TV star Dawn French and comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis are helping in the race to raise £70,000 by the end of August for a specialist schools project in Abingdon. Dawn French The actress and Mr Curtis -- who wrote the Vicar of Dibley and the Blackadder
An accomplished and gifted Oxford musician, Teddy Dowse, who was at home with a range of instruments, has died. Teddy Dowse Mr Dowse, who was brought up in Kennington, learned his skills through hard practice, and passed on his musical knowledge to the
Students from Witney leave for a very challenging school trip in July when they go to Africa to collect accounts of one of the darkest acts of genocide in recent times. From left, students Matthew Wheeler, Rhian Dare-Edwards, Esther Fisher, Andrew Lloyd
Children's lives have been put at risk by crossings designed to make the route to a new primary school in Wantage safer, according to parents and governors. Pelican crossings in Ormond Road and Newbury Street were branded unsafe by parents after they
Tributes have been paid to a hockey-loving Oxford firefighter, who has died after a long illness. Steve Vermuelen pictured asking children on a Junior Countrywatch safety course in 1996 what they should do in a fire Sub-officer Steve Vermeulen, who lived
Banbury town councillors were expected to vote against paying themselves expenses when they voted on the issue on June 26. Tom Thompson Changes in the law mean allowances can now be paid to members of parish and town councils. But in consultations leading
Teachers have warned that the proposed six-term school calendar could lead to parents pulling their children out of school over the Easter holiday. Oxfordshire County Council has published its draft calendar for 2004 to 2005, the first year schools in
Chris Patten warned Oxford University faced tough challenges as he was sworn in as the 294th Chancellor of the university on June 25. Oxford University's Encaenia procession in the Bodleian Library quad The EU Commissioner and last governor of Hong Kong
Detectives are investigating a woman's death after her boyfriend was heard banging on neighbours' doors in the early hours shouting: "My girlfriend is dying". A policeman guards the house in Rymers Lane Officers were called to a house in Florence Park
After months of technical hitches, council engineers in Bicester are keeping their fingers crossed that a movable bollard to enforce a pedestrian only-road works properly. Glitches affected the hydraulic bollard when it was installed in Sheep Street in
A retired electrician committed suicide by wrapping wire around his wrists and electrocuting himself. Ronald Sims, 72, of Winchester Close, was found dead at the bottom of his stairs with bare electrical cable tied around his wrists on January 23, Oxford
Radiohead is urging campaigners to join a mass anti-poverty lobby of Oxfordshire MPs. Oxford's most famous rock band has thrown its weight behind the Christian Aid co-ordinated Trade Justice Movement, which has organised lobbies to take place across the
The new Oxford children's hospital will only be able to open after Thames Water has carried out work to solve sewage problems in the area. For decades, residents in Marston have complained of sewage flowing on to the streets during heavy rainfall. On
