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Amanda Sykes, a jeweller from Dorchester-on Thames, has a slightly alternative tale to the usual went to art school/trained as a silversmith'-type story that one usually hears around Oxford Artweeks. Amanda, now aged 19, has not been to school since

I f you take a wander through Neave Mews in Abingdon, you could be literally trampling all over Giles Macdonald's handiwork. And amazingly, he won't mind at all. Because the work in question is a selection of poetry carved into the pavement, and he hopes

When you next admire the heraldic carvings which decorate many of Oxfordshire's buildings, you could well be gazing up at the work of Fergus Wessel (pictured), a stone carver based at Upper Milton, near Milton-under-Wychwood. After training as a potter

N ot long ago, my 11-year-old son admired some very realistic-looking carved sheep in the gardens of Woodstock Museum. So when I went to visit Pat Elmore's gallery and workshop at Longcot recently, I was delighted to discover that I had come

An interesting collective Artweeks exhibition, entitled 1982, brings together the work of artists still in Oxford with that of colleagues now living in the farthest flung corners of Britain. The exhibition celebrates the birth that year of a really

O xfordshire will be awash with visual arts this month as the annual Artweeks festival rolls around the county from May 13 to June 4. This annual open studio' festival has been going for 24 years and, in 2006, around 700 artists will be opening up

These days, you are more likely to find Roger Bannister on a golf course than a running track. The man who raced into the record books back in May 1954 laughingly admits to playing golf "of a sort", and seems far more interested in telling me about his

Two Oxford United fans have been banned from attending football games including the World Cup for three years after trouble flared at the U's final league match. Richard Mellis and Stewart Gallagher appeared before Oxford magistrates today, and admitted

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A woman has died following a four-car pile-up on the westbound carriageway of the A40, near Wheatley. The road, and the westbound slip-road from the M40, are expected to be closed until this afternoon, following the collision at 9.30am. Three casualties

Oxford lobby group Pro-Test today welcomed Tony Blair's decision to sign an online petition in support of animal testing. Pro-Test organised a march in February in support of Oxford University's new £18m animal research laboratory being built in South

CRICKET MINOR COUNTIES KO CUP Group match: Hertfordshire 281-7 (50 ovs, D Ward 105, S Lowe 84, S Laudat 3-60), Oxfordshire 159 (46.3 ovs, J Brooks 32, A Laraman 4-26). CCS HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Division 1 Banbury 153 (56.2ovs, C Haupt 72)

AIREY CUP 1st round Great Horwood 273-7 (M McStraw 142, S Willett 82, M Wright 4-47), Horley 184-8 (N Tarrant 44, C Jackson 43, D Taylor 37, M McStraw 4-43). Marcham 79 (E Howe 6-30), Shrivenham 80-1 (M Whale 40). Broughton 131, Hook Norton 12-2

Michael Schumacher insists his crushing defeat by Fernando Alonso in the Spanish Grand Prix is only a minor blip in his world championship challenge. The Ferrari driver could barely raise a smile after finishing second behind his Enstone-based Renault

Oxford driver Jason Plato, Gordon Shedden and Matt Neal shared the race wins in three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship rounds in front of both a bumper crowd and live ITV1 cameras at Oulton Park. Reigning champion Neal, in his Team Halfords

A deal has been reached to secure Formula One's future after Bernie Ecclestone and the five rebel manufacturers agreed terms. McLaren boss Ron Dennis revealed in Barcelona that all five members of the Grand Prix Manufacturers' Association are prepared

David Richards, principal of Banbury-based motorsport firm Prodrive and a former World Rally Championship-winning co-driver, will be reunited with former World Rally Champion Ari Vatanen at a rally car show, at Castle Combe Circuit, in Wiltshire, on Saturday

Matt McStraw smashed a brilliant 142 as Great Horwood crushed Horley by 89 runs in the OCA's Airey Cup first round on a rain-affected day. McStraw's terrific ton helped Horwood rattle up 273-7, Steve Willett chipping in with 82 and Mark Wright taking

Thame Town found it hard to break the stranglehold of a tight Burnham attack and went down to a three-wicket defeat in their opening game of their Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West campaign. Put in to bat on a slow Burnham pitch, Thame got

Kidlington learned a few home truths when they suffered a seven-wicket defeat by Gerrards Cross on their debut in Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West on Saturday. The reigning Oxford Times Cherwell League champions, playing their first match

In the early days of the Oxfordshire Constabulary, police walked or went by horse and cart. The first official bicycle was bought in 1894, at a cost of £15. The benefits of the bike were soon obvious, and from 1896, all ranks who used their own cycles

A low-scoring Home Counties League Division 1 derby clash between Banbury and Oxford was intriguingly poised when heavy rain caused an abandonment on Saturday. Hosts Banbury held the edge, with Oxford struggling at 82-6 in search of their victory target

Former Oxford United defender Sam Ricketts helped Swansea beat Brentford 2-0 to book a place in the Coca-Cola League One play-off final at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on Saturday, May 27. The 24-year-old left-back played the full 90 minutes of the

William Franklin has vivid memories of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in Japan at the end of the Second World War. The former Oxford man was just four miles away, a prisoner of war in a labour camp. He writes: "On August 9, 1945, I was working

When elderly people in Kidlington announced they were short of money, everyone got in on the act. Even children joined the fray by organising a "mile of pennies" in the village High Street. Christian Rippington, just two-and-a-half, left, was probably

A spectacular century by former Surrey batsman David Ward condemned Oxfordshire to a heavy defeat in their Minor Counties KO Cup tie against Hertfordshire at Aston Rowant on Saturday. Oxon, who had opened their cup campaign with a victory over Wiltshire

The budding young starlets set to hit the limelight in the country's biggest youth production have been announced. Oliver! supported by the Oxford Mail will showcase some of the county's finest talent in August. Hundreds of aspiring actors queued

Hundreds of runners are getting ready for action ahead of Sunday's Town and Gown 10k fun run. The race, held in aid of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign and sponsored by the Oxford Mail, is this year celebrating its 25th anniversary. It has raised almost

A bid to bring a £50m golf tournament to Oxfordshire is being put before funding chiefs at a crunch meeting this week and the Oxford Mail is giving its full backing to the campaign. The Oxfordshire Golf Club, near Thame, is bidding to host the Solheim

A BABY died after she rolled out of her parents' bed and was trapped against a wall while her mother slept. Marley Wallace's death on February 7 last year was a tragic double blow for her family, after her mum Kelly, 28, had suffered a miscarriage just

THIRTY-SEVEN people have reported their neighbours for breaking hosepipe bans in Oxfordshire at a time when rainfall is below average for this time of year. Thames Water introduced the restrictions across the region on Monday, April 3, in the face

DOZENS of operations scheduled for Banbury's Horton Hospital have been cancelled after floodwater swamped the theatre suite. Patients due for urgent surgery have been transferred to other hospitals in Oxford and Warwick. Non-emergency cases have been

HE CLAIMS to have seen spaceships soaring across the city's skies and crop circles 300ft-wide so it will take more than an official report to convince this Oxford UFO expert aliens don't exist. A confidential four-year study by the Ministry of Defence

CONSERVATIVES and Liberal Democrats gained seats in the Cherwell District elections last Thursday as voters turned against Labour. The Tories ousted two Labour candidates in Banbury, and the LibDems picked up one seat from Labour in Kidlington South

PLANS to scrap Oxfordshire Ambulance Trust look like going ahead in the face of strong local opposition. A major consultation exercise on whether Oxfordshire should join a new super ambulance trust showed little enthusiasm for the merger plan. Now

ADRIAN Flanagan, who is attempting to sail solo around the world, has suffered serious damage to his yacht. Mr Flanagan, who set sail last October in the hope of becoming the first person to sail non-stop around the world via the polar regions, was

We are often told by 'experts' that we need more young immigrants in the UK because we have an ageing population, and that without them, our economic system would collapse and there would be much poverty in the UK. Hold on, in that case, how come, in

A BLUEPRINT for transport in Northamptonshire over the next five years has been sent to county councillors and key transport agencies across the county. The 260-page document, which took two years to prepare, is a guide to tackling congestion, cutting

Sadly for county councillor Zoe Patrick, there is nothing wrong with my maths or my English, which is more than can be said for her logic and her memory (Oxford Mail, May 9). At the time of the county council budget debate, the excuse we were given

The Government can't say it hasn't been warned. New Labour's commitment to education, education, education has been all very well. But its relentless obsession with league tables and test results has driven headteachers in Oxford to the very brink

Television sports personality David Vine should feel at home when he judges the floats at Wallingford's Carnival this year. The theme for the big parade is Sporting Achievements. Mr Vine has commentated on hundreds of sporting events on both television

A housing trust has improved significantly and been given a one-star rating after an independent inspection. Cherwell Housing Trust, which owns and manages properties across Oxfordshire, is providing a 'fair' service and has promising prospects for

Oxford archaeologists have discovered a large and significant Roman burial ground on the site of a gravel quarry. Stunned experts had hoped to find a small farmstead at the site near Fairford, Gloucestershire, but instead discovered more than 100 graves

Football's coming gnome at a superstore near Oxford where staff are getting ready for World Cup fever. World Cup garden gnomes are selling fast at Asda stores across the country, and they are proving a massive hit with customers at the London Road store

Plasterer Jonathan Feltham has spoken about how he was almost killed by murderous Banbury nurse Benjamin Geen. Geen, 25, was jailed on Wednesday for killing two of his patients and almost killing 15 others at The Horton Hospital in Banbury. The nurse

A group which tries to link disabled people within their local community in the western Vale of White Horse is looking for a new voluntary organiser. Open Access, which was founded in 1991 and works together with Oxfordshire's social services staff,

Police yesterday defended themselves after complaints from frustrated drivers over the long tailbacks which built up after a series of crashes on the A34 on Friday. Drivers were stuck in traffic jams for up to four hours after the accidents, which included

Oxford University yesterday said it was trying to prevent exam disruption, despite threatened boycotts by lecturers. Fears have grown that strike action over pay could start to take its toll on students as the exam season looms. Some members of the

Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday declared his support for animal testing and attacked protesters trying to stop the building of a controversial Oxford University laboratory. Mr Blair announced he was taking the unusual step of signing a petition

A health watchdog in Oxfordshire has today called for a Government review into the "extortionate" cost of making phone calls to and from hospital wards. Patients told a survey conducted by Oxford's patient and public information forum that the Patientline

Doctors are looking for 150 volunteers in Oxfordshire to test out a revolutionary vaccine against bird flu. Scientists from Oxford University's Oxford Vaccine Group are hoping to recruit enough people including 75 who are over 60 to test two new vaccine

Every primary head who responded to an Oxford Mail poll believes school league tables are unfair and nearly half might take part in action to disrupt them. The county's 11-year-olds sat their Key Stage Two SATs (standard assessment tests) last week,