Mea-dow in North Oxford. Ten firefighters were called to Burgess Hill Nature Park when the blaze broke out at 11.15pm on Wednesday. The two fire crews
WHAT a wonderful gadget Howard Stapleton has invented to deter the feral teenagers who spoil life for others (Oxford Mail, July 13) . I have a similar gadget at home to deter dogs and cats from my garden. The RSPCA does not complain
The waste incinerator planned for Ardley by Viridor and the county council would be a monstrous blot in the middle of rural Oxfordshire. It is costly, unneccessary and would make Ardley a dustbin for other people’s waste. The public inquiry under
IT has long been my view that it is difficult to feel one’s age in Oxford. Many buildings are old. The city’s heart is forever young. The influx of young visitors from far and wide this week have helped to supercharge it. Their tongues appeared to represent
I think it’s fair to say that men generally care more about the kind of car they drive than women. That’s not to say that we all want to drive around in clapped-out old bangers, and I for one long for the time when I can legitimately buy a two-seater
A man was treated by paramedics following an accident involving a bus in the centre of Oxford this morning. Holly Winman, a spokesman for Thames Valley Police, said the 70-year-old man suffered minor injuries when he was hit in Castle Street shortly
This OUDS show travels shortly to Japan, continuing a touring link to a foreign country established 13 years ago On the assumption that most things Shakespearean go down well anywhere in the world, it’s a certainty that audiences at two Tokyo theatres
THE decision by Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership to cut its speed, drink driving and seatbelt enforcement in Oxfordshire is an absolute disgrace. The Partnership has had £600,000 of funding withdrawn by Oxfordshire County Council and has announced
EVERY speed camera in Oxfordshire will be switched off next week and the current drink driving, mobile phone and seatbelt checks will be halted. Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership – the body that has co-ordinated the police enforcement for
OXFORDSHIRE go into the final day of Ladies’ County Week hoping the presence of Claire Taylor can save them from a humiliating whitewash. Taylor, a key member of the best-ever county side that twice reached Group 1 at the start of the millennium, will
HARRY Worley says he is relishing fighting for a place in Oxford United’s starting line-up after becoming boss Chris Wilder’s latest recruit. Centre back Worley, 21, yesterday put pen to paper on a three-year contract following his release by Championship
A NEW evening park-and-ride service is being launched by Oxford Bus Company to attract extra visitors to the city centre. The services come into operation at Redbridge, Pear Tree, Seacourt and Thornhill on Monday. Oxford Bus Company
FAMILIES on an Oxford estate breathed a sigh of relief after work began on a project to improve their local leisure facilities. The people of Barton were left disappointed earlier this week when it emerged two major schemes for the estate had fallen
