Oxford University served up a mixed bag as they went down to a comprehensive 43-25 defeat against Sale Sharks at Iffley Road on Monday night. The Dark Blues scored some exciting tries and moved the ball well at times, but they were also regularly exposed
Didcot Town Youth U9's 6 Kennington Youth U9's 2. Didcot maintained their one hundred per cent start to the season with a hard fought win over a spirited Kennington side. Didcot scored twice in the first two minutes of the first game, a fine individual
The first game back from the half term break was always going to be a wobbly one. Ardington took center and were on the attack from the start, with Scott Webb and Leroy Brandao working well together. The first shot came within the first minute when
A pub was evacuated and four people were treated for smoke inhalation after a fire. Firefighters were called to The Bell, Long Hanborough, shortly after 9am today after a tumble drier on the first floor caught fire causing minimal damage. Firefighters
Police launched a fresh appeal for information today to trace a man over a rape in Oxford. Det Insp Simon Morton said: “It has been over a week since a woman was raped in the city centre and we are still urging anyone with information to come
Thomas the Tank Engine and chums are a half remembered ghostly night-time whistle for some lucky parents, but their monotonous horror is fresh enough to wring out an over-extended analogy to describe this latest chapter in Quarry’s season.
Oxford United have signed defensive midfielder Paul Wotton on loan from Southampton until the end of December. The 33-year-old former Plymouth Argyle captain will add some much-needed experience to Chris Wilder's young side, and is available for Saturday's
A NURSE has today been found guilty of raping a 17-year-old girl in the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford six years ago. Oliver Balicao 37, from Lerwick Court, Bicester, who worked as a nurse at the Headington hospital at the time of the rape
Saints started well, playing some lovely passing football, but Radley went ahead against the run of play after about 10 minutes. Saints continued to play their passing game and were rewarded not long after with an equaliser from Arthur Galley. The
A 37-year-old man has been found guilty of raping a 17-year-old girl in Oxford in 2004. Oliver Balicao, 37, from Bicester, was found guilty at Reading Crown Court today. Balicao, who was a nurse at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
Steventon and Barton played out an entertaining and good spirited match which resulted in a 3-3 draw. Steventon started brightly and took a first half lead through Harry Fisher which they held until half-time thanks to some excellent goalkeeping
Meet with Father Christmas in his Winter Wonderland Grotto £6.50 per child - Includes a magical journey through a ‘Winter Wonderland’, a visit to Father Christmas in his grotto, a gift and an ‘I’ve seen Father Christmas’ badge. £1.50 per
A free seminar updating delegates on changes to employment law and health and safety legislation will take place on Friday. The event, hosted by employment law specialists Peninsula and Chapman, Robinson & Moore, will offer advice on new laws
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Great game of football and 2 well matched sides. Greater Leys took the lead through Lee Harris but an early strike by Jack Hickman in the 2nd half meant the points were shared. Well done to both sides.
OXFORD’S Christmas market will return for the second year later this month. Last year, more than 15,000 people flocked to the Oxford Castle complex for an 11-day market, selling handcrafted goods. They are hoping for a bigger turnout
Lewis Hamilton has admitted only a miracle can help him now as he seemingly faces mission impossible in a bid to become Formula One world champion. Hamilton goes into the final grand prix of the season in Abu Dhabi on Sunday knowing only a
Many parents will shake their heads at the news that police have had to resort to curfew orders to further tackle antisocial behaviour in Kidlington. Clearly, a dispersal order to keep troublemakers away from the village centre is not enough. What is
FOUR curfew orders have been handed out to troublemakers at the centre of rival gang fights in Kidlington. Two brawls in the High Street have prompted officers to issue the orders to four under-18s, instructing them to stay at home between
A GRANDMOTHER fought back against cancer by teaching herself photography. Now Kim Williams has produced a calendar using 12 of her best shots taken in and around Katharine House Hospice, Adderbury, near Banbury. The mum-of-four was diagnosed with cancer
A collision today led to delays on the M40 in north Oxfordshire. One lane of the southbound carriageway was closed between junction ten, at the Cherwell Valley Services, and junction nine, near Wendlebury. The crash led to queueing traffic
FOR many couples, a honeymoon provides some relaxing time together to spend on a beach. But one Oxford pair have decided to embark on something a little more adventurous. Merryl Gelling and Phil Parle, from Iffley Road, Oxford, will be taking part in
After a two week rest, Grove Challengers travelled to Quarry, who were as yet still without a win this season. However, would the absence of striker Jordan’s firepower up front stop the recent series of Grove wins? During the first scrappy minutes,
A TEENAGER is urging the Government to ‘call in’ a council’s decision to press ahead with a £650m incinerator. Jake Cherrington, 13, was left fuming after learning that a second application by waste firm Viridor to build a burner near his home
Builder and maintenance contractor Rok, which employs 2000 people nationwide and 15 at its Eynsham office, will today go into administration. The self-styled ‘nation’s local builder’ reported half-year losses of £3.8m shortly after an independent review
Ardley Utd 3 (Bryan 18, Nicholls 41, Travers 58) Witney Utd 1 (Tustain 89) Leaders Ardley United completed a double over Witney United in the UHL Sport Hellenic league in a repeat scoreline of their Premier Division clash of a month ago. Troy Bryan
Headington Amateurs 1 (McCuaig 88) Easington Sports 0 Jamie McCuaig’s dramatic late winner saw Headington Amateurs make it a perfect ten victories in Division 1 West with victory over Easington Sports. It looked as if the leaders’ 100 per cent record
Daniel Smyth bagged a hat-trick in Rover Oxford’s 4-1 win over basement boys Ramgarhia in the South League Regional division. Joe Brownhill deflected home Niall Carter’s pass for the fourth goal, while keeper Chris Mitty snuffed out two one-on-one breakaways
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OXFORDSHIRE residents turned out to support airmen’s 1,000 mile cross-county walk for the Royal British Legion. Hundreds welcomed the seven RAF men as the trek came to Bicester and Oxford at the weekend. Each mile of the March for Honour
A teenager killed in a car crash near Abingdon has been identified. The 19-year-old man died when a Vauxhall Corsa he was driving crashed into a tree near Drayton Mill, while the vehicle was heading towards Milton at 7.30am on Friday.
Kidlington too strong for Summertown Comets. Kidlington eased past Summertown Comets in the U10 Red League. The tone of the game was set in the first minute when Marcus Tranter hit the post. Moments later Luca Sykes had a similar experience
Cirencester Tn 4 (Palmer 43, Sysum 45, 74, Bevan 76) Oxford City 1 (Blossom 20) Controversy surrounded ten-man Oxford City’s resounding defeat at Cirencester Town in the Premier Division on Saturday. City, who had already had Jack Ashton sent off
Chesham Utd 1 (Potton 41) Didcot Tn 1 (Osborne-Ricketts 73) Elliot Osborne-Ricketts’s second-half equaliser gave Didcot Town a useful point at high-flying Chesham United in the Premier Division. Osborne-Ricketts struck within ten minutes of the
Bishops Cleeve 2 (Kennedy 8, Sykes 22) Abingdon Utd 2 (Odhiambo 51, Davis pen 85) Steve Davis’s late penalty completed an Abingdon United fightback as they came from two goals down to earn a point at Bishops Cleeve in Division 1 South & West. With
A 60-YEAR-OLD man died after a fire in a bungalow. He died shortly after arriving at the Horton Hospital, Banbury, on Saturday night. A woman, believed to be his wife, was taken to hospital and police last night said she was in a good condition and
HERE we go again with another new scheme the city council has thought up. Yes, their famous waste and recycling collections and new bins came into force on Monday, October 18 The Government is supposed to be trying to save money, and is making cuts
Alice Barnard, the new head of the Countryside Alliance, has been in the press recently repeating the hunters’ mantra that “the Hunting Act is not working”. The translation of “not working” is that it is being constantly flouted and ruthlessly ridden
YOU report that 500 people have, regardless of their personal economic, social or psychological circumstances, been uniformly fined for dropping litter in Oxford since the launch of the city council’s Cleaner, Greener Oxford campaign a year ago. That
Last week, I travelled across the border into Wiltshire, to a little village just outside Swindon.Friends of mine had invited me round for dinner and, because they don’t have children, I accepted. She’s big in marketing (whatever that means?) and he
IT MAY have been wartime, but there was still time for leisure and pleasure. Members of the Oxford Home Guard took a break from their duties to enjoy a trip on the River Thames. They and their families boarded a Salter’s steamer for a cruise from Folly
VIVIAN Kirk hit the headlines recently with two major benefactions in his will. He left his £452,000 house in Walton Well Road, Oxford, to Oxfordshire Animal Sanctuary and also handed Wolvercote Lakes, known as the Gullet, to the Oxford Preservation
PUPILS and staff at SS Philip and James Primary School in North Oxford turned the clock back to celebrate its centenary in 1979. They staged an exhibition showing what life was like 100 years ago. Among the items on display were two old bicycles, pictured
A SOLDIER who defused seven bombs in a row without wearing any protective clothing will receive a Pride of Britain award tonight. Warrant Officer Class 2 Kim Hughes, 31, from Abingdon, saved the lives of his wounded comrades with “the single
Banbury Utd 0 Salisbury City 1 (Silver 30) Banbury United produced arguably their best performance of the season – but were left still seeking their first home win in the Premier Division after falling to defeat against Salisbury. If it hadn’t been
A PRACTITIONER in traditional Chinese medicine says she will be forced out of business by a change in the law which will take effect next year. New European Union regulations are set to stop anyone other than fully-licensed medical practitioners
THERE have been many letters in ViewPoints recently about the coalition Government and, more recently, the cuts they intend to make to try and reduce our national debt. It would seem that the poorest and most vulnerable will suffer the most with loss
NOW I’ve heard it all. People in prison can sue the Government for what could be hundreds of millions of pounds because the European Court of Human Rights said it was illegal to take away their right to vote. Well, who runs this country, Britain or
TONY Gee’s reward for scoring nine goals in one match for his school football team was not what he expected. When the teams met again, he was put in goal – and hardly touched the ball. Mr Gee wrote in after seeing the photographs of Wheatley Primary
THESE are the children at Heythrop Church of England School in 1937. The school, near Chipping Norton, appears to have had just 17 pupils, with three staff. The only name we have is that of the headmistress, Mrs MH Williams, who came to the school from
RESTORATION work at SS Peter and Paul Church meant hard work for the three men pictured. Sid Hemmings, Jeremy Clifton and his father, Ken Clifton, are seen in 1965 wheeling a heavy stone along the church path to replace crumbling masonry. The second
ALAN Gardner has discovered a family link with the Radcliffe Arms pub, in Jericho, Oxford. We knew the names of four landlords who had run the pub in its 130-year history. Now Mr Gardner, who lives in Scotland, has supplied another – his great great-grandfather
CITY CENTRE streets stayed peaceful and free of knife crime on Saturday night as thousands of revellers came out for Bonfire Night celebrations. A knife arch at The Regal nightclub on the Cowley Road was set up amid fears of a retaliation attack
A YOUNG passenger was taken to hospital after a bus had to brake sharply when a child ran into the road. The seven-year-old struck his head when the bus made an emergency stop after a two-year-old boy ran into the road, the Oxford Bus Company said.
THEY say today’s newspapers become tomorrow’s fish and chip wrappers. But one man has put old copies of the Oxford Mail to much better use. Melville King, 79, from Horspath, has spent two-and-a-half years creating a papier mâché masterpiece
A CITY centre street is unattractive and confusing, a council survey has found. Respondents said St Ebbes Street “does not feel part of the city centre” and was “difficult to understand and navigate for all”. There were “conflicts between cyclists and
A CONVICTED paedophile could be housed just three miles away from the daughter he abused, the Oxford Mail can reveal. Terence Weston, 72, could return to his home in Stowford Road, Barton, Oxford, in January, 16 months after being jailed for
PROBATION chiefs have missed the point when they argue Terence Weston has the right to be rehoused within three miles of the daughter he abused. They say that risk of reoffending is a key consideration. But what of the moral case? Too often victims
More than 60 eco-friendly vehicles – some not seen on UK roads before – completed the first RAC Brighton to London Future Car Challenge. For the many spectators the event attracted, the sight of so many electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles and
A gang forced their way into an elderly woman's home in Chadlington and robbed her of her rings and handbag. The 80-year-old woman was at her home in the village, when there was a knock at her front door sometime between 7pm and 7.15pm on Saturday
OXFORD United boss Chris Wilder admitted after yesterday’s FA Cup exit at Burton that reinforcements will be very welcome. For the first time since he has been manager, the team fell to a third successive loss – their 1-0 first-round exit making it a
A VILLAGE pre-school which was among the first of its kind in Oxfordshire celebrated its 40th birthday by inviting back the teacher who started it. Long Wittenham Pre-school, based at the village hall, celebrated its impressive milestone by inviting
OXFORDSHIRE is preparing to pay its respects this week to the many who lost their lives at war. Events will take place throughout the county for Armistice Day on Thursday, November 11, and on Remembrance Sunday at the weekend. They will be remembering
