The A34 was closed in both directions following a "medical emergency". The road was shut both ways earlier this evening between the Marcham Road interchange at Abingdon and Hinksey Hill at Oxford. A spokesman for South Central Ambulance
THE A34 is shut both ways between Marcham Road and Hinksey Hill tonight following a traffic incident. It is not yet known the nature or extent of the incident but Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service says it has not sent any staff to the incident
A CAMPAIGN to stop dog fouling is being launched in Barton. Oxford City Council’s community response team will be carrying out a dog fouling blitz as part of the Cleaner, Greener Barton campaign. They will also be issuing fixed penalty notices under
A CHILDREN'S centre in Wantage is to open its new £3,000 garden tomorrow with an activities day for parents and toddlers. The Parents And Children Together (PACT) centre at the Butler Centre, in Church Street, is hosting the Jubilee-themed garden party
A DRUG dealer was found with half a kilo of cannabis and a stun gun at Oxford Brookes University. Joseph Byrne, who has a previous conviction for possessing a stun gun, was given a suspended prison sentence at Oxford Crown Court on Friday.
IT WAS meant to be an intimate tea party but in the end nearly 100 people turned up from across the world to celebrate Catherine “Kitt” Evans’s 100th birthday. Family members had come from as far afield as the US and China for the party at the Witney
Del Boy once tried to make a tidy little profit from a church roof in an episode of TV favourite Only Fools and Horses. But he showed his caring side by helping out at Launton village fete on Saturday. Del Boy impersonator, played by Ian McIlrath, pictured
POLICE are searching for a missing deaf man last seen three weeks ago. Brian Kraus, 24, was seen at his home in Swallow Close, Bicester, on Wednesday, June 13, but was reported missing to police yesterday. His family have told police
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SOME Olympic competitors may think they have it tough, but Wantage’s Ray Collins gave them something to think about this weekend. The town’s Market Place was closed to traffic on Sunday so he could tackle a series of gruelling physical challenges
THIS group of men about to tackle a sponsored drag walk for an Oxfordshire hospice have never looked so good. A group of 15 friends, all regulars at the Blackbird Inn, in Croughton, raised nearly £800 for Adderbury’s Katherine House Hospice on Saturday
EVERY mother’s worst nightmare came true for Jo French when tests showed six-year-old son Chris had acute myeloid leukemia. Four years later, Chris is in remission and Jo is getting ready to do a 100ft abseil to thank a cancer charity that helped them
ANDY Watt left home at the crack of dawn for a gentle ride to London and was back in time for lunch. The keen cyclist, right, joined thousands of others who took part in three separate rides that all converged on Oxford on Sunday. But to make it just
THE Rev Hilary Campbell, team vicar of Kidlington with Hampton Poyle, is lacing up her hiking boots to pound every street in her parish in aid of the St John's renovation project. For more than half a century, St John the Baptist Church in The Broadway
Banbury's Marussia F1 team issued an update on test driver Maria De Villota following her crash at Duxford today. In a statement the team said: “Further to the accident involving the Marussia F1 Team’s Test Driver Maria De Villota this morning
On a royal holiday — or any other day for that matter — there is no better activity than walking along a ridge, monarch of all you survey. Even better when the walk takes you along one of Oxfordshire’s crowning glories — the Ridgeway. Most
OXFORD City's Hannah England has been selected in the British athletics team for London 2012. The 25-year-old will compete in the 1,500m - the event in which she won a silver medal at the 2011 World Championships.
HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW by Christina Gallea (Book Guild, £17.99)For 25 years Christina Gallea and her husband Alexander Roy toured the world with the small classical ballet company that they founded together, initially called International Ballet
THREE HOUSES, MANY LIVES by Gillian Tindall (Chatto & Windus, £18.99)Every now and then a book comes along that is somehow different from the rest: idiosyncratic; weirdly constructed; thought-provoking. This is just such a book. Tindall has the ability
Catharine Gregory is a keen long-distance walker. So when she had a baby last year, she was keen to continue her hobby and keep fit. But she discovered that most of her favourite walks were no longer possible once her son got too big for a sling. So
PROTESTERS have vowed to fight on against a proposal to extract five million tonnes of gravel from fields between Wallingford and Cholsey. About 200 protesters rode the Bunkline railway, which runs between the two communities, to raise money
AN EIGHT-YEAR campaign for a zebra crossing to help primary school pupils across a busy road in Grove has finally paid off. Construction work has now started to install the crossing in Denchworth Road near the Bay Tree pub. The £20,000 crossing will
Maria De Villota, a test driver for the Banbury-based Marussia team, has been taken to hospital with "life-threatening injuries" after suffering an accident in Cambridgeshire this morning. The 32-year-old Spaniard was taking part in her first test for
AS DIDCOT Girls’ School looks forward to a new future as an academy, former staff and pupils gathered to look back at its 80-year history. The school in Manor Crescent expects to become an academy in time for the start of the new academic year
YOUNGSTERS in the south of the county are being encouraged to sign up to try a range of sports and activities over the summer. Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire District Councils have unveiled their joint summer activities programme for those
PARENTS got together to celebrate the dedicated Oxford hospital staff who helped bring their children into the world. The Silver Star unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington is renowned for the care it provides women with difficulties during
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House prices in the county have risen to their highest level for almost four years. Latest figures from the Government’s Land Registry show the average cost of a home was £241,290 in May, up 0.8 per cent on the previous month. The last time prices were
CHERWELL LEAGUE Division 5 NEIL Smith took 5-47 from 17 overs for Tiddington 2nd, but could not quite propel his side to victory over Didcot. The hosts looked set to win when Henry Brisland fell for 71 and Ian Demain for 53, but the last pair clung
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save a swimming pool have launched a new bid to convince Oxford City Council to change its mind. The council plans to knock down Temple Cowley Pools and replace the ageing centre with a new £9m complex next to the Blackbird
The draw for the annual Jim Newman Memorial Cup pre-season at Clanfield’s Radcot Road ground, which starts on July 25, has been made. FULL DRAW Preliminary round: Wed, July 25: Bibury v Eynsham (7.30); Quarter-finals: Sat, July 28: Milton Utd v Fairford
BANBURY: A driver was freed by firefighters after his 4x4 vehicle crashed into a lamp-post and a wall in Oxford Road yesterday. He was taken to The Horton Hospital after the crash outside the Sainsbury’s supermarket at 5.40am. His condition was not known
KIDLINGTON: A new Co-op supermarket has opened, creating 16 jobs. Pupils from St Thomas More Primary School cut the ribbon to officially open the shop in Oxford Road. It is the second Co-op in the village, with the other being situated in High Street
OXFORD: In yesterday’s Oxford Mail we reported the case of a 23-year-old woman who admitted assault. Elisha Layden, who appeared at Oxford Crown Court on Friday, admitted assaulting Mark Partlett but we incorrectly described him as a police officer.
A NON-emergency telephone number for around-the-clock access to NHS services is to be rolled out in Oxfordshire later this month. The 111 line will dispense advice but also organise out of hours care from GPs, community nurses or an ambulance. The line
IF THERE is nothing else to admire about them, the Save Temple Cowley Pools campaigners are persistent. They say they have more than 1,500 signatures to force Oxford City Council into a debate on scrapping the facility and not building the
CHERWELL LEAGUE Divisions 6-10 MATTHEW White took 6-19 as Oxford & Bletchingdon Nondecsripts 2nd beat Bletchley Town 2nd by six wickets in Division 6. White’s haul helped dismiss Bletchley for 97, Jude Ramandanpulle top-scoring with 47. Garry
A 19-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of causing arson with intent to endanger life. Firefighters and police were called to a flat in West End, Witney, after a fire broke out in the hallway at about 5.40am on Sunday. It is believed the occupants
CHERWELL LEAGUE Division 2 A TERRIFIC team performance by leaders Oxford 2nd saw them thrash Long Marston by 117 runs. First, Stefan van Dyk (66), Taylor Beatty (50) and Mark Sheehan (38) saw the hosts to 254-9 from only 41 overs. Pete Toovey
CHERWELL LEAGUE Division 3 BLEDLOW Village beat Banbury 3rd by one wicket in a thrilling finish to claim second place. In a rain-affected match Banbury’s innings was cut to 44 overs, from which they managed 128-6. Jamie Coles hit 32 and Mickey
OXON: Two men have been charged with a series of six burglaries over the past month. Florin Mica, 43, and Marian Uruca, 34, both of Gatewick Close, Slough, are accused of breaking into houses in Drayton, Kingston Bagpuize and Blewbury.
VIRGIN Group boss Sir Richard Branson told how he completed his latest “great adventure”, becoming the oldest person to kite-surf across the English Channel. The 61-year-old crossed the 30-mile stretch from Dymchurch in Kent to Wimereux, near Boulogne
CHERWELL LEAGUE Division 4 HANBOROUGH stunned morning leaders Cublington, bowling them out for 173 and clinching a shock 32-run win. The visitors made 205-9, thanks principally to Andy Oliver (52). Greg Jenkins took 4-56 and Ben Orchard 3-55.
A coveted place at The Open Championship is on the line for five Oxfordshire golfers in local final qualifying action on Tuesday (July 3). Competition will be fierce, with experienced professionals and talented amateurs battling for the last 12 places
North Leigh boss Mark Gee hopes former Cambridge City striker Mitchell Bryant and ex-Forest Green midfielder Wayne Turk will help them to promotion after signing for the Evo-Stik Southern League Division 1 South & West side. Last season, North Leigh
CHERWELL LEAGUE Division 1 CUMNOR were bowled out for only 62 and so suffered a humiliating 194-run defeat at Buckingham Town. Wayne Platts took 7-20 and Simon Myatt finished with 3-32 as the visitors were blown away in 21.1 overs. Earlier all
They’re not a bad outfit, the Ploughman’s Bunch! (Wolvercote). My lot, that’s the North Oxford Conservative Club (Summertown), hosted them last Thursday, and we had the temerity to forge a five-point lead after three rounds. Well, red rag to a bull!
Richard Bryant should get his facts right about the lottery funding for play and leisure facilities in Wood Farm (Oxford Mail ViewPoints, June 25). Oxford City Council’s former north east area committee, parks department staff, the Churchill Community
I READ with interest the report about the (long overdue) memorial to the airmen from Bomber Command who lost their lives during the Second World War (Friday’s Oxford Mail). I couldn’t believe we had to get “German blessing”. I understand that many
I WOULD like to invite your readers to help me raise awareness of an important new information website for parents which is very close to my heart. The Brain Injury Hub (braininjuryhub.co.uk) provides comprehensive information and support to the parents
So John Tanner (ViewPoints, June 19) is happy to decry the disaster of the half baked Cogges Link Road but then announces his own harebrained scheme to prioritise bus, cycle and pedestrian traffic in Witney. I can’t think of a better way to create gridlock
It is with great satisfaction that I write about probably one of the best Oxfordshire mountain bike demo days this year, because not only were the bikes of the highest standard and the attendees the loveliest, but I get to boast that the whole thing was
A TEENAGER who went on a “rampage of crime” has been jailed for two years and three months. Anthony Shirley, 19, of no fixed address, appeared at Oxford Crown Court yesterday for sentence on 10 charges, ranging from theft of a pedal cycle to possession
MORE than £8m is to be spent on upgrading Junction nine of the M40 in an attempt to cut traffic congestion. The Government has allocated £6.5m to the project and Oxfordshire County Council a further £2m to increase capacity at the junction and ease tailbacks
Oxford City manager Mike Ford says he can’t wait for the season to start after learning they will host highly-fancied Chester when their Blue Square Bet North campaign kicks off on August 18. City were hoping to avoid their home games coinciding with
Once upon a time a man called George Osborne thought he had a very a good day. He had given the banks a lot of taxpayers’ money and he thought this would solve all of his problems. He went to bed a very happy man and as he drifted off to sleep, he
ARTICLES you have published in recent months give the impression that the shortage of primary school places in Oxfordshire is due to factors outside of the control of the local education authority. While we cannot comment on the situation in Oxfordshire
CHERWELL LEAGUE GRAHAM SCOTT’S MATCH OF THE DAY – HORSPATH V OXFORD DOWNS HORSPATH saw their match curtailed by rain for the third week running, but remain hot favourites to win Division 1 for the second time in three seasons. On each of the previous
igures recorded by researchers at the Radcliffe Meteorological Station at Green Templeton College in Woodstock Road, make it the wettest June since 1852 – when 193mm of rain were recorded – and the second wettest since records began in 1767. Oxford University
A ROBBER who had to be let out of the shop he was holding up after failing to negotiate the door has been jailed for three years. James Allan, 28, of no fixed abode, was described by his own lawyer yesterday as “bumbling and incompetent” during the attack
VILLAGERS who don’t have their own pub have turned to the church for inspiration. Holy Trinity Church in Ascott-under-Wychwood is to become the Trinity Arms on Friday. And thanks to a deal with a microbrewery based at the nearby Fox at Leafield there
IT’S JUST miserable out there, isn’t it? We British are famous for moaning about the weather, half the time complaining the temperature in the back garden in Marston isn’t the same as the Med. But to be fair this summer has been woeful and,
WHEATLEY: A man who commited ten counts of fraud has been warned he is likely to face prison. Ezra Rees, 23, of London Road, used bankcards belonging to Teresa Funge to obtain a total of £1,470 on ten separate occasions. He was due to be sentenced at
OXFORD: The teenager accused of stabbing hip hop artist Aaron Buron, known as AZ, has denied murder. Haydan O’Callaghan, 18, of Saunders Road, East Oxford, appeared before Oxford Crown Court yesterday on a charge of murdering Mr Buron on March
OXFORDSHIRE faces a summer washout with tourism, business, farmers, sport and community events all affected by the ongoing downpours. June was one of the county’s wettest since records began and last night weather experts warned it was not
A man touched himself “inappropriately” in front of two women as they walked along Headington Road. They were walking towards London Road, Headington, and had reached the bridge when they were confronted by a motorcyclist touching himself in
AROUND 360 jobs will be lost at Thames Valley Police as the force tries to save £55m by March 2015. A report into police cuts, published yesterday by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), reveals about 120 of these will be police officers
GARSINGTON returned to the top of OCA Division 1 with a three-wicket victory at Great Horwood as the wet summer again made a big impact on the league programme. With title contenders Oxenford and Broughton having their games washed out, Garsington
STEPHEN Thompson was the difference as OCA Division 8 title contenders Steventon beat Chesterton 2nd by 140 runs. Thompson hit a magnificent 141 not out in Steventon’s 310-5 before Chesterton fell to 170 all out. Paul Duester (snr) starred
NEWCASTLE Falcons have confirmed they will not be appealing against their relegation to the Championship. Their announcement means there are no longer any barriers to London Welsh playing in the Premiership next season at Oxford's Kassam Stadium.
Oxford United’s squad are expected to report back in shape for pre-season training this week after following fitness programmes since the end of last season. The players’ physical condition will be assessed on Friday, ahead of full sessions beginning
CHILDREN at Charlton-on-Otmoor Primary School are hoping to clean up if they win our Leadbitter School Build SOS competition. Literally. The Fencott Road school is one of the six shortlisted for this year’s competition to win £7,500 worth of building
PEOPLE from across Didcot came together in memory of two young men who died in a car crash earlier this summer. Jack Varney and Rhys Roberts died in the crash on the A4130 at Hadden Hill in the early hours of Monday, May 28. Their Peugeot 306 was travelling
CHILDREN dressed up as fairies and kings, caught bubbles and dined on strawberries and cream. Scores of people went along to a summer fete hosted by mental health charity Restore at its base in Manzil Way, Cowley Road, Oxford, on Saturday.
OXFORDSHIRE’S ambulance service has been recognised for its campaign to put an end to hoax calls. The ‘999 Misuse Costs Lives’ campaign was launched in January after South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust received 1,235 hoax calls in 2011
