Barton led for most of the match, but could never quite shake of the spirited Cougars, who pulled back to 1-1 at half-time and then 2-2 later in the second half. Barton made it 4-2 with an excellent cross from the right wing which was neatly
Oxford United Reserves went down to a disappointing 1-0 defeat against Watford at Loop Meadow Stadium. The totesport.com Football Combination East Division leaders were looking to extend their unbeaten record, but failed to do enough against
Abingdon Exiles turned the formbook on its head with a superb 6-0 victory over Division 2 Rutherford Labs in the UTV'S Ridgeway Cup, writes TIM SIRET. Dean Godwin and Rob Lucibello both notched doubles for the Division 3A outfit in the first-round clash
A CHURCH is set to welcome a new minister to lead its services in Bicester. The Rev Steve Barber will lead the Orchard Baptist Fellowship, which meets every Sunday at The Cooper School, in Churchill Road. The father-of-three, whose wife Carolyn is a
MUMS and children are finding it less stressful to shop in Oxford city centre thanks to 32 new dedicated parking spaces at the Westgate car park. The extra-wide spaces are on the fourth floor of the multi-storey car park, the same level as
OXFORD residents are not recycling enough waste, a senior councillor has warned, as a new bin regime is rolled out across the city. Oxford’s recycling rate has been stuck at about 38 per cent for the last two years, falling short of the city council’
THE bodies of two British troops killed while on patrol together in Afghanistan will be repatriated tomorrow. Sergeant Andrew James Jones, of the Royal Engineers, and Trooper Andrew Martin Howarth of Fondouk Squadron, The Queen's Royal Lancers, both
Oxford University completed a tough Russian tour with a 32-20 defeat to the University of Agriculture, Kazan. Having gone down 29-19 to professional side RC Slava in Moscow, the Dark Blues hoped to avoid another loss. But they could
Photographs saved from the scrap heap when a psychiatric hospital closed are to go on display for the first time. The collection examines the lives of staff who lived and worked at Fair Mile Hospital in Cholsey, near Wallingford, which was
AN ABINGDON GP has written a 450-page military history book after he was inspired by the story of an elderly patient. Dr Prit Buttar, of Abingdon Surgery in Stert Street, spent eight years writing Battleground Prussia after the 83-year-old told him about
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I went to bed on Saturday night just before midnight after a long and tiring day spent journeying back from Athens. Sleep proved utterly impossible, however, because of pounding drum and bass music penetrating my closed, double-glazed windows. Lying
It is becoming well known among regular visitors to Greece that a traveller and his/her money are all too easily parted by pickpockets at work on the Athens Metro. All of us know one such victim; Rosemarie and I know three or four. On Saturday
Despite an utterly sleepless night on Saturday — for its cause see below — I was up and off the next morning for a wonderful day at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival. This unmissable event — most of which I had, in fact, missed through being
Ahundred years before the Blessed John Newman shook the establishment by converting to Rome — at Littlemore in 1845 — Oxford University found itself suspected of being a hotbed of sedition, a safe haven for Catholics wanting to overthrow the Hanoverian
leading man is steadily delivering his best work behind the camera. He already has an Oscar on the mantelpiece as co-writer of Good Will Hunting and his directorial debut Gone Baby Gone was a gritty adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s novel that garnered numerous
When Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly — or Sam Duckworth as he’s known to his mother — emerged in 2005, he seemed like a real breath of fresh air. He’d grown up listening to punk and hardcore bands, he was politically outspoken and he sang gritty, urban stories
It’s rare for a band as heavy as Pulled Apart By Horses to have attracted so much attention. In the normal run of things, any band that sounds like Black Sabbath crossed with Soundgarden would be, at best, a marginal interest, but the Leeds boys seem
The Mill, Ockham’s new piece, is performed on a set like a huge cat’s cradle, consisting of giant wooden spools connected and operated by thick ropes on which the cast climb, swing pull and strain. Suspended in the middle is a giant treadmill. Two men
Well-known as it is, Sean O’Casey’s 1929 anti-war play The Silver Tassie is comparatively rarely seen. The Almeida’s 1995 revival under Lynne Parker and the RSC’s 1969 production — with the now-titled luminaries Ben Kingsley, Helen Mirren and Patrick
EVENING sports classes in Wallingford could be scrapped and prices increased because of council cuts, a headmaster has warned. South Oxfordshire District Council chiefs have cut a subsidy for Castle Leisure Centre, in the grounds of Wallingford School
WHEN Iain Shield planted a pumpkin seed a few months ago, he expected a football-sized fruit. But the first-time grower followed the directions to the letter and has ended up with a two-and-a-half-foot round pumpkin called an Atlantic Giant. Now he
SPLIT between two sites, running East Oxford’s SS Mary & John Primary School is something of a juggling act. Years One and Two occupy the Victorian building in Hertford Street, which was gutted by fire and rebuilt in 1991, while the older pupils are
RT Harris Oxford City FA Fairview kept up their perfect record in the Premier & Division 1 `with a 2-1 win at Union Street, with goals from Michael Brookes and Aiden Conroy. Alex Patchett replied for Union Street. North Oxford beat Westminster 4-
OFA Invitation Youth League Radley B scored seven second-half goals as they recorded a fantastic 8-3 Under 16 League victory at Summertown Stars, despite trailing 3-0. Alfie Goodwin put Summertown ahead, before Dash Ward scored a brace to put his
Tower Hill edged to a 2-1 win at Maidenhead Res in Division 2 of the Thames Valley Women’s League. Sarah Snowdon fired Tower Hill in front with a drive into the bottom corner. Alexandra Dover equalised for the home side with a chipped shot over Tower
Charlie Longsdon opens the doors at his Hull Farm Stables, near Chipping Norton, to racing fans on Sunday. The gates open at 10am with a parade of racehorses at 11am. Longsdon plans to show off around 35 horses, including Grand National runner Palypso
NORTH BERKS LEAGUE Saxton Rovers Res beat Benson Lions 5-2 in Division 2, with doubles from Dan Pask and Mickey Being and a Frankie Haynes strike. Benson Lions scored through Will Wardle and Justin Taylor. Saxton join Botley United and Benson AFC
OFA UNDER 13 COUNTY CUP Josh Luland hit a five-timer as Kidlington cruised into the second round with a 14-1 win over Thame Youth. Liam Talboys and Callum Rice added hat-tricks, with Jason Sallis, Zac Oretagu and Jem Mulder completing the tally.
GILES SPORTS WITNEY YOUTH LEAGUE Harry Buckingham and Liam Dick both scored twice as Tower Hill beat Brackley Town 5-2 in the Under 10 A League. Toby Goodwin hit the other, with Kane Macdonald and Aaron Jhutti netting for Brackley. Ducklington beat
A PRIMARY school teacher last night became the Ashmolean Museum’s one millionth visitor since the building reopened 10 months ago. Diane Thomas and her daughter Laura Rolf were welcomed through the glass doors of the Beaumont Street attraction
COUNTY council leader Keith Mitchell visited Didcot to warn residents that £200m of cuts will soon start hitting local services. Finance bosses at County Hall in Oxford are predicting that a reduction in Government funding will mean they have to find
THERE are many reasons to be proud of living in Oxford, but surely one of the main ones is that we boast a museum as grand and accessible as the Ashmolean. The world’s first university museum, and one that recently has been spectacularly renovated with
THE winners line up after the Oxfordshire FA’s annual awards evening at North Oxford Golf Club. As well as the awards, which highlight good practice and high standards, the evening featured a speech from the FA’s head of national game, Kelly Simmons
NORTH BERKS LEAGUE Third division side Sutton Courtenay reached the second round of the North Berks Charity Shield with a shock 3-2 win at Division 1 outfit Childrey United, writes Phil Annets. Karl Crockford, Steve Pitson and Luke Venn
GILES SPORTS WITNEY YOUTH LEAGUE An injury to defender Ray Dinaldi marred Witney Vikings’ 5-3 victory over Carterton in the Under 15 League. The youngster suffered a broken arm during the game, and after being treated on the pitch by paramedics, was
Oxford Mail Girls League Lauren Smith’s four-timer fired Oxford City to a 6-2 victory over Tower Hill Vixens in the Under 16 League. Charlotte Franklin added a double, while Ella Butler and Bethany Calcutt-Snow replied for Vixens. Molly Parker bagged
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Two recent reports in the Oxford Mail have prompted me to write to you. The first was the story that vital paperwork had been mislaid pertaining to the public inquiry that has been called into the alleged suicide of Government weapons expert Dr David
A LOYALTY card scheme is being launched in a bid to boost shopping in Abingdon – but just 24 traders have signed up so far. The Choose Abingdon Partnership hopes shoppers will be attracted by discounts for frequent customers. The partnership sent out
AFC Hinksey felt aggrieved to have suffered a 2-1 defeat against early Autotype Upper Thames Valley Premier Division pacesetters Barton United. After a goalless first half, Hinksey went ahead when Marlon James chipped Barton keeper Chris Flowers after
AFTER more than 85 years’ service, Oxford’s oldest Scout is finally stepping down – at the age of 95. Reg Hayes, of Normandy Crescent, Cowley, first became a member of what was then the 2nd Oxford Wolf Cub pack in the mid-1920s, then moved up to the
SAM Duckworth, otherwise known as artist ‘Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly’, visited Witney yesterday to meet fans. Music-lovers packed independent record store Rapture for the short performance, which followed his show at Oxford’s O2 Academy on Sunday night
ON Saturday night I discovered one of the most persuasive negotiating tools in the world. ‘Womanly Wiles’? Come on! Like I’d be writing a column titled Sassy and Single if I knew how to use those! No, this was something so powerful it had the ability
WE ARE getting more and more reports of speeding on our roads. Much concern has been expressed by the Road Safety Partnership, the AA and the public. The county council is quoted (Oxford Mail, Sept 13) as saying that the speed cameras have been switched
THE Nepalese community, who have recently moved into the Rose Hill area of Oxford, have shown by example that they care about the environment they live in. Instead of locking themselves up in their new homes, they have ventured out and helped to clean
ThousandS of Oxfordshire residents have been kept awake and deprived of sleep. A Cassington Farewell to the Field rave, licensed by Thames Valley Police (who knew about, yet didn’t mitigate the din) and West Oxfordshire District Council, kept thousands
The recent tongue-in-cheek request from Oxfordshire County Council leader Keith Mitchell, asking Oxford Mail readers to forward ideas for council expenditure savings, is nothing more than plain political showmanship. His argument, that all is the fault
A MOTORIST who survived a crash that killed a woman he went to school with told jurors of the moment he skidded into her car. James Wilkinson, 25, took the witness stand on day two of his trial at Oxford Crown Court yesterday. He denies
VETERAN peace campaigner Bruce Kent unveiled a plaque to promote the message of peace in Bonn Square, Oxford, yesterday. The plaque, by the New Road Baptist Church reads: “Peace – to honour those who seek another path in place of violence and war.”
HEROES don’t make a song and dance – they just bow their heads, arch their shoulders into the storm and get on with achieving whatever feat they feel compelled to take on. And this was certainly true of Arthur Titherington, a PoW camp survivor and former
A WAR veteran who campaigned for former prisoners of has died before getting the apology he wanted from the Japanese Government. Arthur Titherington, a PoW camp survivor and former Witney town mayor, died in Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital
A DRIVER who used the hard shoulder of the M40 to undertake at up to 85mph because he ‘needed to urinate’ has escaped jail. Aftab Akram was on the northbound carriageway between junctions 10 and 11 on March 18 when his BMW saloon was spotted by officers
ALMOST a dozen cars have been stolen in a spate of burglaries police think could be committed by a gang aiming to have “a bit of fun”. Police say an increase in break-ins around West Oxfordshire in the last few months has included thefts of
Stephen Hall hit a second-half winner for Sporting Hethe in their 1-0 victory against Heyford United in Division 1. The visitors bossed the first half, but they were let down by poor finishing. And they were made to pay when a flick over a defender
Ducklington moved three points clear at the top of the Witney & District Premier Division after beating Hanborough 3-1. Jack Morton bagged a brace with Darren Harris adding the third. Ducklington’s Dan Walker scored an own goal to make up Hanborough’
Simon Cook and Mark Hedges scored the decisive extra-time goals as Brize Norton saw off FC Hollybush 6-4 in the Witney & District FA's Fred Ford Cup first round. The game ended 4-4 at full time, with Mark Jewell (2), Craig Sallis and Gerard
Oxford United chairman Kelvin Thomas says that this season’s home attendances show just how far the club have come. Saturday’s crowd of 7,033 means that the U’s are averaging 6,812 this season – second to only Bradford City in npower League Two. And
TRADERS have delivered a petition to County Hall urging councillors to rethink £1m proposals to pedestrianise Bicester’s Market Square. Lynn Wright, of Bicester Beds, and Bicester Chamber of Commerce chairman Ben Jackson took their fight to Oxfordshire
TWO thousand homes across Bicester are being urged to take part in a travel survey as part of the eco-town plan aimed at slashing car use. Households have been chosen at random and will be asked to reveal how they make journeys, including how often they
