A PAIR of mums from Abingdon have created a children’s book designed to help parents talk to youngsters about head lice. Julia Thomas and Julia King came up with the idea for their illustrated story after there was an outbreak of the insidious insects
THE co-leader of the Green Party will visit Oxfordshire today. Jonathan Bartley will address a free public meeting at Witney Corn Exchange from 7.30pm. The event, entitled 'A Green in the Room', will discuss the future of the Green movement and
Oxfam's chief executive is to stand down at the end of the year, the charity announced today. Mark Goldring was at the helm of the organisation when news broke of the sexual abuse of victims of the Haiti earthquake in 2011 by then members of the
CONCERNS have been raised that Wantage Town Council has nearly half a million pounds being kept in reserve. At a meeting of the council on Monday - which saw councillor Chris McCarthy elected as mayor and councillor Kiran Gill as deputy - the clerk
OXFORDSHIRE’S latest employment figures show a 1.2 per cent increase in people working. The ratio betters those of the South East and the UK generally, where employment rates increased by 0.4 and 0.3 per cent respectively. The county statistics
A NEW youth music festival is set to take over a town football club this summer. Wantage's Sweatbox youth club is planning to stage the first ‘What The Fest’ at Wantage Town’s football ground on Saturday, July 14. Much like previous Sweatbox
A MAN was hospitalised following an assault in Oxford yesterday evening. The incident occurred at around 6.30pm on Garsington Road, Cowley, when the 55-year-old victim was approached by another man close to the ring road. The victim as taken
A MAN was hospitalised following an assault in Oxford on Monday evening. At around 6.30pm on Garsington Road, near to the Premier Inn and Oxford Business Park in Cowley, a 55-year-old man was approached by another man close to the ring road.
THE women of Launton’s WI have dished out almost £100, plus a host of canned food and dry goods, to Bicester’s Foodbank. The group, which regularly collects donations for the foodbank at its meetings, heard of the charity’s struggles to keep up
OXFORD City Council leader Susan Brown has welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement that councils will be compensated for work to replace cladding following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Mrs May told MPs today that work nationwide would cost an
THERE have been more complaints about travellers today after caravans turned up overnight on a village green near Wallingford. Around six caravans, along with dogs and a pony, have been spotted by concerned residents on the Stadhampton site, which
A MAN is being hunted by police after a teenager was raped following a night out in Oxford. Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses after the woman was raped in the early hours of Sunday close to the back of the Cowley Road Tesco. The
ANIMAL lovers have been urged to vote for local charities to be given a share of £500,000 Pets at Home fund. The national pet store chain has made the funds available on the anniversary of its VIP Club scheme which allows pet owners to donate to
OXFORD United's dress rehearsal for the Sky Bet League One campaign will come with a friendly at Milton Keynes Dons. Karl Robinson will return to his former side on Friday, July 27 – eight days before the opening game of the season. It is the
UPDATES on the steps being taken to improve healthcare in Oxfordshire will be given at a public health meeting. The meeting of the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group’s (OCCG) Board takes place next Thursday at Jubilee House, Cowley, and is
GARDENERS have been warned about the dangers of a ‘devastating’ plant disease amid efforts to stop it coming to the UK. The Horticultural Trades Association, based in Chilton, near Didcot, is calling on businesses to sign up to do what they can
AN INQUEST has opened into the deaths of two women who died in a head-on car crash on the A420 in Tubney. Oxford Coroner’s Court heard this afternoon that the pair - one in a grey Peugeot 3008 and the other a silver Skoda Octavia - died after the
OLDER people in Oxford have been given free legal advice to help them plan for what happens if they develop dementia. Dr John Davis, chief scientific officer at the Alzheimer’s Research UK Drug Discovery Institute, joined Oxford solicitor Kirsty
A LARGER-than-life sculpture over a year in the making is going on display in a village near Abingdon. It has been created by local artist Beatrice Hoffman, who will be opening her Garford studio later this month for the third year running.
STUDENTS from Artways Art Club at the River and Rowing Museum will be exhibiting the work of this weekend. The pieces produced are inspired by the current Barbara Hepworth exhibition, as well as their own ideas and interests. A wide range of
AN OTTER with kidney stones was one of the first animals to get treated with a pioneering new 3D X-ray machine at an Oxfordshire vet. The Chipping Norton Veterinary Hospital has also welcomed a host of other animals through its doors in recent
THE new ceremonial head of Oxfordshire County Council was one of the country’s first women air traffic control assistants – and said the job spurred her on to achieve. Gill Sanders is county councillor for Rose Hill and Littlemore and on Tuesday
OXFORD East MP Anneliese Dodds said Government policies are preventing the city 'being a city for everyone'. Ms Dodds said Oxford is the least affordable place in the country to buy a home – with an average one costing 16 times the average salary
A SPECIAL needs school cut off from public transport is celebrating after a charity donated a new minibus for its pupils. Despite being just five miles from the city centre and less than three miles from Marston there is no public transport link
A SOUTH Oxfordshire housing association has been recognised for its excellent contact centre. The UK National Contact Centre Awards were presented in London on Tuesday night. Soha Housing was shortlisted for the Best Apprenticeship category but
MOODY sheep and sketchy white horses haunt patchy hillsides, while Didcot's towering ebony power plant chugs out clouds of jaundiced steam over a nocturnal landscape. This is the Vale of White Horse of an alternative universe, but it also feels
A NUCLEAR warhead convoy travelling north to Scotland made its way through Oxfordshire this morning. It was monitored by members of the Oxford Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). The group said on the A34 it passed Didcot, Abingdon, going
AN OXFORD college has announced that a scientist will take over as its principal in October. St Edmund Hall announced that Professor Katherine Willis will succeed Keith Gull on October 1. She has been the director of science at the Royal Botanic
POLICE are warning residents in the Bicester area to keep their garden sheds locked. They are urging residents to check security at their sheds and outbuildings at a time of year when they are more likely to be left open and unlocked. They have
TRAVELLERS have once again set up in Bicester, with caravans appearing at playing fields near the Kingsmere estate. Around eight caravans have been seen at Whitelands Farm Sports Ground, which is owned by Cherwell District Council, so far, with
YOUNGSTERS can explore the world through the eyes of of animals at the 'Saturday science club' with Science Oxford. Titled 'Plants, Predators and Prey', the morning event will be hosted at the Yang Science Centre in Abingdon School. For more
FORMER UK Children’s Laureate Chris Riddell is to visit Waterstones in Oxford. He will be at the Broad Street store on Saturday, May 26 at 11am to sign copies of his new book, Ottoline and the Purple Fox. Mr Riddell is a highly acclaimed illustrator
BURGLARS broke into a charity shop in Grove and stole cash and a charity box. Thames Valley Police said the break-in at the shop supporting The African Children Fund happened between 8pm on Sunday and 9am on Monday. The thieves got into the shop
A NEW opera festival will take to the stage this summer to immerse visitors into a eclectic mix of theatre, opera and music. Waterperry Opera Festival will be hosted from August 17 to 19 and aims to encourage visitors to the event can get stuck
I'M a Celebrity star and environmental campaigner, Stanley Johnson, will be giving a free talk tomorrow at the University of Oxford. The talk, titled 'Saving the Planet? My Life as an Environmentalist' will be given by founder and co-chair of Environmentalists
GARDENERS are being urged to reap the rewards of recycling and pick up a bag of free compost from Cherwell District Council. The council is hosting one of its 'Green Fingered Giveaways' today in Banbury. The compost giveaways hope to promote
A SOUTH Oxford school will be exhibiting 'Rubbish Art' in their latest attempt to raise funds for a new eco-school. Cholsey's Treehouse School is presenting 'beautiful, original art created from found objects', by the 'Treehouse Gang' and local
A WRITER has launched a campaign for a new memorial to the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. John Webster, 64, from Headington, is a freelance writer who specialises in Romantic poetry studies. While there is a memorial at Shelley’s alma mater
A CHARITY is inviting people to join the buzz and explore the world of bees on a walk through the woodlands. Armed with the knowledge from former county ecologist, Craig Blackwell, visitors to the 3-hour event will take a walk through community
THE Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment at Oxford Brookes University will present its student work in a series of end of year shows. The shows will feature work from the Schools of Arts, Architecture, Built Environment and Engineering,
THE homecare team of assistants at Bluebird Care are celebrating as the group launches a campaign to say thanks to its professionals. The #MakeADifference campaign, launched on May 8, hopes to raise awareness of domiciliary care as a profession
THE Oxford Artisan Distillery – a spirit factory at the top of South Park – is to host its first music festival. Tom Nicolson dedicated five years to creating the gin distillery which launched last year. Since then the business has gone from
SOARING through the skies over Bicester is a special experience but doing it from an Oxford-made 1940s deHavilland Tiger Moth takes it to another level. The iconic Tiger Moth will be among scores of planes taking to the sky for this year's Classic
A MULTIMEDIA mum from West Oxfordshire is trying every trick in the book to get into this weekend’s Royal wedding so she can make Prince Harry and Meghan Markle the ‘ultimate wedding video’. Andrea McDowell is suffering from such intense Royal
A STUDENT from a Witney school is recovering in hospital with a suspected case of meningitis. The Henry Box School has confirmed one of its students was thought to have the potentially deadly disease, but stressed that risk of other students contracting
A MAN who was the face of a shop in the heart of Witney has been spared jail after viewing thousands of sexual pictures of children. Ian Pilcher, 63, who for 30 years worked at Domino Menswear in Corn Street, was yesterday handed a community sentence
ANDY Ballard says Didcot Town may have to resign themselves to travelling an extra 600 miles next season. Restructuring of the Evo-Stik South League has seen the Railwaymen remain in the West Division for the 2018/19 campaign. But farcically
TRAINSPOTTERS basked in the summer sun as they awaited the arrival of a legend at Oxford Railway Station. The smell of smoke and nostalgic sounds of a steam train came trundling along yesterday as the Cathedral Express chugged through the Oxfordshire
CUMNOR posted a 147-run win on the Duckworth Lewis Stern (DLS) method as rain destroyed much of the Cherwell League programme. Cumnor posted 244-9 in their 50 overs against Great Brickhill as Max Mannering hit 69 not out and Michael Race 64 in
AN EYE-WITNESS has described the moment Christopher Lemonius was ‘beaten to death’ with golf clubs and chunks of wood in a Blackbird Leys alleyway. Six Oxford men all deny murdering the 27-year old near Jourdain Road on June 1 last year – Yasine
MIKE Hume claimed five wickets to help Faringdon to a crushing 146-run victory at Wootton & Boars Hill in Division 1 of the OCA League. On a rain-affected day, Faringdon batted first and posted 230-5 as Rob Owen hit 74 and Jack Tomes 42.
RAIL passengers faced misery this morning with delays at Oxford and a broken down train causing issues at Didcot Parkway. Great Western Railway announced its services between London and Oxford station were being affected by 'urgent repairs to the
SIMON Eastwood agreed to a new long-term contract at Oxford United after being shown their list of summer transfer targets. The goalkeeper has committed himself to a deal which will keep him at the club until 2021. It marks a major piece of business
