Oxford United midfielder Paul McLaren joins the elite 500 Club on Saturday. The U’s recent signing from Tranmere achieves the notable milestone of making his 500th League appearance in the npower League Two match against Northampton Town at
A TEENAGE chef who launched an attack on a gay couple, whacking one of them with his own shoe, has been put behind bars. Ashton Soloman-Cameron was captured on CCTV as he drunkenly landed a number of blows on businessmen Scott and Jason Davenport in
Eight suspected illegal immigrants were arrested at restaurants near Faringdon and in Oxford. Officers from the UK Border Agency arrested six people at the Snooty Mehmaan restaurant on the A420 at Littleworth, a spokesman for the UK Border Agency said
Work on the refurbishment of the McDonald’s restaurant in Oxford city centre will start on Monday. The £430,000 scheme will see the upstairs of the building in Cornmarket Street closed for two weeks before the whole of the outlet is shut down for
WHILE the recent snowy weather hit some chain stores hard, it proved a boon for community-owned village shops in the county. Many people were unable to drive to supermarkets, so the volunteer-run shops enjoyed record sales, with some reporting increases
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OXFORD United will play two pre-season friendlies in the United States on July 13 and 16. The club confirmed today its tour and training camp in New Hampshire and Boston would take place between July 11 and 20. However the identity of
A TEENAGER has today been jailed for an unprovoked attack on two gay men in the centre of Oxford. Ashton Soloman-Cameron lashed out at Jason and Scott Davenport as the two 32-year-olds made their way along Paradise Street in the early hours of Sunday
KEEPING children’s heart surgery at the John Radcliffe Hospital must be an option in forthcoming public consultation, a health watchdog chairman has urged the Government. Dr Peter Skolar asked Health Secretary Andrew Lansley to step in after retaining
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WITNEY Dramatic Society is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year, and members are starting the celebrations with a pantomime production of Sleeping Beauty. It will feature the group’s oldest member, 70-year-old Grace Wells. She said: “People
FROM greengrocers and butchers to cafés and restaurants, Oxford’s Covered Market is brimming with history. And now a new exhibition will open tomorrow to tell the stories behind the 200-year-old institution. The Museum of Oxford will showcase photographs
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Branding and design expert Ayd Instone is the guest speaker at the Late Breakfast newtworking event at Hampden House,Monument Business Park, Chalgrove on January 27. Mr Instone will give a talk on creative thinking in business and how to make the most
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The driving force behind Oxfordshire Formula One team Williams F1 is considering floating the business on the stockmarket. Sir Frank Williams, who founded the Grove-based team in 1977 with Patrick Head, said such a move will help guarantee
JANUARY is without doubt the bleakest month of the year, and apparently last weekend was the bleakest and grimmest of all, with many people suffering from post-festive doom and gloom. As my colleague and good friend Motor Mouth has pointed out, motorists
THE first few minutes at the wheel of the Toyota Auris Hybrid are up there with the most terrifying experiences of my motoring life. As I drove out of the well-lit car park on a frosty winter’s night, the headlights looked a little on the dim
Police today released an appeal for witnesses on YouTube following two linked sexual assaults in Bicester. In the video, Det Sgt Craig Kirby appeals for witnesses to the two incidents on Saturday, November 27 in King’s End and Thursday, January
The Highways Agency said today that there would be northbound lane closures on the M40 at Junction 10, Cherwell Valley Services, between 9pm tonight and 6am tomorrow to allow road surface repair works. During the lane closures Traffic will
Northampton Town swooped yesterday to sign Burton Albion striker Shaun Harrad on a two-and-a-half-year deal. The 26-year-old joins after the Cobblers missed out when trying to sign Crewe’s Calvin Zola earlier in the week. Northampton, 17th in the table
CHILDREN in Cumnor took to the streets to urge parents to park safely on the school run. Pupils at Cumnor Primary School have been investigating the issue after a survey found one in four of them had experienced a near-miss in the road outside the school
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THE headteacher at the new Oxford Spires Academy said the school has got off to a “dream start” this term. The academy had its official launch yesterday after opening to pupils on the site of Oxford Community School earlier this month. Principal
Oxford United must surely be the best-supported club in League Two away from home. While Bradford boast the best home gates, partly bec-ause of the cheap season ticket offer deal they launched before the start of the season, Oxford seem to
A change in planning laws for houses of multiple occupation is to be challenged in the High Court. Civic leaders fear the relaxation of rules for landlords renting out properties to multiple tenants could adversely affect the character of areas. Yesterday
Burglars stole hundreds of pounds worth of goods from a house in Chestnut Road, Botley, Oxford. They got into the house sometime between 11.30am and 6.30pm on Tuesday and took a black Acer laptop, jewellery, a digital camera, cash and a sky-blue coloured
A BLACK basque and leather clothing was found in the burnt out car belonging to a police chief accused of a love triangle arson attack, a jury heard yesterday. Chief Superintendent Jim Trotman had been visiting his mistress when his car was found ablaze
Thame United chairman Jake Collinge said it was great to be “back home” after their ASM Meadow View Park stadium was officially opened this week with a friendly against Oxford United. The Premier Division club had to play at Aylesbury and AFC Wallingford
Arnold Hadwin OBE, a former assistant editor of the Oxford Mail, has died aged 82. Mr Hadwin joined the paper as a reporter and was assistant editor of the Mail from 1951 until 1964. He later became editor of Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus, group editor
A peer accused of lying about his expenses yesterday told a court he viewed the system as being “in lieu of salary”. Lord Taylor of Warwick is accused of claiming for travel costs between his step-nephew’s home in Henley Street, East Oxford, and the
United left back Anthony Tonkin believes it’s a crucial time of the season coming up – and one which will have a major say in who goes up. In five of the next eight weeks, the U’s have midweek matches, making it 13 games in 55 days. And the five games
A LEADING author and a top county politician have gone head-to-head in a war of words over the battle for Oxfordshire’s libraries. County council leader Keith Mitchell hit out at “leading authors” who had backed campaigns to save some of the
Council leader Keith Mitchell’s frequent rants and pleas for help in choosing where budget cuts could and should be made. I find these pleas sickening, as not too many months ago the higher echelons of the council were awarded a massive pay rise, while
Oxford City boss Mike Ford has put out a challenge to striker James Faulkner – keep up the good work. Faulkner led the line well in City’s 2-1 win against Premier Division Swindon Supermarine on Saturday after being recalled from Oxford City
OXFORDSHIRE County Council leader Keith Mitchell is unwise in his dig that authors opposing the closure of libraries are not declaring their vested interest. Authors would be far better off financially if the public could only buy their books rather
Oxford United are bidding for their first double of the season when they take on Northampton Town at Sixfields tomorrow. But they are expecting a tough battle. In United’s last three games, their opponents have each had the opportunity to chalk up a
THANK heavens the city council is finally attempting to crack down on errant dog owners (Mail, January 14). All right-thinking folk will only be delighted that those selfish individuals who allow their animals to foul our pavements, or run amok in our
I was very pleased to see that the latest published carbon emissions for Temple Cowley Pools shows them rated at 37 and grade B, well below the expected value of 100 and grade D/E. This significant decrease in carbon emissions (a third of the previous
SO HM Revenue and Customs has done it again. One million people have either paid too much tax or not enough. This is not down to the tax payer. We are given tax codes and employers take out the tax. Everyone believes their tax code is correct, which
ON June 1, 2010, my daughter sent a recorded delivery, small package to this address in Piddington. She posted it in Blackburn, Lancashire. As we did not receive it, we reported it to Royal Mail, and gave it up as lost. Then, earlier this month, on
The results of the two online petitions against library closures which I set up on the county council website are as follows: 497 people signed the petition to save Headington Library at Bury Knowle Park, and 1,032 people signed the petition to save
IT may well be that Keith Mitchell was so afraid of public anger that he tried to exclude the public from his cuts meetings (Oxford Mail, January 10). Fortunately, however, he will be unable to evade electoral wrath at the next county council elections
I would like to clear up some points raised in your report on Oxford City Council pay (a cash carrot for council workers, Oxford Mail January 15). You refer to next year’s pay freeze. Our pay has already been frozen for a year and we cannot expect a
I agree with your recent editorial comment on the subject of wasted calls to the emergency services. But I would go further. This sort of nonsense could be brought to a halt with the emergency services and the hospitals invoicing the offenders for the
EXCUSE us please, but can you help?” The request came from three teenage French girls wandering along the Broad Walk in front of Christ Church. They were armed with a test sheet and were struggling to find an answer to the question of what were the names
Rail campaigners were given a boost last night after a new £560m pot of cash brought new hope of improvements to Oxford’s railway station. The £62m Access to Oxford project to add an extra platform at the station, cut congestion on the A34,
SATURDAY. FOOTBALL. NPOWER LEAGUE TWO. Northampton Tn v Oxford Utd. ZAMARETTO SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Premier Div: Didcot Tn v Stourbridge, Hednesford v Banbury Utd, Oxford City v Chesham Utd. Div 1 South & West:
Teenager Luke Biggs was left fighting for his life after his body rejected a transplanted bowel. But now the 13-year-old is just weeks away from returning to school thanks to pioneering surgery that gave him a second one. Luke is one of a handful of
Ibby Ahmed, from Oxford, took two titles at the Badminton England Gloucestershire bronze tournament in Stroud. Ahmed (pictured below) took the under 13 boys singles title, winning 21-18 in the final against Evan Williams, of Gwent. He then teamed
Chinnor hooker Simon Tattersall is a big injury doubt for their tricky match away to Bour-nemouth in National 3 South West tomorrow. Tattersall suffered a groin injury during their 20-8 victory over Barnstaple last week, and seems unlikely to face their
SMUGGLING of drugs into Oxfordshire’s main prison are still a major concern for inspectors. An annual review of Bullingdon Prison, near Bicester, by the Independent Monitoring Board also criticised education and health services. It comes a month after
Police refused to admit if they knew an undercover cop was part of a protest at Didcot Power Station or was the reason no one was ever arrested. Former Metropolitan Police officer Mark Kennedy this week admitted being asked to assist with a publicity
A group of teenagers attacked a man during a long-running feud just metres away from Oxford’s Cowley Road Carnival. Lying on the ground receiving a series of punches and kicks was 18-year-old Mohammed Bilal, recently released from jail for kidnapping
OVERCROWDED and late: that is the picture that emerges from new figures on train services from Oxford to London. Train operator First Great Western has admitted punctuality of its services between Oxford and London services has slipped, while
COMMUTERS are getting an increasingly raw deal on the trains to London. The latest figures for over-crowding show two of the services from Oxford and Didcot are among the most appalling in the country. Meanwhile First Great Western –
KEITH Arnold, the record-breaking Oxfordshire cricketer, has joined Clive Ricks’s crusade against the MP Sports Cherwell League rebels. The ex-Oxon skipper, who went into the county’s record books with 682 wickets before announcing his retirement last
JAMES Constable says he’s delighted that fellow striker Steve MacLean is staying at Oxford United. The 28-year-old Scot has agreed to remain with the U’s until the end of the season. And boss Chris Wilder says the next stage now will be to see if a
AN INFORMAL celebration of the life of the late Tom Richardson, former chief officer of Oxfordshire Community Health Council and former Labour group leader on Oxfordshire County Council, will be held tomorrow. Friends and former colleagues of Mr Richardson
STREET wardens across Cherwell district have been handed new powers to dish out fines as part of a clampdown on litterbugs. Previously the seven wardens, who patrol areas in Bicester and Banbury, could only warn people caught dropping litter or not cleaning
A RETIRED couple from Kidlington have described how they had four narrow escapes from the destruction wreaked by floods in Queensland, Australia. Eric and Maureen Cooper had been on a three-month tour of the state when they were caught up in flooding
BEAMING with pride – and showing no trace of the cleft palate she was born with – Niamh Donohoe is just one of the great reasons to take part in this year’s OX5 Run. Nine-year-old Niamh was born with a hole in her palate and underwent surgery at the
