AN ABINGDON hi-tech company that has developed a world-beating device in the field of telecommunications is to receive a £5.9m cash injection. Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer, has invested the money in Bookham Technology of Milton
Showers will mostly clear away eastwards. It will turn cold in most places, with patches of mist or fog later in sheltered areas. Tomorrow: The Midlands will be damp for a while. Western Wales and south west England will be grey and drizzly, but southern
JON Townsend was sent off for a second bookable offence as an indisciplined Oxford United Youth crashed out of the Southern Junior Floodlit Cup 3-1 at Cardiff City last night. United's Ross Weatherstone, Jon Shepheard and Ben Henshaw were also booked
KIDLINGTON'S Richard Burns was today celebrating one of the best results of his driving career by winning the Network Q Rally of Great Britain. Burns, 27, who leaves Mitsubishi for the Banbury-based Subaru team next season, stormed home to win by 3min
A fourth defendant in the trial of six people accused of killing two Oxford youngsters in an arson attack has been found guilty of murder. The Birmingham Crown Court jury found Haq Nawaz, 31, of Ridge Road, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, guilty on two counts
Fingers are crossed for a brood of up to 30 rare tortoises at a wildlife park. Last year the Cotswold Wildlife Park, Burford, incubated a clutch of 40 Asian brown tortoise eggs laid by a pair of adult tortoises. A total of 33 hatched and survived. This
Two men and a youth carried out a string of robberies at 12 shops in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Buckinghamshire, including premises in Eynsham, Oxford Crown Court heard. Mathew Forrest, 24, Philip Huggins, 42, and 16-year-old Daniel Huggins admitted
Police are clamping down on fancy number plates - including those in italics - with on-the-spot fines for drivers. They are illegal and officers believe some motorists may deliberately use them to avoid detection on speed cameras. The crackdown is starting
Two members of a gang who kidnapped a man and carried out a string of armed robberies were jailed for a total of 23 years. They and a 16-year-old youth pounced on innocent motorist Ian Faulk in a motorway service station car park and took him on a terrifying
T'S not only Joey Beauchamp and Paul Powell who caught the eye of the many scouts and managers who descended on the Manor Ground for the November sale last Saturday when Oxford United beat Port Vale 2-1. United's managing director Keith Cox admitted last
It's coming up to that time of year again when tricky decisions have to be made, writes KATHERINE MacALISTER. Which set of parents will you snub this time round? Such is the storm that this question creates that pre-marriage classes now encourage couples
