Oxford's park and ride sites will become "sweet shops for thieves" under controversial cost-cutting to scrap security at nights and weekends. Oxford City Council wants to save more than £300,000 from next year's transport and parking budget and is thinking
Are our councils losing their enthusiasm for park-and-ride? The system which Oxford pioneered in the 1970s and has been copied in towns and cities the world over, is slowly being dismantled. The root of the problem is Oxfordshire County Council's decision
After months of roadworks which traders claim led to a downturn in business, the "new" Cowley Road has been officially reopened. The opening signalled the end to the project, which had been partly funded by a £1m Government grant for road safety improvements
Animal rights activists campaigning against Oxford University's new £18m research laboratory were holding a demonstration today (Sat). The unit in South Parks Road was meant to open later this year and bring together all experiments under one roof. Scientists
In response to Ken Stallard's letter (Oxford Mail, November 23), I was delighted to discover, as part of study undertaken with the Open University, that BC and AD had been replaced in the course materials with BCE and CE (Before the Common Era and Common
So Oxford City Council has plans to install a wind turbine to help cut power bills (Oxford Mail, November 23). Perhaps it should go next to a councillor's house so that he or she can have the benefit of these so-called noise-free objects. The effect on
Yob crime in Oxford city centre almost quadrupled in a year, it emerged as the new extra drinking hours began this week. New police figures showed public order offences -- such as violent disorder, affray, threatening behaviour and being drunk and disorderly
Ban it! Stop it! Close it! Ban people from being young! Stop them from being silly! Close off all means of irresponsible behaviour for the young! No! Why? We've all been been young. We've all been daft. We've all done a 'Magdalen Bridge' in our time.
The vicar of Wantage, the Rev John Salter, is one of four new honorary canons appointed to Christ Church Cathedral in Oxford. He has been parish priest at SS Peter and Paul since 1992. Mr Salter is married to Karen, a hospital theatre sister, and they
Soldiers from Oxfordshire were called up to provide fire cover in the West Midlands as firefighters began the first in a series of strikes over changes to shift patterns. A team of soldiers from Bicester led the operation, which involved 242 Army, Navy
A biofuel pioneer who champions the use of chip oil in cars and lorries says he has received a "slap in the face" from HM Revenue and Customs. Mike Lawton, chief executive of Regenatec, based at Milton Business Park, near Abingdon, has invested about
Residents in Didcot are being warned to be on their guard after a spate of burglaries. Three homes in the Haydon Road area of the town were broken into on Thursday night while the owners slept upstairs. Thieves stole jewellery, car keys, chequebooks,
A conman claiming to be fundraising for a special school is targeting homes in Oxford, house- holders are warned. At least 15 people, mainly in the Headington area, have complained to police about a man knocking on doors and asking for cash donations
Half the people offered council houses in Oxford turn them down because they do not like where they are located. Oxford City Council makes about 1,000 offers of accommodation each year to those on its homeless list but 500 are refusing to live in houses
Cancelled operations have increased by more than a third at Oxfordshire's largest hospitals in the last year. Almost 1,200 people booked in for surgery at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust between October 2004 and September 2005 were told their
CORONATION Street's bullying bad boy Bill Ward has paid tribute to the "champions" behind Oxfordshire's new anti-domestic violence scheme. The actor, who plays bad lad builder Charlie Stubbs in the soap, officially launched the Reducing the Risk campaign
