HUNDREDS of children on one of the country’s most deprived estates are still waiting for Education Secretary Michael Gove to let them have the dream play scheme they had been promised. The Government froze funding for Play Barton, an £800,000 indoor
ONE of the most iconic cars to be built in the city – a 1967 Mini MkII – is being recreated in honour of thousands of workers who have toiled in Oxford’s car plants over the past century. The stories of those workers are also being recorded
LORRY-MAKER Daf, which has its UK head office in Thame, is among several manufacturers being investigated by the Office of Fair Trading over suspected price-fixing. The OFT raided Mercedes-Benz’s office in Milton Keynes and arrested its UK commercial
A motorcyclist suffered a broken ankle after colliding with a car which drove off without stopping on the Eastern Bypass. He was riding a black Yamaha Virago motorcycle approaching the Heyford Hill roundabout from Cowley at about 7.20pm on Sunday when
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BANBURY: Gill Faure has been appointed the new executive director of The Foscote Hospital. Ms Faure joins The Foscote Hospital from a seven-year career managing health and fitness clubs for David Lloyd Leisure in both Bolton and Liverpool. She will
A TAXI driver who wanted to use a seven-year-old car for his business, against council policy, had his appeal refused. An application by Clifford Forrester, 43, to continue to use his seven-year-old eight-seater Ford Transit Tourneo as a taxi was refused
HUNDREDS of oarsman are set to make waves when they descend on Oxfordshire for the third annual Bangla-deshi Boat Race. Teams from across Britain will make their way to Farmoor Reservoir on Sunday Septemer 26, with competitors coming from Keighley in
THE firm that operates most of West Oxfordshire’s public leisure centres is set to merge with another company. Nexus Community, which has run the centres for West Oxfordshire District Council since 2001, will merge with Greenwich Leisure Ltd (GLL).
VILLAGERS have defied the national spending squeeze by setting up their own community library, stocked with 1,000 donated books and staffed by 60 volunteers. With Oxfordshire County Council lacking the cash to set up a library branch in Cholsey
Arthur Titherington, a war veteran, PoW camp survivor and former Witney town mayor, has died in the John Radcliffe Hospital. He campaigned tirelessly to get an official apology from the Japanese government over the treatment of prisoners during
BB&O round-up Alchester's catch-and-drive prowess earned them a 35-8 win at Bicester in their eagerly anticipated Premier Division grudge match. The visitors scored four of their six tries from what is already a trademark move as they
AN OXFORD stargazer has snapped his way around the solar system and received stellar praise from experts. Nick Smith, from Barton Road, Headington, takes pictures of the night sky from his back garden and was last week honoured for his work. His pictures
Southern Counties North Grove scored five tries to beat Oxford 40-13 at the Southern Bypass ground. Oxford started strongly, competing well at the rucks, and took the lead through Jon Derrick’s penalty. Grove captain Nick Sevier scorched in from
PLANS for new children’s centres and pre-school buildings in Oxfordshire could be scrapped after the Government slashed funding by 20 per cent. Twenty-six projects to build or improve children’s centres and nurseries had been promised Government funding
Midlands 1 West Banbury Bulls captain Sean Bannister suffered a broken leg in their 32-5 defeat at Whitchurch. The all-action flanker was injured after 30 minutes of a very disappointing game for the visitors. Play was held up for 20 minutes, while
South West 1 East Lewis Collins scored a hat-trick of tries in Witney’s 42-18 victory at Buckingham. The visitors went behind to a 17th-minute penalty, but hit back when flanker Carl Cambell dived over and full back Ed Mitcham converted.
Oxfordshire’s youth teams got their new Inter-Counties League campaign off to a winning start with a 9-8 triumph away to Middlesex on Sunday. The under 18 boys won 6-3 with victories from Matt Clarke, debutant Ben Joines, Stephen Wright, Jake Carter
The race for the Greene King ODDA Winter League Men’s Section 2 title is hotting up. With one fixture left, Rose Hill Community Centre A remain in contention after a 7-2 win at Chequers A which leaves them just three points behind Cowley Workers
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National 2 South Henley Hawks went top of the table after a 42-14 victory over Clifton at Dry Leas. Hawks hit top from early on, with full back James Comben slotting a fifth-minute penalty. Centre Danny Wells set up wing Jack Shaylor for the opening
Jason Bowers was more than happy with his side’s victory over Oxford Harlequins. Chinnor’s head coach said: “Right from the outset, we controlled the game in key areas. Individuals allowed that to happen. “Once we got a decent platform
AN OXFORD student who sold cocaine and heroin to fund her degree course has been jailed alongside her “father figure” partner in crime. Kimona Ward, 25, was studying computer sciences at Oxford Brookes University while selling drugs with 55
A NEWLY qualified driver who killed a 26-year-old woman in a car crash on a country road was driving too quickly for the conditions, a court heard. James Wilkinson, who denies causing the death of Jane Sandalls by careless driving, was driving
Oxford Harlequins 12, Chinnor 32 Chinnor cruised to victory in a fiercely-contested National 3 South West derby despite finishing with 14 men. The visitors ran in four tries via some often electric back play and never looked back after
WOMEN'S MATCHES. Wallingford got their Trysport 3 Counties League Premier 1 campaign off to a winning start with a 3-1 home victory over Aylesbury. With several young faces in their line-up, Wallingford were a goal up at the break and
Disappointingly, but unsurprisingly, the response from Margaret Turner regarding developing north of Didcot (The Issue, Oxford Mail, September 16) shows a lack of objective analysis, community engagement and coherent policy-making within South Oxfordshire
After shopping in Oxford on Saturday morning, we were leaving Seacourt Park & Ride, and while waiting at the traffic lights to turn into Botley Road I suddenly experienced sudden and severe back pain. It resulted in me having to rapidly get out of the
I AM writing to ask Oxford Mail readers to consider joining me in making a donation to WellChild for its Reach Out for Sick Children Nurse Appeal. WellChild, the national charity for sick children, is building up a network of children’s nurses throughout
TONY Augarde is never slow to snipe from the sidelines (Oxford Mail, September 7), but I don’t think I have ever seen his name in a list of candidates for election. If we are all doing so badly, he has a chance to show his worth in the city council elections
INSPECTOR Morse author Colin Dexter celebrated his 80th birthday with a very special bus ride to Woodstock. Oxford’s best known crime writer also visited the city’s Randolph Hotel, which featured heavily in the Morse books and television programmes.
Rover Oxford travelled to Swindon aiming to continue their good pre-season form, but a poor performance saw them go down 3-2 in Saturday’s friendly. The visitors controlled most of the possession, but solid defending from Swindon and silly
I am absolutely fuming! I read in disbelief the response to criticism of the Pope’s visit, by Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil rights. How dare he say “no-one who ever followed the Catholic Church on sexuality ever
I AM looking into my family history and have found out that my grandfather was not born as a Tasker, as we thought he was, he was born Herbert Walter Thomas Webb, in 1923 in Market Bosworth, Leicestershire. His father was Walter Webb, born in 1888, and
Riding a bike is something you can do without thinking. But, since going on a Safe Cycling Seminar in June, I have actively given thought to how I ride. I’ve been assiduous about cupping my fingers over the brakes in traffic. Having your fingers
Plans to demolish a Cowley swimming pool and replace it with a multi-million pound leisure complex in Blackbird Leys will be re-examined. Oxford City Council's Labour administration decided to demolish Temple Cowley Pools, in Temple Road, once a £16.8m
A RAVE organiser last night defended his all-night dance party which sparked a string of complaints from people living five miles away. The legal party, near Cassington, attracted nearly 500 revellers, and went until 6am on Sunday morning. Calls were
We have all been to our fair share of boring weddings. So, it’s nice to see one couple inject a bit of originality into their big day. Mik Ashfield and Vikki Ludlow tied the knot at a Pirates of the Caribbean-themed ceremony at the weekend in Devon.
A 10-YEAR-OLD girl saw a man hold a mirror under the partition of her changing cubicle at an Abingdon swimming pool. She was in the changing cubicle at the White Horse Leisure Centre, in Audlett Drive, when she saw a hand holding a mirror come under
THE Oxford television transmitter is working at full power again, though analogue viewers across Oxfordshire may still be suffering signal problems. Thousands of people spent money on boosters and amplifiers after losing channels in February
A COUPLE vowed “aye, do” on Saturday, as they celebrated their wedding decked out in full pirate regalia. But there was heartache behind the fun when medics Mik Ashfield, 46, and Vikki Ludlow, 35, tied the knot on Saturday. The wedding
It was a sleepless night for the good folk of North Oxford and nearby villages on Saturday. The Oxford Mail was inundated with calls yesterday about the thump, thump noise from a rave held at the weekend. The revellers at Cassington Closing Party certainly
Northants seamer Jack Brooks played a low-key role as the President’s XI beat Horspath by nine runs in the annual Feast match at Horspath yesterday. The 26-year-old paceman made 32 and took 0-23 off nine lively overs as he returned to a ground he had
Chris Wilder says that he wants his side to keep playing entertaining football – and will not change his beliefs. The Oxford United manager was understandably disappointed after watching his team outplay their opponents, but lose the game for
TWO Oxford United supporters got a special visitor at their wedding last week, when United player Jake Wright turned up. He presented a bottle of Champagne to Gordon Berry and Samantha Stevens, who tied the knot at Weston Manor Hotel, in Weston-on-the-Green
A “FIERCELY independent, inspirational and intelligent” woman whose old age was stolen by Alzheimer’s disease, has left thousands of pounds to help others with the condition. Phyliss Manville, of Fewcott, near Bicester, had lived with the debilitating
