GERIATRICIAN Dr Marc Budge is still recovering after being voted one of Britain's dishiest doctors. Modest Dr Budge, 39, who works in Alzheimer's Research at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, described himself as 'a reluctant customer'. But colleagues
ATTEMPTS to reduce enormous hospital waiting lists in Oxfordshire could be scuppered by GPs anxious to see their patients treated. Ironically, local doctors are placing more and more sick people on waiting lists for surgery - because they keep hearing
IT has been branded the silent killer. Odourless, colourless, it seeps into homes leaving no tell-tale signs. And now a new study has blamed it for one in every 20 deaths from lung cancer. The substance just described is the radioactive gas radon, which
Meeting of the heroes A FORMER fighter pilot has had an emotional reunion with the Frenchman who rescued him after he was shot down during World War Two. Air Commodore Sir Archie Winskill met Felix Caron at the spot near Calais where he parachuted out
GRESHAM Cheetahs already disappointing season in the top flight plunged to new depths when they lost 51-39 to Poole at the Stadium last night. A heavily overwatered first turn caused mayhem in the opening heat where Cheetahs influential No 1 Jason Crump
Love in-spired ANN Widdecombe, former Oxford student and Shadow Home Secretary in the making (perhaps), is a virgin (definitely). Let us make this perfectly clear from the start, since Miss Widdecombe has threatened to sue anyone who expresses any doubts
The WRVS is 60 years old - and is facing a crossroads. REG LITTLE reports... THERE wasn't much champagne when the meals-on-wheels ladies celebrated their big anniversary. It may be the 60th birthday of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service but for volunteers
EMBARRASSED Oxfordshire residents blush to think of the sight that greets visitors should they dare to use a public toilet in the city. Any tourist taking a break from the beauties of the Ashmolean or the Martyrs' Memorial to spend a penny may well regret
The battle to save a popular music teacher has really taken off. Oxford Airport bosses came up with the cash to allow Edward Feild School in Bicester Road, Kidlington, to keep part-time teacher Karen Lowe until the end of term And they delivered their
UNIVERSITY graduate Oliver Ward wept with relief after being cleared of raping a mum-of-three after a stag night. It took a jury more than four hours to find the 29-year-old not guilty of rape after a five-day trial at Oxford Crown Court. The 46-year-old
A RUSSIAN woman who flew to Oxford on an £8,000 trip to give birth at the John Radcliffe hospital has had a bouncing baby boy. Moscow lawyer Svetlana Bakharev, 31, and husband Dimitri, 27, became the proud parents of the 7lb 2oz baby on Wednesday. The
THE newly-formed Oxford City Ice Hockey Limited have been busy recruiting new players and former Oxford City Stars captain Scott Gough is first on the list. Gough is keen to resume his playing career after taking a two-year break. The search for a coach
Our heritage is crumbling THREE historic buildings in Oxfordshire have been named on a new English Heritage list of monuments in urgent need of repair through decay or neglect. Thame Park in Thame, Hampton Gay Manor House in Hampton Gay, near Bicester
GOLDEN oldie Frances Cripps, who has died aged 106, was a great character who loved life - including a diet of three gins a day. Mrs Cripps, believed to be Oxford's oldest citizen, spent the last ten years of her life at the Woodlands rest home, in Woodstock
A MUM has pledged never to rest until she finds the person who shot her son in the eye. An airgun pellet left Ryan McPhee blinded in his right eye at the age of nine. Heartbroken mother, Tisa Bolton, of Herald Way, Bicester, says the youngster is now
