A 52-year-old Oxfordshire man died after he was struck by a train yesterday. The man was hit on a rural section of railway, between Swindon and Stroud, shortly before 5.30pm. His death is not being treated as suspicious. A coroner will
TWO restaurants in Oxfordshire face potential fines of £60,000 for employing illegal workers following raids by immigration enforcement officers. Acting on intelligence, officials from the Home Office visited Chef Imperial in High Street, Woodstock
A 23-YEAR-OLD who sent himself three stun guns disguised as mobile phones from the USA has been jailed for two years. Dennis Holmes, of Town End Road, Faringdon, admitted possessing two banned firearms and acquiring another on August 4 last year
BANBURY MAGISTRATES Krisztian Mester, 31, Bankside, Banbury admitted drink-driving in Broad Street, Banbury, on February 16. Had 86 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of breath, above the legal limit of 35 micrograms. Fined £370, a £37 victims’ surcharge
City hotel with a long history I WAS interested to see the article about the Mitre Hotel in High Street, Oxford (Memory Lane, January 27). My father, Bill Phelps, who was born in 1902 and died in 1974, worked at the Mitre as a doorman from
THE official opening of Oxford Town Hall in 1897 was marked by peaceful celebrations inside and violence outside. Student disturbances in city centre streets marred what should have been a landmark day in the city’s history. The Prince of Wales
Barrows at the ready... THE start of the wheelbarrow race, above, at the annual sports day at Grove School, near Wantage, in 1962. Queen of the school Elizabeth I stood larger than life in the foyer of SS Philip and James School in
MANY people were sad when F Cape and Sons, the Oxford drapers, closed their doors, but there was a silver lining for some. They managed to secure bits of memorabilia from the St Ebbe’s store, which served the city for 100 years. The shop closed
TO HIS family and friends, he was a softly spoken Irishman. To the criminal fraternity, he was the scourge of their lives. Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Coffey led the most successful crime- busting team in Britain. In his 10 years with
CHERWELL District Council will have to reissue about 36,000 council tax bills after several printing mistakes werefound. The council had started sending bills out when the errors were spotted. Problems included incorrect names and payment details
OXFORD is a city steeped in history. It is also a city at the heart of the modern world. One unheralded example of this is the Major Projects Leadership Academy at the Said Business School. The course trains up civil servants to run £350bn
AN OXFORD course has the daunting task of training people to run £350bn worth of major projects the Government has in the pipeline. And whether it’s new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy, underground lines across London or reforming the benefits
OXFORD is about as far as you can get from the coast, but that didn’t stop schoolchildren supporting those at sea. Pupils at Headington Secondary School had a tradition of having links with sea-going vessels and their crews. This picture appeared
A 24-year-old man arrested last week on suspicion of terrorist crimes has been released without charge. The man was arrested in Cowley, Oxford, early on Tuesday last week as part of an investigation into those supporting fighting in Syria.
WORKING alongside customers inspired artist Merlin Porter at a live painting session in Oxford. Following the session at the Art Café in New Road, Mr Porter, 32, from Cowley, said: “I am used to people seeing me work but I must say doing it in
RESIDENTS must be updated on delayed £50m plans to further redevelop Abingdon’s Charter shopping area, a councillor has said. Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) has pledged to build a supermarket, medical centre, library and possibly
THE Midcounties Co-operative has smashed its annual fundraising target by raising £280,000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust. The company, which has stores across Oxfordshire including in Iffley Road and Cowley Road, broke its £200,000 target and has
THE body of a woman was found in the river in Cassington on Saturday afternoon. It has not yet been formally identified, but is believed to be that of missing woman Jacqueline Gulliford. Mrs Gulliford had been missing from her home in Eynsham
PLANS for an Eynsham to Oxford cycle path are speeding up, thanks to a £30,000 cash injection. Bike Safe has received £5,000 from Vale of the White Horse District Council and £25,000 from the Department for Communities and Local Government, after
JAYDEN Parkinson's boyfriend Ben Blakeley has admitted killing the 17-year-old. However the 22-year-old has denied murdering her and a provisional date of June 16 has been set for a trial at Oxford Crown Court. Archive: Jayden Parkinson
11:37am We'll leave you with highlights, if you can bear it, of United's defeat on Saturday, via Oxford United's Youtube channel. 11:28am
WHY would someone opt to go without food for the whole of Lent, and to drink only water during that time? That’s exactly what Keith Hebden (a clergyman from Mansfield), and Simon Cross (a chaplain in Grimsby) have decided to do in order to highlight
Shane Leach from Rose Hill in Oxford took this photograph of Salters’ boats at Donnington Bridge slipway
YOUR correspondent, S Nicholson (March 13), and indeed your report (March 12) identify the wrong culprit for Oxford City Council’s need, in exceptional but, alas, increasingly common circumstances, to support families threatened with homelessness to
EVERY faith has its festival days – a rich variety of occasions which are special, sometimes for historical and cultural reasons, sometimes for purely spiritual reflection. They are often a mixture of all of these, but they always reflect the faith
YET again we are all suffering from potholes and poor highways maintenance. Why don’t the Highways strip the roads/pavements completely and resurface on a regular rolling programme instead of patching up and covering up with a skim of tar?
I would like to say what brilliant treatment I received when I was admitted to A&E last week. From the time my husband rang in, the first responder, the ambulance crew, and the care I had in A&E – all these services were excellent.
SO Nick Clegg has nailed his colours to the mast for the next European and General Election. Willingly becoming part of the ‘United States of Europe’ without any consultation or listening to the wishes of the people of this country. I just
HOW appropriate the article on development by Helen Marshall (March 13). Like many of us she is concerned by the constant demand for more and more houses which, if acted on, could see many beautiful areas with their attractive villages, which have
EVERY year, especially in autumn and winter, the WODC needs prompting to comply with the law regarding the removal of litter from both urban and rural roads. Last year, I had to phone up five times to complain about litter strewn along the stretches
MICKEY Lewis insisted his focus was only on getting Oxford United back on track amid increasing agitation about the club’s search for a new manager. Calls for action grew louder on Saturday with a 3-0 defeat at Chesterfield, which saw Tom Newey
A TWO-year-old girl has died after an accident involving a reversing car. The child – named locally as Elly-May Doran – died hours after the incident at Oaks View Park in Upper Arncott, about four miles south of Bicester. She was involved in
WORKERS and residents have described their shock after witnessing the body of a missing woman being pulled from the river behind Oxford Ice Rink. Police recovered the body from a stretch of the Thames behind the building on Oxpens Road. It
GREENE KING IPA CHAMPIONSHIP Cornish Pirates 5, London Welsh 20. SSE ENGLISH CLUBS CHAMPIONSHIP National League 1: Henley 23, Blaydon 13. National League 2 South: Chinnor 31, Ampthill 35. South West 1 East: Windsor 37, Grove 19.
OXON UNDER 14 GIRLS CUP Final: Bloxham 0, Kidlington 5. OXON UNDER 16 GIRLS CUP Final: Oxford City 6, Chinnor 0. OXFORD MAIL GIRLS LEAGUE Under 10 Spring League: Grove Chall 0, Kidlington 1; Summertown Stars White 1, Summertown
OXFORD MAIL YOUTH LEAGUE Under 10 Spring A: Didcot Tn Yth Red 0, Summertown Stars Dragons 2; Harwell & Hendred Yth 0, Summertown Stars Wands 3; Kennington Ath 1, Marston Saints 0; Oxford City Whites 2, Abingdon Yth Greens 1. Spring B League
CREEPY crawlies may not be everyone’s favourite thing, but they were drawing crowds over the weekend at the Museum of Natural History. As part of the Oxfordshire Science Festival, sponsored by the Oxford Mail, the museum on Parks Road had a series
Midland Counties Youth Championship Under 16 League Cup: West Riding 2, Oxfordshire 1. OXFORDSHIRE YOUTH INVITATION LEAGUE Under 16 A League: Tower Hill v North Leigh pp. B League: Childrey Yth 2, Banbury Utd Yth 1; Hook Norton 4, Cholsey
Campaigners will hold a four-hour vigil on Thursday outside Oxford University’s zoology department to mark 10 years of campaigning. Speak will hold the ceremony in front of an animal testing laboratory on South Parks Road from 1pm to 5pm.
The pressure is off for a bus company using a new tyre pressure monitor developed in Oxford. Thamesdown Transport is using the device, created by Oxford-based WheelRight, which does away with the need for manual checking. A driver can simply
Events were held at the Fat Lil’s club on Sunday in honour of a man who died at the age of 25 in December. The one-day music event was held in memory of Sam Kiff to raise money for mental health charity Mind. For more, see tomorrow’s Oxford
A broken down vehicle created two-mile traffic queues. The breakdown happened at around 11am on Saturday at Barnard Gate, about three miles east of Witney. There were reports that journeys from Witney to Oxford were taking an hour.
Scarlett Johansson has said she has no regrets about quitting her role as an Oxfam ambassador to promote SodaStream. The actress dropped her title last month after becoming the face of the fizzy drinks firm which has a controversial factory in
WEIRD and wonderful items were on display at the Ashmolean Museum to launch celebrations of Oxford Brookes University’s 150th birthday. Hundreds of people came to see the work from different departments of the university and learn about its history
Two signed racing driver helmets have been stolen by a burglar. Police said the Christian Klein 2004 Jaguar helmet and the David Coulthard 2005 Red Bull helmet were taken from a property in Cotswold Road, Cumnor Hill, between 8am and 4.50pm on
Manchester police were last night unable to confirm whether a man from Cowley, Oxford, was still being held by by counter-terrorism officers following his arrest. The 29-year-old was reportedly arrested in Cowley last Tuesday on suspicion of being
Author Philip Pullman has criticised the Hollywood film version of his most famous novel, Northern Lights. The first part of the His Dark Materials trilogy was made into a film called The Golden Compass in 2007, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel
This weird creature may just be a foam ball and a white glove, but he spent an evening enchanting audiences in a sell-out Oxford show. Alvin was the star of the play Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer which was on at the Wall Arts Centre on South
A QUIET churchyard where the body of teenager Jayden Parkinson was found was re-dedicated in a religious service yesterday. The Bishop of Dorchester and the vicar of All Saints’ Church in Didcot renewed the sanctity of the churchyard where the
DAVID Hunt expects a frank exchange of opinions at training this morning as Oxford United look for a way out of their slump. The side’s winless run was extended to six games by a 3-0 defeat at Chesterfield on Saturday. It has turned the U’s
11:43am Jayden Parkinson's boyfriend Ben Blakeley has admitted killing the teenager (pictured) but has denied her murder 11:19am The body of a woman
Justin Burnell will urge his players to keep things simple after London Welsh’s bonus point-winning run in the Greene King IPA Championship ended at Cornish Pirates yesterday. After three bonus point victories on the bounce, the Exiles were forced
Cornish Pirates 5 (try Holland) London Welsh 20 (tries Scott, D Browne, Kirwan; con Davies; pen Davies) London Welsh moved up to second in the Greene King IPA Championship, despite seeing their bonus point-winning run come to an end
Oxford City boss Mike Ford slammed the performance of referee Guy Stretton during his side’s 2-1 defeat to Boston United in Skrill North on Saturday, writes MATTHEW BRUCE. City appeared to be in control with a 1-0 lead until the award of a controversial
Boston Utd 2 (Miller pen 68, Marshall 77) Oxford City 1 (McEachran 40) Two second-half goals sent Oxford City crashing to defeat at Boston United, stretching their winless run in Skrill North to eight games, writes MATTHEW BRUCE.
UHLSPORT HELLENIC LEAGUE Premier Division leaders Ardley United’s four-month unbeaten run came to an end with a 3-1 defeat at Flackwell Heath. Callum Convey’s 16th-minute penalty put Ardley ahead after Troy Bryan was fouled. But Jamie West
UHLSPORT HELLENIC LEAGUE AFC Hinksey had three players sent off and their manager, Kevin McMahon, shown a red card as they crashed to a 1-0 defeat against Division 1 East title rivals Milton United at Abingdon Town. In the first game to be
WEST Oxfordshire District Council is alarmed at being “fobbed off” about poor ambulance response times despite years of lobbying for improved services. Figures show that only one in two ambulances responded to emergency calls within the required
THE A40 at Eynsham is partially blocked after an accident involving two cars. Traffic is currently slow on the westbound carriageway approaching the Eynsham roundabout. Recovery work is currently taking place. Live updates will be automatically
JAKE Wright fears a repeat of Oxford United’s late collapse two seasons ago after their campaign hit a new low with a 3-0 defeat at Chesterfield. The damage went far beyond the result, which extended their wait for a win to half a dozen games,
A man had to be cut from his car after coming off the M40. Fire services from Wheatley, Thame and Kidlington used hydraulic cutting equipment to free the 25-year-old from his vehicle. Emergency services say his car left the motorway as he was
THE NHS has said it may expand a community hospital car park at the centre of a controversial fight for space. Marcham Road Health Centre in Abingdon put up an £8,000 barrier to half of the car park it shares with Abingdon Community Hospital last
COMMUNITY groups want to raise more than £700,000 to build a new sports pavilion in Old Marston in Oxford. The parish council have clubbed together with football team Marston Saints to replace the old pavilion which has been on Boults Lane for
CRITCHLEYS UTV LEAGUE Devenney Cup quarter-final: AFC Jericho 0, Abba Ath 1. Premier League: Cowley Marsh Eagles 1, Zubry Oxford 1. Div 1: Railway Wheatley 3, Northway 1. Div 2: Abingdon Exiles 3, Sutton Wanderers 0; Black Swan 0, Forest
There are still no reports of any arrests in connection with a robbery in Headington, Oxford, last week. Stan James betting shop on Roundway was targeted by armed robbers for the second time in two months on Friday morning. Call police on 101 with
Police are still looking for a man who has not been seen since he left his home several days ago. Malcolm Jones, 54, was last seen at his house in Bramble Bank, Madley Park, Witney, at about 8am last Wednesday, March 12. He is white, slim,
HE’S been a dance critic for years – and now he’s putting his money where his mouth is. David Bellan, dance critic for The Oxford Times and former BBC radio presenter, has taken to the floor for the first time in his life for Strictly Oxford 2014
Didcot Town slumped to a heavy defeat at Calor League Division 1 South & West leaders Merthyr Town. It halted the Railwaymen’s four-match away winning streak. Didcot went behind early on to a Kayne McLaggon strike. But they recovered
North Leigh got their Calor League Division 1 South & West play-off bid back on track with a classy victory at Eynsham Park on Saturday. A super second-half display secured the success to end their four-match winless run. But it was the
Grants to two community groups are to be stopped or reduced. West Oxfordshire District Council had previously given £19,000 per year to the Oxfordshire Rural Community Council (ORCC), which supports village shops and Post Offices, and £3,500 to
TRANSPORT Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has said Oxford needs better infrastructure for it to grow. Speaking during a visit to mark the beginning of work on the new rail link between Oxford and London Marylebone, Mr McLoughlin said he wanted to
BARELY a day goes by without the Oxford Mail having to report about traffic problems on the county’s roads. Each morning, our website is buzzing with reports of slow-moving traffic, breakdowns and collisions – as is the paper. And each incident
Thousands of costumes from the long-running television show Midsomer Murders are being sold off to boost the funds of Oxford hospice Helen & Douglas House. Bentley Productions has donated all types of clothing used in the show. However fans who
Songwriter and pianist Matt Winkworth, of East Oxford, and writing partner Chris Bush have won £12,000 to turn their dream of writing a musical into an all-singing, all-dancing reality. The pair, with four other writing teams, pitched their idea
A 31-year-old man consumed a lethal cocktail of drugs to take his own life, an inquest heard. Richard Asbury was found dead in his bedroom at his home in Thames View, Abingdon, with tablets, whisky and water by him, on November 13 last year following
The body of a man has been found at a house, but the death is not being treated as suspicious. Several police units attended the scene on Buckland Court, a small cul-de-sac near Blenheim Road on Saturday morning. Officers were called at around
Seventy brave and fleet-footed fundraisers faced their fears and walked across hot coals for a variety of charities on Saturday. Among them was Cowley 32-year-old Jenny Daniels who, with nine others in her team, insisted on being first to gallop
NEARLY 24 million tourists visited Oxfordshire in 2012, spending more than £1.7bn in the county. In Oxford alone more than £720m was spent by visitors. The latest figures released by Tourism South East show that the number of people visiting
THE new UK Independence Party (UKIP) parliamentary candidate for Wantage and Didcot says the UK is “built on immigration”, but he still wants to tighten border controls. Lee Upcraft, pictured, a physicist from Wallingford who works in the defence
OXFORDSHIRE’S hospital authority says it will deliberately miss a key waiting target so a backlog of patients can be cleared. The target that demands a percentage of patients are seen within 18 weeks will be missed for January to April, bosses
Banbury United’s woes in the Calor League Premier Division continued as they crashed to their eighth defeat in a row on Saturday. In that run, Banbury have conceded 38 goals which has seen them drop like a stone in the table. It was the Puritans
WOLVERCOTE Commoners have complained to an Oxford college, which they say has sold ancient grazing rights to a farmer who lives outside Oxfordshire. The commoners’ committee has written to St John’s College expressing concern that a farmer, said
South East MEP Catherine Bearder has welcomed new rules that will result in universal mobile phone chargers in Europe. A vote held in the European Parliament on Thursday brought in new rules for electronic devices. This means all manufacturers
Former Banbury School principal Anita Higham is to lead a public forum for NHS users in the county’s north. The principal from 1985 to 1998 has been elected as chairman of Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s (OCCG) North Locality Public
AFTER 3,000 church services and 400 weddings, you would think church organist Brian Tidy would want to take it easy. But after 60 years of playing holy music, the organist at St James Church, Cowley, has no plans to stop yet. Worshippers will
