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Eddie Pepperell’s preparations for his debut in next week’s Open Championship began with a level-par round of 70 in the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open at Gullane yesterday. The Abingdon professional made a perfect start when he eagled

PUPILS have raised more than £3,000 in memory of two members of staff at the school who died of cancer. St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School lost English additional language teacher Rachel Kay and special education co-ordinator Louise Robins to

THE East Oxford Community Centre celebrated 15 years of pottery classes for beginners this week. Run by pottery teacher, Ros Collett, the classes offer adults the opportunity to get in touch with their creative side. Ms Collett, who lives in

CHILDREN showed their love of the outdoors when judges visited their schools for the Witney Schools in Bloom competition. Two Witney town councillors and two members of the Rotary Club of Witney visited four schools to judge how well each has spent

THE second phase of works at Oxford’s Frideswide Square will begin in just over a week, it was announced tonight. Oxfordshire County Council said its work to pave footways, the main carriageways and central islands was due to be completed by Friday

ALEXIS Canter has been knocked out of Wimbledon after a straight sets defeat in the second round of the boys' doubles today. Canter, 17, from Long Wittenham, and Finn Bass, 15, lost 6-1, 7-5 to fourth seeds Reilly Opelka and Akira Santillan on

DRIVERS on the A34 are facing miles of jams after a two-car crash at the Peartree Interchange. Traffic is queuing northbound from the roundabout to south of Kennington. For automatic updates on this incident see our live traffic feed. More

A MOTORBIKE has been involved in a crash with four other vehicles near Tackley in North Oxfordshire. Traffic reports said the crash happened at about 5.50pm between the A4095 Bunkers Hill and the B4027. The A4260 Banbury Road, just south of

A BICESTER man was arrested after police discovered a haul of pills, white powder and other material at a property in Church Street. Thames Valley Police said a 60-year-old man was arrested on Friday on suspicion of drugs offences. Officers

BRITISH tourists in Tunisia have been advised to leave the country amid fears of a fresh terror attack following the atrocity in Sousse. The Foreign Office has warned against all but essential travel following intelligence that a terrorist attack

A GP PRACTICE will be told to keep a closer watch on mentally-ill patients after a paranoid schizophrenic woman was found dead at her home. It is still not clear exactly how Elisabeth Lomas died but, at an inquest into her death on Tuesday, coroner

EMPLOYERS gathered at Yellow Submarine Cafe in Oxford to find out more about creating apprenticeship opportunities for people with special educational needs . The Park End Street charity, which works with people who have learning disabilities and

VOLUNTEERS face a race against time to raise £10,000 needed for a creative arts centre in Cowley. Thousands of people have walked through the doors of the Ark T Centre since it first opened in Crowell Road in 1997. The team at the centre has

Tears succeeded laughter at Longborough Festival Opera last weekend with impressive productions of two stalwarts of the Italian repertoire on successive nights, both in the charge of young conductors making their first appearance at this popular annual

David McManus says the introduction of a new service has disappointed After what felt like the longest drumroll in history, the cymbals finally crashed for the release of Apple Music last week. To squeeze the metaphor further, it was like watching

Ben Holgate meets the chief executive of firm which now specialises in motion capture Nick Bolton had been chief executive of Oxford Metrics Group (OMG) for only weeks when he had to turn down the chance to meet Hollywood screen siren Scarlett

The best-selling Oxford children’s author talks about her work with Stuart Macbeth Sally Nicholls’ father died when she was just two years old. Now she is a best-selling author whose poignant books for teens on death and loss have been translated

International Christian charity Viva is launching work to tackle the needs of children, young people and families in Oxfordshire who are struggling with household poverty, unstable family life and employment difficulties. The project is the result

Sir – It hasn’t taken long for the Conservative plan to shrink the public sector to hit Oxford. Already Network Rail’s rail electrification plans have been delayed. The county council is in desperate financial straits. And we must wait until 2018

Sir – I was sad to see that, yet again, two weeks before the school holidays, when parents and grandparents want to take their children for picnics and paddling, cattle have appeared in the Witney Lakes and Meadows country park. When I complained

Sir – 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

Sir – The future of Mini at Cowley (Report, July 2) depends upon how many of the five core car models it plans to manufacture in Oxford will be fully electric. The demand placed upon the car industry by climate change, air pollution issues and

Sir – It warmed my heart to learn that Mr. Surman agrees with me in the recent sex-in-toilets debate (Letters, July 2). Now that this topic has been thoroughly aired, some mention must be made of the recent US Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell

Sir – The problem with traffic in Oxford is that some of it is necessary. Quite a lot of people have no practical alternative to driving. It’s hard to devise measures that discourage people who do have practical alternatives, without unduly penalising

Sir – Two eastbound journeys made by road recently might provide food for thought. For the first on a Tuesday, the A40 was closed at Cassington. Not that that is unusual and I used a back route but the interesting thing was the almost eerie quietness

Sir –When someone receives medical treatment, expecting to get better, and is then injured because of a blunder which could and should have been avoided, it’s only right that he should be able to seek redress to help him get his life back on track.

Sir – Councillor Laura Price (Letters, July 2) wrote that Witney’s ‘overgrown areas are annoying and unsightly’. She proposed that she and her colleague Duncan Enright might form a grass and foliage team. I want to point out that Witney already

Sir – On Thursday, July 2, during my regular cycle commute to work, I had yet another near-miss incident with a motorist who clearly did not take their responsibility to other road users seriously. It was, therefore, not surprising, though disappointing

Sir – One can no longer go anywhere in Wallingford without being aware of the increasingly disturbing problem of vehicles parking on pavements. The Market Place, the High Street, any road in any of the housing estates, they all suffer from this

Sir – Yesterday, the Chancellor delivered his first Budget following the election. The Government has already said it wants to cut £12 billion from benefits and tax credits. But it has promised to protect pensioners and child benefit. So what

Sir – I was one of the civilian re-enactors from the English Civil War Society in the Castle Gardens, Wallingford, on the weekend of June 27 and 28 and I would like to thank the people of Wallingford. We had a wonderful weekend with huge numbers

Sir – I would like to complain, about the absolutely disgusting state of the frontage along Welch Way, Witney. Outside the Witney Resource Centre, there are stinging nettles that easily get to a height of five feet, and lean over the footpath.

Sir – At the Centre for Suicide Research, we investigate the problem of self-harm in young people, including in the Oxford area. Self-harm is clearly a major issue in adolescents and young adults. We are very concerned about the impact of a young

Sir – Over the last 15 years I have watched Oxford City Council frustrate Oxford colleges over their planning desires and Oxford residents and special interest groups frustrate just about every planning application that is lodged. I have been to

Sir – As Bill Mackeith points out (Letters, July 1), most of the service industry is now in private hands, where it clearly should not be. Unfortunately there are a number of politicians who have this unhealthy belief that everything should be

Sir – My wife and I, with our growing family, were part of the Bicester community from 1969 to 1997. We lived, worked and played in a town that nurtured and inspired us for almost thirty years. It was a very happy time. From our retirement

ROGER Payne, who has died aged 68, was a former conductor of the City of Oxford Orchestra known for his popular concerts during the summer seasons. His association with the group began in the late sixties and saw him perform concerts ranging from

A FORMER warden of an Oxford college and an expert in damages law has died aged 89. Harvey McGregor QC was a barrister who wrote McGregor on Damages, widely recognised as the most authoritative work in its field. He had settled on writing the

Sir – 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

William Pimlott on change (and the lack of it) during his years at university Does anything ever change at Oxford? And who would want it to? A lot has changed over my time as an undergraduate at Oxford, and a lot has happened to student clubbing

Jazz Shaban tells a tale of two sisters reunited in Damascus I was only eight months old when my sister Suzan, who is 10 years older than me, was taken back to the Middle East by our mother after our father died. My father, Mohumed Shaban,

Near-perfect weather has supplied a special extra this year for outings to country house opera. It did for me last Friday and Saturday for a double dose of Italian genius from Longborough Festival Opera in Donizetti’s Don Pasquale followed by Verdi

BANNERS fluttered on the breeze when two military helicopters flew low over RAF Benson to mark the handing over of the last Merlin Squadron.  Troops from 28 Army Cooperation Squadron and 845 Naval Air Squadron marched out on to the parade ground

I thought it unwise to observe, in the aftermath of the terrorist outrage in Tunisia, that I had holidayed six years ago very close to the resort where Seiffeddine Rezgui mercilessly gunned down some 30 of my fellow Britons. Me, me, me – this did

Reg Little meets Professor Paul Riley, whose team is carrying out pioneering research Mending broken hearts requires time and dedication. It also requires huge sums of money. Last week in London representatives from Oxford University and the

TWO men and a woman have been charged with perverting the course of justice after allegedly presenting forged documents relating to motoring offences to Oxfordshire courts. Mohammad Mohiuddin, 24, from Brammas Close, Slough, was charged in relation

CIVIL war, family feuds, love, betrayal and madness are the outcomes when the forces of good and evil are pitted against one other in Shakespeare’s classic tragedy King Lear. Oxford Theatre Guild is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its formation

CAMPAIGNERS in the centre of Didcot have rallied to fight two multi-million pound developments. Amended plans for the £50m phase two development of the Orchard Centre have been submitted to South Oxfordshire District Council. And a proposal

A SECOND self-build seminar on homes for the Graven Hill site in Bicester is a sell-out. Crowds are set to flock again to tomorrow’s seminars informing residents about the site that will become the biggest self-build site in the UK. There is

MORE than 100 treasures unearthed from the Roman era are on display in Abingdon following an archaeology project. The Abingdon County Hall Museum is running an exhibition featuring items from the Iron and Roman age dug up from the Temple Site in

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AT 24 years of age corporate jet cleaning entrepreneur Stefan Murphy has just made his first acquisition. Mr Murphy, who lives with his parents at Hampton Poyle, near Kidlington, is the sole shareholder and managing director of Up and Away Aviation

OXFORD’S technology firms have received a staggering £1.4bn funding in the past 12 months. And at more than five times the previous year’s £250m, it is described by one investor as a “once-in-a-decade phenomenon”. The capital, raised by investment

THE ADOPTED son of the founder of Helen and Douglas House was jailed for 12 months after an “angry rampage”. Kojo Ritchie, of St Mary’s Road, East Oxford, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court last Thursday. The 27-year-old admitted four counts

HAVING caused all the trouble for Sister Frances, I think it only fair and appropriate that the names of the two woman responsible are also published. It would also be appropriate to name the organisation which carried out the “risk assessment”

IT WAS much to my delight that the Dr Kelly affair has not been buried in the ground. I was pleased to see that Gerrard Jonas is keeping the flag flying. The thing that has interested me most about this situation is the silence from his own family

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: Because it was near a zebra crossing! Q: How did the chicken know it was a zebra crossing? A: Because there were black and white stripes on the road and the chicken knows zebras are black and white

Mad king meets Mad Max in Oxford Theatre Guild’s post-apocalyptic take on Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Painted faces, shaved heads and rustic furs and feathers in the costumes suggest a society far removed from our own and, indeed, any conceived

THE future of Mini at the BMW plant in Cowley (June 30) depends upon how many of the five core car models it plans to manufacture in Oxford will be fully electric. The demand placed upon the car industry by climate change, air pollution issues

WE were absolutely horrified to see and hear about the appalling treatment of Sister Frances. We have known and admired her for many years for her admirable commitment, passion and unstinting effort on behalf of children and their families and,

NOW that Stewart Donald, the owner of Eastleigh Football Club and a U’s fan for 30 years has acquired a 10 per cent interest in the club, what about a loan deal for James Constable (Beano) in order to achieve that all-time Oxford United goal scoring

YOU quote Met Office spokesman Dan Williams as asserting that it is “more than just the warm air causing the rise in temperatures, with blue skies and sunshine adding to the heat increase” (June 30). I, for one, am most grateful for this clarification

THERE can be no doubt of the fact that an Englishman’s home is his castle. However humble it may be, this fortress called home is decorated and loved by its protective owner. Therefore it is hardly surprising that the financial incentives to

I FIND yesterday’s revelations about charity fundraising (including that of Oxfam) quite disgusting, and not just because people who have opted out of receiving cold calls have been targeted. To use profit-making companies is despicable, especially

Cherwell Trucks, of Cornbury Park, Charlbury, admitted failing to provide police with information relating to the identity of a driver suspected of a motoring offence in Banbury between August 29 and September 25. Fined £400 and ordered to pay a £40

As has been widely reported, Oxfordshire County Council is proposing “restructuring” its children’s centres and creating a single service for all children under 19-years-old. The proposal is to link what children’s centres do with families of children

Mark Butcher of the White Hart of Wytham on what he has to offer customers If there was a song to sum up my situation just now, five months after taking over The White Hart of Wytham, it would be Robbie Williams’ Let Me Entertain You. The plan

Damon Smith reviews the latest treat for Beach Boys fans: the sun-soaked but unflinching Love & Mercy Formed in 1961, The Beach Boys perfectly captured the vitality and exuberance of California’s youth culture, surfing to the top of the charts

It's hard to upstage the grounds of Oxford Castle even when your subject matter is Romeo and Juliet, but the actors of the irrepressible Tomahawk had a fair whack at it. Directed by Alex Nicholls, this production flew the flag for the exuberance

Nicola Lisle meets quintet members ahead of an anniversary concert One of the wonderful things about anniversaries is they are an excuse to indulge in a bit of nostalgia. As I catch up with Simon Payne and Chris Britton, two of the founder

While, down in Somerset, thousands of mud-clad revellers were enjoying the last day of Glastonbury, another festival, closer to home, was drawing to a close with a flourish of its own. Blenheim Palace’s two-day Nocturne event had already rocked

Katherine MacAlister talks to author Mark Haddon about his book’s New Theatre debut show Mark Haddon’s book The Curious Incident Of The Dog In the Night-Time won the 2003 Whitbread Book of the Year award and sold more than two million copies. It

* Fallowfields Hotel and Restaurant has launched an irresistible OX13 Lunch Menu – two courses for £12.50, and three courses for £15 from Monday to Saturday, noon until 2pm. The menu is made up of fresh ingredients harvested mainly from Fallowfields

Despite disappointing food and service in the past, Katherine MacAlister gives this lunch spot another chance to impress I’d stopped going to Kizzies despite its wonderful, hidden, waterside location. Perched on the edge of the Lower Heyford

Chef's Special with with Ben Bullen of Magnolia Brasserie @ Sudbury House My name is Ben Bullen and I have been head chef at Magnolia Brasserie @ Sudbury House in Faringdon for 13 months. My passion for cooking started in my mum’s kitchen.

At 27, Joshua Jenkins’ youthful looks proved just right for a top role, he tells Katherine MacAlister Joshua Jenkins is rather bored of being asked for ID every time he goes out for a drink. He’s 27 years old now and although his friends find

Daniel Stafford, deputy chairman of fundraising and membership at East Oxford Conservatives, hits back at Oxfordshire County Councillor Laura Price’s condemnation of Tory austerity cuts Councillor Laura Price’s recent remarks on spending cuts are

CHEERFUL teachers and fundraisers were having a ball when they opened an astro-nomical new community sports pitch. The new artificial pitch was opened by Larkmead School headteacher Chris Harris along with members of the organisations, businesses

Jaine Blackman catches up with a gutsy female private detective on her 17th outing Next week there’s a chance for fans to join American crime writer Sara Paretsky in Oxford to celebrate the release of the 17th book in her series of novels about

Christopher Gray and friends find bold flavours in great variety at Zheng in Walton Street, Oxford Dare I risk allegations of elitism by presenting Zheng – as was honestly the case – as a lively, flavour-laden two-hour interlude between quails’

Jon Murray takes a trip down memory lane with a return visit to Cornwall and likes what he discovers there I’m not really into toilet humour, but it was hard to avoid it when I was a teenager and my parents and I moved across Cornwall from Looe

Mica Paris tells Katherine MacAlister about her latest musical role Mica Paris, the famous soul singer, loves testing herself, trying out new things, challenging her preconceptions and confronting her fears, although some experiments work out better

Jaine Blackman enjoys a musical based on the songs of Elvis Presley It’s tempting to start a review of a musical featuring Elvis music with a pun but, in fact, the show didn’t leave me all shook up. Instead it entertained, amused and – although

Festival Henley Festival Royal Regatta site, Henley Today-Sunday Tickets from £35 henley-festival.co.uk. If you think Cornbury’s posh, you should see Henley! The event has a strict dress code which sees gents in tuxedos and ladies in their

With Cornbury Festival getting underway tomorrow, Truck next weekend, and any number of other events taking place across the county, it is easy to become blasé about the great British music festival. But one intimate music event this weekend deserves

  With a mix of new stars and musical legends this weekend’s Cornbury Festival ticks all the boxes, director Hugh Phillimore tells Tim Hughes Hugh Phillimore can be forgiven for feeling a little smug. The director of Oxfordshire’s first big

Charlotte Morley, Creation’s general manager, talks us through their summer season, outdoors Shhh, say it quietly but do you think it might finally be summer? The bees in the churchyard next to our office are buzzing, it’s getting hard to find

Tim Hughes raises a glass to a lively tribute to the Duke of Wellington Almost 200 cannon, 40 kg of gunpowder, 12 horses, 120 soldiers in Napoleonic uniform, 60 musicians – one Spitfire and a UNESCO World Heritage Site... When it comes to laying

Marc West joins the circus and finds out there’s much more to being a clown than just slapping on some face paint Have you ever wished that you could run away to join the circus? Well, last week that’s exactly what I did. Early Friday morning

I had heard about the legendary Jane’s Teas in Kirtlington but had never been, mainly because of its erratic opening times and odd location. But having checked the website, I finally made it there a few Sundays ago, when the sun was shining and

Starting Up with Joseph Perks & Co When we opened the bar back in August in St Clements we had a simple concept that revolved around immaculately crafted cocktails and fine artisanal espresso based coffee. Knowing full well that thirsty

Oxford University’s Said Business School has played host to any number of illustrious visitors – from high-flying industrialists to visiting statesmen and economists. But this Saturday it will welcome a rather different group of movers and shakers.

Welsh superstar crooner Sir Tom Jones talks to Tim Hughes as he prepares to play Cornbury It’s not unusual for Tom Jones to get excited about playing live. After all, the silver-tongued crooner has been taking to the stage on and off for the past

MOTAVATION SERIES RACE 3 Abingdon AC: 10 O Stepney 21.36, 13 A Vessey 22.03, 46 M Lewy (V50) 23.51, 56 D Wilson 24.26, 57 L Bailey 24.27, 75 D Smyth 25.16, 85 J Moore (V50) 25.27, 97 N Hamilton (V50) 26.06, 107 T Clarke (V40) 26.26, 113 A Francis

A cannabis plant was seized and a man arrested after detectives raided a home yesterday morning. Police swooped on a house in Barracks Lane at around 8.30am and arrested a 41-year-old man on suspicion of possessing Class B drugs. Thames Valley

EDDIE Pepperell tees off north of the border this morning looking to acclimatise to Scottish links conditions and fine tune his game ahead of The Open Championship. A week today the Abingdon golfer will be at St Andrews, but he knows the importance

EMERGENCY £2.3m plans to save a bowel screening and endoscopy unit were approved by hospital bosses yesterday. Accreditation was removed from Horton General Hospital’s endoscopy unit following an inspection by the national watchdog in March because

FESTIVAL fever may be over for another year but organisers of the Cowley Road Carnival are already having to start preparations for next year’s celebrations. About 45,000 revellers packed out the East Oxford street on Sunday for the annual five-hour

Rail bosses have pledged to keep as many trains running as possible despite workers downing tools for a 48-hour strike last night. RMT members stopped at 6.30pm for two days of industrial action over a row with First Great Western (FGW) about cuts

THREE people have been arrested in connection with a sexual assault and an assault in Port Meadow.  Officers said at about 8pm on July 3 at the Fiddlers Island area of Port Meadow, Oxford, a man touched a teenage girl inappropriately over her clothing

DONORS helped Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum raise the final £60,000 of £860,000 needed to buy an iconic Turner painting of the city in just four weeks. The museum put out an appeal last month to try to raise the cash needed to buy Joseph Mallord William

FIVE suspected illegal immigrants were seen jumping off the back of a lorry on the outskirts of Oxford yesterday. Staff at Unipart called police just after 9am, after the men fled the vehicle when it was opened by security guards outside the company

A MAN who lied to a underage schoolgirl that he was only 16 and related to Joey Essex before sneaking up to her room and having sex with her was jailed for 18 months. Charles Chapman, now 20, struck up a relationship with the teenage girl by telling

JAMES Walter scored a hattrick of touchdowns as Oxford Saints thrashed Swindon Storm 42-13 to book a place in the Southern Conference West Division 2 play-offs. Grant Tebb (2) and Ryan Kingshott also reached the end zone as Saints avenged a 50-

THREE people were injured when a chemical reaction released toxic fumes into a laboratory. The alarm was raised at 2.30pm on Tuesday and emergency services rushed to Oxford Science Park to find a chemical reaction had released dangerous fumes into

TRUCKLOADS of military equipment and tankers trundled through Oxfordshire yesterday as a new regiment moved in. After 50 years of service in Germany, the 1st Regiment Royal Logistic Corps has begun the move to St David’s Barracks at Graven Hill

The Duke of York was given a guided tour of Oxfordshire’s Harwell scientific campus yesterday ahead of its landmark open day on Saturday. The Duke, who is patron of the campus, was met by Deputy Lieutenant of Oxfordshire Paul Bradstock and then

Oxfordshire ended their Middleton Cup campaign with a 111-111 draw against holders Hampshire at Oxford City & County – but took the match points on rink wins. Oxon, who were already out of contention to qualify from South Group Section B, had

Oxfordshire Ladies’ outside chances of progressing in the John’s Trophy were dashed with a 120-115 defeat by Berkshire at Thatcham. Oxon won three rinks, skipped by Brenda Havard, Jeanette Berry and Carol Gaskins, but Berkshire’s overall supremacy

Headington's Howard Watts is to launch a three-pronged attack on the Oxfordshire BA semi-finals at Banbury Borough. Watts faces Watlington’s Sam Watts in the last four of the singles on Sunday morning, before teaming up with Jon Philpott against

Headington A’s juggernaut rolled on in Division 1 of the Oxfordshire League, sponsored by Bridle Insurance, with a 6-0 whitewash win at basement boys Bicester. The reigning champions are now ten points clear of Carterton in second, with just four

6:17pm British tourists have been advised to leave Tunisia amid fresh fears of a terror attack 

RAIL strikes on First Great Western trains are causing delays and disruption for passengers travelling to London from Oxford. Eleventh-hour crisis talks to prevent RMT union members taking industrial action yesterday broken down and the effects

The BFI continues its ongoing centenary tribute to Orson Welles by reissuing his much-maligned 1958 noir, Touch of Evil. Adapted from the Whit Masterson novel, Badge of Evil, this was the first feature that Welles had directed in Hollywood for a decade

A NEW solar farm generating enough energy to power 1,400 homes could be built on the outskirts of Oxford. Proposals for the farm in Beckley, five miles from the city centre, have been put to members of the public for consideration. The site

THE first exhibition by the Drovers’ Art Group in Wantage is to be displayed in the Vale & Downland Museum on Church Street. The work can be found in the upper gallery of the museum and will be on show until August 22. Artists taking part

Returning for another biennial tour of the United Kingdom, Made in Prague will being best of recent Czech cinema to venues across the country between 7 July and 17 September. Sponsored by the Czech Centre London, Czech Film Centre and Picturehouse

ALEXIS Canter hopes he can continue to dispel the nerves that come with playing at Wimbledon after recording his first career victory at the Junior Championships. Long Wittenham's Canter partners Finn Bass in the second round of the boys' doubles

Hammer thrower Aislinn Baird smashed her own club record while helping Radley to victory in their Southern League Division 2 West fixture at Tilsley Park. Baird threw 46.43m to break the record and win the event by an astonishing 12m. Her teammates

Oxford City Stars continue to strengthen ahead of this season’s South Division 1 campaign with a trio of new signings. The English National League outfit have recruited forward Ben Ealey-Newman, defender Jason Ikin and netminder Shannon Long.

CLANFIELD will take on an Eastleigh side including the likes of former Oxford United strikers James Constable, Jack Midson and Yemi Odubade in a pre-season game at Radcott Road tonight (7.30pm). The Vanarama National League side, who lost to Grimsby

Two former Woodstock Harriers stole the show in the third round of the Mota-Vation Series at Combe. Steve Naylor, competing for Bedford & County, was racing for the first time in a year and scooped the men’s prize, with Sophie Carter (Belgrave

Vikings Sports Club started their Johnsons Buildbase Oxford & District League summer campaign with a 5-1 victory at Marlborough B. Bob Allsworth and Robin Godfrey won the opening two games, before Callum Bowler (6,280) made it 2-1. Further

VULNERABLE working families across the county are set to suffer after the Government announced £12bn worth of benefit cuts, it was warned yesterday. Chancellor George Osborne revealed working age benefits would be frozen for four years and the

MCDONALD’S staff from Oxfordshire will set off on a three-day charity cycle ride from Oxford to Holland on Saturday. With colleagues from Buckinghamshire, the team of 20 will raise money for Ronald McDonald House, Oxford, as they cycle to Leiden

A NEW rowing lake could be created west of Oxford as part of the city’s £120m flood relief channel. Oxford rowing and canoe club members have called for the new lake and the Environment Agency has said “all options are being looked at”. Peter

A CHINESE chef who used to run a chain of restaurants but gave it up to run a sandwich shop in Witney is stepping back into the fray with a charity cook-off for 100 people. Henry Mo, 57, who runs Sandwich De Witney in Market Square, will cook a

A SECOND World War veteran who helped liberate France has received one of the country’s highest honours. Former Pressed Steel worker Elvet Davies, 98, was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in recognition of his help liberating France.