The Oxfordshire Senior Cup quarter-final between North Leigh and Oxford United was called off 20 minutes before kick-off at Eynsham Park on Tuesday night because of a frozen pitch. The surface was passed fit by referee Ben James at 2pm,
OXFORD cinema-goers were the first to view Ewan McGregor’s next movie after its preview screening was gifted to city charity Refugee Resource. At a black-tie event held at Lady Margaret Hall, Jericho screenwriter Simon Beaufoy showcased his
THE next meeting of Oxford City Council's Cowley area forum will focus on community and university relations in the area. The meeting will take place at the Regal Community Centre, in Ridgefield Road, starting at 6.30pm next Tuesday. University and
ASSISTANT priest Jenni Williams will be swapping sermons for slapstick next month when she plays the lead in her village’s pantomime. Dr Williams, whose normal role sees her centre stage at St Peter’s Church, in Wootton, near Abingdon, will instead be
AN OXFORD advice centre can continue to help those struggling with debt after Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council pledged £78,000 to support it for a further year. Demand for Rose Hill and Donnington Advice Centre’s services continues
Mum-of-three Jakki Nobbs will line up for this year’s OX5 Run to thank doctors who carried out an emergency operation on her teenage daughter. Last February, Lizzy Nobbs, 14, became sick with what her family thought was a stomach bug. But the Gosford
IN answer to June Banham’s query (January 5) I can assure her that, although there are not many of us, I am still a whistler (sadly to the annoyance of many people). I have a full repertoire, mostly tunes of the Great American Songbook and big band era
Pupils across North Oxfordshire are set to benefit from an extra £24m which will be pumped into school sports as part of the London Olympic legacy. The move will guarantee the North Oxfordshire Schools Sports Partnership will run until 2015. The partnership
Businesses from South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse are invited to a free breakfast to hear talks about issues affecting trade in the two districts. The event, with hot drinks and pastries, takes place on Wednesday, February 1, between 7.30am and
Bicester Ladies won 4-2 away to bottom-of-the-table Maidenhead 3rd to remain joint top of Trysports Premier 2. Kath Crook and Lilla Venning gave the visitors a 2-1 lead at the break, and further goals from Venning and Ella Weston put the game beyond
The Williams F1 team today confirmed that Bruno Senna would contest the 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship for the Grove-based team. The appointment finalises the team’s line-up for this year following confirmation in December that Pastor
Well, it took until the turn of the year, and the mid-point of the season, before the Green Dragon (Haddenham) finally surrendered their unbeaten record. A tricky visit to the Black Swan (Oxford), as predicted by this column, proved every bit
After a 17-year wait, council chiefs have released almost £350,000 to build a new community centre in Charlbury. The centre, which will be built in Enstone Road, will include indoor sports facilities, a library, adult education services and
Banbury began the second half of the season and their bid to remain in Premier 1 of the South League with a promising display at Brighton, but they could not prevent a 1-0 defeat. With new Australians Jimmy Dick and Nathan Lawler in their ranks
In 1936, 15-year-old Ruth Cohen was sent to Oxfordshire by her Jewish parents to escape the tyranny of Nazi Germany. New anti-semitic laws, which would eventually cost the lives of millions, had come into effect and she had already been forced out
Oxfordshire Youth face Bucks at Wing Sports & Social Club, Leighton Road, Wing on Sunday. Team members are asked to contact new manager Phil Addison on 07837487314 to confirm selection.
HEADINGTON: Pupils at Sandhills Primary School were forced to stay at home yesterday because of a heating failure. Staff at the school in Terrett Avenue, Oxford, said all pupils had to be sent home. The school was expected to reopen today.
TESCO bosses say there are no plans to delay a store on the site of a former Oxford pub despite issuing the company’s first profit warning for decades. Last week it was revealed the supermarket giant had won permission to demolish the former
A DAD-OF-SIX has hit out at a housing developer after he broke his collarbone, wrist and ribs skidding on diesel outside his Rose Hill home. It comes as Taylor Wimpey is set to begin work to put right damage caused to the estate’s roads by
BB&O Round-up DICKIE Walsh’s late try earned Bicester a pulsating 21-18 home victory over Stow-on-the-Wold in the BB&O Premier Division. Bicester took the lead with a penalty from captain Dan Spencer, who then combined with scrum half Craig Smith
N OXON: An overturned lorry on the M40 on Sunday night caused delays yesterday as workers removed fruit by hand and mopped up a fuel spill. The lorry overturned at about 10pm on Sunday near junction 10 at Ardley.
OXFORD: Mortgage payments for new homeowners in Oxford are the sixth most expensive in the country, according to a new survey. Research by Halifax found mortgage payments took up 46.9 per cent of the earnings of homeowners in the area.
Midlands 2 West South FLY half Jed Boyle grabbed a hat-trick of tries as Banbury Bulls bounced back with a 42-14 victory at Pershore. Banbury’s starting XV featured 14 players who had come through their juniors, with a further two on the bench. Bulls
THE vandal behind a new graffiti tag on a string of Oxford buildings is being hunted by police. Officers are calling on the public help them find those behind the ‘Halal’ tag. Pc Paul Jones, of East Oxford neighbourhood team has spotted the graffiti
National 2 South HENLEY Hawks saw their promotion prospects improve with a 32-22 home defeat of Redruth. With Old Albanians beating Hartpury College, there are now just three points separating Albanians in second and Henley in fifth. Lock James Winterbottom
South West 1 East A DISJOINTED Witney were hammered 38-0 by Salisbury at Hailey Road. Witney could point to having seven first-team regulars sidelined and saw wing Lewis Collins injured in the warm-up, but Salisbury taught them a lesson
WHEN Matt Richardson first contacted the organisers of comedy night Childish Things, he was fresh out of school. Now three years and hundreds of gigs later, the 20-year-old from Didcot is set to take to the New Theatre stage alongside Jimmy Carr, the
National 3 South West CHINNOR racked up their second thumping home win of 2012 and their 15th straight victory – hammering Bristol’s Old Redcliffians 67-17. They ran in ten tries, with No 8 Liam Gilbert and openside flanker Alex Waddingham
IF you thought a goat could never be cute, think again. Nine pygmy goat kids have made their entrance at Foxbury Farm, near Brize Norton, over the last 10 days, and two more are on their way. Farmer Colin Dawes, pictured, said on arrival the goats
GROVE head coach Craig Burrows admitted his side had been pushed hard by Wallingford. He said: “We were in control early on, but then we seemed to push the self-destruct button. Both their tries in the first half came from our mistakes. “We allowed
So I did it, the first ride of the year, a deliberately long one in excess of 50 miles. We set off early last Sunday, the weather was great, the route was interesting and a large Sunday lunch was booked for the return leg. My partner said as we departed
Does no one say please or thank you anymore? I regularly go to Oxford and shop. I hold doors open, stand back to let people through doors or let them pass on a pavement. Do they say thank you? NO! They look me up and down like something the cat dragged
ONCE again the EU pokes its nose into our country: 1. We no longer control or borders 2. Their accounts are out of order – they never balance. The errors equal 3.7 per cent or 4.6bn Euros. We could do a lot for the UK with that sum. ROGER TUCKER,
I read with interest how the relatives of the men jailed for badger baiting at Howsham, near York, sobbed when they were led from the court in handcuffs. Did any of these ‘distraught’ relatives shed any tears for the defenceless innocent animals killed
I’VE just been made aware of Fran Bardsley’s article from December 18, (City School Results Branded Rubbish). I am deeply dismayed by the claim that my son’s school, St Nicholas, in Marston, is under-performing. I would like to see the record set straight
AN RAF sergeant has gone on trial accused of raping a colleague at an Oxfordshire airbase. Stewart Fryatt, who was stationed at RAF Benson, denies one count of rape and one count of a serious sexual assault. Jurors at Oxford Crown Court
Wallingford 19, Grove 30 WALLINGFORD can count themselves very unlucky not to have taken anything from this Southern Counties North derby at the Hithercroft. Grove deserved their victory and their creativity merited tries from Joe Bellinger, Nick
l AT LAST we have Alistair Darling who not before time has emerged as Labour’s leader in waiting if Ed Milliband fails to make breakthrough his year. I think Ed Milliband should step aside now. We can’t afford to waste another year. The Labour party
I JUST heard about the nasty Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, who has been giving the USA cheap oil in a programme designed to help the poorest citizens of that country, as federal programmes continue to be cut. More than half a million Americans from
ACCORDING to a national newspaper, a group of MPs have advised drinkers to have two free alcohol days per week. I wonder if they will take their own advice. I suspect many of them will find the cheap booze available in The Commons quite irresistible!
I HAVE read about Oxford City’s football player Lee Steele being sacked after his homophobic remark towards openly gay rugby star Gareth Thomas appeared on his Twitter account. Will it reduce homophobic behaviour? I believe the remark couldn
Former Sunderland striker Matt Fletcher is set to make his first appearance for Oxford United when they travel to North Leigh in the Oxfordshire Senior Cup quarter-final tonight. Fletcher, 19, who has represented Australia at under-20 level, and is on
Jake Wright knows that if Oxford United are to stay in the npower League Two play-off places, they have to break down teams at home. Saturday’s loss against Crewe Alexandra at the Kassam Stadium was only United’s second defeat of the season
FOR centuries, buns have been thrown off the roof of Abingdon’s County Hall in a unique celebration of major occasions. But those at the back of the crowd below have not had the chance to take home a souvenir bun as town councillors have struggled
IT SEEMS our politicians are not as strong as they used to be. For 250 years, councillors in Abingdon have hurled buns from the roof of County Hall without prompting a riot. But last year, weak-wristed councillors just could not master the necessary
JURORS took under an hour yesterday to clear an aristocrat of rape. James Murray, left, had stood trial at Oxford Crown Court after denying raping the teenage girl while she slept in his North Oxford flat. The 42-year-old, whose father is the Earl of
FEW people look back at the railway cuts of the 1960s with much pride. But if almost everyone now thinks they went too far and too deep, attempts to improve the network ever since have been notoriously hard to deliver. Proper transport links are vital
THE main building at Oxford railway station could be knocked down to make way for new platforms under plans being considered by transport bosses. The major redevelopment would see four through platforms – with no dead ends – built to solve
A MISSING man who sparked a police appeal has been found. John Hammet, who disappeared from his home in Papist Way, Cholsey on Saturday, sought help at the John Radcliffe Hospital last night. Police said the 49-year-old arrived at the hospital
SINCE it was unveiled in 2005, Bury Knowle Park’s Storybook Tree has become part of the landscape. But Headington residents are now concerned that their fairy tale monument is decaying. The tree was constructed out of a wind-damaged cedar and depicts
AN Oxford primary school is closed for a second day due to a heating failure. Sandhills Community Primary in Terrett Avenue was also closed yesterday because of the heating system.
NEARLY 30,000 Cowley-made Mini Coopers are to be recalled in Britain after makers detected an electrical fault which could lead cars to catch fire. German car maker BMW said the recall concerns 235,000 vehicles worldwide. Safety checks revealed
THREE women and a teenage boy have been charged over a burglary at the Burford Garden Company in Shilton Road in December. On Friday Thames Valley Police officers arrested the suspects in a joint operation with West Mercia Police. Karley Marie Gill
WORRIED parents have shown their MP the road they fear is too dangerous for their children to walk after their free school bus was cut. Oxfordshire County Council stopped the free service from Drayton to Abingdon’s John Mason School this month after
