UNEMPLOYED women are being given a chance to start up in business with a new course being launched today at Oxford Brookes University. The course is exclusively for women who have not had paid jobs for at least two years. Training will be angled towards
IT was party time yesterday as the Oxford Mail's new city centre office opened for business. Kirsty Ryan and Daniel Begley, both 11, who won a Cinderella panto competition with the Oxford Mail, cut the ribbon on the refurbished New Inn Hall Street offices
THE home of sex offender Paul Gunning has been smashed up and burgled in revenge attacks. Two lock-up garages where he kept property have also been raided. Police are investigating and appealed for witnesses. But no-one living near the privately rented
ANGLERS Peter Jones and Nigel Meehan were after nothing more dangerous than a few fish - when they spotted a puma up a tree. The pair got the fright of their lives when they went for a fishing trip to a lake at Oday Hill, between Abingdon and Drayton,
DISGRACED former prison governor Jogendranath Rajcoomar admitted supplying heroin after he was trapped by undercover police. Rajcoomar, 45, of Church Lane, Wendlebury, near Bicester, was sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1995 after being found guilty
OXFORD Gresham Cheetahs No.1 Australian ace Jason Crump, returned to the Oxford line up at Wolverhampton last night, just 72 hours after his horrific crash where it was thought he had broken his collar bone, writes LEON HILL. However, he was clearly not
A STROKE victim was stranded in his car for at least 16 hours and covered in flies by the time an ambulance reached him. The man, in his 50s, suffered a mild stroke while driving on the Wheatley to Great Milton road on Sunday evening and careered off
SICK holidaymaker Martin Hartwell is recovering from an operation after being flown home by air ambulance. Mr Hartwell, 46, of Saxton Road, Abingdon, is now being treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Earlier his relatives made a door-to-door
OXFORD student Ed Sheldon was walking on air after winning £40,000 on a roulette wheel in Australia. Ed's great adventure began when he bought a vodka and coke in the Chequers Inn off High Street and won a trip Down Under. The second-year history student
KEVIN Brock, sacked as Oxford City boss last week, is being linked with the vacant manager's position at Brackley Town. However, Brackley chairman Clive Lomax declined to reveal whether Brock was one of five applicants who are being interviewed for the
CAMPAIGNING war veteran Arthur Titherington today joined hundreds of others in a snub to the Japanese emperor. Thousands flocked to Horseguards Parade in London to see Emperor Akihito arrive on a state visit to Buckingham Palace. Among them was the 76
