A NEW group is being set up aimed at getting across the views of Oxfordshire businesses to the Government. The Oxfordshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry is working with Business Link Heart of England and the Heart of England Training and Enterprise
YOUNGSTERS on a trip to the seaside made a grisly discovery among the seaweed - a human skull sticking out of the mud. Justin Robinson, seven, and brother Dylan, five, of Kelham Hall Drive, Wheatley, were with their friend William Doe, seven, when they
A RETIRED farmer run over and killed by his wife as he directed her into a supermarket parking space had been urged to buy a smaller car just hours earlier. Alec Neil, 80, died of multiple injuries in the car park at Budgen's, Thame, on Saturday. He had
BUSES were due to stop for a minute's silence in Oxford today as drivers paid tribute to colleague Mark Winterbourne. The dad-of-four collapsed after a coughing fit and died at his home in Headington. Mark, 39, drove the Oxford Bus Company Barton to Kidlington
FLOOD victims in Kidlington are angry at claims their village was "sacrificed" to save Banbury by opening floodgates on the River Cherwell. Mum-of-two Yvette Tippett, 34, of Cherwell Avenue, Kidlington, said: "The whole of Kidlington is fuming because
HENDRED'S Peter Baring saddled Shannon Glen to victory in front of a bumper holiday crowd at the Old Berkshire Hunt Point-to-point at Lockinge yesterday. On perfect racing ground, the 12-year-old gelding eased to an easy 20-length win in the basking sunshine
OXFORD United, who broke QPR hearts the last time they reached a cup final back in 1986, can heap further misery on the Londoners in a key Division 1 clash at Loftus Road tonight (7.45). Despite earning a vital point with a 2-2 draw at Sunderland on Friday
WHEN Stan Worsfold had to evacuate his grandchildren from a fire at home he needed to keep their minds off the trauma. Although generous neighbours took the family in, they were all left shocked and upset by the fire, which was started by an electric
A GROUP of soldiers are aiming to climb South Africa's highest mountain this summer - as well as visit the site of a famous battle which produced a hero their barracks is now named after. Members of the A Troop, based at Dalton Barracks in Abingdon, hope
A TEENAGE hitchhiker has died after being hit by a van as he thumbed a lift. Floral tributes have been left beside the A41 near Chesterton, at the spot where the accident happened. Army cadet Aaron Taylor, 18, from Steeple Claydon, near Bicester, died
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
SUE Gibbs knew exactly what to expect when she married husband Barry - they had done it once already. The couple who live in Pinnocks Way, Botley, married in 1982 when they were just 21 and divorced five years later. But they never stopped loving each
UNINSURED single mum Kathleen Lamptey told how her home was devastated by the floods and sobbed: "I've lost everything." Among her ruined belongings were a new fitted kitchen, carpets, furniture and toys for her three-year-old daughter Kenza. Kathleen
