Oxford University were undone by a late try as they went down 22-17 to Cardiff Blues after a battling display at Iffley Road on Monday night. The students led 14-10 at half-time and pulled it back to 17-17 with 15 minutes to go, but James Lewis’s score
A 16-year-old boy stabbed several times outside Baby Love bar, in King Edward Street, was still in a stable condition tonight. He suffered chest injuries in a brawl involving 20 people which spilled into High Street at 4am on Sunday. A 25-year-old man
OXFORD Justin Flynn, 30, of Shelley Road, Oxford, admitted criminal damage to a brick wall valued at approximately £500 at Cowley Conservative Club on September 26. Given a nine-month conditional discharge and told to pay £75 compensation and £80
Gulshat Kadyrova, a 10-year-old girl who was born without hip sockets, is walking two miles to raise money for a new life-saving operation. She and her mother Bahar came to Oxford in January 2006 from Turkmenistan, in Central Asia. They
Best wishes to Gulshat Kadyrova, who is embarking on a sponsored walk that will be a true challenge. The 10-year-old, who was born without hip sockets, is walking two miles to raise money for a new life-saving operation. Oxford Mail
NETWORK Rail has issued a newsletter outlining progress on the £67m project to reinstate double track on much of the Cotswold Line between Oxford and Worcester. The newsletter also gives details of forthcoming work, with tracklaying due to
STAFF at an independent greengrocer in Oxford are celebrating after their jobs were saved when the shop was bought by its wholesale supplier. The Stokes shop in Templars Square, Cowley, is one of just five chosen by buyer Premier Fruits out
A 23-YEAR-OLD man has been jailed after being pursued across south Oxfordshire in a lorry at high speed by police. Steven Loveridge ignored police sirens as he sped from Henley to Benson, before crashing into a ditch on June 19. A ‘stinger’ was deployed
Sunday 12 December 2010 7.30pm The Orchestra of St John's with OSJ Voices To include: Vivaldi, Winter (Four Seasons); Corelli, Christmas Concerto Tickets: £25 and £15 For more information visit: www.osj.org.uk
Wednesday 1 December 2010 St Michael at the North Gate 7.45pm - 8.45pm The Choir of Somerville College will sing a selection of favourite carols. The programme includes works by Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Tavener.
Policare are warning to be on their guard when buying goods from online auction sites. The warning follows the theft and sale of £15,000 worth of Apple iPhone 4 handsets from Vodafone and the subsequent sale of the handsets on the internet auction site
Saturday 27 November & Sunday 28 November 2010 Get your Christmas shopping underway with beautiful and unique gift ideas provided by local artists and craftspeople. There will be wreath and decoration-making demonstrations, festive food
Banbury Bulls played much better, but blew a 17-6 lead to lose 39-24 at home to Old Halesonians. Bulls took the lead when full back Dave Taylor stepped inside to score and wing Mike Smith converted. Two penalties from visiting full back Chris Hooper
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BLOOD is smeared down a wall, used syringes litter the lobby and the air is thick with the stench of urine. Yet 23-year-old Ashley Waters has been forced to raise her two young children in this block of flats despite her desperate pleas to be moved.
BRICKS and glass and were thrown more than 100 metres in a huge blast at a cafe near Wantage. Neighbours were forced to spend the night away from home when Gemma’s Cafe in East Challow blew up after a suspected gas leak around 9pm on Sunday
A crash involving a car and a motorcycle this afternoon caused delays on the A34 Oxford Western Bypass. The collision, on the northbound carriageway near the Peartree Interchange, led to one lane being closed since just after 2pm. Delays
Students at Abingdon and Witney College are preparing for a sponsored walk to raise money for Children in Need. The students will walk from the college’s Abingdon campus through Radley and Kennington to Oxford city centre on November 19 — a
Sunday 12 December 2010 2.00pm Tickets: £8.00, £6.00 (concs) Suitable for Ages 4+ For more information visit: www.cornerstone-arts.org
Until Saturday 8 January 2011 10.00am For more information visit: www.chippingnortontheatre.co.uk
Saturday 18 December 2010 Evening of traditional carols Train will be departing at 7.00pm Seasonal refreshments will be available Tickets: Adults - £8.00 Seniors - £7.00 Children (3-15 inc) - £4.00 Compartments
Police are appealing for information after a burglary in Woodstock. Between 11pm on Wednesday and 9am on Thursday, burglars broke into a property in Upper Brook Hill and stole a number of china ornaments, including two vases, three jugs and a saucer
Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 December 2010 Come and meet Santa at one of Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway's Santa Steam Specials Train Times: 10.15am, 11.30am, 1.00pm, 2.15pm and 3.30pm Santa will be on every train handing out
A man has been arrested after a woman said she was raped at Oxford’s John Radcliffe hospital. Police were called to the hospital in Headley Way, Headington, about 9pm on Saturday where a 22-year-old woman said she had been forced to perform a sex act
SOUTH Oxfordshire District Council is asking residents to comment on the place where they vote. The council is carrying out a review of polling locations over the next couple of months. This includes looking at the polling stations to make sure that
WORK will begin in weeks on a £1.3m revamp for Didcot’s outdated civic hall. The building, in Britwell Road, has been closed to the public since early summer, though it is still used for council meetings. The town council has now selected the contractor
A HIP-hop and rap course will offer young people the rhyme and reason to freely express themselves. Word Up Witney will aim to cultivate 14 to 18-year-olds’ hip-hop, rap and poetry skills to produce the spoken word stars of the future. It will also
Thursday 25 November - Saturday 27 November 2010 Pegusus Theatre, Oxford 7.00pm & Saturday matinees at 3.00pm Production by the Oxfordshire Theatre Company For more information visit: www.oxfordshiretheatrecompany.co.uk
Former Oxford United striker Lee Steele has returned to Oxford City just a few months after he left Court Place Farm. Steele, 36, who left the club in the summer, will make his return debut when City travel to Cirencester in Zamaretto Southern
JEDWARD lookalikes jumped across the stage, a gifted violinist played a solo in front of her peers, and an incredible 10-year-old breakdancer wowed his classmates. This was Goat Factor – St Nicholas’ School’s annual talent competition to raise money
SATURDAY’S RESULTS 7.35: 1 HARD WORK 9-4 fav, 2 Scoreless Dan 6-1. Trio: (3x1x4). Trainer: T Kibble. Time: 27.99. 7.50: 1 JELL ON CHAVIE 3-1, 2 Lassa Explodes 4-1. Trio: (2x4x6). Trainer: Yeates. Time: 27.36. Saleen Tango (1) 7-4 fav. 8.05: 1 MOVEALONG
NPOWER LEAGUE TWO Bradford City 5, Oxford Utd 0. FA TROPHY 2nd qual round: Billericay Tn 2, Banbury Utd 1. ZAMARETTO SOUTHERN LEAGUE Div 1 South & West: Abingdon Utd 1, Frome Tn 4; North Leigh 1, Gosport Borough 2. UHLSPORT HELLENIC LEAGUE Premier
Bicester Tn 0 Headington Ams 2 (L Cuff 9, Lockhart pen 72) Headington Amateurs made it an impressive nine straight wins in Division 1 West with victory at Bicester Town. The leaders were in front after nine minutes when Luke Cuff headed home Jamie
Letcombe 2 (Allen, Horswell) Saxton Rovers 4 (Parry, Beal, Ainsworth, Sutton) Letcombe suffered a shock second round defeat at home to North Berks League outfit Saxton Rovers. The Hellenic Division 1 West side gifted Saxton a two-goal start with
PROTESTERS forced a Vodafone store to temporarily close after staging a sit-down demonstration inside. Campaigners blockaded stores across the country over claims the firm had avoided tax to the tune of £6 billion. Vodafone last night dismissed the
A FARMER last night branded thieves as barbaric after three pedigree sheep and her champion ram were butchered in their field. The livestock were coaxed into a pen and killed and butchered some time between 11.45pm on Wednesday and 8am on Thursday.
Fairford Tn 1 (Griffiths 29) Wantage Tn 7 (Claydon 3, 54, 62, Butler 11, 44, Biddle 35, Edney 65) Richard Claydon hit a hat-trick as Wantage Town ran out 7-1 winners for the second successive Saturday with a thumping victory at Premier Division basement
A man was this morning in intensive care suffering from a fractured spine and broken legs following a smash on the bypass. The 30-year-old was involved in a collision with a blue Vauxhall Astra on the A423 between Heyford Hill and Redbridge roundabout
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A 30-year-old man is in hospital after suffering serious injuries in a collision on the A423 Southern Bypass near Oxford. Police said the man was in the carriageway between Heyford Hill and the Redbridge roundabout when he was struck by a blue
WHEN Les Collett was carried on to a boat at Dunkirk, wounded and losing blood, he never thought he’d live to see his 90th birthday. But on November 19, surrounded by family, he will be celebrating the landmark birthday with a party at the local Royal
COMEDIAN and author Charlie Higson was the celebrity guest at the final of a national children’s literary competition held in Oxford yesterday. Mr Higson, who wrote sketches for Harry Enfield and created The Fast Show with Paul Whitehouse, congratulated
VIKKI Thompson’s widower told jurors he had gone “over and over” her last words to him as she lay badly injured on a railway embankment. The 30-year-old mother-of-two died in hospital six days after she was attacked at Ascott-under-Wychwood, in west
THE Friends of Iffley held an exhibition at the village school in 1961 and in the first picture, three visitors are seen looking at an Bronze Age urn. A carnival was held in 1970 to mark the 800th anniversary of Iffley Church. The day opened with music
PUPILS and staff took a break from lessons to record this picture for posterity. It is second part of a panoramic picture taken at Headington Secondary School – better known as Margaret Road School – in 1961. Cyril Eason, the white-haired man in the
THE letter from Labour councillors Sanders and Tanner (Friday’s Oxford Mail) against the planned incinerator at Ardley made very interesting reading, especially where they said “it is unnecessary, expensive and a blot on the Oxfordshire countryside
MEDIA coverage of the killing of a magnificent stag on Exmoor has highlighted the utterly selfish nature of some – sadly too many – humans. Appalled as I am at the needless slaughter of a beautiful animal in its prime, I am equally appalled and somewhat
THOUGH we should all condemn any act of violence, I found the underlying tone of the letter from Andrew Coles, Trevor Pitman and Sam Webster-Moore (Oxford Mail ViewPoints, October 25), very unhelpful in furthering the cause of equality. To have strong
CLOSURE of the Carers Centre in Oxford from next March is very short-sighted. For a lot of unpaid carers it is the only support we can count on. A call centre will not offer the face-to-face contact which a lot of people require. If this goes ahead
Abingdon Utd 1 (Gardner pen 14) Frome Tn 4 (Bridgham pen 3, White 10, 36, 48) Abingdon United were blown away by a Darren White hat-trick as Frome Town ran out comfortable winners in Division 1 South & West at Northcourt Road. Frome’s Josh Brigham
WHERE exactly is the political opposition in this country? We have severe economic problems in this country which we blame on the previous Labour government but only an imbecile would presume that our current situation would be any different
IT WAS nice to see that the new hourly bus service linking Rose Hill with Cowley is becoming a well-used success (Oxford Mail, October 14). I have also read that it is not going to be extended to pick up passengers in Rivermead Road, owing to the fact
I write regarding The Issue about Bicester Community Hospital (Oxford Mail, October 21). My distant memory tells me that among the buildings of RAF Bicester, at Caversfield, there was a hospital – provided for the US Air Force – in case of a military
I AGREE with Dr Ann McPherson (The Issue on Assisted Death, Oxford Mail, October 26. I’m a diabetic. I’ve been told it’s got worse but I’m trying to live my life as I can, doing shopping, and going away on coach trips, but I don’t want to lay about
Length – obviously – matters in all aspects of life, but no more so than in the time it takes you to do your food shop. And if there’s one thing Jamie Oliver, Twiggy and Fay Ripley seem to have overlooked in their commercials for Sainbury’s, Marks &
Billericay Tn 2 (Brayley pen 49, Robinson 85) Banbury Utd 1 (Shariff pen 90) Banbury United failed to make their first-half dominance count as they slipped to defeat in the second qualifying round at Billericay Town in the FA Carlsberg Trophy. Billy
North Leigh 1 (Caton 69) Gosport Borough 2 (Jones 18, Rowe 47) North Leigh are still searching for a first home victory as Gosport Borough ended a run of five consecutive defeats with victory in Division 1 South & West (Zamaretto Southern league).
A MAN and a teenge boy were left badly injured after two separate fights outside city centre bars. The 16-year-old youth was stabbed seven or eight times in the chest during a brawl involving 20 people that began outside Baby Love bar in King
THE Second World War was over and it was time for celebration. Workers at W Lucy and Co, the Oxford engineering firm, downed tools and headed off for an outing. With most of them smartly dressed in jackets and ties, they were on their way to the Kursaal
THE girls who played for Headington Ladies hockey team were nothing like the pampered sports stars of today. For long-distance away games, they would splash out and hire a coach from Drings in Windmill Road. But for matches in Oxford
THIS is one of the rugby teams at City of Oxford High School for Boys in 1941. The picture comes from Hazel Wood, widow of John ‘Chipper’ Wood, who had an outstanding career in the sport. Mrs Wood, who lives in Auckland, New Zealand, was prompted to
OXFORD University gave its students a stern warning to steer clear of trouble on Guy Fawkes’ Night 60 years ago. It followed a series of town versus gown clashes in previous years, when fireworks were let off, buildings were damaged and police were attacked
If a police officer saw me jump a red light in my car, or drive after dark with no lights on, I would quite rightly face a fine and penalty points on my licence. So why does there seem to be a policy in Oxford of turning a blind eye to cyclists committing
RAP star Tinie Tempah took time out from performing yesterday to address students at the Oxford Union. The ‘grime’ artist followed in the footsteps of such notable guests as Winston Churchill, the Dali Lama and Mother Theresa by addressing the historic
We were as surprised as any city resident at the result of a poll by a top travel magazine. But, there it was, Oxford the cleanest city in the UK. Could thousands of well-travelled readers really have got it wrong? However, inspection
Anthony Tonkin agreed that Oxford United are maybe too nice for their own good at times. In Saturday’s 5-0 defeat at Bradford, U’s midfielder Asa Hall was clipped in the penalty area, but tried to stay on his feet, and a good opportunity went begging
It proved a nightmare afternoon for Oxford United’s defence – but not just at Bradford’s Coral Windows Stadium. While Mark Creighton and Jake Wright were seeing red, Mansfield’s on-loan United defender Rhys Day was also sent off for violent conduct.
Oxford United face a defensive crisis after their Bradford nightmare. Centre halves Mark Creighton and Jake Wright were both sent off as the U’s crashed 5-0 on Saturday, their heaviest defeat under Chris Wilder. And it means both players are suspended
Bradford manager Peter Taylor praised two-goal Omar Daley after seeing his side record an emphatic victory. “We were desperate to repeat what we did against Cheltenham,” said Taylor “Even though our goals record is poor, we have players who can score
FIVE hundred people have been fined for dropping litter in Oxford’s streets in the year since the launch of the city council’s Cleaner, Greener campaign. The councillor masterminding the Oxford Mail-supported clean-up effort said it had “changed
Centre halves Mark Creighton and Jake Wright were both sent off as Oxford United endured their worst afternoon in League Two this season at Valley Parade on Saturday. In a nightmare second half, the Bantams scored three goals in the first
CHILDREN are looking forward to playing on a new-look recreation ground, after a £47,000 revamp was given the go-ahead. The scheme for the Alvescot Road Recreation Ground, in Carterton, had been under threat because of funding cuts.
STUDENTS swapped their books for bingo balls, as they helped a North Oxford estate hold a community session for residents aged between 10 and 90. Undergraduates from Oxford University visited Cutteslowe Community Centre on Thursday to help run a half-term
Tickets were sold out at O2 Academy just in a blink! The 21 years old, Patrick Okogwu known as Tinie Tempah certainly came to Oxford to show his entire fans how easily jump up high and put hands in the air and sing his entire top tracks. Tinie´s
