CRICKET SERIOUS CRICKET HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Division 1 Oxford 177-7 (41 ovs, S Van Dyk 54, J Perkin 46no, C Crowe 3-58) v Henley RSP. Oxford 6pts, Henley 6. Division 2 West Gerrards Cross 184-5 (42 ovs, H Taj 78, J Hughes 50), Dinton 73-
THIRTY-FOUR pioneering cancer scientists are preparing to step out from behind their microscopes and face a different challenge – the five kilometre fundraising phenomenon that is Oxford’s annual Race for Life. The female scientists swapping
JAMIE Perkin maintained his excellent form to help out of a sticky patch during their rain-ruined Division 1 clash at Romanway on Saturday. Perkin, called up to the first team following his spectacular 154 for Oxford 2nd, the previous week produced a
A STOLEN puppy has been reunited with its owners after being found on a travellers’ site 30 miles away. Piglet, a six-month-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier, was bundled into a van when it strayed out of the garden of owners Martin and Sharon
MEMBERS of an Islamic sect in Oxford are in mourning after discovering friends and family members were among those killed in a terrorist attack on two mosques in Pakistan. The shootings and bombings at Darul Zikr and Garhi Shahu mosques in Lahore are
PEOPLE are being asked to put their hands in their pockets to help safeguard the future of a community festival. Oxford’s Headington Festival, which takes place in Bury Knowle Park, London Road, on Sunday is in its eighth year and is the largest
IF YOU like the idea of dressing up in your pyjamas, putting your friend in a wheelbarrow and downing pints of ale then consider moving to Bampton – they’ve been doing it for decades. People in fancy dress pushed each other in prams and other
THE cancer stricken father of a 22-year-old man stabbed to death in Oxford wants people to remember how his son died and stop carrying knives. Frankie Adams lost young dad Blayne Ridgway after he was stabbed outside the Que Pasa bar in the
IT’S enough to turn any football fan green with envy. Most of us are pondering which pub to watch England’s opening World Cup match against the USA at on Saturday, June 12. But a select few across Oxfordshire are packing suitcases and
SCHOOL pupils, city residents and visitors are being asked to shape the future of one of Oxford’s most treasured institutions. For 35 years, the Museum of Oxford, at the Town Hall, has allowed people to explore the city’s rich social history, its architecture
People in fancy dress pushed each other in prams and other wheeled transport from pub to pub for the 58th Annual Great Shirt Race in Bampton yesterday. About 1,000 people turned out to cheer on the participants. A fancy dress competition started the
A 21-year-old man who smashed a bottle in another man’s face in a city-centre bar has been jailed. Patrick Meech, of Tilehurst, Reading, attacked Oliver Stringer in Thirst Bar in Park End Street on August 16. Meech, who left his victim with a fractured
