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  • SPORT: Snow decimates sport in Oxon

    Sport in Oxfordshire at the weekend was decimated by the big freeze. Oxford United’s FA Carlsberg Trophy second-round tie against Woking at the Kassam Stadium on Saturday headed a massive list of postponements throughout the county. The clash has been

  • DARTS: Trina on top of world again

    TRINA Gulliver has said that regaining the BDO women’s world championship title is a “special” feeling. The 40-year-old former Oxfordshire ace, defeated Rhian Edwards 2-0 in the final at the Lakeside to win her eighth title and first since 2007. Gulliver

  • Woman injured in sledge smash

    The Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance was called to Shotover Hill after a woman crashed her sledge into a tree. The woman, in her early 40s, was airlifted to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, with suspected fractures to her pelvis

  • SNOW: Sledge smash drama

    Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance was called to Shotover Hill after a woman crashed her sledge into a tree. The woman, in her early 40s, was airlifted to John Radcliffe Hospital with suspected fractures to her pelvis at about 3.30pm

  • Extra salt for grit-shortage areas

    There were prospects of a respite for councils facing a grit shortage as the freezing weather continued. A fleet of lorries began delivering the first supplies of 12,000 extra tonnes of de-icing salt made available by chemicals firm Ineos.

  • Noise worries over planned new East Oxford hubbly bubbly cafe

    PEOPLE in East Oxford fear they will suffer sleepless nights if a restaurateur goes ahead with plans to create a ‘shisha’ garden for up to 100 smokers. Families living in Temple Street are worried revellers visiting a planned new restaurant, with an

  • Superfast internet in pipeline for Didcot

    HOMES and businesses in and around Didcot are to get new high speed Internet connections. BT has announced the town’s telephone exchange will be one of 20 in the South East to be fitted with super-fast fibre-based broadband technology by the end of the

  • FIRE: Landlord rescued from burning village pub

    FIREFIGHTERS battled along icy roads to save a man and his dog from a burning village pub, early on Saturday morning. Fire crews were called shortly before 4am to the Catherine Wheel pub in Drayton St Leonard. Villagers said the pub’s 72-year-old landlord

  • TV ad band hopes for chart success

    A MUSICIAN who stumbled into a national advertising campaign is today hoping to take the charts by storm. Bass player Josh Ward, from Steventon, near Abingdon, became the face of phone company T-Mobile in August when a film crew stopped him in the street

  • Will it be curtains for touring theatre company?

    A LEADING touring theatre company has warned looming council budget cuts mean it may be unable to put its shows on in the Vale of White Horse. Oxfordshire Theatre Company performs to more than 1,000 people annually in the Vale. The

  • Scales of justice: Who's been in court

    DIDCOT Jonathan Mallion, 18, of Kent Close, Abingdon, admitted riding a motorcycle without due care and attention in High Street, Abingdon, on November 25. Fined £55, costs of £40 and a £15 victims’ surcharge. Caroline Couchman, 51, of Old School

  • Snow: Weather latest

    The Met Office is predicting light snow in Oxford from 9pm tonight with temperatures falling to -1C. Forecasters say Sunday and Monday will be cloudy, but only light snow flurries until the early hours of Monday are likely. Snow will start falling

  • SNOW: Latest weather forecast

    The MET office is predicting light Snow in Oxford from 9pm tonight (Sunday), with temperatures falling to -1°C. Forecasters say Sunday and Monday will be cloudy, but only light snow flurries until the early hours of Monday morning are likely

  • Headington sets policing priorities

    People in Headington South, Quarry and Wood Farm will have the opportunity to set their policing priorities for the coming year at a number of consulation events next week. The neighbourhood team will be asking people about the issues that