Dan Berwick went through the card unbeaten to win the third round of the British Solo Dirt Track Championship at Oxford Stadium last night, writes ROBERT PEASLEY. Dean Hillier twice got in front of Berwick during the heats, but both times slid off.
Independent special school Hillcrest Park, Chipping Norton, which teaches children with emotional and behaviour difficulties, is providing a “good” standard of education for its pupils, according to Ofsted. Inspectors said the 17-pupil school, which
For 200 years the church clock in Stanton St John has been wound by hand. But now church officials are to buy a £3,000 winding machine because of fears they will fall foul of health and safety laws. Parishioners of St John the Baptist
Witney Lions Club has launched a new website to attract new members. The club said it needed new members to continue its fundraising and welfare activities in the town. The website is witneylions.org.uk
A fashion show in aid of Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centre at Oxford’s Churchill Hospital will take place tonight. The catwalk show at Langdale Hall in Market Square, Witney, will include high street brands at discount prices and clothes for adults and children
A church built to serve Roman Catholics in East Oxford is to celebrate its centenary with a special Mass. SS Edmund and Frideswide Church in Iffley Road first opened its doors on July 11, 1911. Today, the Archbishop of Birmingham, The Most Rev Dr Bernard
Action to help people struggling to find and afford private rented accommodation will be discussed by councillors next week. A Cherwell District Council committee will discuss progress on its private sector housing strategy on Tuesday. How the council
Andrew Smith, MP for Oxford East, told a Commons debate on “benefit tourism” that free movement in Europe boosted the economy. He asked Conservative Anne Main: “Does she not accept that in judging this in the round, we also have to take into account
Modern Art Oxford is a workshop of movements today to banish all that stress and anxiety. The movements were created by spiritual teacher G I Gurdjieff and are designed to promote inner stillness. Shruti Whittingham, 47, pictured left, with Moumina
Oxford won’t have to “hang its head in shame” if plans to relocate the city’s only lapdancing club go ahead, bosses have claimed. Owners of The Lodge are eyeing a new city centre venue and claim it is the “perfect location” for sexual entertainment.
HOUSING association officials have denied they are being unfair to an obese woman who is wheelchair-bound. Elizabeth Neilson Dance, 29, said she had struggled with her weight for the past 15 years because of a number of health conditions, including a
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Oxford City hope to make home advantage tell when they kick-off their Evo-Stik Southern League campaign on Saturday, August 13 against Redditch United. Their first derby clash with Oxfordshire rivals Banbury United takes place on Monday, August
Banbury's Gary Boyd made the cut at the 140th Open at Royal St George' after finishing one above par with a second round of 71. Oxford's Adam Wootton had a disastrous day with a second round of 82. He dropped ten shots on the opening four holes
WHEN Cogges Manor Farm Museum in Witney reopens on Sunday a new cafe will also open its doors. The Real Food Café will be the first business to set up at the site, in a move trustees hope will help finance the museum. It will sell food and coffee,
TREATMENT for lung cancer patients in Oxfordshire has seen a huge funding boost, according to a recent report. Research by the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation revealed a postcode lottery in treatment, funding and outcomes for patients with the disease
STAFF and customers at a Woodstock hotel joined people in France by staging their own Bastille Day celebrations yesterday. Special menus featuring French dishes were created and there were wine and cheese-tasting sessions in the courtyard garden of The
TWO smokers have been fined £100 each after they dropped cigarettes on the pavement. Sam Ruddock, 19, of High Street, Brackley, and 39-year-old Angus Wheeler, of Coopers Gate, Banbury, both failed to appear at Banbury Magistrates’ Court on Friday, July
A MAN who accused Oxford-based logistic company Unipart of deliberate fraudulent accounting has lost his case for unfair dismissal – after the judge called his account “fabricated”. Darren Oakley, left, from Solihull, West Midlands, claimed
A MAN died after apparently cutting his jugular vein with a razor blade just days after being released from prison. Recovering drug addict Kevin Short was found in the bathroom of the flat he shared with partner Susan Jones in Colemans Hill, Headington
Police are in the process of lifting road closures around Witney following a crash on the A40. A private ambulance, lorry and car were involved in the accident, which happened shortly after 8am near Barnards Gate. The A40 and other roads were closed
A developer has applied to convert the former nonconformist chapel at 37 High Street into a three-bedroom home. South Oxfordshire District Council is due to make a decision by August 23.
Merton College, in Merton Street, has applied to install ramps at its library and St Albans quadrangle. It has also applied to Oxford City Council to install an internal stairlift, and another stairlift and rails to the front entrance of the
Plans to open a beauty parlour in East Oxford will need planning permission from Oxford City Council, developers have been told. The plans relate to 86 Cowley Road.
A new prayer group has opened its doors in Bicester and its inaugural meeting attracted up to 70 worshippers. Bicester Muslim Society will meet every Friday for prayers at the hall at Bicester Town Football Club, off Oxford Road, from 1pm to 2pm. The
THhe ex-wife of Oxford paedophile Gerard Cullen has claimed he raped a child while she was giving birth to their son. Cullen is to be released from prison this month after serving seven years for raping and sexually abusing two young brothers
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A POOL player has been cleared of wounding a fellow player at an Oxford snooker hall. Edmund Aldworth admitted hitting Matthew Challen with his aluminium pool-cue case but said it was in self-defence. Jurors at Oxford Crown Court yesterday took under
Oxfordshire 50+ suffered only their second ECB 50+ County Championship Group 4 defeat of the season when they lost by two wickets to Warwickshire at Great & Little Tew. But, having finished their qualifying programme, they should still get
Skipper Jason Harrison is looking for his Oxford side to go one better than last year when they line up in the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League Twenty20 final days at their own Roman Way ground on Sunday. Harrison, whose team finished runners-up
Oxfordshire brothers Richard and Peter Chambers, and Paul Mattick were celebrating after striking gold for Great Britain at the World Cup Regatta in Lucerne, Swit-zerland. The Chambers’ brothers, who are studying at Brookes University, and Mattick, from
PRIMARY school pupils and teachers have been given the ultimate end-of-term treat, after winning a summer break makeover. St Christopher’s C of E Primary School, in Cowley, Oxford, won the third Oxford Mail Leadbitter School Build competition, after
Sam Thomson smashed an unbeaten century to set Tiddington on the way to an 80-run win at Challow & Childrey in the Bernard Tollett Oxfordshire Cup third round. Thomson hammered 117 not out off 69 balls, and with Jon Talbot blasting 79 off 40
HUSBAND and wife John White and Dee Taylor entertained guests with African food and music at a fund-raising dinner party. The Abingdon couple were raising cash to buy teaching materials for Longido Primary School in northern Tanzania, where they both
A WARD dedicated to caring for seriously ill teenagers at an Oxford Hospital will be closed because of a lack of nurses, it emerged last night. On Sunday, Melanie’s Ward at Oxford Children’s Hospital, which is a dedicated 12-bed adolescent unit, will
Both lanes of the A40 near Eynsham have been closed, following a crash involving at least three vehicles. The accident happened at Barnard Gate just after 8am and left at least two people injured police said. The road is expected to remain closed for
Rebekah Brooks has resigned as chief executive of News International amid growing political and commercial pressure over the phone hacking scandal. The former Sun and News of the World editor, who lives in Sarsden near Chipping Norton, announced
New captain Adam Krol is looking to his Horspath side to rise to the occasion as he starts his reign with a trip to Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West leaders Burnham tomorrow. It may appear something of a baptism
OXFORD’S bonniest baby Ceitiece Mane is set to become a model after winning the Oxford Mail Baby of the Year contest. Mother Chalasia Brown, 20, said the four-and-a-half month old had been signed up by a modelling agency after winning the contest
MANY right-thinking people will find satisfaction in the problems facing Rupert Murdoch. But while he deserves to be vilified, surely it should not be through victimless phone hacking, but for the far more his heinous crimes against printers during the
MOST cyclists in Iffley Road break the law, and they seem to treat temporary traffic signals as an excuse to break the law even more than usual. Between 9 -10am on July 8, I recorded 149 cyclists pass Iffley Road’s roadworks between Stockmore Street
Around 40 races feature in a combined Dirt Track, Quad and Pit Bike meeting at Oxford Stadium tonight (7pm). It’s the second event organised by All-Terrain Events at the stadium this year, utilising the former speedway track. Both the dirt track and
A UNIVERSITY worker and mother-of-two went for an afternoon nap and never woke up, an inquest heard. Maite Humphries-Farge was found dead by her husband at their Bicester home. Pathologist Dr Ian Roberts told her inquest at Oxfordshire Coroner’s Court
THE laughter of four men, well stricken in years as the Good Book says, could be heard far beyond the door of the Costa Coffee lounge in Cowley Road. They were looking at photographs, each producing a roar louder than before. My well-practised quizzical
I SEE that the FBI is now to investigate the possibility that News International may have been involved in hacking the phones of victims of 9/11 and the possibility of bribes being paid to the New York police. I understand that, under American law,
IF what Keith Brooks said in his letter (Pot calling kettle black, Oxford Mail, July 4) is correct, then the council should put its own house in order as well as taking over the management of properties belonging to private landlords. However, having
WHILE not wanting to enter into an argument over Mr Makepeace’s derogatory letter about the Gosford and Water Eaton Parish Council and the police being bad neighbours (Oxford Mail, July 7), I would like readers to know that feedback from residents made
I WOULD like to ask for the generosity of the Oxford Mail to highlight the actions of Mac’s Garage in Burford Road, Witney, for their roadside assistance one Friday evening. Members of the Witney Lions Club were delivering our pig roast operation to
TRANSPORT Secretary Philip Hammond hailed a “new age of rail in Britain” yesterday as Network Rail launched a 10-year, £5bn development plan for the Great Western Main Line, which links Oxfordshire with London, the West of England and South Wales. Speaking
GOWNS and mortar boards are usually reserved for Oxford’s academics, but children at a nursery in Blackbird Leys got the chance to graduate early. Children at the Co-operative Childcare nursery, in Cuddesdon Way, including four-year-old Ellie Jackson
PRIMARY schools in Oxfordshire have been warned about a line-painting scam that has left headteachers with bills of up to £2,700. So far, seven schools have fallen foul of workers falsely claiming to be from Oxfordshire County Council’s highways
THE validity of council results in South Oxfordshire and the Vale of White Horse were called into question last night after a damning report on the running of May’s local elections. An independent review highlighted a series of problems
GOWNS and mortar boards are usually reserved for Oxford’s academics, but children at a nursery in Blackbird Leys got the chance to graduate early. Children at the Co-operative Childcare nursery, in Cuddesdon Way, including four-year-old Ellie Jackson
PRIMARY schools in Oxfordshire have been warned about a line-painting scam that has left headteachers with bills of up to £2,700. So far, seven schools have fallen foul of workers falsely claiming to be from Oxfordshire County Council’s highways department
OXFORD United assistant manager Mickey Lewis has led the tributes to the club’s highly-respected kitman Ken Ridley, who died on Wednesday, aged 68, after a long battle with cancer. All the U’s players, who are on a pre-season tour of the USA, wore black
Oxford United began their tour of America with a 1-1 draw against Seacoast United Phantoms at the Bill Ball Stadium in New Hampshire last night. Alfie Potter put Chris Wilder's side ahead in the fourth minute, but a 20th-minute penalty, awarded after
A ‘monolithic’ student block has been given the go-ahead in West Oxford. Oxford city councillors voted six to one in favour, with two abstentions, for allowing the controversial 74-room block to be built on waste land in Osney Lane at a meeting of the
PARENTS and teachers got a fright after youngsters performed a scary play they wrote themselves. Year Six pupils at West Oxford Community Primary School created School for Ghouls – a show about students haunting a school. The 14 children starting writing
IN the days before May’s local elections, South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils told people not to panic about rumoured delays over the delivery of postal votes. The packs should have arrived, the councils — who share the
PLANTS, flowers and flashing signs could all be used as part of DIY-measures to slow down drivers in Headington. Members of the Highfield Residents’ Association have spent years trying to stop their roads being used as rat runs. In 2008 they presented
