RESEARCH company Oxford GlycoSciences has signed a £16.6m five-year research deal with a US company to breed a new generation of plant seeds, writes Maggie Hartford. As well as an upfront payment of £7.7m, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, which specialises
A mayor has won the support of her town council opponent - despite being convicted of giving driving lessons for money without being authorised. Jeanette Rickus-Prosser put on a brave face the day after her conviction by hosting the Abingdon Mayor's charity
Joyriders wrecked a wall put up in front of a house to keep a family's cars safe from vandals. His Mum Mrs Carol Stimpson, 42, of Horspath Road, Cowley, Oxford, was left shaken when a car crashed into the wall outside her council house at 2.10am yesterday
Eighteen beds - complete with patients - will be placed in a market square next Wednesday (Sept 30) - to represent the impact on the town's hospital. The closures, which would lead to one of the wards at Abingdon Community Hospital being shut, have been
A mother staggered to a neighbour for help with a knife sticking out of her stomach after being stabbed by her mentally-ill son. Paranoid schizophrenic Nathan Davies attacked his mother, Lorraine, because he wrongly thought she was poisoning him. Davies
Council managers have admitted a series of errors after work to extend a park and ride car park cost £116,000 more than expected. The estimated price of extending the Pear Tree park and ride car park, Oxford, was initially put at £292,000 in July 1995
There are two schools of thought on Scrabble. Is it a lighthearted game to while away the long wintry nights or a deadly serious war of words? For a three-man team from Oxford Scrabble Club there was no question. The game was a verbal version of the World
Two shops in a town centre are closing down and another could soon become a kebab shop. Top Stitch and Yasmin's, both in Wallingford's High Street, will close within the next week and both owners say a lack of business is partly to blame. And the owner
UNITED'S AGM will be on Monday, October 19 (7pm) at the Supporters' Club. There will also be an open meeting for supporters on Monday, November 2 in the Supporters' Club. Managing director Keith Cox apologised for not keeping a pledge to hold an open
Landlord Timothy Ward is facing jail today after brandishing a rifle at three young drinkers in his pub's toilets. The trio were stunned when Ward, 42, landlord of the Queen's Own pub in Woodstock, burst into the gents' with the weapon. Yesterday he was
A multi-million pound project to help young people in Oxford was being launched today by employment minister Andrew Smith. More than £8m is to be spent providing training, employment and accommodation for young people in the city council's Millennium
Taxis could still be barred from most bus lanes despite a call from city councillors to scrap the idea. Oxford City Council's highways and traffic committee voted yesterday against banning black cabs for bus lanes in Banbury Road, Woodstock Road and London
Three disabled children and their carer had a narrow escape in a hit-and-run incident which left their vehicle a write off. The youngsters from Marlborough School, Woodstock, were left shaken and tearful after the crash on the Woodstock to Charlbury road
OXFORD United's players are determined to put Sunderland out of their minds as they embark on two vital home games in the next four days which will say much about their prospects of staying in Division 1. The U's hope to erase the memory of the club record
Lucky Star the cat has just used up one of her fabled nine feline lives. The 18-month-old pet survived a six-mile trip under a car engine, barely a foot from the ground. And it was only when driver Darren Mallalieu took his F-reg Renault Savannah into
