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  • City parking income hits record levels

    Drivers in Oxford paid out £5.1m in parking charges and fines last year - equivalent to £14,000 a day. Figures released by Transport Minister Tony McNulty revealed the annual revenue from city car parks, including fines imposed in them, is £1.2m higher

  • Football: Swindon are smarting

    United chairman Firoz Kassam said a major consideration in signing Tommy Mooney was the hurt it would cause arch rivals Swindon Town! Firoz KassamAnd the Swindon fans' websites seem to back him up. Many are furious that the 32-year-old, who many consider

  • Tennis fixtures

    Fixtures for the weekend, July 10-11 SATURDAY_______________ WILSON OXON LTA LEAGUE 3-PAIR LEAGUE Ladies' Div 2: Thame v Banbury, Oxford Sports B v Woodstock B. Div 3: Woodstock C v Cholsey B. Men's Div 1: Abingdon v Cholsey, North Oxford v North Oxford

  • Cricket fixtures

    Weekend fixtures for July 10 and 11, 2004 . . . . SATURDAY__________ IC3 HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Div 1: Banbury v Henley, Oxford v Radlett. Div 2 West: Thame Tn v Aston Rowant. THE OXFORD TIMES CHERWELL LEAGUE Div 1: Bicester & N Oxford v Banbury

  • Killer gets 4 years for prison kidnap

    A man serving eight years imprisonment for manslaughter has had his sentence increased by half after holding a female prison warden hostage at Bullingdon Prison, near Bicester. Londoner Albert Reid, 39, was jailed in 2000 for the manslaughter of 39-year-old

  • Boy, 13, arrested for dealing drugs

    A 13-year-old boy has been charged with drug dealing at a school which has an on-site police officer. The teenager, who has not been named, was arrested in March in connection with supplying cannabis at Chipping Norton School after teachers alerted police

  • Man told to pay £10k to Ball attack victim

    A man who flew from America to attend an Oxford University ball has been ordered to pay £10,000 compensation to a fellow student he repeatedly punched during a drunken row. Zarembsky leaving Oxford Crown Court on July 9 Russian-American Ilya Zarembsky

  • Councillor, 38, dies of cancer

    Mike Woodin, leader of the Green Group on Oxford City Council and a candidate in the European elections last month, has died from cancer at the age of 38. Mike Woodin Dr Woodin, a don at Balliol College, where he lectured and tutored on psychology, had

  • Mini drives BMW into Green Belt

    Demand for the popular Oxford-built Mini has meant the car has outgrown the Cowley plant, forcing BMW bosses to apply for permission to extend into the Green Belt. BMW want to build on the land at the bottom right of this picture Managers have made a

  • Cricket: Wise back for Twenty

    The Oxford Times Cherwell League preview: Former Oxfordshire opening batsman David Wise returns for Banbury Twenty, who travel to leaders Bicester & North Oxford in Division on Saturday (July 10). Neil Harrison also comes into the side, but Twenty

  • Cricket: Haupt unhappy

    CRAIG Haupt has hit out at the two-match suspension imposed on him for an incident in last month's Home Counties Division 1 game against Radlett, writes RICHARD TILLEY. Banbury's star batsman was banned after raising his bat to wicket-keeper David Hanson

  • Community campaign gathers momentum

    Scores of people have declared their support for a campaign aimed at halting the decline of Oxford's community spirit. Almost 100 people turned up to learn more about moves to put the heart back into local life at a public meeting at the St Clement's

  • Former football pro jailed for burglaries

    A former professional footballer - turned serial thief - has been jailed after admitting more than 170 thefts and burglaries. Nicky James, 24, of Lineker Court, Oxford, was once on the books of Wimbledon FC, but after a car crash wrecked his chances of

  • Greyhounds: Stadium 'not for sale'

    Oxford Stadium is not for sale - that's the defiant message from Greyhound Racing Association managing director Clive Feltham. Alaskan Night runs at The StadiumIt comes in the wake of the collapsed deal involving American-based BLB Investors, who were

  • Football: Roget's raring to go!

    Oxford United's new centre back, Leo Roget, says he can't wait to play for an ambitious team again after three years of sterility at Stockport, Brentford and Rushden. The 6ft 1in defender's free transfer move to the Kassam Stadium on Wednesday was overshadowed