London Welsh loosehead prop Tom Bristow has joined Leicester Tigers. Bristow last season made 21 appearances in the Aviva Premiership for Welsh, who play their home games at Oxford’s Kassam Stadium. He said: “I enjoyed my experience with London
Timothy Sutton, 19, from Ottery Way, Didcot, admitted stealing a £15 power drill in Didcot on July 4. Given a community order requiring six months of drug rehabilitation treatment, and nine months of supervision. Also told to pay a victims’ surcharge
Anthony Reed, 70, of Cook Row, High Street in Ascott-under-Wychwood near Chipping Norton, driving over the 30mph speed limit on Oxford Road in Woodstock on October 24. Fined £60 and told to pay costs of £65 and victims’ surcharge of £20. Licence endorsed
A MAN who caused a power cut to 12,000 homes after attempting to steal copper piping and cable from an electricity company’s substation has been jailed for 18 months. At Oxford Crown Court on Thursday, Romanian national Firical Buruiana, of Balmoral
IT is a school unique to the UK. Not only is the Europa School in Culham, Oxfordshire’s first free school, it is the only school in the country following the European curriculum and working towards the European Baccalaureate. The school, which
AMATEUR dramatists needing a space to rehearse, mum and toddler classes and teenage rock bands now have a new tool at their disposal. The Oxfordshire Village Hall Directory lists more than 110 halls for hire in the county. For each hall, it
PEOPLE are invited to meet a new living history group and find out more about Bicester’s past. Bicester Home Guard Living History Group, which made its debut appearance at Bicester Carnival last month, is hosting a Meet the Home Guard evening on
A HEADTEACHER who helped raise standards at a Witney school will bid farewell to staff and students this week. Nicky Edmondson, 45, has been headteacher at Henry Box School in Church Green, Witney, since 2007. She has increased pass rates and
MUMS cuddled up with their children at South Abingdon Children’s Centre for a ‘pop-up parenting’ session. Chloe Drewitt, from Abingdon, who attended with daughter Ellie, 19 months, said: “I was helping to promote awareness about breastfeeding.
HAD he lived, Adam Rowbottom would have been 25 in March this year. Instead, he went to bed one night in July 2011 and never woke up. He died of heart failure aged just 23, leaving his family in shock. They only found out in February last
MORRISONS’ edge-of-town store in Wallingford should get the go-ahead, according to planning officers. The store has submitted a planning application to South Oxfordshire District Council to build a 30,000 sq ft foodstore with a café and a four-pump
YOUNG fishing enthusiasts are being encouraged to learn angling techniques at a coaching day at Ladygrove Lake. The training session, run by staff from the Environment Agency, takes place at the lake on Friday, August 16. Agency spokesman Stuart
MORE than 1,700 homes in Cowley and East Oxford lost power for almost two hours today. Southern Electric has confirmed that 1,766 homes in the OX4 postcode area lost power at 11.15am. Power was restored to all the homes affected by 1pm.
If you run a charity or social enterprise, it’s often a challenge to do anything other than become immersed in keeping the show on the road, says Rowen Smith, manager of Full Circle which runs projects in Oxfordshire schools aimed at bringing generations
THE sun shone on Didcot as crowds enjoyed fairground rides, live music and demonstrations from community groups. Siblings Freya and Zach Melrose were among the youngsters enjoying the activities on offer at the town’s fair on Saturday in Edmonds
THOUSANDS enjoyed family activities, live music and demonstrations as the Oxfordshire County and Thame Show returned with a bang after a year off. The agricultural show, which is more than 120 years old, returned on Saturday to the showground in
Oxfordshire County Council has deferred a decision on a controversial home-to-school transport shake-up. The council’s cabinet was due to make a decision on plans to withdraw free transport from parents who choose not to send their children to
HIGHWAYS bosses have weighed in to support residents’ objections to turning Oxford’s former masonic lodge into homes. They have expressed concerns about the development making the busy Banbury Road unsafe. In a report Steven McMillan, a senior
THE Hindu story of Rama and Sita was brought to life through the magic of lights at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum. Alexa Lee, four, of Cumnor, was among those entranced by a puppet show and also by her own shadow puppet creation. Rama and Sita
Imam Monawar Hussain is founder and director of the youth project, the Oxford Foundation Ramadan is time for reflection, prayer and family. In this month was revealed the Qur’an so most of our focus is on reading the Qur’an, reflecting and meditating
Alison Webster is the adviser on social, political and community issues for the Church of England in Oxfordshire Summer brings back memories of rainy family childhood holidays – and the peculiar pain of compulsory Monopoly. So tortured was
OXFORD’s only lapdancing club is wasting taxpayers’ cash in an ongoing licence battle, critics have said. Oxford Feminist Network said it backed Oxford City Council’s decision to refuse The Lodge Gentleman’s Club in Oxpens Road a sex entertainment
A CYCLIST was taken in hospital following a collision with a car off Botley Road this morning. It happened just before 9am near Cripley Lane. Police and ambulance crews attended. The cyclist was taken to Oxford’s John Radcliffe hospital with
The Williams F1 Team today confirmed that it will run its development driver Susie Wolff and rising star Daniel Juncadella at the Young Driver Test at Silverstone Circuit on July 17-19. Pastor Maldonado will also take part to conduct tyre evaluation
A WOMAN was robbed of her handbag while cycling through Bury Knowle Park in Headington. She was stopped at about 8pm on Thursday, July 4, by a man who started to talk to her. He assaulted her and stole her handbag before running off towards
A VIBRANT procession of colourful floats through Witney launched the town’s annual carnival. Schools, clubs, pubs and businesses took part in the parade followed by a variety of activities at the carnival including a donkey derby, children’s entertainment
Division 1 Banbury 2nd 280-6 (C Thompson 72, S Beck 48, J Prinsloo 47, J Lambden 31, J Gear 3-98), Buckingham Town 257-8. Great Brickhill 230-9 (A DeBeer 51, G Carter 39, J Davies 32, R Beer 4-81, W Mahmood 3-41), Oxford Downs 195 (A Buckingham
Hannah Taylor finds FFAF have come full-circle... but what about their fans? Thrown in to the deep end to review FFAF, my usually East London-located friend and I climbed the O2 Academy stairs (Zodiac to those old school types) to be greeted by
Division 1 Broughton & NN 143 (A Mayho 3-21, O Hollings 3-39), Charlbury 145-4 (R Knight 94no). Hook Norton 185-9 (C Barber 84, T Lunel 32, C Fisher 5-52, C Morgan 3-47), Minster Lovell 181-9 (J Simpson 48, C Barber 3-39). Oxenford
A BURST pipe forced the closure of Haymans Fish Market, Osney Mead, West Oxford, on Thursday. It back in business the following day after repairs.
A CONVICTED rapist who admitted breaching a restraining order will be sentenced at Oxford Crown Court today. Paul McLaughlin, formerly of Kynaston Road, Didcot, and now of Clarks Row, Oxford, was made subject to the order on July 2 last year after
A PAINTING featuring the Oxford-born wife of the artist William Morris is to go on sale. Entitled Proserpine, Morris’s Pre-Raphaelite painting of Jane Morris Dante Gabriel Rossetti, right, will go under the hammer at Sotheby’s in London in November
SERIOUS CRICKET HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Division 1 Slough 236-9 (66 ovs, S Yusuf 58, A Ali 5-65), Burnham 191-7 (54 ovs, A Khan 59). Slough 13pts, Burnham 9. High Wycombe 106 (23.3 ovs, D Cranfield-Thompson 54, H Riazuddin 6-38), Henley
DAD-of-five Jamie Brackett sped to the finish line during a popular race that returned last year after a 20-year absence. The Blackbird Leys Mile took place on Saturday and more than 200 people took part. Mr Brackett, 35, won with a time of
Football FRIENDLIES Berwick Rgrs 1, Oxford Utd 2; Aylesbury FC 0, Oxford City 1. Rugby League KINGSTONE PRESS CHAMPIONSHIP ONE Gateshead 14, Oxford RL 14. WEST OF ENGLAND LEAGUE Somerset Vikings 24, Oxford Cavaliers 42.
A LIST of major surgical blunders has revealed a needle, swabs and a sponge among the items left inside patients following operations at Oxford hospitals. Nine “never events” – serious and largely preventable patient safety incidents – have been
AS Kathy Sheehan ran through University Parks in Oxford yesterday, there were three very special people at the front of her mind. The 55-year-old, from the city centre, was one of more than 6,100 women who took part in Cancer Research UK’s Race
AN Oxford man is due to be sentenced today after pleading guilty to letting five baby rabbits die. Graham Dunn, of Church Hill Road, Cowley, will appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court charged with neglect. An RSPCA officer who attended the scene
CHAMPAGNE corks popped and fireworks fizzed across the sky as music-lovers joined Blenheim Palace’s Battle Proms Concert. Visitors to Saturday’s event were treated to cavalry and infantry displays and a Spitfire fly past, before a two-and-a-half-hour
A MAN on trial accused of a knife-point robbery has told a jury he could have been mistaken for his cousin. Colum Flaherty, of Brome Place, Barton, Oxford, who gave evidence at Oxford Crown Court on Friday, denies carrying out the robbery on April
CONTACT a Family – the only UK charity that supports families with a disabled child whatever their condition or disability – is worried that many local families remain unaware of the Government’s cap on benefits which will be rolled out across the
I READ your article “Father’s Festival Tribute to Amber” (July 8) about James Phillpott, from Abingdon, who organised the fifth ‘Yeah Baby Festival’ to raise money for charity, after his 18-month daughter Amber sadly died from leukaemia. There
I JUST happened to be on a coach returning from a lovely afternoon out on Wednesday and arrived at the bottom of Headley Way at about 5.25pm. The traffic was at a standstill and the severe congestion throughout Headley Way and the London Road to
OKAY, so here are the facts... Last Wednesday marked the completion of 18 months of building work as Bicester’s £70m new town centre opened. This much-anticipated scheme includes a huge new Sainsbury’s, a Vue cinema, and over the next few months
Frilford Heath’s Eddie Pepperell picked up £46,398 for finishing joint 12th on ten under par in the Scottish Open won by Phil Mickelson. The American won a thrilling sudden-death play-off against South Africa’s Branden Grace to claim victory at
Oxford's Bradley Smith believes he is on the right track after equalling his best result this season by finishing sixth as Marc Marquez took victory at Sachsenring. Starting from seventh on the grid, the 22-year-old held onto that place while he
Wantage-based jockey Cathy Gannon landed the Listed Raymond Corbett Memorial City Plate on Ladyship at Chester on Saturday. She brought the Sir Michael Stoute-trained four-year-old filly with a flying finish to beat Rivas Rhapsody by half a length
Luke Ryan, who passed a late fitness test on his injured hand, turned in a match-winning performance for Banbury away to Welwyn Garden City in Division 1 on Saturday. Ryan split the webbing next to his thumb during last week’s defeat by High Wycombe
Great & Little Tew were bowled out for the first time this season as they slipped to a four-wicket defeat in their Division 2 West game at Harefield on Saturday. The visitors battled hard, but never really recovered from slumping to 50-6 after
An excellent all-round dis-play from Andrew Clough could not bring Oxford victory in their Division 2 West match at home to Cove on Saturday. Clough, who joined Oxford from the Lancashire League at the start of the season, hammered a spectacular
A brilliant fielding displayhelped Banbury become Home Counties Premier League T20 champions with two convincing victories at Slough yesterday. They will now represent the league in the regional finals at a ground to be arranged in Essex on August
LEONNA Mayor openly admits that her career is at something of a crossroads. The jockey, who lives in east Challow, near Wantage, had just started to make a name for herself in horse racing when injury forced her into a spell on the sidelines.
Aston Rowant were involved in a thrilling finish in their Division 2 West match at home to Farnham Royal, which ended in a draw with the scores level. It all came down to a dramatic final over, with Rowant needing eight for victory. Skipper
TODAY is the deadline for this year’s Oxford in Bloom competition. Individuals and groups can enter a variety of categories including best kept gardens, beautiful containers and community displays. Prizes are awarded to the top three gardeners
NITROGEN dioxide inflames the lining of the lungs and reduces immunity to lung infections. Children with asthma and older people with heart disease are most at risk. It is called the invisible killer. In Oxford, our councils publish all the
EU membership has ensured the UK has signed up to, among other things, workers’ rights, minimum wage, pollution controls, environmental protection and human rights without which we could all be at risk of exploitation or worse. Most importantly
YOU report (July 6) that Popes John XXIII and John Paul II, pictured, are to be canonised despite the Vatican’s failure to confirm a second miracle attributed to the earlier supreme Pontiff’s intercession. Tut, tut. Were he not still alive, they
WHAT is happening to our lovely old town of Abingdon? Each day when I have my lunchbreak, I walk round to the precinct, and there in all its ‘glory’ is a long stretch of pavement, bordered by a few shops, and large areas of boarded-up buildings
Triallist Geoff Mitchell scored the only goal of the game as Oxford City beat Aylesbury FC in their pre-season friendly on Saturday. Mitchell struck in the first half as Mike Ford’s side won 1-0 against their rivals, who are managed by former City
OXFORD City’s Hannah England was happy to claim her third national 1500m title in Birmingham – even though she didn’t get the opportunity to beat her main rivals, writes STUART WEIR. The 26-year-old’s victory at Alexander Stadium yesterday also
PETER and Richard Chambers, formerly of Oxford Brookes University, won bronze in the final event of the year in Lucerne this weekend. The duo produced a great performance in the lightweight men’s double scull after a ding-dong battle with Italy
THE problem of human trafficking and how to spot signs of child grooming were dealt with at a conference in the wake of the Bullfinch trial. A total of 72 delegates attended the anti-trafficking campaign day at the King’s Centre, in Osney Mead,
THE consultation on a controversial proposal to end free school travel for some pupils closes today. Oxfordshire County Council is consulting on whether to end free transport to parents who choose to send children to a school further than three
OXFORD City triple jumper Nathan Douglas has conceded defeat in his bid to make Great Britain’s team for the World Championships in Moscow next month after finishing runner-up at Birmingham, writes STUART WEIR. The 30-year-old produced a season
MICKEY Lewis was delighted to see Oxford United sign off their pre-season tour with a victory, while admitting there was still plenty of work to do before the League Two campaign begins. Goals from Asa Hall and Sean Rigg gave the visitors a 2-1
SHUTTING the custody cells at Oxford Police Station will be “a disaster” for city traders, a councillor has warned. Oxfordshire county councillor and former Oxfordshire magistrate John Howson said the move will “maroon” officers transporting prisoners
SHE hit the headlines when she fell off the stage while performing on BBC1’s So You Think You Can Dance? But now mother-of-one Fabia Cerra from Centaury Place, Greater Leys, Oxford, is to strut her stuff with the likes of comics Dawn French and
OXFORD City Football Club is going global thanks to the efforts of its new president But as well as jetting off all over the world to secure sponsorship deals and links with international players, Wall Street tycoon Thomas Guerriero has revealed he
A TRAFFIC light at a major intersection in Abingdon Road was flattened by a vehicle in the early hours of the morning. Oxfordshire County Council said the light, at the junction with Old Abingdon Road, was struck shortly after midnight. The
A GROUP of volunteers who have devoted 125 years between them to reading with children have been recognised for their achievements. Volunteer readers who have spent five, ten or 15 years reading to children in Oxfordshire schools with charity ARCh
