An inmate who escaped from an Oxfordshire jail by swapping identities with his cellmate was helped by a prison officer, a court was told. Oxford Crown Court heard yesterday (April 7) how convicted drug dealer Jamad Rad paid a prison officer to help him
Now that the council tax demands have plopped through the letterbox, the accompanying literature, when read together, shows clearly who are the villains of the piece as far as people on fixed incomes are concerned. In announcing a 6.25 per cent increase
A Wallingford man with learning disabilities has set off to achieve his ambition -- to climb the highest mountain in the world. Paul Sillitoe, 32, has climbed all over the world with the help of the MacIntyre Care organisation, which has looked after
A man indecently exposed himself to two girls in Thame on Sunday afternoon. Police are appealing for information following the incident when the girls -- aged eight and 12 -- were walking down Towersey Road, near Lord Williams's School, at about 2.30pm
A young Oxford United reserve team were on the end of an 8-1 hammering against Bristol City Reserves in Thursday's Pontin's Holiday Combinaton Wales and West clash. But the remarkable scoreline is all the more extraordinary as the sides were level 0-0
Sutton A have been crowned Didcot & District Table Tennis League Division 1 champions. They captured the crown after the challenge of title-holders Sutton B petered out as they fielded depleted teams for their last two matches. An Ian Packford maximum
The Wolvercote trio of Chris Woods, Andrew Stannard and Vincent Sessegnon all emerged triumphant at a show at Sandown Park Racecourse. Andrew Stannard connects with a rightWoods, 27, was in determined mood when he tackled Russian international Vladimir
Carterton's Baden Sparkes spurred his clubmates Sammy Timms and Dave Abbott to one of the biggest wins of the English National Indoor finals at Melton Mowbray. Sparkes and company sped out of the starting stalls with a five-shot blast against Billy McCay's
Graham Rix knows that Oxford United must beat Boston at the Kassam Stadium on Friday if the players are to stay upbeat about their chances of promotion. Graham RixTuesday's 3-1 defeat at Mansfield saw the U's slip to seventh place in the Division 3 table
Oxford City made a great start to their bid to return to the top flight of the Shaw & Co Oxfordshire Foursomes League with a whitewash victory in their Section 2 clash at home to Chipping Norton. City, relegated from Section 1 last year when they
Results from recent competitions in Oxfordshire SHAW & CO OXFORDSHIRE FOURSOMES LEAGUE Section 1 The Oxfordshire 2 (3pts), Ellesborough 1 (1) (The Oxfordshire first): S Hunt & J Shield bt T Lawson & J Coggins 1 hole; R Stubbs & J Groszek
Recent results from around Oxfordshire's clubs FRILFORD HEATH Ladies Coronation Foursomes qualifying round: 1 C Wadsworth & M Jordan 81-10.5=70.5 (cb), 2 A Payne & M Chaundy 84-13.5=70.5, 3 S Russell & M Snelling 90-17=73. OXFORD CITY Lillian
THERE'S an old saying about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. Royal Mail's dealings with its industry regulator Postcomm seem to prove the accuracy of this. It appears Royal Mail did not know that strike action is now a legitimate
A student who drove at a teenager and flung him from his car bonnet following a feud has avoided prison. David Fisher, 18, was banned from driving for a year and ordered to carry out 12 months' community service. Rufus Stilgoe, prosecuting at Oxford Crown
A group fighting Government proposals for an asylum accommodation centre has urged people not to turn to extremist political groups. The calls came after a High Court judge rejected a bid to stop the centre being built near Bicester. Mr Justice Collins
Swapping suit trousers for jogging bottoms and smart skirts for tutus helped raise £9,200 for the Oxford Children's Hospital Campaign. The cash was collected during Wallace and Gromit's Wrong Trousers Day last year, and will help pay for one of the classrooms
Two years of uncertainty over the future of three specialist schools has finally been lifted. The three schools -- Woodeaton Manor, Iffley Mead and Northfield -- all near Oxford, had been threatened with closure or mergers as part of cost cutting by Oxfordshire
Thousands want part in foundation hospital's fate By Victoria Owen Health Reporter INUNDATED: NOC chairman Joanna Foster and chief executive Ed Macalister-Smith with the applicationsPicture: Jon Lewis Order No. 216550 MORE than 3,000 patients have jumped
Traders, residents and councillors have issued a blunt response to a suggestion that Abingdon should become part of Oxford -- "hands off our town". Alan Lester, the former chairman of the city's Covered Market Traders' Association and an Abingdon resident
Union leaders reacted with scorn to Royal Mail's public apology to Oxfordshire customers printed in an advertisement in yesterday's Oxford Mail. The advertisement said: "Royal Mail today issued an apology to all its customers as the unofficial industrial
A man who was involved in many of the 20th century's technological advances, including radar and television, has died, aged 96. Walter 'Bill' Watton spent the last years of his life at Middletown Grange Nursing Home in Hailey. He was born in Eastleigh
Prominent Oxfordshire tennis administrator John White has died aged 92. Mr White, of Beckley, became chairman of Oxfordshire Lawn Tennis Association (OLTA) in 1991 and retired two years later, aged 81. His chairmanship in Oxfordshire came almost 40 years
Eight-year-old Jessie Warner, from Witney, and her pony Tiffany joined other riders in the grounds of Eynsham Park, at North Leigh, for the annual sponsored ride in aid of the New Yatt branch of Riding for the Disabled. Jessie Warner and Tiffany There
The principal of King Alfred's Community and Sports College in Wantage, Bernard Clarke, is leaving after six and a half years in the post. Mr Clarke, 59, leaves at the end of the summer term to become a consultant headteacher in Kent in September. "At
An Oxford scholar who devoted his life to the works of the Czech writer Franz Kafka has died. Sir Malcolm Pasley, who was for 28 years tutor in German,and a Fellow of Magdalen College, was 77. After being educated at Sherborne School and serving in the
Arena Essex 48, Oxford Silver Machine 46: An exciting KO Cup second leg match at Arena Essex last night was reduced to a farce by the referee. Arena won the tie 94-93 on aggregate. Leigh AdamsThe tie was on a knife-edge for the first half, but then in
Lee Keyes hit the winner as Star Wanderers lifted the OFA Sam Waters Cup for the first time in their 26-year history with a 1-0 win over Chinnor Exiles at Oxford City. Despite the blustery conditions and surface water in both goalmouths and the centre
The bronze sculpture of an ox that is set to greet visitors to Oxford United's Kassam Stadium looks more like a raging bull ready for a fight with a Spanish matador, according to the Deputy Lord Mayor. Littlemore councillor Gill Sanders said the proposed
As a retired post office manager, I am somewhat dismayed at the attitude of our local post office managers over complaints of harassment (Oxford Mail, April 5). These should have been dealt with immediately and not allowed to fester. The problem is that
Benches in Cornmarket Street, Oxford, to cost £30,000 each! I thought it was an April Fool's joke until I saw the date -- April 2. In this City of Dreaming Spires, it appears that our elected councillors have been asleep and are now waking up to the '
Your reports on the repaving of Cornmarket Street in Oxford make one shudder. But it is not alone! Not long ago, St Clement's Street was resurfaced, but is now collapsing into great depressions. All the county council does is to mark the depressions.
