Inspector Morse captured the best drama award at the Royal Television Society Midlands awards ceremony in Birmingham. The winning episode was Death is Now My Neighbour, which was partly filmed at the Oxford Mail offices. The episode ended years of speculation
A supermarket was evacuated after a gas alert at a chip shop next door. Shoppers at Budgens, in The Square, Botley, Oxford, found themselves being ushered outside after the alert at the neighbouring Delicious Fish Bar yesterday. Fire crews were called
A leisure centre manager has produced a damming report into the state of the swimming pool changing rooms. Geoff Cooper, of Witney's Windrush Leisure Centre, listed more than ten problems in a report which went to West Oxfordshire District Council's leisure
Grandfather Harry Starmer-Smith spoke today of his sadness after a hospital was forced to close a ward set up in memory of his grand- daughter. His family raised £400,000 to open an isolation unit after 16-year-old Charlotte died of a rare disease. But
FORMER Oxford United goal king Dean Saunders tortured his old club at the Manor on Saturday - both during and after their 2-0 defeat by Sheffield United. The Wales striker scored one goal and made one to give the Blades their first away win for nearly
A few drinks in a pub, the attention of young women, a little male bravado - and three weeks later five men were waiting in the wings petrified at the thought of baring all to dozens of screaming women. You may have thought the Full Monty craze was over
An elderly motorist died as wind and rain lashed Oxfordshire, writes Matt Childe. The 72-year-old man, who has not been named, was driving a red Ford Orion car which skidded off the New Yatt Road, in New Yatt, near Witney, on Saturday lunchtime. Despite
A FAST growing snack food firm is celebrating its first birthday with a boom in demand and jobs, writes David Duffy. A year ago The Delicious Donut Company was renamed The Fabulous Bakin' Boys with its aim to do for sweet snacks what Phileas Fogg did
Rover could face stiff competition from Jaguar in the race to supply cars to Government ministers. Most of the Cabinet have chauffeur-driven Rover Sterlings or Rover 800s. But with the present contract running out next June, there are indications that
Leukaemia sufferer Charlotte Johnson was today launching a range of badges and posters to raise funds for a charity which honours young achievers. Charlotte, 11, of Hollybush Road, Carterton, was one of just 150 youngsters nationwide to receive one of
Pranksters stole a £10,000 bust of Baroness Thatcher from an Oxford college and hid it in the bedroom of a rented house. The bronze likeness of the Iron Lady went missing from Somerville College, where the former Prime Minister was a student, over the
Outspoken TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson was today at the centre of a racism row after he allegedly made "bigoted" comments at the Motor Show in Birmingham. He is accused of making remarks to visitors at BBC's Top Gear stand that staff on the nearby Hyundai
Shy hero Mick Bedford won a bravery award - then insisted that his boss and branch manager should have shared it. The 41-year-old employment agency minibus driver did not tell his wife and children he was to receive the British Red Cross Care in Crisis
Oxford Utd 0, Sheffield Utd 2 By JON MURRAY THE combination of bad finishing and bad luck, so evident in Oxford United's midweek setback at Bury, continued at the Manor Ground on Saturday as they slipped to their second successive home defeat. To say
Having your weekly shop delivered to your door might sound like every busy women's dream, but is it all it's cracked up to be? Katherine MacAlister investigates... Internet shopping is the latest trend dreamed up by the supermarket giants. Aimed at the
