THREE roads on an industrial estate in Witney are the only reminder that an airfield that played a crucial role in both world wars once existed there. De Havilland Way, Range Road and Richard Jones Road on the Windrush Industrial Park are tantalising
AN OXFORD teacher has picked up a national award for his innovative and problem-solving methods in the classroom. Oxford High School teacher Dr Paul Weeks scooped the 2015 Secondary School Biology Teacher of the Year Award. The father-of-three
LAST-MINUTE crisis talks to prevent a First Great Western strike starting tonight have broken down. Transport union RMT said it had met with First Great Western earlier today but the two parties could not come to an agreement. This means a
SEVEN MS sufferers from West Oxfordshire are set to complete a charity skydive to raise funds for the community group that supports them. The friends will have to overcome the physical impairments of their conditions to complete the jump and raise
OXFORD United have confirmed reports from earlier this week that Mickey Lewis and Alasdair Lane will be leaving the club. The Oxford Mail reported yesterday Lewis, who was first team coach, and head of sports science Lane were heading for the exit
COUNCILLORS took part in a sponsored swim at Hinksey Pool on Monday, in order to provide clean water to Oxford’s twin town of León in Nicaragua. Organised by the Oxford León Association and Trust, Bob Price, Ed Turner, Mike Rowley, John Tanner
FIVE suspected illegal immigrants were seen jumping off the back of a lorry in Cowley this morning. Unipart Manufacturing House, who alerted Thames Valley Police at 9.02am, said the lorry was opened by security guards outside the company's distribution
A CANNABIS plant was seized and a man questioned after drugs squad detectives raided an east Oxford home this morning. Police swooped on a house at about 8.30am. The terraced house in Barracks Lane was searched and officers confiscated a cannabis
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MIDDLE Street between Oddington and Islip will be closed for five weeks over the school summer holidays due to work to replace a bridge. Oxfordshire County Council said that the road will be shut between July 22 and August 26 with diversions signposted
LONG-awaited plans for a £120m flood alleviation channel have been welcomed by households in Oxford’s worst-hit flooding areas. Residents have told Environment Agency officers how and when their homes have flooded in the past few years, in the
TUNES will echo across a Cowley club this week as folk singer Peggy Seeger, right, takes to the stage. She will perform at the Cowley Workers’ Social Club on Friday to raise cash for the Save Temple Cowley Pools campaigners. It comes two weeks
FRIENDSHIP, personal service and global understandings are the foundations of an Oxfordshire women’s group looking for new members. The ladies of the Inner Wheel group in Bicester, which works to bring members together and raise charity funds,
I HAVE just gone onto the Helen House website. I am appalled how cold and curt the statement regarding Sister Frances is from the trustees. They make it quite clear that they are not supporting Sister Frances (pictured above with Her Majesty The
HAVING read Friday’s letters pages, I wholeheartedly agree and support the comments addressed by Marilyn Hawes, CEO and founder of enoughabuseuk.com regarding the cover-up concerning child abuse in Oxfordshire. Thames Valley Police knew it was
I NOTICED that they are hoping to extend the science areas in Oxford, something I always thought that we should concentrate on. In many ways Oxford has the benefit of good road connections both to the M4 and M40 via the A34. But, as we know, there
I WAS interested to read about the current dig in St Ebbe’s. When I was a pupil at Notre Dame High School in Woodstock Road in the 1960s, my classmates and I participated in an archaeological dig in this area. The object of the dig was to find
IT HASN’T taken long for the Tories to rob the poorest and give money to the richest. The promised £12bn of cuts to children, the unemployed and the disabled are a disgrace. What is worse they are unnecessary. This Government, committed to shrinking
EACH year, more of our front gardens are disappearing underneath concrete. This is very evident in Oxford. In flood prone areas of our county, this is contributing to run-off and therefore to flooding because water is moving rapidly into street
A DOG owner is appealing for help to find their pet that went missing. Adopted rescue dog Florida bolted from a front door of her new home in Blewbury on Monday. Owner Liz Mather had just adopted the dog from a rescue centre in Wales on Sunday
THE owner of a closed Marston pub that could be transformed into housing has spoken of his shock after racist graffiti was drawn on the building. Ali Liaqat said he discovered racist language painted across three parts of the Jack Russell pub on
WHEN 1950s rock ‘n’ roll hero Conrad Birdie is conscripted into the army, his agent concocts the ultimate PR stunt: Birdie will bid farewell to an average American teenage girl travelling to her hometown to giving her an all-American goodbye kiss for
YES Jayne Madden, resident of Weirs Lane, Oxford As a resident of Weirs Lane for more than 50 years, I do think more barriers are necessary and would be hugely beneficial. There any many ways to prevent tragedies like the one that has
Seven years ago before I had my brain haemorrhage and became disabled, Wimbledon week was so frustrating because I always wanted to check up on how the British players were doing, but I had to work along with most others. I’m even more passionate
FORMER Oxfordshire seamer Jack Brooks believes England’s best chance of regaining the Ashes is to continue playing with the freedom they showed earlier this summer. The hotly-anticipated series against Australia begins in Cardiff this morning and
ONE lane of the A34 is closed at Abingdon after a crash between the Marcham and Milton Interchange. It happened southbound and is affecting traffic heading towards the M4 from Oxford. For live updates see our automatic traffic service
A SIX-YEAR-OLD who received a potentially life-saving bone marrow transplant from his brother has returned to school. The Oxford Mail followed the story of Herbie Taylor from North Leigh who suffers from a rare immune system disorder called Nemo
A 76-year-old woman who died in the town’s Marks & Spencer store appears to have choked to death in the cafe, a coroner said yesterday. Retired maths teacher Paula Symes, from Woodstock, was out shopping with her husband James last Wednesday
RAIL bosses have pledged to keep as many trains running as possible despite workers downing tools for a 48-hour strike this evening. RMT members will down tools at 6.30pm for two days of industrial action over a row with First Great Western (FGW
OXFORDSHIRE completed a five-wicket win over Wales MC at Great & Little Tew to go second in the Unicorns Counties Championship Western Division. The visitors resumed day three at 106-4 in their second innings, a deficit of 32 runs. And
HEADINGTON could see another 18 months of roadworks hell as part of a £12.5m package of transport improvements. Oxfordshire County Council’s Access to Headington project would see new cycle lanes, pedestrian crossings and bus lanes constructed
TELEVISION crews were back in Oxford yesterday as filming took place on the Thames. It appeared that a scene was being shot for one of the city’s famous detective series, believed to be Lewis rather than Endeavour, but ITV would not confirm which
A MOTORCYCLIST has been rushed to hospital after his bike collided with a car on a busy main road this morning. Police and paramedics were called to the A420 near Watchfield at around 7.28am after a motorbike and a Peugeot collided. The
FLOOD-devastated Cowley families have hit out at the city council after hearing cash set aside following the disaster will not be paid to them. Thames Water donated £10,000 to Normandy Crescent families affected by a burst water main last September
Power tools were stolen from two vans in Old Moor Close and St Peter’s Street. A van in St George’s Road was also searched but nothing was taken. The incidents occurred overnight between Monday and yesterday. Police said there were no signs
Youngster Olly Tice made the most of his Westbury first team call-up by smashing a century to get his side’s OCA Division 1 title challenge back on track. Tice slammed 112 off the visiting Chadlington attack, and with Tom Wilson (84) and Tom Gurney
A BMW 318 caught fire on the M40 southbound between Bicester and Oxford yesterday. Thames Valley Police said they were called to the incident between Junction 9 and Junction 8 at 1.47pm after smoke had been blowing across the road and part of the
2:49pm BREAKING: Five suspected illegal immigrants detained after jumping off back of lorry in Cowley
THE Barton Community Association is considering becoming a parish council to help the existing estate connect with the new development. The group has not made a final decision but is discussing the idea, which would allow it to influence local
TWO forms of art combined in Didcot as dancing met sketching. The Dancing Lines exhibition saw eight artists draw dancers over the course of a week at Cornerstone Arts in the town. The works of art they produced will then be displayed at the
ALAN Holt’s 15-dolls (4-5-6) were in vain for Black Prince A as they were pipped by Section 2 leaders Yarnton British Legion, writes ANDY BEAL. Hosts Black Prince won the opening leg 27-19, but fell one doll short in the next to miss out 26-25.
AN ACADEMIC who was the first to install a solar panel on an Oxfordshire rooftop said the city was “at the heart of the solar revolution”. Professor Sue Roaf, 62, ignored the sceptics in 1995 to install the first integrated solar roof at her home
RAIL passengers are being warned they face long delays and overcrowded trains when staff begin a two-day strike tonight. RMT members will down tools at 6.30pm for 48 hours over a row with First Great Western (FGW) over cuts to jobs, services and
Thame Town stay top of Division 1 of the Cherwell League – but only after staving off apparently certain defeat at lowly Long Marston. Chasing the home side’s 178-9, Marston were cruising on 159-5 when Jarryd McPhee (4-27) sparked a collapse that
ORGANISERS have issued a desperate plea for more facilities as the waiting list for Oxford’s only gymnastics club now includes 575 families. About 1,000 children are facing an average wait of three to four years to join Cherwell Gymnastics Club
FIREFIGHTERS faced a race against time to rescue a workman who had fallen down a hole at a construction site. The man was working at the Great Tew estate near Chipping Norton on Monday at about 9.20pm when he fell down the four-metre hole.
A FORMER heroin addict died after taking an overdose of methadone and other medicines, an inquest heard yesterday. Paul Milner, 49, was found dead at his home on William Lucy Way, Oxford, by a friend on Friday, March 13. An inquest into his
THE first in a series of exhibitions about the forthcoming major roadworks in Cutteslowe and Wolvercote began yesterday. Oxfordshire County Council will hold two further drop-in sessions today and Friday for people to find out more about upgrade
WOMEN are being urged to think about their health after a fall in the gap between male and female life expectancy. Oxfordshire director of public health Dr Jonathon McWilliam said women should think about their drinking and smoking habits because
CRIMES could be reported using smartphone apps under proposals by Thames Valley Police Chief Constable Francis Habgood. Mr Habgood has said technology would start to play a bigger part in the way the force interacts with people in the coming years
A SAILOR who took his boat around the world for three years is displaying 12ft-high paintings compiling his experiences. John Hazell, who has lived in Oxford for 12 years, packed his bags and set off from Dartmouth with a friend to embark on his
FOUR service personnel from RAF Benson cycled a combined 429 miles to raise money for the Nepalese Earthquake Appeal. The members of the Military Provost Guard Service were inspired by Nepalese ex-Gurkhas in their platoon, who have family and friends
WOUNDED and traumatised war veterans will help create livery for Formula One cars at a new workshop near Wantage. Forces rehabilitation charity Mission Motorsport officially opened the new unit at its base in East Challow at the end of June. Ex-service
