Three plans involving almost 150 student flats should be approved according to council planners, despite concerns from residents, a school and conservationists. Oxford City Council planning officers are urging councillors to back the East Oxford, Osney
About 400 movie fans queued at an East Oxford church for the chance to star as an extra in Keira Knightley’s new film. They waited at Cowley Road Methodist Church for a chance to be immortalised on the silver screen in an adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s
Hereford Utd 0, Oxford Utd 1 (Hall 32) Rob Hall scored his second goal for Oxford United as Chris Wilder's side made it three straight away wins at Hereford today. The on-loan West Ham forward headed home after some superb work from Liam Davis down
IT can see school applications drop and staff and parents turning away in droves. When a school goes into special measures – Ofsted’s most serious sanction – confidence can reach an all-time low. But headteachers at three Oxfordshire schools which have
Chinnor scored six tries, but were not always convincing in a bonus-point victory. Here is the numbers' game. See Monday’s paper for full report. Competition: National 3 South West Score: Chinnor 45, Old Patesians 25 Chinnor player
DREADING the thought of doing the Christmas shopping? Perhaps a change of scene and scenery might be in order. And if battling through airport security puts you off the idea of heading to the Continent, why not let the train take the strain
kidlington progressed through to round 2 of the ombl red/white u9 cup with an emphatic 14-2 victory over hinksey park.In match 1 after a slow start kidlington began to play some slick passing football allowing them to take control of the game,alex keighery
PERSONNEL from RAF Benson have gone to the ends of the earth and back, at least in theory. While deployed in Afghanistan the men and women of 78 Squadron A Flight went on a 10,000 mile trip without leaving their camp. The ordeal was the brainchild of
AN INDIAN extravaganza will light up the John Radcliffe hospital to raise funds for the Oxford Kidney Unit to buy new equipment and Six Counties Kidney Patients’ Association which supports carers and patients. Music, dance and food will
The town’s Rosemary Conley Diet and Fitness Club raised more than £800 for charity with a two-hour Zumba dance party at Didcot Civic Hall. The dancers raised the funds for Hearing Dogs for Deaf People and Hounds for Heroes on Sunday. The club is staging
More than 40 members of the Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir will be performing alongside soloist Joy Skeels at St Michael and All Angels, Great Tew, near Chipping Norton, tonight from 6.45pm. Tickets cost £8 for adults and £2 for children under 14, and
A daily argument is the key to a long and happy marriage. That is the message from Sybil and Norman Cross, who live in Wantage Nursing Home and have just celebrated 70 years of wedded bliss. The couple met when they were at school together
Latte lovers and caffeine fiends united yesterday to raise thousands for charity. The annual Macmillan World’s Biggest Coffee Morning saw more than 700 Oxfordshire groups hold coffee and cake mornings. They aimed to raise more than £120,000 for the
ONE of Oxford’s favourite TV talent show contestants has backed the producers of the competitions after they were accused of being humiliating. TV talent show The X Factor has hit the headlines for the wrong reasons recently when viewers reacted badly
A man was seriously injured after falling into a hole at an excavation site. The man, who is in his 60s, fell 12ft at the Great Western Park site in Didcot shortly after 4pm on Friday. Two fire crews and a specialist rescue team were called to the
An elderly lady had to be winched out of a ditch after she crashed her mobility scooter in Wallingford Road, Cholsey. Three fire crews came to her rescue after the accident at 4.30pm on Friday. She is not believed to be seriously injured.
OXFORD Joanne Lloyd, 30, of Speedwell Street, Oxford, admitted stealing cash and items worth £648.66 in Oxford on February 19, failing to surrender to court bail on April 4 and failing to surrender to court bail on June 2. Jailed for six weeks.
IT HAS taken 15 years and a £2.3m Lottery win for Charmaine Watson to respond to the bullies who made her school days a misery. For she has finally found a fitting way to voice her anger and sorrow by using £20,000 of her Lottery winnings to help stage
A GROUP of disabled film-makers from Oxford have won top prizes in a national competition. They completed the work during a course run by Film Oxford, in Catherine Street, and their finished films were entered in this year’s Snap! Competition
OXFORD’S only independent record shop is set to close, just eight months after opening. But the owner of Truck Store, in Cowley Road, is planning to open a new, larger shop in Oxford city centre once premises have been found. Gary Smith, who owns the
householders will not get their bins emptied weekly, despite a new £250m Government fund for councils to scrap fortnightly collections. Councils across Oxfordshire look set to snub Communities Secretary Eric Pickles’ announcement that a quarter of a
EMMA-Kate Lidbury landed her third Ironman 70.3 victory of the season as she cruised home in Las Vegas. Lidbury trailed after the swim and bike stage, but won the event by more than six minutes, after a particularly strong run. The Oxford-based athlete
AN Oxford martial arts school is to stage an international fight evening pitching top stars from England and Thailand against each other. The Oxford Martial Arts Academy (OMAA) will host the Muay Thai evening on Saturday, October 22, with British fighters
CARL Davis, who runs coaching classes in Wantage, has just won his fourth international title of the year. Competing in the Welsh Open in Cardiff, he won the 71kg black belt adult sparring category to add to his successes in the Scottish, English and
THE practice match for tomorrow’s Oxford Winter League was fished by 38 on the Clifton Hampden and Dorchester stretches of the Thames and produced some decent weights. The river is still painfully slow and clear, which means is that the fish are tightly
CAMPAIGNERS fighting Witney’s controversial link road scheme have presented a 4,000-strong petition to the Prime Minister. Anti-Cogges Link Road group Witney First took the petition to David Cameron’s Witney constituency office in High Street yesterday
Witney middleweight (Steve) Marvin Mullins cruised to a convincing points victory over Walsall’s Bobby Wood on his professional debut at the Oasis Leisure Centre, Swindon last night. Mullins imposed his authority from the bell, attacking the body with
Oxfordshire rider Bradley Smith will be seeking to repeat his podium finish of last year at the Grand Prix of Japan tomorrow. The 20-year-old, from Forest Hill, near Oxford, finished third in the 125cc race in 2010 at the Motegi circuit, and
Reading’s Carl Bunce retained his QRA Quad Oval British Championship at Oxford Stadium last night, writes ROBERT PEASLEY. Bunce led by one point from Danny Smith, another Reading rider, going into the final round. The key race came in heat 18. Bunce
MICHAEL Peterson will be hoping for better luck when he sends Tictac Gold for a £500 open race at Wimbledon next Tuesday, which will be covered live on Sky Sports. Last week, the 2010 champion Oxford trainer watched in dismay at Harlow, when the hound
Oxford Zoomers will be hoping to go one place better than last year’s runners-up title at the Champions Cup, the national final of the RYA Team 15 (T15) inter-club competition next weekend. A single point win in the South Zone series saw the Zoomers
LE Sol Swiftly, trained by Michael Peterson, is napped to win the A4 450m opening race in tonight’s meeting at Oxford Stadium. Dippy Josie, could make it a double for the trainer in the S1 race over 595m. TONIGHT’S RUNNERS 7.45: Noel Baby 3, Pennys
Berinsfield’s Ronan Wad-ley, 13, began the new season in style with a points victory over Ben Stevens at Aldershot. The Oxfordshire teenager was always the more inventive of the pair in this all southpaw clash, landing successive clusters of well-placed
Oxford City boss Mike Ford has saluted the courage of his side in reached the first round of the FA Cup with a 3-2 win at Blue Square South outfit Weston-super-Mare. “We had to dig deep second half because they really put us under a lot of pressure,”
FOUR men who told a murder trial witness they would kill him if he gave evidence have been jailed for a total of 10 years. The quartet visited the home of John Amadasun just three days before he was due to give his account of events into the
WHEATLEY karter Sam Snell finished a creditable fifth in the final round of the Italian KF1 Championships at Viterbo. Just a week after his ninth place finish in the World Cup, Snell, 19, finished each of the first two qualifying heats in fourth place
TOM Price landed the Oxfordshire under 11 player- of-the-year award at the OCB’s latest presentation evening for junior cricketers at the Hawkwell House Hotel in Iffley. Price, who won the under 10 prize last year, was given the award for his consistent
Banbury United skipper Liam Dolman is set to end his six-week injury nightmare when they host Bedworth in the first round of the Red Insure Cup on Tuesday. Dolman hasn’t played since suffering a broken metatarsal in their Evo-Stik Southern League Premier
CHIPPING Norton’s Fergus Walkinshaw will make his Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit debut this weekend as the Michelin Ginetta GT Supercup heads to the legendary Kent circuit for the penultimate series rounds. Following his impressive form at Rockingham
BANBURY’S Mini World Rally Championship team are hoping for another top placing as they head for Strasbourg and their fourth event of the year, Rally France-Alsace this weekend. The team are keen to capitalise on their third place in Germany for Spaniard
I POPPED over to J&K Tackle in Bicester this week and bumped into Sean Trafford, who has been fishing Vallee Lakes in Normandy, France, with brother Michael and dad Mick, writes ANDY WEBBER. The trio had just returned from their third trip this year
OXFORD City Stars are hoping to complete the signing of a new import, Cameron Birrell, ahead of this weekend’'s South Division 1 double-header against Cardiff Devils and Slough Jets in the English National League. Birrell, a South African forward who
ASHTON kicked off their season with a 2-1 victory at Riley B in the Gentworks Oxford & District League. Roger Tomlin (+80) put Riley in front with a 150-107 win over Pete Fenn (+60), but Callum Vinall (+90) levelled, beating Doug Baker (+80) 150-145.
Jake Wright will come straight back into the Oxford United side as they bid for three straight away wins at Hereford today. The U's skipper missed last week’s 1-1 draw with Accrington after serving a one-match suspension for his sending-off at Barnet
TWENTY Oxfordshire primary schools have fallen below the Government’s minimum standards, as new figures show the county’s seven-year-olds are still performing below the regional average. Oxfordshire County Council’s deputy director for young people,
THERE were more than 1,000 suspensions of Oxfordshire pupils last year because of threats and abuse towards staff, new figures show. Today, the Oxford Mail reveals a school-by-school breakdown of suspensions which show the level of disruptive and unruly
OUR interview with the victim of another East Oxford sex assault sends out a strong message. We reiterate that, overall, this city is a safe place to live. But that does not mean women need not take some prudent cautions, especially
IT COMES as no surprise that our primary schools are still under performing. The issue is not something that can be resolved overnight. We called for Oxfordshire County Council to take action and it has. But it is a slow process.
A WOMAN was raped and another sexually assaulted in two separate incidents on the same night in the city. It brings the number of attacks this summer to nine with police last night warning women not to walk home alone late at night.
FALSE teeth, live tarantulas, a six-foot stuffed bear and a coffin. No, it’s not The Addams Family’s weekly shopping list... it’s just some of the strange things that have turned up at Oxfordshire’s recycling plants in the past year. The list of weird
BICESTER’s oldest building will once again open its doors to local artists for its third annual art exhibition. About 20 professional, semi-professional and amateur artists from Bicester and the surrounding area will exhibiting paintings and other work
GRENADIER Guards old and young gathered for a special concert to raise money for injured soldiers this week. The Grenadier Guard Band, fresh from Buckingham Palace, performed at a picnic in the sun at the Oxford University Press cricket ground. More
