Bristol 20 (tries Short, Eadie, Hughes; con Jarvis; pen Robinson) London Welsh 21 (tries Vella, Stegmann; con Ross; pens Ross 2; drop goal Ross) London Welsh win 48-28 on aggregate A smash and grab raid saw London Welsh pip Bristol
An exhibition in Bampton offers a nostalgic look at Morris dancing in the area, with pictures dating back to 1894. Dan Robinson takes a preview LONG before the days when TV period drama Downton Abbey was filmed there, Bampton was synonymous with
9:38pm Welsh are promoted. Full time: Bristol 20, Welsh 21 (agg 28-48) 9:35pm That has completely changed the game and the tie! 9:35pm
NETWORK Rail needs to modify, raise or rebuild 29 rail bridges in Oxfordshire by 2018 to make room for new, overhead electric wires. PETE HUGHES looks at the impact and complexity of the £1bn project BETWEEN 1838 and 1840, Isambard Kingdom Brunel
THESE folk music lovers have raised £45,000 for sufferers of Multiple Sclerosis since 1989. But this Saturday, Kate and Dave Guest will organise their 25th and final Folk for MS concert at Grove’s Old Mill Hall. The couple said the strain of
A MAN has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a pregnant teenager after a night out and has been jailed for three-and-a-half years. Bilal Ahmed, 27, from Maidenhead, was today convicted of carrying out the crime in a house on Cowley Road,
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TRUSTEES of Cutteslowe Community Association have vowed to bring it back from the brink of financial ruin. The group, which leases the Wren Road centre from Oxford City Council, has been losing £2,000 a month. Leaders thought they could last
MORE details have been unveiled for a long-awaited 2,550-home development on the edge of Didcot. Developers behind Valley Park, near Harwell, will hold an exhibtion on its masterplan at Didcot Civic Hall next Tuesday. The plan – mooted since
ONE in seven entrants in Oxford’s first charity Rainbow Run will be taking part in memory of a Bicester youngster. A total of 114 people will be part of Team Thomas at the event for Helen and Douglas House Hospice at University Parks on Sunday.
A TEENAGE cyclist was dragged off his bike and attacked by a man armed with a pair of scissors. Police said today the victim was cycling along Barton Lane between Chestnut Avenue and Old High Street in Headington, Oxford when the attacker grabbed
YOU may be interested to hear of a new helipad at Bristol Children’s Hospital now enabling transfers when needed between Bristol and John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, to be accomplished in only 25 per cent of previous journey times via point-to-point
I am writing concerning the story ‘Teacher battles book ban’ (May 30). The teacher is complaining about GCSE guideline reading material, then goes on to mention disadvantaged children’s backgrounds where they are not encouraged to read. I understand
BEING a former tenant, now thankfully a mere spectator, I have followed with interest the machinations of the review of rents in the Covered Market. The city council agreed to apply the result of five cases it forced to arbitration to the other
IT IS welcome news that following the Port Meadow flats fiasco Oxford University says it has improved public consultation for its major planning applications. However, the information the University provides in its planning documents remains extremely
I WOULD like to pass on to Roy Moss and Larry and the other residents of Meadow Brook, many congratulations on turning the front garden back to the beautiful way it was when I moved into Meadow Brook. The hard work that you and your team have done
A biotech firm is set to more than double in size by the end of the year after seeing its key cancer therapy adopted by an industry giant. Adaptimmune will see its Milton Park-based workforce increase from 30 currently to 70 in the next six months
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AN application to build 270 homes in Witney’s Windrush Valley has been delayed after the developer was asked to carry out more research. Gladman Homes submitted plans to West Oxfordshire District Council last month but has been told to carry out
WHEN little Joshua Hodgins had his fingerprints taken, it wasn’t because he had got an early start in a life of crime. Instead the three-year-old from Bicester had dropped by the town’s Garth Park for the fun day on Saturday. Police officers
Like many of us I have taken a bit of an interest in the trial of Oscar Pistorius in South Africa for the tragic death of his girlfriend. We as disabled people cannot possibly know whether he genuinely thought he was under attack from intruders or
YES: Anna Weekes, District Commissioner, Oxford Spires Scout Group. Anna Weekes. In this day and age the art of conversation has died and been replaced by texting and social media. Young people have lost the ability to socialise without
OINK! Oink! The star of the show came to a city butcher’s ahead of its appearance at Oxford Playhouse. Alan Bennett’s Betty Blue Eyes tells the story of cash-strapped Gilbert Chilvers’s attempts to snatch a pig destined for a function to mark the
London Welsh club captain Matt Corker could make his 200th appearance for the Exiles as a Premiership player. But as the experienced lock prepares for match 199 in tonight’s crunch Greene King IPA Championship final second leg at Bristol, he says
A BARRISTER has accused a woman, who says she was sexually assaulted and then threatened, of making things up. The woman alleges she was the victim of a sexual assault after she woke up on a sofa in a shared house in Cowley Road, Oxford, in the
Students have made almost 800 complaints about Oxford’s two universities over three years. Figures show that at Oxford University, between 2010 to 2013, 562 compaints were made to the university’s Proctors, the individuals responsible for student
About £200,000 made from crime is to be handed out to volunteer and community groups. Police and crime commissioner Anthony Stansfeld revealed the amount of the Policy Property Act Fund available for this year on Monday. The pot, which is jointly
A missing teenage girl sparked a police hunt in Headington on Monday. Initially Thames Valley Police said there had been “increased police activity” near the Roundway but would not say way. But later they revealed officers had been looking
A JUDGE has criticised a “lamentable failure” by Thames Valley Police to properly investigate allegations of rape and sexual abuse at the height of the Bullfinch inquiry. Omid Ali was jailed for 14 years at Oxford Crown Court for subjecting a “
A LITTLE more than a year ago Thames Valley Police and Oxfordshire County Council prostrated themselves in public over the failings that helped the Bullfinch gang of paedophiles to prey upon and abuse vulnerable young girls. Lessons had been learned
TOM Cruise, best known for his role as Top Gun’s Maverick, relied on a team of expert aviators from Oxfordshire for his latest movie. Futuristic film Edge of Tomorrow, out in cinemas now, shows Cruise and co-star Emily Blunt pitting their wits
9:46pm London Welsh have won promotion back to the Premiership. They did it with a late breakaway converted try to win 21-20 at Bristol. You can relive it via our Blog... 4:42pm
FRACKING protesters say they have been ordered by police to leave David Cameron's home in West Oxfordshire this morning. The Greenpeace activists set up a mock drilling site outside the Prime Minister’s house in Dean, near Charlbury. The eight
Thame Town were the only Oxfordshire side to win in the top flight as they cruised past local rivals Tiddington, who stay rooted to the bottom of the table. Tiddington’s poor start to the season continued as Cian Davies (4-21) helped reduce them
A COMMERCIAL cinema operator will be asked to bankroll a £3m revamp of Abingdon’s Guildhall. New, cut-price designs for refurbishing the 1960s hall were revealed to Abingdon Town Council’s Guildhall Committee for the first time last night.
LONDON Welsh head coach Justin Burnell insists there is no more pressure on his side at Bristol tonight than there was in the first leg. The Exiles head to the Memorial Stadium (7.45) for the second leg of their Greene King IPA Championship final
KEVIN Baker agonisingly just missed out on joining the exclusive maximum club and then suffered the added disappointment of finishing on the losing side, writes ANDY BEAL. Just 16 players have clanged off the magic 18 dolls in the league’s 76-year
WITH the Brazil World Cup set to kick off in eight days’ time, there is plenty for football fans to look forward to. England-mania will be in overdrive across the land but the Oxford Mail wants to celebrate every nation involved. We are looking
A man has been jailed for six months after he admitted making indecent images of children. David Wilsden, of Nuneham Square, Abingdon, pleaded guilty to six counts of the offence between June 27, 2010, and May 19, 2013. The 52-year-old was
Vandals have scrawled “Vote UKIP” on a listed building at Cogges Manor Farm. The graffiti, pictured, was discovered at the museum over the weekend and was yesterday being washed off. Local councillors Jeanette Baker and Duncan Enright said
The group which makes decisions on most county NHS spending has cut its projected deficit for this financial year to £1 million. Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (OCCG) – set to spend £635.7m this year – had warned of a £7.5m overspend
Men on bikes attempted to rob a man but cycled off empty-handed. Police are investigating the attempted robbery of the 35-year-old man, which happened at about 1.45am on Sunday in Rodger Dudman Way, Oxford. The men threatened him while asking him
Police have appealed for people who may have filmed an assault on their mobile phones. A 23-year-old man was attacked after becoming involved in a dispute over cigarettes, which happened at about 3.10am on Saturday. The man was queuing for a taxi
A man is being investigated by police for causing a public nuisance after he had to be rescued from a bridge over the Oxford northern bypass at Marston. Traffic was severely delayed on the A40 on Monday afternoon after he climbed up under the flyover
GREENE KING IPA CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL ALAN Awcock will complete a remarkable season with London Welsh tonight, but promotion to the Premiership would top it off spectacularly. Awcock, who starts at full back against Bristol, is still officially
MORE than 200 youngsters will learn about life during wartime to mark this Friday’s 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. As Normandy veterans return to the beaches to mark the heroics and sacrifices made in 1944, the students will visit Didcot
A PLANNING inquiry over where development will take place across Cherwell has opened. Independent planning inspector Nigel Payne will be asked to approve the district council’s Local Plan, which sets out where 16,750 homes will be built by 2031
AN energy firm has said it is not planning any more solar farms in Oxfordshire because the national electricity grid cannot cope. Green Energy UK Direct currently has two projects it is pursuing in the county, one in Culham and one near Bicester
AN Oxford bank clerk and two fellow employees face a retrial over an alleged £2m scam after jurors failed to reach verdicts. Tai Hulbert-Thomas, 27, Neil Bautista, 22, and Mawli Thurairajah, 30, were accused of making transfers using stolen log-in
A WOMAN yesterday told a jury how she punched a 33-year-old man after believing she had witnessed him raping her friend. She said she walked in on Yohannis Urrutia Castro having “fast and furious” sex with the naked woman, who cannot be named for
Damon Albarn is one of many artists choosing to make exclusive appearances at Britain's most eclectic summer festival BLUR star Damon Albarn is among the big names set to pull in the punters to this year’s Latitude Festival. While preparations
GREENE KING IPA CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL BRISTOL director of rugby Andy Robinson says the Memorial Stadium crowd will give them a ten-point advantage against London Welsh tonight. Robinson hopes the home support will give his side an extra lift as
CHILDREN can learn about the magic of crystals in a new exhibition at Oxford’s Botanic Garden. Oxford University chemistry department is running the exhibition throughout June to celebrate the United Nation’s International Year of Crystallography
In a re-run of the 2013 final, defending champions Shrivenham marched into the quarter-finals of the Airey Cup after squeezing past fellow Division 1 outfit, Minster Lovell. Shot out by the hosts for just 119, with Elliot Graham grabbing 5-36,
A CONTROVERSIAL property developer has labelled council officers “stupid” as he attempts to turn a plot of land in Oxford into his own personal rubbish dump. Martin Young was yesterday defending his bid to turn the land in Littlemore into a dump
THE release of the environmental impact assessment that supports Doric Properties’ plans to redevelop West Way in Botley now triggers a three-week consultation. You don’t have to be a soothsayer to predict opponents will scrutinise every last comma
GREENE KING IPA CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL MITCH Lees and Richard Thorpe come into London Welsh’s back row for tonight’s crunch clash at Bristol (7.45). Lees returns at blindside flanker after seven weeks out injured, while No 8 Thorpe starts for the
A PUBLIC meeting is to be held on controversial plans to share patient GP information throughout the NHS. Healthwatch Oxfordshire, the official health and social care watchdog, will hold the meeting in September. Details have not been announced
AN ALICE In Wonderland exhibition with a difference will come to the Museum of Oxford this summer. Twenty-five artists from the UK and abroad have contributed to the show, which will run at the town hall, St Aldate’s gallery from June 7 to September
PLANS to bring a Witney secondary school out of special measures in seven months’ time are on track, its headteacher has said. Wood Green School was rated inadequate by Ofsted in November last year, slipping from an outstanding result just three
LES Goodchild, managing director of Oxford City when Bobby Moore and Harry Redknapp came to the club as the management team, has died, aged 76. Goodchild gave up his job as principal engineer at Pressed Steel Fisher to become City’s managing director
OXFORD United are to dedicate their youth team player of the year trophy to the late Jack Casley in recognition of his work with the club’s youngsters. Casley, the club’s first professional player and former chief scout, died in the John Radcliffe
IN A city with the highest concentration of listed buildings outside London, Oxford’s built environment can be a contentious issue. Despite high profile rows and judicial reviews, the city councillor responsible for development said he has enjoyed
JAMES Lamerton admitted to being “absolutely stunned” after taking all ten wickets in an innings on Sunday. The left-arm seamer achieved a bowler’s maximum when he returned the amazing figures of 10-21 from 7.1 overs for United Oxford Hospitals
DANCE workshops and toe-tapping amusement will take place in a day of dance. Members of the Inner Wheel Club of Banbury have encouraged residents to tap, jump, wiggle and stamp their feet along with schools and dance groups from 10am to 10pm on
RESIDENTS have backed calls for a project for more parking to be available in Greater Leys. Oxford City Council has pledged to extend the car park into grassland at the Leys Health Centre, Dunnock Way, for 20 vehicles. Residents said they want
