NEWS junkies keen to find out more about how the county's media works will have an opportunity to find out more on Saturday March 19. The Oxfordshire Local News Campaign is holding a series of workshops aimed at informing people about how they can get
A boom in house building in Abingdon shows the town is a popular place in which to live and work -- and now a further 169 new homes and business units close to the town centre are to be built. The latest addition brings the total of new homes already
I would like to respond to Julia Colwell's letter about the Dancing Dragon restaurant in north Oxford (Oxford Mail, March 10). I was also there on Mother's Day with my two daughters, granddaughter and husband. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and as usual
The man running Witney's Screen at the Square says the cinema could close in 18 months because of the Marriotts Close redevelopment. John Richards said all six schemes shortlisted for going on the town centre site, in Welch Way, contained plans for a
John Richardson and Mary Darling (pictured right) took up their year in office as men's and ladies' captains at Bicester Golf and Country Club. The drive-in ceremony preceded a special Texas Scramble competition. The captains both produced good drives
Referee Chris Banks has described the fracas in the first half of Tuesday's Oxfordshire Senior Cup semi-final between Oxford United and Thame United as "handbags". Trouble erupted on 25 minutes when Oxford's Juan Pablo Raponi elbowed a Thame player after
Rutherford did what others can only dream of, by beating the seemingly unbeatable Forum A. Alf Davies, Neil Hurford and Glen Freeman each won two of their games and were just too consistent for the Division 1 leaders' younger players. Hurford and Freeman
Villagers are hoping they can keep their shop from closing down next weekend with long-term plans to form a cooperative. Residents have been working together over the past few weeks ever since owner Vincent Kilkenny put up a notice to say The Shop on
Arthur Smith, who has died aged 92, had a lifelong love of angling. He ran a fishing shop in Magdalen Road, east Oxford, and from the mid-1930s to the 1970s supplied anglers throughout Oxfordshire with tackle. He wrote the angling column for The Oxford
NHS managers have launched a recruitment drive for children's nurses to combat cancelled operations at the Radcliffe Infirmary. The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust said staff shortages on Coombe Ward, one of two at the Woodstock Road hospital's paediatric
It is a story that never seems to go away for the village of Southmoor, near Abingdon -- no sooner is the tragedy of the late Government weapons inspector David Kelly laid to rest than the the embers are raked over again. This time the story features
Burglary offences have plummeted by more than a quarter during the last year in Oxford. Oxford police said house and flat break-ins were down 28 per cent on the 2003-04 financial year, when the city saw a five per cent increase. During the last two weeks
Didcot Town's Loop Meadow Stadium is expected to be full to bursting for Saturday's big match against Jarrow Roofing. Didcot, who are just two games away from the final at White Hart Lane, smashed their ground record in the quarter-final against Bury
Oxford Silver Machine end a winter of doubt by entertaining fellow Elite League side Wolverhampton Wolves in an Air-Tek Challenge meeting at Oxford Stadium tonight. And promoter Nigel Wagstaff has made a rallying call to Oxford speedway fans to get behind
May I, through your pages, raise a query regarding piped music in public places? As at most shopping centres, we have played music, of various kinds, through our malls for more than 10 years. However, just as we are working on removing cigarette smoke
It's a familiar sight in Oxford -- motorists using bus lanes to beat the city's traffic jams. A bus lane in Banbury Road, Oxford But drivers who take this illegal short cut will have nowhere to hide from this summer if the county council gets approval
Chancellor Gordon Brown handed a huge pre-election sweetener to pensioners in yesterday's budget. With the Government under increasing pressure from a growing army of pensioners wanting more cash and smaller bills, Mr Brown stepped in by pledging free
It is a story that never seems to go away for the village of Southmoor, near Abingdon -- no sooner is the tragedy of the late Government weapons inspector David Kelly laid to rest than the the embers are raked over again. This time the story features
The Rev Colin Scott Jee, who was rector of Ludgershall, near Bicester, for more than 30 years, has died aged 72. Although Mr Jee retired in 1998 to live at Haddenham, near Thame, he was invited back to Ludgershall to attend village events and also to
Harry Wheeler, who has died aged 92, spent his whole working life in the newspaper industry in Oxford. He began as a printer and ended as a journalist in a career spanning 50 years. He started as an apprentice compositor with The Oxford Times at its premises
'Tell us what you want' is the message going out to young people in Wallingford in a survey aimed at helping the town's teenagers. Town councillors have asked youths to be sensible and consider the money needed when they put ideas forward, but they have
Oxford City Stars got off to a disastrous start in their English League play-off campaign, with a 6-4 home defeat to Cardiff Devils. However, the game appeared to turn on a controversial decision by the officials. With Stars leading 2-0 thanks to Dan
Autotype UTV League: CR MARKS Kirtlington reached the final of the Ridgeway Cup as they fought back to beat Supersonic Sunday 4-2, at Sutton Courtenay. Matty Aplin fired Supersonic ahead, before CR Marks levelled through Tom Green after their keeper,
Morrells of Oxford Sunday League: Cold Arbour kept up their Premier Division championship charge after fighting back for a share of the spoils against second-placed Highfield. The hosts dominated the early exchanges, but fell behind mid-way through the
THE announcement that cameras are to be installed in Oxford to keep bus lanes free for buses is long overdue. Too many motorists and lorry drivers try to jump the queues and save a few seconds by sneaking into them. It is an infuriating habit, not only
A new state-of-the-art health centre could built on a public recreation ground in Didcot. The town council is considering selling one acre of Smallbone Recreation Ground, off Britwell Road, for the construction of an expanded health centre to replace
Chamber of Commerce president Keith Slater fears the unsold Allders store could become a 'retail hole' in Oxford city centre. The future of the flagship department store and its 140 staff is hanging in the balance this week following Primark's shock decision
Security at the homes of distraction burglary victims is being tightened up in a bid to prevent them being repeatedly targeted. Police have teamed up with Oxford city and Oxfordshire county councils, fire service and trading standards officers to develop
Burglary offences have plummeted by more than a quarter during the last year in Oxford. Oxford police said house and flat break-ins were down 28 per cent on the 2003-04 financial year, when the city saw a five per cent increase. During the last two weeks
Four teenagers say they were left stranded a mile from home in the dark after a bus driver refused to drop them off at the right place. Ben Gilkes, 16, claims the Stagecoach bus he was travelling on should have dropped him off yards from his home in Park
It's a familiar sight in Oxford -- motorists using bus lanes to beat the city's traffic jams. But drivers who take this illegal short cut will have nowhere to hide from this summer if the county council gets approval to install CCTV cameras at key locations
With reference to recent water price hikes, Thames Water has the monopoly. The only choice some of us have is metered water or a standard charge. If there are many occupants to your household, it is probably cheaper to forget metering. Some people should
Chancellor Gordon Brown handed a huge pre-election sweetener to pensioners in yesterday's budget. With the Government under increasing pressure from a growing army of pensioners wanting more cash and smaller bills, Mr Brown stepped in by pledging free
Pupils in Oxfordshire have continued to perform above the national average for results in English, maths and science at the age of 14, according to Government figures. Results published today reveal that 73 cent of Oxfordshire pupils passed Key Stage
