A SALON boss says he is at the end of his tether after a spate of “mindless” vandalism attacks. Martin Parker said his unisex Bicester salon has been spat at, the hanging baskets uprooted and abuse hurled at his customers by yobs as young as 12. Last
HALF of Oxfordshire’s young offenders do not comply with their sentences and often nothing is done about it, a critical new report has found. Of the 62 cases studied, 49 per cent of young offenders did not do what magistrates or judges had ordered.
PASSENGERS travelling from Heathrow to Oxford had to be cut out of their coach after a crash with a lorry on the M40 today. The crash, involving an X70 Airline coach, happened shortly before 10am near junction two at Beaconsfield. The
TWO adults and three children were taken hospital after their people carrier crashed off the northbound carriageway of the A34 and rolled up the embankment this afternoon. Medics and fire crews were called to the crash, between the Chilton junction and
A PERSON died following a smash near Nettlebed today. Fire, police and ambulance crews were called to a collision between a HGV and a transit style van on the B481 between Nettlebed and Caversham at 8.40am. One was cut free and taken
AS one of this country’s most dynamic girl rockers, Julia ‘Juju’ Heslop knows a thing or two about music. And one thing she feels strongly about is women rockers – or rather, the shortage of them. “There just aren’t enough girls playing rock,” says
gardeners are being urged to visit the Oxford Castle Flower and Gardening Festival this weekend. The event will bring together markets, talks, demonstrations and workshops in a celebration of all things green. There will also be the chance to try flower-infused
WHEN neighbours are there for one another they become good friends – so the TV song goes – and one Oxfordshire village can attest to that after 50 years of good relations. Members old and new of the Great Milton Neighbours’ Club came together
THAMES Valley Police are planning to put up a new three-storey office block for 180 workers at its Kidlington headquarters, adding to traffic on Oxford Road. The building, which will replace one demolished two years ago, will let the force save money
ELEVEN members from a unit at RAF Brize Norton will conquer mountains and marathons this month to raise money for charity. The Airborne Trials Section of the Joint Air Delivery Test and Evaluation Unit, will cycle from John O’Groats to Land
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FAIRY DUST gave an extra sparkle to lessons at an Oxford school, when pupils made their own mystic wands and shields. The Fairyland Trust visited Rye St Antony School, in Headington, on Wednesday to teach girls aged three-11 about British trees
THE CAMPAIGN to keep BBC Oxford TV in the city is set to be championed by the leader of Oxfordshire’s Tory-controlled county council. Acouncil report calls on its leader Keith Mitchellto spell out concerns to bosses including BBC Trust chairman
THERE are few better feelings than looking at a dashboard display that says you have covered 82 miles and seeing a separate read-out that shows the car’s remaining range is 625 miles. The ability to cover more than 700 miles on one 60-litre
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Baffle them, frighten them and surprise them — this might be considered the job description for any writer setting to work on a stage thriller. Roger Mortimer-Smith appears to have understood his task well on his first attempt at the genre. Guilty Secret
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A PARKING ticket system, which saves drivers cash, is set to be overlooked, as it would cost the council too much. The “pay on exit” scheme allows motorists to only pay for the time they actually use. But Cherwell District Council looks
FEARS are growing for the future of a disability charity because its elderly volunteers are too old and frail to push wheelchairs and collect vital fundraising money. Leonard Cheshire Disability’s Open Access celebrated its 20th birthday last month but
THIEVES snatched a little girl’s trampoline while she was in hospital having her tonsils out. Aimee Bromwich, three, and brother Dylan, five, pictured with mum Lesley, are devastated by the snatch from the garden of their Carterton home.
FOUR young friends from Blackbird Leys will today set off on a 95-mile cycle ride in memory of a leukaemia victim. Conor Mullen, 18, Declan Carr, 17, and cousins Sam, 21, and Jay Trinder, 17, from Falcon Close, will ride from Oxford to Bournemouth and
A popular footpath along the River Thames has been restored after it collapsed. Hinton Waldrist Footpath at Tadpole Bridge, Buckland Marsh, near Bampton, crumbled due to the power of the river and weak underlaying clay. But Oxfordshire County Council
LIFELONG farmer Alan Binning is among the county’s producers who this weekend will welcome visitors as part of Open Farm Sunday. Farms across Oxfordshire will open their gates ,between 10am and 4pm, to give town and city dwellers the opportunity to
The pilot of a plane that crashed on election day, injuring UKIP leader Nigel Farage, was given a two-year community order today after a court heard his threats to kill the politician were "a cry for help". Justin Adams, 46, of Faringdon
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A FORMER soldier stabbed a teenager 12 times outside an Oxford bar as more than 20 youths with weapons clashed. Mahesh Bennett was “protecting a mate as he would do in the theatre of war” as he plunged scissors into his 16-year-old victim’s chest a dozen
Landlady Satinder Kaur Ahluwalia, of London Road, Bicester, has been prosecuted for failing to comply with an improvement notice. The prosecution by Cherwell District Council concerned a property that was being used as flats at 40 London Road. They both
Banbury have brought 16-year-old off-spinner Josh Hill into the squad for their Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League Division 1 game at home to Bishop’s Stortford tomorrow. Hill, son of former Banbury left-armer Paul Hill, returned the amazing
Didcot Town players will be keen to impress new manager Francis Vines when they return for training on Thursday, June 30. Vines is keen for players to demonstrate their ability and have the chance of developing with the Zamaretto Southern League Division
The bodies of three British soldiers killed in Afghanistan were repatriated to Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital last night. The cortege made its way along Headley Way in Headington at about 7pm and was met by a silent tribute. Lance Corporal Martin
Ashley Rump is the Oxfordshire Cricket Board’s new cricket development officer. Rump, 26, who lives in Oxford, succeeds Rupert Evans, who becomes the OCB’s head of cricket. His role will involve working at the grass roots level, promoting
Oxfordshire are in confident mood as they start their three-day campaign with a Minor Counties Championship Western Division game against Wiltshire at Challow & Childrey on Sunday. “Apart from a couple of players, we’ve got a young side, and
SATURDAY. CRICKET. SERIOUS CRICKET HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE. Div 1: Banbury v Bishop’s Stortford, Harpenden v Henley, Oxford v Radlett. Div 2 West: Burnham v Aston Rowant, Reading v Horspath, Thame Tn v Gerrards Cross. MP SPORTS CHERWELL LEAGUE
Wantage & District (Cholet, 13 sent 100): 1, 5, 11, 12 P Gilbert & N Newport 956, 884, 811, 805; 2, 4, 6, 8 F Lloyd & E Kelly 902, 894, 876, 841; 3, 9 G Seeney 900, 831; 8 Mr & Mrs A Webber 861; 10 D Callard 824; 13, 14 K Smith 737, 733. Didcot & Hagbourne
Chipping Norton’s Rob Yeatman returned from injury to finish ninth in the National Junior 25-Mile Time Trial Championships in Holsworthy, Devon. The 16-year-old, who rides for the Team Jewson MI team, has only recently recovered from a broken collar-bone
Challow & Childrey are bidding to overturn the odds when they face dual national champions Shipton-under-Wychwood in the Oxfordshire final of the Persimmon Village Cup on Sunday (2pm). Despite having to switch the game to Shipton as they are staging
Now, who can define the word “Sport”? In my world, sport equals competition and competition is something that happens between machines, men or creatures that have been designed or bred to perform at the very limits of their ability. It could
ARNIE has the patience of Job. He’s ultra-polite, always prepared to offer his bus seat to female passengers, or hold open doors to let others through. However, on Tuesday his chivalry was sorely tested. He was leaving Boots the Chemist
ON your marks... get ready to beat breast cancer! The Breast Cancer Campaign is urging all budding runners in Oxfordshire to put on their running shoes and join the ultimate Northern race to beat breast cancer at this year’s Bupa Great North Run.
IN YOUR issue of May 17, Mr Diment complains that Councillor Robins has left the last word out of “the pot calling the kettle black”, which he puts down to political correctness. Mr Diment is 270 years out of date. Henry Fielding in his Shamela (1741
I REFER to K Roper’s letter No truck with lorries (Oxford Mail, June 6). I believe he is digging a big hole for himself, if he wants to dice with trucks carrying in excess of 40 tons. Innocent or not, in an accident, he might finish
I WRITE regarding the item about abortion (Shocking Figures, Oxford Mail, June 3). Steve Jack’s remarks about the latest abortion figures contained several questions. I would like to respond to his final one, which asked “if we can do this
IT is very regrettable that the Sikh community here in Oxford (Mick Heavey’s letter, June 6) have been unable to establish a suitable site for a Gurdwara, especially given the nearest is the Gurdwara Sahib in Banbury. However, Mr Heavey’s concluding
THE news about Mini was last night being hailed as a boost for the whole county yesterday. Martin Dare-Edwards, chairman of the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, said: “This is fantastic news which confirms the UK as production location for
An injured person, whose life has been shattered by someone else’s negligence, has a right to expect full and fair redress. It seems grossly unfair, therefore, that the Ministry of Justice has proposed changes to ‘no win, no fee’ to make the innocent
I AM writing to complain that cheques are to be phased out and not used anymore. This is stupid. Cheques are useful and very important to charities and those people who are not online. Before we get rid of them, we need to have something to replace
FIREFIGHTERS spent yesterday tackling a serious fire involving highly-flammable gas cylinders. About 40 firefighters were called to the blaze, at a scrapyard at Crawley, near Witney, at 8.30pm on Wednesday. Tyres, oil, and diesel had caught fire. But
PREPARE to sing ‘Wii shall not be moved!’ as the popularity of the computer console has failed to signal the end for an East Oxford board game shop. Thirty years on, The Gameskeeper, in Cowley Road, is still going strong. It was opened
THE teenage son of an Oxfordshire aristocrat shot himself in the head with his father’s shotgun after splitting from his girlfriend. Alex Codrington, 16, ended his life in a crop field near Witney in the early hours of the morning after a two-hour
Today we report on another business success story. The Gameskeeper in Cowley Road has been keeping us stocked with board games for 30 years. The console may be king, but it is good to know there is still a healthy trade to be had in tradition.
A MAN found selling fake hair straighteners has been ordered to pay thousands of pounds by magistrates. Oxfordshire Trading Standards pounced on Michael Williams, after an Abingdon woman reported buying a defective pair of GHD IV Pure White tongs from
A PLANNING inspector has approved plans to build a Tesco store in Marston, Oxford. The supermarket firm will turn the old Friar pub, in Old Marston Road, into a new Tesco Express store. Plans were turned down twice by Oxford City Council, but went
PRIME Minister and Witney MP David Cameron, above, said: “I welcome this major investment by BMW Group in UK manufacturing. “The production and export of iconic British cars like the Mini is making a real contribution to the rebalancing of the economy
It is difficult to quantify what yesterday’s announcement from BMW actually means. The company has pledged £500m into Mini in the UK. There are three places which will benefit: Oxford, Swindon and Birmingham. But Mini was clear, it is Oxford which will
AFTER 42 years at the Cowley car plant Ian Cummings now knows the future is secure for the next generation of workers thanks to a £500m investment by BMW. Mr Cummings, 59, who joined Pressed Steel Fisher vehicle body works from school, praised
A British grandfather from Faringdon wrongly imprisoned for drug smuggling following a holiday in Peru has finally been cleared of the charges and freed to return home. Alan Rae, 40, was arrested after his travel companion, Nathan Brandon,
NATHAN Douglas feared his world had ended when a freak training accident led to a double ankle ligament rupture during training in Italy. But the 28-year-old Oxford City triple jumper says the injury has strengthened his resolve to return better
A COWLEY father has called for council chiefs to take action against urban foxes after one killed four chickens in front of his horrified children. Horspath Road resident Khalid Aziz said the animals should be found and rehomed, as he feared children
