People living in a village hit by repeated flooding are having to pay thousands of pounds from their own pockets to pay for the damage. Householders in Nuneham Courtenay are finding insurance companies are slapping huge excesses on their policies before
Motorists parking on a pavement are avoiding fines because a warning sign has vanished. Oxfordshire County Council said that if the sign, by the BMW Mini plant, in Watlington Road, Cowley, Oxford, had been stolen, then drivers were 'devious'. The
A 30-YEAR-OLD woman died today after a car left the road in south Oxfordshire and hit a tree. The crash happened at about 8.45am when a blue Renault Laguna left the B4012 between Tetsworth and Postcombe. The driver, who was the only person in the
Hello everyone, We like to think we show intelligent films for a discerning audience but sometimes things just conspire not to let us get too big for our boots. One of the films we’re currently showing is the darkly beautiful Pans Labyrynth, the tale
AEA Technology 92.25 BMW 2824 Electrocomponents 279.5 Isoft Group 37.25 Oxford Biomedica 31 Oxford Instruments 244.75 Oxonica 151.5 Reed Elsevier 571.25 RM 179 RPS 263.25 Torex Retail 53.75 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley, Abingdon
The Tourism award for 2006 was won by the Oxford Information Centre based in Broad Street, Oxford. Operated by Oxford City Council as a stand-alone business, the centre dealt with 450,000 visitors last year wanting information and accommodation. Co-team
Managers at Stewart Milne Timber Systems are so enthusiastic about winning an Oxfordshire Business Award, they want to enter again. Stewart Dalgarno, managing director of the Witney factory that assembles timber frame houses for mainstream housing
Shoppers were faced with piles of rotting fish when Greenpeace created a stink at three major supermarkets in Oxford. Campaigners, dressed as fishmongers, yesterday called at Tesco in Cowley, Asda in Wheatley and Morrison's in Banbury in a bid to stop
In Business readers are being urged to enter our special competition that will be worth thousands of pounds to the lucky winner. Running a business can be a stressful experience. Just when you think one problem has been overcome, another one presents
Winning the Charity and Community Award was a major boost for a Witney organisation Base 33 is a youth project run by Witney Ecumenical Youth Trust, which works with young people in a bid to reduce anti-social behaviour Youth worker Mark Bennett said
Business Person of the Year Tracy Hoodless said winning an award had given a huge boost to her business, Champion Recruitment. Since winning the Business Person of the Year title, Mrs Hoodless, who lives in Sutton Courtenay, has seen the recruitment
The Young Business Person of the Year, Simon Phillips, said the win had helped his computer games company to tap into local talent, as well as boosting his firm's standing in the industry. One of the first to congratulate Gusto Games, of Bloxham Mill
Blenheim Estates property office entered the awards to increase awareness of its change of direction. Property director Roger File said: "The award has increased awareness of what we are doing. It has increased people's knowledge of how the estate
The Leader of Oxfordshire County Council, Lesley Legge, said public-sector organisations had a lot to gain from entering the Oxfordshire Businenss Awards. She said the 50 staff at Oxfordshire Registration Service, which runs the Oxford Register Office
AEA Technology 92 BMW 2790 Electrocomponents 275.5 Isoft Group 38.5 Oxford Biomedica 30.75 Oxford Instruments 245.5 Oxonica 145 Reed Elsevier 571.5 RM 178.5 RPS 261.5 Torex Retail 54 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley, Abingdon
Winning the overall Oxfordshire Business of the Year Award for 2006 has had a major impact on the staff morale of British Bakels in Oxfordshire and even abroad. Paul Morrow, managing director of the Bicester-based bakery ingredients firm, has been delighted
Starting up your own business can be a daunting challege in itself but laundry firm Purple Label suffered a totally unexpected setback when co-founder Louise Rampe developed leukaemia. She was forced to take 18 months away from the business leaving
The Oxfordshire Business Awards are as diverse as the companies which enter them and range from small, high-tech operators to large manufacturers. And even the most traditional businesses are recognised with family firm FWP Matthews a good example.
Welcome to the launch of the Oxfordshire Business Awards 2007. Over the last 13 years these awards have grown and developed to become the highlight of the county's business calendar. But while proud of the continuous level of achievement every year
Emergency services are fighting to free someone from a car following a crash near Thame at 11am this morning. Ambulance crews, a doctor, the fire service and police were all on scene at the B4012 between Thame and Postcombe where the patient's injuries
Thieves made off with thousands of pounds worth of shoes after breaking into a container at the back of a shop. A total of 900 pairs of shoes worth £18,000 were taken from the storage yard of Brantano in the Oxford Retail Park, Blackbird Leys, last
THIEVES stole 900 pairs of shoes, worth £18,000, from a store in Oxford. The break-in happened between Tuesday, November 14 and Thursday, November 16, on a container in the storage yard at the rear of the Brantano shop at the Oxford Retail Park, Ambassador
HERECOMESTANLEY posted his third win this season for Milton Harris's Edgcote stables, near Banbury, with a game success at Fakenham yesterday. The seven-year-old, a winner at the Norfolk course and at Uttoxeter in October, put up his best effort to
Scores of high flyers from across the county gathered to officially launch the Oxfordshire Business Awards 2007. At a special celebration at the Brookes in the Park restaurant, Milton Park, near Didcot, many of the 2006 winners attended along with invited
Hardide, the Bicester-based producer of revolutionary super-hard coatings for drills used in the oil business, has seen its turnover jump Figures show a rise of £1.89m for the year ending September 30th, up from £0.69m for the last accounting period
The party had to end some time - and for Carole and Clive Tasker it has lasted 17 years. They have reluctantly pulled down the shutters at Party Plus, on Cowley Road. Mr Tasker said: "It's a sign of the strong community spirit that since the "sold
HARWELL just failed to pull off a superb comeback as they went down 26-22 at home to Maidenhead 3rd in BB&O Division 1 South. Steve Dorrian's try gave Harwell an early lead, but the visitors hit back to lead 19-5. But tries from Lee Lewis and substitute
SKIPPER Andrew Collett, making his first start since the opening game of the season, scored two tries as Banbury recorded a resounding 44-14 victory over bottom club Bugbrooke in Midlands 3 East South. Having to play into the wind, Banbury built a slender
DON Jenkins scored four tries as Wallingford made home advantage tell by romping to a 58-0 success over derby rivals Abingdon in the BB&O Premier Division. With Abingdon's pitch being waterlogged, the match was switched at the last minute to the Hithercroft
A SLOPPY start to the second half cost Chinnor dear as they lost 34-19 to National 3 South leaders Southend on Saturday. Trailing by just three points, an ill-directed pass straight from the kick-off allowed Southend second row Andrew McClintock in
OXFORD Harlequins ran out convincing 49-0 winners over basement boys Clevedon in South West 1. It took Quins 14 minutes to break the deadlock, but from then on it was one-way traffic. Anthony Cope jinked over to open the scoring, and full back Pete
Anger and disappointment has followed warnings that Abingdon's first skateboard park - due to have opened this month - is unlikely to be ready until the spring. Tenders for the park have come in way over budget - believe to be about £50,000 more than
Things couldn't look worse for Dick Whittington when Alderman's Fitzwarren's shop takings go missing and are then found stashed in our hero's red and white spotted handkerchief. Of course, we all know that the cash has been removed from the safe by
Our councillors will no doubt argue that they are value for money. But questions are bound to be asked about the increasing level of allowances and expenses they are claiming. The amount of money paid to Oxford city councillors last year rose by 20
A few months ago, someone came up with the bright idea that Marston village in Oxford needed traffic calming road garbage. Initially, we thought this to be someone's idea of a sick joke, thought up by some jealous individual determined to ruin what
Robin Spokes (Oxford Mail, November 29) is not alone in finding that the nationality of "English" has been deemed politically incorrect. The 2001 Census allowed people to state they were either Scottish, Welsh or British. This is because, according
You can feel the atmosphere darken on the roads after it's rained. Everyone is on tenterhooks; today's commute is going to be a risky one. Brakes take longer to work and all road users need to take extra care around each other. Dodging standing water
There has been a huge rise in the number of violent offenders in Oxfordshire being let off with cautions, according to new figures. The number of cautions dished out for violent offences in the county went up by two thirds (from 664 to 1,060) between
A drama school in Oxfordshire is the first acting institution to be given "Beacon" status by the Government, which has recognised it as a shining example of post-16 education. The Oxford School of Drama at Woodstock was one of 13 colleges to be presented
BANBURY United's Premier Division match at home to Yate Town will go ahead tonight, despite the town end stand at Spencer Stadium being blown down by the weekend gales. Storms collapsed the tin roof, but the club have got the thumbs-up to play the match
More than 40 children have been removed by their parents from Dunmore Junior and Infants Schools in Abingdon following the controversy surrounding plans to reorganise the schools next year. Oxfordshire County Council education officials say they are
A free service which helps people with mobility problems in Oxford could be at risk if electric scooters are more heavily regulated. Robin Brooks, manager of Oxford City Council's Shopmobility service, has criticised plans to review the law on mobility
A woman who was killed in a motorway pile-up, which also left a man and a baby injured, was last night named as 25-year-old Diana Lesley Cross. The three vehicle crash, which brings the death toll on Oxfordshire's roads to 57 this year, closed the M40
A heartbroken mother-of-three from Oxford has told how her family's pet dog was killed in a suspected hit and run accident. Stacey Harries, 27, of Norman Smith Road, Greater Leys, was left devastated after her Staffordshire bull terrier Tyson was run
A father-of-two has criticised road improvements which he says will do nothing to prevent rat-runners driving through his village. Barry Marsh believes chicanes on Oxford Road and Elsfield Road in the village of Old Marston, on the edge of Oxford, will
Ivor's Choir - the residents of Blackbird Leys who performed at the Albert Hall - are to sing for The Queen. The 40-strong choir, which took part in the Channel Five documentary The Singing Estate earlier this year, has received an invitation to perform
There has been an inflation-busting rise in the expenses claims of councillors sitting on Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council. City councillors claimed £242,804 in the financial year to April 2006 for travel and subsistence, special resp
A Christmas card featuring a drunken Santa urinating is to be sent to 200 offenders in west Oxfordshire. The cards are a fun way of warning people who have been given fixed penalty notices in the past to watch their behaviour this Christmas - or face
Traffic flowed freely through the new multi-million-pound 'hamburger' roundabout in Oxford - but left some motorists feeling they were trapped in their estate yesterday. Oxfordshire County Council's £2.6m redesign of the Green Road junction got the
Before I go on with my story of how I came to be an Anglican Vicar in Oxford - here’s a flavour of this last week: you need to realize that I come from a pretty free Churchmanship (they call it Pentecostal or Charismatic…for those in the know!) Right
SHOPPERS were faced with piles of rotting fish when Greenpeace demonstrated at three supermarkets in Oxfordshire. Campaigners, dressed as fishmongers, yesterday called at Tesco in Cowley, Asda in Wheatley and Morrison's in Banbury in a bid to stop selling
City of Oxford Masters ended their season in astonishing fashion at the City of Milton Keynes Open Meet. The 18-person squad broke seven county records, picked up 32 gold medals, 16 silver, nine bronze as well as setting an incredible 32 personal bests
Sam van de Schootbrugge was again in top form as City of Oxford produced a cracking display at the Oxford 'City Leisure' Designated Open Meet. The 13-year-old won medals in all 12 of his events in the 13/14 year old age group, achieving golds in the
A CHRISTMAS card featuring a drunken Santa urinating is to be sent to 200 offenders in west Oxfordshire. The cards are a fun way of warning people who have been given fixed penalty notices in the past to watch their behaviour this Christmas - or face
Olivia Law produced a sparkling display to secure silver in the 200m breaststroke in the Oxford Level 2 Open Meet at Temple Cowley. The 12-year-old Abingdon Vale swimmer achieved a qualifying time for the South East Regional Championships in the process
A PUBLIC inquiry into plans to build offices and a car park on the site of allotments in Bicester is due to begin today. The Church of England is appealing against Cherwell District Council's rejection of its plans to develop the site, off Skimmingdish
KIDLINGTON'S Christmas Lights switch-on events take place today from 5.30pm, with the switch-on at 7pm. Attractions include Kidlington Concert Brass, Father Christmas, carols, stalls and other entertainment. The lights will be switched on by children
A FORMER Oxford United striker has appeared before a court accused of having sex in a public place. Steve Anthrobus, 38, who played for United between June 1999 and May 2001, faces three charges of outraging public decency. He appeared with co-defendant
Terry Wood has been named as player of the month for December by national sports magazine Darts World. Wood, from Blackbird Leys, hit an 11-dart game of 501 playing in the Headington & District League finals night. Wood scored 180, 140, 140, and signed
Cowley Community Centre C continue to set the pace in the ODDA Premier Division - but had to come from behind against The Shears. Dave Exell defeated Jon Jukes to leave Cowley trailing, but the leaders stormed back with wins from Graham Manning, Terry
City of Oxford failed to take their chances when they were on top in the first half, and were made to pay when leaders Bracknell 1A scored when they dominated the second half to win 1-0 in their Premier 1 match in the Trysports 3 Counties Women's League
A dramatic late winner from Abingdon sweeper David Pegg saw his side come out on top in the weekend's Oxfordshire derby, as they beat local rivals City of Oxford 3-2 at Tilsley Park in South League Division 1. Although Abingdon had the better of the
Happiness is . . . a win at last. Bottom-of-the-table Oxford Hawks, who have been improving gradually over recent weeks, chalked up their first win of the season in the National Men's Division with a 3-2 triumph at St Albans. Gareth Parker was their
Oxford University have named nine new Blues in their team to face Cambridge in next Tuesday's Varsity Match. The Dark Blues' entire front five will be making their debuts in the Twickenham showpiece, but lock Richard Graham, a starter in 2005, is only
OXFORDSHIRE bucked the national trend of rising unemployment, with the county's jobless level falling by five per cent. The number of people claiming Jobseeker's Allowance fell by 205 last month from 4,426 to 4,221, according to the Office for National
POSTAL deliveries in Oxford are still some of the slowest in the country - but staff have been praised for their improvement by a consumer watchdog. The Royal Mail centre in Cowley, has been ranked 89th out of the country's 118 centres for the speed
OXFORD United are hoping for divine inspiration after the appointment of a new club chaplain. Canon Roger Humphreys, 61, is filling the void which has been left open since the death of Rev Michael Chantry three years ago. Mr Chantry had been United's
ROVER Oxford maintained their position at the top of the Regional League with a hard fought 3-1 victory against strugglers British Airways. Both sides started the game cautiously, with few clear-cut chances of any note during the opening passages of
OXFORDSHIRE continued their amazing winning run with a 24-15 success against Berkshire at Cowley Community Centre, which keeps them top of the Division 2 table. The ladies' A side also head their group after another impressive victory. Oxon got off
THE man in charge of transport policy in Oxfordshire has said traffic congestion is going to get "much worse" - but has refused to consider congestion or road charging as a solution. The Government announced drivers could pay up to £1.34 a mile in '
RUNNER Roger Hiley, from Brackley, has raised more than £2,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital by competing in the New York marathon. Mr Hiley, 37, managed to complete the 26-mile course in three hours and 46 minutes. He said: "I only planned to
CLASS told as National 2 leaders Esher extended their 100 per cent record with an impressive victory at Dry Leas. It was a credit to Henley's defence that Esher scored just the one try through ex-England wing Matt Moore. But aside from a ten-minute
A CENTRE which helps some of Oxford's most vulnerable people is being forced to cut jobs and trim its services after a bid for £300,000 of National Lottery funding was rejected. For the last three years, The Steppin' Stone Centre for homeless and vulnerably
POLICE are hunting arsonists who started fires at Berinsfield sports centre and school. The first fire at the Abbey Sports centre was on Friday between 6am and 6.30am when a pile of newspapers against the wall of the building was set alight. They
A WOMAN who was killed in a motorway pile-up, which also left a man and a baby injured, was named as 25-year-old Diana Lesley Cross. The three-vehicle crash, which brings the death toll on Oxfordshire's roads to 57 this year, closed the M40 for five
TRAFFIC flowed freely through the new multi-million pound 'hamburger' roundabout in Oxford - but left some motorists feeling they were left trapped on their estate. Oxfordshire County Council's £2.6m redesign of the Green Road junction got the thumbs
A WOMAN in her twenties was knocked unconscious as she was assaulted in a pub car park in West Oxfordshire. Police are appealing for information following the attack last Wednesday, at 9.35pm. The victim was walking along Black Bourton Road, towards
OXFORDSHIRE has lost almost 100 NHS dentists since the introduction of controversial new contracts earlier this year. Rather than increasing the supply of high street dentists as the Government had hoped, the reforms have led to NHS trusts in the county
OXFORD City Council has said smelly wheelie bins "would not be a problem" if people just recycled more. Concerns about rotting rubbish have surfaced because refuse collections in the city now take place fortnightly instead of every week. Having originally
A MAN who runs a donkey sanctuary and a postman are two of the 'virtual' Oxfordshire stars to feature in the Church of England's first online Advent calendar. People who log on at www.adventstories.org will miss out on a chocolate, but they will find
