Oxfordshire was in chaos today as damage wreaked by a night of heavy storms brought the county to a virtual standstill. Ten schools were closed, houses and a factory in Didcot were flooded after torrential rain, and police were warning people not to travel
Protesters will get the chance to voice their objections to county council staff over plans to move a school. Residents of Jericho, Oxford, are worried about plans to relocate SS Philip and James First School to Aristotle Lane because they fear a narrow
Ryman League, Dr Martens League, Football League Youth Alliance, Cherry Red Records Hellenic League _______________ RYMAN LEAGUE Div 1: Staines Tn 2, Thame Utd 1; Worthing 1, Oxford C 5. Div 3: Abingdon Tn v Witham Tn pp. _______________ DR MARTENS LEAGUE
Giles Sports Witney Boys League Friendly East League: Bloxham 7, Kingham Jnrs 0; Chesterton Jnrs v Steeple Aston pp; Cumnor Minors 2, Launton 0; Deddington 0, Highfield 6. West League: Carterton Rgrs v Wychwood pp; Carterton Rgrs 2, Witney Vikings 1 ;
Reading 4, Oxford Utd 3 - match report Oxford United so nearly shocked high-flying neighbours Reading in a pulsating derby at the Madejski Stadium. They twice came back from a goal down, before being cruelly caught by two goals in the last 12 minutes
Pensioners were due to brave the rain today to lobby councillors over plans for a huge rise in their bus fares. Demonstrators were due to protest outside Oxford Town Hall, in St Aldate's, as members of the city council's highways and traffic committee
Russian visitors felt at home during a whistle-stop tour of south Oxfordshire. Neville Harris, chairman of the Wantage constituency Labour Party, said: "They were captivated by our countryside and said it was similar in some ways to parts of the Perm
Two drivers escaped serious injury in a crash on the M40 between Ardley and Banbury at about 10.15pm on Saturday. One of the cars was overturned in the crash, but the two men involved walked free from the wreckage. Both refused medical treatment by ambulance
The chairman of Oxfordshire's acute hospital trust is retiring after helping the organisation become one of the largest in the country. Peter Bagnall will officially leave the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals on Tuesday, October 31, after seven years in office
Cyclists using Oxford's busy Woodstock Road could soon be a lot safer. Oxfordshire County Council was due to meet today to vote on plans for a cycleway along the western footway of the road, between Bainton Road, and the existing cycle track in Blenheim
Oxford Cheetahs' penultimate Elite League clash at Belle Vue, scheduled for yesterday, was called off on Saturday because of a waterlogged track. The fixture will now take place on the orignal date tonight (Monday) at 7.30pm, weather permitting. Oxford
Cherry Red Records Hellenic League: Headington Am 3, Clanfield 2 Clanfield were three down after goals in the eighth, 14th and 27th minutes, during which time their hosts missed a penalty and might have been awarded another. A slight adjustment to the
Complete Music Challenge Cup: Kidlington 1, Tuffley Rovers 3 Kidlington bowed out to Premier Division Tuffley but put up a strong performance. The held the score to 0-0 at half-time and Kidlington should have been ahead when Frazer Gills's free kick hit
Complete Music Challenge Cup: Wantage Tn 0, Abingdon Utd 4 - match report Mark Simms kept his feet to score a hat-trick while others slipped and slithered around him as Abingdon convincingly beat their near neighbours. Neil Bridges brought a full-length
George Frew meets the Irish comedian who plays the Oxford Playhouse on October 30 Ed Byrne is on the road and the recorded voice of The Electronic Woman is rattling around his hire car. "You-are-travelling-westbound- on-the-M6," she announces, in Dalek-like
Weekend scores, October 28-29 _______________ ENGLISH NATIONAL LEAGUE Div 1: Moseley 16, Henley 12. _______________ ENGLISH CLUBS CHAMPIONSHIP Midlands Div 1: Banbury 6, Leicester Lions 12. South West Div 2 East: Witney 3, Chinnor 22. Southern Counties
Cherry Red Records Hellenic League: Ardley 2, Letcombe 0 Letcombe, despite missing four regulars, created good chances in a goalless first half, but this Division 1 match was decided just after half-time. James Simms was injured and, before Letcombe could
Suburban League, Courage Combined Counties League, Oxfordshire Senior League SUBURBAN LEAGUE Premier Div: Oxford City Res 2, Walton & Hersham Res 3. ____________________ COURAGE COMBINED COUNTIES LEAGUE Premier Cup 1st round: Raynes Park Vale v AFC
Beat bobbies and senior police officers will attend a public meeting in Grimsbury, Banbury, to listen to residents' opinions and discuss ways of solving the problems. Sgt Paul Whitty said: "Grimsbury is a lively and mixed community where locals are usually
Photographers arrived under cover of darkness at Didcot Railway Centre with tripods strapped on their backs and every type of gadget. The centre stayed open late at the weekend for the Great Western Society's annual steam nights when locomotives were
A company which makes plasma torches used to heat steel and waste products has gained a prestigious quality award, writes Sarah Parker. Tetronics, based in Faringdon, has less than 30 employees, yet over the last 35 years it has become a world leader
Gene therapy company Oxford Biomedica is to be the first in the UK to use new high-speed software for analysing the human genome, writes Maggie Hartford. Oxford Biomedica, based at Oxford Science Park, will licence the GenoMax system, developed by Informax
Multimedia publisher Helicon plans to double in size during the next nine months and move to a new building in Oxford, writes Maggie Hartford. Helicon, a subsidiary of WH Smith, has bought two large databases of atlases and maps to produce books and CD-Roms
A rock legend is to give an acoustic performance in an Oxfordshire restaurant. Wild Willy Barrett, who has worked with U2, Sting, Squeeze and Madness, will give a concert at The Crooked Billet in Stoke Row. It may not be the biggest rock venue in the
Firefighters attended three car fires in the early hours of Saturday. A car was set alight on a sports field in Cuddesdon Way, Blackbird Leys. Firefighters from Slade Park put the blaze out. Meanwhile, Rewley Road firefighters attended a blaze in a car
A Royal Navy officer played a major part in a dramatic operation to rescue two fisherman to safety. Lieutenant Jason Mullen, of Faringdon, who is second-in-command on the Royal Navy minehunter HMS Berkeley, was one of three sailors who boarded the fishermen's
Terrorists behind eight bombs found in Oxfordshire earlier this year may have bought parts for the devices from an Oxford shop, writes Emma Henry. Dozens of brass plumbing parts, the same as those packed into the Freeland bombs, were bought in mid-July
Ten-year-old Sophie Connolly has already started to fulfil her dream of breaking into showbusiness, writes Madeleine Pennell. A BBC crew has filmed her for the series The Pocket Guide to Parenting and she has just auditioned for the top TV shows Grange
OOMF! Oxfordshire's Own Millennium Festival was one of the highlights of the year. The huge event in July in South Park, Oxford, involved more than 2,000 participants and attracted more than 50,000 spectators. The feast of stunning scenery, magical processions
Rain, wind and mud failed to stop thousands of revellers turning out to support Oxford's biggest fireworks display. The Saturday event organised by Oxford Round Table was threatened with a disastrous turnout as heavy rains and gale force winds descended
A mature student from East Hagbourne joined about 170 others for a grand Open University degree ceremony in Brussels. Nicholas Stainforth, 56, received a BA (Hons) after studying humanities and history for six years. The Open University, which is now
Lord Jersey FA, FA County Youth Cup, Morrells Oxford Sunday League _____________ LORD JERSEY FA Jersey Cup 1st round: Merton 8, Abba Ath 2; Islip 1, Chesterton 4; Steeple Aston 6, The Tally 1; Finmere 2, BSC Bardwell 3; KEA Utd v Heyford Ath pp. Divs
B-Line Oxford Boys League Under 10 League A: Wheatley v Kidlington pp; St Edmunds 12, Northway 1; Cumnor Minors 1, Grove 6; Berinsfield 1, Horspath 7; Abingdon 5, Didcot A 2. League B: Botley 4, Crowmarsh 3; Bullingdon 4, Cholsey 5; Littlemore 2, Garden
RT Harris Oxford City FA, Witney & District FA, North Berks League RT HARRIS OXFORD CITY FA Premier Cup Group A: AFC Jericho 6, Fairview 2; Cowley Workers 8, Barton 1. Group B: Old Headington 3, Blackbird Leys 4; Quarry Nomads 4, North Oxford 5. Doug
POLICE are appealing for witnesses after a fight broke out following a televised football match, leaving one man badly injured. Eight men, some wearing Manchester United shirts, were involved in the fracas in Wallingford High Street. But the injured man
Beat bobbies and senior police officers will attend a public meeting in Grimsbury, Banbury, to listen to residents' opinions and discuss ways of solving the problems. Sgt Paul Whitty said: "Grimsbury is a lively and mixed community where locals are usually
Complete Music Challenge Cup: Bicester Tn 0, Highworth Tn 6 Bicester were hit for six at home to Highworth, who were two goals up at half-time through Miller and Moss. Moss added a second after the break and others followed from Holt, Webb (pen) and Etherington
Cherry Red Records Hellenic League: Middle Barton 1, Easington Sp 1 (abandoned after 45 mins) Both sides put up a creditable performance in torrential rain before the referee deemed it unsafe to continue. Ian Fraser had scored for Middle Barton, and Steve
Complete Music Challenge Cup: Carterton Tn 2, Quarry Nomads 0 Three players were sent off as Carterton overcame Division 1 Quarry in dreadful conditions with a goal in each half of Saturday's first-round tie. Paul Sherwood put Carterton in front in the
Complete Music Challenge Cup: Didcot Tn 4, Drayton Wanderers 0 Didcot eased into round two with a comfortable win against their Division 1 opponents in monsoon conditions. Playing into the gale in the first half, Town still managed to create the majority
Complete Music Challenge Cup:Eton Wick 1, North Leigh 4 North Leigh mastered their Division 1 opponents and the atrocious weather conditions in a bad tempered cup tie. Andy McCabe gave the visitors a fourth-minute lead and Justin Timms made it 2-0 courtesy
Oxfordshire's Tim Henman slumped to a disappointing defeat at the hands of Thomas Enqvist in the semi-final of the Swiss Indoor tournament in Basle. Henman, who had been chasing back-to-back tour victories after winning the CA Trophy in Vienna a fortnight
Weekend October 28/29 ________________ ENGLISH LEAGUE Div 2: Nottingham 4, Oxford Univ 2; Oxford Hawks 2, Bromley 2. ________________ SOUTH LEAGUE Middlesex, Berks, Bucks & Oxon: City of Oxford 1, PHC Chiswick 5. Area Div 2: Witney 1, Chalfont St
Autotype UTV League, Elsevier Youth League ________________ AUTOTYPE UTV LEAGUE B & B Sunday Junior Cup: Chilton 1, Buckland 5; Chequers Cholsey 4, Red Lion Sunday 3. B & B Sunday Junior Trophy: Didcot Lab v Partick pp; Bell Grove v JPs pp; Brewery
County Club Bicester A lifted themselves to the head of the Oxford and District League Premier Division with an emphatic 5-1 victory on their visit to the Rileys Snooker Club in Oxford. Bicester's Jimmy Ewers dropped the opening frame to Dan Ganter 62
Controversial MP Shaun Woodward has stirred another hornets' nest - by bidding for 62,000 Government cash for work on his 4m country estate, writes David Horne. The MP for Witney - who switched from Conservative to Labour last December - explained why
A new art gallery that opened in Oxford in June is already proving to be a huge success, writes Sarah Parker. Run by Phoebe Tulip and Joanna France, the Taurus Gallery in North Parade Avenue, was opened to offer a wide range of contemporary art objects
Robotic light sensors made by an Abingdon company have been bought by four car factories worldwide, writes Maggie Hartford. The sensors, made by Oxford Sensor Technology, of Abingdon Business Park, allow windscreens to be fitted while vehicles move along
A ten-year-old schoolgirl will mark her family's long links with an Oxford college by giving a royal welcome to the Queen next week. Melissa Worrell will present a posy when the Queen visits Oriel College on November 8 to open a purpose-built student
A drug addict admitted breaking into two colleges and handling goods stolen from burglaries to fund a heroin habit. Gareth Long, 22, of Bassett Road, Barton, Oxford, pleaded guilty at Oxford Crown Court to handling an electronic organiser and holdall
Rain, wind and mud failed to stop thousands of revellers turning out to support Oxford's biggest fireworks display. The Saturday event organised by Oxford Round Table was threatened with a disastrous turnout as heavy rains and gale force winds descended
Suicide rates shot up as a direct result of the death of Princess Diana, according to an Oxford University professor. A study led by Prof Keith Hawton, an expert on suicide, revealed the increase was particularly marked among women in the princess's own
Protesters will get the chance to voice their objections to county council staff over plans to move a school. Residents of Jericho, Oxford, are worried about plans to relocate SS Philip and James First School to Aristotle Lane because they fear a narrow
Caretaker manager Mike Ford believes Oxford United need five or six new players to get out of trouble at the bottom of Division 2. The U's caretaker manager, never afraid to speak his mind, said after Saturday's defeat at Reading: "We need half a team
