David Brooks, 31, of Lansdowne Road, Dry Sandford, near Abingdon, admitted stealing £110 from a Co-op store in Abingdon, having entered as a trespasser, and committing an assault in Oxford on May 16. Community order made with a 100-hour unpaid work
Three fixtures in to the Summer League campaign and only one team holds a 100 per cent winning start. The side in question is the Royal Sun (Begbroke), who maintained their excellent run with a comprehensive display against hosts Far From The Madding
A 72-YEAR-OLD Air Training Corps unit in Oxford is asking for donations to help fund equipment. The number of cadets at the 2210 Cowley Squadron, based in Sandy Lane West, has increased from four in February, when it was fighting for survival,
ARCHITECTS behind the £3m plans for Rose Hill’s new community centre have explained their designs to residents. The new two-storey facility to be built behind Rose Hill and Donnington Advice Centre in Ashhurst Way could be open by early 2015.
A DRIVER was assaulted with a bike lock after a near-miss with a cyclist. Police are searching for the cyclist involved in the incident, which happened at about 5pm on Saturday in Parks Road. Police said the 32-year-old man was assaulted with
GROWN men dressed in thongs skipping through Didcot is not a sight you get to see every day. However, that’s what the town’s residents were treated to on Saturday when the Thong Rangers fundraising group took to the streets. Around 12 rangers
PLANS to redevelop Bicester’s Wesley Lane to create new restaurants and shops have been approved. The north side of the shopping precinct will be given a facelift with three new shops created facing Sheep Street, and the lane itself dedicated to
THE streets of Jericho in Oxford were filled with hundreds of runners yesterday. The third Run Jericho event saw about 200 children run a mile and 400 adults tackle a 10km run. The event, organised by the parents and teachers association at St
COLOURFUL carnival floats, banners and costumes brought Wallingford to life on Saturday for the town’s annual procession. Youngsters and old took part in the event, which saw schools come up with their own take on this year’s theme: The World of
LEONNA Mayor has swapped her silks for sunbeds by opening a new shop in Wantage. The flat racing jockey, who lives in East Challow, has unlocked the doors to her Bake & Shake tanning and toning studio in Mill Street. Miss Mayor, who is
IF YOU have ever wanted to watch a 3ft7inch tough guy take down a 25-stone brute, Blackbird Leys has the perfect show for you. The high-flying, body-slamming stars of Grandslam Wrestling are set to return to the estate for one day only. Blackbird
last week I cut a statistic out of the newspaper, that teenage girls fall out with their mothers 150 times a year. At risk of sounding smug and probably because she’s still only twelve, The Daughter and I managed to agree on something – that we
A SPECIAL deal could be struck between developers and council chiefs over plans to extend a primary school. Taylor Wimpey recently won planning permission to build 51 homes in Morland Road, Marcham, near Abingdon, and would normally have to pay
IAN Lenagan has been elected on to the Football League's board as League two's representative. The Oxford United chairman replaces Barnet's Tony Kleanthous following the Bees' relegation to the Conference. Lenagan is one of two newly-elected
SIXTH formers from The Cherwell School and Magdalen College School are putting on a bike festival to celebrate and promote cycling in Oxford. The Oxford Bike Fest, at The Cherwell School on Sunday, June 30, will give visitors the opportunity to
A 34-year-old man admitted posing as a charity collector to get money from residents. David Soloman, of Kimmeridge Road, off Cumnor Hill, took money from people in nearby Cotswold Road on Monday. He admitted fraud at Oxford Magistrates’ Court
OXFORD United fans got the chance to meet their heroes yesterday at the club’s annual family fun day. Thousands of supporters of all ages filled the training ground in Roman Way, off Horspath Road, Oxford, and enjoyed a range of attractions including
‘Tweet’, ‘dad dancing’, and ‘flash mob’ are some of the new additions to the Oxford English Dictionary. Chief editor John Simpson said the inclusion of ‘tweet’, as a reference to social network site Twitter, broke dictionary rules as a new word
THE Witney-born designer behind the London 2012 Olympic Torch said getting an OBE was a “defining moment” in his career. Jay Osgerby, 42, won the commission to design the torch for London 2012 in the face of competition from more than 1,000 others
A GREAT fielding and bowling display saw Tiddington beat Horspath by 15 runs in a dramatic Oxfordshire final of The Cricketer Village Cup. They will now host Gloucestershire’s Painswick or Rockhampton, who were rained off yesterday, in the first
Division 1 Westbury 218-7 (G Stapleton 53no, S Willett 44, J Mulford 6-72), E&W Hendred 130 (I Mulford 57, G Judd 5-23, R Tredwell 4-22). Charlbury 98 (D Prosper 5-33, Y Williams 3-7), Gars-ington 100-9 (A Robertson 58, B Liyanarachchi 3-18
CHERWELL LEAGUE Division 1 Great Brickhill 9-0 v Twyford – abandoned. Buckingham Town 232-4 (R Large 122no, C Price 74), Horspath 182-4 (P Foster 53no, J Phillips 44, R Eason 42, J Parish 3-65). Leighton Buzzard Town 125-9 (L Selfe 51no, J
Division 1 Banbury 269-8 (62 ovs, N Hawkes 86, C Haupt 47, R West 46, Raja Nawaz 5-67), Slough 228-6 (51 ovs, Shahid Yousuf 90no). Banbury 13pts, Slough 9. Tring Park 102-7 (45 ovs), Harpenden 105-4 (22 ovs, D Blacktopp 53no). Tring 5, Harpenden
BOWLS MIDDLETON CUP Section B (South): Oxfordshire 142 (22pts), Isle of Wight 98 (0). GOLF SHAW GIBBS OXFORDSHIRE FOURSOMES LEAGUE Knockout Cup: Badgemore Park 11/2, Rye Hill 11/2 (Badgemore Park won on shoot-out); Hadden Hill 1, Frilford Heath
A NEW book brings a splash of colour to the dying days of steam trains on the railways of Oxfordshire and further afield, writes William Crossley. The late Alan Maund, from Worcester, started using colour film in 1959 and travelled widely over
OXFORD Silver Band celebrated its centenary in 1987 with a concert at Hopcroft’s Holt Hotel, near Steeple Aston. It was organised to demonstrate the high standard the band had achieved in its 100 years. When it was formed, it was known as the
HOMELESSNESS is rising in Oxfordshire and experts are warning of an impending “catastrophe” as budgets to deal with it are slashed. The number of homeless households in the county increased from 411 in 2010/11 to 457 in 2011/12 and 476 in 2012/
THE image most people have when they think of the homeless is the classic sleeping rough in a door way. And while that’s still an alarming reality for many, experts are warning of an impending catastrophe over another type of homelessness.
If the booking fee at the Oxford Playhouse is retained by the Playhouse for charitable purposes surely it should be voluntary. For the Playhouse director Michelle Dickson to say that without this ‘booking fee’ prices would increase by approximately
THANK goodness for Bruce Ross-Smith. He knows everything about everything and can always be relied upon to put the rest of us right. MELINDA TILLEY Oxford Road Kingston Bagpuize
COUNCILLORS maintain that the £70,000 work on Jack Straw’s Lane is an improvement for cyclists. I use this road daily on my cycle and find the opposite. Cars try to avoid the centre strip by straddling it which is no help to cyclists. Cyclists
TO my mind the letters from David Williams and Agnes Kocsis (Oxford Mail, June 13) are connected. The major problem with Oxford is the private motor car which has become a form of litter clogging the streets producing, what seems to be, an intractable
When you think of all the places you can be buried, my choice may seem odd. Cremation, clearly, isn’t an option since you end up being ‘spread’. And that doesn’t appeal – I want to know that when I die I’m buried whole. And I want to know that
Batsmen dominated as Banbury’s Division 1 game at home to Slough ended in a high-scoring draw. With a fluent Nathan Hawkes leading the way, Banbury rattled up 269-8 from 62 overs, before the visitors replied with 228-6 off 51. A short break
ALISON Cripps had good reason to be pleased after attending the Oxford and District Cat Club show in 1974. The 15-year-old Headington girl’s pet, Wilma, took first prize in her class. The show at Cowley Conservative Club attracted a total of
WILLIAM (Bill) Brain filled numerous roles in the village of Old Marston, near Oxford. He was the village policeman, sang in the church choir, rang the church bells, served as a church verger and was a member of the parochial church council.
WHAT were these children watching? That is the question reader Richard Self would like Memory Lane readers to answer. The children had gathered at Bury Knowle Park at Headington, Oxford, in about 1945. Mr Self, who lives in Headington,
I’VE just learned a very interesting phrase used by the US medical industry and I think it may impact on some of your readers, eventually. It goes something like ‘medical loss ratio’ and it means every cent spent on patient care from insurance
EVERYONE in this country who makes a will is a potential victim of a disturbing crime known as ‘probate fraud’, which takes advantage of vulnerable people who have passed away or were near to passing away. A common sign of probate fraud is a sudden
Three weeks ago my green wheelie bin was stolen from its usual place outside the house. I reported this to the police and the council. The police officer told me that a number of green wheelie bins had been stolen from Oxford, but none from the
Oftsed – oh please! As a teacher I have been through a number of inspections and every one was different to the last. So how can anybody use these results to show progress in a school’s development? It is a bit like reviewing a motor car, first
Complying with Mr Siret’s request for consistency (ViewPoints, June 12) I have to correct some of his assumptions. This time, I have somehow benefited from “socialism” by living in a council house and, bizarrely, getting my education. Publicly-funded
Rain came to Aston Rowant’s rescue as their Division 2 West match at home to Harefield was washed out by a heavy storm. At the time of the abandonment, Rowant, missing the services of opening batsman Damian Shirazi, were in big trouble at 73-6
Great & Little Tew’s brilliant first season in Division 2 West continued with a convincing seven-wicket defeat of Dinton on Saturday. Superb seam bowling by skipper Andy Harris, Liam Manley and Matt Woods shot out the visitors for just 90,
Leaders Oxford had the worse of their rain-affected Division 2 West draw at home to Gerrards Cross on Saturday. Both sides have started the season strongly, but it was the Bucks club who had the upper hand, in a match that had to be reduced from
OXFORD University enjoyed a seven-wicket victory in Saturday’s One-Day Varsity match at Lord’s. Although the match was disrupted by rain, Oxford held the upper hand throughout and were convincing winners. A superb start with the ball meant Cambridge
A crash involving a bus and a car partially blocked a Cowley junction on Friday night. The No.5 bus heading from Blackbird Leys was involved in a collision with a car near Between Towns Road and Barns Road at around 7.30pm. No injuries were
SPEAKERS and sound systems were confiscated from a home in Barton, Oxford, after noise complaints from neighbours. Officers from Oxford City Council raided the Sherwood Place house on Thursday at about 3pm. The environmental health officers
THE sound of revving engines and beeping horns tore through the county yesterday as more than 2,500 bikers honoured the Armed Forces. Hundreds lined the roads to greet the motorcyclists as they rode 24 miles from Dalton Barracks to the Memorial
OXFORD City triple jumper Nathan Douglas continued his return from injury with victory in the Folksam Challenge Uppsala meeting in Sweden yesterday. Douglas jumped 16.34m on his first attempt, and that proved enough to take first place from Alexander
DROPPING down a division holds no problems for Oxford United’s new signing David Hunt – who says he has joined to help wake a sleeping giant. Lengthy negotiations saw the final 12 months of the right back’s contract at Crawley Town terminated so he
A 22-year-old man accused of raping a 14-year-old girl is due in court today. Police arrested Owen Froude, of Gainsborough Green, Abingdon, in January after crimes allegedly committed between December 26, 2012, and January 4, 2013. He is charged
THE sight of thousands of leather-clad bikers riding through Oxfordshire in the Ride of Respect yesterday was one many will remember for a long time. For those relatives of killed and injured military personnel, who lined the streets, such events
A 26-YEAR-OLD man was kicked and punched in the face in an assault which left him with a broken nose and jaw. The victim was attacked by two men in Carterton who punched him in the face before kicking him in the face and head while he lay on the
RESIDENTS are being asked to help shape the future of Oxford’s Oxpens area. The Oxpens site, between Oxford Railway Station, the Westgate Centre and the River Thames, is seen as one of the most significant development opportunities in the city
Two people were arrested after a police helicopter search around Radley on Friday. They were detained after reports of a theft in the area. The police helicopter was called out at about 5pm to assist officers on the ground.
OXFORD United have been handed a tough trip away to Charlton Athletic in the Capital One Cup first round. The last meeting between the teams was also in the League Cup, back in October 2002, when the U's won on penalties following a goalless draw
TODAY, the Oxford Mail can reveal the first glimpse of what is planned for Oxford’s newest suburb. But artist’s impressions of what Barton West will look like, drawn up by development company Grosvenor, have divided opinion on the estate. Some
AN Abingdon great-great- grandmother marked 103 years of living in the town yesterday. Doris Hyde saw the milestone in at a party with dozens of friends and relatives at the Old Station House care home on Friday. And the grandmother of 13,
A FASHION student’s lingerie design is now being sold in Marks & Spencer stores across the country. Katy Menzies’ nude and black lace creation is a re-design of the M&S Total Support Bra. Along with matching knickers, the bra went on
WORK to demolish an empty pub in South Oxford and build a convenience store will start in a matter of weeks, Tesco has revealed. The supermarket giant, which already has permission to demolish the Fox and Hounds pub in Abingdon Road and build one
