A terrified woman was dragged into a toilet cubicle and indecently assaulted. Police revealed today that the 45-year-old woman had been drinking with friends in Witney's Cross Keys pub on Saturday before catching a bus home. She stopped on the way to
A driver faces prosecution after a three-vehicle smash which killed another motorist and put her in hospital. Witnesses described seeing Carrie Francombe, of Hill Rise, Woodstock, swerve across the A44 just outside Woodstock and smash into a heavy truck
Rickshaws could soon be back on the streets of Oxford - with much more freedom to pick up passengers than before. Pedal-powered public transport was briefly introduced to the city back in 1995 - but disappeared a year later after the company behind it
Dedicated groundsman John Olley died just a few days after hearing he had won an award for tirelessly serving his village for 30 years. Mr Olley, 79, of Whitehall Lane, Checkendon, south Oxfordshire, died at the weekend following a short illness. He leaves
HANS Nielsen, arguably Oxford Cheetahs' finest-ever speedway rider, lines up in the Simon Wigg Farwell Spectacular at Oxford Stadium on Sunday, March 28. A delighted Wigg, a former teammate in Cheetahs' heady days of the 80s, said: "It's the news I have
THE Oxfordshire FA are charging a 14-year-old who struck the referee during the B-Line Oxford Boys League game between Carterton Town and Oxford Blackbirds on Sunday. The match was abandoned after 20 minutes following the attack. David Hovard, the OFA's
Protesters are planning to pull up genetically modified crops grown in Oxfordshire. Oxford-based campaigners were the first in the country to target so-called "Frankenstein foods" when they uprooted crops at a farm near Watlington last year. The recent
OXFORD United assistant manager Mark Harrison has shot down renewed speculation linking goal machine Dean Windass with a move to Nottingham Forest. Reports emanating from the East Midlands suggest that Windass is top of Forest boss Ron Atkinson's spring
Jacqueline Clark, who was seriously injured in a head-on road accident four years ago, has won an £80,000 compensation deal. The mum-of-two was a passenger in a Vauxhall Astra, driven by her teenage daughter Georgia, which collided with another car on
A MOTHER and daughter narrowly escaped serious injury when a hit-and-run driver crashed into one of their ponies. And riders are appealing to drivers to slow down after a car ploughed into the back of another horse, which had to be destroyed. The hit-and-run
Council tax payers will pay 8.5 per cent more for the services provided by the Vale of White Horse District Council over the coming year. The increase is well above the rate of inflation and also exceeds the Government's recommended increase level of
A former Unipart worker who stole £3,700 worth of car parts from his employer told police "everyone was doing it", a court heard. Bertram Beer escaped a jail sentence after stealing the car parts to help him rebuild his ageing Rover cars. Beer, 57, of
Gemma Simms meets someone for whom those trips to the supermarket are anything but boring Jan Bennett has one big love in her life and it isn't a man. In fact, it isn't a person at all. The 35-year-old mum-of-three is totally obsessed with the Tesco supermarket
