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Concerns raised over drinking outside Market Square pub

5:00pm Thursday 13th December 2012

A WITNEY pub has met with criticism over a plan to open an outdoor drinking and dining area in Market Square.

Five join hub for enterprise

1:00pm Thursday 13th December 2012

A NEW business centre in Witney has officially opened for business and welcomed its first five occupiers.

Green housing plan for Faringdon's A420 is 'dreadful'

7:10am Monday 12th November 2012

RESIDENTS and councillors have voiced their concerns over a “dreadful” plan for a low-carbon, 200-house estate in Faringdon.

Racehorse trainer set to launch novel

Charlie Brooks

11:00am Thursday 13th September 2012

CHIPPING NORTON: Racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks is launching his second thriller at Jaffé and Neale bookshop tomorrow.

Elisabeth Murdoch lodge planning decision due

10:20am Monday 3rd September 2012

Plans to boost security at the home of Rupert Murdoch’s daughter will be discussed today.

Fans fork out for festival flavours at Alex James' Big Feastival

The crowd

9:40am Monday 3rd September 2012

POP star turned cheesemaker Alex James hailed the Big Feastival a huge success after an estimated 20,000 fans enjoyed a tasty mix of food and music.

Thank you fundraiser for young torchbearer Garvey Evans

Thank you fundraiser for young torchbearer Garvey Evans

9:30am Monday 3rd September 2012

A WITNEY woman has raised more than £2,600 to thank the cancer care charity that helped her 13-year-old grandson.

Town in high spirits thanks to roaring pub trade

Paul Spink at Fat Lil's

2:10pm Friday 31st August 2012

WITNEY has the same number of pubs it did 30 years ago, which makes it “unique” in bucking the pub closure trend, say campaigners. The Oxford branch of Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) said no other UK market town had achieved this feat.

Councillor wants to cut festival's Sunday music license

Liz Leffman

12:20pm Friday 31st August 2012

JUST when they thought it safe to rock out, organisers of one of Oxfordshire’s biggest festivals are facing another battle over noise.

Woman's body found in former mill stream

A police officer guards the cordon

10:30am Saturday 4th August 2012

NEIGHBOURS were last night mourning the death of a woman whose body was pulled from a channel off the River Windrush in Burford.

Unsigned music groups can play Feastival stage

6:00pm Saturday 28th July 2012

Unsigned musicians are being invited to compete for the chance to take the limelight at The Big Feastival. Alex James this weekend launches his Big Feastival Live and Unsigned search for band to win a slot on the main stage.

Man fled to avoid work

9:20am Monday 23rd July 2012

A man  who ransacked his aunt and uncle’s house and then left the county to avoid community service has been given another chance.

No inquest date

9:20am Friday 20th July 2012

 An inquest into the death of a 38-year-old father during football training in Witney has not yet opened, Oxfordshire Coroner’s Office said last night.

Bailed for GBH

9:20am Friday 20th July 2012

A 26-year-old man has admitted causing grievous bodily harm.

Police seek man over stab attack

Police seek man over stab attack

9:10am Friday 20th July 2012

This is the man police would like to talk to after two men were stabbed with a broken bottle in Lowells Place, in Witney

Two injured in Minster Lovell crash

7:15pm Friday 13th May 2011

A woman had to be cut out of a car after a head-on car crash in Minster Lovell in which two people were injured.

Witney pupils reunite after 50 years

Witney Grammar School’s Class of 1955 back at their old school for the reunion with retired teacher Isabelle Spencer, front

3:00pm Thursday 7th April 2011

FORMER classmates at a Witney school have been reunited after more than 50 years.

Fallen troops to be flown to Brize Norton

Fallen troops to be flown to Brize Norton

10:20am Thursday 17th March 2011

PEOPLE living near RAF Brize Norton were last night preparing to honour the country’s fallen soldiers in their own way.

Witney by-election winner revealed

6:33pm Friday 7th January 2011

Labour candidate Duncan Enright won yesterday's by-election for one of four east ward seats on Witney Town Council.

Taxi driver injured after collision with bus

The crash in Witney yesterday. A woman had to be cut free

10:20am Tuesday 14th December 2010

A woman was cut free from a taxi she was driving after a collision with a double-decker bus in Witney yesterday. The woman, in her 60s, was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital with suspected facial and leg injuries.

Cut protest taken to Cameron's doorstep

6:54pm Friday 10th December 2010

Protesters took their message to Prime Minister and Witney MP David Cameron’s door today.

More payback time for Carterton thief

10:30am Tuesday 16th November 2010

A volunteer who stole £6,700 from old people’s day centre where she worked has been given more time to pay the money back.

Police pull plug on Chipping Norton free fuel stunt

Marshall Adam Gillot last night

10:30am Tuesday 16th November 2010

POLICE stopped a petrol station pumping out free fuel to motorists after it created chaos.

Art in Woodstock really paints the town

The kids’ art wall in Market Place, from left, Eleanor Crick, five, Shane Skinner, nine, and Joseph Crick, nine

2:00pm Tuesday 26th October 2010

ART lovers painted Woodstock red as a public art wall helped kick-start the town’s biggest arts festival.

SCHOOLS SOS: Carterton pupils want Olympic revamp

Edith Moorhouse School teacher Diana Moore with eight-year-olds Molly White, Jake Russsell and Damian Brooks

10:20am Friday 16th July 2010

FITTER, healthier children are what staff at a Carterton primary school are hoping they will get if they win an Olympic revamp.

Spate of thefts from cars in Witney

7:35pm Tuesday 13th July 2010

A laptop, torch and mobile phone were among items taken in a recent spate of thefts from cars in Witney, police said today.

Missing Enstone girl is found safe and well

6:29pm Wednesday 30th June 2010

A missing 13-year-old girl from Enstone, near Chipping Norton, has been found safe and well.

Identical Witney twin sisters join the Army together

Kitty, left, and Ella Gorman, outside the recruiting office in St Giles, Oxford

11:00am Wednesday 23rd June 2010

LIKE quite a few teenage girls, identical twins Ella and Kitty Gorman have been watching their weight.

Delight in Witney as Cameron becomes PM

David and Samantha Cameron outside Downing Street

10:06pm Tuesday 11th May 2010

DAVID CAMERON became Prime Minister tonight after a day of deal-making with the Liberal Democrats.

ELECTION: Cameron seeking Liberal Democrat support for Government

2:47pm Friday 7th May 2010

CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron today extended his hand to Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg in a bid to seize Number 10.

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