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Click on the link above to see cinema listings. Corn Exchange, Newbury: The Little Polar Bear II, U, Mon 10.30am. Chicken Little, U, Wed 10.30am. Box office 01635 522733. Corn Exchange, Wallingford: Alien Autopsy, 12A, Fri, Tue-Wed 7.30pm. Box office

X marks the spot . . . where director Brett Ratner (Rush Hour) reduces the X-Men to a soulless, brainless clatter. The third and final film in the series X-Men: The Last Stand reduces the epic battle between good and evil to a barrage of computer-generated

Disney's computer-animated romp The Wild bears more than a passing resemblance to Madagascar, the 2005 film set in a New York zoo where the animals talk to one another when the human visitors are out of sight. Like its predecessor, it throws together

Banbury's Subaru World Rally Team drivers Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson finished ninth and tenth in the seventh round of the World Rally Championship in Sardinia. Solberg had been chasing sixth place when his Impreza suffered a bent steering arm

Andy Priaulx's triumphant homecoming as World Touring Car champion turned into a damp squib when he threw away victory at Brands Hatch. The Guernsey-born driver arrived in Kent with a narrow championship lead, but that brought with it a hefty weight

ASTON Rowant 2nd proved too strong for Stanton St John Willows as they eased home by 140 runs. Andrew Levick hit 76, Leigh Lewis 41 and Dave Brooks 47 in Rowant's 219-8, Hussain Abidi taking 5-100. Willows then subsided to 79 all out against Harry

WAQAR Mohammed took 6-12 from ten overs to restrict Oxford Downs 2nd to 134-8, but his Aylesbury Town side still ended losers. Ian Caunce (34) and Sam Florey (30) were the only Downs batsmen to prosper, but Town's fared even worse against Steve Roberts

HORSPATH'S Ben Cook was run out off the final ball trying to secure the winning run as his side's game with Cumnor 2nd ended in a tie. Ian Belcher's 54 helped Cumnor to 188-7 and the home side were reduced to 77-6 before Adrian Manger (46) and Matt

MIKE Cook took 7-63 for Abingdon Vale as his medium pacers proved too much for Henley 2nd. The visitors were indebted to Andy White's 34 for their final score of 150. Andy Johnson (4-39) then reduced Vale to 10-2, 32-3 and 62-4, so it was left to

GREAT & Little Tew 2nd teenagers Eddie Catling, Alex Kelly, Jack Taylor and Mikey Darby helped their side to an eight-wicket triumph over Bledlow Ridge 2nd. The youngsters accounted for seven of the wickets to fall in Ridge's 128-8, an innings reduced

BANBURY Twenty and Buckingham Town failed to make the most of being the only sides in action in the top flight on Saturday. With the other four games being rained off, a win for either side would have taken them top of the fledgling league table.

I was talking to a colleague who is regularly defeated by Headington Hill in Oxford. Can't say I blame her. Headington is a bit of a monster of a hill, especially if you are caught at the traffic lights at the bottom. A hill start with no momentum behind

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Local people have been very generous to Didcot Power Station owners, RWE npower, in allowing it to turn our environment into an ash dump. Perhaps we should consider how generous npower plans to be in return. Its managers kindly promise us restoration

If proof were needed that we are a dirty race, we have it in abundance today. The Oxfordshire countryside may not match the beauty of the Scottish Highlands, the Yorkshire Dales or the Lake District, but it is still highly impressive. Yet some people

I refer to your article, Cracked: Police move in on suspected drugs den (Oxford Mail, May 16). I was concerned and upset by the way it was reported, with large colour pictures of the arrest of a drug user and the squalid conditions in the flat described

Three of the largest buildings which made up the former headquarters of Oxfam in Oxford have been sold in a multi-million-pound deal. Oxfam House in Banbury Road, Summertown, and Milford House behind it, have been bought by developer Tilbe Land for

Kit Young (Angel Bicester) will take on Simon Smith (College Oak) in the Greene King Oxford & District Darts Association's Winter League men's singles final. Young is aiming for his second title, while Smith, who is making his first appearance in the

Three of the largest buildings which made up the former headquarters of Oxfam in Oxford have been sold in a multi-million-pound deal. Oxfam House in Banbury Road, Summertown, and Milford House behind it, have been bought by developer Tilbe Land for

Oxfordshire Tim Henman is looking to regain his place among the world's elite after admitting he contemplated retirement during his recent struggle with injury. The British No 3, who lives at Aston Tirrold, near Didcot, is now fit again after a frustrating

Chasing criminals demands a clear head and nerves of steel. Wannabe crime fighters distracted by passing rabbits, birds or squeaky toys need not apply. Which is exactly why this ex-police sniffer dog called Jack found himself sacked from no less than

A Bicester secondary school has appointed its very own Jamie Oliver-style chef to make sure its school dinners are shipshape. The Cooper School in Churchill Road has appointed ex-Royal Navy cook Colin Epathite as its own version of the Naked Chef to

Armchair fans watching England's World Cup campaign or Tim Henman at this summer's Wimbledon championship on the box will be targeted by a blitz of television licence detector vans, motorbikes and 4x4s. Oxford has the second highest number of television

Women rolled up their sleeves on Sunday and took on some of the big boys of the transport world at the Dalton Barracks airfield, near Abingdon. The ladies got behind the wheels of a host of vehicles, including buses, army vehicles, police cars, mechanical

A woman with a little-known condition that can lead to bowel cancer raised awareness and £500 for the disease with a five kilometre sponsored swim. Charlotte Ward-Perkins, 51, decided to take up a 200-length challenge at Oxford University pool to draw

English fans causing trouble at the World Cup finals in Germany next month could come up against a Thames Valley Crown Prosecution Service lawyer. Senior prosecutor Bethan David has been selected to travel to Germany as one of only four "flying prosecutors

Police uncovered another drugs factory in Oxford yesterday after being tipped off by local residents. The raid in Aston Street, East Oxford, follows the discovery of cannabis factories inside houses in Fairacres Close and Warwick Street last month.

Taxpayers in Oxfordshire have been warned their bills will soar unless the county dramatically improves its recycling record. The Government's junior environment minister Ben Bradshaw said residents would "pay the price" because of his plans to hike

A 49-year-old man will appear before Didcot magistrates on June 15 following the death of a farm worker in an underground slurry pit last year. Geoffrey Allen, of Lower Hill Farm, Aston Tirrold, is accused of failing to ensure the health, safety and

In weather that would have had many parents reaching for their car keys, the county's biggest ever National Walk to School Week attracted a healthy turnout at Wheatley CoE Primary School yesterday. Dodging speeding rat-runners, braving busy crossings

The country's highest ranking soldier visited Oxford last night to address students at the Oxford Union. Chief of General Staff Sir Mike Jackson, above, was due to talk about modern warfare as well as taking questions on Iraq. Sir Mike, who has spent

The chief executive of Oxfordshire Ambulance NHS Trust, John Nichols, has been forced out of his job by the creation of a single service stretching from Hampshire to Buckinghamshire. His post will disappear when the service merges with those of Berkshire

Lecturers' unions have pledged to continue industrial action despite managers' threats to withhold pay from staff who do not hand over exam results. Natfhe and AUT union members met at Oxford Brookes University yesterday to discuss the university's

The true extent of flytipping in and around Oxford has been revealed after the Oxford Mail found enough trash in an hour to create this down-at-heel living room. Mail reporter Giles Sheldrick set out in a van to investigate the problem of illegal dumping

Mail photographer Yuri Anderegg has been at it again this time snapping up two awards in a competition for the world's best photographers. Mr Anderegg won two gold medals in the International Trierenberg Super Circuit awards, one in the portrait category

Date set for Todd funeral THE funeral of Janet Todd, former Lord Mayor of Oxford, is being held on Friday. Mrs Todd, pictured, who was 88, lived in North Oxford and served on both Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council during a political

SIMON Matthews began the season in virtual retirement and is now set to end it with a Twickenham appearance. The veteran Chinnor and Oxon prop last summer announced he was taking a back seat after a long career. And following just a handful of first

A former benefit fraud investigator who swindled nearly £20,000 in benefits while living with a police officer has been jailed for eight months. Rachel Wilce, 33, of Landsdown Road, Faringdon, admitted three charges of failing to inform Vale of White

A speed trap which was vandalised and put out of action will cost several thousand pounds to repair. The camera, which was sited on the A40 Oxford to Witney road near the Cassington junction, was knocked off its post some time last week. Maintenance

Police have launched a fraud investigation after a batch of voting registration forms submitted to Oxford City Council contained "irregularities". The forms, 60 in total, were applications to register on the city electoral roll, which entitles an individual

OXFORDSHIRE'S superior forward power eventually saw them defeat East Midlands 27-10 in an attritional County Championship semi-final at Bedford Athletic. With rain falling regularly on a very un-Spring like afternoon, free-flowing rugby was never really