OXFORDSHIRE County Council has said it was a “genuine oversight” that nobody was consulted about the location of a new bike rack. It launched the £150,000 Oxonbike scheme on Thursday, allowing cyclists to use one of 30 bicycles free for up to half
OXFORDSHIRE’S ambulance service has become the first in England to give an emergency car to medical student volunteers. South Central Ambulance Service has recruited 48 first responders from Oxford University. They will share a car and a defibrillator
FIFTY years ago they were training together as young nurses. Now half a century later, they have travelled from all over the world to attend a reunion of those who learnt at Oxford’s former main hospital – the Radcliffe Infirmary. Some of the
JULY is an exciting month and we're launching our fantastic new Bingo game that is offering up to £1,000 a week. You need to buy the Oxford Mail on Monday, July 1 to get your lucky game card to be able to play over the next four weeks. Each
IT WAS supposed to be a time for us to kick back, chase the waves and watch the tides ebb and fall. I had envisaged building sandcastles and collecting shells on the new £17m beach Bunn Leisure had thoughtfully created for holidaymakers at its
FOR many people, sitting on overheated buses for 700 miles would be their summer holiday from hell. But Alan Gurr from Didcot, who works in a packaging warehouse, is really looking forward to it. The divorced father-of-two is planning his route
ONE hundred years ago the Medical Research Council was formed to get rid of tuberculosis in Britain. Now scientists at Oxfordshire’s Medical Research Council complex at Harwell, near Didcot, are battling a host of different diseases, including
Appleton School’s girls relay team captured the National Small Schools title at the ESSA Primary School Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield. Isabella Boyce Parr, Emily Ford, Zoe Lovibond and Leonie Watson claimed double gold by taking the 4x25m
Hammer thrower Emma O’Hara will bid to strike gold for Oxfordshire again at the English Schools’ Track & Field Championships at Birmingham’s Alexander Stadium on July 5 and 6. The 18-year-old, from Larkmead, Abingdon, won the intermediate girls
THE new headteachers for two of the three Blackbird Leys primary schools have been announced. The three primaries – Pegasus, Windale and Orchard Meadow – are joining forces to form a new academy, sponsored by top independent school the Dragon School
Oxford City Stars should finally learn which league they will play in next season after a meeting today. Stars won National League Division 2 South last season, but stated that they wished to stay there and not be promoted. Oxford have been
No arrests had last night been made after three armed robbers burst into a home and threatened teenagers with knives and a hammer. The six victims, aged 14-17, were robbed of mobile phones and cash in the incident in Rothwells Close, Cholsey, on
HE was a brave soldier who is Oxfordshire’s earliest identifiable resident. But for centuries the tombstone of Roman soldier Lucius Valerius Geminus was buried in pieces in the foundation of a stone wall in a field between Bicester and Wendlebury
Two Oxford men suspected of an attempted robbery in which a man died have been bailed for a third time. The men, aged 30 and 31, were arrested on March 31 following an incident at John Gowing Jewellers in the city’s Covered Market. Clint Townsend
Award-winning poet and author Kevin Crossley-Holland has become a patron of the Story Museum in Pembroke Street, Oxford, which celebrates storytelling. Mr Crossley-Holland will take part in storytelling sessions at the museum on Wednesday, July
Pete Reed admitted Britain’s men’s eight produced a disappointing display to finish third in their preliminary race at Eton Dorney yesterday. But the Oxford Blue and his crew stroked by fellow two-time Olympic gold medallist and Oxford resident
Oxford City pair Hannah England and Nathan Douglas are raring to go for this weekend’s European Team Championships in Gateshead, writes Stuart Weir. England competes for Britain in the women’s 1,500m tomorrow at 3.09, while Douglas starts his triple
Oxford's Jason Plato bids to step up his title challenge in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Croft tomorrow. Plato stands in third place, seven points behind leader Matt Neal after two lights-to-flag victories in his MG KX Momentum
Chipping Norton’s Sean Walkinshaw was thrilled to claim his first Copa Class podium in the European Formula 3 Open at a baking-hot Jerez in Spain. The 19-year-old rookie sliced his way through the field in the day’s first race to take third behind
Luisa Chantler Edmond stole the show with a hat-trick of wins in the throwing events at the Oxfordshire Schools’ Track & Field Championships at Tilsley Park, Abingdon. Representing the City, the 14-year-old, from Cherwell School, Oxford, won
POLICE have defended their failure to prosecute a pervert before he groped another teenage girl on a bus. Christopher Swift sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl on the Oxford to Kidlington bus in November 2011. The victim’s mother gave a bag
Oscar Stevens edged out clubmate Denzil Atito in the standout bout of Oxford Boxing Academy’s first Open Show dubbed the ‘Battle Royale’. The pair went toe-to-toe at OBA’s new Northway premises and had the crowd on their feet with excitement.
Former North Oxford and Cumnor cricketer Robin Winstone, who celebrated his 75th birthday this week, enjoyed a recent boat trip out of Alderney in the Channel Islands. He bagged a dozen of the 14 cod caught, the heaviest (pictured) going 26lb.
Tom Costley’s rapid half century and some tidy bowling secured Oxfordshire Under 16s a 108-run victory over England Moderate Learning Disabilities (MLD) at Aston Rowant. Costley smashed 53 not out from 36 balls, helping Oxon to 223-7 after they
Banbury-based Aston Martin have secured a double pole position for the classic 24 Hours of Le Mans race which starts today (3pm). They will be at the front of the grid in both the GTE Pro and the GTE Am races. The fastest GTE Pro lap time of the
Kidlington & Gosford set a European record among their haul of nine gold medals at the British Gas Masters & Senior Age Group Championship in Plymouth. Johnny Richards (backstroke), Pete Williams (breaststroke), Ian Surrage (butterfly)
AIR pollution in busy streets has been tested using new equipment in an effort to improve Oxford’s air quality. Oxford City Council wants to reduce air pollution in certain key areas. Researchers have been in action this week in High Street
Only three anglers from a field of 20 caught fish in a Lure Anglers Society perch match on the Alliance stretch of the Thames at Eynsham on Sunday The winner was Greg Pawlak with three perch of 3.4.0, 2.8.0 and 2.2.0. Alex Roberts was runner-up
Sam Heath scored a magnificent century as Bartholomew, Eynsham defeated Lord Wiliams’s, Thame by nine wickets in the Oxfordshire Under 14 Premier League. Lord Williams score of 155-7 was a daunting target,but Heath swept them aside with an unbeaten
THE Red Lion pub in Britwell Salome has been given an award for its commitment to local and organic produce. It is one of three winners of the Alastair Sawday pub award. The Red Lion will now feature in Sawday’s guidebook Pubs and Inns of England
A 21-YEAR-OLD Oxford man has admitted stabbing his uncle with a knife. Lewis Dean, of Falcon Close, Blackbird Leys, pleaded guilty yesterday at Oxford Crown Court to one charge of unlawful wounding and one charge of having a bladed weapon in a
MANY cats accustomed to warm fires, free food and soft beds would struggle to fend for themselves in the wild. Yet Colin the confident, strutting Bengal is no ordinary feline. So when he was recovered after going missing for two years, it was
A TEENAGE girl was sexually assaulted in a village by a man wearing a blue hooded top. Police said the attack happened on a grassed area behind Hunters Field, in Stanford in the Vale, about three weeks ago. The victim only reported the crime
A DANGEROUS paedophile who groomed and abused a teenage girl from Oxfordshire has been jailed for nine years. Bradley James, from Washington, near Gateshead, had been released on licence after being jailed for earlier child sex offences when he
CAKES, biscuits and other delicious baked goods went on display at an Oxford primary school as it hosted its own bake-off. More than 130 pupils, parents and staff took part in the Great Windmill Bake-Off at Windmill Primary School in Headington
VIBRANT colours and sweet smells filled the grounds of Blenheim Palace yesterday as a new flower show burst into bloom. It is the first time the Woodstock stately home has held the three-day show – which runs until Sunday – and it featured 150 exhibitors
Bleddyn Phillips said London Welsh were making a long-term commitment to Oxford after announcing they were staying at the Kassam Stadium next season. The club’s chairman told the Oxford Mail that Welsh will move their training ground and remaining
THE tale of the fraud and collapse of Torex Retail is indeed a tale of hubris. Of course every successful businessperson has to be driven by desire and ambition. There is no other way to be successful in business. A wallflower will never build
BOSSES and staff at a medical instrument manufacturer were celebrating last night after being named the Oxfordshire Business of the Year. The team at Owen Mumford, which has its head office in Woodstock and a factory in Chipping Norton, also won
A VILLAGE school is celebrating opening a new garden two years after the small primary was threatened with closure. The Parents and Friends Association raised about £3,000 to fund the garden, which contains a pond and a sensory garden, at Culham
BALLROOM dancing for people with learning disabilities is one of a number of events aimed at getting people to use county art venues this weekend. People supported by Wallingford charity Style Acre took a twirl at Didcot’s Cornerstone Arts Centre
CAMPAIGNERS want plans to dig gravel between Cholsey and Wallingford dropped as county councillors consider whether to scrap the local authority’s minerals strategy. Under the county council’s plan, 1.2m tonnes a year will be dug in Oxfordshire
A POPULAR Asian lunch service in Rose Hill which faced closure for lack of funding has been saved by Lottery money. The lunch has been running at Rose Hill Children’s Centre in Ashhurst Way every Thursday for seven years. When its future was
