OXFORD James Howkins, 27, of Jourdain Road, Oxford, admitted stealing a bag of sweets from Odeon Cinema on January 18. Fined £50, ordered to pay victims’ surcharge of £15 plus £150 costs. Simon Crook, 44, of The Orchard, East Challow, admitted assaulting
A SITE on Oxford’s biggest estate is being investigated ahead of imminent work on a new skate park. Blackbird and Greater Leys have been without any skating facilities since 2009, when a park in Cuddesdon Way was demolished to make way for
Sisters Frida, Rose and Betty Jenns were hopping for joy after scooping first prize for their bunny costumes at Summertown’s annual animal parade on Saturday. The Animal Boogie parade saw about 15 children make their way in costume from the North Wall
FROM war rationing to stories of escaping Nazis, older residents in one community have been taking a welcome trip down memory lane. Senior citizens at the Abingdon Wellbeing and Resource Centre have been sharing their stories, thanks to a Lottery-funded
THE heartbreaking tale of a woman who lost four sons in the First World War has brought long-lost relatives back together. In March, the Oxford Mail told the story of Keziah Hinchcliff, a woman who battled through the loss of six children and her husband
Engineers are working to restore power to 1,600 homes around Cumnor, Fyfield and Farmoor after a fault. The power went out at about 5pm and Southern Electric engineers arrived on site at about 5.30pm to establish the cause. Spokesman Hannah Gleave
A new Sainsbury’s Local store will open in Summertown on Wednesday. The shop has created 30 new jobs and occupies the site formerly occupied by Martin’s newsagent’s and the old Oddbins off-licence at the corner of Banbury Road and South Parade. Store
PREMIERSHIP rugby could be coming to Oxford next season after the Kassam Stadium won the right to host the second leg of the Championship play-off final. London Welsh are using the ground as their ‘home’ second leg against Cornish Pirates in the
The pain of walking 100km will be nothing compared to what Karen Nelson’s mother-in-law goes through every day. That is what will spur on the mother-of-two as she tackles the London to Brighton Challenge where competitors can walk, run, cycle or crawl
Two Bicester schools have agreed to form a federation. Governing bodies from The Cooper Secondary School and Glory Farm Primary met separately on May 2 to make the decision following a consultation with parents. It means the schools will work more closely
Children celebrated as one of the final parks to be completed in a £3.1m city-wide revamp was officially opened. A disused bowling green at Cutteslowe Park has been transformed into a new £100,000 play area, complete with zip wire, adventure tower and
A mum-of-two will be taking part in her fourth walk against breast cancer this month, in memory of five loved ones she has lost to the disease. Fiona Molnar has had her own brush with breast cancer, but it was the sad loss of her friends and relatives
AN OXFORDSHIRE pilot wants Vale of White Horse District Council to confirm he can legally land his helicopter in his garden. Helicopter pilot James McAlpine has applied for a lawful development certificate to fly to and from his Longworth home. He said
ALLOTMENT holders in Witney hope to reduce rents, running costs and waiting lists after finally taking over control of sites around the town. Witney Allotment Association has now signed an agreement to lease three sites – in Lakeside, Hailey Road and
THE Co-operative has announced a major expansion of its Chipping Norton shop now that a planned Sainsbury’s superstore has fallen through. The Mid Counties Co-operative had put the scheme on hold, saying a new Sainsbury’s would cause a “serious
These are some of the pupils at the Schools of Technology, Art and Commerce in St Ebbe’s, Oxford, in the 1930s. It is part of one of those panoramic photographs popular in the past. Everyone would take their place and the camera would whirr round to
Children at Osney, Oxford, always had plenty to do in their spare time and were rarely bored. John Gaisford recalls in his memoirs how the radio provided entertainment once nights drew in. He writes: “The set was big and always in brown wood veneer
A cartoon reminded reader Ann Spokes Symonds of an ill-fated experiment – the rubber road in Cornmarket Street. It also reminded her of the cartoonist, the larger-than-life Alan Course, whose work regularly featured in the Oxford Mail in the 1940s and
Musicians descended on Witney as the town’s music festival came to a close with an eclectic mix of genres and performers. St Mary’s Church, in Church Green, was one of the venues where singers and bands performed at the weekend. Witney’s Alex Falconer
AN AIRMAN based at RAF Brize Norton was one of two servicemen killed in Afghanistan, it was announced this morning. Corporal Brent John McCarthy and Lance Corporal Lee Thomas Davies, from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, were shot and killed
The women who ran our pubs certainly knew how to party. The six pictured here, dressed in all their finery, were among those who attended the annual banquet and ball of the Oxford and District Licensed Victuallers’ Women’s Auxiliary. It was held in
Budget hotel chain Travelodge has launched a recruitment drive at its head office in Thame. Ten management positions and five administrative jobs are available at the firm based in Aylesbury Road. They are part of 100 jobs being created across the UK
ASA Hall has rejected a contract offer from Oxford United after interest from a higher ranked club. The 25-year-old made 82 appearances for the U's and finished this season as the club's second highest goalscorer with seven strikes. But his
The town’s eighth annual vehicle rally and parade attracted more than 2,000 visitors yesterday. Following a rally through the town, classic cars were displayed on the Kinecroft. l See tomorrow’s Oxford Mail for a report and picture.
People can put on weight within three hours of eating fatty foods, say Oxford University experts. Research into how quickly food turns into body fat puts cooked breakfasts among the worst culprits. Scientists Fredrik Karpe and Keith Frayn found fatty
A worker rescued from a fierce fire at a west Oxfordshire plastics factory returned to work the next day. The 55-year-old was trapped inside a smoke-filled room at Oxford Plastics’ Enstone plant when colleagues broke through a wall to rescue him. But
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FRILFORD Heath’s Eddie Pepperell won his first European Challenge Tour title yesterday. The 21-year-old beat Jeppe Huldahl in a play-off to land the Open Cotes d’Armor Bretagne in France after finishing on three under par.
A choir formed by wives and girlfriends of soldiers at Dalton Barracks performed in public for the first time on Saturday. The Abingdon Military Wives Choir was applauded by a crowd in theMarket Place when they sang three songs to raise money for the
CRICKET MCCA TROPHY Group 1: Oxfordshire 261-9 (50 ovs, R Kaufman 53, J Taylor 46, L Sabin 40, C Haupt 36, A Reynoldson 4-47), Bedfordshire 159 (37.3 ovs, O Clayson 45 ret hurt, M Taylor 3-33). SERIOUS CRICKET HOME COUNTIES PREMIER
LEFT-ARM spinner Chris Leaney’s five-wicket haul wasn’t enough to save Aston Rowant from a heavy 107-run defeat at home to Slough in Division 2 West of the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League. The 17-year-old picked up 5-72 as Slough were bowled
NATHAN Hawkes hit a brilliant 157 to set Banbury on the way to a 79-run victory at Bishop’s Stortford in Division 1. The Oxfordshire batsman’s towering ton came off 109 balls with nine fours and 12 sixes. It took Banbury to an impressive 302-6 dec off
MOURNERS have described signs asking them not to gather in the middle of the A40 during repatriations as “insensitive”. Up to 300 people regularly stand by the Evenlode pub, on the A40 at Eynsham, to pay tribute to fallen soldiers, whose bodies are driven
KELVIN Thomas believes an improvement in conditioning is the main lesson to be learned after Oxford United fell narrowly short of their target this sea-son. The U’s began the campaign looking to claim a play-off place in npower League Two and were on
THE Oxford Mail’s week-long celebration of the films of Woody Allen began last night, with the audience laughing along to one of the director’s classic comedies. Cinema-goers descended on Jericho’s Phoenix Picturehouse for a screening of 1972’s Play
A COMBINATION of factors left Oxford United manager Chris Wilder feeling like he was “spinning plates” in the critical final games of the season. United’s play-off hopes went up in smoke during the final seven games of the campaign, when only basement
THAME Town were bowled out for just 56 to crash to a six-wicket defeat against Falkland in Division 2 West of the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League at Church Meadow. The hosts found themselves inserted on a damp pitch after new skipper
BRAD Sutherland’s first five-wicket haul proved in vain as Oxford slumped to a 39-run defeat at promoted Burnham in Division 1 of the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League. Sutherland took 5-65 off 20 overs as last year’s Division 2 West champions
Chef Dan Cooper will be at Millets Farm Centre, at Frilford, near Abingdon, on Wednesday demonstrating a more unusual range of barbecued dishes. Dan, who has cooked up feasts for celebrities including Lily Allen and Alex James, will be packing his
I WOULD like to thank all the people who voted for me in the Oxford City Council elections where I made history by becoming the first independent councillor for Marston and the first in the city for many years. If this is “Mickey Mouse politics”, perhaps
I THINK it’s disgusting that it has taken the outcome of local elections to get through to the spoilt rich boys in Government. They know now how we feel but, listening to David Cameron, I doubt that he will change. He should have had a plan B from day
THIS is about all those letters to newspapers from people who like to praise their local schools. Do you, like me, suspect that these letter writers help their kids at home, then transfer the credit to the school ? Do you feel that this helps create
I HAVE just received a demand to prove that I live alone and therefore entitled to 25 per cent discount on my council tax bill. While I have no problem signing to confirm this, I do object that this undertaking has to be made to a private company which
"It’s a cold...” That was all I said. I didn’t elaborate. Nor croak it with a deep, raspy voice. I didn’t phone in my diagnosis with a forced cough for dramatic effect. And nor did I looked pained (you know, glazed eyes, listless tongue, sheet
George Osborne has admitted he is not up to the job of Chancellor by his recent statement: “I will strain every effort.” Surely, if he is a competent Chancellor, he would be doing the job effortlessly? The local election results point to the inadequacies
I CANNOT believe that Saj Malik – a councillor who is part of a council responsible for the care and well-being of a university city, full of young and vulnerable students who are hopefully going to contribute to our nation’s future – should not only
WE are fed up. So Prime Minister David Cameron thinks he knows how the British People are thinking and he has heard our voice after the elections. Here's my tenpence worth – or 12p after VAT! We are fed up with paying 20 per cent VAT. We are fed
PLEASE can I thank the flytipping clean-up team which was on duty in Oxford on Saturday, May 5? I telephoned the city council to say there was a very dangerous glass and wood window, propped up against a tree in Old Marston Road, Marston. The window
I SEE that the Government is, once again, trying to cut costs by making it more difficult to claim invalidity benefit and then insisting that the people affected search for work – but where is this work to come from? There was a time when local manufacturers
Am I the only person who hugs the Tesco’s delivery man? He just left looking terrified and I wasn’t that physically brutal. I always leave it until we’re reduced to casseroling The Rabbit’s sawdust (a hungrier man might be eyeballing The Rabbit
Swimmers celebrated the reopening of the refurbished Hinksey Pool on Saturday. Completion of a project to create new changing rooms and toilets and to improve the pool was delayed due to bad weather. Jonathan Ree took his 11-year-old daughter Lotte
More than a hundred visitors got steamed up for a good cause at Didcot Railway Centre on Saturday. Visitors paid £5 a pop to drive a vintage engine with all proceeds going to Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
A car and a bus were involved in a collision in Ashurst Way, Rose Hill, on Saturday. The single-deck City Three bus service was on its way into the city centre when the accident happened at 11pm. Fire crews attended but a spokesman for the Oxford Bus
OXFORD United are expecting to receive answers from the three players offered new contracts within the next 48 hours. Of the eight first-team players whose deals expired this summer, only Adam Chapman, Asa Hall and Wayne Brown were given the chance to
OXFORDSHIRE kept their hopes alive of qualifying from Group 1 in the MCCA Trophy with an emphatic 102-run victory over Bedfordshire at Cople Argus yesterday. Following a wash-out and a defeat in their opening two matches, Oxon knew a win was imperative
Goalkeeper Jamie Leach held on to his catch after he and wife-to-be Kate Harvey tied the knot thanks to The Oxford Mail. Miss Harvey, 25, and Mr Leach, 27, wed at Oxford Town Hall on Saturday after triumphing in this paper’s Win Your Wedding
A RECORD-BREAKING 31st Town and Gown event saw the winner stride over the line in the race’s fastest ever finish time. Edao Weliy yesterday became the first competitor to run the 10km course around Oxford city centre in under 30 minutes, with
It’s not often we get such a vivid example of helping causes abroad. But yesterday Edao Weliy set a new record at Oxford’s annual Town & Gown, coming under 30 minutes. The 25-year-old Ethopian was helped in his training by Running Across Borders, set
Our front-page story today reports on how campaigners are trying to shatter one of the last taboos around domestic violence. Women are often chastisted for not speaking out about their suffering or leaving their abusive partners. But many balk at suggestions
Three men were taken to hospital after three cars crashed on the Green Road Roundabout in London Road, Headington. The accident happened at 8.14pm on Friday and three fire crews cut one man from his vehicle. Watch Manager Paul Riley said: “The professionalism
PASTOR Maldonado ended Williams’s long wait for a Formula 1 victory by taking a historic chequered flag in yesterday’s Spanish Grand Prix. Within a month of founder Sir Frank Williams’s 70th birthday, this was the team’s first win since the
Lottery funding of £1.5m has been awarded to Oxford Brookes University to help tackle substance abuse and antisocial behaviour in young people. The investment from the Big Lottery Fund will allow the university’s Strengthening Families Programme to be
A MOTORIST was rescued by firefighters after two cars crashed on Oxford's ring road this morning. The crash happened on the stretch from Headington to Cutteslowe at around 1.30am. One person had to be rescued from their car by the fire service
When Becky was beaten up by her partner shortly after coming home with her newborn daughter, she knew things had to change. The 41-year-old’s partner had abused her throughout their 20-year relationship and would snap “over nothing” she told
A SPECIAL school which won a new sensory garden in last year’s Save Our Schools competition is urging others to enter. For the fourth year running, the Oxford Mail has teamed up with Abingdon-based construction company Leadbitter for the Save Our Schools
