First Great Western is planning to operate normal weekend timetables on all its routes in Oxfordshire over the weekend. However, the firm is still advising passengers to check that their train is running before setting out to stations, in case
That’s it then only 351 days left until Christmas. Now it’s straight into booking summer holidays and storing Easter Eggs before the tinsel and great Christmas push starts all over again around the end of August. Good grief! Still it was a very pleasant
ABOUT 60 homes in North Oxford were without water for an hour after a water main pipe burst at around 4.15pm today. The properties in Navigation Way and Leckford Road soon had their water supply restored as a Thames Water engineer repaired the four inch
Trainer Paddy Curtin had a nice surprise on New Year's Day when Tiny Light, litter sister to Jo Lightly, whelped a litter of nine pups (six dogs and three bitches). Sire Droopys Vieri was an Irish Derby finalist. l THE Johnny Mayo-trained Burwood Freddie
Tubber Tommy, a good winner last time out, can continue his top form despite going up two grades for Saturday's A2 over 450m at Oxford Stadium. He is drawn in the striped jacket in the all-trophy meeting sponsored by the Michael Peterson owners. TONIGHT
Racing manager Gary Baiden has explained why he has approved the return of trainer Ian Wills to Oxford. Wills, a double champion trainer at Cowley, left the track a few months ago to join sister GRA track Hall Green after much deliberation. Now, however
GRITTING supplies have been secured to cover Oxfordshire’s major routes for the next few days. The current cold snap is expected to last well into next week. Earlier this week, Oxfordshire County Council decided to reduce the proportion
OXFORD-based charity Oxfam has announced a £20,000 fund to support groups in the city fighting poverty. Ten of the city’s 85 neighbourhoods are in the top 20 per cent of most deprived areas in the UK, and some groups in the city, including asylum-seekers
A MUCH-LOVED playground on Oxford's largest estate could be lost forever unless volunteers step in to save it. Trustees of Blackbird Leys Adventure Playground, also known as BLAP, have decided to close the 35-year-old facility temporarily because of
A REPATRIATION ceremony will be held outside Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital on Monday to honour the latest soldier killed in Afghanistan. Private Robert Hayes, 19, of 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment, was killed in an explosion on patrol in
BIN collections in Oxford started again yesterday after being snowed off earlier in the week. There was a restricted service, with residents in some parts of the city getting collections, and the city council hopes normal service will resume on Monday
ARCTIC temperatures have led to a shortage of shovels, spades and other essential DIY equipment in Oxford. Even Wellington boots are hard to come by. City DIY and hardware stores have reported a rush on rock salt, spades, sleighs and car batteries
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OVER-50’s are being offered the chance to take a twirl on the dancefloor. Oxford City Council, in partnership with Oxfordshire County Council, Age Concern, and Oxfordshire Go Active, is launching city-wide dance classes to encourage residents to keep
STEVE Arthurs was crowned the king of Coldstone AC as he won the club’s open match on the Evenlode at Ascott-under-Wychwood, writes ANDY WEBBER. The ten matchmen were in danger of getting frostbite in the bitterly cold conditions, but despite that, plenty
While the big freeze has scuppered most of the weekend’s sporting action, Oxford City Stars are hopeful that their English National League Division 1 South match with runaway leaders Invicta Dynamos will go ahead on Sunday at Oxpens Road. But although
CARPER Adam Smith travelled all the way from Devon to an undisclosed Oxfordshire pit and was rewarded with a 31.8.0 common carp. He moved swims twice before locating some fish, baiting up a silted area just off a gravel bar with two gallons of maggots
A FIVE-a-side league is starting in Witney in February, and the organisers are on the look-out for new teams. Football Mundial will run the league, which will take place on Tuesday nights at the Witney ATP in Gordon Way. It’s free to enter, and Football
WITNEY’S Terry Barber and Alan Cart-wright, from Black Bourton, took centre stage as Standlake Arena hosted their premier Banger meeting – the Heavy Metal Classic. Although the duo did not win races, it was more their cars that caught people’s attentions
The Vale of White Horse District Council says waste and recycling collections will return to normal non-holiday collection days from Monday. Residents are beingasked to put waste and recycling out for collection on the days they would normally have
MORE than 400 parents and pupils have signed a petition calling for a 20mph speed limit to be introduced outside Oxford’s largest school. Parents and governors at Cherwell School, which operates on two sites either side of the busy Marston Ferry Road
KIDLINGTON residents have been urged to dig deep to buy footballs for orphans in South Africa. Villagers created the Fund a Football campaign to help as many youngsters as possible in North West province, which has a long link with Kidlington through
RESURFACING work in Oxford's High Street will not start again until Wednesday at the earliest because of the freezing weather. The 10-month resurfacing scheme was suspended temporarily last month to make way for Christmas shopping and was due to start
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Police have arrested two men following a burglary in Henley. Thieves smashed a window and gained access to a shop in Thameside yesterday and stole clothing before driving off in a silver BMW. Police officers pursued a vehicle through Henley and
Jenson Button firmly believes he and Michael Schumacher will defy their critics this season. This week former Ferrari star Eddie Irvine claimed Button "will be murdered" by 2008 world champion and new team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who is effectively de
Oxford United's FA Trophy clash at home to Woking tomorrow has been called off. The game has been automatically rearranged for Tuesday, January 12 - although is already the subject of a midday pitch inspection on Monday.
Cherwell District Council said due to the severe weather conditions the council offices at Bicester, Kidlington and Banbury town centre will be closed today. The Bodicote House office remains open.
Watched the Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge of Love the other night to try to take my mind off the snow. Good acting, atmospheric depiction of London in the Blitz, and on the whole very entertaining. The film isn't really about the life
Plans to cut millions of pounds from council services have been watered down, it emerged today. It had been feared £2.3m would be axed from youth services over the next five years, but county hall has now said it will instead propose cuts of £350,000
The Ashmolean Dining Room 01865 553823 ashmoleandiningroom.com. KATHERINE MACALISTER manages to find her way into the restaurant at the New Ashmolean for a deliciously curious meal. Only in Oxford could I sit between a vicar
SARAH MAYHEW finds Building the New Ashmolean: Drawings and Prints by Weimin He really quite revealing... STANDING in one of the 39 galleries, on the fifth of the six floors in the New Ashmolean I gawped, wide eyed at the temporary exhibition
In a rare newspaper interview during filming for the new series of Lewis, star Kevin Whately proves a tough nut to crack for KATHERINE MACALISTER I hope you don’t mind coming in here,” Kevin Whately says as he ushers me into his ‘trailer
THE ROAD (15). Sci-Fi Thriller. Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Garret Dillahunt, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce. Abandon hope all ye who enter here. The future isn’t bright, not in the slightest, in John Hillcoat
IT’S COMPLICATED (15). Romantic Comedy. Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, John Krasinski, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Hunter Parrish, Zoe Kazan, Rita Wilson, Mary Kay Place, Alexandra Wentworth, Nora Dunn, Lake Bell. Director: Nancy Meyers
SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL (15). Drama. Andy Serkis, Bill Milner, Olivia Williams, Naomie Harris, Tom Hughes, Toby Jones, Ray Winstone, Mackenzie Crook, Noel Clarke, Charlotte Beaumont, Wesley Nelson. Distinguished by an incendiary
RICHARD BELL’S sophisticated side (yes, he does have one) is impressed, if also a little perplexed, by new ‘club’ Camera. The turning of the new year is supposed to be a momentous occasion, but if I’m honest, mine are always a bit of a let
Music Editor Tim Hughes emerges from his post New Year hibernation to dive headlong into the new decade’s exciting musical offerings. WE’RE broke, cold, bloated and suffering the vestiges of epic yuletide hangovers and too much good living
The snow and ice is still creating dangerous driving conditions for drivers across Oxfordshire this morning. A car overturned on the northbound carriageway of the M40 between junction seven for Thame and junction eight for Oxford. The
It has been a breakneck year for the Oxford music scene – with great festivals, awesome gigs and some incredible achievements by our favourite local bands. As we look forward to an even more exciting 12 months, Tim Hughes asks a clutch of the Oxford
• All Saints Church of England Primary School, Didcot. Open from 10am until 2pm. • Aston & Cote Church of England Primary School, Bampton. • Blessed George Napier Catholic School, Banbury. Partially open from 10am for any year 11
Oxford United chairman Kelvin Thomas says the 12th Man fund, through which fans have helped to bring in three players this season, has been “simply fantastic”. Anthony Tonkin is the latest to join the U’s thanks to the supporters’ initiative, which has
• All Saints Church of England Primary School, Didcot. Open from 10am until 2pm. • Aston & Cote Church of England Primary School, Bampton. • Blessed George Napier Catholic School, Banbury. Partially open from 10am for any year 11, 12 and 13
JIM Lewendon, the man who helps organise the impressive turnouts to mark the return of dead soldiers’ bodies to the city, is right that no-one does it for recognition or gratitude. Yet it is still good to see that, despite their own grief at losing a
ACROSS Oxfordshire, there are numerous tales of people going that extra mile for their friends, neighbours or complete strangers. We really are seeing the best of a community rallying around to help, and IT worker Stewart Griffiths deserves particular
THE Oxford hospitals park-and-ride bus routes 600 (from Thornhill), 700 (from Water Eaton) and 800 (from Peartree), operated by RH Transport, will run to normal timetables today, though there may be some delays due to road conditions. All
IF YOU want to get ahead, get a 4x4. The extreme arctic conditions experienced across Oxfordshire since Tuesday night have proved no match for those with off road vehicles. South Central Ambulance Service has been loaned 40 off road vehicles by 4x4 owners
THE big freeze of 2010 is sure to live long in the memory, but many are asking: “when has it been as bad as this?”. How did the county cope when heavy snow fell during previous winter storms? In December 1981, we photographed St Peter
Temperatures in Britain plunged to minus 21C as the country suffered its coldest night of the winter so far. The mercury sank to minus 21.2C (minus 6.2F) in parts of the Scottish Highlands - considerably colder than some home freezers - with
