A man needed hospital treatment tonight after paramedics were called to a medical emergency. An ambulance crew was called to Osney Mead in West Oxford at 8.25pm after reports of a man suffering injuries. Eyewitnesses saw the man with cuts to
A THREE-YEAR battle against a housing estate by residents, councillors and an MP seems to be over, after the planning authority gave up the fight. Taylor Wimpey was given planning permission for 158 homes off Drayton Road in Abingdon at the end
A CHARITY is leaving Didcot after 20 years as its current office is set to be demolished as part of a multi-million pound development. South and Vale Carers, which supports people who care for disabled relatives, has been at its current office,
A MAN found dead at a level crossing in Yarnton has been named as 40-year-old Christopher Walden, of Kidlington. The Wilsdon Way resident, whose body was discovered on Thursday, April 9, was named at the opening of his inquest at Oxford Coroner's
CHIPPING Norton is often billed in the press as a second home for the chic London set. But a group of volunteers setting up a debt help organisation say there are hidden depths of poverty in the town. Christian Against Poverty (CAP) is about
GATES set to bar rough sleepers from Oxford’s Covered Market have been criticised by a city centre councillor. The measure was proposed by Oxford City Council and would cut off entrances to the market from High Street to prevent homeless people
FILM students are creating a short documentary on Oxford author and screenwriter Richard O Smith in a three-day course. Mr Smith, from Rose Hill, wrote the screenplay for 2014 film The Unbeatables, starring Rupert Grint and Rob Brydon, and has
IN FEBRUARY 1943, 17-year-old Basil King marched into the Royal Navy’s recruitment centre in Oxford to volunteer for the war effort. More than 72 years later the 89-year-old has finally been recognised by the Russian Embassy for courage and bravery
TRAFFIC on the Botley Road has caused some bus services to be cancelled. Stagecoach report that the 3.55pm S7 from Carterton and the 4.02pm to the John Radcliffe Hospital would “not be running due to heavy congestion” on the Botley Road. News
Tim Hughes experiences the delights of traditional Austrian hospitality in Vor Arlberg Clemens Walch grins as he surveys the ice-capped peaks around his mountain hut; the spring snow turned a vivid gold by the setting sun. With his shock of
Sir – I don’t know whether your other readers agree, but it has seemed to me that over the last couple of days in Oxford I could smell the General Election. Philip Cresswell Oxford
Sir – The future of the car factories is of prime importance to Oxford and I should like to use your columns to ask for answers regarding it. I appreciate that the car manufacturers may not want to intervene in an election, but, given that a huge
Sir – As a regular volunteer with two Oxford Organisations (East Oxford Farmers’ Market and Good Food Oxford) I find the latest proposal for paid leave for volunteering to be ill-informed and insulting. It neither rewards nor recognises the vast
Sir – I would refer Mr Emlyn Jones (Letters, April 9) to the following from one of my previous letters “I sometimes feel uncomfortable with the targets satire chooses and methods it employs”. I am not as sensitive as he is, although I have had
Sir – With reference to Brigid Sturdy’s comments about potential conflict between cyclists and pedestrians in a future pedestrianised Broad Street (Letters, April 9), one possible solution would be to use the system currently in place in Cornmarket
Sir – The planting ceremony of the Bombed Kaki Tree Jr. of Nagasaki was held on Sunday, April 12, at Barracks Lane Community Garden in East Oxford http://www.barrackslanegarden.org.uk/, and through your columns may I please thank everyone who attended
Sir – Having fallen and broken my wrist, I managed to spend most of Easter in the trauma unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. I just want (with one finger!) to put on record, what a superb team the trauma unit is. From the young lady who
Sir – Straight after the last General Election, I had a letter in the Guardian asking readers if they could give me any good reason why I, as a non-Tory, should have voted at my polling station in David Cameron’s constituency. Several weeks ago, I
Sir – Along with 300 other carefully pre-screened members of a largely Christian public, I attended Witney hustings at St Mary’s church last Friday evening. What a deeply disappointing event. The organisers confined each candidate to one minute
Sir – A correspondent to your pages complained about the slow-moving traffic in Headley Way, but this is nothing compared to some roads where the delays can last for hours, particularly when there has been an accident, and accidents, with the death
Sir – Councillors Wade and Howson (Letters, March 26, April 9) are right to express concern about delays in Network Rail’s planning application for the new bridge and ramps from Aristotle Lane to Port Meadow. But they are sniping at the wrong target
Sir – Matt Oliver’s report (April 9) about the proposal filed by St John’s College to build a nursery in Bainton Road uses the phrase ‘traffic concerns heard’. The impression given is that the plans acknowledge residents’ concerns. Not so in fact
Sir – I refer to your article Busking order online petition wins support of 3,000 people (March 9). Yes so it might, but of course so many jump on the bandwagon on this type of anonymous petition and many, I suspect, have never been within 20 miles
Sir – I write to you with regret, having been informed that “The Shoe Shop” in Bath Street, Abingdon, will be closing its doors this month. The shop has stood the test of time for well over 100 years, selling shoes to customers in Abingdon and surrounding
Sir – Your article on sewers unable to cope with new developments struck a chord with us here in Woodstock, where we are faced with the threat of 1,500 new houses being constructed, effectively doubling the size of the existing town. At the moment
Sir – The announcement last week that the city council has signed an agreement with London and Continental Railways (owned by us the taxpayers) to transfer their land at Oxpens to Exemplar fills me with dread. Why was there no public bidding process
Sir – Ian Gourlay in his letter (April 9) is right to emphasise the potential for the improvement of Broad Street now the magnificent Weston Library has been so successfully completed, and to point out the omission of trees in the scheme presented
Sir – City council leader Bob Price has revived the idea of pedestrianising Broad Street. Fifteen years ago the Oxford Transport Strategy removed all Broad Street car parking. Retailers claimed this damaged trade, so in 2001 Oxfordshire County Council
Maggie Hartford meets a woman who left school at 16 but is now a senior academic Carol Robinson, the first female professor of chemistry at Oxford University, is an inspiration for many reasons. Firstly, she left school at 16. Secondly, she
Edward Clarke considers life in a packed Fiat I was sitting in the back of a packed Fiat the other day, an angry cat in a cage at my neck, an angrier toddler to my right, a rucksack full of nappies, oat milk and toys on my knee, when my mother-in-law
John Howard looks ahead to a treat for lovers of antiques Antique pottery….it is in the genes. Lasered at an early age. I grew up in Warrington, with a mother from Aberystwyth in deepest Wales. My grandparents had a farm in the middle of nowhere
Having thrilled a couple of weeks ago to the story of Hansel and Gretel and their incarceration by the cannibal witch in her gingerbread house, I emerged from Milton Keynes Theatre, and Welsh National Opera’s production of Engelbert Humperdinck’s perennially
I offer a cautionary story today concerning travel on the London Underground. It arises from a trip I made last month to see the (wonderful) Inventing Impressionism exhibition in the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery. Travel from Oxford to
Where one leads, others lazily follow. This is nowhere truer than when it applies to the British press in its curious obsession with actors – and here I mean the male ones – possessed of what I have seen described as ‘the phwoar factor’. Which
Jaine Blackman enjoys a mystical tale across the generations East Oxford resident Sara Banerji’s tenth book tells the story of three generations of a well-to-do Indian family, whose lives are fatally entwined with a mysterious hill-tribe living
Famed chef’s new restaurant sends a mixed message, says Katherine MacAlister It was more 50 Shades of Grey than The Godfather – all red croc wallpaper, black leather seats and suede tablecloths – than the hearty American-Italian we had anticipated
Helen Peacocke explains why an increasing number of restaurants grow their own produce A growing number of pubs and hotels have now created kitchen gardens in their grounds so that they can provide their own ingredients and in some cases be almost
An eyecatching summer favourite can bloom for months and is also loved by our hungry birds, says Val Bourne I’m finding this a late season, so I’m only just beginning to sow my annual seeds in trays under glass. It will be another three or four
Ben Vanheems, of the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust, is full of the joys of spring as early flowers reach their peak April is, without doubt, the most exhilarating month of the year. Nature has well and truly thrown off her dour winter coat
Sarah Mayhew Craddock finds out how a guerrilla art campaign aims to help our wildlife Bees & Weeds gives a whole new meaning to the expression food for thought. Though this is no laughing matter, but another case of artists addressing some
Stuart Macbeth meets one of the stars of a radical theatre experience Last year director Chris Goode and the Oxford Playhouse called for local people to come forward with tales of something, or someone, they had stood up for. In walked six ordinary
OXFORD MAGISTRATES Jakob Habuda, 25, of no fixed address, admitted stealing two pork fillets worth £10 from a Tesco store in Cowley Road, Oxford, on April 4. Given a three-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay a £15 victims’ surcharge.
Keeley Rodgers wisely avoids the 'splash zone' to enjoy a 'ripped' performance by The Dreamboys... from afar WHEN a friend quizzed me about my experience of the Dreamboys’ show I struggled to hear at first because I’d been deafened by the screaming
THE parents of Liberty Baker have spoken of their devastation after watching the driver who killed her sentenced to four years' jail. Teenager Robert Blackwell was handed the sentence - and a five-year driving ban - after admitting causing the
Jaine Blackman says English Touring Theatre’s production gives audiences an entertaining evening Those who lived in the original Arcadia were noted for their innocent pastoral life of simplicity yet Tom Stoppard’s play is anything but straightforward
The Rt Hon George Jones MP is Leader of the Labour Party, and he’s determined to become the next Prime Minister. Outwardly there’s an impressive display of confidence in his abilities as polling day approaches, but behind closed doors things look much
The opportunity to hear some of Bob Chilcott’s music performed live is always one to be relished, but never more so than when the work is conducted by the composer himself. So the Burford Singers’ recent performance of his sublime Requiem was a real
Nicola Lisle chats to violinist Jack Liebeck about the Oxford May Music Festival, which is back for its eighth year Did you know that Borodin was not just a composer but also a respected chemist who made a number of important discoveries? This
Folk Bellowhead New Theatre, Oxford Saturday Tickets: atgtickets.com Oxford Folk Weekend patron John Spiers teams up with sparring partner Jon Boden and the rest of their 11-piece group for a show by Britain’s most dynamic folk band. Punchy
* The start of Oxford Folk Weekend, tomorrow, marks the official start of Oxfordshire’s festival season. Two of the county’s big summer events have also been busy putting the finishing touches to their schedules. Jamie Oliver and Alex James’s Big Feastival
Openers Bloody Knees play catchy skatepark rock, the drummer clicks them in and they dish out the noise of Never Change, nonchalant manes flying. With stubbornly trudging guitars and loud, stroppy choruses, they appear to have stepped out of the
Folk music can be for everyone, festival organiser Cat Kelly tells Stuart Macbeth Folk is a way of life” says Folk Weekend organiser Cat Kelly, as we chat over a pot of tea in darkest Eynsham. “I was brought up with it.” “Both my parents were
Top authors from a range of genres are heading into the Cotswold for a celebration of books, including celebrity talks, workshops, poetry and a literary quiz Helen Lederer Losing It Saturday, April 25, 2pm-3pm Helen is a comedy actor and
Hannah Moss explains why she wanted to make So It Goes, which was critically acclaimed when it premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last August The idea for So It Goes came to me one day at the Edinburgh festival. I had watched a production
Katherine MacAlister meets a best-selling novelist whose Hollywood success has finally persuaded him to give up his day job in the NHS How SJ Watson’s partner sleeps at night, I’ll never know. If you were one of the 40 million people to read his
OXFORD Airport experienced 7.5 per cent growth in commercial business aviation flights in the year to February 2015 as the privately owned operation looks to increase its activity. Much of the rise in commercial business flights was generated by
TWO mums have turned their friendship into a thriving business venture. Sarah Ingram and Jacqui Seymour, who met 17 years ago through their local toddler group, run online store mumswarehouse.com, which markets products made by local mums.
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John Tanner says the police should have asked the Home Secretary to ban the EDL march held on April 4. To its credit, the police held out against this demand by Oxford City Council and Mr Tanner. I hold no sympathy with the EDL but they have a
I refer to your articles about an online petition about busking being signed by thousands of people. So many people jump on the bandwagon with these type of anonymous petitions. Many of them, I suspect, have never been within 20 miles of our beautiful
I’m just reading the article on the gastric bypass (April 13) and I have to agree after I had mine three years ago. I’m still very sick and in poor health and nearly died. It has an extreme lack of after-care and I would advise anyone who thinks
On December 19, 2014, I had the gastric sleeve operation done. I have lost quite a bit of weight and am still losing. This was what my surgeon stated was the best for me. I had diabetes, high blood pressure and low thyroid, among other things
On the evening of April 9, I waited for 45 minutes at the High Street stop without knowing the bus had been diverted – no sign of a note, nor any mention from the driver in the morning on my journey to Oxford. I arrived at the Gloucester Green
I wish to thank, through your column, a very kind couple who stopped to help me and my daughter on April 7 after the Morris Minor wedding car broke down while taking us from Abingdon to our ceremony at Lains Barn, near Wantage. They took me back
I read through your article (April 15) regarding banning heavy goods vehicles from the outside lanes of the A34, and had some thoughts about some of the remarks. I think Paul Davies, business development manager for Bicester-based Clayton DA Transport
Residents of Bainton Road strongly believe that a real danger to the lives of schoolchildren (and their parents) will be created by St John College’s proposed development of a nursery on 1½ acres of land abutting the St John’s College sports ground
A WAITER was stabbed by the boyfriend of a woman he escorted home from a nightclub. Miguel Abreu attacked Mohammed Wahid with a kitchen knife after he turned up at the couple’s Witney home in the early hours of the morning, a court heard. Mr
A PHOTOGRAPHER is on a mission to capture the faces of Abingdon with an ambitious project. Martin Wackenier, who also speaks five languages, is planning to take 2,000 photographs of people from the town in its market square stood in its historic
A CANCER survivor and mum of five is leading the charge to encourage women across the county to sign up for the Race for Life. Sheela Cousins is still undergoing treatment after breast cancer but was one of the first to sign up for the July 12
NEW plans for Oxford City Farm will be unveiled at a consultation event on Saturday. The farm’s steering group wants to keep animals and grow crops and trees on land in East Oxford to help educate people and encourage a healthy lifestyle. Since
AirBNB was founded in 2008. It was seen as one of the leading examples of what has become known as the ‘sharing economy’, in which people were directly in contact with one another instead of through companies. It has 500,000 listings in 192 countries
OXFORD United’s annual losses went up to more than £1.4million in the year ending June last year. The latest set of accounts were published today and show they were in the red to the tune of £1,449,359. It was more than £300,000 higher than
THREE pensioners had the ride of their lives when 25 Harley-Davidson motorcyclists roared up at their care home. The men – from Townsend House in Headington, Oxford – rode the iconic motorcycles on Sunday when the Oxford chapter of the Harley-Davidson
THIRTY-three tonnes of compost will go out to residents in Cherwell District Council’s eighth annual giveaway. The district council’s green team are preparing 3,000 bags ready for the events in Banbury, Bicester and Kidlington. The event will
A WITNEY girl has completed an 11-mile charity bike ride to support a school friend who suffers from leukaemia. Sofia Atkinson, 10, cycled a tour of Witney and neighbouring villages on Saturday to raise money for Cancer Research UK. She is
A SMALL case containing a single object of baked clay now greets visitors to Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. The small terracotta figure is almost 3,000 years old. It is a protective spirit that had been buried beneath the foundations of a palace in
PALESTINIAN life and culture is to be celebrated by a new festival in Oxford this summer. The Palestine Unlocked festival will feature film screenings, a comedy evening, storytelling and a photography competition among other things. It will
A MULTI-MILLION pound estate that includes a hotel and housing has been sold in Oxfordshire. The grand plot, with a £3.95m guide price, in Heathfield Village, Bletchingdon includes the Oxfordshire Inn hotel, a golf driving range, residential properties
OXON: Police are investigating new leads in the 20-year-old murder of an Oxford University research nurse after a public appeal. Mother-of-three Janet Brown was found dead at the bottom of the stairs of her family home in Radnage, near Chinnor,
NATIONAL Table Tennis Day is coming to Oxford on July 16 this year. The day aims to get families to get together, have fun and promote the sport by having activities organised around the city for residents to get involved in. Ping Oxford will
THE demolition of a Tesco food store and filling station in Bicester is set to be discussed today by Cherwell District Council’s planning committee. The site in Pingle Drive is next to the western boundary of Bicester Village. If plans are approved
YOUNG people in Oxford are to be given the chance to take part in a range of new sports after new funding was handed to a council scheme. Sports charity Access Sport has teamed up with Oxford City Council and will work to engage young people with
WILDLIFE enthusiasts took advantage of the hot weather to count one of Britain’s rarest flowers yesterday. Staff and volunteers from the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) completed their annual count of Snake’s head
OXON: More than 1,500 schoolchildren will descend on Abingdon today(APRIL16) and tomorrow for a festival of sports. More than 1,500 young athletes will compete in football, netball, swimming and hockey in the 2015 Oxfordshire Sainsbury’s School
OXON: Four men who were arrested in dawn raids across Oxford and Banbury have all been released on police bail. Five residential addresses were searched at about 6am on Tuesday by police and Trading Standards officers. Three men were arrested on
A FRAUDSTER who pocketed donations he had collected for an injured pilot’s family has been jailed for 21 months. Kevin Crellin, 52, pictured, took £550 from two men for the family and another £2,400 from a woman for flying lessons he claimed to
OXFORD: Work to improve The Plain roundabout is nearly finished, chiefs say. Oxfordshire County Council is carrying out resurfacing work overnight at the junction until April 24 with footway work during the day. Work on Magdalen Bridge is due to
LIFESAVING equipment could soon be installed in the town as a group nears its fundraising target. The Banbury Lions is putting on a concert this weekend and is hoping it will raise the final pounds for Banbury's first public access defibrillator
OXFORD got a taste of summer yesterday but it could all be over by tomorrow, with temperatures forecast to fall. The Met Office said temperatures soared to over 23 degrees in Oxford as residents flocked to the university parks to take advantage
NEARLY nine out of 10 children across the county have been handed a place at their first choice primary school. Oxfordshire County Council has said it allocated first preference places to 88 per cent of children due to start school this September
WOMEN’S Institute members will be looking forward to a steamer trip and open-top bus tour in Oxford today, celebrating 100 years of the WI. The centenary baton arrived in Oxfordshire this week and will be making its way around 125 WIs across the
THE man killed in Banbury today has been named locally as Kyle Byfield. A man and a woman were still being held tonight on suspicion of murder after the 23-year-old's death. Police were called at 7.58am today following a report of a man being
MICHAEL Appleton has described Ryan Taylor as "a talent" after Oxford United were linked with a move for the Portsmouth striker. The U's head coach, a former manager at Fratton Park, would not confirm or deny whether an approach had been made for the
Marc West tries his hand (elbow and knees) at a martial art designed to keep him safe on the streets In my younger days (many moons ago), Cowley Road was considered to be a rather dangerous place and it is said that students were positively discouraged
In need of a green curry fix without the ceremony, Katherine MacAlister finds the perfect venue If you love Asian food as much as I do, news of two new Thai restaurants opening in Oxford will be like manna from the Gods. The city has gone from
Pan fried hake, crushed new potatoes, fresh herbs, crab, with wild garlic beurre blanc For the hake: * 2-3 tbsp plain flour * Salt and freshly ground black pepper * 2-3 tbsp sunflower oil * 2 x 170g/220g hake fillet, skin on For the
Damon Smith sees Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Gary Oldman team up for a Cold War thriller Adapted from the first novel of Tom Rob Smith’s award-winning trilogy, Child 44 is a dense crime thriller steeped in the suspicion and paranoia of the Stalin-era
Oxfordshire Youth Music Theatre director Paul Andsell tells Stuart Macbeth why the hit musical Crazy For You is the perfect fit for the company’s clutch of talented young actors I like a Gershwin tune” sang Judy Garland back in 1941. How could
Tim Hughes talks to Jon Boden of energetic folk band Bellowhead ahead of their homecoming gig Turbo-charged folk, fuelled with big band energy, punk-rock spirit, avant-garde experimentalism and a twist of cabaret; Bellowhead play traditional English
There's something a bit decadent about going to the pub before noon on a work day but with Wetherspoon’s causing a stir lately over the very reasonable prices of its breakfasts, that’s just what I did at 10am one day last week. Any qualms I had
* Wyevale’s Bicester Avenue Garden Centre has opened the new Garden Kitchen restaurant, below, just in time for Spring, having given it an exciting new makeover. The restaurant has been inspired by the popular ‘garden-to-kitchen’ food trend giving
Starting Up with Lucie Greenwood @ The Milk Shed I’ve just returned from a fantastic Easter break in Cornwall which I managed to squeeze in straight after celebrating the second anniversary of The Milk Shed. As always the minute I have a bit
Strong bill of local and up-and-coming bands revealed for 'Poshstock' AN ECLECTIC line-up of bands, playing everything from jazz and blues to rock, pop and folk, has been unveiled by the organisers of Cornbury Festival. Energetic, Oxford vintage
THOUSANDS of extra homes should be built across sites in Oxford not earmarked for development, according to three councils. A report produced for South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse and Cherwell district councils said sites including Oxford
THE company responsible for maintaining the Kassam Stadium playing surface have apologised for the “freak incident” that held up Oxford United’s game against Northampton Town on Tuesday night. Visiting goalkeeper Shwan Jalal called over referee
A CAR and a bus have been involved in a collision near the Water Eaton Park and ride on the A4165 Banbury Road. Spokeswoman for Thames valley Police Connie Primmer said they were called at 7.55am to the crash between a Stagecoach bus and silver
CHRIS Wilder thanked Oxford United’s supporters for their welcome on his first return to the Kassam Stadium and hoped the next visit with Northampton Town would be in a promotion battle. The ex-United manager admitted to feeling nervous about what
A WOMAN accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death in a drunken rage told a jury she had tried to push him away and then realised she had a knife in her hand. Natasha Elderfield, 41, said she had not intended to cause Robert Dobinson any harm and
Oxfordshire enjoyed a brace of successes in the English Short Mat Bowling Association’s national finals at Church Gresley IBC, near Swadlincote. Gareth Davies, AJ Brown and Roger Wiggins squeezed past Gloucestershire’s Jack Knight, Ryan Knight
James Walter starred with two touchdowns as Oxford Saints opened the campaign with an 18-6 win over Torbay Trojans at Oxford RFC. Following a league restructure, Saints are in Division 2 of the Southern Conference West this year. And they enjoyed
Bossy Guest could be aimed at the Qipco 2000 Guineas by West Ilsley trainer Mick Channon after landing the £100,000 Tattersalls Millions 3-Y-O Sprint at Newmarket yesterday. The three-year-old colt came with a late dash under Charlie Bishop to
Oxford University completely dominated the 2015 BNY Mellon and Newton Boat Races with a combination of ‘steel’ and ‘humility’ to win all five of the encounters with Cambridge, accumulating a total margin of 35 lengths, writes John Wiggins. While
D-DAY veteran Patrick Churchill has been told he can keep his allotment after volunteers helped him restore it to its former glory. As reported in yesterday’s Oxford Mail, the 91-year-old was told he needed to give up the allotment he has had for
Chipping Norton lifted the Inter League Shield with a 2-1 victory over Oxford in the final at General Foods, Banbury. Steve England led the way for Chipping Norton with 14 dolls, including a six. Banbury won the Banbury Invitation Shield, beating
A tilt at the Galway Plate on July 29 is on the agenda for Cantlow following his recent sixth-placed finish in the Irish Grand National. The ten-year-old, from Paul Webber’s Mollington stables, near Banbury, showed signs of a revival at Fairyhouse
A 24-year-old food blogger will battle it out in the final round the MasterChef semi-finals after impressing judges in last night's episode. Up against the final seven contestant, Sarah McCready successfully made it through the scraps challenge
Having taken the original Heimat trilogy from the end of the Great War to the beginning of the new millennium, Edgar Reitz decided not to consider such contemporary themes as the elections of a former East German hausfrau as Chancellor and a onetime
PAUL BUXEY was expecting, after his metal detector went off yet again, to frustratingly find it was yet another ring pull from a Coke can. Instead the electrician got a shock when he discovered, as he bent down to the soil in a field in Shipton-on-Cherwell
PARENTS in the county will discover whether their child has got into their chosen primary school today. Oxfordshire County Council will inform parents what school their child has been given a place at for the next academic year, starting in September
New Zealanders Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement join forces for the horror mockumentary, What We Do in the Shadows. Expanded from the 2005 short, What We Do in the Shadows: Interviews With Some Vampires, this largely improvised romp has been edited
A WIDOW told a court of her distress over the death of her husband after he came to her aid in the sea whilst on holiday. Keith Waite, 69, a chartered accountant who was born in Oxford, was swimming with his wife, Jasmine, off the town of Rethymno
STUDENTS quizzed parliamentary candidates on tuition fees and affordable housing at a hustings yesterday. More than 100 sixth formers from Matthew Arnold School in Arnold’s Way, Oxford, filled the assembly hall to put their concerns to candidates
A TRUST that manages a primary school in Barton has been backed to run the new school that will be built as part of the Barton Park development. Residents have welcomed news that The Cheney School Academy Trust was recommended by Oxfordshire County
RADLEY AC’s Ryan Craze enjoyed a stellar Sunday at the first Oxfordshire Junior Track and Field match of the season. The under 17 athlete took three titles by winning the 100m, 200m and 400m at Horspath Road. Craze’s teammate Ellie Smith claimed
HENLEY HAWKS head coach Pete Davies is hoping full back Jake Randall will return from Australia an even better player. Randall has scored five tries in Hawks’ promotion-winning National League 2 South campaign and will travel to the other side
ROWAN White has been playing rugby ever since she can remember and now she has the opportunity to play on the sport’s world stage. The 17-year-old full back has been selected for the England Under 20 trials at Birmingham Exiles on May 23. White
HEATH Bampton was Oxfordshire’s top performer at Sunday’s Highworth 5 mile race. The Oxford City AC runner crossed the line in seventh place in a time of 28mins 14secs. Bampton finished just over two minutes behind winner Nyle Clinton, of Swindon
WORLD Cup winner Mike Catt was on hand to pass on some top tips to Oxford Harlequins’ stars of the future this week. Catt, who won the Webb Ellis Cup with England in 2003 and is now their attacking coach, visited the club’s Marston Ferry Road base
ALICE Hopkins shone as Radley AC finished third at the Alpha Beta Trophy meeting at Lee Valley on Sunday. Under 17 athlete Hopkins maintained her impressive form by winning the long jump with 5.43m. Christina Nick came second in the discus
BECOMING league champions is a feat in itself, but Banbury Colts A clinched the Oxon, Bucks & Berks Colts League Division 1 title in fine style by going the entire season unbeaten. The under 18 side won all ten of their matches, racking up
WOODSTOCK’S Sophie Carter helped first-claim club Belgrave Harriers to eighth place in the National Road Relays at Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield. Each team was made up of six runners, who ran a leg each in cold and blustery conditions. Carter
MASONS have taken a one point-lead in the Johnsons Buildbase Oxford League Section 1 title race, writes PETE EWINS. They took full advantage of Didcot Conservative Club dropping two points to Gladiators B, by beating Headington Conservative Club
Tim Hughes looks at the wealth of talent converging on Oxford for Folk Weekend Buff up your tankard, pull on your best woolly jumper and warm up your vocal chords... Yes, it’s time for probably the country’s most fun, colourful and easy-going
