Relegation candidates Oxford were denied the chance of a much-needed win when a thunderstorm washed out their Division 1 clash at Falkland when they were well on top. Great spells of bowling from Stuart Hole, Graham Charlesworth, Jack Brooks and Rupert
A hailstorm which made the ground look more like a snowscene in winter brought a dramatic finale to Saturday's Division 1 derby between Banbury and Henley at White Post Road. Henley won the toss and put the home side in on a humid morning, Chris Smith
An excellent spell of fast bowling against his old club by Lee Mason was all in vain for Bicester & North Oxford in Home Counties Division 2 West at Beaconsfield on Saturday. The home side won the toss and elected to bat, reaching 105-4 at lunch before
For the second time this season, rain intervened between Kidlington and Wokingham but not before Tauqeer Hussain had provided some fireworks in the Home Counties League Division 2 West game at Wellington Road on Saturday. The Pakistani strike bowler
Thame Town defied the elements to pull off a stunning 46-run victory at North Maidenhead in Home Counties Division 2 West on Saturday. And with leaders Farnham Royal going down to Gerrards Cross, Thame closed the gap to 28 points as they kept their
Oxford Cheetahs went down 50-45 away to Eastbourne in the Sky Sports Elite League on Sunday, but gained revenge in the return at Sandy Lane on Wednesday, running out 50-42 wins to secure their first bonus point of the campaign. Meanwhile, their Czech
Banbury Borough's Greg Moon has become the first bowler to win through to all four finals in the OBA County Competitions for the second time when he and his teammates made it a clean sweep at Oxford City & County. Moon last achieved the feat two years
Richard Chambers, a third-year architectural student at Oxford Brookes, did his country proud at the World Under 23 Championships in Belgium Chambers, from Northern Ireland, won a World Under 23 silver medal in 2005 in the British lightweight quad scull
Oxford City's Hannah England will fly the flag for Great Britain at next month's World Junior Championships in Beijing after running the race of her life. The 19-year-old University of Birmingham student recorded her biggest win with a brilliant success
SATURDAY CRICKET HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Div 1: Henley v Falkland, Oxford v Reading, Slough v Banbury. Div 2 West: Bicester & N Oxford v Burnham, Kidlington v Beaconsfield, Thame Tn v Farnham Royal. THE OXFORD TIMES CHERWELL LEAGUE Div 1:
SATURDAY CRICKET MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP Western Division Oxfordshire 120 (J Hewitt 42, A Senneck 4-37, J Hibberd 3-26) & 444-8 dec (C Smith 166, J Hewitt 81, R Williams 62, R Kaufman 49), Wiltshire 284 (L Dawson 54, L Ryan 5-83) & 222-8 (T Morton
OCA Division 2 basement boys Eynsham stunned Division 1 title favourites Tetsworth by edging to a three-wicket victory in the Airey Cup semi-final on Sunday. They were indebted to 15-year-old Umair Ghozali, who hit a six to bring the scores level with
Oxfordshire put a disastrous first day behind them to come within a whisker of pulling off a remarkable victory in their Western Division match against Wiltshire at Salisbury. After being bowled out for 120 on the first day, Oxon recovered so well
BENTONG, trained by Paul Cole at Whatcombe, near Wantage, put up a classy performance to land the Weatherbys Insurance Summer Sprint at Redcar. The three-year-old colt, an impressive winner at Salisbury in May, had been off the track since disappointing
Oxford United have taken the unprecedented step for a Conference club of challenging a police request to switch a match. Jim Smith's men were scheduled to play their Nationwide Conference game at varsity city rivals Cambridge United on Saturday, October
Oxford City may play second fiddle to Oxford United these days, but they were once the area's top dogs. They achieved national glory in 1906 when winning the FA Amateur Cup with a 3-0 victory over Bishop Auckland. To mark the centenary of this historic
Oxford City lost several thousand pounds in revenue after a violent thunderstorm caused the postponement of their money-spinning pre-season friendly against Oxford United on Saturday. The intensity of the rain waterlogged the Court Place Farm pitch,
Oxford United have missed out on hotshot striker Robbie Dale after a "row" over who really owns him. The Blyth Spartans striker, who smashed 37 goals last season on his way to helping the north-east outfit win the UniBond Premier title, spent three
Oxford United boss Jim Smith is hoping to develop Yemi Odubade into a 90-minute player after his sensational entrance as a substitute at Eastleigh on Wednesday night. Odubade staked a strong claim with a stunning two-goal show to be one of the U's strikers
Hollyhocks have grown in Britain for at least 500 years, saysVAL BOURNE When I was a small child my uncle had the best job any uncle could possibly have. He was a chocolate salesman and every anniversary, birthday, high day and holiday were celebrated
Children are given licence to touch, smell and climb inside the giant interactive sculptures in the Jan Niedojadlo exhibition at the Banbury Museum. Assigned to the dustbin are the 'don't touch' and 'silence' which permeated museums when my sons were
BANBURY MP Tony Baldry has called on health minister Lord Warner to visit Banbury, after the peer hinted in a letter that there could be an increase in services at the Horton Hospital which is under threat of crippling cuts. Mr Baldry said the comment
DAVID Gibbard is planning to follow the romantic footsteps of his grandfather by walking from Greatworth to Duns Tew and back. Mr Gibbard, 68, from Bloxham, will raise money for breast cancer research by retracing the path of true love that led to 46
OXFORDSHIRE firefighters had their busiest day of the year last week as a spree of blazes broke out during sweltering temperatures. Twenty-eight of the county's 35 fire crews on duty were called in to action to battle fires in several fields, grass
A PUB's golf society is counting the cost of a "bet that never was" after top bookmaker Ladbrokes refused to pay out on a "winner". Members of the Three Pigeons Golf Society in Banbury thought they had won several hundred pounds when Al Jones placed
YOUNG people who like tinkering with cars are being invited to help renovate a 1961 Mini Cooper. The project, a summer school for youngsters aged 12 and over, is at Skidz, in Lower Cherwell Street, Banbury, Students who want to learn about motor vehicles
A £100,000 fund has been set up to help pupils in Kashmir, whose school was wrecked by last year's Asian earthquake. The appeal was launched at Banbury School on Wednesday of last week at a reception attended by Banbury Muslem leader Sarfraz Bhatti,
Scholar Antony Wood made several enemies at Oxford University in the 17th century, writes CHRIS KOENIG Cantankerousness, even the odd heartfelt hatred, are not qualities totally unknown among Oxford academics, but these days, few, if any, punch each
TEMPERATURES peaked in Oxfordshire last Wednesday at a scorching 34.2C on one of the hottest July days on record. Across the country, temperatures rose as high as 36.3C in Surrey, which smashed the all-time record British temperature for July. Bowlers
CONCESSIONARY bus pass holders in the Cherwell area will soon be able use them for inter-county travel. The move will bring Cherwell into line with neighbouring districts where passes can already be used for journeys into other areas. Changes to the
MORE than 12,000 Oxfordshire pensioners could face difficulties getting money from their pensions after the Government moved one step closer to scrapping a Post Office payment method. The Post Office Card Account (POCA) was introduced in 2003 to increase
DODGY stallholders selling stolen goods or counterfeit gifts are under growing pressure as part of a new investigation into the county's car boot sales and markets. The investigation and survey by Oxfordshire County Council follows the seizure of £9,000
Team Roberts MotoGP rider Kenny Roberts Jr. was greeted in his pit box by an ovation after almost taking a podium finish on a sweltering day at his home track of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca on Sunday. The success of Banbury-based Team Roberts in the 11th
NIGEL LINCOLN says Frankie Howerd's home is the setting for regular day-long fun tributes to the comedian's memory 'Ooohh, no . . . missus . . . behave . . . no, er . . . liss-un. Oh, please yourselves then." Frankie Howerd is one of our most loved
Jeannine Alton reviews the centenary exhibition of Sir John Betjeman We all know John Betjeman. Plumpish, jolly, schoolboyish in voice and manner, infectiously enthusing about trains and church architecture, capturing in easy-seeming verse the essence
NICOLA LISLE looks forward to Creation Theatre's spectacular production of Robin Hood which boasts an original score If you go down to Headington Hill Park today, you could be in for a big surprise. For this normally tranquil oasis in Oxford's city
Experts have been drawn to Shotover Country Park by an oak which they say is 400 years old, writes HELEN PEACOCKE The ancient Shotover Oak with its gnarled and twisted branches, so admired by regular visitors to Shotover Country Park, may be much older
SILVANA DAMERELL says Oxfordshire's super-microscope on target for 2007 Scientific research in the UK is set for a huge boost next year when Diamond Light Source, which is being built on the Harwell science and innovation campus, starts experiments
An initiative by consultants at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre to set up a private hospital in Littlemore is causing concern among supporters of the health service While hospitals across the region brace themselves for cuts that threaten to overwhelm
We are in favour of our councils getting tough with council tax evaders. There are some who are in genuine difficulty in meeting their bills, and they should get all the help they can. But when people flagrantly ignore demands to pay and give no valid
Great news permission has been granted for thousands of new homes in Didcot. We had better get on and build them pretty smartish as next year we will see an influx of hundreds of thousands more immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria to complement the
Oxford City Council is setting out to reduce the waste going to landfill and to more than double the proportion of household rubbish that is recycled, from the current 19 per cent to 45 per cent by April 2008. I want to correct the misleading impression
Despite his preconceptions, Jeremy Smith discovers that there's more to Austria than a certain film featuring Julie Andrews, some nuns and a load of Nazis: It was the last thing I expected and the one thing I needed most. But of all the places in
Richard Symonds, who has died aged 87, had a varied career as a wartime ambulance driver, academic, United Nations official and writer. He was born in Oxford and won a scholarship from Rugby School to Corpus Christi College, where he took a degree in
Beatrice Ellen Martin, a foster mother to generations of children in Oxfordshire, has died aged 93. Mrs Martin fostered a total of 79 children during her remarkable life. Born Beatrice Brakspear, in Henley in 1912, she went to school in Reading before
A former teacher and archaeologist who spent years volunteering for charities and a day centre in Witney for elderly people has died a week before his 84th birthday. Basil Turton was born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, but came to Oxford to study physics at
Free outdoor film screenings are taking place in Oxford University Parks as part of a festival Britdoc to promote documentaries. Two films of 'social, political and cultural' importance will be shown in the parks, off South Parks Road, tonight and
Members of an Oxford boxing club are hoping that a trip down the river will help them buy their first fight ring. Gavin Brackett hopes to raise £1,500 for Cowley Amateur Boxing Club with a sponsored kayak marathon on the River Thames later this month
People can help stop underage drinking by calling a new telephone hotline designed to clamp down on illegal alcohol sales. The new 'Anyone for a Drink?' telephone number is for people with information about where young people get hold of alcohol.
Developers have been told to start thinking green if they want to build homes in Oxford.o Oxford City Council has agreed a checklist for firms to calculate the environmental impact of buildings as part of their planning application. The Natural Resources
A Didcot sailor has spoken of his pride at helping hundreds of people to safety as part of the evacuation of British citizens from Lebanon. Mark Bateman, 25, is serving on HMS Gloucester, which evacuated more than 700 people from the Lebanese capital
The people of Abingdon and Wantage will get their say on the future of health care, in the county following fears they could be left out of the debate. The Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust did not originally include the two towns on a list of places
A man taunted his next door neighbours despite a restraining order banning him from talking to them, a jury heard yesterday. Keith Quartermain, pictured, was made subject to a restraining order three years ago but has now been accused of laughing at
A teenager arrested on suspicion of assault after a baby was taken to an Oxford hospital with a life threatening brain injury has been released on police bail. The 17-year-old was released after he was questioned by detectives late last night, and must
Hugh Trevor-Roper brushed aside newspaper allegations that he landed the job of Oxford's Regius Professor of Modern History in 1957 because of a family connection between him and the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In fact, the link was "somewhat tenuous
With very good cause, Hugh Trevor-Roper was not a popular man in a large swathe of academic Oxford. Glee was unconcealed when the former Regius Professor of Modern History came a spectacular cropper over his authentication of the 'Hitler Diaries' for
I noticed La Cucina for the first time as I stood at the bus stop opposite on the last Wednesday of June. "Open later today" said a blackboard notice outside the premises in St Clement's which, before a rebuild, used to house Electric Aids. I last visited
This recipe was written by the instructor chefs from Oxford Brookes University restaurant for those taking part in the team- building day. Although the recipe is geared for ten portions of starter, it also serves four generous portions as a main course
The bid to bring the 2011 Solheim Cup to Oxfordshire faces a crucial test next week. As part of the tender process, the Solheim Cup committee are visiting The Oxfordshire Golf Club next Tuesday to assess its suitability to host one of the biggest events
A frisson of excitement and anticipation rippled through the changing room as 12 employees of Bottle Public Relations began preparing for a team-building exercise designed to help them understand each other's strength's and weaknesses through a medium
Tilly Holder, who plays off a handicap of five, became Oxford Ladies club champion only 15 months after taking up the game. The 19-year-old daughter of the club's Foursomes League captain Larry Holder fired rounds of 73 and 77 at Southfield for a total
Oxford-based guitarists Pete Oxley and Luis D'Agostino, well-known to anyone who goes to the Spin Jazz Club, have brought out their second duo album, to be launched at a special concert on Sunday. Mostly recorded at their concert in December last year
Division 2 leaders Thame inflicted a humiliating defeat on bottom side Witney Mills in the Oxford & District Bowls League, sponsored by Yarnton Nurseries Garden Centre. To make matters worse for Witney, the 136-44 scoreline was the second biggest victory
La capricciosa corretta is hardly a name that trips off the tongue. And Martin y Soler is not, I suspect, a composer whose works feature in many music-lovers' CD collections. Yet such is the magnetism of Bampton Classical Opera that the Deanery Garden
The COO's summer season continued last weekend with a delicious feast of baroque favourites. After yet another day of intense heat, this was the perfect way to wind down and relax, to savour the delights of Vivaldi, Pachelbel and Albinoni, and to enjoy
Banbury Borough's Greg Moon has done it again! The England international has become the first bowler to reach all four finals in the OBA County Competitions for a second time when he and his teammates made it a clean sweep at Oxford City & County.
Oxfordshire's women boosted their hopes of beating the drop from Group 2 with a crucial 5-4 win over Cheshire at Worthing. Beaten by Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire in their opening two matches, Oxon desperately needed a victory. Second pair Lucy
Well. Of all the memorable theatrical evenings I've enjoyed courtesy of Tom Stoppard, this was the most extraordinary. So this piece may consist of introductions and footnotes, many supplied by Stoppard himself, in the text so admirably sold at the Royal
On a balmy night at the end of a blistering day, I sat in Wadham College's beautiful garden in the evening sunshine a glass of chilled white wine in my hand enjoying what is perhaps the funniest play in the language. Perfection? Not far from it, for
After Saturday's heavy thunderstorms, the sun shone gently on the first concert of the newly formed Friends of All Saints' Church. Sit-down picnicking in the grounds had proved a little too damp after the downpour but people still made the most of exploring
Oxford Cheetahs enjoyed their best night so far in a difficult year by picking up their first bonus point after beating Eastbourne Eagles 50-42 at Oxford Stadium last night. Cheetahs were forced to go into the meeting without guest Jason Lyons when
When the smoothly villainous Sheriff of Nottingham (Scott Brooksbank) tells us he can't stand violence, we suspect that he has about as much respect for the truth as for the well-being of the people labouring under his corrupt rule. Later, as he swashes
Oxford City may play second fiddle to Oxford United these days, but they were once the area's top dogs. They achieved national glory in 1906 when winning the FA Amateur Cup with a 3-0 victory over Bishop Auckland at Stockton. To mark the centenary
Local share prices on July 17 were as follows: AEA Technology 104 BMW 2708 Electrocomponents 236.25 Isoft Group 61 Oxford Bio 22.25 Oxford Instruments 216.75 Reed Elsevier 532.5 RM 178 RPS 224 Torex Retail 59
Richard Thompson surveyed the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside bathed in evening sunshine from the stage at Ascott and simply could not help himself. The insistence of his fans and Cropredy festival regulars that rain clouds gather where ever he plays
A woman was robbed and sexually assaulted by a gang as she walked home. The victim, 33, was walking from Didcot railway station at about 11.15pm on Monday when she was attacked in Hitchcock Way A group of white men with foreign accents attacked her
French police were last night still hunting an Oxford University student who they said may be dangerous after a wealthy banker was attacked with a bottle in a nightclub. John Washington who claims he is a direct descendant of American president
A nursery nurse strangled to death by her ex-fiance had warned just days earlier that he would kill her if he discovered she was dating his friend, an inquest was told. Oxford Coroner's Court heard yesterday that double killer Dean Irvine, 41, had also
A pigeon fancier has fulfilled the dream of a lifetime after his 'super' pigeon flew 500 miles to bring him a major racing title. Brian Cox, who keeps more than 40 pigeons at his home in Wicks Close in Barton, is the first Oxford man to ever win an
MP Ed Vaizey will forgo the comforts of the Palace of Westminster when he takes off on a 250-mile trek across the Arctic The Wantage Tory is one of a four-strong team of MPs which will take part in the first 'Westminster Challenge'. The team aims
Ronald McDonald, the icon of the American fast food chain, will be the target for a spear-throwing contest at the revived Lammas Games at Braziers Park, near Wallingford. A giant effigy will be set up for the spear throwers, which will then be ceremonially
'Surely I am the happiest wife on earth. Should something not be right for you, tell me straight away." Thus wrote Clara Schumann to her composer husband Robert soon after their marriage the couple were sometimes apart as Clara continued her career as
A touch of magic was cast across the grounds of Blenheim Palace as film crews moved in to shoot scenes for the next Harry Potter film this week. Although palace staff and the production company Warner Bros were staying tight-lipped yesterday, the Oxford
A cancer sufferer fears he will die before he can finish his revolutionary eco-home because he has been refused what he believes is a life-saving drug. Malcolm Cole, 67, from Fulbrook, near Burford, says he knows the Multiple Myeloma cancer he developed
Pensioner David Budhram and his wife Marilyn have become the first people in Oxford to be made bankrupt for not paying their council tax. The couple, who live in Crescent Road, Cowley, ignored repeated reminders from Oxford City Council about their
A baby girl was still critically ill with a serious brain injury last night as detectives continued to question a teenager. The eight-month-old was taken to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital on Monday by relatives and police were then alerted over her
A toddler who fell into a garden pond died last night as his parents made the agonising decision to switch off his life support machine. Adrian and Caren Black said their final goodbyes at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital to 20-month-old Tyler, who
