A SERVICE aimed at boosting the work of ethnic minorities in business is pulling out of north Oxfordshire. The Ethnic Minority Business Service, which has its headquarters in Oxford, has decided to close its Banbury branch. The chairman of the service
The end of daily traffic jams in Botley Road, Oxford, is in sight with partial resurfacing next week. The road will close overnight between the entrance to St Frideswide's Church and Ferry Hinksey Road from 8pm next Wednesday until 6am the next day. Workmen
A thief snatched an armful of sweatshirts and polo shirts from a sports shop before escaping in a stolen car. The man ran out of Giles Sports Shop in Alvescot Road, Carterton, shortly before 2.30pm on Tuesday with Adidas, Reebok and Nike garments. He
Pet collie Zeus almost lost his life by jumping into a brook filled with broken bottles thrown in by vandals. When 14-month old Zeus emerged from the brook at Cholsey playing fields he was pouring blood from a severed artery in his back leg and damaged
A dyslexic teenager's lifelong dream of taking up dancing as a career has been shattered by Oxfordshire County Council's refusal to award her a grant, her family has claimed. Distraught Johanna Beerling, 18, of Stockey End, Abingdon, looks almost certain
Window cleaners Kevin Rose and Colin Brown haven't looked back since The Full Monty. The film's soaraway success has brought a boom in business for the Carterton duo's evening job - hen nights with in-the-flesh male strippers. Oxfordshire's women seem
Waiting lists for two of Oxford's biggest hospitals have risen in the last quarter - bucking a downward trend across the rest of the country. Latest national figures show the biggest three-month fall in waiting lists in the 50 years of the NHS over the
The shabby, lop-eared, moth-eaten crew may look cheerful enough on the face of it, but these teddies are stuffed. They have been consigned to the rubbish bin of history, destined for the great tip in the sky or, more likely, Sutton Courtenay landfill
For new mums, the nappy world is as confusing as it gets. Every supermarket has a dedicated aisle taken up with different brands offering better fits, less leakage, child-friendly designs, different colours or nappies for boys and girls in different sizes
Shocked pupils at an Oxford school received lower A-level grades than they deserved after a blunder by an examination board. Four students at Magdalen College School were marked down in their German A-level. One student dropped two grades, while another
Global warming could be hitting water quality in the Thames Valley, a report by the Environment Agency suggests. The agency's most recent figures for water quality in England and Wales in 1997 show a drop in water quality across the country. The figures
A post mortem examination on Oxfordshire tourist Joanne Clarke, murdered by a suspected serial killer in the Bahamas, was due to take place today. Police spokesman Supt Arnold Josey said the autopsy was to be performed by Dr Cyril Wecht, a specialist
FIVE Oxford Cavaliers players have been called up for the Rugby League Conference squad. Skipper and scrum half Simon Hill, centre Paul Daly and forwards John Williams, Darrell Griffin and Graham Crane are named in a 22-man squad for the games against
From toilet makers to convicts - the Crapper family dates back to 1683. SUZANNE HUBAND reports... Ernest Crapper was delighted to help when he received a letter out of the blue from some distant relatives in Australia trying to trace their ancestry. He
A victim of the Titanic disaster, a High Sheriff of Berkshire and a wealthy landowner who shot himself - all are characters uncovered by two men who have traced their family trees back hundreds of years. Law teacher Bob Frampton, a lecturer at Abingdon
Daniel's story "I'll never forget the look on Daniel's face when he met Philip Schofield,"Jayne Watson remembers. "His face just lit up and he couldn't believe his eyes." Daniel is a six-year-old from Abingdon with aplastic anaemia. He spends most of
It was Britain's oldest and most overcrowded prison. One director-general of the Prison Service felt compelled to call it "an affront to civilised society". But there is no escaping the fact that Oxford Prison is heading up-market fast with the release
LEE Richardson produced his best snooker of the summer to book a place at Bournemouth for the Liverpool Victoria UK Championship in November. The Thame-based professional earned himself a guaranteed payday of £3,100 after defeating Michael Judge 5-1 in
The number of deaths on Oxfordshire's roads has rocketed by nearly a fifth so far this year. Statistics can lie even when it comes to even serious road injury figures, as county councillors were horrified to discover last week. But fatalities are one
Every time Vivien Haigh felt that familiar ache behind her eyes and stiffening of the neck, she would lie down and wait for the inevitable. For the next 24 to 36 hours she would often be prostrate, lying in a dark room and vomiting until her throbbing
