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For a devastating 20 minute period in the first half Steventon showed why they are one of the top teams in the league, after which the game became more balanced, but by then the damage was done! Goal Scorers for Steventon: Callum Kirby, Jamie Bolland

Rugby Tn 4 (Brown 34, 53, Kolodynski 39, Gordon 48) Oxford City 0 Oxford City’s poor run of results continued on Saturday as they crash-ed to a disastrous defeat against the Premier Division’s bottom club, who were collecting only their second win

Bashley 1 (Knowles 18) Banbury Utd 0 A poor display by all three match officials, and a feeak goal in the first half were the main talking points as Banbury took nothing from this Premier Division game. The only goal of the match came when Banbury

Didcot Tn 1 (Mortimer-Jones 63) Farnborough 2 (King 53, McCollin 55) Premier Division leaders Farnborough inflicted an eighth home defeat on Didcot on Saturday in the Zamaretto Southern league. But there were enough good signs to suggest that the

Abingdon Utd 1 (Franklin 90) Cinderford Tn 1 (O’Connor 56) A superb lob in the ninth minute of injury time from central defender Tom Franklin gave Abingdon United a dramatic point in their Division 1 South & West clash at Northcourt Road on Saturday

North Leigh 4 (Taylor 22, 28, Posey 64, Reardon 77) Frome Tn 0 Two first-half headers from top scorer Matty Taylor set North Leigh on the way to another comprehensive victory at Eynsham Park which dented Frome Town’s Division 1 South & West play-off

I WENT shopping at Templar’s Square in Cowley recently. Before I left to get my bus home, I used the toilets, washed my hands and, to my surprise, my ring fell off my finger and went down the plug hole. I was beside myself in tears. A lady stopped

Winterbourne 0 Headington 1 (Morbey 40) A first-half goal by Liam Morbey was enough for Headington to secure victory against lowly Winterbourne in Division 1 West. Adam Simmonds and Aftab Hafiz set up the goal for Morbey. Winterbourne’s Nick Wat-ers

Carterton 1 (Lewis 37) Witney Utd 2 (Odhiambo 65, Smith 70) A spectacular 25-yard effort from Dean Smith completed an excellent turnaround for Witney United in Saturday’s west Oxfordshire Premier Division derby (FTL Futbol Hellenic league). The

Eton Wick 0 Abingdon Tn 3 (Edney pen 15, Simms 30, 75) Two goals by Mark Simms helped Abingdon Town cruise into the quarter-finals of the Bluefin Insurance Brokers Cup against their lowly Division 1 East opponents. Abingdon took the lead when Danny

6th & 7th March Under 9 Red Cup Semi Finals Summertown Stars v Chalgrove Cavaliers 4-3 Kidlington Youth v Horspath 0-10 Under 9 Red League Abingdon Youth v Radley Youth 1-6 Grove Challengers v Crowmarsh

PEOPLE convicted of offences at magistrates' courts around the county. Anthony Cherry, 52, of Crutch Furlong, Berinsfield, admitted drink driving on February 6 on the B4015 in Chiselhampton. Namely having 92 microgrammes of alcohol in 100ml

AIDA LO wants to be able to grieve properly for her little girl Nathalie but can’t. Nathalie is one of the four babies who died at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford – leading to last week’s suspension of cardiac surgery for children.

A hatrick for Zac McEachran, two goals for Michael Trafford and Julius Muraga and one for Roland Hassani saw Kidlington progress into the next round of the League Cup. The score looks a comfortable one but at 4-3 it was anything but that. Kidlington

A DIDCOT headteacher has raised £4,000 to aid his disabled daughter by trekking to the Mount Everest base camp. All Saints Church of England Primary School’s John Myers, 45, completed the 75-mile hike in temperatures of -25C and across some

Governors at Rose Hill Primary School have broken their silence over a row between the school and a parent about a campaign on her Facebook page. Mother-of-five Samantha Barson was warned by the school she faced legal action if a campaign to

The Red Cup semi-final between Horspath and Summertown Galaxy was finally settled by a penalty shoot out after the two games ended in an overall 2-2 draw with Horspath ahead 2-1 after the first game before ’Galaxy won the second 1-0. Both games

PRIMARY school pupils dressed up as Easter bunnies to urge people to ditch chocolate eggs and donate money to children’s hospice Helen and Douglas House instead. The children, from Windmill Primary School in Headington, Oxford, donned the costumes on

GOVERNORS at Rose Hill Primary School have broken their silence over a row between the school and a parent about a campaign on her Facebook page. Mum-of-five Samantha Barson was warned by the school she faced legal action if a campaign to highlight her

DURING the past year, the Oxford Mail has reported many cases of fraud to vulnerable people, impostors gaining entry to properties posing as tradesmen and, sadly a fatality, all related to the plumbing and heating industry. Can I, in an attempt to lessen

Three rockets from Thomas Dale lead the way for Kidlington, with Matt Richards also scoring a hatrick. Joe Howes, Aaron Holmes, Thomas Rankin and Connor Micallef completed the scoring. Cumnor were very unlucky not to have had some goals to show for there

Further to your item about the 20mph speed limit (Oxford Mail, March 3), there is a sense in which town and country are divided. The police not having penalised anyone in town for going above the 20mph limit might mean that more drivers are using the

THE ambitious plan for the city to have a tram system in the future seems like a good idea in principle (Oxford Mail, February 16). But I cannot see it working in practice. I cannot see the High Street, Cornmarket Street, St Aldate’s and Queen Street

YOUR piece on 20mph speed limits (March 3) is sadly, almost irresponsibly, one-sided. Yes, there are inevitably enforcement issues but there are also significant examples of the successful implementation of speed limits. For example, local councillors

IT is more noticeable to those of us brought up before the 1950s, how lax religious practices have become – leading to the unruly behaviour we hear and read about so much today. Once Scouts of 11 years of age could wear jack knives on their

AM I alone in wondering whether the churchgoers objecting to the establishment of a lapdancing club in central Oxford are missing an opportunity? I recall that Jesus spent time with sinners, including sex workers, and rejoiced when they renounced their

Summertown got an early lead in the first match with a goal by Merlin Elias Jones but Botley got the equaliser from Morgan Sinclair-Pearson. Merlin enjoyed a second goal to take the lead and Joss King put the third in for Summertown to win the first match

IN the next three months the people of Great Britain will decide whether David Cameron should be Prime Minister. The General Election is being billed as potentially the most important in decades, determining who will lead Britain out of the deepest financial

FOR as far back as I can remember, I have always been out of step with whatever is ‘hot’, ‘wicked’ and ‘phat’ on the music scene. I mean, consider this: in the early eighties, I was in Soho, London, sitting in a pub that was clearly home to many of the

PEOPLE of all shapes and sizes are urged to pull on their running shoes and sign up for this year’s Sport Relief Mile. Six places across Oxfordshire are holding runs on Sunday, March 21, with distances of one, three and six miles available.

CONSULTATION is continuing on Cherwell’s plans for thousands of new homes across the district. In Banbury 1,200 homes have been allocated to the Canalside redevelopment, and 400 houses each at Bretch Hill and and Bankside. Permission has been granted

THE Trap Grounds in North Oxford – designated a Town Green after a hard-fought community campaign – will soon be open to more visitors after a new walkway is completed. Campaigners fought for years to prevent Oxford City Council from building social

“IT has turned my life around, I no longer run away from home or bunk off school.” That is what one teenager said after being put through a gruelling, US Army-style boot camp. Six troubled teenagers from south Oxfordshire spent a day chest-deep in muddy

WHILE police officers are on the beat and catching cirminals, behind the scenes are volunteers who provide invaluable help to the force. The 60 volunteer Thames Valley Police workers in West Oxfordshire and Cherwell donate a few hours a week to help

Kidlington secured their place in the U-10 final with a 5-0 win against Goring Robins at Abingdon Town. Kidlington made a perfect start when taking the lead after only 2 Mins when Ryan Hughes scored from close range. Goring responded well and

Abingdon started the brightest on this crisp and cold morning and Max Shepherd thought he had put Abingdon one up after a couple of minutes but was offside when he poked the ball home from 3 yards. Oxford then got a grip of the game and started to put

KYFC came out on top of a spirited Henley side in their first game since mid-December. Although they dominated the first half they only went in at half time due to a Jason Sallis goal and a couple of saves from their stand-in keeper Alex Brain.

PLANS to close a busy bridge over the Thames have angered villagers. Sandford Lock access bridge at Sandford-on-Thames will be closed to the public from March 22 until mid-June while the Environment Agency carries out essential maintenance work. But

PEOPLE of all shapes and sizes are urged to pull on their running shoes and sign up for this year’s Sport Relief Mile. Six places across Oxfordshire are holding runs on Sunday, March 21, with distances of one, three and six miles available. All cash

Lewis Hamilton feared he might not have been able to recover from the incident which saw him punished for lying to race stewards last season. The McLaren driver insisted he never considered switching teams after the incident in Melbourne, when

An overturned lorry today caused problems for drivers in north Oxfordshire. The lorry overturned on the A43, on one of the roundabouts by the Cherwell Valley Services which affects traffic exiting the M40 at junction ten. The incident

A senior Conservative is to go on TV with the sensational claim that David Cameron's wife Samantha has voted Labour in the past and could back Gordon Brown in this year's general election. But arts spokesman Ed Vaizey, a friend of Cameron's

Police are continuing to encourage residents to protect their property and register valuables on Immobilise.com, the UK National Property Register. The website is a free database, which is used by all police forces across the UK to help them