SAINSBURY’S first shop in East Oxford opened its doors yesterday, with the promise of bringing more shoppers to the area. The 2,300sq ft store, which has taken over the vacant Thresher’s shop, has a bakery, fresh fruit and vegetables, convenience food
Oxford’s superior forward power earned them victory in this town versus gown clash. Here is the numbers' game. See Tuesday’s paper for full report. Competition: Oxfordshire Cup 1st round Score: Oxford Brookes University 23, Oxford 36 Oxford Brookes
Nico Hulkenberg caused a sensation in qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix by claiming the first pole position for Oxfordshire's Williams team for five-and-a-half years. Not since the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring in May 2005 have the
6 November 2010 at Cutteslowe Park. The first match was 0-0. The second match was 0-3 with a hat trick from Horspath's Kai Sutherland (8).
THEY don’t make climbers like William Mathews any more. Exactly 150 years ago, this tall, bearded Brummie became the first man to reach the summit of one of France’s most formidable peaks – the 12,650ft Grande Casse. That a surveyor from
A PHILANTHROPIST who donated land for a sports centre and ambulance station in Oxfordshire has died aged 88. John Greening’s donations helped establish Kidlington Ambulance Station and Abingdon’s football and athletics centre at Tilsley Park. The park
FOR 40,000 hours, volunteers toiled away in the grime at Didcot Railway Centre. Now their labour of love – the steam locomotive King Edward II – is ready to face the public after a restoration project lasting more than 20 years. The
A 60-year-old man has died following a bungalow fire in Banbury. He died at The Horton General Hospital on Saturday following the blaze in Lavender Close last night. Fire crews found smoke pouring out fo the windows of the house following the 3.32am
A TEACHING assistant has been jailed for three years after admitting trying to smuggle £80,000 worth of heroin and cannabis through Heathrow. Sarah Hughes, 32, of Samuelson Court, Banbury, was arrested on August 22 after arriving on a flight from Ethiopia
Council leaders have given the go-ahead for a £5.7m revamp of Didcot Parkway railway station. Work on the forecourt will begin in April, introducing more bus stops, a larger taxi rank, a drop-off area, disabled parking and covered bike parking areas.
MUSIC fans will have the chance to see Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch perform a hour set in Oxford on Monday. The former taxi driver turned jazz and swing crooner will perform at the Living Room in the Oxford Castle complex. He said the family’s love
A BLACKBIRD Leys project which has just spent £7,000 on new office furniture and computers is lying empty after running out of cash. The Starlight Community Project spent £11,500 from the European Social Fund on IT, literacy and numeracy classes in January
Other Results. Oakfield: (Saturday, Brook, 18 fished) 1 S Carter (GOT Oakfield) 32.14.8, 2 D Stratful (GOT Oakfield) 32.11.0, 3 G Keetley (GOT Oakfield) 27.12.8. Oakfield: (Wednesday, Swallow-Brook, 20 fished) 1 G Worrall (GOT Oakfield) 40.0.0, 2 D
Mike Bradley, from Faringdon, who fishes for Turner Tackle & Bait, won the prestigious Wye Championship last Sunday from a big field of 160 anglers pegged along the River Wye in Hereford. The former Isis match ace started off on a feeder with enlarged
Oxfordshire's Team AV-IT Racing clinched the Hottrax Junior 1000 Endurance motor cycling championship with a win at the final round at Cadwell Park. The riders, Andy Carpenter, 43, and Marcus Langford, 31, both from Chipping Norton, were competing in
COWLEY Conservative Club A maintained their unbeaten start to the season in Division 3 of the Gentworks Oxford & District League with a 4-2 win away to Eynsham C. This was CCC's fifth win in six matches and puts them five points clear at the top. Keith
Tony Gee, pegged by the bridge at Wheatley in the Oxford Waltonian Teams of Three match on the Thame went into the river to retrieve a section of pole and found himself up to his waist in silt. He had to be pulled out by two other anglers.
No fewer than ten chub over the 5lb mark were caught in the third round of the Oxford Winter League, which was fished by 50 anglers on the Thames at Radley and Abingdon on Sunday, writes Andy Webber. After a mild week and some rain to freshen up the
Tim Small, boss at Lechlade Trout Fishery, is appealing to anglers to put back any pike caught in his lakes. You might think he would prefer them to be dispatched, but in his latest newsletter, he says: “Please leave my pike alone! “ I like them and
Ben Watson, from Didcot’s St Birinus Club, broke three national records on the way to a gold medal in the British Under 23 Championships in Birmingham. The 19 year-old snatched 140 kilos and clean & jerked 160kg to capture the 94kg class title
Southpaw Max Kirkwood delivered the lone victory for the Banbury Spit ‘n’ Sawdust in their ten-bout tournament at the Spiceball Leisure complex. A series of strategic straight lefts proved the deciding factor as the Banbury boxer claimed a unanimous
A TEENAGER was killed in a crash near Abingdon yesterday. He died when a Vauxhall Corsa crashed into a tree near Drayton Mill while heading towards Milton at about 7.30am. The 19-year-old driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene. A 20-year-old
Rutherford went top of Oxford & District Division 1 with a resounding 9-1 victory over British Rail. Although level on points with Forum C, Rutherford (RAL) are top on legs won, after Forum could only beat Bicester A 6-4. Two wins for Jason Tustain
My efforts to catch a big barbel from the River Kennet have been rewarded by a personal best fish of 12.15.0, writes Andy Webber. Plenty of other barbel have come to my net, most of them in single figures, but I also caught another double of 10.1.0
‘Scores on The Doors’ is the name of the scheme and suddenly it’s safe to eat out again. One year on from the launch of the food hygiene programme that names and shames, hundreds of Oxford premises have now cleaned up their act. Last year, only 73 outlets
ONE YEAR on from the launch of a controversial food hygiene ‘name and shame’ scheme, hundreds of Oxford’s restaurants, cafes, takeaways and sandwich shops have cleaned up their act. Scores on the Doors is a nationwide programme which rates
CHRIS Marsh , who swam with a titanium plate in his collar bone after injury, led a succesful campaign for City of Oxford in the British Gas ASA masters and senior age group championships at Sheffield. Oxford punched well above their weight with five
A farewell presentation was made to outgoing trainer Paddy Curtin (front right) and his wife Liz on Saturday at Oxford Stadium. He is leaving to take up a similar post at leading Midlands track Monmore
Oxford Stadium are celebrating after being awarded a new BAGS contract for next year. The contract, a lifeline for greyhound stadia, is worth nearly £1m a year e. And it’s no secret that Oxford and a few other tracks would be really struggling, if the
AN OXFORDSHIRE primary school teacher yesterday admitted abusing seven pupils. The victims’ parents wept as the man, in his 50s, admitted 23 charges of sexually assaulting girls aged between seven and 11. Oxford Crown Court was told yesterday that the
Alex Murphy, of Didcot Barramundi SC, received an international call-up after winning the intermediate 100m breaststroke title at the English Schools national inter-divisional Championships in Watford. The 15-year-old also helped his divisional medley
BANBURY INDOOR LEAGUE. Division 3. Azad 78-6 (Talib Hussain 21no), Middleton Cheney 79-3 (8.4 ovs, R Markham 25). Deddington 77-5 (S Welch 28, M Merry 3-23), Charlbury 78-1 (7.2 ovs, T nash 27, P Adams 23). Wardington 104-6 (9.1 ovs, D Eaton 3-35)
Oxford trainers thought they were in for a New Year’s present from the GBGB in as much they were reducing the licence fees next year. However, it appears a double -edged sword as now trainers have to pay £60 for an annual vets visit. The racing office
Trainer Ron Bicknell was out of luck with the nap last week, so Uptown Fawnie gets a chance in the Hound of Martindales Trophy over 450m at Oxford Stadium tonight. TONIGHT’S RUNNERS. 7.25: Home Taylor, Carkills Express, MAGICAL RIO, Matties Machine,
‘An angel on earth”. That is how patients have described Helen Stradling, Oxford’s very own cancer nurse of the year. Mrs Stradling, who grew up in Northway, but now lives in Carterton, was named the country’s top cancer nurse by health journal
A ROMANY gipsy who bought land near Islip with his Lottery winnings is set to appeal after his plan to put caravans on it was rejected. David Goddard asked for planning permission to place eight mobile homes for his family on the site, after buying the
Mike Bradley, from Faringdon, who fishes for Turner Tackle & Bait, won the prestigious Wye Championship last Sunday from a big field of 160 anglers pegged along the River Wye in Hereford. The former Isis match ace started off on a feeder with enlarged
Chris Wilder will make changes to Oxford United’s starting line-up on Sunday – in a match he hopes could kick-start his side’s season. The U’s have lost four of their last five games, and while the performances have not been too bad, the U’
Oxford's Mara Yamauchi hopes her success in the half-marathon in March will inspire her to victory over 26 miles on Sunday. The 36-year-old stunned home favourite Deena Kastor to snatch victory in the 13-mile race in March – her first major run in New
THE winner of this week’s Oxford Mail face in the rugby crowd competition is 22-year-old student Aldo Raine. He was in the stands watching Oxford University take on the Cardiff Blues at Iffley Road on Monday night and won £75 when our photographer picked
Oxford City Stars will be without the services of three influential players as they face arguably their toughest weekend of the season so far in South Division 1 of the English National Lea-gue. Stars, who face a trip to Cardiff Devils today, followed
Jenson Button has vowed "to go hell for leather" this weekend as he seeks an unlikely Brazilian Grand Prix victory to keep him in the hunt for this year's Formula One world title. Given the facts Button has not been on pole all season and his last
DRIVERS faced long queues around the city yesterday sparked by a crash near the BMW plant in Cowley. Shortly after midday a blue Ford Fiesta and black DAF lorry collided on the A4142 Eastern bypass. The northbound side was closed and traffic was forced
Consider the following sentence on page two of today’s paper: ‘An airport style metal detector will be outside an Oxford club tonight as police fear a retribution attack over a Halloween stabbing.’ In truth, can you consider anything more chilling –
AN AIRPORT-style metal detector will be outside an Oxford club tonight as police fear a retribution attack over a Halloween stabbing. The knife arch will check more than 500 revellers expected at The Regal’s over 18s Urban Love Bonfire Party
Chris Wilder began to reshape his Oxford United squad yesterday, allowing striker Jack Midson to join Southend on loan. The U’s manager said that he feels he needs to bring in two or three new faces – and that means players have to move
We are holding the trials for the U9 Rep Team on Sunday 14th November at 12.00. Venue is Grove Challengers FC. For those of you that have not been involved in the Rep Team in the past, the games are played in the evening midweek and during
We are holding the trials for the U10 Rep Team on Saturday 13th November at 11.30am at Harwell football club, all boys of any club are welcome to attend. Please feel free to email me at bradley-james2@sky.com if you are registering your sons interest
FAMOUS faces from the world of children’s books will discuss the tricks of their trade in Oxford today. Philip Pullman, Mary Hoffman, and illustrators Layn Marlow and Sarah McIntyre are among those who will be attending a conference on children’s literature
