BENSON: Two men appeared in court on Saturday charged with a string of offences after a Benson pub worker was allegedly tied up by raiders. The incident happened at the Three Horseshoes pub in Oxford Road at about 3.40am on Friday. Thomas Somarakis,
WORKERS, business leaders, politicians and union officials have welcomed the news BMW is to pump another £250m into production of the Mini. The majority of the new cash, which follows £500m invested just a year ago, is earmarked for the Cowley
A 49-year-old woman is still fighting for her life in hospital after suffering severe head injuries in a crash on the A44 south of Yarnton on Friday. The passenger was travelling in a silver Morgan before the head-on crash with a Volkswagen Golf
A ROBBER threatened staff at Aldi with a knife yesterday morning and made off with “a substantial amount” of cash in a holdall. The robbery happened at the Botley Road, Oxford, store at about 9am and police were last night still hunting for the suspect
AFTER six years in the making, Abingdon’s iconic County Hall Museum has reopened after a £3.5m facelift. The 17th century museum, in the Old County Hall building in Market Place, was closed in October 2010 for the work. About 650 people came to see
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FOR some parents losing a child can mean losing all hope. But for James Phillpott, losing his baby daughter has made him even more determined to make sure her short life is remembered – and in turn, brings hope to others. Amber, from Abingdon, died
RUFUS Wainwright is anything but predictable. As comfortable singing showtunes in sheer stockings as he is at the business end of a piano in a lounge suit, he is a creative, challenging and startlingly-talented artist whose shows are often
Two incidents of indecent exposure in the Witney area last Wednesday are being linked by police. A man was seen inappropriately touching himself on the 242 Stagecoach bus from Woodstock to Witney soon after 3.20pm on July 5. A dog walker
THE headteacher of an Abingdon primary school has been given an early retirement present. Susan Gore, headteacher of Carswell Primary School in Bostock Road, is set to finish her teaching career at the end of the school term after 37 years in the profession
AN 18-year-old man is in a stable condition in hospital after “falling out” of a car on the M40 last night. The man fell from a black car between Junction 10 for Ardley and 9 for Bicester on the southbound carriageway at around 6.30pm. A police
AFTER the city hosted a successful international tournament of the game Quidditch an Oxford player is hoping to take his team to the sport’s World Cup. The game was invented by author JK Rowling in the popular Harry Potter books. And Cutteslowe Park
The annual Hobby Horse Festival and Town Mayor’s Sunday took place at the weekend. The day this year had an Olympics theme and revellers took part in sporting events and watched demonstrations at the People’s Park event. Town mayor Tony
IT STARTED life in the nineteenth century as the spiritual home of religious order the Cowley Fathers. Now St John the Evangelist Church in Iffley Road is becoming Oxford’s latest arts and concert venue, thanks to a multi-million pound investment
A LEARNER driver who told police it was his brother at the wheel of his BMW when he was stopped has been jailed for four months. Neil Manly, who held only a provisional licence but had already racked up six penalty points, took the car for
OXFORD has missed out on the chance to become UNESCO World Book Capital, it has been confirmed. The city was bidding to win the title for 2014 but it has instead gone to Port Harcourt in Nigeria. Oxford’s bid, one of eleven worldwide, was co-ordinated
Greene King ODDA Winter League Premier Section leaders Chequers marched on at the top of the table after a 7-2 triumph at Rose Hill Community Centre. Pete Hall led the way with two maximums, while Jon Jukes and Phil Addison soon put the visitors 3-0
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Biotech firm Oxford Biomedica has announced that Phase II trials of its bowel cancer vaccine, Trovax are due to start. The study will be funded by Cardiff University and Cancer Research Wales and will involve 54 patients with inoperable forms of the
Gavin Henson, who has signed for London Welsh, rose to national prominence during the 2005 Six Nations and has maintained a high profile ever since. The 23-year-old, renowned for his fake tan, kicked a monster penalty to seal Wales’s 11-9 over
Chadlington booked their place in semi-finals of the OCA League's Airey Cup with a crushing eight-wicket victory over Westcott. After a complete league wash-out on Saturday, Chadlington capitalised on a damp pitch to dismiss their visitors for only 82
Didcot Town kick off their pre-season programme obn July 10 when they host Premier League new boys Reading in the first of two top friendlies at the npower Loop Meadow Stadium (7.45pm). The Royals, who reached the top flight last season after winning
Thousands of well-wishers gathered in Wallingford this morning to give a warm welcome to the Olympic Torch. Council officials estimated that more than 7,000 people gathered in the town centre to wave on the Olympic Flame after it arrived shortly
Kassam Stadium general manager Michael Doyle is confident the new groundshare between Oxford United and London Welsh will work well. Welsh will make their Premiership debut at Oxford’s Kassam Stadium on Sunday, September 2 when they host Leicester Tigers
It was, ironically for an Olympian event, a slow start. At 2pm on The Plain, you would have no more suspected an event of historical proportion was but hours away than believed Barclays manipulated its interest rates to benefit the poor. It was that dead
Oxfordshire's Annabel Vernon, Katie Greves, Lindsey Maguire, Louisa Reeve and Victoria Thornley have been confirmed in the women’s rowing eight for London 2012. They were named yesterday, alongside cox and Oxford Mail columnist Caroline O’Connor, in
Oxford City’s Hannah England will face tough competition on her return from injury in Friday’s London Diamond League meeting. The 25-year-old world 1,500m silver medallist has not competed since having her Achilles spiked during the Fanny Blankers-Koen
Adam Chapman insisted he always wanted to stay at Oxford United after lengthy contract negotiations ended yesterday with the midfielder signing a new two-year deal. The 22-year-old had seemed to be heading for the exit after rejecting both the initial
I’m in training. In August we’re doing an organised 45-mile off-road ride to Charlbury and back. I thought it would be a chummy affair, the kind of ride where I scoff so many high-energy snacks that I can’t face a square meal for days afterwards and
FURTHER to my letter (Oxford Mail ViewPoints, June 27) warning potential customers at Sainsbury’s Kidlington supermarket of the unsafe walkway to the main entrance. I am pleased to report that after complaining to the manager, those trip points have
WHILE applauding the phenomenal work of the scientists with the Large Hadron Collider in identifying the “God particle” (their terminology), I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at Dr Alan Barr’s comment (Thursday’s Oxford Mail) in which he says: “The
IS Ian Cummings (Friday’s Oxford Mail ViewPoints), a supporter of the bankers? He is right when he berates Brown, Balls and Darling for causing economic damage to this country (a policy ably supported by Tories, by the way). But he’s dead wrong to
On Sunday Jake Spicer’s family were marking three years since he died after a long battle with cancer. But yesterday they pushed their sadness behind them as father Michael Spicer proudly held the Olympic flame aloft. The 50-year-old
THE attempt by the Conservative-controlled county council to stop the high-speed railway between London and Birmingham is a disgrace. Investment in HS2 is just what we need to get Britain out of its double-dip recession. We need the kind of vision
In 1962, Community Service Volunteers (CSV) came to life placing its first full-time volunteer in a hostel for the homeless. We now help more than 140,000 people volunteer every year. Over the past 50 years we have supported almost three million people
HAVING grown up in the inter-war years when only boys and men were considered capable of using wood and metal for work or leisure handicrafts, I have been amazed by the extremely high standards of design, manufacture, construction and finish of furniture
I WOULD like to wish the Excelsior Cafe all the best for their reopening after their brief closure last week (Friday’s Oxford Mail). I have many happy memories of the Excelsior Cafe in Cowley Road. My first boyfriend and I loved to have a cup of their
With a break from league action, the North Oxford Conservative Club (Summertown) last Thursday staged the latest in the series of themed ‘Tabletop’ quizzes, on the USA. Having come off second best the previous week in a league encounter with fellow
A woman was dragged into the grounds of an Oxford care home and sexually assaulted last night. The victim, who is in her 20s, told police she was grabbed by a man in Banbury Road and taken into the grounds of Fairfield Residential Home at about
TWENTY-three years ago, Olympic Torch designer Jay Osgerby was an art student at Oxford Brookes University. And yesterday, he returned to his home turf on the same day as his iconic creation. Mr Osgerby, who now lives in South London
POLICE are understood to be at the scene of an alleged sexual assault in North Oxford. Thames Valley Police press office was this morning unable to confirm the reports.
THE eyes of the world may have been imagining the dreaming spires. But residents of Blackbird Leys, Cowley and East Oxford yesterday showed their pride that there is so much more to Oxford. Thousands of residents, waving flags and cheering
London Welsh head coach Lyn Jones hopes new signing Gavin Henson can draw a line under his chequered past. The 30-year-old Welsh international centre yesterday joi-ned the Exiles, who will play at Oxford’s Kassam Stadium in the Aviva Premiership
“YOU have earned it.” Those were the words of Prime Minister David Cameron as he praised cancer campaigner and Olympic torchbearer Clive Stone. Hundreds of people watched and cheered as Mr Stone ran through Woodstock’s streets carrying
A JUBILANT Abingdon has celebrated the 0lympic Torch visit. Hundreds of people lined Oxford Road to welcome the torch and hundreds more saw it come through Stert Street and Bridge Street. Torchbearer Margaret Brown, from Abingdon, was
08.57: That's the end of our live Olympic Torch coverage today. Hope you've enjoyed it! See today and tomorrow's Oxford Mail for pictures and more coverage. 08.56: The torch has left Crowmarsh Gifford and is now heading to Nettlebed
DONNINGTON Bridge was lined with people waving flags and cheering as the torch went past shortly before 7.30am. Families, commuters and fellow residents made the effort to get up early and showed community spirit in their hundreds. Catherine
SIR Roger Bannister proudly carried the Olympic flame aloft at the scene of his 1954 four minute mile triumph this morning. He carried the flame the short distance at the finishing line at the Roger Bannister Running Track at about 7am.
OXFORDSHIRE Fire and Rescue Service’s control room could be run from Berkshire in two years’ time, with 22 jobs lost. Oxfordshire County council and councils which form the Royal Berkshire Fire Service are proposing the creation of a joint control room
AN OXFORD primary school used its fair at the weekend to boost its chances of winning a grant to improve its facilities. St Nicholas Primary School in Marston is one of six in Oxfordshire which have been shortlisted for the School Build SOS
OXFORD City Council will be spending more than £200,000 buying electric vehicles over the next four years. The council has already bought two electric Citroen cars and expects to replace up to nine cars and vans with electric vehicles during this financial
