A MEETING will be held at the Kassam Stadium in Oxford tomorrow night to discuss the future of paediatric heart services in Oxfordshire. The Safe and Sustainable consultation is part of an NHS review into children’s heart services, which has recommended
A MAN from Kidlington has been charged with possession of an imitation weapon, after an incident in Oxford in which a woman claimed she was being threatened. Police were called to a disturbance in Cranmer Road, Cowley, at 5.40pm on Saturday, after reports
BINS meant for residents of a row of maisonettes have turned an Oxford street into a magnet for flytippers, an angry resident has claimed. Steve Shepherd, 40, has called on Oxford City Council to take pride in the area and find a solution to the long-running
A LORRY caught fire at Oxford Services this afternoon. A crew from Wheatley was called to the blaze, off junction 8a of the A40, shortly before 4pm. The fire broke out in the vehicle’s braking system. It was quickly put out and nobody was hurt.
CYCLISTS in Oxford have said bringing in a new law of causing death by dangerous cycling would be a waste of time. They said cases of cyclists killing pedestrians were too rare for a new law and the biggest danger on the road remained motor
A woman was assaulted by three people on a main road in Oxford. The victim, a woman in her thirties, was in Abingdon Road, near the Nisa Local shop at the junction of Weirs Lane, when she was attacked by three people. The attack happened at 5.30pm
BACK in 1975, Monty Python and the Holy Grail was riding high at the cinema, West Ham beat Fulham in the FA Cup final and a young punk band called The Sex Pistols first took to the stage. Harold Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister, took Britain
WITH a huge hole in the funding it needs for the coming year, you could forgive the staff and parents of The Chiltern Centre for Disabled Children for wanting to keep their services to themselves. But the centre is refusing to be beaten by
AFTER 18 months working with desperate Burmese refugees in Malaysia, former Cheney School pupil Ian Werrett is pounding the streets of Oxford to get back to Kuala Lumpur. Mr Werrett, 25, from Headington, travelled to Malaysia alone after learning of
ONE of the country’s most spectacular road races is held for the 30th time this year and you can be part of it. The 10km Oxford Town and Gown fun run winds through the historic heart of the city and the stunning University Parks. This
AN OXFORDSHIRE-based soldier has become the first woman bomb disposal expert to be killed in Afghanistan. Captain Lisa Head, from Didcot-based 11 EOD Regiment, was injured in an explosion in Helmand Province last Monday. The 29-year-old was flown from
THOUSANDS of people from ethnic minorities in Oxfordshire will have cause to be grateful to Shaila Srinivasan, who died earlier this week, aged 59, after a short illness. Dr Srinivasan was born into an academic family in Kerala, India, but grew up in
It comes as no surprise to me, as a veteran teacher who avoids all such beanfeasts, to hear that so much money has been spent on a conference for heads and deputies (Oxford Mail, April 23). It is called Continuing Professional Development and
WELL, what will we hear next from our so-called hard-up city council? They had all those small square bins made so you could recycle. They scrapped them and gave everyone a blue bin. They brought in the large green hessian bags for garden waste which
KEITH Glazier, chairman of Brize Norton Parish Council, claims (Oxford Mail, April 12) that the concerns of the residents have been met over the route of the military repatriation corteges through our village. He certainly didn’t ask me and I have a
NOT very long ago, the library in Abingdon was redesigned and upgraded. Now it is self-service – there is a children’s play area – and it even appears that you can get singing lessons. However, I have heard that the library, together with a nearby
Ardington under 11's became champions of the Oxford mail A league on Sunday 1st May thanks to a 7-2 victory at home to Crowmarsh. This was the last game of the season for Ardington with so much still to play for. In the first half some of the football
‘Bare-chested and raunchy” was my description in a review of Gerard Murphy and Hugh Quarshie — the latter a former star of the Oxford student stage — as love-rival brothers in the Swan Theatre’s opening production of William Shakespeare and John
A COUNTY business leader has called on the Government to create an enterprise zone for Oxfordshire. Frank Nigriello, chairman of Oxfordshire Business First (OBF), wants to see county firms given Government finance and support to fuel their growth. He
OXFORD Castle staff will don their walking boots for charity this month. The castle announced Maggie’s Centre as its official charity partner for 2011 and will kickstart fundraising with a sponsored night hike. A new Maggie’s Centre, which cares for
WORKING with Beatles legend Paul McCartney may be a dream come true for most musicians. But a harpist from Chipping Norton said working on Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band had truly been a hard day’s night. Sheila Bromberg, of Rock Hill, played
ROTHSCHILD’S Arms lead the table as the Oxfordshire Men’s Super League draws to a close. Jon Jukes, of Three Tuns A, has the best average. Misfits (Green Road Club) are in pole position in the ladies league, with Clare Bywaters the top player. Men’
THE £67m Cotswold Line redoubling project took another step forward at the weekend with the delivery of the point which will mark the start of new double track at Charlbury. Rails and concrete sleepers for the installation were brought to Charlbury
A man is set to go on trial at Oxford Crown Court today accused of raping a woman in the toilets of the John Radcliffe Hospital. Ian Joseph, 44, of no fixed address, has previously denied one charge of rape. The complainant alleges she was attacked
National 2 South HENLEY Hawks secured a sixth-place finish after winning 48-27 in their final match at Taunton. The seven-try victory completed a decent end to a season that had seen Hawks topping the table early on. Taunton drew first blood by forcing
IT’S crunch time for Oxfordshire this weekend when they take on Bedfordshire in Division 1 of the Rileys British Inter-Counties Championship. At stake is a place in the top flight of British darts for the only the second time in Oxfordshire’s history
The protests against cuts to public services brought the city back to earth with a bump. On Friday, people took to the streets in celebration. But yesterday, it was fear and concern that had people marching on the city centre. It is
Emergency crews were called to an attempted suicide at an Oxford University college. The incident happened at about 10.30pm on Sunday at Somerville College, Woodstock Road. Police said the issue was resolved without the person coming to serious harm
PROTESTERS took to the streets of Oxford yesterday in a mass May Day demonstration against Government and council cuts. Hundreds of people marched from Manzil Way in East Oxford to Broad Street, where trade unionists and others took to the
Oxfordshire 19, Berkshire 64 OXFORDSHIRE’S County Championship Shield campaign is effectively over after one match following this heavy Pool 3 defeat at Kingsey Road. Their fate will be sealed if Berkshire beat Dorset & Wilts next Saturday, but even
RICHARD Williams remained philosophical after Oxfordshire’s heavy defeat to Berkshire. Williams, who coached the team with Craig Burrows, said: “We have got to take this on the chin. “We did the same to East Midlands in our first match last year. “
VOTERS in parts of the county have been told not to panic over postal votes. South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse district councils said all postal votes for this week’s local elections and alternative-vote referendum should now have arrived
THERE are at least six potential tenants for every room advertised in Oxford, according to new research. Rental website spareroom.co.uk said the level of demand was so high, new rental properties were being snapped up within hours of being advertised
IT’S every child’s dream to draw for the famous comic The Beano and youngsters met the man living that dream yesterday. Legendary comic artist Kev F gave a workshop at the Dorchester-on-Thames festival, teaching youngsters how to produce their own comic
THIS year’s Cowley Road carnival route will be longer than ever before, organisers have pledged. Plans are being drawn up to extend the procession along the street and into South Park for the first time. However, the team behind the event – which will
CONTROVERSIAL plans to house criminals and suspects in an Oxford neighbourhood have been axed. Stonham Services, the firm behind the proposed bail hostel at 30 Headley Way, Headington, has confirmed it had dropped the plans to rent the property
SIX-YEAR-OLD Gracie Cook, along with hundreds of families from Wheatley, enjoyed a special St George’s Day bash – a week after England’s patron saint’s day. The fun day, organised by church charity Fusion, is in its sixth year and is going
Oxford is the fifth best place to visit in the UK, according to a holiday website. Travellers on TripAdvisor rated the city ahead of other top destinations, including York, Stratford-upon-Avon and St Andrews. But it was beaten to the top spots by London
THE battle over locating a third hostel for criminals and suspects has been won but we suspect not the war. When news of the scheme to put a hostel in to Headley Way broke, we highlighted the unacceptable attitude of Stonham Services — a private
THE award-winning police team that patrols the Barton estate is celebrating falling crime rates. In the last year there have been 367 crimes reported in the neighbourhood. This compares with 475 reported the previous year and 514 the year before that
AFTER 63 years of being prepared thanks to a lifetime of Scouting service, 74-year-old Brian Hawtin has been given the movement’s highest honour. Mr Hawtin, of Vicarage Road, Kidlington, has received the prestigious Silver Wolf award after
