A group of residents is preparing to bring a High Court action against Oxfordshire County Council in the hope of ending a controversial paid-for parking scheme. Residents Against the Parking Tax is confident it can halt County Hall's policy of forcing
DETECTIVES baffled by the identity of the man found dead near an Oxford park and ride are now investigating if he was a foreigner. Officers were yesterday no closer to learning the man's name four days after he was discovered on wasteland near the Seacourt
Alas I was away in sunny Cornwall on Tuesday night when the group read a play called Vinegar Tom. At last night's Committee meeting much discussion took place with the general feeling that we should do the play if it can be cast. This is an ever recurring
Oxford commuters angered by train timetable changes are switching to the coach. Changes brought in by First Great Western on Monday prompted a furious reaction from regular passengers. City MPs Andrew Smith and Evan Harris have been inundated with
TWO photographic studios in Oxford have closed suddenly, leaving dozens of customers without photos taken as Christmas presents. Six staff at Olan Mills photographic studios also face a bleak Christmas, with no jobs and little chance of recouping lost
Sir - The city council has approved the Westgate application. It wants to see a vast expansion of the shopping centre that will extend from Bonn Square to Thames Street and take in Abbey Place as well. And OX1 and the Chamber of Commerce are jumping for
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AN OXFORD travel agent is believed to have sold up to £1m worth of airline tickets which passengers later discovered were useless. Oxfordshire people are among customers who have lost up to £1,500 each after the closure of Mas Travel, based in London
A fast-growing pub company is looking to recruit potential landlords across the county after snapping up 17 Oxfordshire hostelries as part of a multi-million pound deal. Admiral Taverns has acquired 155 pubs from rival operator Greene King for £56m
DUTCH racing driver Giedo van der Garde has been signed by Leafield's Super Aguri F1 Team as the team's reserve and test driver for the 2007 season. A member of the McLaren Young Driver Support Programme, the 21-year-old started his motorsport career
A suspect package which turned out to be an old cassette player caused a city centre bomb scare. Staff at HSBC bank in Cornmarket Street, Oxford, were evacuated after a black plastic bag was found outside the premises at 12.38pm. Police removed the
A PACKAGE which turned out to be an old cassette player caused a city centre bomb scare. Staff at HSBC bank in Cornmarket, Oxford, were evacuated after a black plastic bag was found outside the premises at lunchtime today. Police removed the bag -
Eleven people have been charged following disturbances when Oxford United hosted York City. The defendants will appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on Monday and Tuesday charged with breaching section four of the Public Order Act on September 30.
ELEVEN people have been charged following disturbances when Oxford United hosted York City. The defendants will appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on Monday and Tuesday charged with breaching section four of the Public Order Act on September 30.
POLICE today issued a photograph as concern mounts for missing Oxfordshire woman Maria Pereira. Ms Pereira, 46, of Catslip, Nettlebed, has not been seen since 10.30am on Sunday, December 3, at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Henley. Police said her
THE jury deciding whether a Faringdon man murdered a North Oxford academic has been sent home for the weekend. The jurors have been deliberating since just before 11.30am but have yet to reach a verdict. Just before 4.30pm, Judge Anthony King told
A question mark is hanging over the future of the Oxford Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. A key report has warned that the internationally renowned hospital is no longer financially viable as a health trust. And it is now unlikely to be able to continue
The article, Chairman votes for homes plan (Oxford Mail, December 6), highlights a number of problems in a very controversial planning application. The proposal was to demolish one house at 29 West Way, Botley, and build a three-storey block with nine
The Wolvercote Commoners' Committee is not opposed to events such as the firework display at The Plough, as Dennis Hambridge claims (Oxford Mail, November 22). However, as you will be well aware, public events such as this require proper supervision
Many villages in Oxfordshire have suffered in the past from the loss of their post offices. Now it seems many more are to disappear as the Government wields the axe. The closures are said to be necessary because the post office network is running
The jury deciding whether a Faringdon man murdered a North Oxford academic has been sent home for the weekend. They have been deliberating since just before 11.30am but have yet to reach a verdict. Just before 4.30pm, Judge Anthony King told the jury
Abingdon-based company Zonal Retail Data Systems has completed its largest ever contract worth more than £4.3m. The company, based at Milton Park near Didcot, designs, manufactures and supplies electronic point of sale terminals (EPoS) terminals for
POLICE are clamping down on motorists who drive off from petrol stations without paying for fuel. Officers are working with garages to stop the thefts, which have cost owners in the county £4,720 since January. So far this year there have been 178
DETECTIVES investigating the death of a young man near an Oxford park-and-ride have widened their hunt to discover his identity. The man's body was found on Tuesday near the Seacourt park-and-ride, off Botley Road. So far police have received calls
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Even the most action-packed carol service can drag when you are four years old. A front-row pew in the balcony of a packed city centre church was scant compensation after an hour of hymns and readings for this particular lad. He began to fidget, raising
Twenty-five years since it first burst upon an astonished world, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats is paying a welcome seasonal visit to the New Theatre. What a Christmas treat this great show is offering to the thousands who will see and marvel at it over
Have you ever had that eerie, unsettling feeling of seeing someone or something for the very first time, only to experience a momentary flash of recognition, as if you're reliving some memory? You'll be flooded with nagging feelings of familiarity throughout
Intended as the first instalment of a trilogy based on the novels by Christopher Paolini, Eragon is an old-fashioned sword and sorcery epic that cowers in the shadow of Peter Jackson's Lord Of The Rings films. Comparisons between the two series are
Flamboyant tycoon and one-time Oxford United owner Robert Maxwell was dubbed the Bouncing Czech by Private Eye magazine. But the notorious publisher and former MP actually hailed from further east than the Czech provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. Maxwell
It's a rain-lashed December evening and singer Nikki Lamborn is relaxing with a big glass of wine in her local pubo. She is talking excitedly about her latest project: appearing as a vocal coach for celebrities on a new BBC show - a singing equivalent
POLICE arrested ten drivers in Oxfordshire who had been drinking or taking drugs this year, after Crimestoppers received tip-offs. Crimestoppers has received 189 calls reporting drink or drug driving in the Thames Valley since January. That led to
SATURDAY FOOTBALL FA TROPHY 1st round: Lewes v Oxford Utd (2pm). BRITISH GAS BUSINESS SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Team Bath v Banbury Utd. Div 1 South & West: Beaconsfield v Abingdon Utd, Bracknell v Oxford City, Didcot Tn v Hillingdon Borough
OXFORDSHIRE hammered Berkshire 11-4 at Reading in Division 1C of the Inter-County Championships to avenge an 8-7 home defeat and boost their fight against relegation. Oxon's four women were unbeaten. Amanda King and Emma Cramond won their singles and
CHIPPING Norton Town are on the brink of extinction after a disappointing turn-out for the emergency meeting to try and save the Hellenic League Premier Division club. Chippy have been held together by a one-man committee in chairman Sean Robson.
PREMIER Division promotion-chasers Hungerford Town have announced they will donate the receipts from tomorrow's clash with North Leigh to the Danny Campbell Fund. Didcot Town defender Campbell, who has leukaemia, is a close friend of Hungerford captain
ARDLEY United defender Mark Essex is set to end his injury nightmare after being included in their squad for their Sport Italia Hellenic League Premier Division home game against Shortwood tomorrow. The former Banbury United player has been sidelined
OFFICIALS from The Oxfordshire Golf Club were last night refusing to comment after losing their bid to host the 2011 Solheim Cup to a course that is still being built. Representatives at the Ladies European Tour (LET) yesterday announced the Jack Nicklaus-designed
OXFORD United have released their former on-loan Grays striker Jamie Slabber. Manager Jim Smith announced the decision as the U's prepared for their FA Trophy trip to Conference South side Lewes tomorrow. Slabber, who has also been let go by Grays
Hundreds of sub postmasters in Oxfordshire fear for the future of their businesses after the Government announced a wave of cost-cutting closures yesterday. There are 14,000 post offices in the UK and Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling announced
Motorists face more chance of being caught speeding in the new year as another 22 sites across the county will be monitored by speed cameras. There are already cameras operating at 107 sites in Oxfordshire - 74 of them with fixed cameras and the remaining
The case against a man accused of strangling and stabbing a woman 45 times has been described as too thin for a conviction. Lawyers for Michael Humphries, a 43-year-old from Faringdon, who denies murdering academic Barbara Johnston in her North Oxford
Motorists can expect long delays in the new year when the A34 is cut to one lane each way and a 40mph speed limit imposed for 10 weeks. Resurfacing work will be carried out on the busy A-road between the West Ilsley junction and the A417 overbridge,
An artist is hoping to display a portrait of Heather Mills-McCartney which the former model snubbed. Sarah Macdonald spent three months on the oil painting, which was to be auctioned for charity. But despite finishing it two years ago, she has been
Villagers have warned that they will fight moves to build thousands of homes between Garsington and Oxford. More than 150 people attended a public meeting in Garsington Village Hall, called to assess local views about developing green land near the
Climate change is good news for Oxfordshire company AEA Technology, which is creating up to 100 new jobs to cope with the problem. Chief executive Andrew McCree said: "Rising international concern about energy security and climate change means that
HUNDREDS of sub postmasters in Oxfordshire fear for the future of their businesses after the Government announced a wave of cost-cutting closures yesterday. There are 14,000 post offices in the UK and Trade and Industry Secretary Alistair Darling announced
Detectives investigating the death of a man near an Oxford park and ride have widened their hunt nationally to discover his identity. Mystery still surrounds the man, who died in apparently bizarre circumstances on Tuesday, at the Seacourt Park and
A tiny art gallery has become the focus of the world's media after it exhibited previously unseen photographs of Marilyn Monroe, left. The Meller Gallery, in Church Green, Witney, has been swamped with requests for the pictures, inundated with calls
Residents of Old Marston, in Oxford, who have already waited more than a year for their postbox to be replaced, may have to wait another nine months. That is how long Royal Mail estimates it will take to get planning permission and carry out checks
Leading British scientists have come to the defence of Sir Richard Doll, following claims that the Oxford cancer researcher failed to disclose payments from a chemical company. Sir Richard, who died last year, helped save millions of lives through his
Three sites have been picked as potential above-ground burial cemeteries by Bicester Town Council. At a meeting this week, councillors agreed to seek planning permission for a cemetery at three sites - next to the electricity substation in Pingle Field
A NEW wave of speed cameras is being rolled out across the county in response to demands from towns and villages. Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership has received 155 requests from residents and parish councils for tougher speed enforcement, with
MOTORISTS can expect long delays in the new year when the A34 is cut to one lane each way and a 40mph speed limit imposed for ten weeks. Resurfacing work will be carried out on the busy A-road between the West Ilsley junction and the A417 overbridge
A dominating dad whose three children were taken into care to save them from his "disfunctional" relationship with their mother has lost his fight to have them returned to him. Oxfordshire County Council took the children into care in May after a judge
A caring couple from Abingdon took a trip to the other side of the world to see the charity work they help fund. Alan and Marie-Claire Parker travelled to Vietnam where they met 10-year-old Tran who they sponsor through the international children's
A REPORT backing the use of monkeys in academic research was welcomed by Oxford University. The study into the use of non-human primates in research was chaired by Oxford geneticist and Professor of Medicine Sir David Weatherall and found a "strong
THE designers of Ford's S-Max picked up the rule book for family travel and clearly enjoyed ripping it into a thousand pieces. Seven-seater vehicles have been around for some time, but nothing on the road matches this one. With a footprint little
SUBARU has announced a new special edition Impreza WRX STI in memory of rally hero Richard Burns who died in November last year of cancer. Called the RB320, the new car features about £6,000 worth of extra equipment including the 320 horsepower performance
PROTON has refreshed and updated its Malaysian-built four-door Impian saloon this winter with new styling both inside and out. Priced from £10,595, the Impian has a re-designed front grille and back end and a new rear light cluster and new alloy wheels
CHINNOR have re-signed winger Eric Brown from Newbury and he will start in tomorrow's National 3 South clash at Bridgwater & Albion. The 24-year-old South African, a key man in last season's South West 1 winning team, should give Chinnor a much-needed
CONCRETE garage manufacturer Compton Buildings celebrated a milestone last week by supplying its 500,000th building. For the past 49-years the Fenny Compton company has manufactured concrete sectional garages and buildings. Compton's 500,000th garage
VILLAGERS have warned that they will fight moves to build thousands of homes between Garsington and Oxford. More than 150 people attended a packed public meeting in Garsington Village Hall on Tuesday called to assess local views about developing green
Mike Bywater bagged a brace as Bicester 3rd wrecked South Bucks 3rd's unbeaten record in Men's South Division with a 3-0 victory. Roy Carter got their other as Bicester moved within six points of the top. Bicester 4th threw away the lead as they lost
Didcot Town boss Stuart Peace has hailed the signing of former Oxford United youngster Ryan Brooks, but warned him he will have to fight for a place in their promotion-chasing side. Brooks (pictured), who links up with his brother and ex-U's striker
WHILE many of us may be hoping for a white Christmas, new figures from the Met Office have shown that this year in Oxfordshire looks set to be the warmest on record. But as people in the county are enjoying the milder weather, experts have warned climate
A QUESTION mark is hanging over the Oxford Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre trust's future. A key report has found that the internationally-renowned hospital is no longer financially viable as an independent health trust. And it is now unlikely to be able
PLANS to set up a new 'superschool' at Abingdon by merging Dunmore and Fitzharrys schools seem to be fading fast. Many parents are worried by the suggestion of creating a school for three to 19-year-olds by combining Dunmore Infants, Junior and Fitzharrys
RAIL passengers travelling between Oxford and Didcot on Saturday evening and Sunday morning are being advised to allow extra time for their journeys due to engineering work. Buses will replace First Great Western and Virgin CrossCountry trains on the
A GANG of youths stole cash from an elderly woman after knocking at her door and forcing their way into her home. Six boys, aged between 15 and 18, knocked at the pensioner's house in Copson Lane, Stadhampton, on Sunday at about 5.15pm. The woman was
