A COMPANY making marine instruments has set up its new headquarters in Witney - about as far away from the sea as possible. TSS was set up 20 years ago by Philip Goymour at his home at Horley, during a spell working as an electronics engineer on marine
MERTON College has retained pole position in Oxford University's league table of exam results. But Balliol College has slumped from second to 17th in the table, after an unusually high number of low-grade degrees in last summer's finals. The Norrington
A TEENAGE girl lost five front teeth in a serious assault outside a popular Bicester nightspot. The attack outside G's winebar in Deans Court has increased police fears that the venue has become a magnet for trouble. The 17-year-old from Bicester was
DIVORCED Geoffrey Dewsnapp told his girlfriend he was going a 'long way away' before locking himself in a shed and shooting himself. An Oxford inquest heard Mr Dewsnapp, 59, who was found in December last year in a shed near his Westfield, Harwell, home
CAMPAIGNERS are calling for an Oxfordshire diplomat embroiled in the Arms to Africa affair to be knighted. Civil rights groups in Sierra Leone plan to march through the streets on Saturday in support of Britain's High Commissioner to the country, Peter
PET mouse Lucky was shaken and stirred when he was put through the spin cycle of his family's washing machine with a load of laundry. But the fortunate rodent was revived after his ordeal - by being tucked into a bra. The bra was worn by child-minder
JOCKEY Graham Bradley retained his pro-am crown at The Oxfordshire yesterday - and then sped off to Chepstow where he landed another winner. Holly's Pride, a 7-4 favourite, made it a fabulous double for Wantage-based Brad, who, partnered by Sweden's Robert
CHALLENGED to score 242 to win, Oxford University were sent spinning to defeat as Matt Rawnsley took 6-44 to steer Worcestershire to victory by 115 runs in the Parks yesterday. The students had earlier declared at their overnight 162-8, before the county
FATE struck a cruel blow yet again at the Benson and Hedges International Open this morning. Bedevilled by bad weather over the past two years, thunder and lightning hit The Oxfordshire to disrupt the opening day's skirmishes and put a question mark on
A WOMAN spent 33 years at an Oxfordshire mental hospital after being sent there because her mother wanted to keep boys away from her. Maureen Green was just 16 when she was admitted as a day patient to the Borocourt Hospital and left just five years ago
SOME of the world's tallest people will be in Oxfordshire next week for a guided tour of the Great Western Society's Didcot Railway Centre. The visit has been arranged by the Tall Persons' Club of Great Britain, which is hosting the International Tall
POLICE spent a tense 90 minutes trying to talk an armed man out of setting himself on fire outside a country pub yesterday. More than 30 officers were called to the Lamb and Flag Inn, in Faringdon Road, Longworth, after reports that a man armed with two
FARM caretaker Barry Brown attacked a disabled woman and a young girl with a walking stick after they went to ask him for a ride on some horses, Oxford Crown Court heard yesterday. Wheelchair-bound Janet Duguid and the 11-year-old girl, who cannot be
THE flag over Woodstock town hall flew at half mast as more than 200 mourners filled the church of St Mary Magdalene for the funeral of ten-year-old Naomi Sims. Naomi, described at the service as a 'special little girl', died after falling in the River
Riled rabbi criticises divorced duchess for trying to play happy families SARAH, Duchess of York, has been severely criticised by an Oxford Rabbi for her suggestion that children of divorced parents are better off having both parents living in the same
GEORGE FREW takes a look at the man behind the arms to Africa affair... PETER Penfold is a fully paid up, lifelong member of the Africa Corps - the Diplomatic Corps, that is. He'd been busy serving his country for 33 years, mainly in Africa, long before
WHEN Maureen Green's mother sent her to a mental hospital at the age of 16, it was not because Maureen was crazy, but to protect her chastity. At 15, Maureen had found herself a job in a pub and struck up a friendship with a black man. Her mother reacted
IT MUST have seemed so simple at the start. Move a few lanes of traffic, shift a tatty tyre depot, and let Oxford's Transport Strategy roll. That was before the eco-warriors arrived to spoil the party. The environmental activists presently resident in
