A FOOTBALL match in honour of an Oxfordshire soldier who died in Afghanistan, and another who was seriously injured, will be held next month. The sides will meet to honour Warrant Officer Class 2 Charlie Wood, left, from Bicester, who was killed in an
Firefighters tackled a blaze at the Mediterranean Fish Bar in Cherwell Drive tonight. Fire crews were called to the fish and chip shop at about 6pm. The blaze was contained to the ground floor, although the first floor was also smoke-logged. Nobody
FOOTBALL supporters applauded a war hero who lost his legs in Afghanistan as he finished a charity trek with U’s supporters. Drinkers at The Priory pub, near Oxford United’s Kassam Stadium, gave Jack Cummings a standing ovation as he and 14 others arrived
Businesses interested in writing a book as a way to raise their profile, credibility and profits are invited to attend a course to help them get started. Organiser Robert Bullard, an Oxford-based writer and trainer said: “Writing a book is a good way
STUNT teams, chainsaw carving and dog displays were among the star attractions as thousands of people basked in the sunshine at the Thame Country Fair. The annual agricultural event, now in its 13th year, celebrates all aspects of rural life, from farming
Burglars have stolen a large amount of jewellery from a house in Pusey. The burglary, at the property in Lodge Road, Pusey, happened sometime between 9.20pm and 10.20pm on Saturday. Police said the burglars got into the property by forcing open
Police are appealing for information after electrical items were stolen from a property in Randolph Street Oxford. The break-in happened between 9.45pm and 10.10pm last Tuesday as the offender broke into the building through the rear garden facing Leon
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In the late 1950s, the Oxfordshire Rural Community Council (ORCC) was becoming increasingly concerned about the state of some of the county’s villages. Litter and general untidiness were too often the norm and it wasn’t unusual to see rusty
Police are appealing for witnesses after three men were attacked with a broken bottle in Henley. The men, all in their early twenties, were walking at Mill Meadow, near Meadow Road, at about 8pm on Friday, when three men attacked them.
GARDENERS will be reaching for their pruning shears and dibbers with the news that the 2011 Oxford in Bloom competition has been launched. The search for the city’s best kept gardens, which is backed by the Oxford Mail, is now in its 25th year
As I step outside my front door into the cool of a sunny spring morning the chorus of birds is second to none. In the vast woodlands that line the steep valley at Warburg, just four miles from Henley, birds are at their busiest, whether they are
More than £100m is being provided to help improve England’s rivers for wildlife ranging from otters to trout, Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman said. Some £92m will go to removing invasive weeds and animals, clearing up pollution and removing
One of our ‘family stories’ tells the tale of how it was I came home from university one year and was picked up at the station, as ever, by my dad. I threw my stuff in the boot, got into the passenger seat and chatted about this and that most of the way
HEYTHROP Park Resort’s latest bid for golfing glory has failed to light the enthusiasm of neighbours. The hotel complex, which includes a championship golf course, has applied to build a 12-bay driving range, which could be open from 7am until 9pm.
A food delivery driver who dumped veggie burgers on a roadside verge landed up with a bill of more than £1,000. Gary Rothwell, 51, admitted breaching the Environmental Protection Act. Banbury magistrates heard Rothwell realised he had forgotten to drop
Abingdon United fought back from 2-0 down to force a draw against play-off hopefuls Hungerford at Northcourt Road in Division 1 South & West. Hungerford were out of the blocks quickly and went 2-0 up within the first ten minutes. Firstly, Jemel Johnson
North Leigh’s bid to reach the Division 1 South & West play-offs ended as they drew at Bishops Cleeve. As it transpired, if North Leigh had won, they would have been pipped by Thatcham who beat Andover. After a scrappy opening half-hour, the hosts
DAVID Cameron is now saying he wants to cut back on immigration. But hasn’t anyone told him it’s far too late for that? There are far too many people in this country now. We have two million odd people sitting on the dole and as long as we have thousands
WHILE shopping at the Co-op in Cowley centre, I was surprised to see a sign saying what the nearest open store would be on Easter Sunday. What is happening? I thought Easter Sunday was the only day in this country where all stores had to be closed.
Didcot Town boss Ady Williams expressed his disappointment at his players’ performance following the 3-0 defeat to Oxford City which condemmed them to the drop. “I feel sorry for the supporters,” said Williams. “Even at the end there, they were all
Didcot Town were relegated from the Zamaretto Soutehrn League Premier Division after a 3-0 defeat by Oxford City in yesterday’s derby clash at the npower Loop Meadow Stadium. Needing a win to have any chance of staying up at the expense of
Start Royal sealed a quickfire treble for Aston Rowant trainer Alan Hill at the Kimblewick Hunt meeting at Kimble, near Aylesbury, on Saturday. Despite extensive watering producing ground officially described as good (good to firm in places), the six-race
Moscow Court landed the Old Berkshire Hunt mixed open at Lockinge, near Wantage, for the second successive year on an Easter Monday card packed with drama and controversy. Firm ground resulted in just 19 horses contesting the six races, but there was
Banbury United completed their Zamaretto Southern League Premier Division campaign on a low note following a 2-0 defeat at derby rivals Brackley Town on Monday. It followed Saturday’s loss to champions Truro City. After a goalless first half in which
IAN BAYLEY is one of the brainiest people in Britain after notching up an impressive array of top intellectual prizes. The Oxford Brookes University lecturer was crowned Mastermind Champion 2011 after beating tough competition in a final watched by two
WE all know the cost of living is rising. But to see the stark figures published in today’s paper is worrying. Day by day, motorists have noticed fuel prices going up, shoppers have seen food costs rising and business folk have seen a change
STARTER for 10: who is the brainiest person in Oxford? If you answered Dr Ian Bayley, the chances are you could be bang on the money. The 36-year-old has just been crowned Mastermind champion 2011. On top of that ,he is also BBC
Philip Marples, chairman of the extravagant headteachers’ conference organised at great taxpayer’s expense (Saturday’s Oxford Mail), is woefully missing the point when he says that “in business you would probably be paying two or three times as much”.
The Coalition Government’s latest wacky idea called the Red Tape Challenge actually poses a significant risk to all our environmental legislation and must be exposed. We’re all aware just how fragile our natural world is and how it relies on legal protection
As the race to secure a ‘yes’ vote in the referendum looms closer, the invective from the ‘no’ campaign becomes ever more shrill. Are ‘no’ campaigners really serious when they say that voting for more than one preference vote is too difficult for us
Henley Hawks gave title-chasing gave Ealing some anxious moments, but still went down to a 35-25 defeat in their final National 2 South home game of the season. In front of one of their biggest crowds of the campaign, Hawks could not make up an 18-8
Doubtless in company with the many other people who signed the petition to save our local libraries, I recently received a letter from our local MP, Nicola Blackwood. While managing to say very little of substance, she did let slip one piece of information
THOUSANDS of youngsters searched for eggs at Blenheim Palace this weekend – but the Easter Bunny was nowhere to be seen. Instead, popular children’s television stars including Peppa Pig and George, from the Nick Jr channel, were on hand to meet the families
THE public can have its say on controversial plans to shake up the NHS at a meeting in Abingdon next month. The Government plans to hand control of patient commissioning, and with it 80 per cent of the NHS budget – about £100bn a year – to doctors.
Oxford United manager Chris Wilder saluted his skipper after the talismanic centre forward took his season’s goals tally to 17. James Constable’s double earned the U’s a 2-2 draw at Underhill on Monday against a Barnet side fighting for their npower
A WATCHDOG group says more needs to be done to improve care and treatment at Oxfordshire’s major hospitals. The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the John Radcliffe and Churchill hospitals in Oxford and The Horton in Banbury – was rated
This Saturday there is a memorial bike ride to one of the best known figures on the Oxford cycling scene, Mr John Wilson, who sadly died last year aged just 53. I didn’t know John very well but he now feels like an old friend to me because I run the
SOARING petrol prices, the spiralling cost of consumer goods, cuts in benefits and rising insurance premiums have all hit our pockets at the same time. Oxfordshire has some of the highest house prices in the UK, and with a large population of public
IT was as if an episode of Inspector Morse had come to life at Pembroke College: the body of the student union president is found dead, and everyone becomes a suspect. But this was not the work of the latest TV serial killer to haunt Oxford’s dreaming
KEEN cricketers in Ducklington will be able to put ball to bat more accurately thanks to a £1,000 donation. Ducklington Sports Club received the money from the Witney Lions Club to pay for a special mat surface for the club’s nets for a new cricket mat
NEW CRICKET nets have gone up in East Oxford ahead of the start of the cricket season to help future Freddie Fintoffs and budding Ian Bothams. The £25,000 practice facilities have been installed by Oxford City Council at Cowley Marsh recreation ground
A ‘LARGER than life’ ambulance worker who saved thousands of lives has passed away after battling cancer. Father-of-three Nick Vannozzi headed up the South Central Ambulance Service’s (SCAS) Bicester control room. The 49-year-old grandfather-of-two
