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  • When apprenticeships can offer a springboard for life

    One of the most important initiatives by this Government has been the promotion of work-based learning in the form of traineeships and apprenticeships. I went into politics because I believe in a society where every child, no matter what their

  • Buildings with designs on a place in awards glory

    OXFORD Brookes University’s Headington campus has been developed for the past seven years but now the hard work may be about to pay off. The glass-fronted John Henry Brookes and Abercrombie Building has been shortlisted for a RIBA South East Award

  • Wood you believe it? This cardboard furniture works

    If you think cardboard furniture sounds about as much use as a chocolate teapot, then Nicola Russell would urge you to think again. She said: “It’s extremely sturdy as well as being light. And the beauty of it is that it uses recycled material.

  • Welsh exile who never forgot her roots

    ONE of the founding members of the Oxford Welsh Exiles has died aged 89. Great-great-grandmother Vera Hughes (nee Tapscott) spent 12 years as the group’s secretary. The group, which started in 1967, was responsible for raising more than £40,000

  • Farewell to ‘a true public servant and a gentleman’

    VETERAN councillor, financial mastermind and “gentleman” Charles Shouler has died, aged 79. The former Oxfordshire County Council chairman and cabinet member for finance had battled lymphoma, a type of cancer, for several years. Born and brought

  • Trading standards win compensation from rogue letting agent

    A rogue letting agent who tricked students into paying to rent a house they could not live in has been forced to pay back all of the money he swindled from them. Zulfiqar Hussain took a deposit and a month’s rent from seven students so they could

  • Theatre idea is more than a midsummer night’s dream

    PLANS for an island theatre and a new wooden bridge across the Thames have been unveiled in a bid to bring more culture to Abingdon. The “Isis” project is to seek funding for a 33-metre pedestrian bridge from the Old Gaol to a 350-seat open-air

  • Top picks from this week's Guide

    Take a look at some of the top interviews, news and reviews from this week's entertainment section American comedian Rich Hall tells Katherine MacAlister why the stage is beckoning again Who says banjos are just for hillbillies? Not

  • Brunch with Jeremy Smith - Browns, Woodstock Road, Oxford

    Jeremy Smith tries out 'the best breakfast in Oxford' Having learned that Browns on the Woodstock Road is advertising it’s breakfast as ‘the best breakfast in Oxford’ I was intrigued. After all, it’s a pretty big boast to make in a city where

  • Nibbles - 1855, Giraffe and the YBF Awards

    * How about this for a Mother’s Day treat? A special tour of St George’s Tower and a two-course dinner at The Living Room. Explore Oxford’s oldest building at Oxford Castle Unlocked and marvel at the panoramic views from the top before enjoying

  • Baz Butcher @ St Giles Cafe

    Baz Butcher talks about when biting back is the only answer Having had a long previous career in advertising and public relations before starting up St Giles’ Café, I knew the importance of marketing in the overall success of the enterprise, however

  • Chef's Special with Mike North at the Nut Tree in Murcott

    Mike North shares his recipe for slow roast belly of pork with celeriac puree, salt and vinegar potatoes and apple gravy * 1 x boned pork belly split length ways and tied * 1 x onion chopped s 2 sticks of celery chopped  * 1 x celeriac peeled

  • It's time to stand-up and be counted

    The first ever Oxford Comedy Festival kicks off on Saturday with a fantastic line-up. Local compere and stand-up comedian Paul Fung tells Katherine MacAlister all about it Thirty-one-year-old Paul Fung from Marston was spotted by Oxford Comedy

  • Dan Walsh is bringing the banjo into a new world of adventure

    Who says banjos are just for hillbillies? Not Dan Walsh, who tells Charlotte Krol how global influences are changing the face of his music Mention the word ‘banjo’ and an image that’s likely to spring to mind is tobacco-chewing hillbillies.

  • Comic Rich Hall has a Rich vein of humour

    American comedian Rich Hall tells Katherine MacAlister why the stage is beckoning again You’ve got to love being a stand up to fly half way across the world to entertain us. But for Rich Hall, the acerbic comedian from North Carolina, it’s a privilege

  • Why we undergraduates are Oxford's true elite

    A bit like in Crimea, things may be about to escalate, thanks to Nick Hilton The elder statesmen of this column have, of late, been taking against undergraduates. First, Alexander Ewing (in his first piece) described an Oxonian foodchain in which

  • A solution, not a problem

    David Roulston writes in praise of whistleblowing in the health service No one who follows the news will fail to have noticed the frequent episodes of whistleblowers coming forward who have previously worked in health and social care. The issues

  • How money looked in the days of my youth

    The proposal of a new £1 coin sends Christopher Gray on a trip down memory lane Recent publicity about the plan to get rid of the easily forged £1 coin in favour of a multi-sided replacement looking like the old threepenny bit reminded me that

  • Veronese - master of faces, fabrics and fur

    Christopher Gray visits an unmissable Veronese exhibiton at the National Gallery Veronese fell foul of the Inquisition with a depiction of the Last Supper which featured a dog in a position more suitably occupied, it was thought, by Mary Magdalen

  • Enterprising students get knitted out

    A GROUP of young entrepreneurs have designs on the future after coming up with their own range of scarves. The 12-strong team from Oxford High School, called Toucan, have seen their designs become reality after a Scottish mill agreed to make them

  • Landmark estate is up for sale with £10m price tag

    A HISTORIC Oxfordshire estate has gone on the market for £10m. Yarnton Manor is a Grade II* listed Jacobean property, which is owned by the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Set in almost 30 acres in Yarnton, the main building dates

  • Longest serving War Poet

    Reg Little on a poetry event where the star attraction will be a 68-year-old retired teacher They shaped our attitude to the Great War, if not all war, and produced some of the most important and influential work of the 20th century. Next week

  • A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre

    Entertaining but ultimately disappointing: Mick Smith a new Kim Philby book Ben Macintyre, son of former Oxford history don Angus MacIntyre, has made an enviable reputation as a spy writer, taking well-known stories and rewriting them for a modern

  • The Standard - Jericho, Oxford

    Katherine MacAlister visits The Standard after a spruce-up of the Jericho favourite It hasn’t been the greatest culinary week, but then skiing in Germany isn’t about the food. And while our Victorian relatives do most things impossibly well, cooking

  • Nourishing recipes for literary society

    Helen Peacocke on a new cookbook about the influential Bloomsbury Set Food may not have dominated the Bloomsbury Group’s 20th- century publications as it does today’s novels, nevertheless the writers who made up the group were considered the foodies

  • Bicester road name agreed

    BICESTER Town councillors agreed to put forward Flanders Field Road as the name of the spine road in a new small estate under construction near Talisman Business Park, off London Road. Independent councillor Nick Cotter put forward the proposed

  • Man denies charges in rapes accusation

    A 37-year-old man has appeared at Oxford Crown Court and pleaded not guilty to two rapes and one attempted rape. Zilvinas Ruzgas, of Odessa Road, London, has been charged over an incident which allegedly took place on December 13 last year in Botley

  • Theft at property in Abingdon

    Thieves stole a handbag and two laptops last week from a property in Abingdon. They got in through an unlocked door at the property on Chilton Close, at some time between 11.30pm on Tuesday, March 18 and 6.30am on Wednesday, March 19. Anyone

  • First and foremost rose for the spring

    A primrose is not just a pretty plant, it’s clever too. Val Bourne explains Spring has had an early flourish this year and I’m sure many of us are praying that winter stays away in April, because so much is above ground already. For weeks now

  • The scythe's a cut above

    Rick Saunders on the comeback of an old tradition Scything, the traditional method of cutting vegetation using a shaped razor-sharp blade on a long handle, is undergoing something of a revival in Oxfordshire. Wielding a scythe has a magical quality

  • Froggy style - Muppets Most Wanted

    Damon Smith delivers his verdict as deadly amphibian Constantine assumes Kermit The Frog’s identity to pull off some daring thefts Created almost 60 years ago by Jim Henson, Kermit The Frog and his hand-operated chums gained a new lease of life

  • Oxford Comedy Festival sits comfortably

    Angie Johnson looks forward to the Oxford Comedy Festival Chatting to Ida Persson is lots of fun, which is not surprising really as she is an outstanding young comedian. Originally from Sweden, she has been based in Oxford for several years and

  • Playwright Barney Morris welcomes Visitors

    Christopher Gray speaks to the playwright Barney Morris ahead of Up In Arms’ Visitors Playwright Barney Norris is not ashamed to admit that he cried when he read the first review of Visitors, the touring production from his company Up in Arms which

  • Blithe Spirit @ Gielgud Theatre, London

    Dame Angela Lansbury triumps in the West End revival of a Noël Coward classic, writes Christopher Gray The highly enjoyable West End revival of Noël Coward’s waspishly witty Blithe Spirit derives considerable comic momentum from two silly walks

  • Refugee Boy @ Oxford Playhouse

    Giles Woodforde enthuses about the acting in the title role of a riveting play Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay could have been born to adapt Benjamin Zephaniah’s 2001 teen novel Refugee Boy for the stage. The book is about Alem, a 14-year-old Ethiopian-Eritrean

  • Other Desert Cities @ Old Vic, London

    Christopher Gray reports back from a performance of Jon Robin Baitz's 2011 Broadway hit Aformer cowboy film actor climbing the greasy pole of Republican politics in the US state of California — sound familiar? Of course it does. The shade of Ronald

  • Bus stop robber is sent to jail

    A ROBBER who punched a woman in the face as she was waiting at a bus stop to go on holiday has been jailed for four years. Aaron Johnson, who now lives in Chepstow but is formerly of Windmill Road, Headington, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court

  • Charity staff work hard to raise funds

    AS a volunteer for Sobell House for the past four years, I felt saddened to read Mrs Benfield’s recent letter. The staff and volunteers work extremely hard every day to raise as much money as possible for the hospice, while the majority of donations

  • Disappointing forum meeting was not held

    HOW can residents be denied the opportunity to attend community meetings and shape the future of our community? It was disappointing to find that the north-east area forum meeting, advertised in the Marston & Headington Community page (March

  • This photo opportunity irony is not lost on me

    THE picture of Prime Minister Cameron on your front page (March 22) cradling a piglet, with the caption, ‘PM brings home the bacon’, was a cynical propaganda exercise, in the wake of the debacle of the failed badger cull. Apparently the piglet was

  • A poetic look at our ongoing potholes

    Lately driving has become a nightmare because our roads are full of holes. It looks like we’ve been invaded by Tarmac-eating moles. I’m weaving in and out of them like a skier on a slalom run, And apart from being dangerous, it isn’t exactly

  • Planners need to think how world lives today

    I WAS reading Friday’s paper last week with a well-earned cup of coffee and read an article in which Oxford City Council were providing cash to Barton to smarten up Burchester Avenue with plastic mesh and bollards. I’d just driven back along Harcourt

  • The Scales of Justice

    Adrian Forbes, 44, of Pegasus Road, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, admitted stealing food worth £53 from Lidl in Oxford on March 2. Given a six-month conditional discharge and told to pay a £15 victims’ surcharge and £40 costs. Norman Gourley, 61,

  • Government will have to pay for more staff

    SO the Government in its ‘wisdom’ has decided to give health workers in effect next year a pay cut with below inflation pay ‘rises’. So those health workers who decide to avoid this by emigrating will be replaced by agency staff costing double what

  • It would help if public were better informed

    YOUR report (March 21) that the city council refuses to accept an arbitrator’s decision about rent for tenants in the Covered Market, above, because “there was a mistake in the arbitrator’s calculations, meaning it could not pass on the proposed rent

  • Something needs to be done soon before club is relegated

    HERE we go again – yet another defeat for Oxford City FC. Relegation seems to be very close and although it doesn’t seem to bother Thomas Guerriero (last week’s paper) I’m sure that both the OCFC Committee and its supporters will have more concerns

  • Gala marks seven centuries of choir

    Exeter College is ready to celebrate its 700th anniversary with a very special concert. Nicola Lisle discovers more Hot on the heels of Merton’s 750th anniversary celebrations last month comes another college milestone —– this time it’s Exeter

  • Injury puts Mullins out of Oxford United's run-in

    JOHNNY Mullins has been ruled out for the rest of Oxford United's season with a foot injury. The centre back requires another scan to confirm the exact nature of the problem, but he has a suspected stress fracture of a second metatarsal. It

  • Rambert @ Pegasus, Oxford

    Rambert shakes a tail feather, writes David Bellan The biggest hit of this quadruple bill is the closing item, Christopher Bruce’s huge crowd-pleaser Rooster. It’s set to a selection of Rolling Stones numbers from the 1960s, including Lady Jane

  • Shock rock band LostAlone are never lost for words

    It’s all about the music — and fans, Lost Alone’s Steven Battelle tells Tim Hughes With their crashing riffs, ear-pounding walls of guitar, kinetic live shows and soaring vocals, LostAlone are a band who were made for arenas. Among the best

  • Fairy-tale fantasies at The North Wall

    Anne James on how Oxon children have assisted in the Once Upon a Time exhibition Dr Melissa Westbrook founded the Neo-Outsider Art Move-ment in 2010. She developed the concept behind the movement in response to 20th century categorisation of art

  • Maureen Gillespie is drawing inspiration from nature

    Anne James on Maureen Gillespie's solo exhibition at the SOTA Gallery in Witney Maureen Gillespie works in two complementary styles. One is primarily representational, as exemplified in her French series, the other less figurative and more explorative

  • Actress Lesley Joseph is flushed with success

    Katherine MacAlister speaks to Lesley Joseph, who continues to show her remarkable versatility It’s all too easy to mix Lesley Joseph up with her best-known characters, namely Dorien Green in Birds Of A Feather or her current role as Myra in Hot

  • Burst water main shooting 15ft in the air

    A BURST water main is shooting up to 15ft in the air in Didcot this morning. The Basil Hill Road is just passable after the water main burst between Foxhall Road and the A4130 Milton Road.

  • Time to update the posters at St Aldate’s station...

    ANYONE hanging around at St Aldate’s Police Station (for whatever reason) might expect the base to be on the pulse and at the forefront of the latest police work. Yet visitors perusing the walls of the reception may have noticed a poster advertising

  • Finding time to think about mediation

    Society has changed and few parents stay together “for the sake of the children”. But we should think carefully about the way we separate and make sure we minimise the detrimental effects of separation on our children. Statistics are clearly showing

  • EU may help to fund flood work

    EUROPEAN Union funding could be available for flood defences such as the proposed £125m flood relief channel plan for Oxford. Oxford-based MEP Catherine Bearder is urging Oxfordshire to seek EU funds. It comes after it was revealed there is

  • The trade secrets that really get tongues wagging

    Gossip is the currency of festivals such as these. Indeed, in some ways, I think many authors attend solely to find out or pass on just who’s sleeping with who, whose latest draft has been rejected, who has been found inebriated and incapacitated in

  • Cyclist hurt in accident in Abingdon Road

    A MAN in his 20s came off his bike this morning in Abingdon Road near the junction with Whitehouse Road. An ambulance arrived at the scene at 8.48am and the team confirmed that the man has suffered a leg injury. An ambulance spokesman said:

  • Arson ruled out as cause in blaze at Burford Laundry

    POLICE have this morning ruled out arson as the cause of a massive fire at Burford Laundry. The blaze broke out at the laundry in Witney Street just after 9.30pm on Tuesday and firefighters from Burford, Witney, Bampton, Eynsham and Kidlington

  • A Spy Among Friends

    By Mick Smith Ben Macintyre, son of former Oxford history don Angus MacIntyre, has made an enviable reputation as a spy writer, taking well-known stories and rewriting them for a modern audience. Agent ZigZag, Operation Mincemeat, Double Cross

  • COMMENT: A great idea that primary schools could also use

    BY the time pupils get to secondary school there will be some subjects they will never want to discuss with their parents, no matter how well they get on with them. Now, with the arrival of a full-time health nurse at every secondary school in

  • ATHLETICS: Thorp bags gold for Great Britain

    STEWART Thorp sec-ured a team gold medal for Great Britain & Northern Ireland at the World Masters Championships in Budapest. The 62-year-old Oxford City athlete was part of his country’s victorious vet 60 team in the 8km cross country event

  • Recycling for longer

    Waste recycling sites in Oxfordshire are to open until 8pm on Thursdays from next month over the summer. They are currently open from 8am to 5pm every day but the council says it wants to make use of the lighter evenings. Cabinet member for recycling

  • Crossing death victim was local man

    Police have confirmed that it was a man who died when he was struck by a train at the Roundham crossing near Langford Lane on Tuesday. Though the police have yet to formally identify the victim, they said yesterday it was a man, believed to be

  • Two flee home as fire breaks out

    Two people had to flee their home after a fire broke out. Firefighters were called to the home in Magdalen Road, East Oxford, at about 10.20pm on Tuesday. No one was injured. Watch manager Will McPhail said: “In this case, the occupants were

  • Great place for singles

    Jericho has been named as one of the best places to live if you are a single person. The Times newspaper ranked the area as the fifth best place in the country for those who are unattached and able to enjoy all the bustling area offers. The

  • Voters go to the polls for county council seat

    Residents in the Chalgrove and Watlington area are due to cast their votes in an Oxfordshire County Council by-election today. The seat was held by Conservative Caroline Newton, who stood down earlier this year. Five parties, including UKIP, are

  • Teachers take to the streets in strike action

    HUNDREDS of teachers marched through Oxford yesterday as schools across the county were affected by strikes. Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) walked out over workload, pay and pensions. In Oxfordshire, 23 schools were closed,

  • Every secondary school to get a full-time nurse

    EVERY secondary school in Oxfordshire will have its own full-time nurse as part of a £1.55m deal announced today. Previously some schools in the county only had school nurses for half a day a week and others only an hour. But under the new

  • Suspicion aroused by April 1 sex shop plan

    IT WAS an announcement that caused a stir in Wallingford, a sex shop was opening up in the former launderette on the High Street. The signs outside the boarded-up shop appeared at the weekend. But the proclaimed opening day of April 1 was probably

  • COMMENT: Branching out into the building trade

    SOME people accuse students of being lazy, but the group of friends who built an elaborate treehouse on land near Bicester are not afraid of hard graft. Dougie Haynes and his pals put in over 1,000 hours on the building project and the treehouse

  • Thursday, March 27

    Police have charged two men with drugs offences Arson has been ruled out as the cause of a blaze at Burford Laundry A cyclist has been hurt in Abingdon Road this morning Burst water main is

  • Pair charged with drugs offences after police raids

    TWO men from Oxford have been charged following raids at five addresses in Oxford and Abingdon. Ryan Davies, 32 of Kelburne Road in Cowley, was charged charged with conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin. The 32 year-old is currently on bail

  • Duck shootings were a ‘callous target practice’

    FOUR birds have been found shot dead on a Bicester pond in what may have been “callous target practice”. The RSPCA was called to Jubilee Lake, near Avocet Way, last Saturday after a passerby noticed the bodies of three ducks and a moorhen floating

  • Design test

      Given the traffic problems in Headington, the university has had a comparatively easy ride as it progresses with the development of the Old Road and Park Hospital site into a global science and research centre of excellence. It has perhaps

  • Birds put on poor show for expert’s Big Garden watch

    JOE HARRIS spends his working days observing wildlife but when he sat down in the garden of his Oxford home to take part in the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch he saw, well, nothing. “I didn’t see any birds in my garden,” admitted the warden of the Royal

  • Data store

    Drinking and documents have never been a happy combination. Many parents will have stood by aghast as their sons and daughters, preparing for a big night on the town, begin rummaging around their room for a driving licence, or worst still, a passport

  • Experienced advisers there to help charities

    ‘Under-resourced and over-stretched.” There can’t be many people running a charity or voluntary organisation who wouldn’t identify with this. In some cases, the key concern is survival: The change from grants to commissioning, the reduction

  • Man in Oxford wounding trial

    The trial of a 27-year-old man accused of attacking a woman in an Oxford nightclub began yesterday. Anthony Pedro, of Birkenhead Street, London, denies unlawfully wounding Izabela Wilgorz on April 27 last year at Roppongi in George Street.

  • Hero Oxford teacher’s award for saving boy's life

    A teacher at Oxford Academy has been named the Everyday Hero of the Year after saving the life of a toddler. Simon Underwood, 40, an assistant head, won the St John Ambulance award at a ceremony last night. The 40-year-old saved the life of

  • Warning over a cut to mental heath care fees in Oxfordshire

    A cut to mental health and community care fees will hit finances hard, a county NHS boss has warned. Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust chief executive Stuart Bell criticised moves to cut tariffs by 1.8 per cent for non-hospital trusts but 1.5

  • ICE HOCKEY: Snappy Stars keep title challenge bubbling

    OXFORD City Stars kept their hopes alive of retaining the South Division 2 title with a thrilling 9-6 home win over Bristol Pitbulls. The result, together with Slough Jets’ 7-3 win against Swindon Wildcats 2nd earlier on Saturday, leaves only Oxford

  • Parky at the Pictures (In Cinemas 27/3/2014)

    How often does an outsider deliver the most acute observations on a society? Screen history is strewn with examples of exiles who dissect the mores of their adopted homelands with a precision that eludes born-and-bred film-makers. Now, Asghar Farhadi

  • Parky at the Pictures (DVD 27/3/2014)

    Having won a BAFTA for his 2011 short, Until the River Runs Red, 31 year-old Paul Wright makes an ambitious feature debut with For Those in Peril. Evoking both John Grierson's Drifters (1929) and Béla Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), it trades

  • Pensioner becomes voice of consumers

    GRAHAM Rose has the ear of a major electrical supplier after a raft of complaints about power cuts. The Appleton resident, 67, has been appointed the voice of the consumer on a panel run by Scottish and Southern Energy Power Distribution (SSEPD

  • Workshop discusses mental health

    AN art workshop with a Mad Hatter theme will encourage people to talk about mental health this week. Part of the national Time to Change scheme which aims to lift the stigma attached to mental health issues, the Mad Hatter’s Tea (& Arty) Party

  • London Welsh switch venues

    London Welsh will play their final Greene King IPA Championship fixture of the season against Nottingham on April 26 at Old Deer Park. This is because of a clash with Oxford United’s League Two fixture against Accrington Stanley at the Kassam Stadium

  • Teenage vandal ordered to pay compensation for Didcot damage

    A TEENAGER was ordered to pay £650 in compensation after admitting 11 counts of criminal damage. The 14-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also pleaded guilty at the youth court at Oxford Magistrates’ Court, yesterday, to one

  • RUGBY UNION: Clubs asked for views on restructure

    OXFORDSHIRE clubs are being invited to air their views on proposed changes to England’s league structure. Clubs are encouraged to attend a meeting at Gosford All Blacks RFC on Tuesday, April 8 (7.30). A plan, which is due to be voted on by

  • RUGBY UNION: Delight for Grove lads

    GROVE’S Under 7A team are all smiles after winning the Banbury mini tournament at Bodicote Park. The side, who comprised (from left): Luke Ball, Tom Coleman, Kyran Rautenbach, Ethan Konschel and Oliver Christensen saw off Jersey A1 in the final

  • BAR BILLIARDS: Democrats take over top spot

    WEST Oxford Democrats Club swept to the top of Johnson Buildbase Oxford League Section 1 with a 4-1 home win over previous leaders Berinsfield Club. Billy Hill (6,850) and John Patey (7,190) put Democrats 2-0 up, before John Boal pulled a game

  • Building firms asked to help pay for policing new estates

    DEVELOPERS could have to pay thousands of pounds to help fund extra policing in Bicester as the town expands. And the extra cash could include paying for more neighbourhood officers or computer tablets so police can file paperwork from the streets

  • Carvings vandalised within hours

    WOODEN carvings that were installed in a Blackbird Leys park were vandalised just 72 hours later. Four sculptures of animals were installed among the trees at Spindleberry Park last Thursday, along with a new path and information boards. Two of

  • Woman denies ‘blackening name’ of OAP rape accused

    A WOMAN who says a pensioner raped her denied she is trying to “blacken his name” at Oxford Crown Court yesterday. Terry Haynes, of Mathews Way, Wootton near Abingdon, denies 17 counts of rape, 11 counts of indecent assault and two attempted rapes

  • AUNT SALLY: Results round-up

    YARNTON RBL LEAGUE ROLL OF HONOUR League – winners: Black Prince; runners-up: Chauffers. Section: Rose & Crown, Black Bull. Woodon Spoon: Last Minute. Top scorer: R Goodall 146. Handicap Shield: Black Prince, Exiles. Triples: R Townsend

  • RUGBY UNION: Angels eyeing crown

    WITNEY Angels will clinch the Women’s National Conference South East West 2 title with victory in their final match. Angels host Marlow in a double-header on Sunday, April 13 as their earlier match at the Buckinghamshire club was re-arranged.

  • RUGBY UNION: Cox clinches it

    BANBURY reached the National Under 18 Plate semi-finals after a 22-13 victory over Shelford at Bloxham School. Tries from Tom Letch and Alex Cox, who converted his own effort, saw Banbury 12-3 ahead at half-time. It was 19-8 when Cox converted

  • BOWLS: Banbury lift triples title

    A BANBURY Cross trio have been crowned Oxfordshire indoor triples champions. AJ Docherty, Nigel Galletly and Mark Sykes stormed to a 25-8 win over Chipping Norton’s Steve Witcombe, Richard Barnett and Paul Robbins in the final at Oxford City &

  • Parish councillors dismiss ‘poor’ plans for West Way

    CONTROVERSIAL plans for a £100m overhaul of Botley's shopping centre have been roundly rejected by parish councillors as badly designed and a threat to infrastructure. Campaigners last night welcomed the decision taken by North Hinksey Parish Council