The mayor of a French town has sent a personal apology to an 86-year-old Witney man after a British war graves cemetery was vandalised. Retired college principal Roland Wilcock was angered when the cemetery, at Etaples in northern France, was daubed with
A man wielding a golf club tried to attack a couple as they were walking home along an Oxford street. The man chased the couple after they passed him in East Avenue, off Cowley Road, shortly after midnight on May 1. They ran away, but the offender caught
City councillors are investigating links which could lead to Oxford being twinned with towns in the Middle East. Friendship links are being proposed between Oxford and Ramallah, a city in the occupied West Bank, and Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam in Israel
For the first time in nearly 15 years, Didcot will not have a May Queen. Previously drawn from among the town's brownie units, the May Queen and her attendants from the rainbow groups were chosen at the the annual May Fair. But at this year's May Fair
The entrance to one of north Oxford's busiest car parks will be made safer for pedestrians -- following a six-year campaign by a former Lord Mayor. Ann Spokes-Symonds has finally won a battle for safety measures to be installed in Diamond Place car park
Elderly people are being encouraged to remember the past as part of a new project. Teachers in adult and community education, social and healthcare professionals and cultural services workers are all to attend a special event in Thame on May 21, to learn
Witney's Somerfield supermarket relaunches on May 7, after a £1.4m investment. The High Street store is also creating 17 new jobs. The refurbishments include redecoration, extra lighting, more express tills and a larger selection of frozen and chilled
A Banbury man is awaiting sentence for possessing heroin with intent to supply. Christopher Sinclair, 38, of Marlborough Road, Banbury, denied the offence but was convicted by a jury on May 2. He was arrested in a lay-by near the Pear Tree interchange
The identity of a body found at former allotments in Barton, Oxford, has not yet been released. The badly decomposed corpse, thought to be a man in his 40s, was discovered on May 1. Police are not treating the death as suspicious and have said they are
Mystery surrounds the circumstances in which a driver died near Steeple Aston on May 4. The accident happened on the A4260 at the Hopcrofts Holt junction with the B4030 Enstone to Middleton Stoney road, shortly before 1.30am. His car is believed to have
A man who was due to appear in court on May 9 for a knife attack was found hanged at his home. David Gardner, 21, of The Royalty, Sunderland, had admitted unlawfully wounding Matthew Rhys Jones at a party in Marsh Baldon, near Oxford, on New Year's Day
Several arrests have been made by Oxford police in connection with drugs offences. A man in his early twenties was arrested on May 2, on a footpath near Falcon Close, Blackbird Leys, after he was seen acting suspiciously. He was arrestedby Pc John Batty
Bus passengers were left coughing and gasping for breath after pepper spray was set off. A woman was taken to hospital following the incident on Stagecoach's Oxford to Blackbird Leys service, as it drove along Cowley Road on April 30, at about 11.15pm
Young singers are being offered the chance to give their careers a boost. The 2001 Thames Valley Young Musicians' Platform helps young singers with local connections win promotional help and paid engagements. To take part, singers must have been born,
People from Oxfordshire will soon have the chance to read all about the county's historic treasures in a new book being published at the end of this year. The book is being compiled by the Friends of Archives Museums and Oxfordshire Studies (Famos), a
