Bampton rally driver Dominic Hodge overcame a catalogue of near-disasters at the Pirelli Trophy Rally to finish a hard-earned 22nd overall and sixth in class. On a day that rewarded tidy driving over the high speed jumps and deeply rutted tracks of
Trout fisherman Steve Oxlade finally picked up a trophy he has been chasing for years. Oxlade has finished twice in recent years in the annual Roy Marshall Memorial boat fishing match held at the Farmoor II reservoir, near Oxford, which he won this year
A lecturers' union has threatened to take legal action if university bosses suspend the pay of staff involved in industrial action. Natfhe believes Oxford Brookes University would be acting illegally and plans to take a complaint to the Employment Tribunal
A woman who claimed she set fire to her flat in a pagan ritual gone wrong was yesterday jailed for three years. Patricia Swift caused £50,000 worth of damage to her Cherwell Housing Association home in Iffley Road, Oxford, claiming she was burning everything
Old hospital equipment is being sold to third world countries, private health firms and television companies to help Oxfordshire's largest NHS trust generate an extra £18,000 a year. Outmoded apparatus may be little use at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals
Arsonists torched four classrooms and caused thousand of pounds worth of damage in the latest fire attack on a school. Flames were seen shooting 20ft into the air as two of the first-floor classrooms at Bayards Hill Primary School in Waynflete Road
After almost 12 years of planning applications and a public inquiry, Oxford is set to have a new cut-price supermarket. Despite opposition from Oxford City Council, German company Lidl has won the right to put up its first store in Oxfordshire, in Cowley
Oxford University's complaints that contractors at its new £20m animal research lab were being harassed and intimidated were "exaggerated", a judge heard yesterday. Robert Cogswell, one of the founding members of campaign group Speak, said all he and
Fewer chips and more veg will be on Oxfordshire's school menus from the autumn, as the Government tries to stamp out the 'junk food generation'. New guidelines, introduced this week by Education secretary Alan Johnson, include chips being limited to
This was the picture of a near full-to-capacity Farmoor Reservoir yesterday when Thames Water announced it had decided to hold fire on imposing a drought order in Oxfordshire. The Oxford Mail photograph shows the reservoir at 98 per cent full, but it
A rapist who told his victim to stop screaming or he would punch her in the face was yesterday jailed for six years. Kenneth McGonagle, 22, had denied raping the girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, but was convicted by a jury at an earlier
Keith Mitchell, the leader of Oxfordshire County Council, has angered anti-car campaigners by refusing to participate in Oxford's Car Free Day, dismissing it as "silly tokenism". As its name suggests the annual event, organised by Oxford City Council
