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EDDIE Pepperell secured his third successive top-five finish when he came tied for third in the Portugal Masters. The Frilford Heath golfer, who led the tournament briefly during the third round, shot a three-under 68 to finish with a 15-under-par

A RECENT announcement by Alex Hollingsworth (Oxford city councillor) and Peter Thompson (Civic Society leader), referring to planning matters, stated that the height of restriction of buildings within a three-mile radius of Carfax tower may have to

I AM sure many readers will have been shocked by the prices of one-bedroom flats in Barton Park estate at £300,000 and threebedroom houses at £600,000. They seem excessive. This has prompted me to find out what the probable cost of building them

‘THE local authority is looking to spend £9.75m on knocking down and rebuilding 1-5 George Street...to earn £630,000 each year’ (Oxford Times, September 14). So it would take 15 years to get any benefit from it? David Bradnack, Oxford

WE SHOULD not be too surprised at a report of a decline in religion in the UK, as seized upon by John White of the Oxford Humanists (Letters, September 14); it is after all, forecast in the Bible. The Lord Jesus in Matthew 24 declared that in later

FOLLOWING the British Social Attitudes Survey, the letter (September 14) from the chairman of the Oxford Humanists was no surprise. He pointed out that those claiming to be religious are now in a minority. Mr White also wrote that non-religious

THE letters from Christopher Hardman and P.J. Stewart (September 7) raise the vexed question of what is meant by growth in our region. As for P.J. Stewart’s point about Oxford’s bypasses, these were built from the midthirties to 1966. Unlike much of

STUART Skyte (Letters, September 14) thinks that the old cricket ground on Crescent Road should be turned over to housing. He should realise that this piece of land was reserved as green space when the area around it was developed some years ago, in

TRAFFIC stretched back for miles on the A34 after a crash. One lane was blocked after the crash on the northbound Southern Bypass at the Hinksey Hill Interchange. At 5.15pm the tailbacks were four miles long, but by 6pm delays were beginning

OXFORD University has once again lost out to Cambridge in higher education rankings. Cambridge was rated the best university in the UK for the fifth year running by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide, published yesterday.

FIREFIGHTERS freed a man from a car after it flipped and crashed into a ditch.  A trapped man was rescued at 3am this morning after the car he was driving crashed into trees, spun on its side and became wedged in a trench between Buckland and Bampton

SIX Malaysians have been arrested on suspicion of being in the UK illegally following an immigration raid at a restaurant in Oxford. Immigration Enforcement officers raided Hong Kong House, in Suffolk House, Banbury Road, at about 5.45pm on Friday

A TRAINEE chiropractor is showing the world her love of donkeys.Charlotte Steer from Wantage is planning to take on a 10km run next month for the RSPCA's Lockwood donkey and pony rescue centre.The 20-year-old, who lives in Hallett Close and is currently

A MOTORCYCLIST died after he collided with a van and was hit by another bike just outside Oxford. The rider, a 72-year-old man, was involved in a collision with a stationary van in lane one of the A420 near the Botley interchange on Friday, police

The driver of a car that smashed through a wall and plunged into the River Thames is still behind sought by police. The force said today that it is trying to trace the man behind the wheel of the silver Mercedes, which went into the river in Abbey