TAKE a long lingering look at this Porsche because it might be the last of the 997-generation 911 models before the switch to the new — and probably extremely similar — 998 model later this year. And with such an important task resting on its wider
A fundraising walk around Oxford University Parks to support the city’s hospitals will return in October. It’s Not Just a Walk in the Park will take place on October 30 to buy extra equipment and facilities for Oxford Cancer Centre and Oxford Heart Centre
Oxford East MP Andrew Smith pressed a Government minister on EU benefit claimants in the Commons. The Labour MP asked work and pensions sercretary Chris Grayling how many families he estimated got benefits in the UK and from another EU state as their
More than 560 council council and schools staff were earning at least £50,000 last year, new figures show. Schools staff on more than £50,000 rose from 299 in 2009/10 to 338 in 2010/11, a rise of 13 per cent, while the number of Oxfordshire
A gallery that has championed Oxfordshire emerging talent celebrates its fifth birthday today. The 03 Gallery in Oxford Castle opened in 2006 as part of the castle’s revamp and has been giving local artists a place to hang their work ever since. To
Harcourt Arboretum will be playing host to a different kind of hide and seek this summer. Organised by the Institute of Physics, Quest involves a high-tech treasure hunt using co-ordinates and GPS to find boxes full of puzzles and activities. It will
TRAFFIC still appears to be heavy but moving on major routes across the county during rush hour tonight. No major problems have been reported on Oxfordshire's roads as several high profile events are held in the county this weekend.
POLICE want the public’s help in tracing a missing man from Wallingford. Dominic Ewbank, of St Martin’s Street, was reported missing to police on Friday, July 15. Police only released details tonight. The 48-year-old is described as
Blood donation sessions will be held in Oxford next Thursday. Appointments will be available between 1.30pm and 3.30pm and then again between 4.15pm and 7.30pm at the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre in Little Gate Street, in St Ebbes. Anyone aged
Families are invited to work together at Barracks Lane Community Garden to create woven and painted art using natural and found materials. The family activity day will be held tomorrow between 11am and 5pm. A £2 donation per family is suggested.
Blood donors can make their way to Middleton Cheney, near Banbury, today where sessions will be held at the village hall between 1.30pm and 3.30pm and between 4.15pm and 7pm.
A grateful father has helped organise a fun day this weekend to thank the hospital that saved his baby daughter’s life. Amber Ghulam’s daughter Isha was three months old when she went to the Oxford Children’s Hospital with life-threatening pneumonia.
IT was built as a vast fortress, capable of storing nearly three million volumes including some of the world’s most valuable books. Now Oxford’s New Bodleian Library is stripped and deserted. The Broad Street building will close any day, awaiting a
An afternoon of stories, games and music around the theme of forests of the world will be held at the Botanic Gardens, Rose Lane, tomorrow. The forest picnic afternoon will run from 1pm to 4pm and entry costs £3.80 with children free.
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YOUNG actors from Gaza are among a global cast performing in Oxford tonight. Pegasus Theatre, in Magdalen Road, is hosting an international festival after bringing young actors and actresses from all over the world to perform in the city. Festival director
SIX people were arrested in immigration raids in West Oxfordshire last night. Four Bangladeshi men were arrested at Café Le Raj in Horsefair, Chipping Norton, two for overstaying visas and two for entering the country illegally. Two Bangladeshi
BICESTER’s oldest football club will close its doors at 4pm today ending a rich 130-year history. Bicester Town Community Football Club, which has been at the heart of the community for more than a century, was given notice to quit its Oxford
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A WALLINGFORD dad completed a cycle ride for the pre-school he went to in 1973 – and where his two-year-old daughter now attends. Steve Andrews, 41, completed the London to Brighton ride last month to raise £500 for Rainbow Pre-School. Mr Andrews, pictured
COMPUTER supplier Paul Nicol started to suffer problems with his eyesight when he was 14 and by the time he was 25 he was blind. But he has not allowed his disability to limit his lofty ambitions and in January he will climb 19,340ft to the
Oxfordshire crews bagged a total of six gold medals, two silver and one bronze at the British National Championships in Nottingham. City of Oxford’s women’s team of Sian Findlay, Jane Loveday, Nicola Smith and Keren Ward took the coxed four, with Ward
DIRECTORS at Oxford United have launched a special new club designed to boost business involvement at the Kassam Stadium. The Business Class networking club will offer corporate members “platinum benefits” including one of the best seats in the Kassam
THE county’s first £4.4m carbon neutral school building has officially opened. The new sixth form block at Cooper School, in Churchill Road, Bicester, is ready for its first pupils in September. Work on the two-storey building began last summer and
YOUNG people who struggle to fit their school and social lives around caring for sick loved ones have said Oxfordshire County Council is failing to live up to its pledge to support them. Their claims come as Oxford Carers Centre has refused to bid for
EARLIER this year Larkmead School was hailed as the most improved school in Oxfordshire. Yet inspectors have only rated the Abingdon comprehensive progress as ‘satisfactory’ after a recent visit. The Faringdon Road secondary school was listed among
Oxfordshire women’s captain Emma Tolson admitted to being left shocked after her side were relegated from Group 5B. Confidence was high going into the week, with Oxon determined to halt a run of relegations that had seen them plummet from Group 1. But
THE CHIEF executive of South Oxfordshire and Vale of White Horse district councils said last night he should have appointed a specialist printer to supply polling cards for local elections. David Buckle, returning officer for both councils, made the
Captain Jason Harrison admits his Oxford side need High Wycombe to slip up if they are to have a chance of catching them in the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League Division 1 title race. With seven games to go, the Bucks club have
Oxford United turned out in force yesterday for the funeral of kitman Ken Ridley. Players, managers and staff – past and present – were among more than 250 people to pay their respects Mr Ridley, who died last week after a long battle with
SCOTTISH and Southern Energy has announced it will be increasing its prices this autumn. The energy company, which supplies nine million customers in the UK, including many in Oxfordshire, revealed it will be raising household electricity prices by 11
Richard West hit a rapid half-century as holders Banbury survived a scare to post a five-wicket win at Cropredy in the Bernard Tollett Oxfordshire Cup quarter-finals. Chasing Cropredy’s 139-6 off 20 overs, Banbury were behind the run rate at
Batsman Jonny Cater and left-arm spinner Nat Watkins make their Oxfordshire debuts against Dorset in the Minor Counties Championship Western Division match at Bournemouth starting on Sunday. Cater, 22, who plays for Buckingham, gets his chance
THE HIGHWAYS Agency has issued a fresh warning to motorists about heavy traffic across Oxfordshire this weekend. It says the combination of several high profile events - attracting more than 200,000 visitors - could cause problems. The
CONSTRUCTION of a controversial multi-milion pound council swimming pool is to go ahead. And the contract for the modern eight-lane 25-metre pool, next to Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre, in Oxford, was handed to developer Willmott Dixon at a meeting of
Oxford City boss Mike Ford could supplement his side with former Birmingham City defender Reece Fleet. Fleet, who is the son of former City goalkeeper Colin, ,joined City in pre-season after being released by Blues earlier in the year. The big centre
THE drivers of vehicles using Ferry Hinksey Road daily must have had a quiet chuckle or sigh of relief on reading the Oxford Mail report (July 14) of the recent police exercise to monitor the 20mph speed limit. It stated that only three or four vehicles
DAVID Barnard, of Cherwell Avenue, Kidlington, has asked us to make clear that in recent letters (ViewPoints, July 6 and July 18) about exchanges in these pages between county council leader Keith Mitchell and Tony Augarde, he was awarding the palm of
ON Wednesday, July 13, a lady called for an ambulance on a phone at Waitrose, I think. I had fallen in the passageway behind the store in Abingdon. She very kindly put her son’s sweater under my head. I don’t know her name but I would like to thank
I HAVE been a resident here in Brookfield Care Home for four years and in that time I have never experienced any problems as regards the care. I think the staff are really marvellous the way they cope. They can only give encouragement to us and I have
YOU are English?” one of the three teenage Italian girls asked in that cute way they turn a statement into a question. I couldn’t deny it. The pin-striped suit, regimental tie and shiny shoes were a bit of a give away. “Do you know your
A GROUP from Oxfordshire will be hoping they have the luck of the Irish at an international competition this weekend. Dancers from the Marion Flanagan School of Irish Dancing will compete against hundreds of others at the British Nationals in Manchester
DOGS Trust, the UK’s largest dog welfare charity, is encouraging all Oxfordshire pet owners who have ever rented, or tried to rent accommodation with their pet to take part in an online survey. The aim is to gather details of pet owners’ experiences
REGARDING your article (How Ronnie Swapped Comedy For Antiques, Oxford Mail, July 8) – the Two Ronnies really were the kings of comedy – Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett lit up our screens for decades with their rib-tickling brand of humour all
I READ Honour Tomkinson’s On Yer Bike column in Tuesday’s Oxford Mail and am quite appalled at its content. The public’s outlook on cyclists is not, according to complaints in your pages, all peace and harmony really, is it, even without this? I passed
THAMES Valley Police is “well placed” to handle its significant budget cuts, according to a report released yesterday. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) inspected all 43 police forces in the UK to see how they were planning to meet financial
A MUSICIAN who swapped her role managing a top opera company to work at an Oxford primary school has been named our teacher of the year for 2011. Edwina Vernon previously worked as company manager at English National Opera, staged the Swiss
KEN RIDLEY’S funeral yesterday truly showed the family spirit at Oxford United Football Club. He served United for 27 years, and it must have been touching to his family that so many players past and present turned out to pay their respects
A WOMAN was fighting for her life last night after being cut from the wreckage of her car. The woman was airlifted to hospital with life-threatening injuries yesterday after a crash between three cars. Emergency crews were called to the collision
OXFORDSHIRE County Council will be revealed as spiteful, petty and unfit to run services if it increases the cost of parking permits. When we and Oxford City Council called for a rebate on the £110,000 profit the council is raking in, we didn’t expect
OXFORDSHIRE’S parking boss is threatening to hike the price of permits after the county council was exposed as making a profit out of the scheme. The council made a profit of £110,442 from its Oxford residents’ parking permit scheme in the
WE think Tony Berridge should feel a swell of pride today that he has shown some of his war hero father’s same spirit in finally retrieving his medals. Mr Berridge handed over the medals won in the Second World War by his father, Sergeant Wilfred
New Banbury United boss Ady Fuller says he is hopeful that striker Courtenay Herbert will switch to Spencer Stadium. Fuller, whose side host Herbert’s former club, Northampton at Spencer Stadium, tonight, said: “He said that he would come down and play
INJURED midfield duo Peter Leven and Paul McLaren are targeting a return to action in next week’s home friendly against Everton after being given the all-clear to resume full training. Although they travelled with the U’s squad on their pre-season tour
Traffic across the county is heavy but moving this morning as the CLA Game Fair gets under way in Woodstock. Traffic on the A420 into Oxford is reported as heavy but flowing well, while earlier queues on the A40 eastbound at Barnard Gate now
ICKNIELD Community College has maintained its “good” rating from Ofsted following its most recent inspection. The 638-pupil Watlington secondary school was described as providing “a good standard of education in a close and caring community,” and inspector
THE countdown to next year’s London Olympics is set to begin in earnest in Oxford this weekend with a day of sporting activities. The Oxford Family Sports Day, being held in South Park, East Oxford, on Sunday as part of the Olympic Open Weekend, will
AN OXFORD hospice is hoping to reach out to more seriously ill patients after a £70,000 lottery grant. Sobell House Hospice, based at the Churchill Hospital in Headington, used the money to fund a new driver for the day centre. It is hoped the annual
A 66-year-old Oxfordshire man has won a four-year fight to secure the return of his father’s war medals. Now he is already preparing to give them away again — to a museum that commemorates the battle in which his father fought. Tony
OXFORD United have been allocated 2,796 tickets for the npower League Two derby clash at Swindon on Sunday, August 21. The U’s will originally get 2,396, with a further 400 to follow once the initial allocation is sold out. The tickets will go on sale
