A DRUG being denied to young cancer victims could save the lives of 20,000 women a year, Oxford researchers have revealed. Tamoxifen is rarely given to young victims of breast cancer because doctors believe it does not help pre-menopausal women because
A GANG of youths who terrorised foreign students in Kidlington have been told to expect a lengthy term behind bars. Kevin Moffitt, 18, and two youths, aged 17 and 14, were convicted of robbing an Italian teenager, in High Street, Kidlington, on July 12
INDIAN restaurant owner Aziz-Ur-Rahman is very proud that British band Radiohead often eat at his curry house when they return home to Oxford. They are not the only famous people to drop in to the Aziz Indian Cuisine, in Cowley Road, which has just been
WEST Witney Ladies will be attempting to bring Oxfordshire their first national club veterans title when they compete at Sunday's 1998 Vete-rans Championship at the National Hockey Stadium, Milton Keynes. Witney, who won the Oxon veterans championship
THE magic of C.S. Lewis has been remembered in a corner of Oxford that for decades bewitched the great children's story writer. Eighty of Lewis's friends and admirers gathered at Magdalen College to unveil a stone, marking the 100th anniversary of his
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
MUM-in-a-million Valerie Dennis went to hell and back when her son Lee was seriously injured in an accident - but winning a makeover made her smile once again. The mum of three was nominated in our Mother's Day competition by her 11-year-old daughter
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
OXFORD city centre will be pedestrianised within 12 months now the city's transport strategy has been given the green light. The often-controversial Oxford Transport Strategy has been in the pipeline for seven years and was the subject of a 17-day, £200,000
Jan couldn't fall apart because of her young son, who needed her. FIONA TARRANT reports... THREE years ago, Jan Harvey, a former Oxfordshire Businesswoman of the Year, had to ring the Samaritans first thing every morning. "I had to ask them for a reason
A FAMILY is facing ruin after being told it will cost £6,500 to fly a sick relative home from Ibiza. Martin Hartwell, 46, was taken ill with an angina attack while on holiday on the Mediterranean island. He and his family expected his return home in an
THIRTEEN firms line up next month as finalists in the Oxfordshire Business of the Year Awards, writes David Duffy. The awards are now in their fourth year and have become firmly established as the premier awards recognising excellence in the county, with
AMBULANCE crews and motorists risked their lives to save two people after two cars collided head on, killing their drivers, it was revealed today. Passing motorists stopped and pulled one woman clear of a Jaguar. Then paramedics arrived and rescued a
QPR FOOTBALLER Karl Ready was kicked and punched in a drunken street brawl. Mr Ready, and a friend, Robert Thomas, were attacked in Bicester's Market Square in November last year. Stuart Gardiner, 26, of Pearce Way, Thame, admitted two charges of assault
SKIPPER Rupert Evans will be missing through injury when Oxfordshire take on Huntingdonshire in their opening group game of the revamped MCC Trophy at Kimbolton School, Cambridge on Sunday. Evans, who has not played for Oxon since rupturing his Achilles
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
A BAND of relatively unknown Brits called the tune at The Oxfordshire on a day when an appearance by Wet, Wet, Wet would have been most apt! Once the impressively lush fairways had been doused by the morning's unwelcome rain, it was another Scottish talent
WHEELIE bins are pushing people into creating waste mountains, it has been claimed. While most parts of Britain are desperate to cut back on rubbish going into the ground, Oxfordshire's wheelie bins seem to be literally encouraging more waste. Experts
