AN OXFORDSHIRE castle recently used as a set for the BBC’s Wolf Hall will undergo the first improvements to its kitchens and tea room since 1975. Plans have been submitted for Broughton Castle, near Banbury, that will see the kitchen area extended
GEORGE Baldock rescued Oxford United with a late strike which earned a draw against Morecambe at the Kassam Stadium. The shot-shy hosts appeared to be heading for a damaging defeat, but the full back popped up to bag an 87th-minute equaliser.
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Formidable fashion icon and Editor-in-Chief of US Vogue Anna Wintour was ushered into Oxford Union for a talk tonight. Her arrival coincides with this season’s Oxford Fashion Week, which started yesterday after a launch party and will culminate
Cynthia Rhoda Small, 43, of Milton Road, Bloxham, near Banbury, admitted speeding at 40mph in a 30mph section of the B4035 at Tadmarton on January 23. Fined £100 and ordered to pay a £20 victims’ surcharge and £40 costs. Licence endorsed with three
A £120M proposed flood relief channel running through Kennington has been welcomed after it was revealed university chiefs will help out. Oxford University chiefs say they are considering offering some of land at Egrove Park for the scheme.
A 70-YEAR-OLD Big Issue seller is raising cash for homeless people by taking part in a 12-mile night walk. Lionel Hegarty, who lives in Summertown, is fundraising for the Big Issue Foundation by participating in the Big London Night Walk on Friday
THE future of a sports and social club in Witney has been secured after it was given a new lease by the town council. The West Witney Sports & Social Club in Burford Road was given an ultimatum by the local authority before Christmas after
A 130-TONNE steam locomotive at Didcot Railway Centre will get some tender loving care after a £2,500 windfall. Publisher Haynes Publishing handed over the cash after releasing a book about the Castle series of locomotives. The money will go
KIDLINGTON’S first community bank has been launched to deter residents from being tempted by extortionate pay day loans. The not-for-profit service was set up Cherwell District Council and Sanctuary Housing as an expansion of the Northamptonshire
AUTHORITIES missed countless opportunities to uncover the grooming of children, including fears in 2007 of an organised abuse ring in Oxford, a damning report into the Bullfinch scandal revealed today. The 114-page Serious Case Review has just
TWO women who battled mental health difficulties have been recognised for supporting other sufferers. Julie Field and Liz Pierpoint, both trainers at East Oxford’s Restore charity, were shortlisted for a national Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
CCTV images have been released after three bottles of alcohol were stolen from an Abingdon supermarket. Thames Valley Police would like to speak to the men in the pictures in connection with the thefts. Alcohol was stolen at about at 2.25pm
Last month I wrote about leaving the cycle-mecca of Oxford, our home of 20 years. I rode with a tear in my eye along magical, centuries-old Queen’s Lane; up Barracks Lane for a breath of air in Shotover; and on the towpath loop via Iffley and Osney
YOUR recent front page article that the amount of Council Tax arrears at the end of the last financial year in Oxford stood at £5,029,912 (February 24) gave a false impression of Oxford City Council’s excellent record on collection. This year we
THE suggestion by Timothy Oats in yesterday’s Oxford Mail that the A34 be replaced by a six-lane motorway has been made before - but how? The A34 is essentially a series of bypasses, built to take traffic away from villages that it originally passed
FULL marks to Rose Hill volunteers and their tree planting project. Despite vandalism and people’s inability to tell a weed from a young tree they carry on. But are they fighting a losing battle? On another page in your paper Abingdon College
FOLLOWING on from your story on Saturday about Good Samaritan Pauline Siddons who was conned out of £70 by a man who flagged her down on the A34 sliproad at Botley claiming he could not buy any petrol, I’ve had the same situation. I was driving
I HAVE just come back from Washington DC with my colleague Alison Honour and former Health and Life Sciences student Ben Wilkins. We have been to the Ashoka Exchange, the largest global gathering for universities supporting social enterprise.
A WITNEY school ranked one of the worst in England in 2010 is one of nine in the county to be handed an award by the Government. Tower Hill Primary School was ranked fourth worst in England for its English and maths test results. But last month
LAST year I protested outside the Prime Minister’s constituency office in my van for 50 days. This year I have entered my name into the arena to become the MP of West Oxfordshire. I will be again sleeping in my van all over West Oxfordshire in
MANY Labour MPs have joined the buy to let brigade so no chance there of having the fair rents act being revived. Despite Labour’s huffing and puffing to the apposite, decrying buy to rent punters, the Labour MPs not realising that the more tenants
I WAS born and raised in Caversfield at Home Farm, the site that is becoming the new Eco Town. Not only have I had to suffer the pain of losing my beloved home, fields, woods and wildlife but now planning are considering taking the name of Caversfield
Armand Gnanduillet is available to make his Oxford United debut against Morecambe tonight after joining on loan until the end of the season. The 23-year-old striker finalised the move from Chesterfield at his parent club yesterday and will link
A COMMUTER group said it “struggled to understand” how First Great Western has won a major industry award. The rail operator was named best overall Rail Business of the Year at the Rail Business Awards 2014. FGW also scooped awards in customer
A VICTIM of the Bullfinch gang and her mother demanded that heads should roll at Oxfordshire County Council ahead of today’s report into the abuse scandal. The pair yesterday staged a demonstration – supported by murdered teenager Jayden Parkinson
HE might have been The College Dropout, but Kayne West caused a storm with university students yesterday. The rapper made an appearance in the city at a talk at the Museum of National History. Students flocked to see the superstar after news broke
MICHAEL Collins believes tonight's clash is the most important of Oxford United's season as they attempt to open the gap on the battle at the bottom with a home victory against Morecambe. Despite taking satisfaction from a hard-fought goalless
TODAY should not be seen as the conclusion of investigations into authority failings, but the beginning of a long road to justice for some of those affected. At 11am the Operation Bullfinch Serious Case Review, which will look into how hundreds
DRIVERS in Oxford city centre are facing delays on their way to work this morning. Temporary traffic lights in Thames Street, for work on the new Westgate Centre, are causing hold-ups, and for the second day running the traffic lights at the Kennington
MORE than 90 per cent of primary school leavers in Oxfordshire will go to their first-preference secondary school this year. Oxfordshire County Council has been sending letters to the county’s parents telling them whether their child had been accepted
A MAN who swallowed a live goldfish has been ordered to carry out 120 hours unpaid work and banned from keeping fish for five years. A court watched a video of Luke Berry, 26, trying twice to swallow the fish while taking gulps from a can of lager
8:57am There are delays coming in to the city centre this morning because of temporary traffic lights near the Westgate Centre 8:12am A man in his 70s
A MAN in his 70s died in a crash on the M40 near Oxford yesterday. At about 3pm yesterday officers were called to a collision northbound between Junction 8a and 9, involving a Volvo X90. Our top stories The motorway was closed for
WANTAGE Town are looking to end a run of three straight defeats as they host Tiverton Town in Evo-Stik Southern League Division 1 South & West tonight. Adam Lovegrove and Nick Thorne are absent due to work commitments, while Matthew Clark (
A youthful Banbury Bulls side fell to a 24-3 defeat at home to unbeaten leaders Old Laurentians in Midlands 2 West South. Banbury opened the scoring through a penalty from debutant full back Alex Caviezel Cox. On the stroke of half-time, Ian
James Webb scored four tries as Abingdon demolished second-bottom side Phoenix 69-0 in the BB&O Premier Division. Abingdon turned on the style at Lambrick Way, scoring 11 tries. Winger Rob Tyreman went over twice, while Benny Davis, Gareth
EDDIE Pepperell entertained a bumper audience of 200 at a special evening at Frilford Heath, writes JACK JOHNSON. The 24-year-old from Abingdon, ranked 121 in the world, spoke about his career on the European Tour and was joined by caddie Jamie
Witney took their winning run to eight games in South West 1 East with a thrilling 25-24 victory at Grove. However, they were let off the hook as Grove’s Dave Johnson missed a late conversion after Cash Chilvers’ 75th-minute try. Witney sneaked
Oxford Harlequins’ fight to avoid relegation from National 3 South West was dealt a blow in a 17-10 defeat at home to fellow strugglers Old Redcliffians. Quins remain third from bottom and are five points from safety with six games remaining.
Bicester produced a stunning comeback in Southern Counties North to overturn an 11-point deficit and beat Drifters 24-18. The hosts were 18-7 down with 25 minutes remaining, before three tries turned the match on its head and earned Bicester a
THE headteacher of a Headington school has said parents should not “waste their money” on private education after it received a glowing Ofsted report. Jolie Kirby, headteacher at Cheney School, said it offered activities such as debating, rowing
OXFORD Hawks completed the double over Lewes with a 1-0 victory in their South League Premier Division 1 contest at Banbury Road North on Saturday. Despite some physical tackling from Lewes, Hawks created a number of chances in the first half,
ALL of our children should be entitled to an excellent education, regardless of their income. In Oxford we are home to one of the world’s leading universities, which so often has to defend itself against claims it is not open enough to those from
OXFORD Hawks skipper Bex Oakes broke a finger as her side lost a 2-0 lead and had to settle for a 2-2 draw at home to Stourport in Investec Conference West. Oakes suffered the injury just before half-time and had to come off. At the time Hawks
THE streets of Oxfordshire were transported back in time yesterday as a convoy of vintage cars made its way through the county. Mini enthusiast Tanya Field organised the run from the Cowley Plant in Oxford to Nuffield Place in South Oxfordshire
AT just six days old Thomas Dadson faced the prospect of not being able to eat properly for the rest of his life. Thanks to a successful emergency operation on his stomach and a three-week stay at Oxford Children’s Hospital, he made a full recovery
A FORMER Wychwood School pupil and prominent 20th-century scientist was honoured with a blue plaque yesterday. Dame Honor Fell was the director of the Strangeways Laboratory at Cambridge University between 1925 and 1970, where she conducted ground-breaking
SEAN Walkinshaw will drive full-time in sportscar racing this year after being named as part of MRS GT-Racing’s three-driver line-up. The 21-year-old from Chipping Norton will compete in both the Blancpain Endurance Series and its sister competition
A RARE £1 coin dating back to the English Civil War could fetch up to £50,000 at auction. The solid silver Declaration Pound dates back to 1643 and was struck in Oxford, which was then a newly-forged seat of power for Charles I after he left London
LES Radford hit three 180s for Section 1 side Challow Cricket Club before Premier team Kidlington Green Social Club rallied for a 5-4 win in the Greene King Oxford & District Association Winter League. Tom Baughan (180), Mark Breakspear and
PLANS to help stop the creation of “egg box homes” and protect jobs at the same time are set to be introduced across the city. Members of Oxford City Council’s east area planning committee will meet tomorrow night to vote on implementing a planning
THE Westgate Centre will be built by construction company Laing O’Rourke, with work due to finish in autumn 2017. Yesterday it was announced the company will carry out most of the construction work on the shell and core of the new three-storey
SURREY’S Lionel Sams will face emerging star Josh Payne in the Coral UK Open first round at the Butlins Minehead Resort on Friday after winning the qualifier at Rileys in Oxford. Sams went through after beating Aidan Wiltshire 5-2 in the final.
A SCHEME which could change the way the British energy network operates has been launched in Rose Hill. Energy Resources for Integrated Communities, known as Project ERIC, chose the estate from a shortlist of areas across the UK to pilot its programme
EAST Oxford’s only cycling club has been named as one of the best in the country. Cowley Road Condors is one of ten cycling groups shortlisted in sports retailer Decathlon’s Cycling Club of the Year contest. And now the team, including president
