Kidlington Youth Celtic took on Last seasons champions Ardington at Evans Lane and shared the spoils in an entertaining game. Kidlington had the better of the first half and led 1-0 at half time through a fine headed goal from Captain Ryan Hughes
THE number of city sex shops and lap dancing clubs could be capped under new plans. Oxford City Council is bidding to restrict the number of “sex establishments” over concerns about the impact on the city. Last year it took on extra
THOUSANDS of county residents will be left to tackle debt, employment, housing and family problems alone under plans to cut legal aid, a city solicitor has warned. Government plans to slash legal aid funding, which pays solicitors’ fees for a range
A woman is being treated in hospital after she was stabbed in the back of the leg at a shop in Templars Square in Cowley. Police were called to the B&M stores at around 2.20pm after reports a 44-year-old woman had been attacked. The man left the store
Residents in Wheatley say downgraded university traffic plans will put safety at risk. Oxford Brookes University has submitted plans for a new access road off the A40 junction at Holton. The university had been due to build a light-controlled crossing
A nursery nurse from Cowley will trek the Great Wall of China next year for Asthma UK. Anna Hadland, 28, who has suffered with asthma since she was six, will embark on the trip next September. She hopes to raise more than £2,000 for the charity with
A youth football team has helped to raise more than £6,000 for a school friend suffering from cancer. More than 400 people attended Childrey Youth Under 14s’ music night and barbecue on September 16 to raise £6,543.76 for cancer charity Clic Sargent,
Hotel staff saw how disabled children are benefiting from a £1m fundraising drive. Workers from the Malmaison at Oxford Castle were shown how cash raised by the hotel chain was being used at Ormerod Resource Centre, based at Woodstock Marlborough School
City councillor Mark Lygo, pictured, got the ball rolling for an Olympic-themed sports programme for young people, with a game of water polo. People aged 14 to 25 can join the Olympic Legacy programme, Sportivate, funded through the National Lottery,
Two councils have ruled out sharing offices, a move opposition leaders say would have saved hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. But Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire district councils said it was important to keep a local presence. The councils
SCARRED by his horrific experiences in Iraq, Neil Littlewood’s life had descended into a mire of suicidal thoughts, nightmares and fits of rage. After seeing the aftermath of a roadside bomb that killed three of his friends and being trapped by a baying
COLLEAGUES of an award-winning amateur photographer have collected his finest work in a new book. Peter Upton died last year aged 75 but has not been forgotten by his friends at Oxford Photographic Society. The group decided to pay the ultimate
A MUSICAL project which has been “on track” for more than a year is finally set to get another performance. Soundtracks is a celebration of the upgrading of the Cotswold Line and features 70 performers who attempt to capture the history of
I was interested to read your article on Rose Hill Primary School in Oxford (Memory Lane, September 12). I think my father may be in the picture, third row, sixth from the left. He was Stephen Short, son of the Rev Harry Short. Unfortunately, he passed
Pat Ross sent in a picture of young Tony Ireson fast asleep after he was caught on a fence post at Cowley in the 1940s (Memory Lane, September 26). It has to be the Tony Ireson I was at school with in Wantage. I was born in 1948. He was two years older
IN the picture of the Pressed Steel Band (Memory Lane, October 3), the musician identified as Steve ? was my father, Joseph Stevens, known as Steve.
I was interested to see your article on the Soapsuds Band (Memory Lane, September 19). In the early 1950s, on behalf of the Oxford Club of Young Farmers, I engaged Professor Washboard and his Soapsuds for dances at Islip village hall for club members
We had a visit from our five-year-old twin grandsons, and some of the things they say are amusing. Grandma was discussing with the boys how twins often looked like each other. She asked Michael if he thought he resembled his brother. “No,” he replied
Pat Ross, our next door neighbour in Cornwallis Road, Cowley, Oxford, sent in a picture of me, as a toddler, fast asleep after getting caught on a fence post in the 1940s (Memory Lane, September 20). As she recalled, I had gone missing and after a search
ADAM Bushnell is a man with plenty of skills. The 21-year-old, from Cumnor, took part in the WorldSkills championships in London and after pitting his wits against some of the best joiners in the world was awarded bronze. Other skills, from floristry
CITY bands are to take centre stage in a day of music to raise cash for Oxford’s best-known charity, Oxfam. The festival – a month of musical fundraising activities – has been running for several years and events have taken place in the city before.
Lindsey Fowles, 27, of Trent Road, Didcot, admitted shoplifting a Samsung HD TV valued at £379 from Tesco in Abingdon on August 26 and shoplifting an ink cartridge valued at £24.37 from Sainsbury’s in Didcot on September 14. Told to pay £150 compensation
Two Oxfordshire schoolgirls landed a role when the hit show Annie arrived at the Apollo Theatre, Oxford – now the New – in 1983. Debbie Surrage, 10, of Girdlestone Road, Headington, Oxford, and Zara Beament, six, of Church Street, Bodicote, near Banbury
It will never be one of Oxford’s tourist spots, but its opening was a landmark in the city’s history. Civic dignitaries turned out in force to herald the new sewage works at Sandford-on-Thames. A Government minister was also at the ceremony in July 1957
These children had good reason to celebrate – they had just come second in a national contest. West Kidlington Primary School’s contribution to the competition, which was on the subject of communications, was judged one of the best among hundreds submitted
Does anyone remember the Crack Pots percussion band in Oxford? Emma Henton, 79, pictured here, who lived in Bullingdon Road, East Oxford, was the band’s oldest member. The picture was taken in 1955, when the band entertained at Littlemore Darby and
Members of the British Red Cross Society have been at the forefront of charities helping those in need. Many will know of the movement’s extensive work in helping in emergencies overseas. But others will be grateful for the help it gives to families
Staff at Colegrave Seeds made sure Oxfordshire gardens – and many others farther afield – blossomed in summer. Greenhouse and trials manager Mick Coombes, left, and assistant Paul Ford are seen immediately below pricking out seedlings in 1986. Shorthand
Oxford City have been drawn away to Weston-super-Mare, of Blue Square South, in the fourth qualifying round of the FA Cup. City beat Eastleigh 3-1 in Saturday's third qualifying round, meaning Mike Ford's men face a trip to the west country
A car caught fire after being involved in a crash with a second car on the A34 southbound between Bletchingdon and Peartree. The accident happened at about 6.40pm on Friday. All three people in the two cars got out before firefighters arrived, two were
Firefighters were called to a shed on fire in a field off Churchfield Lane, shortly before noon yesterday. A garden tractor inside the 6m by 4m shed was destroyed by the blaze.
Firefighters were called to Jamie Oliver’s Fabulous Feasts takeaway booth in Bicester Village outlet centre in the early hours of Saturday. They put out a fire in a wooden catering unit and an oven which had been left on and contained four large portions
Abingdon Marathon will always have personal resonance for Katy Young. The day before the 25-year-old Bicester woman ran the race last year, her father John died of heart disease. But she vowed to pull on her running shoes in his memory – and did the
The A34 western bypass around Bicester has now reopened after a lorry jacknifed and spilled diesel onto the northern carriageway. Around 600 litres of fuel were spilled on to the road at around 1.45am this morning. The road was reopened shortly before
FOOTBALL NPOWER LEAGUE TWO Macclesfield Tn 1, Oxford Utd 1. FA CUP 3rd qualifying round: Eastleigh 1, Oxford City 3. EVO-STIK SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Chippenham Tn 1, Banbury Utd 1. Div 1 South & West: Abingdon Utd 1,
Oxford City boss Mike Ford hailed his side’s outstanding attitude after the Evo-Stik Southern League Premier Division high-fliers pulled off a shock win at Blue Square Bet South side Eastleigh on Saturday. A Darren Pond double and a strike
LAST-GASP hero Rob Hall says that it was the right decision to drop him for Saturday’s trip to Macclesfield. The on-loan West Ham striker had started every game for Oxford United since joining the club in September. Boss Chris Wilder
JAKE Wright said that he took as much satisfaction from taking a point at Macclesfield as he did beating Bristol Rovers seven days earlier. The Oxford United captain said that gaining a point at Moss Rose when the team did not play too well shows how
A MOTORIST with a drink and drugs addiction smashed head on into another car before refusing to give police a blood sample. Matthew Smith made two cars swerve out of his way as he drove his father’s Volkswagen Golf on the wrong side of the road on the
MULTI millionaire financier Hugh Osmond has hit out at police after his Oxfordshire home was raided twice by burglars. Punch Taverns founder Mr Osmond – who currently holds 51st place on The Sunday Times Rich List and is estimated to be worth £232m –
BREASTFEEDING is normal. That was the message from more than 50 mothers who gathered at Oxford’s Debenhams store on Saturday for a celebration of breastfeeding. And they hope the public show of support will ensure mums can feed children at
A TEENAGER has been arrested on suspicion of raping a 16-year-old girl in Greater Leys. Police are appealing for witnesses following an incident between 10.15pm and 10.45pm on Friday on a pathway between the Kassam Stadium and the Holiday Inn. The
AN 11-year-old boy left disabled for life after medical blunders at Banbury’s Horton Hospital has won a multi-million pound pay out. The boy, who cannot be identified, will receive a £2.7m lump sum payout from Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS
Mum Sue Kearley sums up the relationship between Oxford and Southampton heart centres. “It felt like being part of the same hospital,” she said. Her daughter Sophie had lifesaving surgery at Southampton and the fact the family didn’t
FOR more than a year, a unique link between two hospitals has saved hundreds of Oxfordshire children’s lives. Little Sophie Kearley is just one of them. Looking at the two-year-old now, the toddler seems the picture of health and happiness.
OXFORD University captain John Carter showed Varsity Match places are very much up for grabs when he named his side to face Wasps at Iffley Road tonight (7.30). Carter has selected four of last year’s Twickenham starters as replacements for the clash
Oxford City Council is right to look at creating a sensible framework to limit the number of sex establishments. It is an issue that needs sensible and mature debate but council leader Bob Price betrays that with his claim that without a cap
CHRIS Wilder was full of admiration for his Oxford United side after seeing them score a 93rd-minute equaliser to draw 1-1 at Macclesfield on Saturday. Rob Hall came off the bench to fire home in injury time as the U’s extended their unbeaten run to
Rush hour drivers are being caught up in major delays this morning after incidents on the M40 and A34. Two lanes are closed in both directions on the M40 after a lorry hit the central reservation between junction four for High Wycombe and junction five
FROM records and radios to toys to tickets, an organisation is collecting a picture of the past to help pensioners uncover long-lost memories. The charity Oxfordshire Mind is running a pilot six-week programme inviting people to reminisce on their younger
BLEWBURY Brass Band haslaunched weekly music lessons for new members in a bid to get the younger generation involved. The Step Up To Brass sessions started on Wednesday at the band’s hut in the village and will continue at the same time every week at
IT wasn’t Oxford United’s best performance of the season, but it may prove to be one of their best points. Rob Hall’s injury–time equaliser gave Chris Wilder’s side an important draw at Macclesfield when it looked as if their unbeaten run would come
CAMPAIGNERS demanding Temple Cowley Pools is saved want to challenge Oxford City Council in the High Court. The Save Temple Cowley Pools group is to apply for a judicial review of councillors’ decision to demolish the East Oxford complex to
From records and radios to toys to tickets, an organisation is collecting a picture of the past to help pensioners uncover long-lost memories. The charity Oxfordshire Mind is running a pilot six-week programme inviting people to reminisce on their younger
