Events from January 17 . . . . SATURDAY Croft, North Yorkshire: Jack Frost Rally. 0132 572 1815. SUNDAY Wimbledon Stadium, London: Stock cars and bangers. 0208 946 8000. PF International, Lincolnshire: Club kart races. 0177 770 0323. Shropshire: Clee
A nursing home for elderly people combined with an office development will be built in Abingdon creating more than 100 jobs. The £3m development will go on an empty strip of land in Marcham Road. Work is expected to start in the autumn and will be completed
Teenagers who plague neighbours with noise, vandalism or harassment are to be named and shamed by Oxford City Council. Until now there has been a ban on revealing the identity of under-18s who are made the subject of an Antisocial Behaviour Order (ASBO
Oxford Hawks Ladies' successful league season was rewarded with a place in South League Division 2, after they secured the runners-up spot in an arduous weekend at the Inter-League play-offs in Guildford. Hawks faced four games in two days and got off
Oxfordshire put the disappointment of their Middleton Cup exit behind them with victory over Berkshire in the Home Counties League at South Oxford. Oxon triumphed by five shots and took the points 14-8 to avenge defeat in last year's fixtures, maintaining
Four golfers will be representing Oxfordshire, after winning the first round of the Oxford Audi Quattro Cup staged at Frilford Heath Golf Club. Playing as pairs, Jimmy Wilson and Alex Gavrilovic, won first place and Steve Lymer and Clive Brandram, were
Peterborough Panthers 47, Oxford Silver Machine 43 A thrilling night's racing ended with the Silver Machine just missing out on their third away win of the season at the East of England Showground last night. Peterborough did not take the lead until heat
Abingdon Town boss Paul Berry believes he has pulled off a "real coup" after former Oxford United winger Joey Beauchamp agreed to re-sign for the Ryman League Division 2 club. There had been speculation that Beauchamp, who netted 17 goals for Town in
A record attendance of 91,337 people helped make last weekend's massive British Motorcyclists Federation BMF Show one of the best ever! The previous best in the show's 44-year history was in 2002 when 88,528 came to what is firmly established as the biggest
A higher proportion of people are afraid to go out in the evenings in Didcot than any other town in south Oxfordshire. A residents' survey showed nearly half of Didcot's population thought it was unsafe to go out on foot at night. According to Feedback
A burglar plummeted through the roof of a conservatory as he tried to climb in through an upstairs window. It is believed the culprit, who then let himself out of the conservatory door, fell after being startled by the homeowner in Iffley Road, Oxford
Former BBC Director General Greg Dyke paid tribute to Oxfordshire scientist Dr David Kelly, saying the Butler report appeared to back claims that a dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction had been "sexed-up". Dr Kelly's apparent suicide sparked
Oxford's world-famous Pitt Rivers Museum has been awarded a £3.7m grant to build a new research centre next to its much-visited galleries off Parks Road. The museum, which has featured in several of Oxford author Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse novels
Pensioners in west Oxford are complaining that their television reception has gone down the tubes since work started on a new homes-for-rent scheme just yards from their homes. They say the pictures on their screens are fuzzy and constantly change colour
Oxford United's glamorous pre-season friendly against Chelsea on Saturday looks like being a near sell-out. But the club are unsure whether the attendance will be a Kassam Stadium record. More than 9,500 tickets for the visit of Jose Mourinho's side had
Citroen is introducing a new top-of-the-range version of its unique C3 Pluriel supermini convertible. Featuring leather upholstery, air conditioning and stylish 'aluminium' exterior trim, the newcomer is priced at £11,995, including £1,500 cashback --
Government plans for pay-as-you-go motoring have been criticised as "crude, unworkable and clumsy". The Department of Transport is looking at a nationwide congestion-charging system that would by law make it compulsory for all vehicles to be fitted with
Look beyond the initial purchase price, and you could afford a larger, or better-equipped, car. Experts say that if you work long-term ownership costs -- depreciation and running costs per mile -- into the financing equation, then you could aim for a
Peugeot launches its new small car next year, which it says will change the way small cars are perceived and experienced -- as did the introduction of the hatchback in the early 1960s. The 1007 will be the first car to use the new numbering system being
Brackley-based Team Veloqx will run two Audi R8 sportscars at Le Mans and Sebring this year. The move will allow Yorkshireman Guy Smith, 28, the chance to become the first Briton in almost 20 years to win the Le Mans 24 Hour motor race in consecutive
An ambulance crew who worked in horrific roadside conditions to save a man from a near fatal condition have been shortlisted for a prestigious award. Michael Lavery, 62, of Norris Road, Upper Arncott, near Bicester, said paramedic Emma Williams and ambulance
Italian driver Jarno Trulli is confident the Enstone-based Renault team can challenge Formula One's 'big three' this season and bring him the maiden victory he craves. Jarno TrulliThe 29-year-old scored 33 points last season, but was overshadowed by Spanish
Fraud investigators are hoping to claw back £1.66m which has been illegally claimed by Oxfordshire benefit cheats in the past year. Staff from the county's five district councils have been working with the Department for Work and Pensions counter-fraud
An Oxford academic, who had a distinguished career as a wartime bomber pilot, has died. Rupert Cecil, who was 87, earned a Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar as a bomber captain during the night battles over Germany, and went on to staff posts at the
Robert Burchfield, who took the Oxford English Dictionary into the 20th century, has died at 81. A New Zealander, he came to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship in 1949. The librarian of his college, Magdalen, was CT Onions, who had finished the Oxford English
Wallingford mayor Theresa Jordan will arrive in the town on a pedalo-style bicycle on Tuesday to boost fundraising for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. She will be joining Londoner Bruce Bennett for part of his nine-day 'bicy-cruise' down the
Three hooded youths who hotwired a dumper truck and rammed the gates of the Bullcroft Park in Wallingford have been condemned as mindless, drunken yobs. Mayor Theresa Jordan is appealing to anyone who knows the culprits to report them to the police. The
A company which wants to provide a multi-screen cinema for Witney says the project is still viable and will not be a drain on public money. The Wychwood Regeneration Company plc, based in west Oxfordshire, submitted a planning application to redevelop
Residents are uniting to fight plans for a major road they claim will destroy the peace of their Wantage estate. The proposed road is meant to ease traffic congestion expected when 2,500 new houses are built at Grove airfield. The road's likely route
Michael Biddulph, who has died aged 60, spread his talents widely as a journalist, public relations officer and university lecturer. While deputy editor of the Oxford Mail's sister paper, the Oxford Star, he was named Free Newspaper Journalist of the
Banbury Town Council is looking for a new town clerk to replace Tom Thompson who was jailed earlier this year for child sex offences. After 53-year-old Thompson was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison in April, the council decided to wait before
Ashley Walton certainly left his mark on the final qualifying rounds for the Open Championship - but not in the way he had hoped. The young amateur from Frilford Heath had a nosebleed in the second of his two rounds at Western Gailes and had to retire
At last, the Government appears to have realised that Oxfordshire schools are facing financial hardship. The £2.2m grant announced yesterday -- the sixth highest in the country -- will go some way to ease the pressures that many are suffering. But why
The face of the SEAT Altea, which will be backed by a £3m advertising campaign, will become the new face of the Spanish brand. The Altea went on sale in the UK on July 10 and SEAT has confirmed its looks will adorn the new generation Toledo and Leon models
CLASSICAL scholars will wince. As will moviegoers who had hoped the much-hyped epic might deliver more than armour, sandals and sunshine. This isn't a terrible film. But it could have been so much better. Director Wolfgang Petersen -- who has made a lot
Every once in a while, a film comes along which reminds us that originality, verve and invention are not completely dead in Hollywood. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is a breath-taking and stunningly unique romantic comedy, borne of the twisted
A post mortem into the death of a primary school pupil who died at Thame Leisure Centre has confirmed he drowned. Nathan Matthews, 11, a pupil at Stokenchurch Primary School, died after diving for a rubber ring at the recently opened swimming pool on
The number of patients suffering from potentially lethal superbug infections at Oxfordshire's major hospitals has risen by more than a third since 2001. But managers at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust said new Department of Health figures on
When Byron met Stendhal, and learnt that the great French writer had been with Napoleon in the invasion of Russia, he wanted only to know about the retreat from Moscow and every detail of the comportment of the Emperor. Byron's intense interest in both
