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  • Protesters rail against 'tall, ugly' Uni housing

    PORT Meadow protesters took their campaign to the heart of Oxford University this week. About 60 campaigners who say new student accommodation blocks have damaged historic views of the city demonstrated outside the Sheldonian Theatre. They

  • End in sight for cigarette butts

    TEMPLARS Square Shopping in Cowley is hoping to make discarded cigarette ends a thing of the past. Nine new wall-mounted bins have been installed around “key” shops in the precinct. They are situated outside Ladbrokes, the Co-operative Food

  • Cannabis plants seized in Headington raid

    A CANNABIS farm and a suspected drug den in Oxford have been raided by police. Growing equipment and 18 plants were seized at a property in Hawthorne Avenue, Headington, on Tuesday. Police estimate the street value was about £10,000. A 25-year-old

  • Disabled Richard’s Barton swim raises £400

    DON’T ever tell Richard Gardiner there are things he can’t do. The 28-year-old from Wood Farm swam 300m at Barton Leisure Centre – despite having only one fully-functioning limb because of cerebral palsy, a condition associated with brain damage

  • Norma Whelan: Town festival stalwart who also ran several pubs

    NORMA Whelan, who organised Wallingford Blues and Beer Festival for 23 years, has died at the age of 60. Mrs Whelan, above, booked major acts for the festival like Muddy Waters’ son Mud Morganfield, which helped raised £40,000 for local good causes

  • Co-Pilgrim's progress

    MIKE Gale is an unlikely musician. By his own admission he is shy and melancholy and avoids the spotlight. Yet his music has the power to move the soul. Playing under the name Co-Pilgrim, his soaring Americana is upbeat, moving and tender. Redolent

  • 'Mick' Morgan: Veteran 'snapper' was walking encyclopedia

    A PHOTOGRAPHER and his wife have passed away within three days of each other. Michael John Morgan, better known as ‘Mick’, died on Tuesday, February 12, aged 79, after an illness. His wife Barbara died, aged 64, at their home in Bicester three

  • Series Needs To Die Hard!

    A GOOD DAY TO DIE HARD (12A) Action/Thriller. Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch, Sergei Kolesnikov, Radivoje Bukvic, Yuliya Snigir, Cole Hauser, Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Directors: John Moore Halfway through this outlandish fifth instalment

  • Super Foodie

    KATHERINE MacALISTER takes un unlikely friend to sample a healthy community association cafe THE Oxford Mail’s music maestro Tim Hughes thought it was hilarious that we turned up to the West Oxfordshire Community Association (WOCA) cafe to find

  • Time Travellers

    CLOUD ATLAS (12A) Fantasy/Romance/Sci-Fi/Drama/ Action. Doona Bae, Halle Berry, James D’Arcy, Hugh Grant, Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw, Zhou Xun, David Gyasi. Directors: Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Tom

  • Poignant But Uplifting Tale

    SONG FOR MARION (PG) Drama/Comedy/Romance/Musical. Terence Stamp, Vanessa Redgrave, Gemma Arterton, Christopher Eccleston, Anne Reid, Orla Hill. Director: Paul Andrew Williams Music is the food of eternal love in Paul Andrew Williams’s comedic

  • 'Les' Denny: War hero, family man and Oxford United fan

    THERE was little that could distract Oxford United supporter Les Denny away from his beloved team. The dedicated football fan held a season ticket for 62 consecutive years from the age of 25 until his death, aged 87, on Saturday, January 26.

  • Gower Surge

    RICHARD CAVE and family enjoy an action-packed trip to The Gower region of Wales Last time I went to Swansea, I drove to a house in The Mumbles for a stag do and didn’t emerge until the next afternoon for an invigorating, if somewhat hungover,

  • For art's sake: jazz and cider are a match made in heaven

    As a canny piece of merchandising it is up there with the best. Odd, yes, but quite brilliant. A couple of Saturdays ago, lovers of music and strong drink gathered in an Oxford eaterie to celebrate one of the weirdest link-ups since Lembit

  • Bellowhead @ New Theatre, Oxford

    A s luck would have it, Bellowhead’s visit to Oxford’s New Theatre came shortly after they picked up a top award for their latest album Broadside. So there was a celebratory atmosphere last week when a sell-out crowd welcomed home the 11-piece folk

  • Road test of Chevrolet Cruze Station Wagon LT

    The estate version of the Chevrolet Cruze has a trick hidden not far up its sleeve that delivers real peace of mind. At first glance this is a large load lugger of a car, built solely to shift people and sizeable amounts of luggage. That is

  • North Oxford is prey to developers and owners

    North Oxford is celebrated in fiction, not least in Barbara Pym’s Crampton Hodnet, which opens with Miss Morrow sitting in a dark house wondering whether she ‘might even take pleasure in its gloominess and curiously Gothic quality’. It is also

  • Profile: Christopher Compston - a grand old man bows out

    Like a scene from a cartoon His Honour Christopher Compston was incredulous to glance over at the jury and find one reading a magazine and filing her nails. His leniency was notorious, but only stretched so far. He was a judge, after all. He

  • No porkies, UK meat is a better buy

    NEXT time you bite into a bacon butty or a ham-topped pizza, you could be helping others to flout the law. That’s the warning from a campaign group that is encouraging people across the county to buy British when it comes to pork. Jane Drewe

  • 'Leys community saved my tattoo parlour'

    THE Blackbird Leys community has saved a tattoo parlour from being permanently rubbed out. Knights Road tattoo studio in Blackbird Leys plunged into difficulties when owner Ian Austin suffered personal tragedy. His partner Susan Kellaway, 63

  • Mail's junior book of the month is a ripping adventure yarn

    AN ADVENTURE series harking back to the days of Enid Blyton is this month’s pick for the Oxford Mail Junior Book Club. The Mystery of the Vanishing Skeleton, by Helen Moss, will cost just £2.50 with the attached voucher instead of £4.99. Waterstones

  • New tenant at Harwell

    Work on a £20m research centre at Harwell has been completed. The 53,986 sq ft building, which forms part of the Science Vale Enterprise Zone, will be occupied by about 50 staff from Element Six, a manufacturer of synthetic industrial diamonds.

  • New faces at Howbery Park

    The Howbery Business Park near Wallingford is now 99 per cent full after a clinical research company became its latest tenant. P1vital has relocated from the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry at the Warneford Hospital to occupy a 1,600

  • Express delivery for DHL at Milton Park

    Growth in online business has led to the opening of a new courier distribution centre in Milton Park. DHL Express has invested £1.5m in the new 35,144 sq ft site which has seen 54 staff transfer from DHL depots across the country. Chief executive

  • Time to go clubbing?

    A golf club in a beautiful Cotswolds setting has come on the market. Feldon Valley Golf Club at Lower Brailes, near Banbury, comprises an 18 hole, 6,034 yard (par 71) course, practise facilities and a recently refurbished, 6,932 sq ft clubhouse.

  • The big squeeze

    Most small businesses now have a website to give them access to increasingly Internet-savvy potential customers. These can vary between simple information-only sites to fully functional e-commerce operations where firms can trade across the world.

  • Mama Rosin: From Swiss lakes to Southern comfort

    Their frantic Cajun reels come straight out of the Louisiana swamps – an adrenaline-fuelled gumbo of zydeco, rockabilly and psychedelic American folk. So it may come as a surprise to learn that Mama Rosin hail not from the bayous of the Deep South

  • Wrong track

    We have had the bats in Wolvercote Tunnel and residents and primary school parents fearful about noise and vibrations. There have been issues surrounding the presence of newts, horses and the air quality in Port Meadow and the Trap Grounds.

  • Burger bid

    Two hamburger-style roundabouts have proved a success already at cutting congestion in different locations on the edge of Oxford. So, it is not surprising that another roundabout featuring lanes through the middle is being planned for Milton interchange

  • Get inside the Internet

    Ignorance is bliss when it comes to taking advantage of small business owners who know they need a website but have little budget, even less time and poor knowledge of technical matters. It is possible to set up a website for a few pounds these

  • Memories are made of this

    W e have all seen the inscriptions on benches in beauty spots, village greens and cricket grounds. Sometimes we have even thought about where our own memorial bench would go as we flop thankfully into the seat to enjoy the view. Perhaps looking

  • There's a kind of hush

    As some manufacturers choose to go down the ‘world car’ route and pursue a one size fits all policy regarding car design and technology, Toyota is taking a more considered approach with its Verso compact people carrier. There is no guarantee North

  • Transparent technology

    For anyone fed up with those necessary but nuisance-laden rules about not being allowed to take drinks onto aircraft, there may be light at the end of the tunnel. An expanding Oxfordshire company is exploiting research carried out at the Science

  • Have we reached turning point?

    It is hard to believe that back in 1989 the FTSE100 index was only four years-old, the market’s trading floor still dominated by traders in brightly-coloured jackets, a symbol of their brokerage affinity, bellowing out orders and simultaneously gesticulating

  • Oxford's latest craze is perfume and poetry

    YOU’VE heard of cheese and wine evenings. Now the latest craze in Oxford is perfume and poetry. City-based poet Claire Trévien has teamed up with London perfumier Lizzie Ostrom, to run Penning Perfumes events. At each location, poets working

  • Building relationships

    What was your first job and what did your responsibilities include? My first job was as a lab technician in a platinum metal refinery, making up the alloys of precious metals. This was between school and going up to Oxford to read chemistry.

  • Working with water

    As I write, the Thames is overflowing on to the riverside paths leading to the In Business office — but by the time this magazine appears, we could all be facing a hosepipe ban. New technology has improved weather forecasting in ways our grandparents

  • Shared experience

    W hen a business is successful, any experienced entrepreneur will tell you that there is never a time to be complacent. But moving to the next stage of growth can be as tricky as the start-up stage and finding relevant advice can prove difficult and

  • FOOTBALL: Late penalty wins it for North Leigh

    AN injury-time penalty from Stuart Hole earned North Leigh their first victory in four Evo-Stik Southern League Division 1 South & West games with a 2-1 triumph away to Bishops Cleeve last night. The home side had the better of a scrappy first

  • RUGBY UNION: Heathcote doubles up for Dark Blues

    REPLACEMENT flanker Fraser Heathcote bagged two tries as Oxford University made it three wins out of three this term with a 26-17 victory over Crawshays XV at Iffley Road last night. The Dark Blues notched their first home success on the back of

  • ATHLETICS: Ambler Paul is hitting heights

    PAUL Fernandez showed the benefits of six weeks’ altitude training in Kenya by finishing fourth in the Bramley 20-mile race. The Abingdon Ambler rec-orded 1hr 52mins 44secs for the two-lap course – a time which suggests a sub 2.30 marathon clocking

  • ATHLETICS: Walkers secure vet titles

    ABINGDON Amblers Noel Blatchford and Judy Howard won 3km walk titles for their age groups in the Southern Counties Veterans Indoor Championships at Lee Valley. Blatchford took the ladies’ vet 65 crown in 18mins 34secs, while Howard clocked 19.46

  • Shared experience

    When a business is successful, any experienced entrepreneur will tell you that there is never a time to be complacent. But moving to the next stage of growth can be as tricky as the start-up stage and finding relevant advice can prove difficult and

  • Taking social care online

    Mark Walford may be just 24, but he has already given up a career in the City of London and set up his own business — specialising in care for the elderly. He said: "I was made redundant last year, having become a City trader at 20. So I thought

  • Event horizon

    It has taken her a few years but, at the age of 30, Cassie Cooper has finally found her perfect career.A former pupil of the Dragon School, Oxford, she graduated from Birmingham University, spent three years as a shop manager and four years as a PA

  • Two men arrested after major fire in North Oxford

    TWO men have been arrested on suspicion of arson with intent following a large fire in north Oxford this morning. Residents from two blocks of flats have been evacuated from Hawksmoor Road, in Cutteslowe while emergency service crews deal with

  • Thousands of Oxfordshire TV licence evaders caught

    OXON: More than 1,400 county residents were caught without a TV licence in 2012, new figures show, including about 610 in Oxford and 240 in Banbury. TV Licensing spokesman Victoria Sykes said national evasion rates were at “historically low

  • Matt's pop-up shop

    An entrepreneur has set up shop in an old carpet warehouse and hopes to develop it as a focal point for furniture and craft traders. Matt Stanbury has taken on the former Allied Carpets premises in on the Seacourt Retail Park, Botley, in a bid

  • Personal service

    A young entrepreneur is opening a funeral directors which he hopes will rival the national chains. James McGee, 25, from Grove, has launched Wantage Funeral Service (WFS) at Orchard House in Portway, the former office of Wantage and Didcot MP Ed Vaizey

  • Wood festival is back

    ONE of the country’s loveliest festivals makes a welcome return this spring, with an impressive line-up of acts and activities. Wood Festival is intended to be the antidote to large corporate events. If your experience of festivals is all about

  • Lord Mayor to learn fate next week

    OXFORD: Lord Mayor Alan Armitage will discover his fate during a hearing next week. The Lib Dem councillor, pictured, is facing a standards investigation over alleged inappropriate comments made to a schoolgirl last June. The council’s standards

  • Mike's on the right track

    Rail travel is now more popular than any time since the Second World War. And, it seems, our appetite for train-related nostalgia is growing in line with this trend with keen interest in model railways. Mike Delaney, who runs his business, Vintage

  • Restoring the balance

    Graduates of Oxford University fly high. And graduates of the university’s Saïd Business School are at the top of the tree when it comes to jobs in City of London investment banks, hedge funds and management consultancies. So when a Saïd Business

  • ATHLETICS: England focuses on training

    HANNAH England decided against putting her name forward to compete in the European Indoor Championships. The 25-year-old Oxford City athlete finished sixth in the 1,500m at the British Athletics Grand Prix in Birmingham on Sunday, which was her

  • ATHLETICS: City collect four golds

    OXFORD City athletes won four gold medals in the British Masters Athletic Federation (BMAF) ten-mile championship. The race was incorporated within the Lychett Manor 10 and saw City’s Julian Richardson cruise to vet 45 honours. Richardson completed

  • COMMENT: What a comfort

    IT must be heartbreaking for parents to say goodbye to their children, knowing it will be months before they see them again. For those of us who are outside of the military it is hard to comprehend what these brave parents are going through as

  • Oxfordshire rivers off flood alert

    OXON: All flood alerts in the county have been lifted by the Environment Agency. The alerts on the River Thames in the Oxford and Abingdon areas were lifted yesterday.

  • Help for youngsters separated from RAF Benson parents

    FOR sergeant Lorraine Banks, saying goodbye to her three children for months on end is the hardest thing she has to do. But now the 32-year-old and her RAF Benson comrades can leave their children with a personalised message when they leave the

  • Keep on running

    To run, you just have to put one foot in front of the other, right? But anyone who walks past a sports shop or visits a gym cannot help noticing that it seems to be more complicated than that. There are thousands of products to help, from pressure

  • Meet Mister Pianoman

    T here was no-one to be seen when I walked into Shackell Pianos, just the tantalising sound of tinkling piano keys. Following it, I found Jeff Shackell and Clive Ackroyd hard at work tuning a magnificent £120,000 Steinway concert grand piano.

  • ICE HOCKEY: Sizzing Stars go goal crazy

    RED-HOT Oxford City Stars made it six straight wins in Division 2 South with a 13-0 thrashing at basement boys Lee Valley Lions. Alan Green led the way with a superb four-timer, backed up by further efforts from Sam Broughton (2), Darren Elliott

  • Oxford United's double honour

    PETER Rhoades-Brown is in the running to be named Unsung Hero at the Football League Awards next month. Oxford United’s football in the community officer, who first came to the club as a player in 1984, has worked tirelessly to help inspire youngsters

  • ATHLETICS: Hawtin stars at Parliament Hill

    MELISSA Hawtin led the way for Oxfordshire with a sixth-place finish in the South of England Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill, London. The Oxford City athlete made her mark in the under 20 ladies’ race over 6km on a very muddy course

  • Time for university reply

    WE, THE undersigned, request Andrew Hamilton, vice chancellor of Oxford University, to reply to the many letters he and the chancellor have received in the past two months. These letters are from concerned groups, representatives and individuals

  • ATHLETICS: Ridley's on song

    ELYSIA Ridley finished sixth in the Welsh Cross Country Championships at Glanusk Park, near Crickhowell. The 26-year-old, from Ascott-under-Wychwood, completed the 6,170m ladies’ course in 22mins 58secs. Army officer Ridley was the fifth runner

  • RUGBY UNION: Johnson eyes up role for England

    Former Chinnor flanker Tom Johnson hopes signing a new contract with Exeter Chiefs can help him remain in the England set-up. The 30-year-old, who is recovering from a knee injury, has penned a new one-year deal with Exeter – London Welsh’s hosts

  • Cyclox doesn't condone any jumping of red lights

    I WOULD like to clear up an unfortunate confusion caused by your report about jumping red lights and my quote about it being mostly a “harmless crime” (February 11). This has misled some readers to suppose that Cyclox regards ignoring red lights

  • RUGBY UNION: Hard-up Quins release coach

    Danny Ligairi-Badham has been released as Oxford Harlequins’ head coach for financial reasons. The 40-year-old former Harlequins and Worcester wing labelled the decision “very frustrating” and offered to continue in his role for free. Quins

  • THE INSIDER: Budget debate proved a bit of a yawn for John

    GREEN councillors were accused of wrecking a Labour stalwart’s beauty sleep as he tried to get some shut-eye at a council meeting. During a budget debate spanning more than three hours at the Town Hall on Monday, John Tanner, the council’s waste

  • Crocombe in New Zealand U20 squad

    MAX Crocombe has been selected for the New Zealand squad for the Regional World Cup Under 20 Championship in Fiji. The 19-year-old was included in a group of 26 players last month and is one of two goalkeepers in the final 20-man squad. Crocombe

  • Surge in Oxfordshire dole claims is baffling experts

    THE number of people signing on in Oxfordshire has risen – bucking the national trend. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show 6,842 claimed Jobseeker’s Allowance in January, a rise of 280 on the previous month and the highest figure

  • RACING: Waley-Cohen wary of Bobs Worth

    Sam Waley-Cohen believes the main threat to Long Run regaining his Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup crown is likely to come from stablemate Bobs Worth. The amateur jockey rides the King Geo-rge VI Chase winner, owned by his father, Robert, from Edgehill

  • Thatcher is to blame

    Councillor Ian Hudspeth says (ViewPoints, February 19): “It was 13 years of Labour financial failure that got this county (maybe he means ‘country’) into the mess it’s in”. Certainly the Labour Government wasn’t very good at managing our finances

  • Blackwood deserves credit

    GAY rights campaigners are wrong to criticise MP Nicola Blackwood for the way she voted on the gay marriage bill. They obviously do not believe in equal rights for anyone who does not support their minority point of view. MPs had a free vote

  • Sad sign of a lost cause

    I READ with interest Mr Tucker’s defence of UKIP members who were denigrated by a previous correspondent (Viewpoints, February 13). I have always understood that reverting to denigration of a rival was the sign of a lost cause. Mr Lee’s description

  • Reasoned debate needed

    I AGREE with Mr Maden’s sentiments about the nature of Mr Lee’s letter (Viewpoints, February 18). It seems some issues totally polarise opinion and some vent their frustration in others not agreeing to their point of view, by using abusive and occasionally

  • City council has no logic

    OXFORD City Council seem to operate with a very strange system of logic. They object to students occupying privately rented property and complain that the colleges should do more to house their own students and then object to the appearance of

  • RUGBY UNION: Junior scores

    Under 13: Banbury 12 (tries H Steele, B Brown; con Brown), Buckingham 32. Under 12: Banbury A 17 (tries O Broughton, T Parker, A Barbeary; con H Gardner), Stow-on-the-Wold 0. Under 11: Banbury 7 (try L Swann; con Swann), Stow-on-the-Wold 0;

  • RUGBY LEAGUE: Benson in buoyant mood

    Oxford Rugby League head coach Tony Benson says it is too early to set targets for their debut season. But the experienced New Zealander is confident his side will be competitive in Kingstone Press Championship One. Oxford, whose home ground

  • No thanks for service

    I DON’T believe it. My sister, who has worked in an Oxfordshire hospital as a volunteer, doing the tea trolley etc and recently received an award for services rendered, this after 30-plus years of service, has been told she must fill in a CRB form

  • Binsey Poplars papers could fetch £40,000

    EARLY drafts of a famous Gerard Manley Hopkins poem are to be auctioned at Bonhams in London in April. The previously unpublished working papers for the poem Binsey Poplars have an estimated sale price of £40,000 to £45,000. They will go up

  • TV star Amy to address Oxford Union

    The Only Way Is Essex star Amy Childs will talk to Oxford Union members on Monday. Miss Childs rose to fame after appearing in the first two series of the popular ITV2 show and also appeared in Celebrity Big Brother in 2011. Her talk at the famous

  • Head apologises as council sacks Bicester college governors

    BICESTER Community College’s governors have been sacked, just weeks after the school was put in special measures. Oxfordshire County Council’s demand to replace the 18-strong board of governors has been approved by the Department for Education.

  • COMMENT: This head must be given support by the sponsors

    PROBLEMS at Oxford Academy have been well documented. Rotten exam scores and plummeting standards were the catalyst for the much-vaunted saviours to step in and heroically haul it back from the brink. That has not happened. The situation of listless

  • 'She was flirting with me' rape trial jury is told

    A MAN who denies raping a woman in an Oxford park told police that she had been flirting with him, Oxford Crown Court heard yesterday. Julio Dos-Santos, of Nightingale Avenue, Oxford, and Takudzwa Hunda, of Casterbridge Road, Swindon, both deny

  • Terror suspect released on bail

    A man arrested on suspicion of raising cash for terrorist causes has been released on bail until April. Officers held the 23-year-old in Oxford on suspicion of fundraising for the purposes of terrorism, contrary to Section 15 of The Terrorism Act

  • 'Sacre bleu! Top chef Raymond helps save our village pub

    THEIR village might be known around the globe for its famous restaurant Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons. But locals in Great Milton have not fared so well when it comes to village pubs. With the Red Lion, the Bell and King’s Head having all been

  • GOLF: Pepperell quick to learn on tour

    EDDIE Pepperell is relishing his debut season on the European Tour and says he is already learning valuable lessons. The 22-year-old returned to Abingdon on Monday after five weeks away playing in the Middle East and South Africa. The trip

  • Thames Valley Police asked to hand over any Savile files

    Thames Valley Police has been asked to release files and documents it has on Jimmy Savile. The Independent Police Complaints Commission has written to the force and six others in connection with the sexual abuse investigation, asking for any paperwork

  • See new £70m addition to Oxford's skyline

    THIS view of Oxford University’s Radcliffe Observatory Quarter shows its £70m Mathematical Institute is slowly taking shape. The building is on track for completion in September and is just one part of the £200m redevelopment of the 10-acre site

  • GOLF: Hinton lines up for Spanish title

    CRAIG Hinton will attempt to follow in the footsteps of Darren Clarke and Jose Maria Olazabal next week as he tees up in the Spanish International Amateur Championship. The 24-year-old, from The Oxfordshire, is one of ten members from the national

  • Oxford United Ladies aim to spread the word with big cup tie

    OXFORD United Ladies want to use their debut at the Kassam Stadium this weekend as a springboard to improve women’s football across the county. The in-form side are into the FA Women’s Cup fourth round for the first time after stunning Charlton

  • Quarter of Oxford's children now living in poverty

    THE number of children classed as living in poverty has risen to a quarter of all youngsters in Oxford, new research shows. The study by the Campaign to End Child Poverty found 8,345 children in the city were living in poverty. It showed poverty

  • BOWLS: Oxford four in national mission

    AN Oxford & District side go for glory in the English Indoor Bowling Association’s ladies’ fours national finals at Melton & District tomorrow. Donna Knight’s team of Pat Rist, Carole Galletly and Katherine Hawes face Penny Cresswell’s

  • The Love-Charm of Bombs

    The Love-Charm of Bombs is an enchanting biography examining the experiences of five authors — Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen, Rose Macaulay, Henry Yorke (pen-name Henry Green) and Hilde Spiel — in wartime London, writes Angela Johnson. Volunteering

  • The Maid and the Queen

    The Maid and the Queen by Nancy Goldstone The Maid of the title is Joan of Arc and the Queen is the lesser known Yolande of Aragon. Subtitled The Secret History of Joan of Arc, this is not so much a secret story as a less familiar one; one that

  • Oxford well placed for league wins

    This is an important weekend for Oxford 1 in the Four Nations Chess League. Presently topping division 2 with seven rounds to go, on Saturday Oxford play Welsh team Rhyfelwyr Essyllwg 1 who lie fifth in the table and on Sunday, fourth place Anglian

  • GOLF: Bicester pair have fun in the sun

    AN amateur duo from Bicester just missed out on the senior pairs title at the HowDidiDo National Matchplay Championship in Portugal. David White, who plays off 14, and Ivan Curtis, a 12-handicapper – both from Bicester Golf Club – reached the grand

  • GOLF: Club results

    NORTH OXFORD Pimms Cup 4th round: 1 M Maciak 39pts (cb), 2 J Szulc 39 (cb), 3 M Brennan 39. WITNEY LAKES Prime Carpet Cleaning Stableford – Div 1: 1 R King 38pts, 2 S Saunders 37, 3 J Stubbings 36. Div 2: 1 G Eastaff 40, 2 I McDonald 39

  • AUNT SALLY: Walton is star turn

    STEVE Walton shone in Deddington’s 2-0 win over Bicester in the Banbury Indoor League’s Knockout Cup semi-finals. He hit 11 dolls capped by a six as Deddington edged through in a 21-17, 23-22 scoreline, Phil Allen scoring ten for Bicester.

  • Woman killed in house fire

    A WOMAN has died in a house fire in Thame. Firefighters were called to the Greenway home at 3.25pm yesterday, Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue said. Spokesman Jason Crapper said there was a fire in the living room which was heavily logged with smoke

  • Supporting people with mental health problems into work

    One in four of us will experience a mental health problem this year. Having a mental health problem can be debilitating and isolating. Restore is an Oxfordshire charity that supports people with severe mental health problems to get well and get

  • Parky at the Pictures (In Cinemas 21/2/2013)

    In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, a series of trümmerfilme were produced in the partitioned Germany to explore the impact of defeat on blitzed city dwellers. A handful of these `rubble films' considered the fate of prominent Nazis

  • Parky at the Pictures (DVD 21/2/2013)

    It's looking increasingly likely that Ben Affleck's Argo is going to win the Academy Award for Best Picture this week. Yet, if there's one thing Hollywood loves as much as a movie about itself, it's an old-fashioned musical and Tom Hooper's Les Misérables

  • Parky at the Pictures (In Cinemas 21/3/2013)

    There's a pronounced emphasis on youth in the dramas and documentaries selected by the students at Oxford Brookes University for the 11th Oxford Human Rights Film Festival. Given the bad press that young people continue to receive about their lack

  • Feast of films at human rights festival

    YOUTH rights will be the focus for this year’s Oxford Human Rights Festival, which starts in the city today. This is the eleventh year of the festival, which is organised by Oxford Brookes University students studying development and emergency

  • Businesses urged: Help sick children

    WORKERS at businesses across the county are being urged to pull on their running shoes in a bid to raise funds for sick children. Oxfordshire companies are forming teams to take on the annual OX5 run for Oxford Children’s Hospital at Blenheim Palace

  • Visitors show off their talent at the Ashmolean

    BUDDING painters had their chance to help recreate one of The Ashmolean’s finest works on Sunday. A copy of Camille Pissarro’s View from my Window Eragny-sur-Epte was split into 60 individual squares so members of the public could unleash their