Hyperactive children require huge amounts of patience, but Kevin and Caroline Fitzsimons's son took more than that. With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, slight autism and some major food intolerances, young Ashley was more than difficult. Now
ANDY Wallace claimed provisional pole position in his Ford-powered Riley & Scott for the Daytona 24 Hours race in Florida after the opening qualifying session. The Oxford driver, partnered by James Weaver and American Butch Leitzinger, headed a near
GOSFORD Hill lifted the Oxfordshire Schools Under 19 Football Cup for the first time since 1988 with a 2-0 victory over King Alfred's, Wantage in the much-delayed final at Faringdon Town. Gosford struggled to get their passing game together on the tricky
TOMORROW sees the most important match of the season so far for newly-strengthened Oxford City Stars. They meet Flintshire at Oxford Ice Rink in a match that will decide whether they extend their season into the English National League play-offs. Stars
PAUL Tait returns to the Oxford United squad for today's Division 2 game at Cambridge for the first time since sustaining a hairline fracture of his tibula against Luton last October, writes JON MURRAY. He is likely to start on the bench. Skipper Jon
Inventor Derek Jones is hoping the airlines will snap up an invention that could save them a lot of money, writes David Horne. The retired 64-year-old flight engineer has patented a simple exercise device to counteract the threat of deep vein thrombosis
Postal services in Oxford face further disruption after talks broke down again last night, writes Ben Lloyd. The unofficial strike spread yesterday to the Royal Mail's Cowley sorting office. Staff at Royal Mail House delivery office in Osney Lane walked
A grandfather has attacked rampant political correctness" at a swimming pool, after he was not allowed to take a family photograph. Keen photographer Bill Cosgrave, of Roman Way, Wantage, is furious that he was stopped from photographing his 18-month-old
Moves are now under way to use special new powers against youths suspected of the wave of arson attacks in the Witney area, writes David Horne. Senior police and local councillors met to draw up plans for anti-social behaviour orders which can be issued
THE launch of BMW's new Mini depends on combining the very best of the old and new, writes David Duffy. Forty-two years after the original Morris Mini Minor first rolled off the line at Cowley, the plan for the new Mini was to fuse state-of-the-art design
Sue Parsons is a woman with a mission. She is piecing together her family history and finding out all about her ancestors and the way they used to live. Sue, of Wallingford, is one of many people dipping into the world of genealogy by working out their
Traders today claimed a victory in their battle against the Oxford Transport Strategy, after council officers promised to clean up one of the city's historic streets, writes Andrew Ffrench. Broad Street in Oxford will get a facelift in the next 12 months
OXFORD Devils take on second-placed Reading Rockets in basketball's National League Division 1 at the Rivermead Centre tomorrow (4pm). Although leaders Devils cannot lose top spot, it is the series of three games between these two clubs which will eventually
HOT stuff! There are no other words to describe the classy greryhound line-up for the final of the 2,000 William Hill Trafalgar Cup at Oxford Stadium on Tuesday. So many leading fancies were eliminated in Tuesday's qualifiers that it soon became clear
KINGSTON Bagpuize lifted the Greene King Oxfordshire Indoor title with a three-wicket victory over defending champions Sandford St Martin in the final at Wantage Leisure Centre last night. Set 82 to win after restricting Sandford to 81-5 from their ten
Quills, Doug Wright's adaptation of his own play, has been directed as a bawdy pantomime by Philip Kaufman, rather than a serious study of the old rogue's predilections and peccadilloes, writes David Parkinson. Thus it stands in stark contrast to Peter
Vertical Limit begins with a pretty boy mountaineer and a pretty girl mountaineer, brother and sister, watching their father fall to his death to save their lives, writes Steven Baxter. But Daddy is the lucky one, because he gets to leave the film at
A student jailed for ecstasy-dealing despite his insistence that the drugs were "solely for his own use" has failed in an Appeal Court bid to overturn his conviction. Michael O'Hanlon, 20, received a sentence of 30 months detention at Snaresbrook Crown
The case against six football fans accused of attacking police was thrown out after a court heard that video evidence was missing, writes Rebecca Smith. Police witnesses disagreed over whether a video of the incident had been taken. When it could not
JOE Kinnear, who walked out of Oxford United this week after just 101 days as their transfer supremo, looks set to walk into second division rivals Luton Town as their new director of football. The Hatters, who have significant money to invest in new
