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  • Towpath repairs ready after four-year project

    WALKERS can put their best feet forward again now a four-year project to repair the Thames towpath through Oxford has finished. Almost £2m has been spent improving access along three miles of the towpath. Large cracks appeared in the path’s surface

  • Ardington Eagles 6 Hanney Youth 3

    Ardington Eagles soared on the wind to bring down high flying Hanney. With the strong wind behind them, Eagles committed to all out attack and romped into a 4-0 lead at half-time, including a wind-assisted goal direct from a corner. Second half was

  • Schools art project gets cash boost

    A CHARITY which uses art to boost the confidence of vulnerable children received thousands of pounds from the charitable arm of the parent company of The Oxford Times. The Art Room at Rose Hill Primary School, Oxford, was given £2,300 by the

  • Schools art project gets cash boost

    A CHARITY which uses art to boost the confidence of vulnerable children received thousands of pounds from the Oxford Mail’s parent company. The Art Room at Rose Hill Primary School, Oxford, was given £2,300 by the Gannett Foundation to buy a printing

  • Local shares (PM)

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  • Nostalgia Travel - Transport

    Tel: 01865 241444  Email: info@nostalgiatravel.com Website: nostalgiatravel.com Nostalgia Travel - Arrive in style at The Oxford Wedding Show – hop on Nostalgia Travel’s vintage bus at Redbridge Park & Ride and they will drive you directly

  • Oxford Town Hall - Venue

    Tel: 01865 252195  Email: townhall@oxford.gov.uk Website: oxfordtownhall.co.uk Oxford Town Hall is a jewel at the heart of the City of Oxford. The building is a wonderful example of Grade II* Victorian grandeur with several magnificent rooms

  • Petals & Pearls Tiaras - Accessories

    Tel: 01295 711178 Email: petalsandpearls@virginmedia.com Website: petalsandpearlstiaras.co.uk Petals & Pearls Tiaras - A stunning collection of beautiful hand-made tiaras, side sprays and fascinators, using high-quality Swarovski Crystals

  • On Cloud Nine - Stationery

    Tel: 07967 005085  Email: info@oncloudnine.org.uk Website: oncloudnine.org.uk On Cloud Nine - Bespoke handcrafted wedding stationery designed exclusively for you. If you would like something that bit different then look no further.  On Cloud

  • Takes me back

    THE news that British Transport Police are again being stationed at Oxford Railway Station, instantly took me back 60 years. I was in the RAF and, after a weekend pass, I would catch a Sunday evening train to RAF Yatesbury. The platforms

  • Inconvenient truth

    IT’S an outrage that Oxford does not have toilets open at St Giles. People travel into Oxford on the bus. Men have to answer the call of nature too but nowadays I have had to use the ladies’ toilets at St Giles. There used to

  • Kevin Merry Carriages

    Tel: 07976 219830 Email: kevinmerry26@aol.com Website: www.kevinmerry.co.uk Kevin Merry Carriages is a small company that specialises in horse drawn carriages.  Their horses are very well trained Friesians and their carriages are to the very

  • QHotels The Oxford Belfry - Venue

    Tel:01844 279381 Email: oxfordbelfryevents@QHotels.co.uk Website: qhotels.co.uk QHotels The Oxford Belfry - However you want to say “I do”, at The Oxford Belfry they’ll say “we can”. From grand events to intimate occasions, their experienced

  • Studio8 - Photographer

    Tel: 01865 842525  Email: info@studio-8.co.uk Website: studio-8.co.uk Studio8 photography offers a contemporary, relaxed and informal style.  They will work with you to ensure they capture your big day perfectly.  Your pictures will be

  • The road to ruin

    Martin Roberts’ letter in (Oxford Mail, January 19) makes an observation about Cornmarket that I’ve long thought of as a measure of the incompetence of the local councils over the decades. I remember back in the early 70s when it was decided

  • Elizabeth Melvin Photography - Photographer

    Tel: 01295 780735 Email: photography@elizabethmelvinphotography.co.uk Website: www.elizabethmelvinphotography.co.uk Elizabeth Melvin Photography is a small, warm, experienced team, wanting to capture your story, on your day, in your unique

  • Kubica improving after rally crash

    Formula One driver Robert Kubica has taken "important steps forward" in his recovery from the serious injuries he suffered in a rally accident on Sunday morning. That is the view of the Pole's manager Daniele Morelli, who was speaking on Monday morning

  • Witney Lakes Resort - Venue

    Tel:01993 893003 Email: weddings@witney-lakes.co.uk Website: witney-lakes.co.uk Witney Lakes Resort’s function suite offers a beautiful lakeside setting, perfect for timeless memories and photographs.  Accommodating up to 200 guests, it is

  • Love Wedding Print - Stationery

    Tel: 01865 243624 Email: hello@loveweddingprint.co.uk Website: loveweddingprint.co.uk Love Wedding Print - a local printing company, trading for over 30 years, now offers a unique and creative range of contemporary and vibrant personalised wedding

  • Busk in heaven

    IT was so sad to read of busker Dyk Brooker ’s death (Oxford Mail, January 27). He brought many smiles on cold, dull mornings, sat on his chair outside the Woolgate Centre in Witney; playing away on his melodeon. He always reminded me

  • Spread cash evenly among our libraries

    Once more, county council leader Keith Mitchell has resorted to his well-worn tactics to defend his proposals to cut loose so many of our local libraries: asserting that a reduction of budget spread evenly across all libraries would not work (Oxford

  • Literary interest

    IT was predictable, but is nevertheless fascinating, that Oxfordshire’s literary and media stars should protest loudly about proposed cuts to library funding (Oxford Mail, February 4). I will reserve my respect for those of Oxfordshire’s glitteratii

  • City councillor is up for national award

    SINCE his election in May 2009, Oxford city council newcomer Van Coulter has campaigned hard to safeguard an £800,000 play area and a multi-million school redevelopment on a city estate. And now the Barton and Sandhills representative has been shortlisted

  • Disabled woman makes appeal over roadworks

    A DISABLED woman has called for roadworks in Bicester town centre to be made more pedestrian friendly. Susan Paton said at the moment disabled people and pedestrians were left marooned on either side of Manorsfield Road because of work to redevelop

  • M40 reopened after fatal smash

    The M40 has reopened following a fatal crash today in north Oxfordshire. A driver was killed in the crash involving a gas tanker and two vans between junction 10 at the Cherwell Valley Services and junction nine for the A34 and Bicester.

  • UPDATE: M40 reopened after smash

    The M40 has now re-opened following a fatal road traffic collision on the M40 this morning. A driver was killed in the crash involving a gas tanker and two vans between junctions 10 at Brackley and Cherwell Valley Services and nine for the A34 and Bicester

  • It’s Your Celebration Cakes - Cakes

    Tel: 01993 883862 Mobile: 07875867929 Email: itsyourparty50@gmail.com Website: itsyourcelebration.webs.com It’s Your Celebration Cakes offer a wide range of speciality cakes for weddings, christenings, birthdays and corporate events

  • Consultants will be paid £30k for Garth House plans

    CONSULTANTS are to be paid £30,000 to come up with the latest plan for the future of Bicester’s Garth House. Bicester Town Council, in partnership with Cherwell District Council, has appointed consultants C Harris to come up with proposals

  • Popham Hair - Wedding Hair

    Tel: 01865 517040 (Oxford Salon) Tel:01865 311223 (Summertown Salon) Email: appointments@popham.com Website: www.popham.com Popham Hair - The Popham Hairdressing Wedding team will guide you from your free consultation, through your trial,

  • OXFORDShire Company - Special Touches

    Tel: 01844 279971 Email: info@oxfordshirecompany.com Website: www.oxfordshirecompany.com Oxfordshire Company supply the essential hire items for creating the perfect touches on your special day; enabling you to deal directly with one local company

  • Peter Casey - Jewellers

    Tel:01235 767491 Email:pcjewellery@hotmail.co.uk Website: http://www.petercaseyjewellery.com Peter Casey Jewellers, established in 1981 is a family run business and one of the longest established independent shops in the Wantage market place

  • Kubica facing year lay-off

    Formula One driver Robert Kubica spent last night in an induced coma and is facing a year out of the sport after suffering horrific injuries in a high-speed rallying accident in Italy. The 26-year-old Pole suffered serious injuries to his right

  • Alzheimer's robbed me of my husband

    WIDOW Pamela Foynes wants you to look at the scan of her husband John’s brain to understand the ravaging effects of Alzheimer’s. Mrs Foynes released this picture yesterday as part of a drive to show the devastating way she said the disease

  • Local share prices (AM)

    AEA Technology 5.1 BMW 4844 Electrocomponents 265.2 Nationwide Accident Repair 97 Oxford Biomedica 5.6 Oxford Catalysts 83.5 Oxford Instruments 612.25 Reed Elsevier 567.25 RM 167.5 RPS Group 215 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley, Abingdon

  • Council executive considers budget plans

    OXFORD City Council’s executive is set to agree its budget on Wednesday night. The authority is preparing to cut £9m from its spending over the next four years. Proposals include charging for garden waste collections and increasing parking

  • Dirophotographic - Photographer

    Tel: 01491 839197 Mobile: 07818 245644 Email: darmstrongross@btopenworld.com Website: http://www.dirophotographic.co.uk Dirophotographic - David Ross at Dirophotographic offers great value for money and has years of experience with wedding

  • FOOTBALL: Ardley march on as ace Standen hammers treble

    Ardley Utd 6 (Standen 3, 53, 59, Bryan 8, Bone pen 89, Stidder 90) Ascot Utd 2 (Cooper-Clark 9, Booth 87) Carl Standen hit a superb hat-trick as Ardley United returned to winning ways at the top of the Premier Division. Standen opened his account

  • Farmer furious over £70,000 rave damage

    A FARMER has condemned what he labelled police “inactivity” after an illegal rave on his land left him £70,000 out of pocket. About 500 revellers broke into a grain store on farmland north of Bicester, for the all-night party and left broken glass, gas

  • Co-op staff assembled for luncheon

    PICTURES of events at Carfax Assembly Rooms in Oxford appeared to be in short supply – until we received this excellent one. It was taken at a luncheon arranged by the Co-operative Insurance Company for its staff, agents and partners. The company’s

  • RESULTS: Football 05/06

    NPOWER LEAGUE TWO Gillingham 0, Oxford Utd 0. ZAMARETTO SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Didcot Tn 0, Bashley 2; Oxford City 5, Weymouth 0; Tiverton 1, Banbury Utd 0. Div 1 South & West: Hungerford Tn 1, North Leigh 2; Yate Tn 1, Abingdon Utd 0. UHLSPORT

  • Dance hall fell victim to rock 'n' roll

    CARFAX Assembly Rooms, the well-known Oxford dance venue, eventually became known as the Orchid Rooms. But the change to an upmarket title was not enough to save the premises. The building in Cornmarket Street, where thousands of people

  • The changing face of Stonesfield

    THE mystery ‘patient’ trundled around Stonesfield in a decorated hospital bed in 1977 turned out to be parish clerk Jill Moore. The sponsored bedpush was Stonesfield Cricket Club’s major fundraising event of the year. The team made seven circuits of the

  • FOOTBALL: Stone’s penalty blunder costs Banbury dearly

    Tiverton Tn 1 (Nardiello 87) Banbury Utd 0 David Stone missed a first-half penalty as Banbury were plunged into the Premier Division relegation dogfight with this defeat in Devon. Tiverton, fourth from bottom in the table, secured a precious three

  • FOOTBALL: Abingdon fall to Meaker

    Yate Tn 1 (Meaker 69) Abingdon Utd 0 Jon Gardner missed a penalty as Abingdon were undone by a second-half Michael Meaker goal in Division 1 South & West. The visitors spurned the glorious early chance early when Graham Lewis was brought down in

  • Guild gathered for fashion show

    THERE was rapturous applause when members of the North Oxford Towns-women’s Guild held a fashion parade. The guild’s drama group had collected a large number of theatrical outfits over the years and decided they should be shown to a wider audience

  • Pram service aimed to encourage worship

    HOLY Trinity Church in Headington Quarry, Oxford, held an annual pram service. Mums were encouraged to bring along their children for an afternoon of worship. And in 1967, when this picture was taken, there was one dad present. Mr EW Berryman brought

  • Daphne inspired dancers

    WHEN it came to show business and fundraising, there were few to equal Daphne Miles. She organised more than 2,000 shows and raised thousands of pounds for charities and other good causes during a long career as a dance teacher. We were

  • FOOTBALL: Faulkner stars for City aces

    Oxford City 5 (Faulkner 35, 68, pen 80, Steele 43, Mekki 57) Weymouth 0 James Faulkner struck a hat-trick as Oxford City thumped bottom-of-the-table Weymouth in the Premier Division on Saturday. Faulkner’s treble capped City’s best display of the

  • FOOTBALL: Williams draws blank as Didcot lose again

    Didcot Tn 0 Bashley 2 (Knowles 23, 75) Ady Williams’s first match in charge of Premier Division strugglers Didcot Town ended in defeat at Loop Meadow Stadium on Saturday, writes NICK FARRANT. Poor defending at set pieces and a

  • FOOTBALL: Sanders stunner seals it

    Hungerford Tn 1 (Johnson 88) North Leigh 2 (Dutton-Black 8, Sanders 54) A stunning 30-yard strike from Kieran Sanders saw North Leigh to victory in Division 1 South & West. Sanders’s strike nine minutes after the break doubled the lead given to them

  • Hundreds join forces against threat of library closures

    TOP authors and hundreds of people across Oxfordshire sent a clear message to County Hall on Saturday: Hands off our libraries!. People joined the protest over Oxfordshire County Council’s controversial plan to halt funding for 20 out of 43 libraries

  • Radley Youth 5 - 2 Kidlington Youth. Under 10 Red League

    Sharper Shooting sees Radley home A Kidlington team minus two key players gave an excellent account of themselves at Radley, but ultimately the home team proved more adept at converting their chances and ran out 5-2 winners. Kidlington

  • UPDATE: Driver dies in M40 smash

    A driver has been killed in a crash involving a gas tanker and two vans on the M40. The road is still shut between junction ten at Brackley and Cherwell Valley Services and nine for the A34 and Bicester. The Highways Agency has said the road could

  • Comic Relief Grants applications

    Are you ready to put your organisation or group forward to win a slice of the £50,000 being offered by Comic Relief and the Oxford Mail? Groups eligible to apply for Red Nose Day Community Cash grants need to: Be working in a disadvantaged or

  • Oxford Mail teams up with Comic Relief for £50k giveaway

    COMIC Relief cash is set to spread smiles across the faces of people in Oxfordshire thanks to a £50,000 grant giveaway. Red Nose Day is just around the corner and the Oxford Mail has teamed up with Comic Relief to offer 50 charities a special

  • CRICKET: Rivals set for Cherwell showdown

    A bitter power struggle is set to come to a head tonight when clubs vote on who they want to run cricket’s MP Sports Cherwell Cricket League. Chairman Clive Ricks’s team face up to eight rebel executive members in the showdown at Rover Cowley Sports

  • Driver dies in M40 smash

    A driver has been killed in a crash involving a gas tanker and two vans on the M40 in north Oxfordshire. The road is still shut southbound between junction ten at the Cherwell Valley Services and junction nine for the A34 and Bicester.

  • British Legion faces threat of demolition

    ROYAL British Legion members are fighting against plans to demolish a Wolvercote social club to make way for houses. Pensioners in the village say proposals to demolish The Wolvercote Social Bar would leave them without a community venue, which hosts

  • Lorry crash closes southbound M40

    A smash between two vehicles and a gas tanker has closed the southbound M40. The road is shut between junction ten at Brackley and Cherwell Valley Services and nine for the A34 and Bicester. Three people are thought to have been injured after the crash

  • Keeping it clean

    Boss Chris Wilder hailed Oxford United’s determination as they drew 0-0 at Gillingham on Saturday to end their barren run without a clean sheet. It was the U’s first shutout for 24 games – since the 2-0 win at Hereford on September 11.