AN OXFORD trombone player who dedicated his life to music will be honoured at a big band charity concert today. BBO Big Band (Bucks, Berks, Oxon) will stage the event in memory of former member Peter Mayhew of Headington, who passed away in November
VILLAGERS hope younger people might be more eager to help run their century-old hall under changes removing their legal liability. Volunteers who look after South Hinksey village hall have bid to make themselves a Charitable Incorporated Organisation
WILLIAMS F1 at Grove has chosen the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA) as its official charity, in honour of its founder. The SIA supports people affected by spinal cord injury by advising, educating and campaigning on their behalf. Team principal
Drivers are facing delays tonight following an accident on the A40 at Oxford's Cutteslowe roundabout. The incident involving a car and a lorry happened on the westbound carriageway of the A40 at North Way, and traffic is tailing back to the Marston
A FATHER has told how his eight-month-old baby was kept awake through the night by youngsters holding an illegal rave in woods near his home. Edward Grant, who lives near King’s Wood off the B4335 near Charlbury, described how a large group of
Demolition work is continuing to make way for the £400m revamp of the Westgate Centre. Diggers have now arrived at the dilapitated Westgate multi-storey car park, which is being demolished as part of the plans to rebuild the shopping centre.
Felicity Lusk, the first woman to be appointed headteacher of a boys’ public school, has announced she is to retire and could trek off to New Zealand when she leaves. Miss Lusk arrived at Abingdon School in 2010 and will retire at the end of the
THE CHARISMATIC rowing coach behind Oxford’s most successful period in the history of the Boat Race has died aged 69. Dan Topolski, had already been an Oxford Blue himself, rowed in the 1967 and 1968 races, and was a world gold medalist, but before
LESLIE George Goulding, who has died aged 91, was a clinical scientist who played a key role in the development of modern heart-monitoring systems. He was born on February 1 1924 in North London, to parents George and Florence Goulding. He
A MUSIC enthusiast is getting in a spin again and hoping to bring record fairs back to Witney. Kevin Cheesman, from Milton-under-Wychwood, is organising the town’s first record fair in more than a decade. He hopes the renewed enthusiasm for
ABINGDON could lose its outdoor swimming pool in a major refurbishment of Abbey Meadow. Vale of White Horse District Council is asking residents to chose between three new scenarios, two of which see the pool scrapped. The council says it wants
A 22-year-old-woman from Oxford has been reported missing. Police are appealing for help in tracing Emily Stiff, who was last seen at 11pm on Tuesday in the Botley area. Miss Stiff is white, slim, approximately 5ft 4in, and has brown shoulder-length
A NEW 72-bed luxury care home overlooking Oxford could see a restaurant, spa facilities and cinema opened up to the public. The home, currently under construction in Cumnor Hill, is due to open early next year and the people of West Oxford will
John McNulty - Solicitor with Oxford Legal firm Turpin & Miller There are two types of Power of Attorney. The first is what is called an Ordinary Power of Attorney which is a legal document giving someone else authority to act on your behalf
STUDENTS joined members of OxClean in a joint attack on one of the city’s worst “grot spots”. Volunteers from the Oxford Hub – Oxford University students who help community projects – tackled an overgrown area in West Way, West Oxford. It is
CHILDREN smoking cannabis and yobbish behaviour in Kidlington have led to police action to crack down on the drug. Police raided a house in the village following increasing worries about cannabis use in the area. During the raid on a house
St Clement's Labour City Councillor Tom Hayes on the government's key to a vast wealth gap As a regular visitor to doorsteps across Oxford, I’m not surprised by the chorus of voices calling for change. People are tired of speaking out and voting
A DECISION to axe the role of chief executive at Oxfordshire County Council could be overturned. The move was voted through by the Conservative-Independent Alliance last week, during a heated full meeting of councillors. It would have made
OXON: A replacement will be sought for Oxford’s disgraced town crier, the Lord Mayor has confirmed. Anthony Church quit his role this month(FEB) after he admitted wrongly wearing military medals and lying about serving in the Coldstream Guards.
NETWORK Rail managers have admitted their electrification scheme for the railways in the Thames Valley could fall behind schedule. As part of the scheme for the old Great Western route, overhead wires are being fitted between Reading and Oxford
Campaigners are “very pleased” that unmarked graves in Littlemore will not be built on. New site plans for the 270-home development in Armstrong Road show consecrated ground at the edge of the development will not form part of the back gardens
A FAMILY-OWNED Oxfordshire construction company has been named the UK’s Master Builder of the Year for the major renovation of a Victorian-era house in North Oxford. Sporn Construction, based in Stratton Audley near Bicester, beat 70 other finalists
BACKGROUND checks on job candidates have propelled a firm started by three Oxford students into the big league. Husayn Kassai, 25, 23-year-old Eamon Jubbawy and 27-year-old Ruhul Amin have been awarded a £2.6 million cash injection from the same
WILLIAMS’ new chief financial officer believes the Formula One team will be as competitive this year as it was in 2014. Last year the Oxfordshire-based team came third in the F1 Constructors’ Championship. That was a dramatic improvement from
OXFORDSHIRE is the 15th most economically productive sub-region in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics. The county recorded a Gross Value Added (GVA) per hour worked that was 6.7 per cent above the UK average in 2013. The
FOLK-pop band Stornoway have been added to the line-up of this year's Towersey Festival. The Cowley-based band will also be joined on the bill by singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, who plays the date as part of what she has called her "last major
Leah McLaren skis at Europe’s highest resort and dons flippers to dive underneath the ice I was sitting on the edge of a sheet of ice on a frozen lake, looking down a crystal blue hole at the water below, surrounded by snow-covered mountains, when
Robin Buxton is stepping down as the head of Wild Oxfordshire, but still has his heart in it We all love water voles and tree sparrows, but does it really matter if they disappear? Robin Buxton believes so, and he’s been trying to do something
William Poole reaches out to people with real vision everywhere I was at the reopening of a university library here recently – and such occasions usually involve speeches. Rather in the manner of some early Quaker, some chap from the university
Indroneel Chatterjee tells us how his career went from working as a laboratory researcher to winning the “Face of Oxford” award at 2014’s Oxford Fashion week One of the most significant milestones of my existence was winning the title of “Face
The traffic lights were switched off and all flowed smoothly. This was exactly what many of us predicted would happen at Oxford’s Frideswide Square. Work has begun on rebuilding this busy junction and set to last an astonishing five months.
The life of a leading lady in opera is tragically short, as was demonstrated last week in performances at Oxford’s New Theatre on consecutive nights of a trio of firm favourites in the genre, Verdi’s Rigoletto and La Traviata and Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
If I were the letters page editor of a national paper, especially one of the ‘heavies’, I would always be sure to study what’s on the pages of my rivals. The Daily Telegraph’s clearly doesn’t do this. On Saturday, February 14, following criticism
Reg Little discovers how Oxford is playing a key role in unlocking Med’s seabed secrets More than a decade ago one of the world’s most famous deep-sea divers travelled to Oxford to deliver a lecture. Well known for his excavation of Napoleon
Jan Lee reads a scorching novel by a former Oxford resident who has returned to her roots Vanessa Lafaye’s uplifting, shocking debut novel Summertime comes as the Alabama town of Selma remembers its Bloody Sunday — March 8, 1965, when state troopers
Christopher Gray welcomes the union of one North Oxford foodie institution with another The discerning foodies of North Oxford have long held chef Jamie King in high regard and it is a matter of some satisfaction to all — to those who so far know
Helen Peacocke explores the history and culinary potential in an ancient symbol of the dauntless Welsh An ancient battle that pitted the Saxons against the Welsh took place in Wales in a field of leeks. It’s said that during the battle King Cadwaladr
Val Bourne offers tips for tackling the worst of soils I recently did a gardening talk at Uffington and one couple, who’d moved just a few miles, have been struggling with their new garden because of the heavy clay soil. It has already destroyed
Barry Hudson, secretary of Oxford Ornithological Society, outlines its agenda The Oxfordshire Ornithological Society (OOS) is currently running several projects to help some of our most vulnerable birds, including the Tree Sparrow Project.
Anne James is impressed by a sense of the panoramic at Oxford Art Society exhibition In one direction stands Wittenham Clumps, in another the sea — and between them the eye takes in faces, architecture, animals, abstract forms. Like a true panorama
Giles Woodforde anticipates an acclaimed chronicle of the seismic shifts in women’s lives “I'm in luv, mother,” announces Margaret. “Excellent,” observes director John Terry, “It’s good that you’re sneaking that line out by speaking it into a sheet
Filter and Tobacco’s latest production of Macbeth is not one for the traditionalist, writes Tim Hughes ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me?” No... it’s a man in jeans and T-shirt rubbing a bucket of blood, and a pile of feathers all over his
Ihad to apologise to the man sitting next to me during the Comedy Club 4 Kids session at the Oxford Playhouse because I was howling so loudly. I wasn’t supposed to be laughing, the children were, I was just accompanying them. But as I looked around
Expectations were high. One Man, Two Guvnors had triumphed in the West End to rave reviews and packed out theatres. James Corden was a thespian star. The new comedy had taken everyone by surprise and the great and the good flocked to London to see
The Merry Opera Company is one of the many small-scale companies that have sprung up in recent decades to challenge the traditional notion that opera belongs in a grand arena. In this gloriously sunny production, played out in the cosy intimacy of
A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of exposing himself to two women and a 12-year-old girl in Kidlington. The 46-year-old from Oxford was arrested yesterday and bailed until March 12. Thames Valley Police said the first incident happened
Nicola Lisle makes a date in her diary for a come-and-sing event for a new church organ St Peter’s Church in Wolvercote has set its heart on a new organ — and committee members hope that people will dig deep into their pockets to help raise the
Alternative country-rock TOLIESEL O2 Academy Oxford Tonight (Thursday) Tickets £7.05 inc fee from ticketweb.co.uk One of Oxford’s best-loved bands play their biggest show to date, as they launch rocking new tune Bones (check out their Soundcloud
* Nikki Loy made her name as a busker, tirelessly working her way up from playing with a hat of coins in Oxford’s Cornmarket, with a rich repertoire of her own tunes. This week she celebrates the launch of the first of four solo acoustic albums — the
Somerset’s hardcore punk five-piece Landscapes put on an energetic show, singer Shaun Milton angrily singing through his hair as he and the rest of the band attempt to jump through the floor of the stage. The sheer noise vibrations are enough to
Since opening two years ago, Cowley Road’s Big Society has become one of the city’s most popular after-hours drinking spots. Sprawling throughout a large former pub which, in its most recent previous incarnation was a Chinese restaurant and karaoke
* Wilderness Cookery School is collaborating with Daylesford this year, based on its love for organic food and artisanal skills and its ability to create stunning, seasonal dishes. The August festival weekend will again be brimming with a programme
Katherine MacAlister enjoys healthy food that tastes good at the hallowed organic farm-shop cafe Peering between the farm buildings we were totally at a loss as to where to go. I’d followed the Sat Nav directions which took me up through Bladon
John Footman is executive chef at Summertown’s new restaurant The Oxford Kitchen. John traces his love of cooking with fresh quality produce to his childhood and the imaginative home-grown food cooked by his family. This passion for fresh produce
Katherine MacAlister meets an unconventional stand-up comic on her return to native shores as part of a world tour after making a mark in the tough arena of US entertainment “It’s blooming cold over here, innit,” Gina Yashere sniffs. “I‘ve
Not exactly Simon and Garfunkel, the punk duo tell Tim Hughes how two nice young men from Kent found themselves battering our eardrums on the prestigious NME Tour For a fresh-faced twosome Isaac Holman and Laurie Vincent sure make one hell of a
Katherine MacAlister talks to Oxford’s new queen of the catwalk, student Natalie Page When Natalie Page isn’t studying hard for her Masters degree in geography you can find her strutting her stuff on the catwalks of Oxford Fashion Week. Having
Not content with staging a charity exhibition, lensman Marc tells Sarah Mayhew Craddock he’s running in the London Marathon Intrinsically creative and overflowing with energy, of course everyone’s favourite photographer-come-columnist, Mr Marc
Starting Up with Baz Butcher @ The White Hart If I am to have my time again, the beautiful and ancient village of Wytham is the place where I would like to be born, live, be married – probably not have children this time – and be laid to rest.
Towards the end of The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, a secret inspector is asked for an honest assessment of Jaipur’s luxury development for residents in their golden years. The inspector concludes that behind the scenes management of the
Tim Hughes talks to Dave Bayley frontman of an Oxford band who sell out everywhere and are loved by millions, but can still drink unnoticed in their local pub... In the past year, Oxford band Glass Animals have gone from obscurity to one of the
Stuart Macbeth meets the man mapping Russian steps ‘I was part of the great mechanism bound for success,” says Sergei Bobrov, reflecting on his time as principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet in the 1980s. “It’s a feeling that’s still present
Artistic Director Anja Meinhardt invites you to get moving with Justice in Motion My company, Justice in Motion, is a physical theatre company — a term that’s raised quizzical looks. Is it dance? Is it theatre? Mime? Circus? And the answer is yes
Katherine MacAlister talks to Portugal’s Catarina Carvalho as the city prepares to engage in 10 days of world-class dance Dancer Catarina Carvalho is rehearsing for her performance for the Brit Awards when we speak, alongside singer Palomo Faith
A DRUG addict has been jailed for threatening three women with a screwdriver and demanding money from them in the street. Gavin King, 37, held the weapon to the necks of his victims during a 30-minute daylight crime spree in the centre of Witney
OXFORD MAGISTRATES Patrick Kavanagh, 26, of no fixed address, admitted two counts of being drunk and disorderly in a public place in Marcham Road, Abingdon, on February 19, and Temple Road, Oxford, on February 18. Fined £150 and told to pay
AN EX-WIFE launched a malicious campaign against her former husband in which she claimed he was a paedophile, a court heard. Prosecutors said Mary Anne Spencer, of Oxford Road, Abingdon, posted fake international arrest warrants for Dennis Nissen
FLANKER Carl Kirwan says London Welsh are desperate to avoid becoming statistically the worst team in Aviva Premiership history. The Exiles sit at the bottom of the table with one bonus point from 15 league games, without a win all season, and
OXFORD City star Megan Humphreys produced one of the best performances of her fledgling career to finish tenth in the English Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill in London. Humphreys completed the hilly and muddy course in 20mins 4secs
BRADLEY Smith signed off pre-season testing with an encouraging sixth fastest time at Sepang yesterday. The Forest Hill rider was among an exclusive group to dip under the two-minute barrier in Malaysia on the final day of the second winter test
FOR eight decades the dulcet tones of the Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir have been the star attraction to mark St David’s Day. But this year there’s a rival invading their turf – leading to a serious lack of harmony. Oxford’s choir will be performing
A 24-year-old man from Kidlington has been rebailed until May 11 following his arrest the day after an alleged rape outside the Black Bull pub in Banbury Road. Police said a woman reported being attacked in the pub car park at about 2am on November
5:00pm Police are searching for a missing woman in Oxford. 4:38pm The decision to make the chief executive of Oxfordshire County Council is being reviewed
A FAMILY of six who waited nearly 10 years for a council house have finally been given a home. Charmaine Harris, 34, and partner Brian Seward, 48, moved into their new house in Leiden Road, Wood Farm, yesterday with their four children Richie,
Oxfordshire's Premier team swept aside Wiltshire 27-13 in the English Short Mat Bowling Association’s Inter County Competition Plate quarter-final at Guildford. The 199-145 shots success gives Oxfordshire a semi-final against Dorset at Bromsgrove
News of the death of Daniel Topolski will cause widespread sorrow in Oxford, far beyond the banks of the Isis and the university’s rowing fraternity. He was, and will remain, a true Oxford hero for many whose interest in rowing barely extends beyond
Former South Oxford president and captain Hilda Waller enjoyed many a success on the green – but she has just chalked up her greatest triumph by celebrating her 100th birthday. Waller, who took up the sport in the 1960s, won numerous competitions
Horspath have signed Oxford left-arm paceman Adam Price and destructive Bledlow batsman Adam Mould ahead of their first season in the top flight of the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League. Australian seamer Price, 32, will be the club’
Aston Rowant chairman Paul Humphreys is among three new directors co-opted on to the Oxfordshire Cricket Board. Humphreys has been given the responsibility for club and competition development. Tim Spittles, manager of Hawkwell House Hotel,
Cycling can be divisive. For every die-hard bike nut, there is a cycle-phobe who never got beyond stabilisers. For every cycling campaigner, demanding equal rights, there is a driver frustrated by bicycles on Oxford’s busy roads. Broken
Although he made a solid directorial bow with the thoughtful zombie drama, Les Revenants (2004), Robin Campillo is best known for his collaborations as screenwriter with Laurent Cantet. Indeed, there are echoes of both Heading South (2005) and The
THE A34 has reopened 11 hours after a lorry overturned on the southbound carriageway near Abingdon. The Highways Agency has confirmed the lorry has now been recovered but there are still minor delays in the area. Oxford Bus Company has diverted
When producer Alexander Korda first saw Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Tales of Hoffmann, he insisted on trimming 14 minutes from the running time to give it a better chance of success in the United States. Sadly, this experiment in `composed
OXFORD City Stars secured a tense 5-4 victory at Solent Devils to boost their battle against the drop in South Division 1. Two goals apiece from Nick Oliver and Josh Florey, and a strike from Josh Oliver, secured a vital win in the English National
AN OXFORD University academic today publishes a book that says house price rises in Oxford outpaced London last year. Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, said a key factor was the lower wages paid in the city when compared
A LARGE development on the edge of Greater Leys is again being considered to help deal with Oxford’s housing shortage. South Oxfordshire District Council said landowners had backed building thousands of homes on land south of Grenoble Road in its
OXFORD Saints are looking for new players ahead of the coming season. They train every Sunday afternoon and their first game is on April 12. More information available from oxfordsaints.com.
THE MOTHER of an 18-year-old who died under the care of learning disability services in Oxfordshire has questioned the service’s openness. Sara Ryan spoke out after a Care Quality Commission inspection found that staff and service users were “concerned
It is difficult to believe that anyone really imagined that Oxford University was waiting to plough money into the proposed £125m flood relief channel, created to the west of Oxford. Something in the region of £84m has so far been secured for
