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Action starts on weekend for Sports Relief

BIG PULL: Members of RAF Benson’s transport maintenance team haul a Land Rover for a mile, with Warrant Officer Mick Lindop sits it out

3:25pm Friday 19th March 2010

THE starting gun has been fired for a weekend of charity fun as air crew and ground staff at RAF Benson joined schoolchildren today to run a Sports Relief Mile along the runway.

Older folk now in with the IT crowd

TERRIFIC TUTOR: Tom Smith’s computer tips have helped Edmund Ogunleye keep in touch with relatives overseas by email

3:19pm Friday 19th March 2010

STUDENTS at Oxford Brookes University have been sharing their expertise by running computer classes for the over-50s.

City groups share cash bonanza

Cliff Jordon, front, and members of the car sharing club Commonwheels

2:47pm Friday 19th March 2010

EIGHT Oxford groups are to share a council cash pot which will help with activities including car sharing.

Delay on TV transmitter work

1:26pm Friday 19th March 2010

Disruption to television channels in Oxfordshire will continue until May due to technical problems, Digital UK revealed this morning.

'You will have say on Oxford Acedemy'

1:03pm Friday 19th March 2010

CONCERNS that consultation on plans to turn Oxford School into an academy could take place over the summer holidays have been allayed by Oxfordshire County Council.

UPDATE: Rape accused remanded in custody

11:43am Friday 19th March 2010

A 24-year-old East Oxford man has been remanded in custody after appearing in court charged with rape.

Teenager stabbed in Cowley

8:48am Friday 19th March 2010

A 19-YEAR-OLD man was stabbed in Oxford last night.

Man charged with rape

8:05am Friday 19th March 2010

A 24-year-old East Oxford man has been charged with rape, kidnap, and robbery in connection with an incident in Oxford in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Uni wins fight to revamp site

Artist's impression of the proposed library building

7:30am Friday 19th March 2010

A CONTROVERSIAL £132m revamp of Oxford Brookes University’s Headington Campus was given the go-ahead last night.

Highest honours for bravest soldiers

Christina Schmid, widow of Staff Sgt Olaf Schmid, receives the George Cross citation from Chief of the Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Jock Stirrup

8:37pm Thursday 18th March 2010

MILITARY heroes from Oxfordshire were last night awarded some of the nation’s highest honours.




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