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  • Graduate uses people power for global tour

    AN adventurer based in Oxfordshire has successfully kayaked across an Alaskan archipelago spanning 1,200 miles. Oxford University graduate Sarah Outen, 29, is undertaking a global expedition in stages, starting and finishing in London, using only

  • Time to saddle up for the Donkey Derby

    THE races are coming to Bampton this Bank Holiday but with a difference. Children, rather than professional jockeys, will ride on donkeys instead of horses in Sandford Field. It is all part of the 45th Donkey Derby, with visitors betting on

  • It’s the coolest, chicest job in town for Alpine Guru Oli

    SKI ace Oli Corkhill was just 16 when he became an instructor at one of Europe’s most exclusive resorts. A decade later, he has turned his passion for snow into a thriving business. With fellow director Ant Cullen, he launched Alpine Guru in

  • £400k tankers deal expands firm’s worldwide presence

    A WEST Oxfordshire firm has landed a £400,000 deal to supply aircraft refuelling tankers to Burma. Standlake-based Flightline Support, one of the first British companies to clinch orders in the Asian country since trade sanctions were lifted 12

  • Banking on success for bridal business

    NOT being able to find a dress for her wedding prompted Madelaine Orlando to open a bridal boutique of her own. Four years on, Bicester Bridal has proved such a hit, the former police officer has traded-up from her original shop to one three times

  • Florist Emma returns for a blooming treat

    A NAME from Oxford’s floral past will return to the city she made her name in this weekend as part of the Flowers@Oxford festival. Emma Fawcett-Eustace left her flower shop in Abingdon Road in September 2002 having provided flowers for Oxfordshire

  • Towersey: The friendly face of festivals

    Tim Hughes looks forward to a little festival with big ideas - this weekend celebrating its 50th anniversary For most of the year Towersey is a pretty, if unremarkable village of about 500 souls. But for one week it becomes something remarkable

  • A34 slip road closed due to breakdown

    MOTORISTS trying to join the A34 at Wolvercote face delays, as a slip road has been closed due to a broken down car. For updates on traffic, see our live feed.  Do you want alerts delivered straight to your phone via our WhatsApp service? Text

  • PM to support campaign for transport links

    DAVID Cameron has agreed to help a campaign for better transport links between Witney and Oxford. The Prime Minister and Witney MP will write to Secretary of State for Transport, Patrick McLoughlin, to ask about what can be done to ease pressure

  • Oxfordshire celebrates a bumper summer for music festivals

    WITH music festivals cropping up all summer long, Oxfordshire seems to have cracked the code of what makes a great one. Big hitters such as Cropredy and Wilderness saw sell-out crowds through the gates enjoying top acts such as The Wonderstuff

  • Glowing tribute to airman described as a RAF ‘legend’

    AN AIRMAN who played a key role in modernising RAF Brize Norton’s air capabilities has died aged 54. Flight Lieutenant Ken McCredie, most recently of 99 Squadron, racked up 11,000 flying hours, piloted nine types of aircraft and served at 14 Royal

  • Literary tour celebrates Oxfordshire links with Dylan Thomas

    THE Oxfordshire connections of legendary Welsh poet Dylan Thomas are to be celebrated with a special literary tour. Dylan Thomas’ Oxford: The Deer, Jazz and The Beat Poets will be held next Saturday. It has been organised by Literature Wales

  • Managing director ‘had the gift of the gab’

    THE founder of a major Oxfordshire printing equipment firm has died aged 58. John Price was the managing director of Ashgate Automation and a well-known figure in his industry. He founded his company in 1989 after leaving the Royal Navy in

  • Putting nature in the frame at Art Jericho

    Sarah Mayhew-Craddock loses herself in Oxford artist Rose-Marie Caldecott’s foray into abstract landscapes Rose-Marie Caldecott’s exhibition, The Radiance of Being, at Art Jericho in King Street, Oxford, is a beautiful and poetically poignant momento

  • Station bacon butty search hits the buffers

    Unless you’re Ed Miliband, you can’t really go wrong with a bacon sarnie. So, missing breakfast, and in need of an early morning takeaway at the start of what I knew was going to be a hectic day, I went in search of one on the way to work.

  • When hunger strikes, don't mezze about

    After an evening in the company of the Bard, only a Lebanese banquet will do for Katherine MacAlister It’s hungry work watching Shakespeare. You can work up quite an appetite witnessing all that angst and murder, wailing and beating of chests,

  • Taking up Arms is a family affair for us

    Starting Up with Samantha Vaughn @ The Abingdon Arms Keep it in the family”! was the motto for our new team running the popular country pub and restaurant The Abingdon Arms, in Beckley. I’m the manager, supported by my husband Steve, and our

  • Chef's Special - Macher Dopiaza (Fish with Double Onions)

    My name is Shayek Ahmed and I worked as a trainee chef for eight years under head chef Nurul Amin at the Aziz Restaurant. I am presently the head chef at Aziz and my cooking style is Bangladeshi/Indian. My signature dish is Kodu Gosht (lamb with

  • Filling mix of food, drink and fun on the menu

    Celebrities, chocolate and champagne... Katherine MacAlister gets a taste of all the mouthwatering attractions at the Foodies Festival in Oxford this weekend The line-up for this year’s Foodies Festival at Oxford’s South Parks this weekend is second

  • New York band Augustines to get Reading rocking

    With a reputation for bringing their show to the audience, Augustines are a thrilling band. Tim Hughes talks to drummer Rob Allen ahead of this weekend’s festival date It’s the biggest, loudest and certainly liveliest music festival of the summer

  • Controversial Nick is a difficult act to follow

    William Pimlott ponders over which direction to next take this column In the middle of the busy August news month a momentous change took place behind the scenes at The Oxford Times media empire: Nick Hilton graduated and left his Quad Talk column

  • It's been a fulfilling seven years

    Oxford Brookes Vice Chancellor Prof Janet Beer looks at her time When my appointment as the new Vice Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University was announced in September 2006 I received a piece of advice from an old friend, Sir William Taylor, troubleshooting

  • An irration on radio's Today? Very much so

    There has been general gruntfuttocking in national newspaper letters columns about the use of language since John Humphrys made his ill-advised criticism of Melvyn Bragg over the reliance on the historic present in his Radio 4 series In Our Time.

  • Sunday polo event to support Ataxia UK

    An afternoon polo event in support of a new Oxford branch of Ataxia UK is being held on Monday at Kirtlington Park. Ataxia is a distressing medical condition few will have heard of. No more would I have done, were it not for the fact that I have a

  • How King Tut helped inspire a Christie play

    The not-to-be-missed exhibition Discovering Tutankhamum at the Ashmolean Museum revived scarcely dormant memories of my visit, during a holiday cruise some years ago, to the tomb of the boy king. That Tutankhamun was still a boy (almost) when he died

  • Match fit for film success

    Richard O. Smith on the home team who signed up with an Oscar-winning director I am standing in front of All Souls’ imposing gates while providing my Argentinian companion with a quick ‘greatest hits’ tour of Oxford. Without warning, a pack

  • We're looking for your photos: Some snapshots of ‘home’

    PHOTOGRAPHERS from across Oxfordshire have been sending us some of their best snaps of what “home” means to them. Some 38 entries have been received for our photography competition, which the Oxford Mail is running with Oxford Brookes University

  • Become a true Blue at Iffley restaurant

    Christopher Gray returns to Hawkwell House Hotel in Iffley to try out their Iffley Blue Restaurant Rosemarie and I still regard The Hawkwell House Hotel in Iffley as the home of the al dente potato, although this culinary peculiarity was invented

  • Foodies hungry for hot festival tickets

    Helen Peacocke on Thame Food Festival and the Foodies Festival this bank holiday weekend Appetites are sharpened by two big upcoming events. Firstly, South Parks is being transformed into a culinary paradise this weekend for Foodies Festival and

  • Fuchsia favourite deserves reviving

    Val Bourne explains why the plant of her childhood is well worth growing The fuchsia was a plant of my childhood, my adolescence and my early family life when most gardens had a hanging basket or a hardy fuchsia that lit up late summer and autumn

  • A mammal moment is a true thrill

    Keep an eye out says Judith Hartley of the Oxfordshire Mammal Group There’s nothing like being in the right place at the right time. On a recent drive along a familiar stretch of road, a rabbit jumped out of the long grass and sprinted towards

  • 'I could not be happier with the end result'

    Anna Halloran gives the final segment of her home renovation blog, as her derelict Marston house is transformed into her dream home after eight weeks and with a tight budget... After buying our dream home only two months ago, turning it from a

  • Mind over matter in 'Lucy'

    Keeley Bolger finds Luc Besson’s brain pleaser is refreshingly short and sweet Derriere-numbingly long films may be all the rage but at 89 minutes, Lucy, the new action thriller from Luc Besson, is all the better for bucking this trend. And

  • Jason Durr set to take on world's best-known sleuth

    Christopher Gray speaks to Jason Durr of Heartbeat fame who is set to star as Poirot Jason Durr became a familiar face of feelgood television as the good-natured copper Mike Bradley in ITV’s long-running series Heartbeat. Now he is showing

  • It may last for Ages, but the music is terrific

    It’s loud, it’s vulgar, it’s utterly lacking in restraint. Yes, we’re in the world of late 1980s rock, with its soaring power ballads and guitar histrionics from tattooed, leather-clad axemen. Political correctness? Never heard of it. Heroine Sherrie

  • It's a witch-hunt in The Crucible

    Christopher Gray describes the Old Vic’s revival of The Crucible as ‘compelling’ The blistering physicality that is so marked a feature of the Old Vic’s superb revival of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible will hardly surprise the seasoned theatregoers

  • The White Devil @ Swan Theatre, Stratford

    A question nagged away at me throughout the near three hours of the thrilling new production of John Webster’s Jacobean bloodbath, The White Devil. Since this is figuring in the RSC’s ‘Roaring Girls’ season of plays “with powerfully fascinating women

  • Summer celebration with young voices

    A youth choir is giving a special concert at Waddesdon Manor, discovers Nicola Lisle It has only been going for a year, but already a Buckinghamshire youth chamber choir is attracting glowing praise for the standard of its performances. Now

  • Didcot mum shows how to lose 13 stone without exercise

    JUST over two years ago, Claire Pursey weighed 23stone 9lb. Her health was so bad she earned the name “sick note” at work. Now, without doing any exercise, the paralegal from Didcot has shed 9st – and is now just 10lb away from her target weight

  • Officer thought driving was worst he had seen in career

    A SERIAL offender has been jailed for what a policeman said was the most dangerous driving he had seen in his career. Darrel Keen, of Kings Lane, Norton, near Evesham, crashed into a police car and trapped an officer’s leg in the door while trying

  • We are still trying to balance books today

    I am writing in response to Mr Tanner’s letter of August 15. He states only a Labour government will freeze energy bills. So before the general election the energy bills could go up, and somehow Labour have managed to scrape in, so that means no

  • Terrorist organisations need to be defeated

    Now that the world has witnessed the horror and slaughter of Christians, Yazidis and Shia at the hand of the IS militants, I do hope that people, no matter where they stand politically, will realise that terrorist organisations like IS and all the

  • My solution to fixing problems with the NHS

    I have a way out to fix the problem of lack of money in the NHS that we have got. I think if we were to register the NHS under a foreign country we could then get some of the billions of pounds that they give away in foreign aid. What do you think?

  • Sadly not all notices are so easily translatable

    While sheltering in the Covered Market from inclement weather I noticed a sign containing the expression ‘alarm of fire’. As it happens, anyone understanding the usual term would, rather fortunately in this particular case, probably have no trouble

  • Christmas cards for sale during height of summer

    Monday, August 18 – and now summer is officially over. How do I know? The Card Factory in Abingdon precinct have got their Christmas cards up for sale. P.S. I have not had my summer holiday yet. Susan Blake Childrey Way Abingdon Do

  • The Scales of Justice - 20 people up in court

    BANBURY MAGISTRATES David Hatton, 32, of Jubilee Court, Banbury, admitted racially or religiously-aggravated fear or provocation by words or writing at Bridge Street, Banbury, on July 20. Fined £150 and told to pay £50 compensation, a £20 victims

  • A happy atmosphere during house opening

    I would like to thank the manager Sharon, her team and the residents of Marston Court Residential Home for inviting me to open a new summer house in the grounds of their home. The summer house is for the use of residents and staff to enjoy. It

  • We Are all Family at Rewind South Festival

    John Carter enjoys performances from Sister Sledge and other 80s acts at this year's Rewind South Festival Fans of the 1980s were Lost In Music during a magical weekend at the Rewind South festival. American soul singers Sister Sledge were among

  • Jake Bugg set to take Reading Festival by storm

    Tim Hughes discovers Jake Bugg can’t wait to play Britain’s best rock festival - kinda! If there’s one thing Jake Bugg can’t get enough of, it’s the chance to share his music with new fans. And there’s no better place to do that than at a festival

  • Personal tales put war in perspective

    Anne James analyses the poignant Great War exhibition at the Bodleian The personal stories exhibition at the Bodleian makes an important and very specific contribution to the onset of and the pursuit of the Great War with a particular emphasis

  • For Art's Sake with Sarah Mayhew Craddock

    Creation Theatre’s Friends Coordinator Sarah Mayhew Craddock is happy to admit it: She is in love with Twitter... As round-robin mail shots clutter up my inbox, flyers and programmes get shoved through our letterbox, and posters vie for my attention

  • Moore the merrier on tour

    Katherine MacAlister talks to the charming and distinguished former 007 Roger Moore ahead of his appearance at the New Theatre next month ‘Sorry, I’ve got a frog in my throat,” Sir Roger Moore coughs, sounding as unmistakable now as ever. His

  • Legal challenge: What are your rights if you are a grandparent

    THE end of a relationship or separation can be difficult for families, especially where there is a high level of conflict that makes communication between parents difficult. Grandparents may also feel worried that they may lose contact with their grandchildren

  • Prime Minister’s ready to put bite on election rivals

    WITH a General Election around the corner, politicians across Oxfordshire are getting hungry for power. And Witney MP and Prime Minister David Cameron is clearly more hungry than the rest. The Tory was “papped” taking a bite out of a Big Mac

  • Descendant honours fallen great-grandad

    THE great-grandson of an Oxfordshire man who was killed in the First World War will travel to France next week to visit the village where he was killed. Private John Garlick of the 1st Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment was killed on 26 August,

  • Oxford United boss admits results could put off some targets

    MICHAEL Appleton admits Oxford United’s losing start to the Sky Bet League Two season could have an effect on their search to attract players before the end of the transfer window. The U’s go into Saturday’s home game against Portsmouth still looking

  • Purr-fect ending to tale of cat missing for a decade

    GEORGIA Hand was just a few months old when the family cat Morgan went missing 10 years ago. Along with her mum Sally, dad Alan and sisters Lucy, eight, and Holly, six, she had just moved to their new home in Witney when the black and white moggy

  • Morgan captain of his own destiny

    WE’VE all heard the story – the family cat goes missing and then turns up a while later. But what makes the story of Morgan the moggy so extraordinary is the length of time. The Poulters had, quite understandably, given up hope after doing all

  • The true cost of hundreds of bicycles left on streets

    THE thought of more than 900 people leaving £20 notes lying around on pavements across Oxford is inconceivable. Which is why it’s hard to grasp why almost 1,000 bikes have been abandoned in the city over the last two years. Of course we don

  • Thieves snatch £1,600 from pay-and-display machines

    MORE than £1,600 has been stolen from pay- and-display parking machines across Oxford in the past five years. Since 2009 there have been 17 attempts to break into machines, and five of those were successful, with thieves getting away with £1,677.90

  • Alleged helper ‘wanted phone smashed’

    A MAN on trial for helping killer William Blencowe told his girlfriend to take a hammer to his phone after he was arrested, a jury has been told. Grant Clemens, of Stockwells in Moreton-in-Marsh, was taken into custody on February 19 this year

  • Chemical smell alert

    Four residents needed hospital treatment after emergency services were alerted to a chemical smell in a block of flats. Firefighters, police officers and paramedics were called to Greenhill Court in Lodge Close at 9pm on Tuesday. Fire crews

  • Westgate application due by end of month

    A planning application for the £400m Westgate redevelopment is expected by the end of the month, the developers have said. The Westgate Alliance is planning to completely redevelop the shopping centre to include cafes, restaurants, a cinema and

  • CRICKET: Barbados dream over for Rowant

    Aston Rowant’s dreams of a trip to the Caribbean were dashed as they fell to an agonising six-run home defeat against Reigate Priory in the Barbados & Smile Group Travel Cup semi-final. Reigate, who won the Ryman Surrey Championship the previous

  • BAR BILLIARDS: Patey stars at the double

    John Patey led the way for West Oxford Democrats Club in their 4½-1½ win over Vikings in Group A of the Oxford Summer League, writes PETE EWINS. Patey (7,450 & 9,160) bagged a brace of wins, with Billy Hill (5,220) and Terry Green (3,120) also

  • BOWLS: Ley and Petersen denied in national agony

    Oxfordshire's Alan Ley and Mike Petersen suffered an agonising 20-18 defeat in the Bowls England Men’s National Senior Pairs Championship final at Royal Leamington Spa. Holding a one-shot advantage going into the last end of their clash with Derbyshire

  • BOWLS: Central duo's challenge flounders in last four

    Oxfordshire's Carole Galletly and Caroline Campion reached the Bowls England Women’s National Pairs Championship semi-finals before seeing their title dreams shattered. The Banbury Central pair bowed out with a 21-13 defeat by eventual winners

  • Communal environment

    The Ethical Property Company is a social business based in Oxford with centres across nine different cities. First established in 1998, the company provides office, event and retail space to charities, social enterprises, voluntary and campaign

  • Focus minds on buses

    It might not be up there with the long ago proposed relief road across Christ Church Meadow, but many readers would surely put talk of reintroducing buses into Cornmarket high on any list of mad Oxford transport ideas. Anyone living or visiting

  • Trainer who shot himself left over £418k legacy

    A RACEHORSE trainer and writer left more than £418,000 in his will, according to figures released by the probate office. Jamie Douglas-Home, 61, shot himself dead at his home in Lockinge, near Wantage, on May 8 after suffering months of depression

  • Hundreds of scorned bikes heading for the scrapheap

    NEARLY 1,000 abandoned bicycles have been tagged with warnings by Oxford City Council over the past two years. Of those, 425 have been sent to scrap, with 382 claimed by owners and about 100 donated to workshops to be repaired. Under the scheme

  • BOWLS: Oxon veteran Ley reaches 800-game milestone

    Oxford City & County’s Alan Ley chalked up another landmark with his 800th game for Oxfordshire in their 129-89 win over Buckinghamshire in a friendly at Long Crendon. Ley, who made his Oxon debut in 1966 at the old Blue Circle club, near Kidlington

  • BOWLS: Headington to face City & County in final

    Headington A will face Oxford City & County A in the Oxford & District League Cup final for the third time in four years. The old rivals booked their place in the decider under the floodlights at Kidlington on Thursday, September 4 after

  • Play areas are vital

     In these increasingly sedentary and ever busy times, our local community playing fields and play areas are the vital lungs for our community. They provide space for the community to meet and socialise. They offer opportunities for children to

  • Community oven planned

    Uffington Community Garden Association is looking for volunteers to help them build a clay oven on their site. It is a new small community group creating a place to grow fruit and vegetables, jointly, in the village of Uffington, as well as creating

  • Parky at the Pictures (DVD 21/8/2014)

    Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri have been a formidable team since they first met in a production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party in 1987. They began writing together with the script for Philippe Muyl's Cuisines et dépendances (1992) and scooped

  • Taking to the skies to raise money for new prosthetics

    THIS Bank Holiday Monday will see 24 people leap into the sky at 13,000 feet to raise money for quadruple amputee Charlotte Nott. The six-year-old from Cowley had the lower part of her arms and legs amputated in 2010 after contracting meningitis

  • Parky at the Pictures (In Cinemas 21/8/2014)

    The Premiership kicked off again last weekend amidst claims that it is no longer the best league in the world. There is no question that there is a gulf in quality between the top seven teams and those struggling to survive, with the result that several

  • Sale of defence site land for housing sealed

    LAND for a self-build housing site in Bicester has been bought from the Ministry of Defence. Up to 1,900 homes could now be built on land at Graven Hill after Cherwell District Council finalised the sale. Barry Wood, the leader of the council

  • Chocolate thief ordered to pay £66 compensation

    A MAN must pay more than £60 in compensation after stealing two chocolate bars. Gary John Wickens, of Leach Road, Bicester, pleaded guilty to two charges of theft when he appeared at Banbury Magistrates’ Court. He stole two chocolate bars from

  • AMERICAN FOOTBALL: Walter stars as Saints sign off on a high

    JAMES Walter scored four touchdowns as Oxford Saints ended the season with a 34-20 home win over Leicester Falcons. The success saw them finish second in the table, with seven wins from ten games, a significant improvement on last season, which

  • Council cabinet approves land giveaway

    COUNCILLORS have agreed to give away land in Carterton and Long Hanborough. West Oxfordshire District Council’s cabinet yesterday voted to transfer land at Blackthorn Green in Shilton Park, Carterton, to Carterton Town Council. It will allow

  • Woman wielding bat in nightclub escapes jail term

    A WOMAN who tried to run into a nightclub with a baseball bat has been given a community order. Joanne Way, of Osney Court, Botley Road, Oxford, admitted possessing an offensive weapon in a public place and drink-driving on May 24 this year.

  • Three people taken to hospital after multiple car crash

    A THREE-car crash on the A40 left a man needing hospital treatment for serious leg injuries. The road was closed for more than three hours in both directions after a red Ford Mondeo, silver Mercedes and grey Peugeot crashed at about 1pm yesterday

  • Unexploded shells discovered in scrapyard

    UNEXPLODED shells, thought to be from the Second World War, were detonated yesterday after being unearthed in a scrapyard. They were discovered in a container at the LC Hughes scrap metal yard in London Road, Bicester, by John Clayton who was collecting

  • RUGBY UNION: World Cup winning quartet's Henley link

    FOUR former Henley players helped England to victory over Canada in the Women’s World Cup final in Paris. Prop Rochelle Clark, lock Tamara Taylor, full back Danielle Waterman and centre Rachael Burford all started in England’s 21-9 win, having

  • ATHLETICS: Carter's on song with big victory

    SOPHIE Carter stormed to victory by more than four minutes in the Burnham Beeches Half Marathon. Carter, from Woodstock, was the first lady home and eighth overall in a time of 1hr 20mins 51secs. Running for first-claim club Belgrave Harriers

  • Investigation into death of 4,000 fish is ongoing

    A chemical leak that killed 4,400 fish in a Didcot stream is still being investigated. The gudgeon, roach, dace and chub were discovered in Moor Ditch, north of the Ladygrove estate, at the end of July. The Environment Agency (EA) said water

  • Vale the seventh best place to live

    VALE of White Horse has been ranked the seventh best place to live in a national poll. Oxford, meanwhile, came 5,808th out of 7,137 districts in the Daily Telegraph survey. Test Valley in Hampshire, came top in the country in the ranking published

  • ATHLETICS: Fajemisin bags southern gold

    SIMI Fajemisin won triple jump gold in the Under 15/17 South of England Track & Field Championships at Crystal Palace. The Oxford City athlete triumphed in the under 17 girls’ event with a new best distance of 12.16m. Fajemisin, who is

  • ATHLETICS: Stepney breaks record

    OWEN Stepney (pictured, left) broke Abingdon’s 800m club record during an impressive run at the Watford Open. Stepney clocked 1min 56.08secs to finish fourth in race 18. OTHER RESULTS (senior men unless stated) BURNHAM BEECHES HALF

  • ICE HOCKEY: Three more sign up at Oxford City Stars

    OXFORD City Stars have secured another three of last season’s title-winning squad ahead of the new campaign, which starts next month. Veteran captain James Clarke, plus brothers Josh and Jake Florey, have agreed to stay on for another year.

  • Quarter of mums are main earners

    More than a quarter of Oxford mums are the breadwinners in their families with 27 per cent contributing more than 50 per cent to their household’s income. However, this is far below the UK average of 43 per cent of mothers being the chief earners

  • City home care service passes top inspection

    A CITY home care service has passed all key standards from an inspection by the national health and social care watchdog. Littlemore’s Nurse Plus and Carer Plus met the five standards from a June inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

  • Young cancer survivor busks it for charity

    A SCHOOLBOY who overcame cancer raised money for two of the charities that helped him by busking in Oxford with his sister. Nine-year-old Ace Manthey, from Abingdon, sang and played guitar with Sky, 12, in Cornmarket Street and Bonn Square.

  • Credit union in funding crisis after pulling out of merger

    THE Blackbird Leys Credit Union is facing a last-minute race for funding after pulling out of a merger with its rival. The union was set to join up with the Oxford Credit Union in March, but changed its mind at the last minute. Normally, the

  • Closed pub could become house

    A FORMER pub in Stonesfield could be converted into a home. Richard Peet has submitted plans to West Oxfordshire District Council to change the use of The Black Head, in Church Street. A two-storey rear extension, with a pitched roof, forms

  • Bus link gets boost after parking crackdown clears way

    A BUS company has announced more regular services linking Wolvercote and Oxford after parking restrictions were introduced in the village. Oxford Bus Company had raised concerns that large numbers of parked cars were hampering its City6 service