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  • TENNIS: Alexis Canter wins in Wimbledon's boys' doubles

    OXFORDSHIRE'S Alexis Canter teamed up with fellow Briton Finn Bass to advance to the second round of the boys' doubles at Wimbledon today. They beat Emil Reinberg and Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-4, 7-6(4) on Court 16. Canter and Bass will play the

  • Tiny Paws charity gets a big boost

    A GRANT of more than £2,000 has been given to an Oxfordshire animal rescue for small animals. Tiny Paws Rehoming charity,based in Caversfield, near Bicester, takes in, cares for and finds homes for small pets. The rehoming charity – which has

  • Chef at housing association serves up a contest win

    A HOUSING association chef has triumphed in an annual cooking competition. Sanctuary Care’s Marcella Field, chef manager at Yarnton Residential and Nursing Home, went head-to-head with seven colleagues from across the organisation. Chefs sweated

  • I’m cycling to Paris in memory of my wife

    A FORMER RAF serviceman is to take on a mammoth 650-mile cycling challenge to raise money in memory of his late wife. Martin Brewster, from Chadlington, near Chipping Norton, will cycle to London and then on to Paris in September in aid of the

  • Chance to breathe new life into the Blackbird Leys estate

    IDEAS for how to rejuvenate Blackbird Leys are taking shape after councillors gave agreement to ambitious plans for the area earlier this month. Members of Oxford City Council’s executive board were presented with three options for district centre

  • Nurse can help you to detect cancer earlier

    A CHARITY has launched a new service to encourage people to become more aware of cancer and its symptoms. Oxford-based charity UCARE, which was founded by consultants at the Churchill Hospital in Headington, has employed a specialist nurse to meet

  • Girls try out hi-tech gadgets with guest engineers

    SCHOOLGIRLS got the chance to try their hand at engineering with industry professionals. Pupils from Oxford High School, in Belbroughton Road, were treated to a visit last Tuesday from more than 15 female engineers to share their experiences.

  • Artist’s imagination takes flight

    ARTIST Frederic Chevarin put the finishing touches to a station revamp with his sculpture of a red kite. The stone sculpture, entitled Red Kite, was unveiled at Haddenham & Thame Parkway ahead of the new rail link between London Marylebone

  • Academies team up in bid for an outstanding Ofsted rating

    DIDCOT Girls’ School and St Birinus School will join forces to become a multi-academy trust in a bid to achieve an ‘outstanding’ rating. Headteachers and governors at the schools, both academies with ‘good’ Ofsted ratings, said the move was designed

  • New sensory garden opens for patients

    PATIENTS recovering from strokes and other conditions will be able to use a new sensory garden at Abingdon Community Hospital. Staff and patients packed into the garden on Friday when the ribbon was cut to open the new facility. The garden

  • Dinner next on the menu after a blooming success

    A FUNDRAISING group is already planning its next event to raise money for Rose Hill Junior Youth Club after it smashed its first target. The group, run by four women from Headington and North Oxford, held an open garden day on June 28. The

  • Thanks to people who helped after bike thefts

    LAST week we spent three days cycling in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire on bikes we hired in Oxford. Before returning our bikes on Saturday night we stopped at Oxford Covered Market for a spot of tea, leaving our locked bikes outside in Market

  • Can anyone help me to research my family tree?

    I AM researching my maternal grandfather’s family tree and write to request the assistance of your readers in tracing the descendants of my great-great-aunt Sarah Jane Page. Born in 1857 at South Newington, she married Thomas Franklin in 1883 at

  • It’s time boys and men took up female sports

    NOW that female participation in male games is being fostered more than ever, in the interest of equality should not boys and men be encouraged more to take up netball, hopscotch, etc? DAVID DIMENT Riverside Court, Oxford

  • Our ageing population is not going to last forever

    STEWART Mitchell is correct (Oxford Mail, June 25) in saying that local authorities are forcing villages and towns to accept more and more new dwellings to be built in the county without knowing what the population will be in five or 10 years time.

  • Change of refugee policy makes financial sense

    THE only reason refugees are in Calais is because ferry companies and airlines (and individuals) face heavy fines for carrying passages without passports or travel documents. So people from Syria, Eritrea and other war-torn areas sit frustrated

  • Don’t make cuts that will cause harm to children

    TOMORROW the Chancellor will deliver his first Budget since the election. The Government has already said it wants to cut £12bn from benefits and tax credits. But it has promised to protect pensioners and child benefit. So what’s left is payments

  • On Yer Bike: I fear I am now saddled with a riding obsession

    Do you ever get the feeling you might be overdoing your hobby? It’s one thing staying fit and healthy, and getting out for rides every now and then. But when riding gets in the way of kids’ bath-times, house-cleaning duties, turns cooking and doing

  • Quiz League: Royal Sun have a night to forget

    For the Royal Sun (Begbroke), there have been more productive Thursday nights. They began it heading up Section One, a position they had maintained since the opening round of matches, but by 11pm they had plummeted to fourth. Their trip to Bletchingdon

  • Run raises £100k for second year to boost hospital

    THE runners who braved the elements at this year’s Oxford Mail OX5 Run have raised more than £100,000 for Oxford Children’s Hospital. More than 1,000 fundraisers took on the five-mile course around the grounds of Blenheim Palace on a wet and windy

  • Blaze extinguished at Osney Mead

    Firefighters were called to the Bulstake Stream in Osney Mead yesterday. A fire started behind the Bodleian Library’s Osney 1 building at about 1.20pm and firefighters attended to put it out. A spokesman for the library said the smell of smoke

  • Man faces charges over four break-ins

    A man has been charged with four burglaries. Mathew Waite, 18, of Crawley Road, Witney, was arrested and charged on July 2 with four counts of burglary. The charges are in connection with entering a house in Newland Mill, Witney on July 1;

  • Arts festival goes down to the wire

    THIS year’s Magdalen College School Arts Festival was brought to life by sculptures of the human form nestled in the greenery of the school’s grounds. Among the works featured were Rachel Ducker’s Life Size – a wire sculpture of a woman – and Etruscan

  • Firms being urged to support fostering

    OXFORDSHIRE companies will be called on to sign up to a new covenant encouraging employees to become foster carers. Oxfordshire County Councillor for Witney, James Mills, will put the proposal to the full council at a meeting next Tuesday.

  • FOOTBALL: Cowley Workers squeeze home in Cup

    Premier Section side Cowley Workers had to come from behind to beat Section 3 hosts Littlemore British Legion 5-4 in the first round of the Greene King ODDA’S Men’s Summer Seven-a-side Cup. Dave Swanton took the first leg for Littlemore when beating

  • Woman accused of attempted murder given bail

    A woman accused of trying to murder an elderly hospital patient has been granted bail until she stands trial in October. Julia Knight, 55, denies the attempted murder of Irene Robson at Horton General Hospital in October and appeared at Oxford

  • Muslim leader hits out on terror attack

    A Muslim leader has condemned terrorist attacks which hit Tunisia, France and Kuwait. Director of Cowley’s Oxford Islamic Information Centre Hojjat Ramzy said the attacks last Friday were not in the “name of the holy month of Ramadan”. The

  • Stars of Elvis-themed musical checking in to Heartbreak Hotel

    OXFORD theatre-goers should be prepared to get all shook up at the New Theatre this week. Love Me Tender, a new musical inspired by and featuring the music of Elvis Presley, opened on Monday night and the four stars – Mica Paris, Shaun Williamson

  • GOLF: Eddie Pepperell confident of making Open line-up

    Eddie Pepperell has revealed he withdrew from the French Open with a back problem – but it will not jeopardise his participation in The Open next week. The Abingdon ace did not play in Sunday’s final round at Le Golf National, near Paris, where

  • Tuesday, July 7 2015

    7:19pm A community vigil has been held in Oxford tonight to mark the 10th anniversary of the 7/7 bombings 

  • GOLF: Bob Harris bids farewell to North Oxford

    NORTH Oxford will name a trophy in Bob Harris’s honour following his decision to take early retirement after 29 years of service to the club. About 300 people attended a farewell party on Friday, when he was presented with a commemorative watch

  • Vintage rally a ‘brilliant’ day

    THE roads of South Oxfordshire seemed to step back in time as almost 200 cyclists took part in the Benson Bike Rally. They set off from Benson Parish Hall on bikes dating from before 1928 and took on a 14-mile jaunt around the area. Sunday’

  • Anniversary cycle riders raise cash in memory of 7/7 victim

    AN “INCREDIBLE effort” was how Esther Hyman described more than 20 people cycling from Oxford to London in memory of her sister. Today marks exactly 10 years since Miriam Hyman and 51 others were killed in the London 7/7 bombings. Esther, who

  • Toddler injured after bus crashes into scaffolding

    A TODDLER was taken to hospital after a bus crashed into scaffolding surrounding a house in Thame yesterday. The alarm was raised at 12.05pm and emergency services went to Michaelis Road to find the bus had crashed into the scaffolding around a

  • Railway disruption on Oxford to London line

    Rail passengers suffered heavy delays due to signalling problems yesterday. Disruption on First Great Western trains between Oxford and London Paddington was caused by signalling problems between Slough and London Paddington. The London-bound

  • County hoping to make extra cash from property portfolio

    MORE of Oxfordshire County Council’s buildings could be sold or leased out to make extra savings. The authority needs to identify £60m of savings by 2017, but is sitting on £708m worth of real estate, the Oxford Mail can reveal. While the vast

  • ‘New powers needed to fight grooming’

    A SENIOR county councillor has backed calls to give councils “disruption orders” allowing them to intervene when a child may be being groomed has split opinion in Oxfordshire. The Local Government Association (LGA) has demanded Sexual Risk Orders

  • Flat evacuated after 14th floor fire

    Firefighters tackled a blaze on the 14th floor of a block of flats in Wood Farm on Sunday night. Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service was called to Foresters Tower, off Wood Farm Road, at 7.30pm. Smoke was seen coming out of the flat window

  • Rail workers set to strike tomorrow

    RAIL staff are set to go on strike from tomorrow after the RMT union said talks with First Great Western had broken down without agreement. The union said discussions yesterday aimed to settle issues of jobs and safety regarding the introduction

  • Bid to extend Oxford Uni science building

    A SIX-STOREY building in Oxford University’s science area could be extended under plans for more chemistry laboratories. The university has proposed a two-storey extension south of the Tinbergen Building in South Parks Road. The block, which

  • Canal boat squatters say cost of moorings leaves no option

    BOATERS say high mooring costs on Oxford’s waterways are forcing them to squat along unclaimed canal banks in Jericho. The Communities Land Organisation has occupied a 100-yard stretch of land alongside the Castle Mill Stream since June last year

  • Forest schools make ‘outstanding’ lessons flourish

    CLIMBING trees and hunting for bugs will get you further in life than you might think. Crowmarsh Pre-school near Wallingford, which takes its children on regular ‘forest schools’ like this, has just been rated ‘outstanding’ for a second time by

  • Stalwart Mickey Lewis set to leave Oxford United

    Mickey Lewis and Alasdair Lane are no longer part of Oxford United’s coaching staff, the Oxford Mail understands. Speculation has intensified among fans over the past few days and yesterday the club declined to comment. It is thought an official

  • Diamond Place: Don’t put our group in temporary buildings

    A COMMUNITY group has urged councillors to postpone approving plans for Summertown that would pave the way for its centre to be demolished. The North Oxford Association (NOA) is concerned the redevelopment of the Diamond Place car park will leave