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The eagerly-awaited rugby derby clash between Chinnor and Oxford Harelequins in National 3 South West on Saturday has been postponed because of a frozen pitch.

Oxford United's League Two game against Burton Albion has been moved to Sunday, March 27 (3pm). It had been scheduled for the previous day, but has been put back 24 hours due to the international qualifier between Wales and England.

THE former drummer of legendary rock band Status Quo has played on and produced a Christmas song to raise cash for autistic Oxfordshire children. John Coghlan, who started playing with the band in 1962 before leaving in 1981, got behind his kit for The

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A free event examining how businesses can avoid the impact of bad weather now and in the future is being held at the Said Business School, Oxford. Weather Resilience for Your Business — A Professional Approach is aimed at small businesses from across

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A man has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for raping a woman at a pub in Oxford. Rogerio Coito, 22, who was the bar manager of The Priory pub in Grenoble Road, Oxford, was found guilty at Oxford Crown Court today of two counts of

Property rental franchise Belvoir Lettings has opened a new branch led by Helen Wright. Ms Wright has developed a small portfolio of rental properties with partner Paul Burdett who will support her in the running of the business based in London Road,

Police this afternoon appealed for witnesses to an armed robbery in Cowley. At about 6pm yesterday, two white men with scarves covering their faces, entered a property in the Chiltern Business Centre in Garsington Road and threatened a member

Police today renewed an appeal for information about a missing teenager from Oxford. Kimberley Hughes, 14, was last seen when she left her home address in Regent Street at 6pm on Monday. She is described as white, 5ft 5ins, with a thin

I’m not usually the kind to make a shameless holiday plug. But with Christmas fast approaching, I felt that I ought to relate my article to the celebration. Unfortunately, writing an article about a Christmas-related car is harder than you’d think.

Q: What vehicle do you drive? A: A Mini E – it’s entirely electric and not in commercial production. Q: How long have you had it? A: Since September. Q: How much did it cost? A: I am leasing it for six months. It costs me just over £300 a month

SCARY and Skoda are not words you expect to see together in the same sentence. But the Czech car-maker’s advertising bods clearly aimed to put the frighteners on car buyers with their tongue-in-cheek television advertisement for the Fabia vRS. Big

Monday found me driving through the usual apocalypse of early morning traffic, hitting the CD button on the car stereo just as the six o’clock news finished. AC/DC blared out of the speakers, which was a bit of a shock to my eardrums at that time of

The role of Captain Hook — panto’s most popular villain according to a recent poll — is ideal for Steve McFadden, famous for two decades as EastEnders’ Phil Mitchell. And I’m not forgetting that neither Steve nor Phil is quite the Old Etonian created

LETTING two-way traffic through a tunnel leading to Didcot’s Ladygrove estate would in- crease congestion during the rush hour, transport bosses have warned. Oxfordshire County Council, which is responsible for roads, has raised concerns over a planned

A crash this afternoon caused delays on the M40 in north Oxfordshire. The collision happened on the northbound carriageway, between junction ten at the Cherwell Valley Services and junction 11 at Banbury. One lane is reported as closed

Thames Valley Police said this afternoon that driving conditions near Aylesbury were 'treacherous'. Very slow traffic was reported due to snow on the A41 Bicester Road both ways at Broadfields. Police report long delays in and out of Aylesbury due to

TWO East Oxford mums’ culinary secrets will be revealed on primetime television this weekend. Nassira Jmil and Hafsa Akkas will star alongside TV chefs The Hairy Bikers in their hour-long Mums Know Best Christmas special to share their favourite seasonal

Cilla Black performed the opening ceremony at Aylesbury’s splendid Waterside Theatre a couple of months ago and is now back there starring in a heart-warming Cinderella that’s being promoted as “the UK's biggest and best £1m panto”. It’s

Marios Papadopoulos is the founder and director of Oxford’s professional symphony orchestra, Oxford Philomusica. For such a uniquely gifted musician, he is modestly reluctant to talk about himself. His mission is to communicate a passionate love of music

As Neville Chamberlain’s famous declaration of war rang out across the nation in September 1939, we were importing 55 per cent of our food — 90 per cent of our cereals, 70 per cent of our cheese and sugar, 80 per cent of our fruit and 50 per cent of

Pay freezes, redundancy, mounting credit card bills —- it is enough to send us diving back under the duvet. But although it may look ugly out there, apparently something beautiful is happening behind the scenes. Maybe it is the redundancy axe hanging

IT’S not often police ask a driver to drink several cans of lager before getting behind the wheel, but that is exactly what happened this week. Thames Valley Police asked double Le Mans-winning racing driver Darren Turner to test how well he could drive

Brian White sat back and considered the completion of his firm’s most recent task — re-hanging the turret bells at St Margaret’s Church at Binsey, on the outskirts of Oxford. “One of the things I have always liked about this craft is that, when you have

N estling in the far north of Oxfordshire, almost surrounded by Warwickshire and Northamptonshire, is the tiny rural village of Claydon, its clusters of farm buildings and acres of rolling fields standing testament to the agricultural industry that

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At the age of 57, singer Sandy Hill fulfilled a lifelong ambition — releasing her debut album, called Tickled Pink. It features some of the UK’s most respected musicians, including Jools Holland, the legendary bassist Herbie Flowers and veteran cockney

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SOLICITORS in Oxford offering 50 per cent off their fees for divorces in the New Year have been condemned by the Bishop of Oxford. Hine Solicitors, in Banbury Road, Summertown, is offering a half price package, reducing its fees from £800 to £400 to

BRIZE Norton’s Ben Roberts won a silver medal at the Badminton England under 13 silver tournament in Warwick. Roberts beat Euan Farrow (Berks) 15-12, 11-15, 15-12 in his semi-final before losing 15-10, 15-9 to Josh Musty (Wilts). In the Shires League

WE wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas... and a pre-nup New Year. How thoughtful, considerate and caring of Hine solicitors to offer ‘half-price’ divorces in January. After all, ’tis

Banbury United boss Billy Jeffrey has suffered a blow after key man Ollie Stanbridge was ruled out for up to six weeks with a serious leg injury. The midfielder was injured in the first half of last Saturday’s 2-1 comeback win against Chesham

What’s the plan? I recently read a report saying that 23% of new businesses started in our region last year were small independent retailers and it occurred to me that this is a lot of people with a passion for what they do having to fumble around

FAMILIES will have a ball at the Oxford Playhouse this Christmas as Cinderella takes to the stage tomorrow. The show, bursting with songs, cheers and boos, is bound to knock audiences off their feet, so make sure you don’t lose your slippers. Head of

TWO men are facing a total of 26 years in one of the world’s toughest prisons after being convicted of trying to smuggle cocaine out of Peru. Nathan Brandon, 22, from Abingdon, and Alan Rae, 40, from Faringdon, were found with 12.3 kilos of

SHOPPERS in Didcot were greeted by live reindeer to launch a Christmas shopping night. Real Reindeer, a firm previously based in East Hagbourne and run by Martin and Angie Flint, brought the animals to the town yesterday to give the shopping night at

Oxfordshire referees’ chief Andy Rolfe says Gosford All Blacks were to blame for not having a referee for Saturday’s BB&O Premier Division clash with Stow-on-the-Wold. The mix-up led to the game being postponed and Gosford reported it to the Oxford Mail

AN ARMY explosives expert from Didcot has been named Britain’s Most Outstanding Soldier. Sergeant Major Karl Ley, of the Royal Logistic Corps, based at Vauxhall Barracks, was honoured at The Millie Awards 2010 on Wednesday night. The

EMPLOYERS have warned too many Oxford teenagers leave school without the basic skills to start work, after GCSE results again ranked the city among the worst performing areas of the country. Judged on the number of pupils getting five A*s to C including

WE'VE become a lazy nation incapable of basic skills that most people had two or three generations ago. DIY, cooking from scratch, decorating, basic electrics and plumbing, gardening, etc, are ‘foreign’ to many households, that now employ someone else

TWO of your correspondents have (at great length) taken issue with my statement that the government and county council's proposed cuts are motivated as much by Conservative hatred of the public sector as by the need to cut the deficit. Fortunately,

THE Woodstock Arms was no more. All that remained was a pile of rubble and the free-standing sign bearing its name. I stood on the opposite side of Woodstock Road. A tear welled up, considered moistening my cheek, but had second thoughts on

A SUSPECTED rapist is behind the Oxford Mail’s Badvent Calendar window today. Sampson Makhinde, of Cowley Road, Oxford, is wanted following the rape of a 22-year-old woman in Cornmarket Street in December 2009. Police hope to bring whoever

TWO Oxford teenagers are among the first in the country to earn GCSE equivalents by doing a fortnight’s work experience at McDonald’s. St Gregory the Great pupils Jamie Gilbride and Hamim Rahman, both 15, have been awarded Level 2 BTECs in

THERE have been very few weeks this year when there have been no fatal casualties among our forces serving in Afghanistan. Along the repatriation route from RAF Lyneham and Wootton Bassett to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, groups in various numbers

I AM writing with reference to your article Make old RAF base museum (Last Saturday’s Oxford Mail). As a person who has been involved to a certain extent with aircraft museums, the RAF Museum at Hendon and the Shuttleworth Collection, since both took

ON THE subject of tuition fees, my younger daughter went to Nottingham University for four years. She has a BA with honours in Sociology, but she sadly failed her Masters. At the time I was divorcing my husband and on a very low income. Due to this

Oxford Harlequins have suffered a blow ahead of tomorrow’s National 3 South West derby at Chinnor with the news that Pete Boulton has a broken arm. The giant tight-head prop went off injured just before half-time during last week’s 40-14 victory over

Wantage Town manager Andy Wallbridge is happy that central defender Stuart Cattell has rejected a lucrative move to North Leigh in favour of staying to help with their Premier Division promotion bid; Wallbridge said: “Stuart is a core part of a talented

Bad day at the office? Just for a moment, put yourself in Sergeant Major Karl Ley’s boots. So far, the father-of-three, who is based at Vauxhall Barracks, has defused 139 improvised explosive devices. Little wonder then he has been named

A TEACHER died in a road accident on his way to work after staying up until 2am to mark papers. Bernd-Christian Lickfett, 43, who was a German teacher at the European School in Culham, died when his motorbike hit the back of a car and he was

A ROUSING rendition of God Save the Queen inspired England’s cricketers to an Ashes rout in Perth in the early hours yesterday. And it was belted out by an opera star originally from Berrick Salome in Oxfordshire. Penny Shaw, 40, who emigrated to Australia

PETROL prices were at a record high yesterday as struggling motorists were warned further hikes were likely after Christmas. The average price for a litre of unleaded in Oxford was £1.23 and just 0.2p less across the county, according to comparison website

The price of petrol at the pumps has reached a new high, the AA has said. The average price has risen from last week's record figure of 121.76p a litre to 122.14p. Average prices have gone up 3.06p a litre between mid-November and mid-December

STRIKER James Constable says he will put sentiment aside when he comes face to face with his old team, Shrewsbury, for the first time tomorrow. Constable, 26, spent six months at the Shropshire club, but has just one thing on his mind ahead

Britain will be engulfed by a second Arctic freeze over the weekend, stoking fears that thousands of homes could be without heating and mountains of presents could go undelivered over the Christmas period. Heavy snow storms will

RAIL passengers planning to travel between Oxfordshire and London or the South Coast over the Christmas and New Year period are being warned to plan their journeys in advance due to major engineering works. The Great Western Main Line through

PLANS to create a mini-public square on a closed-off side street in East Oxford are finally set to go-ahead after £19,000 of council cash was released for the scheme. Restaurateur Clinton Pugh hopes to start work on the Dawson Street project in the next