A LEADING Oxford insolvency specialist is urging businesses to 'proceed with caution' in a bid to prevent a return to the recession, writes David Duffy. Tracey Maris, partner at the Oxford office of business advisers Grant Thornton, says that a worrying
POLICE chief Charles Pollard has backed a call for officers to be given a special pay allowance - because of high house prices in the Thames Valley. At a recent branch meeting of the area's Police Federation, the Chief Constable was told that officers
PLANS for the return of senior ice hockey to Oxford are moving ahead with a new company being formed and player recruitment getting under way. Oxford City Ice Hockey Ltd has been set up after close liaison with the existing club in Oxford that runs the
Oxford Utd 2, Swindon Tn 1 JOEY Beauchamp helped to sink his old club Swindon with two perfect crosses from set-pieces in Saturday's Division 1 derby at the Manor Ground. Steve McMahon, the manager Beauchamp never really got on with at Swindon, paid the
MAN mountain Kevin Francis climbed off his sickbed to help Oxford United to a 2-1 derby win over Swindon which sent their fans into raptures. Francis jetted back from international duty in the sun-baked Caribbean and was greeted with hailstones on his
WHEN Roger Bannister hit the tape at the Iffley Road sports ground, he quickly became aware that he had run straight into the ranks of the sporting immortals. On May 6, 1954, he became the first athlete to run a mile in less than four minutes, with his
THE BIG clean-up was starting in earnest today after the worst floods to hit parts of Oxfordshire in living memory. Hundreds of people in the Kidlington and Banbury areas spent the Easter weekend in hotels, B&Bs or with relatives after the River Cherwell
A TOUGH new code of conduct is to be introduced for local councillors in an effort to wipe out sleaze in town halls. The Government's decision comes after claims of corruption in Glasgow, Paisley and Doncaster, and also after the 'homes for votes' scandal
HOPE is fading that a last minute deal will be struck to secure plans for a leisure complex in Bicester. Planners were told there seemed little chance that the Highways Agency would change its position on traffic impact concerns over the plans for a £20m
A JCB digger driver has told how he sat and watched what he is convinced was a black puma walk across fields close to a flock of sheep. Tony Wiffen, 34, of Burton Close, Abingdon, was so stunned when he saw the mystery creature that he pulled into a lay-by
STUNNED householders and businesses were today trying to assess the damage caused by some of the worst flooding this century. Hundreds of Oxfordshire properties were affected after downpours which saw the average rainfall for April fall in just 24 hours
MIRACLE baby Aidan Stewart may be too young to talk, but he knows his mum is one in a million. Her life was devastated when a shop collapsed on top of her as it was being demolished in Oxford 14 years ago. Passers-by clawed at tons of rubble to reach
