OXFORD Connor Slamon, 42, of Cowley Road, Littlemore, Oxford, admitted using threatening words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress in Oxford on July 2. Fined £100 and a £15 victims’ surcharge. Martin Wright, 41, of Luther
IT may sound impossible but local drama students are putting on a performance of Billy Elliot – after only one week of practice. Stagecoach Theatre Arts Oxford will cast, rehearse and perform a youth theatre version of the hit show in just
Tributes have been paid to a 28-year-old man who died in a two-car crash on the A41 Bicester Road near Ludgershall. Mathew Godfrey, from Chipping Norton, was one of three people who died in the crash on July 18. His mother, Odette Godfrey
A 38-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of theft of metal after police raided an address in Banbury. Police said they executed the warrant shortly before 8pm on Thursday, and discovered a large amount of scrap metal. The man has been
Police are appealing for witnesses to three robberies in Oxford. At about 2.15am yesterday, a 23-year-old man was pushed to the floor in Jeune Street, off the Cowley Road. The two offenders stole his wallet. At about 6.30pm yesterday
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a number of burglaries in Banbury and Bicester. The first incident was sometime between midnight and 8am on Friday at a property in Bear Garden Road, in the Easington area of Banbury. Burglars entered
TROOPS leaving the country to fight in Afghanistan can play on games consoles while waiting for their flight. RAF Brize Norton is the gateway to operations, being the principal airbase for transporting troops. And it has now finished £186,000
OXFORD United have bolstered their forward line ahead of the npower League Two campaign with the addition of Chelsea striker Danny Philliskirk . The former Oldham trainee, signed by the Premier League champions at the age of 16, arrives on an initial
A BAPTIST minister and his wife, who set up Didcot’s youth worker scheme, food bank and drugs support group, are leaving the town. The Rev Keith Nichols, 53, and wife Anna, are moving to Leeds to launch a new Baptist Church in the Seacroft area of the
A FARMHAND jailed for 14 years for a string of child sex crimes committed over 20 years ago has failed in an Appeal Court bid to clear his name. Brian Hoverd, of Charterville Close, Minster Lovell, near Witney, was put behind bars at Oxford
A GALLERY has launched an exhibition featuring some of the world’s most famous artists. Henry Moore, Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin will all have work on show over the next month at the Creative Art Gallery in Woodstock. Called Modern
Wes Morrick destroyed high-riding Tring Park single-handed to set up a shock two-wicket victory for hosts Aston Rowant in Division 1 on Saturday in the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League. Even by his own high standard's Morrick’'s spell of
A sparkling innings by Stewart Laudat could not save Oxford from defeat in their Division 1 top-of-the-table match at Henley on Saturday. The former Oxfordshire player scored 82 from just 101 balls, but Oxford's total of 173 was just not enough and they
Banbury never recovered from a disastrous collapse and crashed to a seven-wicket defeat at home to Division 1 relegation contenders High Wycombe on Saturday in the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League. Put in to bat, Banbury seemed to have overcome
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Widely recognised as a cult classic, Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita has had a chequered past. Written in 1930s Soviet Russia before being burnt by Bulgakov who could see no hope of its publication, the novel was later resurrected
We all have them of course, ‘bad days’, but Fridays are usually ‘pretty good’ days. It’s the start of the weekend, the after-work drink is busily being organised, and suddenly the office – and its politics – don’t seem nearly so important. And until
Surely charging for parking at Oxford’s park & ride sites is not as cheap as the Greens think? They have to fit – or re-fit – ticket machines, pay for a repair contract, and employ staff to administer the system. I presume a clamping/fining system
I proudly stand in Headley Way for repatriation ceremonies, together with all who attend these sad occasions, and was utterly dismayed to read the comments by Michael Rhymes (Oxford Mail, July 27). I would like to inform him and any other misinformed
THE percentage of children who cycle to the Cherwell School each morning is impressive. Anything that helps reduce the number of cars on the road is a good thing and to be encouraged. And if the school, parents and ward councillors are
ROSE Hill Community Centre organised a barn dance to help boost numbers. Its youth club had reached bursting point, with more than 600 members. But adults were thin on the ground – the centre had only 40 members, but hoped to increase the figure to
SHE may have lacked the height of her rivals, but those legs could certainly run. Janet Holden, 12, held off her fellow pupils to win the girls’ inter-house cross country race at Old Marston Secondary School in Oxford in 1962. She was first home, followed
Alan Bourne (Oxford Mail, June 9) said Darwin’s theories were based on faked research by a certain Haeckel. Ernst Haeckel was a celebrated admirer and exponent of Darwinism. But this story of “faked research” is something of which I have never heard
NICK Clegg’s Lib-Dems and Blair fan David Cameron’s Tories appear a well-tempered instrument, tuned to neo-liberal perfection. We witness the strange death of party politics replaced by PR, coalitions, EU regulation and global fantasies of career politicians
Please, tell me it’s not true that Oxford has had an annual budget of £160,000 to “tackle teenage pregnancy” and... “help break the cycle of deprivation” (Wednesday’s Oxford Mail). Surely, if these poor unfortunates want to stop their slippery slide
Andrew Hemming smashed a superb century as Shipton-under-Wychwood moved to the brink of a return to Lord’s. Hemming’s 137, coupled with a crucial unbeaten 72 from stand-in skipper Steve Bates saw the west Oxfordshire side to a 56-run victory over Troon
AS Oxford United prepare to return to the Football League, we look back at another time when the club were ‘on the up’. This Oxford Mail picture was taken at the Manor Ground in May 1961 when the team were celebrating winning the Southern League Premier
FOUR men fined for playing cards on a grass verge weren’t the only ones to fall foul of this particular gaming law. Terry Pratley remembers that his grandfather and three friends were hauled into court for a similar transgression. We recalled (Memory
ARGUMENTS over politics took a back seat when skittles matches were in progress. This was the scene in 1966 during a match in the Oxford Conservative Clubs’ Skittles League. The Central Conservative Club just managed to win a challenge
MEMBERS of the North Oxfordshire Guild of Weavers and Dyers gave a demonstration of their art at the Holly Tree Club in 1986. They spent six hours making a shawl for Louise Fulbrook, 96, the village’s oldest resident. Anne McKeane, Vena Ashley,
LIFE in Oxford went on much as normal during the Second World War. But there was one constant reminder that Britain was at war with Germany – the huge amount of aircraft activity. Derrick Holt remembers that families were subjected to
SPRAY can vandals are causing thousands of pounds damage by leaving their ‘tags’ on prominent Oxford buildings. Police are particularly trying to catch one culprit who has left the tag ‘SOAK’ in foot-high lettering across West Oxford and other
Mark Webber was clearly grateful to be handed a rare gift that has propelled him back to the top of the Formula One standings. Webber is now four points clear following his fourth win this year with a crushing success in Hungary. The Australian
A BIKER daredevil from Oxfordshire will follow in the footsteps of The World’s Fastest Indian. Witney man Barry Beadle will travel to The Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, USA, in an attempt to break the speed record for the bike. It was at the same salt
A man who accused Asians of being terrorists and threatened to chop off a pub landlord’s leg with an axe has been given a suspended prison sentence. Paul Darragh, 46, walked free from Oxford Crown Court on Friday, after admitting three charges over the
CHILDREN and parents at an Oxford school are calling for new speed restrictions to protect the hundreds of pupils who cycle to lessons each day. More than half of The Cherwell School’s 1,800 pupils make their daily journey to the school by
THE west of Oxford is awash with the stains of self-defined graffiti ‘artists’. Tags have been sprayed on signs, walls and shop fronts, adding to the city’s annual clean-up bill picked up by you, the taxpayer. Last count: £100,000. While we are loath
Kelvin Thomas than-ked Oxford United’s fans for their support in Saturday’s Youth Development Benefit game at the Kassam Stadium. A team of United legends drew 4-4 with a Celebrity XI, watched by well over 1,000 spectators. And chairman Thomas, who
THOUSANDS of people flocked to Oxfordshire’s county show as it was held at the weekend for the first time in its 123-year history. Organisers of the Oxfordshire County and Thame Show switched the event to a summer Saturday from a Thursday in September
FUTURE plans for Bicester’s Hospital are safe despite Government plans to abolish primary care trusts. Officials at NHS Oxfordshire moved to reassure supporters of the scheme that it was full steam ahead for the planned replacement hospital
A NURSE who arrived at Witney Community Hospital before it had even been finished is retiring after more than 40 years in the profession. Doctors and nurses on Wenrisc Ward have waved a fond farewell to acting ward manager Sue Wilson. Mrs Wilson first
A COLLEGE has given in to demands for a hairdressing course – and built a new salon in Witney. It will cost £50,000. After countless calls from students at Abingdon and Witney College, in Holloway Road, for a hair care course, the new subject
