AS PLANS to build more than 300 homes in Bretch Hill are unveiled a further 18 new homes are also now on the way to Banbury.Last week planning bosses approved two applications to build 10 apartments in a listed Georgian building as well as new homes off
EDDIE Pepperell made a promising start with a two-under-par 69 in the curtailed first round of the Joburg Open in South Africa.The Abingdon golfer, seeking to make his first European Tour cut of the season, had four birdies and two bogeys on the West
ANDY Cook is under no illusion of the task ahead of him after being named the new manager of Oxford United’s women. The former Arsenal and Durham coach has joined the club on a full-time basis and will take charge for the first time when the U’
ACOUSTIC fencing will not resolve noise problems say residents in North Oxfordshire's newest village who have likened living conditions to neighbouring an airport.Glyn and Anne Dewis say they have been forced to stay at friends and hotels for a '
A LANDLORD has been fined £20,000 for letting an unlicensed and poorly-maintained house in multiple occupation (HMO). Asad Shazad, of Moorbank, Oxford, appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday charged with failing to obtain an HMO licence and
A DOG owner gnashed by a passer-by's canine was forced to have 27 stitches to heal his 'nasty' injury, a court has heard.Victim Andrew Foley is still recovering from the attack in which eight-year-old dog Bearo pounced on him at the Wayland
Didcot power staion collapse - the timeline Tuesday, February 23 2016 4pm: A huge bang echoes across Didcot and beyond as half of the boiler house collapses 4.05pm: Emergency services arrive at the scene 5.23pm: At least
The Oxford Mail has been named the fourth fastest growing regional news site in the UK. The website saw a 38.8 per cent rise in average daily visitors to 42,000 in the second half of 2016 compared to 2015. Only the Belfast News Letter, the
AN new £18m leisure centre will be built in Wantage by 2020, the man holding the purse strings has pledged. Vale of White Horse District Council leader Matt Barber promised to splash the cash over the next four years in his latest budget on Wednesday
BANBURY'S biggest estate could be about to get a whole lot bigger after sweeping plans to build hundreds of homes were finally put forward.Housebuilding firm Bloor Homes has applied to Cherwell District Council for permission to create a total of
TEMPERS are flaring after a council launched a bid to stretch its boundaries into surrounding parishes.Abingdon Town Council is eyeing up land parcels that it wants to adopt from neighbouring councils, but its proposal has been met with anger.It submitted
FLYING Francophiles are wanted to join a twinning trip to the Loire Valley this summer.The Wantage, Grove and District Twinning Association is planning the trip to Mably, France, from July 9 to 15.Tourists will stay with French families and go on trips
A MODE horse which featured in the National Theatre production of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse story is to go on show in Oxfordshire.The model will be on display at The Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock from Wednesday, March 22.
A DRIVER in Oxfordshire is still on the roads despite racking up 51 penalty points on their licence. It emerged through a Freedom of Information request lodged by the BBC. That number of points would normally lead to disqualification but magistrates
A YEAR ago today none of us could have prepared for the events that unfolded as the clock struck 4pm. Like many others across Oxfordshire, and further afield, those of us in the Oxford Mail news room were shocked at what we saw. As more details
A HOUSING campaigner has threatened to make an official complaint to government if there are any more delays on a new housing estate.Former Labour party activist Les Clyne has threatened to report Vale of White Horse District Council to the Department
The death of Fred Hodcroft at 93 marks the end of an era for St Cross, the all-graduate college in St Giles, Oxford. Mr Hodcroft, who has died after a long battle with Alzheimer's Disease, was one of the last surviving members of a small group of
A DRINK-driver who crashed his car after falling asleep at the wheel during a journey back from London has been slapped with a fine. Sanda Mpanza called police after he drove his white Golf down an embankment on the A40 Wheatley just before 3am
NICK Axford, a married father-of-one who was an Air Cadets instructor for 30 years, has died of cancer at the age of 58. Mr Axford, an Oxford man all his life, was born October 10, 1958 in Marston before he moved together with his parents to Wheatley
ANDREW Smith has backed a campaign calling on the Government to give people from other European Union countries the right to stay in the UK after Brexit. The Oxford East MP said the issue needed to be resolved 'as a matter of humanity', saying
AN OXFORD ‘green’ energy firm has been acquired in a £340m deal.Opus Energy, which supplies electricity and gas to small businesses, is now part of Drax Group, which runs the biggest power station in Britain. Opus, which has its head offices in Banbury
DARTS players have been invited to raise money for charity at a Littlemore event.The match at The George Inn on Saturday, March 4, will run from 7pm and will cost £5 to enter.There will also be a raffle costing £1 a strip.Money raised will go to the Anthony
A FAMILY whose lives were destroyed by the power station collapse say they still cannot come to terms with the tragedy one year on. Ken Cresswell, 57, from Rotherham was one of the four demolition workers to be killed when half of the boiler house
TEAM members at a flourishing social enterprise in Blackbird Leys are raring to go after receiving certificates of training in heavy-duty machinery.Six of the 25 workers at Raw Workshop, which employs people facing disadvantage and disability, were put
A FATHER who tried to force his way into his ex-girlfriend's home after being banned from contacting her has been slapped with a suspended sentence.Kenny Pinkstone admitted harassing former partner Emma Dix and breaching a restraining order handed
FUNDING for early years education in Oxfordshire next year has been approved.At a meeting on Tuesday Oxfordshire County Councillor cabinet member for education Steve Harrod approved the new funding formula.It applies to the existing 15 hour entitlement
RESIDENTS in Littlemore will be out in force to spruce up the estate during the annual spring clean.The event, organised by OxClean, will take place on Saturday, March 4 from 10am to midday.It will start at the front of Littlemore Community Centre in
DAD Steve Bearns is celebrating after visa problems, which left his wife stranded in China, were finally resolved.The 56-year-old has been living with son Ryan, three, in Wallingford, but problems over the visa of his wife Xia Zu – known as Mary in the
RADIOHEAD have missed out on a Brit Award – again. The Oxford band was nominated for best 'British group' but lost out to The 1975, a rock band from Manchester. It was the 17th time Radiohead had been nominated for a Brit Award but they still
PRIVATE landlords are being encouraged to let more properties to people who get housing benefit under a new scheme. Oxford City Council is offering to guarantee people’s rent, in a move it hopes will address concerns about changes to Universal
History is being made today as the vicar of All Saints, in Headington marks sixty years of service, extending his own record of becoming the longest serving Anglican vicar made six years ago. Reverend James Cocke, 90, will mark the special anniversary
A GAME-CHANGING system developed in Oxford to record hospital patients' vital signs using iPads could cut time nurses need on each person by up to 30 per cent, a research project has found.The System for Electronic Notification and Documentation (
A PASSPORT and a sim card as stolen during the burglary of a home in Oxford.Thames Valley Police have said between midday and 6.30pm on Wednesday, a property in Leckford Road, North Oxford, Oxford, was broken into.The force did not say how many suspects
RENOWNED speakers have been added to the line-up for this year’s Oxford Literary Festival.Roger Penrose, one of the world’s leading theoretical scientists, is to open the festival, with a talk on his latest book in which he says fashion, faith and fantasy
THEY may be long extinct but dinosaur enthusiasts now have the opportunity to view a model of one of the best preserved T-Rex skulls in the world at a Witney art gallery.The 65 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen, named Tristan Otto, originated
ONE of the most varied collections of contemporary art is coming to Oxford tomorrow.This weekend the annual Oxford International Art Fair takes place at Oxford Town Hall with more than 100 UK and international artists showing their work, including Damien
GIRLS at Headington School learned more about the fight against tuberculosis with a talk from an Oxford University academic.Professor Helen McShane visited the school earlier this week to speak to pupils about the work she and her team have been focussing
Here are the crimes police have appealed for your help in solving over the past 24 hours. If you have any information relating to the crimes, contact the force on 101. Here is the Oxfordshire crime round-up for Thursday, February 23. Burglars
POLICE have charged two people with assault after an incident in Bicester at the weekend. Fergie Suika, 19, from Lena Crescent, Enfield, London and a 16-year-old boy from London were both charged on Sunday. Suika has been charged with with
SUPPORTERS of the Horton General Hospital have been left exasperated after it was announced no further parking will be added to Oxford's hospital sites.Last week Oxford City Council planning boss Alex Hollingsworth said planning policies for the three
Oxford City Councillor Tom Hayes gives his view on the child refugee crisis. OXFORD is furious and rightly so. A programme to re-settle child refugees has just been binned and our city is outraged. The Government has shut down this scheme
WHILE at Abingdon School, Tom Digby was no stranger to breaking records on the rowing machine, writes John Wiggins.Now studying at Yale in the USA, he has lost none of his enthusiasm and has just added four under 19 world records to his name.The most
TAXPAYERS in Cherwell will benefit from a tax freeze for its district council services for the eighth year in a row.Cherwell District council has agreed that residents will pay the same rate for its share of the council tax as it has been since 2009.This
HOME appliance-maker Whirlpool has been criticised for not taking action sooner after it upgraded its warning to consumers with faulty dryers. The company warned consumers with faulty Hotpoint, Indesit and Creda dryers to unplug the potentially
A £100m new disease research institute is to be built at Harwell, the government announced last night.The Rosalind Franklin Institute will aim to ‘bring together UK expertise to develop new technologies that will transform our understanding of disease
REPORTS are coming in this morning of power cuts in South Oxfordshire. Readers said the power was out in Wallingford, with some homes reportedly affected in Fyfield. Provider SSE said it understood about 21 homes were affected. A spokeswoman
ITV political editor Robert Peston will tonight take part in a rendition of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody as part of a celebration of the Oxford Canal.The concert, organised by Jericho Living Heritage Trust, will be held at St Barnabas Church at 7pm and admission
OXFORD Tom Cash, 51, of no fixed abode, admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour towards Julie Soarez-Auffray with the intent to cause her to believe immediate unlawful violence would be used or to provoke the immediate
DONNINGTON Club extended their lead in Johnsons Buildbase Oxford League Division 1 to seven points when beating Democrats Club 6-0. Ian Moquet (12,180, break 7,320) started the ball rolling, followed by single wins by Melissa Standbridge (5,240
RENAULT’S Jolyon Palmer believes anything is possible this season following sweeping changes to the Formula 1 rule book.The cars will be bigger, heavier and more aggressive-looking this year following a series of changes to the technical regulation.They
WHILE at Abingdon School, Tom Digby was no stranger to breaking records on the rowing machine, writes John Wiggins.Now studying at Yale in the USA, he has lost none of his enthusiasm and has just added four under 19 world records to his name.The most
A WEEK can be a long time in sport as Oxford City Stars found to their cost on Sunday.Seven days after trouncing Milton Keynes Thunder 8-1 at Oxpens, Stars lost 4-1 away to the same opponents in a lacklustre display.Their inability to clear their own
BANBURY Cricket Club marked their first season in the Eynsham Winter League by winning the title. They achieved their success with a 4-2 success against The Foundations. Mark Revill (Staggers) finished as the league’s overall top scorer with
THERE is still time to shelve controversial plans to expand Seacourt Park and Ride, opposition city councillors insist.The Green group at Oxford City Council claims the £4m scheme – which would add 650 parking spaces – is a waste of money that could be
HENLEY Hawks say they have been caught out by their own honesty after being slapped with a £1,000 fine by the Rugby Football Union (RFU).The National League 2 South club were found guilty of engaging the services of an unregistered agent at an independent
BANBURY'S biggest estate could be about to get a whole lot bigger after sweeping plans to build hundreds of homes were finally put forward.Housebuilding firm Bloor Homes has applied to Cherwell District Council for permission to create a total of
We will know on Sunday whether the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has sought to right past wrongs by making Moonlight its Best Picture rather than La La Land. Both are visually striking, impeccably played and studded with memorable music.
Comedian Bill Maher claims to be looking for answers in Religulous (2008). But, as he tours the world compelling people to justify their faith, it quickly becomes clear that he reached his conclusions long before he began posing the questions and, thus
ONE lane of the A34 southbound carriageway near Chilton due to a broken-down lorry. Traffic reports say it is causing some delays at the West Ilsley turn off. Lane one of two is blocked, after the Chilton Interchange. See our traffic feed
HANNAH Hale broke an Eynsham Road Runners club record at the Bramley 20 Mile race.Finishing 177th, Hale crossed in a time of 2hrs 22mins 54secs.Headington’s Edwina McDowall was the third female to finish in 85th overall and was also second in the veteran
ABINGDON’S Paul Fernandez smashed his own record by 48 minutes when winning the Brecon to Cardiff 44-mile ultra race.The vet 40 runner crossed in a time of 5hrs 26mins 43secs, beating his previous best from 2015.Meanwhile, White Horse Harrier Ben Claridge
DUBAI dreams came true for West Ilsley trainer Mick Channon when Opal Tiara landed the valuable Group 2 Balanchine Stakes at Meydan. The four-year-old filly took the £97,560 first prize in the Citizen K-sponsored mile-and-a-furlong contest by a neck from
AN ENSEMBLE of talented musicians will entertain crowds at a fundraiser next month to raise vital cash for two Banbury churches.On Friday, March 4, the John Cleveland Band will play everything from big band classics to Abba and West End numbers in aid
A LEGAL showdown is looming between Oxford City Council and Network Rail after councillors demanded the firm used so-called ‘silent track’. In the latest twist of a long-running saga, the council’s west area planning committee has refused the company
A FOOTBALL club has invited global icon David Beckham to join its team after learning he may be moving into a £5m Cotswold barn nearby. It is understood the Beckhams have bought a nine-bedroom barn conversion close to exclusive members’ club Soho
TODAY relatives, emergency service workers, volunteers and an entire community will fall silent to remember those killed in the Didcot Power Station tragedy. A deafening bang echoed across the town followed by a rolling wave of dust on Tuesday,
RYAN Ledson is prepared to risk his chances of playing at the Under 20 World Cup with England this summer to help Oxford United’s push for the Sky Bet League One play-offs. The midfielder is in terrific form and came to the U’s rescue with a last-gasp
A £100m new disease research institute will be based at Harwell, the government has announced. Business Secretary Greg Clark has today pledged the massive investment in what will be called the Rosalind Franklin Institute. The facility, which
SHE cut her teeth in policing as the city’s chief officer and now 20 years on, Oxford’s own Cressida Dick will stamp her authority as the country’s top cop. Announced as the new Commissioner for London’s Metropolitan Police this week, the former
Trees are falling, power supplies are being cut and a street was closed in the city centre this afternoon as Storm Doris ripped through the county. More than 5,000 households in Oxfordshire are currently without the power, which according to Scottish
