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Score after full time: 0-0; Casuals win penalties 1-2; Penalty scorers: Hamish Harrison-Cushing for Summertown Cobras; Ellis Dawson and Arley Watson Pill for Didcot Casuals

DEMOLITION work has started at a college ahead of a £7.5m rebuild. Diggers rolled into the Witney campus of Abingdon and Witney College yesterday to begin tearing down the old, unused buildings. It was the first step in a project that looked like it

MORE than 500 people marched through East Oxford and the city centre this afternoon for a mass protest against Government cuts and tuition fee rises. Students, pensioners and public sector workers joined a noisy but peaceful two hour demonstration

Freezing weather will grip Britain for weeks to come, forecasters warned - with rain, sleet and snow expected across the country. Some of the worst widespread early snow for 17 years has seen much of the country disrupted and police in affected

A multi-vehicle crash this evening led to the closure of the A415 Abingdon to Witney road. The collision happened near the entrance to Millets Farm garden centre, at Frilford. No news has yet been released of any injuries.

THE TAXPAYER subsidy propping up city swimming pools and gyms has been slimmed down dramatically and the spiral of decline in facilities halted, according to council chiefs. Two years ago, Oxford City Council was subsidising every single visit to its

Division Two leaders Woodstock A surrendered their 100 per cent record in the Gentworks Oxford & District Snooker League when they had to settle for a 3-3 draw in a see-saw match with Eynsham B, writes DAVID WHITE. First blood went to Eynsham thanks

Azad pipped Middleton Cheney on run rate to claim the Banbury Indoor League Division 3 title. Nadir Khan (38no) and Naz Iqbal (30no) starred in their 159-2 against Wardington, who managed only 95-5 in reply. Middleton also won their last game, beating

THE HANDIWORK of hundreds of nimble-fingered Oxfordshire knitters will help pensioners across the country keep warm this winter. Each year Oxfordshire Age UK, formerly Age Concern Oxfordshire, enlists the help of people to make miniature woolly hats

MARK Walker has had Multiple Sclerosis for nearly 20 years. The condition forced the 51-year-old to give up his job as an IBM management consultant, and he is now severely impaired down his right side and relies on a walking aid and trekking poles to

PUPILS across Oxfordshire have been urging drivers to slow down to help cut deaths on the roads. Children set out to raise awareness of the hazards of speeding near schools and to get motorists to slow down to 20mph as part of activities for

Vikings A, led again by in-form Gareth Hayward, beat Forum C 7-3 for their fourth win out of four this season. That elevates them to second place in Oxford & District League Division 1. Forum A had a comfortable 10-0 victory over Vikings C. In Division

WEST Oxfordshire District Council will not be cutting the amount of money it spends on flood defences after all, it has emerged. Earlier this month the Oxford Mail revealed that the council’s budget for preventing flooding could be cut by a third, dropping

A TEAM of broadcasters from Oxford who have spent the past week presenting programmes from Afghanistan have spoken of their “amazing” experience. Jack FM’s Morning Glory breakfast team deployed to the Army’s Camp Bastion in Helmand province last Sunday

HI HO, hi ho, it’s off to new homes they go. Seven life-size papier mache dwarfs have all been found new homes, thanks to the Oxford Mail. Melville King, 79, spent two-and-a-half years creating the lifesize Disney characters out of old copies of the

OXON: The A44 at Enstone is blocked both ways after a lorry overturned this morning. Emergency services have started recovery work at the crash site between the B4027 and B4022 junctions. It is not yet known whether anyone was injured or how long the

A PARALYSED man who is living in a tent by the Oxford Canal says he has given up and is just waiting to die as temperatures plunge below freezing. Mark Payne, 51, is one of an estimated 250 people who are currently on the streets or in homeless

AND while we think of the Big Society, the plight of Mark Payne, a disabled man living in a tent by Oxford Canal should shame us all. There is no one organisation that can be faulted for the situation of this man. But, as he faces potentially killer

Drumena Banker can live up to his name in the A5 over 450 metres at Oxford Stadium tonight. Angie Kibble’s charge has the early pace, but must beware the fast finishing duo of Soundslikeaplan and Bargain Key. TONIGHT’S CARD 7.35: Spike Preview, SCATTY

Oxford City Stars return to action with a double header of English National League action this weekend. Today they make the short trip to take on Swindon Wildcats in South Division 1, while tomorrow they travel to Streatham Redskins. Swindon have struggled

BERINSFIELD light middleweight Daley Johnson has had a dream start to his ring career with two victories in the space of a week. He bossed his debut encounter with Dario Cianciola, from the host gym, at Bishop’s Stortford, as he forced his rival onto

A MAN who bit, hit, and throttled a three-year-old child has escaped being sent to jail. At Oxford Crown Court yesterday, Christopher Burns, from Nuffield Close, Didcot, was ordered to carry out unpaid work, despite carrying out an “horrendous attack

Josh McEachran admitted that winning Oxfordshire’s sportsman of the year trophy was the first honour he had ever won. The 17-year-old footballer, who has enjoyed a remarkable few months, with appearances for Chel-sea’s first team as well as winning

IT was a very unsilent night in the city last night as more than 200 children from Oxford’s primary schools led the way to switching on the Christmas lights. More than 20,000 revellers crammed the streets and watched as children from city schools

Former Oxford United player Johnny Love has died, aged 73 after a long illness. A speedy left winger, Mr Love played more than 300 games for United between 1955 and 1963. Most of them were before their election to the Football League. Born in Eynsham

A TRIO of masked men who burst into a flat and attacked three other men have been jailed for a total of 17 years. Harley Davidson, Peter Grundy and Sean Tuffy were part of a group of five men who carried out the attack in response to the victims

THERE is really only one way to arrive in style in Venice, that loveliest, most serene and, yes, sexiest of cities: by splashing out on a water taxi. At Marco Polo Airport – named after the 14th Century explorer who opened up the Silk Road

Trainer Nick Colton has his eye on next year’s Springbok Hurdle with the purchase of Victoria Falls from fellow trainer Richard Baker. Victoria posted 28.60secs at Wimbledon last year, despite sustaining an injury in the process. He

Oxford United have won the performance of the week award for their outstanding 2-1 victory at Chesterfield on Tuesday night. The shock win over Chesterfield, who were top of League Two at the start of the game, was U’s second away win of the season

Former England and Gloucestershire wicketkeeper Jack Russell gave a masterclass to some of Oxfordshire’s youngsters at Oxford Brookes University. Russell, who played 54 Test matches and 40 one-day internationals for England, put the players, from under

CITY of Oxford’s Chris Currie took the gold medal, clocking 5.54.90 secs, in the boys 400m freestyle at the nationwide short course championships, where over 200 potential paralympic swimmers competed at Sheffield. Currie, 15, who also trains at Reading

A BIG Thames pike got a helping hand after being caught by skip truck driver Michael ‘Jock’ Morrell, who lives in Bicester. Fishing with his mate, Duncan Strange, from Charlbury, Jock had caught a six-pounder from the Wolvercote stretch. Then he latched

TWENTY libraries and 20 youth centres will close unless volunteers can come to their rescue, as part of Oxfordshire County Council proposals to save £155m by 2015. The council yesterday announced plans to stop funding 20 of Oxfordshire’s

OXFORD residents face paying to park at some city parks, to get rid of rats and for disposal of their garden waste, while 100 jobs are set to go under city council budget cuts. The council yesterday unveiled £10m in proposed cuts alongside increased

WHAT a pity it was that yesterday, the day the Christmas season officially kicked off in Oxford, we learnt of yet more cuts to council services. Oxfordshire County Council unveiled what will prove to be among the most contentious cuts with 20 libraries

THE Oxford Winter League moves to the Kennet and Avon Canal at Avington for tomorrow’s fifth round. Last Sunday’s practice was fished by 48 in cold and cloudy conditions. Ian Browne (Drennan GOT Baits) won with 19.12.0 from a well-known big-fish peg

OXFORD Hoops Braves were beaten 95-59 by local rivals Brookes Devils. Braves had only seven players and struggled with firepower. However, they were only three down at the end of the first quarter and managed to keep the fourth quarter level at 21 points

A SECOND World War veteran who raised almost £2,000 for the Poppy Appeal with a CD of poetry says he is amazed at the achievement. Tom Hedges, 93, was encouraged to record the Lest We Forget album after his neighbours in Ramsden, near Witney, heard him