Telephones and Internet connections were busy today as the first wave of Oxford United fans snapped up tickets for Wembley. Season-ticket holders and club members were online and dialling from 9am to book seats for the promotion clash with
A woman has described her shock after part of a rotten tree fell and crushed her car in North Oxford. A branch of the chestnut tree landed on top of Ann Warren’s red SEAT after heavy rain on Saturday night. She discovered the mess in
A new restaurant is set to replace the Lemon Tree in North Oxford. The Woodstock Road restaurant was closed two years ago and earmarked for demolition. But owner Clinton Pugh now plans to open a new restaurant on the site this summer
THE chance to lead Oxford United out at Wembley has been put up for auction to boost the team’s transfer budget. The fans’ 12th Man initiative, which has raised almost £30,000 for new players since last summer, has set up an online auction
THE Old Bank Hotel in Oxford has been named the ninth best hotel in the UK by online travel company Expedia. The High Street hotel finished 365th in the world in another list from the company, which analysed more than one million travellers
A NEW restaurant is set to replace the Lemon Tree in North Oxford. The Woodstock Road restaurant was closed two years ago and earmarked for demolition. But owner Clinton Pugh, right, now plans to open a new restaurant on the site this summer. Mr Pugh
A STONE crushing machine worth more than £150,000 has been stolen from a firm in Eynsham. Thieves got into McKenna Plant Hire site in Church Hanborough Road and stole the 35 tonne, yellow C-10 Jaw Crusher machine sometime between Friday evening and yesterday
THE Old Bank Hotel in Oxford has been named the ninth best hotel in the UK by online travel company Expedia. The High Street hotel finished 365th in the world in another list from the company, which analysed more than one million travellers
THE bodies of three soldiers who died in Afghanistan are being repatriated on Friday. Corporal Harvey Holmes, of 1st Battalion, The Mercian Regiment, Sapper Daryn Roy, of 21 Engineer Regiment, and Lance Corporal Barry Buxton, 21 Engineer Regiment, are
THE A40 will be closed between the Wolvercote roundabout and Cassington overnight on Saturday. The road will be closed from 10pm-7am on Sunday to allow columns of a temporary carriageway to be demolished as part of the Wolvercote Viaduct replacement
PHONES and internet connections glowed red-hot today as the first wave of Oxford United fans snapped up tickets for Wembley. Season-ticket holders and club members were online and dialling from 9am to book seats for the promotion clash with
THE chance to lead Oxford United out at Wembley has been put up for auction to boost the team’s transfer budget. The fans’ 12th Man initiative, which has raised almost £30,000 for new players since last summer, has set up an online auction
Wide receiver Steve Belcher scored a sizzling 70-yard touchdown as Oxford Saints came out on top 7-0 in a war of attrition against South Wales Warriors in BAFA Community League Division 1. In the first game at their new Abingdon RFC home, Saints
MORE than 300 motorists were caught speeding during a week-long crackdown. The checks took place as part of a European-wide campaign of enforcement and education on the dangers of speeding. The Oxfordshire checks, where 315 drivers were caught travelling
League champions Banbury Central A survived a huge scare before beating local rivals Banbury Chestnuts by two shots in the Oxford & District League Cup. At one stage, Central, who suffered an early exit last year, trailed by 29 shots in the first round
When Kelly and Richard Pope were offered the chance to appear on their favourite reality TV wedding show, they jumped at it. And they got the special bonus of having their big day screened on national television as a keepsake to keep on watching
Ian Moss’s 12,040 break in the fourth game proved decisive as he and partner Alan Oliver beat Comrades’ Simon Ellam and Chris Storch on aggregate in the Johnsons Buildbase Oxford & District League pairs semi-final, writes PETE EWINS. Played
A PENSIONER has described her shock after part of a rotten tree fell and crushed her car. A branch of the chestnut tree landed on top of Ann Warren’s red Seat after heavy rain on Saturday night. She discovered the mess in the car park outside her flat
Jaws dropped as weird and wonderful outfits from some of the world’s hottest designers took to the catwalk in Oxford for a fashion spectacular. More than 200 fashionistas packed into the Randolph Hotel’s grand ballroom to see some of the world
Henley Hawks president Noel Armstead says the club’s first season after ‘re-unification’ has been a success. His comments come depite Hawks’ first team spending much of the season near the bottom of National 2 South. But having merged
Police are appealing for witnesses after a £150,000 machine was stolen from a firm in Eynsham. Thieves got into the McKenna Plant Hire site in Church Hanborough Road and stolen the 35-tonne, yellow C-10 Jaw Crusher. The hteft happened
Banbury Under 12s were crowned double county champions after some impressive performances in the Oxfordshire Mini and Junior Festival at Henley. Their A team demolished hosts Henley 40-0 in the final, having seen off Chinnor 10-0 in the semis. Banbury
Oxford won the Shield after a strong finish in the Reading round of the National Touch Series. After three narrow defeats in the pool stages of the touch rugby event, Oxford, who are based at Stratfield Brake, bounced back with a win against Allsorts
Chipping Norton's unbeaten record will come under pressure when they entertain holders Tadmarton Heath on Saturday in Section 1 of the Shaw Gibbs Oxfordshire Foursomes League. The hosts top the table after winning two and drawing one of their three matches
I write regarding Kevin Dyer’s Motor Mouth column (Oxford Mail, April 30) on the subject of lorry drivers. Having read the piece, my initial feeling was one of total disbelief. I have been driving articulated lorries since 1983 and have not felt this
I THINK that Richard Dyer, the Friends of the Earth transport campaigner was wrong to say that fuel duty is not high enough (Oxford Mail, April 28). Every item in every shop is transported by road at some point, as are many people who work. To increase
ONE need not be a planning engineer to see how flawed some of our supposed traffic-calming measures are. Given that speeding, or at least a gentle ignorance of road rules, sometimes seems a national trait (see, for instance, the failure of drivers to
YOUR article on the police raid in North Oxford (Oxford Mail, May 1), was interesting because you reported that 14 officers raided a house for drugs. How many policemen does it take to change a lightbulb? Does that also take 14 men? The point is that
I RECENTLY attended my grandchildren’s karate grading in Summertown. What a joy it was to see motivated children with respect and discipline, and motivated parents. Congratulations to Oxford Martial Arts Club who ran the event with precision. The black
RECENTLY, a small group of us sat and watched a DVD of an episode of the TV Series Yes Minister. Amid all the electioneering we found it a tonic! Derek Sherwood, Barton Lane, Headington
FOLLOWING last Saturday’s events, I would suggest there is a very simple and cheap method to stop these idiots jumping off Magdalen Bridge every May Morning – without the need for a regiment of police and stewards in attendance, or expensive barriers.
WHEN Kelly and Richard Pope were offered the chance to appear on their favour-ite reality TV wedding show, they jumped at it. And they got the special bonus of having their big day screened on national television as a keepsake to keep on watching over
THE man overseeing Wallingford Museum’s extension has resigned, saying the project is “in turmoil” after a dispute over who should own the new building. Norman Guiver, of the Carpenter’s Fellowship, said he could no longer be involved after the museum
DRUG swabbing and knife-finding metal detectors have caused pub violence in the west of the county to plummet, new figures suggest. In the 12 months to the end of March, the number of crimes linked to licensed premises in West Oxfordshire fell from 36
ANDREW Tippet posted a double victory in the hurdles as Oxford City got off to a brilliant start by winning their Southern Men’s League Division 2 meeting at Hemel Hempstead. Tippet took victory in the A string 110m hurdles, clocking 16.8 secs, before
OXFORD City finished in second place in their first National Young Athletes League Midlands 1 South East match of the season at Milton Keynes. Although City finished well adrift of the host club, there were plenty of encouraging signs on a wet day.
RADLEY emerged victorious from the opening round of the women’s competition in the Western Veterans League at Horspath Road. They eased to victory by a margin of 25 points ahead of Newbury, with Abingdon Amblers in third place. In the men’s event, Oxford
JAWS dropped as weird and wonderful outfits from some of the world’s hottest designers took to the catwalk in Oxford for a fashion spectacular. More than 200 fashionistas packed into the Randolph Hotel’s grand ballroom to see some of the world
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A ‘jaw crusher’ vehicle worth more than £150,000 has been stolen from a firm in Eynsham. Thieves stole the 35 tonne, yellow C-10 Jaw Crusher machine from McKenna Plant Hire site in Church Hanborough Road sometime between the evening of Friday, April
Police caught more than 300 motorists speeding during a week of enforcement in Oxfordshire. The checks took place last week as part of a European-wide campaign of enforcement and education as to the dangers of speeding. The Oxfordshire
Until last week, I had not travelled out of Waterloo station behind a steam engine for more than 40 years. It was as long ago as July 1966 that I enjoyed a day-long journey to Ilfracombe behind a succession of work-stained Bulleid Pacifics, one
As any celebrity diner at The Ivy knows very well, there is no such thing as a fully booked restaurant. In the same way that every theatre leaves a block of seats free at every performance – is The Queen going to show? – so restaurants will always
Because the sun was shining and Charles Gee, of Medley Manor Farm Pick Your Own, Binsey, had just presented me a couple of bunches of his first asparagus cut, I had to make something special for lunch. So I invested in a couple of fillet steaks and a
NIGHT is for Sleeping – Day is for Resting said the piece of street art in Victoria – and the city certainly had a restful feel to it on the Sunday I paid a visit. After stepping off a seaplane from Vancouver at the Inner Harbour, I was greeted
There was a real buzz in Chipping Norton’s Town Hall last week as visitors poured in to take part in the town’s first Food Festival, which was a celebration of all things local. The event was the brainchild of Nick Pullen and his partner Sally Daniel,
Cambridge University may have more Boat Race wins under its belt than Oxford (80 to Oxford’s 75), but in the Prime Minister stakes Oxford is well ahead with 25 educated here, against only 13 there since 1721. Astonishingly, too, 13 of those Oxford-educated
‘One, two, Freddy’s coming for you . . . Three, four, better lock your door . . .” In 1984, writer-director Wes Craven unleashed one of cinema’s most iconic and dearly beloved boogiemen: Freddy Krueger. Dressed in an eye-catching red and green striped
A WOMAN who was plunged into a coma after being struck down with swine flu has urged people not to forget about the illness. NHS Oxfordshire is still routinely offering a swine flu jab to people in at-risk groups, including pregnant women and
Police are appealing for help in tracing a woman after an altercation at an Oxford pub. Shortly before 11pm on April 16, three men got into a verbal altercation with a fourth man at the City Arms pub in Cowley Road, which turned into a fight.
In just over a week’s time the East Oxford Community Choir will be tackling Part One of St Paul, Mendelssohn’s first and often overlooked oratorio. This epic work might seem a tad ambitious for a choir formed from an eclectic group of East Oxford
Thinking Without Words – the title of best-selling novelist, cartoonist and poet Mark Haddon’s first solo exhibition – makes sense. The 22 pictures on the walls of the Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Summertown, are the result of thoughts expressed through paint
A CAMPAIGNER claims a council has flouted planning rules over a 5,000-home eco town and will report it for maladministration. Tony Ives, a former town planner for Vale of the White Horse, says he will fire off a letter to Cherwell District Council’s
In interviews Misty’s Big Adventure often talk of being on a one-band mission to keep music exciting and vibrant. As experience shows, music stays vibrant by smashing together genres and seeing the results: consequences can be bizarre, occasionally unlistenable
Given that it’s a genre still in its relative infancy, it has becomes really quite difficult to do anything remotely interesting with dance music. Nu rave came and went in a flash, electro clash was over before it started and all those who are interested
Radcliffe Square – it’s one of the world’s most beautiful sights, and has been made even more famous by its frequent appearances in the Lewis TV series. Now it becomes the backdrop for Tightrope, a new show devised by the Under Construction theatre company
‘Dynamic Duo’ might be a better name for percussionist pair Oliver Cox and Owen Gunnell, as they demonstrated at the JDP last week in a concert that was so bursting with energy and vitality it was almost exhausting. From the moment Cox and Gunnell entered
Graham Fitkin is a young British composer whose work has attracted much attention. He has had commissions from many leading orchestras and has collaborated with some of the best performers of new music. So it was great to see Oxford Contemporary Music
A remarkable work is coming to the Playhouse. The dance theatre company Chickenshed (formed in 1974 in a disused chicken shed) is presenting Crime of the Century, a harrowing look at the victims and perpetrators of knife-crime by young people in Britain
“I have done Shakespeare, Ben Elton, and several musicals, but I have never done ANYTHING like this before,” Edward Blagrove exclaimed. Edward is directing Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan’s spoof showbiz musical The Producers for Oxford Operatic Society.
The Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker has brought her 16-strong company back to the UK. Last Friday they were at the Wycombe Swan with her new show Cruel. When I talked to her a couple of weeks ago she told me that the title describes the human relationships
A FORMER army major who was involved in the Battle of El Alamein has died aged 92. Sir Idwal Pugh, a former NHS and Government Ombudsman who was knighted in 1972 for his public service, passed away at his home in Banbury Road, North Oxford. The former
The unveiling of a new work is always fascinating, and David V Goliath, a rock musical based on the Biblical story, certainly didn’t disappoint. Written by brothers Aldie and Sandy Chalmers, with a libretto by Lee Wyatt-Buchan, this is a thrilling, action-pieced
FIREFIGHTERS made a quacking start to a £30,000 appeal for two charities. Fire crews from Bicester launched the fundraiser with a duck race on Sunday. Participants sponsored a yellow plastic duck, numbered 1 to 150, before they were
BRENDA Horwood remembers her favourite playground from when she was six years old in 1928. More than 80 years on, she revisited the play area, in Hinksey Park, off Abingdon Road, South Oxford, to officially reopen it after a £130,000 refurbishment by
May morning revellers blinking blearily homeward stumbled into a Radcliffe Square transformed as if for a motor show. A gleaming collection of top-of-the-range Volkswagen Touaregs surrounded the Camera; beyond stood three or four huge outside broadcast
Christopher Maltman may be a formidable force on the operatic stage, with acclaimed performances as Don Giovanni, Figaro and Billy Budd under his belt, but he is also a former winner of the Lieder Prize at the Cardiff Singer of the World competition,
Epic journeys have been much in the news of late. All too real, budget-blowing treks have been undertaken by people stranded thousands of miles from home by volcanic ash. Then there have been the action-swamped journeys of people like Jake Sully in the
THIRTY schoolchildren from Wallingford got their first taste of golf after they wrote to a local club to ask to have a go. The group of eight- and nine-year-old pupils at Fir Tree Junior School, in Radnor Road, enjoyed an hour’s tuition from the professionals
Police officers confiscated sound systems when they broke up an illegal rave over the Bank Holiday weekend. They seized the equipment destined for the illegal gathering after they stopped two transit vans on-route to the rave in Lewknor shortly
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Police said today that they thwarted an illegal rave in South Oxfordshire. Officers confiscated the sound systems destined for the illegal gathering after they stopped two vans en route to the rave in Lewknor. The police operation happened
LADIES, prepare to be jealous. I, singleton Sue accomplished the almost impossible this week. I managed to discover not one, but two eligible, charming, sweet, professional, single and, even more surprisingly, straight men. One was a dentist
BMW, owner of the Cowley Mini factory, gave an upbeat forecast of its future earnings, reporting first-quarter pre-tax profits in its core automotive division three times higher than the previous quarter. The £250m figure for the first three
Enterprise Rent-A-Car has opened a new branch at Oxford Airport. Four jobs have been created at the new Kidlington site which will provide a mix of cars and light commercial vehicles. Janene Scurfield, managing director for the South Central region,
Children dodged rain and hail but still enjoyed a fun-packed fair to celebrate the start of May. Almost 1,000 people turned out for the May Day Fair at Carterton Recreation Ground and Brownes Hall. Highlights included a fairground, a
Air passengers face the return of flight chaos as the skies over many parts of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland closed for business once more. Hundreds of flights to and from airports have been suspended after emissions from the Icelandic volcano
York City goal hero Chris Carruthers says his club have nothing to fear ahead of their play-off final against his former team Oxford United. Carruthers’s 47th-minute goal against Luton completed a 2-0, two-legged semi-final victory. United finished
AFTER watching many members of the public being interviewed on TV with regard to the forthcoming elections, it is plain to see the frustration and lack of trust in politicians that the British public now has. The myth that a hung Parliament cannot work
IN THE wake of the recent Liberal Democrat electoral surge and the public reaction to Nick Clegg’s showing in the TV leaders’ debates, we saw no less than four Tory-supporting newspapers devoting front pages on the same day to digging the dirt on the
THE poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller said: “Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain”. With that in mind, if the Tories win tomorrow, it will be a triumph of ignorance and stupidity over justice. On polling day the voters will have
I THOUGHT your readers might like to take the following quotation from Conservative Benjamin Disraeli into consideration before casting their vote: “Conservatism discards prescription, shrinks from principle, disavows progress; having rejected all respect
WITH possibly the most critical election since the Second World War, a hung Parliament will do nothing to restore confidence. Britain is in crisis: in Parliament, the economy, the family, immigration, defence, health and education. Let the electorate
Oxford United’s coffers will be boosted by at least £750,000 if they can secure promotion back into the Football league. Club chairman Kelvin Thomas said he expected to gain an extra £500,000 next season if his team beats York City in the play-off
Oxford United’s coffers will be boosted by at least £750,000 if they can secure promotion back into the Football league. Club chairman Kelvin Thomas said he expected to gain an extra £500,000 next season if his team beats York City in the play-off
A COWLEY factory worker inspired by 25 years of working with cars has written a children’s book telling the adventures of a troublesome rally car. Bob Neale, 50, from Brookside, Abingdon, discovered his love for story-telling when he began
CHILDREN who did not get a place at the school they hoped to study at will find out today if their appeals have been successful. A second round of school place offers will be going out to parents of primary and secondary school pupils, following initial
A teenager has been spared jail despite breaching his antisocial behaviour order for the fifth time. Byron Haines, 19, of Goldfinch Close, Greater Leys, was issed with a two-year Asbo in October 2007, which banned him from entering Blackbird
A TEENAGER has been spared jail despite breaching his antisocial behaviour order for the fifth time. Byron Haines, 19, of Goldfinch Close, Greater Leys, was issued with a two-year Asbo in October 2007, which banned him from entering Blackbird
