A MAN has suffered serious injuries after a car crashed off the M40 and landed in a field upside down. Paramedics were called to the crash on the northbound carriageway between junctions 7 and 8 just after 6pm today. An ambulance spokesman
IF YOU think you still have time to get across a railway level crossing as you drive up to it with the warning lights and klaxons blaring, think again. You could be being watched by police using the latest piece of level crossing safety equipment
A car smashed through shop doors to raid a pharmacy in Wallingford this morning. The small grey vehicle was spotted by two witnesses and caught on CCTV reversing through the doors of Boots in Wallingford Market Place at around 5am. Boots store
THE sixth annual Oxford Senior Citizens’ Film Festival will be the best yet, according to the organisers. Co-sponsored by the Oxford Mail and the Phoenix Picturehouse in Walton Street, Jericho, the three-day festive get-together is also supported
THE multi-million-pound scheme to redevelop Oxford and Cherwell Valley College’s Oxpens campus could be just the start of a bright future. A new riverfront cafe, hair and beauty salon and river walkway are all part of the £6m scheme. But it
People convicted of offences at Oxford Magistrates' Court recently: Steven Sinclair, 22, of Garsington Road, Oxford, admitted stealing a carrier bag containing personal items in Divinity Road, Oxford, on October 14. Given a 12-month conditional
HANDING over your eight-year-old son, knowing you will probably never see him again, would be most parents’ nightmare. But in 1913, when Donald and Harriet Willis of Cowley gave their son Ernest to the anthropologist Kingsley Fairbridge, they believed
PART of the northbound M40 is closed tonight after a car crashed off the motorway. One lane is closed between junctions 7 and 8 whilst emergency services work to recover a car that has gone into a ditch and overturned. Live updates on the closure
A lane is closed on a busy Oxfordshire road near Bicester after a collision between a car and van. The incident happened earlier this afternoon on the A34 northbound before junction nine of the M40 and the junction with the A41 for Bicester.
Global sales of the Cowley-built Mini grew by 6.6 per cent in November, latest figures from parent company BMW show. A total of 25,077 cars were sold during the month and in the first 11 months of the year, sales have increased by 6.7 per cent
THE Didcot Thong Rangers have raised more than £500 to help a baby boy who has an undiagnosed debilitating illness. At 13 months old, Albie Logan’s illness causes him to have seizures every two hours, and he requires 24-hour care. His mum Claire
STAFF at an animal rescue centre need help to make life nice for a mischief of mice. More than 150 mice were found starving in an abandoned pet shop in Belfast, and have arrived in Oxfordshire to be rehomed. Now they’re at the Blue Cross rehoming
A MAJOR survey asking Oxfordshire firms to record their views on burning business issues has been launched. The Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) aims to receive feedback from thousands of businesses and individuals in a bid to build
A COUNCIL leader has backed giving councillors more generous allowances by putting them up by two per cent for the first time in three years. Vale of White Horse District Council leader Matthew Barber supports boosting allowances for 51 members
A FORMER porter of an Oxford University college has been sentenced to nine months in jail after admitting making more than 2,000 indecent images of children. Nigel Edgington, of Crosslands Drive, Abingdon, was charged with six counts of making
HUNDREDS of people filled Abingdon town centre for a Christmas craft fair on Saturday. People of all ages turned up to enjoy dozens of stalls selling a range of clothes, gifts and homemade products. The craft fair also featured local choirs
A HOMEOWNER is furious a council has stopped him building a house in his back garden, but earmarked fields opposite his property for 700 homes. Brize Norton resident Don Pilbeam, 69, hoped to build a four-bedroom house in the back garden of his
Right, let's open our #oufc chat for business. We're here for the next hour to discuss all-things U's related. Who's first? — @OxfordMailOUFC 10 December 2012 Some potential talking pts: What were your thoughts on
Previous winners, sponsors and high profile supporters gathered to mark the launch of the 2013 Oxfordshire Business Awards. A special party was staged in the historic surroundings of Blenheim Palace at Woodstock to mark the occasion and invite
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OXFORD Daniel Ludlow, 48, of Wellington Street, Oxford, admitted assault by beating in St Aldate’s, Oxford, on August 25. Fined £160, £15 victims’ surcharge, and £40 costs. Gerar Mpungi, 31, of Burchester Avenue, Headington, Oxford, convicted
IN THE past, pupils had simply drawn while sitting at their desks. But all that changed at Headington Junior School in Oxford in 1962 when new easels arrived. Children had to stand rather than sit, but as soon as they started work, a marked
GEOFF Axe’s letter about an air crash at Iffley, Oxford, 60 years ago brought a large response from readers. Many recalled running from Rose Hill, Iffley and Donnington Schools to the scene during their lunch hour after the twin-engined RAF Valetta
FORTY pupils at the village primary school swam 444 lengths of their swimming pool and raised £180 towards the parish church restoration appeal in 1976. In the picture, Neil Fletcher, centre, and Jason Lowe hand the money to church treasurer Wally
A widow has criticised a council for not checking plots for graves were fit for purpose before they were sold. Two days before her husband was buried Jackie Flynn was forced to go to Bicester cemetery and choose a new plot despite buying one eight
THE family of a woman who was found dead in a Burford stream have refused to accept a coroner’s verdict of suicide. Wendy Leckenby, of Meadow End, Fullbrook, was found in the Mill Stream, near Church Lane, at 9.35am on August 3. An inquest
BERT Lee and George Walker were members of a concert party which raised money for wartime charities. We were reminded of their musical talents when we published a picture of them, sent in by Sheila Charles, of Wendlebury (Memory Lane, November
ANOTHER picture of the good work schoolchildren did in the community has come to light. We told (Memory Lane, October 29) how pupils at Peers School, Littlemore, helped elderly and disabled people with decorating, gardening and shopping. Teams
MOST schools chose the traditional Nativity play as their end-of-term production. But Headington Quarry First School in Oxford opted for a different approach in 1983. The theme of its play that year was cold, frost and winter – everything to
STANTON HARCOURT: A primary school could admit children as young as three after plans to close a nearby pre-school were announced. Today cabinet member for education Melinda Tilley is set to rule on plans to extend Stanton Harcourt primary school
BANBURY: An Oxfordshire soldier has been given an award for patching up her team after she had been badly injured by a bomb blast. Lance Corporal Hayley Ridgeway, 24, from Banbury, was honoured at the Sun’s Millies ceremony, which will be screened
OXFORD: A woman motorist was taken to hospital following an accident in which her vehicle left the M40 ending up on its side. The crash involved two minibuses and a car and took place on the southbound carriageway between junction 6 at Lewknor
HUNDREDS of homes were left without power following a suspected cable fault in Oxford. On Saturday morning engineers from Southern Eclectic were called out to address the problem, which left 800 houses without power at just after 6am. By 8am
PIONEERING workshops are helping cancer sufferers regain their dignity after losing their hair. The Churchill Hospital in Oxford has piloted a new patient care programme called Linda’s Great Lengths, which will now roll out across the country.
ACTIVISTS campaigning against tax avoidance held a protest inside an Oxford Starbucks on Saturday. As part of nationwide action by campaign group UK Uncut, a small group gathered inside the chain’s Cornmarket Street branch. UK Uncut is demanding
PONY rides, a brass band, and a visit from Santa all helped mark the start of Christmas festivities in Rose Hill. Dozens of people came out for the Oval Christmas Lights Switch-On event. Scores of lights have been draped around trees and dozens
BOSSES at Oxford’s Westgate Shopping Centre have opposed plans for the expansion of Bicester Village, claiming it will damage trade in the city. Two planning bids have been launched, one for a new 8,135sqm Tesco store opposite its current position
BUILD it, and they will come, the saying goes. Bicester Village has certainly taken this to heart, making a huge success of the major shopping destination. The Westgate Oxford Alliance would do well to heed the same advice. Bicester’s plans
ONE of Oxford’s three mosques is seeking to expand to cater for the hundreds of Muslims who attend each day. Currently, the Madina Mosque in Stanley Road has to divide worshippers into two sittings for Friday prayers — the busiest service of the
ON FRIDAY it was own clothes day at school, for £1 each, so I spent the rising dawn rummaging in odd nooks and crannies scooping together a grand total of £2.50 in loose change, and wondering which child would volunteer to go to school only half clothed
DIDCOT Town’s poor form continued as they suffered a disastrous second-half collapse in a 4-1 defeat away to fellow Division 1 South & West strugglers Bishops Cleeve on Saturday. The Railwaymen actually led at half-time, but then went off the
KIDLINGTON conceded a last-minute penalty to suffer an agonising 3-2 defeat away to Larkhall Athletic in the third round of the FA Carlsberg Vase on Saturday. Keeper Matt Dixon got his hand to Simon Gilbert’s spot-kick, but could not prevent it
BANBURY United’s topsy-turvy season continued with a notable 3-1 Premier Division victory over in-form Bashley at the Spencer Stadium on Saturday. The Hampshire visitors arrived at the ground on the back of three consecutive wins, but showed little
JAKE Wright admitted it was difficult to put thoughts of Mitchell Cole to one side in Saturday’s 1-1 draw with Aldershot Town in npower League Two. The squad warmed up in commemorative T-shirts and took part in a minute’s applause in tribute to
A CATHOLIC Bishop has said marriage could be “destroyed” if David Cameron pushes ahead with allowing same-sex weddings. The Rt Rev Philip Egan, Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth, has said the plans to extend the right to marry would have “catastrophic
OXFORD: Witnesses are still being sought following a fight on a bus. The incident, which police have only just revealed, took place last Tuesday at 11.20pm, when three people on the Stagecoach S1 bus driving along Oxford Road towards Carterton
A DISASTROUS 15-minute first-half spell, during which they conceded three goals, finished off Abingdon United’s chances in their Divison 1 South & West game at Shortwood on Saturday. Abingdon, whose recent good run had lifted them into the
THE Thames Valley’s new Police and Crime Commissioner has appointed a Buckinghamshire Tory as his deputy, on a salary of £35,000. Anthony Stansfeld has confirmed David Carroll, from High Wycombe, has taken up his role as the new deputy commissioner
A “SUPERHEAD” brought in to help turn around struggling schools in Oxfordshire has criticised the “narrow focus” on English and maths by which schools are judged. Martin Lester, right, who has spent the last nine years going into struggling county
OXFORD: Two people arrested after a drugs raid in West Oxford have been rebailed until January 15. The 34-year-old man and 31-year-old woman were arrested in the Osney Court bust on November 1. The pair are suspected of having class A and B
WHEATLEY: A masked raider smashed a glass screen to snatch an unknown quantity of cash in a robbery at the village’s Post Office. A man entered the High Street branch at about 4.40pm on Thursday with an object concealed in a plastic bag, police
RUNNERS came from across the county and beyond to create a sea of red to take part in the annual Oxford Santa run. About 1,500 men, women and children, and even a few dogs, warmed up ‘Gangnam Style’ with two zumba teachers before taking to the
THE turmoil caused by the sudden departure of chairman Stuart Pike and manager Justin Lee led to Witney Town being unable to field a side for their Premier Division fixture at home to Abingdon Town on Saturday, writes MICHAEL KNOX. The mass exodus
CHRIS Wilder was loath to criticise a flat performance from Oxford United on Saturday and instead praised the squad’s attitude in difficult circumstances, writes DAVID PRITCHARD. The U’s were never able to get out of second gear, but there were
IF YOU recognise the face behind door 10 of our crime calendar police would love to hear from you, as this man is suspected of grabbing a woman round the throat. Andre Berley is the 10th suspect to be revealed in our Badvent calendar this year.
AN Oxford University fellow who pledged to give up a large chunk of his salary to good causes has inspired more than 260 to do the same. In 2009, research fellow Dr Toby Ord, 33, hit the headlines when he said he would give away half of his pay, anything
VOLUNTEERING youngsters got stuck in and lent Ma Smith a hand in her soup kitchen. Twelve young people from Wheatley Park School, in Holton, visited Icolyn ‘Ma’ Smith, 81, who was awarded an MBE in 1998 for providing dinners for the homeless.
