Deane Smalley bagged a brace as Oxford United finished their pre-season tour of America with a 3-1 victory over Seacoast United. The former Chesterfield striker scored twice in the second half to give the U’s victory after Joey Barima had cancelled
A VICTORIAN sawmill in Blenheim Estate is up and running thanks to a £768,000 grant. Combe Mill once produced timber for Blenheim Palace and the surrounding area. But the grade two listed sawmill has received £768,000 from the Heritage
TRIBUTES have been paid to a talented Oxford musician who died after falling from a window. Saxophonist and keyboard player Matthew Carr, who grew up in the city, died from multiple injuries after falling three storeys from his home in Harrogate
TWENTY-FIVE lucky readers have won their shopping thanks to the Oxford Mail. We ran a competition last month in which readers could collect tokens in the hope of winning £100 towards the cost of the family shop. The competition was a
BUILDING work is due to start later this month on a £3.3m new eco-friendly affordable housing scheme in Bicester. Housing association Sanctuary Group, in partnership with Cherwell District Council, will build 23 energy efficient homes, built to levels
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AN RAF sergeant gave a 13-year-old girl alcopops and sexually assaulted her at an Oxfordshire airbase. Daniel Burt, who was married at the time, touched the girl in a bed at RAF Benson in 2001. His victim, who said the incident will “affect my life
YOUNGSTERS are enjoying a new pre-school thanks to a £356,000 grant. Stanford in the Vale Pre-School officially opened its new building on Saturday. The 41-year-old school was based at the Old School House for 29 years before moving
SMALL community groups are being offered a helping hand in Headington this month. Headington Action, an organisation made up of businesses, voluntary groups and authorities, is urging people to come forward for their new Small Sparks initiative
IT was the year colour TV was first beamed into UK homes, the Beatles released Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. And, in 1967, nervous 16-year-old shop assistant Jackie Trinder started her first full-time job at the Elliston & Cavell store.
Many of Oxfordshire’s top estate agents will be at the CLA Game Fair this weekend. Savills and Strutt & Parker are official sponsors and Carter Jonas and John D Wood have stands. Carter Jonas will be offering advice to anyone who lives on or near the
A GIANT sculpture of Formula One legend Ayrton Senna’s McLaren car was unveiled to the public at Blenheim Palace on Saturday. The car was dismantled ten years ago by McLaren and given to the artist Jay Burridge, who turned it into a sculpture, resembling
WAITROSE has vowed to press ahead with plans to open a store in Faringdon, despite Tesco securing permission for a new out-of-town supermarket. The battle between the two chains has divided the town, with some campaigners claiming class war had broken
Florence Park Community Centre ladies pulled off a shock as the Section 1 side beat Premier Section Butchers Arms 5-4. Wins from Dawn Allsopp and Lyn Padbury saw Florence Park take a 2-0 lead and although Maggie Dexter-Naylor cut the deficit,
WALLINGFORD School’s uniform and name will remain the same once the school becomes an academy, according to the chairman of governors. Ian Domville made the pledge to families after the school in St George’s Road was given the go-ahead by the Department
WHEATLEY Park School has celebrated its 40th anniversary with former pupil Theresa May praising the eduction she got there. The Home Secretary was at Holton Park Girls’ Grammar School in 1971 when it converted to a comprehensive, by merging
A 29-year-old thief picked the wrong car to break into. Tom Loveridge, of Ten Acres Caravan Park, Oxford, was caught on film breaking into a “police trap car” parked in Littlemore in March. He admitted a charge of theft from a motor vehicle when he
Oxfordshire's women crashed to a 7-2 defeat against Avon in the second game of tennis’s AEGON Summer County Cup in Poole yesterday. They were hoping to bounce back from Sunday’s 5-4 defeat to Staffordshire. However, it all went wrong for Oxon. Their
A man has appeared at Oxford Crown Court over a break-in at a Burford jewellers. Sean Birmingham, 19, of St George’s Street, Cheltenham, is accused of burglary at the Stone Gallery, in High Street, on November 14 last year and taking a car without consent
Oxford UCCE batsman Ben Jeffery hit a brilliant 161 to steer Free Foresters out of trouble against Oxfordshire Development XI on day one of their two-game game at Radley College on Monday. The visitors were 70-5 when Jeffery, who plays for Ashtead in
Oxford 2nd went from 108-3 to 110 all out as they crashed to a 107-run defeat at Great & Little Tew in an astonishing end to their Division 1 clash on Saturday. The match looked to be heading for a draw after Oxford fought back from 47-3 to establish
Clanfield joint-manager Jason Court has resigned from the Hellenic League side. Court, who has been in the post for six years with Pete Osborne, has cited personal and work reasons. Pete Osborne will take sole charge of the management duties for the
Sam Hope scored an unbeaten century to help Britwell Salome 2nd to an 81-run win at Chesterton 2nd in the Oxfordshire Cricket Association's Keith Crump Centenary Cup semi-final on Sunday. Britwell were in trouble at 31-3, before Hope (123no) was joined
THE real Chipping Norton set is standing up to be counted after becoming fed up the town’s name being linked to the News of the World phone-hacking scandal. Residents fear the town’s reputation is being tarred because of the links to the area of the
Didcot Town boss Francis Vines has received a boost after seven players put pen to paper for the Evo-Stik Southern League Division 1 South & West side. They include player-coach Craig Faulconbridge, Aaron Turner, Sam Charles, Alfred Ajani, James Keller
Two men have appeared in court charged with aggravated burglary. Martin Todd, 32, of Milestone Road, Carterton, and Mark Hillier, 27, of Littlebrook Meadow, Shipton-under-Wychwood are charged with aggravated burglary and robbery.
Two men appeared at Oxford Crown Court yesterday over a cashpoint robbery and a further street robbery. Lewis Steer, 20, of Pinnocks Way, Botley, is charged with robbery and using threatening words and behaviour in relation to a cashpoint robbery in
The Environment Agency’s flood warning for the Langford and Wendlebury Brooks were no longer in force last night. The agency had issued a warning that the brooks and their tributaries from Statton Audley down to the M40 near Merton, including Bicester
Gary Boyd was able to reflect on a “good week” after shining in the Open Championship at Sandwich. The 24-year-old, who hails from Middleton Cheney, near Banbury, where his parents live, took great encouragement from making the cut in a major championship
REPORTS of conmen preying on Oxfordshire’s elderly and vulnerable have hit record levels, it emerged last night. Rogue trader teams were inundated with more than 500 scams last year, almost three times the number of reports compared to four
AS long-term Jericho residents, we totally disagree with Julia Woods (ViewPoints, July 7). A new Tesco store will be welcome in our area, as it will provide a cheaper and higher quality alternative to the high-cost traders who have had the monopoly for
ON A recent day trip to Oxford, revisiting old haunts with a local friend, I was appalled to be told – while wheeling a bike from the Thames Path into The Perch at Binsey – that we were not allowed in with bicycles. And this was early afternoon
OXFORD City Council is right to seek additional powers for their street wardens. Given the valuable role they have in contributing to the lessening of antisocial behaviour, particularly on the city’s larger estates, it is essential that they have the
I COULD not believe what I was reading when I read John Sanders’s letter (Oxford Mail ViewPoints, July 4). He thinks putting in more bus lanes and bus gates is the answer to Oxford’s congestion problem. For a start, there are far too many buses on Oxford
Ady Fuller says he feels like he has “come home” after the former Banbury United defender returned to become the Evo-Stik Southern League Premier Division side’s new manager. He took over on Friday after the resignation of Billy Jeffrey due to health
THE Oxfordshire Drinker is a free monthly newsletter from the Oxford branch of Camra (the Campaign for Real Ale) and is widely distributed around Oxford. Until recently, the magazine only featured journeys around Oxfordshire pubs via foot, but now my
I THINK the public are partly to blame for the News of the World hacking scandal. It is, after all, the sensationalist stories which sell papers, and we the public that buy them. JANE REEVE, Cowley Road, Oxford
WE ALL know it's important to keep focused. That's the aim of the Headington Focus Meetings that were announced in your pages (Oxford Mail, July 5). And, so, for the sake of clarity, we should spell out a couple of things. First of all, we are organising
I AM writing to respond to your editorial (Elderly must receive proper care) and your associated article (Oxford Mail, July 11). The council issues safeguarding procedures where appropriate once it learns of issues such as those covered in your article
Chris Wilder admits that everyone has been impressed with Alfie Potter’s stunning start to Oxford United’s pre-season. Going into the U’s final game of their United States tour against Seacocast United in the early hours of this morning, the 22-year-old
DRINK-FUELLED violence leaves the John Radcliffe Hospital “like a war zone”, a top judge has said. Recorder Julian Knowles made the comments after 18-year-old Danielle Hall grabbed her friend by the hair and repeatedly smashed her face on the ground
WEST Oxford residents are hoping councillors will rethink their decision to give the go-ahead for a student block of flats in their street. Last week Oxford city councillors voted six to one in favour, with two abstentions, to allow a controversial 74
TV presenter Kate Garraway went back to school yesterday as she visited Fitzharrys School, in Abingdon, where she studied as a teenager. The Daybreak presenter spent a day at the comprehensive yesterday and caught up with some of her old teachers
FOR 20 years keen gardener Reg Madden has been wheeling his grass cuttings and tree trimmings to Redbridge tip using his trusty barrow. But he has now been banned from dumping his foliage on foot... and it’s all down to health and safety fears
DEANE Smalley scored twice as Oxford United beat Seacoast United 3-1 in their final tour match of America. Jon-Paul Pittman scored the other as the U's ended their tour with two wins and a draw.
A lane is blocked on the A420 due to a broken down lorry. The incident is between the Botley Interchange and traffic lights close to McDonalds on Botley Road.
two boys from Oxfordshire had an extra special Grand Prix experience when they met the world’s best F1 drivers. Great Ormond Street Hospital patients Jamie Remedios, from Oxford, and Bailey Copcutt, from Thame, were in pole position at Silverstone
WORK has started to take Oxford’s first “underground” restaurant overground. But a petition by some neighbours could stick a knife into plans for the local food cafe and arts venue. Oxfork was launched by East Oxford resident Drew Brammer
