FAST expanding financial services group Perpetual has announced a mini jobs boom in Oxfordshire. The company is mounting a drive to recruit an extra 50 staff to meet increasing business. The firm, which is one of the most successful independent investment
The Government is reported to be ready to provide a grant package worth almost £200m to safeguard Rover's Longbridge factory in Birmingham. The Longbridge plant is under threat of closure by its owner BMW, with the potential loss of 50,000 jobs. But now
Six people were hurt when a Thames train smashed into a 125 at Oxford station yesterday. The Thames train with only a driver on board hit the stationary 125 from Hereford, which was about to leave for Paddington from platform one. A spokesman for Oxfordshire
A tatty Union flag has got patriotic councillor Keith Mitchell seeing red. The flag, which is held together with sticky tape, was flying above County Hall during the summer, claims Mr Mitchell. It has now been replaced by a newer flag, but irate Mr Mitchell
A crisis-hit community centre that ran up debts of £70,000 is making a fresh start - by employing a qualified manager to run its revamped bar. An investigation into Donnington Community Centre, Townsend Square, Oxford, uncovered financial turmoil and
THERE'S nothing wrong with Joey Beauchamp, says Oxford United's own physio, John Clinkard. The 27-year-old's proposed £800,000 move to Nottingham Forest fell through last week when the winger failed a medical because of back and toe problems, according
The family of a blind teenager with the mental age of a seven-year-old are demanding an inquiry into how he went missing from an Oxford rehabilitation centre. Ivan McKenzie, 18, sparked a major alert on Saturday when he went missing from the Rivermead
Hospital staff suffered major disruption when work to combat the Millennium computer bug put much of their telephone system out of action yesterday. Engineers were installing new software at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, to ensure its telecommunications
Dame Diana Rigg, the acclaimed stage and screen actress, is to be the new Cameron Mackintosh Visiting Professor of Contemporary Theatre at Oxford University. The Rada-trained actress will succeed Thelma Holt CBE as the tenth holder of the chair, which
Campaigners trying to save Oxfordshire's community hospital beds have been told 14 are to close immediately. Hospital bosses say the cuts have been forced on them because uncertainty about the fate of the hospitals is making it impossible to recruit new
shrug off adversity Birmingham City 0, Oxford Utd 1 SELDOM can victory have tasted so sweet. Never have I seen 12 players work so hard to earn their club three points. And in the context of what has gone on at the Manor Ground over the past two weeks,
OXFORD United's players were in party mood after a magnificently resilient performance brought them a shock 1-0 victory at high-flying Birmingham and their first away win of the season. But they were brought down to earth in the dressing room when someone
A headteacher was the envy of the school when she turned up for a kickabout in Alan Shearer's shirt, writes MICHAEL HAMBLETON. Not a replica shirt, but the actual one the England captain wore in Newcastle's Premier League game against Arsenal last month
