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  • Sun shines for Woodstock festival

    Thousands of people turned out in the sunshine to watch Woodstock Live, making this year's event the biggest so far. The music festival, which began on Friday and ends on Monday, is in its third year, and drew crowds four times as large as last year

  • We've a lot to thank Tim for

    Tim Henman won 11 ATP Tour titles, got to six grand slam semi-finals (including one in Paris) and, at his peak, reached No. 4 in the world rankings. Yet in the words of your editorial (Oxford Mail, August 24) he "never fulfilled his potential as a star

  • Drop the Act

    I think the time has come to tear up the Human Rights Act. This legislation has allowed criminals, teenage thugs, bogus asylum seekers and lazy spongers, to name but a few, to take the you- know-what out of the rest of us whilst lining the pockets of

  • A sad loss

    It was a shock to hear of the untimely death last week of former Cllr Brian Hodgson whom I shared the county council chamber with for many years. He was a genuine progressive whose radicalism was founded on traditional Labour values of peace and social

  • Thinking outside the box

    We thought long and hard about what to get Littl'un for her first birthday. It was a major milestone and it seemed like we should buy her something pretty special. Although, at the same time we secretly knew this could be completely wasted on her. The

  • Oxford Utd 2 Stafford 1

    Don't take any notice of the result . . . Oxford United's 2-1 win over Stafford on Saturday was a massacre. And yet, incredibly, United ended up clinging on in the final moments for the three points they should have had wrapped up well before the hour

  • TV restaurant goes out of business

    A restaurant which features in a forthcoming reality TV show featuring Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc has folded. The Restaurant, due to be screened on the BBC on Wednesday, puts nine couples through their paces to see if they have what it takes

  • Canoists paddle to aid children

    Whatever three men in a boat can do, two girls in a canoe can do better - that is the claim of Lindsay Dean and Heather Rand, who are aiming to paddle their boat from the source of the Thames all the way to the sea. They plan to take about a week to

  • One-way street net campaign annoys residents

    An internet campaign has been set up in an effort to encourage drivers to turn Divinity Road and Southfield Road, East Oxford, into an informal one-way system. More than 60 people have signed up to Facebook group Up Div Down Southfield, calling on drivers

  • Student thief avoids jail

    A student at Oxford Brookes university became a 'professional thief,' commuting to London to target city brokers and tourists. Othman El Ouarti, 27, of Empress Court, Woodin's Way, Oxford, admitted three counts of theft when he appeared at the Old Bailey

  • Adults miss dental care

    Fewer than half of the adults in Oxfordshire have seen an NHS dentist in the last two years. According to new Government figures, only two fifths of people living in the county had low-cost dental care between April 2005 and March 2007, compared to

  • Were brothers Saints of speedway?

    So who were the St Clement's Saints? Were they another of the Oxford cycle speedway teams? The picture was sent in by Valerie Sturgess, of Grays Road, Headington. She writes: "I have come across this photograph, which was probably taken in about

  • RAF pilot put on the memorial after 63 years

    A man who died when his aircraft came down in a wartime mid-air collision has finally been honoured on an Oxfordshire war memorial. It is 63 years since Eric Pickin and the other six crew members of a Lancaster bomber lost their lives on the night of

  • Teenagers have their say

    A meeting of minds took place when Didcot teenagers put their heads together with the people in power to discuss the issues facing young people in the town. Members of Didcot Young Minds, previously Didcot Youth Council, brainstormed ideas with MP Ed

  • City bands perform at top festival

    THOUSANDS of Oxfordshire music lovers are heading over the county boundary for the UK's biggest rock festival. The Carling Weekend: Reading Festival kicks off today in Berkshire. And among those making the annual pilgrimage are a clutch of Oxford