A list of people convicted of offences at Oxford Magistrates' Court recently: Peter Doyle, 54, of Horspath Road, Oxford, admitted criminal damage to the door mirror of a car in Oxford on July 24. Given a 12-month conditional discharge and told to
The League are inviting applications for Representative Team Managers for this season. All age groups are open to applications although some of the vacancies may be for assistant Managers or coaches. We are looking for managers and coaches that
IT IS one of the quirker benefits of a sponsorship deal – helping preserve Oxford United’s roller-coaster past for posterity. Club sponsor, Witney company Polythene UK, has donated thousands of polythene bags in which to store thousands of
HUNDREDS of people in Banbury attended a fundraising family fun day to raise money for the victims of the Pakistan flooding disaster. The Sunrise Multicultural Project hosted the event at the Fairway Methodist Church on Saturday. Fozia Nazir is pictured
AN ESTATE is hoping to resurrect a community centre from the ashes of a failed social club. Residents living in Pinnocks Way, Dean Court, Cumnor, are hoping to raise £40,000 to establish a new community hub following the collapse of the estate’s social
DIDCOT Citizens Advice Bureau says the town council has left it frustrated, upset and in financial difficulty after its eviction from the Civic Hall. The council has now said it will pay £14,400 compensation to the bureau after it was served an eviction
CHILDREN enjoyed a day out at the seaside – without leaving rainy Oxford. The beach-themed fun took place at the Museum of Natural History and the neighbouring Pitt Rivers Museum, in Parks Road. The event was inspired by Tracy Chevalier
RESIDENTS are being asked to contribute to a wish list of facilities for Bicester’s 5,000-home eco settlement. Cherwell District Council, Oxfordshire county and Bicester town councils, NHS Oxfordshire, the Environment Agency, the Homes and Communities
Police are investigating an incident on the M40 this morning, which caused an Oxford Tube coach to overturn. At about 2am today, the coach was travelling between junctions 3 and 2 southbound, when it overturned. Twelve passengers and the coach
THE musical Bugsy Malone gave youngsters with disabilities the perfect platform to try out their performing skills. Fifty young people took part in the production, which was organised by Marston-based charity the Parasol Project, which supports young
AN OFFICE worker has earned her place in the record books after battling storms and hunger to row 2,000 miles around the coast of Britain. And the feat was all the more remarkable because she is afraid of the sea. Beverley Ashton, 29
A TEENAGE motorcyclist has died following a crash in Witney on Sunday evening. The accident happened shortly before 7pm on the Thorney Leys ring road. The 18-year-old motorcyclist, from Witney, was pronounced dead at the scene. Police are appealing
Police today appealed for witnesses after a teenage motorcyclist died in a crash in Witney last night. Police were called just before 7pm to reports that a motorcyclist who had been travelling along Thorney Leys ring road, towards the A415,
THE Vale of White Horse District Council spent more than £1m less than it originally predicted during last year’s economic crisis. The authority had warned of a “significant shortfall in income” during its 2009/10 budget and put aside £1.65m to cover
FOOTBALL NPOWER LEAGUE TWO Oxford Utd 0, Accrington Stanley 0. FA CUP Prelim round: Cinderford Tn 2, North Leigh 1; Mangotsfield Utd 5, Abingdon Utd 0; Thatcham Tn 2, Witney Utd 2. ZAMARETTO SOUTHERN LEAGUE
IT IS somethingmost people have dreamed about – five minutes to grab anything and everything from the supermarket for free. For mum-of-four Vivienne Abbott it came true yesterday morning and she piled £391 of shopping in her trolley during a dash round
A MUSIC festival was held in Woodstock over the weekend as part of the town’s celebrations of the 900th anniversary of the building of the wall which enclosed the Royal Park. Launching the festival was duo TP and Woodman, who performed Pink
ONE person needed hospital treatment after an Oxford Tube coach overturned on the M40 during the early hours today. The incident happened at 2am on the London-bound carriageway, between junction three at Loudwater and junction two at Beaconsfield
OXFORD critic and biographer John Carey has won one of Britain’s oldest literary awards, the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes, following in the footsteps of literary giants such as DH Lawrence and Evelyn Waugh. He won the £10,000 prize for his biography
Thatcham Town 2 (Rees 85, Parfitt 89) Witney Town 2 (Zoldan 69, Conway 90) RICH Conway scored an injury-time equaliser as Witney secured an FA Cup prliminary round tie replay on Tuesday night at home to Southern League side Thatcham Town. With
Truro City 2 (Watkins 18, Adams 82) Oxford City 1 (Sandy 68) Oxford City are still hunting their first win of the season in the Premier Division after returning from their trip to Cornwall empty-handed. But they would have had a point
Didcot Town 0 Hednesford Town 3 (Patterson 35, 63, Osbourne 43) Didcot failed to build on their midweek victory against Bedford as they slumped to a 3-0 home reverse against Hednesford. Early on in the Premier Division game, Hednesford
Ardley United 5 (Nicholls 3, 89, Ayris 39, 56, Bone 74) Shrivenham 0 Ardley United moved up to third in the Premier Division table after hitting five goals without reply – for the second successive home game – with an impressive rout of their
CLAIMS that the third edition of the Oxford English Dictionary will never appear in print have been dismissed by Oxford University Press. According to The Sunday Times, staff had been told that the third edition, due for completion in a decade’s time
THESE young men were happy to pose for the camera in their smart uniforms. But who are they, and what organisation do they represent? The picture comes from Rita and Michael Stockford, of Bishop Kirk Place, North Oxford. They
IN THE criminal world, there were few to equal James Ferguson. In the 48-year period between 1899 and 1947, he was sentenced to 45 years in prison. His release from Oxford Prison in 1947, at the age of 90, turned him into a celebrity. An Oxford Mail
CURRENT expansion plans for Oxford railway station envisage extra platforms at the northern and southern ends, but this is a vision of what might have been, sent in by Frank Dumbleton, of Chilton. The lithograph, dating from about 1846, shows the Oxford
I WRITE in response to Audrey Saunders (Oxford Mail, August 19), complaining about the pigeons in Bonn Square. She claims that the ground becomes very slippery when it rains, ‘due to pigeon poo’. Why can’t people live and let live? The pigeons provide
LAST Tuesday you featured a report on probably the last performance of Witney Queen Emma’s Morris dancers, at Minster Lovell History Festival. It was a shame that more credit has not been attributed to the history event itself, sponsored by the Heritage
Cinderford Town 2 (Clark 59 og, McCootie 72) North Leigh 1 (Posey 24) NORTH Leigh let slip the lead as they went down to a narrow defeat at their Southern League Division 1 South & West rivals. With Matty Taylor starting his first game of the
Mangotsfield 5 (Groves 9, 78, Meaker 23, 40 Rendall 73) Abingdon United 0 ABINGDON United boss Richie Bourne’s honeymoon period ended in a thrashing by their Southern League Division 1 South & West rivals in the prelimiray round of the FA Cup.
Chesham United 0 Banbury United (Benjamin 32, Shariff 88)2 Banbury grabbed their first Premier Division victory of season with an easy 2-0 win at previously unbeaten Chesham on Saturday. Before the game, Billy Jeffrey’s side had gleaned
PEOPLE in Witney and west Oxfordshire say they can’t wait to meet David and Samantha Cameron’s baby daughter after getting a first glimpse of the new arrival. Pictures of Florence Rose Endellion Cameron were released on Saturday and showed her being
THERE will no doubt be plenty of groans over the next few days as children return to school after the long summer break. But there was no lack of enthusiasm for lessons when this picture was taken. These young pupils could not wait to burst through
FOUR men who helped build a village bus shelter are seen putting the finishing touches to it in 1959. The inscription read: “Built by the people of Bletchingdon.” The seocond picture was taken in 1960 when a debate was raging over whether the
IT’S perhaps not quite as good as a trip down the rabbit-hole with Alice in Wonderland. But young readers will be excited to step inside the building that is being transformed into Oxford’s new Story Museum. The museum in Pembroke Street
AS usual, Keith Mitchell, Conservative leader of the county council, trots out the excuse for the unnecessarily draconian cuts the coalition Government and his own administration are making (Oxford Mail, August 16). According to his strange view, it
Every week or so another story about drugs appears in the Press, as they have been doing with monotonous regularity for as long as I can remember. Yet nothing appears to change. Dealers continue to sell drugs, people continue to take drugs, the Police
I broadly agree with Vim Rodrigo’s points (Oxford Mail letters, August 16) about the need to improve standards in all private rented housing, not just houses in multiple occupation (HMOs). Unfortunately, one of the first acts of the new government was
It’s the same every year – and has been since at least 1990: the exam results come out, huge numbers of teenagers it appears are even more intelligent than those the year before, and employers and academics alike argue it’s because exams are getting easier
RENTS across Oxfordshire are rising because of a shortage of homes available to let, a survey has found. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors said 38 per cent of agents had seen an increase in rents since June. In addition, 54 per cent more
THOUSANDS of food lovers are flocking to Oxford’s South Park this weekend to enjoy the first Oxford Foodies Festival. Top chefs including Martin Blunos, the star of Channel 4 TV show Ironchef, are sharing their skills alongside Oxfordshire
AS MORRIS dancers go, they certainly break the mould. With their white faces and dark hair, Pig Dyke Molly looked more like Edward Scissorhands than traditional English dancers. But the goth group went down a storm at the 46th Towersey Festival, in
Seamer Nathan Hawkes had bowled Banbury into a winning position, before a heavy storm ended their chances of beating Division 1 relegation candidates Potters Bar in the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier league on Saturday. Following
Oxford's faint Division 1 title hopes in the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League finally disappeared when they lost by five wickets away to Tring Park. Asked to bat on a damp pitch after rain got under the covers, Oxford lost wickets at regular
A DEVASTATING spell of 8-28 by spinner Jaydeep Bhatti enabled Thame Town to complete the double over Gerrards Cross with a convincing 111-run victory in Divisionh 2 West of the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League at Church Meadow.
Aston Rowant are now strong favourites to be relegated from Division 1 of the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League after just one season in the top flight following a mammoth 206-run defeat at home to High Wycombe on Saturday. Wycombe rattled
IT had been a long, long wait for these two clubs to meet. And when they did, it was sheer anti-climax. Like ships in the night, they had passed each other in both 1962 and 2006, one dropping out of the Football League, while the other burst into it.
THOUSANDS of TV viewers will welcome the news their signal is to be restored after eight months of disruption. But while the TV picture may be clear, the situation regarding the countless agencies involved and the length of time it has taken
THOUSANDS OF TV viewers in Oxfordshire are on schedule to get reception back by the end of September. But hopes of a TV licence fee rebate for eight months of poor signal were dashed last night. Digital viewers have been experiencing
BYRON HAINES has been described as the “number one problem” on Blackbird Leys and has made life hell for residents. He is now where he belongs – behind bars – after he showed complete contempt for the law by continually breaching the Asbo imposed
PERSISTENT Oxford trouble-maker Byron Haines has finally been jailed after “running out of chances”. The 19-year-old, once called the “number-one problem” in Blackbird Leys and Greater Leys, was locked up for eight months on Friday.
Chris Wilder admitted his Oxford United team were “really heavy-legged and brain-dead” in Saturday’s 0-0 draw with Accrington Stanley at the Kassam Stadium. It was a third goalless draw in four games for both League Two clubs, who were meeting for the
Thames Valley Police will stage their annual force open day next weekend. The Thames Valley Police open day will be held between 10am and 4pm on Saturday, September 4, in the grounds of the Police Training Centre in Sulhamstead, near Reading
AN AUTHOR of a book about UFOs has made an appeal for witnesses to a sighting over an Oxford school nearly 40 years ago. According to a former pupil at Cutteslowe Primary School, a mystery object was spotted over the playing field during one lunchtime
OUTDOOR sculptures are catching the eyes of visitors to this weekend’s Stanton St John village festival. And artist Julian Wild is inviting them to add to his work Making the Connection, constructed out of pipe sections. The annual festival opened yesterday
