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Fire and police investigators search torched pub

Firefighters outside the Fox & Hounds last night

10:09am Friday 10th July 2009

Fire and police investigators have this morning started their fingertip search inside the torched Fox & Hounds pub on the corner of Abingdon Road and Weirs Lane in Oxford.

Suicides prompt closure of Oxford car park's top storey

The view from the car park

7:20am Friday 10th July 2009

THE top floor of an Oxford car park is being shut to stop suicidal people leaping to their deaths.

Thank you 55,000 times for OX5 Run cash

Nursery nurse Kerrie Wiggins with seven-month-old Fay Harding at Oxford Children’s Hospital

6:30am Friday 10th July 2009

RUNNERS raised a record amount of money for Oxford Children’s Hospital at this year’s OX5 Run.

Top cops' expenses published

Chief Constable Sara Thornton

6:20am Friday 10th July 2009

SENIOR Thames Valley Police officers have defended their expense claims, which have been published for the first time.

BREAKING NEWS: Fox & Hounds pub torched in 'arson' attack

10:29pm Thursday 9th July 2009

Fifty five firefighters from across Oxfordshire were called to tackle a raging blaze at the derelict Fox & Hounds pub on the corner of Abingdon Road, Oxford, tonight.

County crime figures show fall in offences

8:20pm Thursday 9th July 2009

Monthly police figures show there have been about 600 fewer crimes in Oxfordshire in the past three months compared to the same period last year.

Jools died in style, say parents

Anjool Malde

7:55pm Thursday 9th July 2009

A FORMER BBC Radio Oxford presenter who fell to his death from an eight-storey London restaurant was wearing a designer suit and had just ordered Champagne.

Disabled upset by loss of Oxford parking spaces

oe Richards, Diana Stocker and Margaret Pearce in St Michael’s Street, where cycle racks have replaced disabled parking

7:23pm Thursday 9th July 2009

DISABLED motorists say they are “utterly frustrated” at trying to find somewhere to park in Oxford city centre.

Pensioners welcome improved Oxford hospitals bus link

7:26pm Thursday 9th July 2009

PENSIONERS have welcomed the extension of a bus service which will now call at two extra hospitals in Oxford.

Teenager loses brave fight against cancer

Jake Spicer

7:10pm Thursday 9th July 2009

AN OXFORD teenager described as “the pride of Blackbird Leys” has died after a five-and-a-half year battle with cancer.


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