HOUSE-hunters were last night warned about Internet scams claiming to offer cheap rental deals in Oxford. A number of adverts have appeared on rental websites such as Gumtree offering cheap flats in and around the city. But when contacted, the so-called
THE £63m renovation of nearly 8,000 council homes in Oxford has been completed. Kitchens, bathrooms, heating systems, windows and roofs have been replaced as part of the Decent Homes Standard, a national target set to improve living conditions. Work
Jerzy Kotwica, 29, of Napier Road, Oxford, admitted failing to provide a specimen for analysis in Oxford on October 18. Given a four-month curfew and told to pay £200 costs. Banned from driving for two years. James Allen, 27, of Luther Street
DENTAL patients in Wantage can now get their fillings done in a converted church. The former St Mary’s School Chapel in Newbury Street opens as Wantage House Dental Practice today. Dental firm Rodericks has invested more than £500,000 in the NHS practice
The girls section of Gosford All Blacks Rugby Club has received a major boost after receiving a £5,000 donation from a Banbury firm. Norbar Torque Tools agreed a two-year sponsorship deal with a cheque being presented by Norbar managing director Neill
Metal surface coatings company Hardide Coatings has appointed Bruce Robinson as a non-executive director. Mr Robinson brings extensive experience of the international oil and gas industry and growing technology-based businesses. He spent five years
The Grove-based Williams team today backed the decision to call off the Bahrain Grand Prix. Adam Parr, chairman of Williams F1, said: “It is obviously disappointing for everyone involved in the organisation of the event, but it is clear that
Two men have been arrested on suspicion of possession of class-B drugs with intent to supply, dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of an accident after an incident in Oxford. The men, aged 25 and 23, were arrested after an incident in
Two men were found guilty of aggravated burglary at Oxford Crown Court today. Orlando Sheddon, 30, of Salesian Gardens, Cowley, and Michael Amin Hirabe, 24, of no fixed abode, were arrested in December 2009 in connection with an aggravated burglary
Officers from Thames Valley Police’s Priority Crime Team have recovered several items of what they believe to be stolen jewellery, after locating three stolen vehicles. A black Audi S5 Quattro was found in Old Grimsbury Road, Banbury, on Wednesday,
The season-opening race of the new Formula One campaign in Bahrain has today been officially called off. The Bahrain International Circuit has confirmed the Gulf kingdom has decided to withdraw from hosting the event that was due to take place
An 83-year-old woman who went missing in Oxford last night has been found safe. Pauline Procter was found safe and well on a train in Norwich this afternoon.
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FOR those who didn’t fancy staying in and watching the prodigious talent that is Justin Bieber pick up “Best International Breakthrough” at the Brit Awards, (a category that Animal Collective were nominated for in 2009-make of that what you will
Police have appealed for help to find an 83-year-old who disappeared from her son’s home in Grandpont. Pauline Procter was last seen going to bed at the house she was staying in Chilswell Road at 10.30pm last night when she went to bed. Her family
CUTS totalling £1.7m in South Oxfordshire District Council’s spending will see travel tokens axed, reduced maintenance of car parks and a pay freeze for some council workers. Members of the council’s cabinet agreed the cuts as part of its £13m budget
Police want to speak to a man suspected of stealing two gammon joints from a supermarket. They said he walked into the Co-op in Middleton Road shortly before 10.30am on January 31 and walked out with the meat. Anyone with information should call police
Police today appealed for help to trace a missing 83-year-old woman in Oxford. Pauline Procter went missing from her son’s home in Chilswell Road sometime between 10.30pm yesterday, when she went to bed, and 9am today when the front door of the house
CHILDREN have celebrated the beginning of a long-awaited Narnia-themed £115,000 play park refurbishment. Youngsters from schools around Headington gathered to watch as work began to revamp the Bury Knowle Park, in London Road, Headington, Oxford. The
MONEY to help people in Oxfordshire become part of the Government’s much-heralded Big Society is now up for grabs. Bids can be made for a share of a £600,000 pot of cash as Conservative-run Oxfordshire County Council moves to give residents power.
Police today released a CCTV image of a man wanted in connection with a shoplifting incident in Banbury. The man entered the Co-op in Middleton Road shortly before 10.30am on January 31 and stole two gammon joints from the store. PC Sam Devlin
COLOURFUL performers entertained thousands of shoppers to launch the city’s annual dance festival. Dance groups transformed Cornmarket Street, Bonn Square and Broad Street on Saturday lunchtime to mark the start of Dancin’ Oxford. The event, which is
A LAST ditch attempt to save the popular Temple Cowley Pools complex from closure will be made tonight. Opposition parties at Oxford City Council will table alternative budgets that keep the Temple Road baths open until at least 2015. The bid will please
AN army of good neighbours is forming in Didcot to help young mums, pensioners and anyone else who needs a hand. Staff at Didcot Day Centre launched a good neighbour scheme – backed by Oxfordshire County Council – to help people with shopping, dog-walking
CROWS pecking at a church roof have inspired a community-wide competition to find the best scarecrow. Churchgoers at the Holy Family Church in Blackbird Leys, Oxford, want to hold the estate’s first scarecrow competition to raise money to fix the roof
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Venue for civil ceremony and wedding reception – includes wedding ceremony in the Old Library, reception, wedding breakfast for up to 80 guests, events manager and evening buffet for up to 120 guests
SATURDAY’S RESULTS 7.35: 1 BUILDERS KATIE 5-4 fav, 2 Keeperhill Hawk 6-1. Trio: (5x4x6). Trainer: A Kibble. Time: 28.14. 7.50: 1 SOUNDSLIKEAPLAN 7-4 fav, 2 Conduit 3-1. Trio: (3x2x5). Trainer: Massey. Time: 27.54. 8.05: 1 SPENCERS LAD 3-1, 2 Starcash
Football NPOWER LEAGUE TWO Morecambe 0, Oxford Utd 3. ZAMARETTO SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Banbury Utd 1, Chippenham Tn 2; Didcot Tn 1, Brackley 1; Oxford City v Tiverton pp. Div 1 South & West: Abingdon Utd v Andover pp; Bridgwater 4, North
Witney United 2 (Tustain pen 52, 87) Wootton Bassett Tn 1 (Brown 6) A double from Joe Tustain saw Witney United fight back from a goal down as they climbed further away from the Premier Division relegation zone with their third win in a row. Things
First of all, I too would like to join Oxfordshire County Council in extending my warmest congratulations to Helena Bonham Carter for her recent award success with The King’s Speech. By choosing to live near Didcot, the actress has set an example to
I WISH to reply to county council leader Keith Mitchell’s letter in last Tuesday’s Oxford Mail. I presume that Mr Mitchell means that removing 12 senior posts is saving £1.1m in this financial year? Last year’s council accounts indicate the total remuneration
I am writing in response to the piece in the Oxford Mail: New vicar finds the welcome warmer in Abingdon (October 4). As a long-standing member of St Alban’s Church, Fr Paul’s previous parish, I was shocked and hurt by the tone of the comments made.
Hopefully, I will not be alone in coming forward to defend the Greens from Martin Crossman’s absurd accusation that the group’s attempts to address the pressing problem of climate change is somehow based on false pretenses (Oxford Mail, February 4).
I THINK it is a very bad idea to get rid of Oxford City Council’s area committee meetings just to save money. At the meetings, people are allowed five minutes to ask the councillors about issues in their area which are important to them. I get asked
I read with interest the article (Oxford Mail, February 11) on the city council selling off some of its properties to raise cash. I am unaware of, and cannot comment on, many of the properties listed, but was very pleased some weeks ago to see a ‘sold
A MIDWIFE has been struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Register after a newborn baby boy died in her care. Helen Ryder, 48, admitted she failed to check the heart rate during the birth at Horton Hospital’s maternity unit in Banbury. The baby boy, called
A SCHOOL based on a farm which teaches children aged from two to 18 could become Oxfordshire’s first ‘free school’. Oxford Montessori Schools has applied to the Department for Education to convert its Forest Farm campus, at Elsfield, into a state-funded
THE Ultimate Picture Palace in East Oxford – one of Europe’s oldest cinemas – celebrates its centenary this week. The Picture Palace, in Jeune Street, off Cowley Road, opened its doors to the public on February 25, 1911. Three shows were held every
MEMBERS of the Women’s Royal Voluntary Service have been helping people in need for more than 70 years. They played a major role in public life in wartime and have continued to do so in peacetime. This picture was taken at a meeting in 1956 when 650
THE Forum, in High Street, Oxford, organised a ‘last dance’ three years before it closed. All the signs were that the popular venue would shut its doors for the last time on December 30, 1961. That was certainly the impression given
THE sack race proved to be a popular event during an afternoon of fun held to mark the diamond jubilee of the Girl Guide Association. About 500 Brownies took part in The Revels, a series of games on the playing field of St Michael’s School in Marston
ONE of the attractions at the village fete in 1980 was a pillow fight. Michelle McCaan is seen in the first picture trying to get the better of her brother, Vincent. Staff at the Bat and Ball pub dressed a huge teddy bear in a butcher’s outfit to highlight
Bridgwater 4 (Farmer 21, Brimson 34, 75, Jones 78) North Leigh 0 North Leigh had Kieran Sanders sent off as their nine- game unbeaten run came to an abrupt end with a lacklustre performance at Bridgwater Town in Division 1 South & West on Saturday.
Banbury Utd 1 (Benjamin 6) Chippenham Tn 2 (Griffin 15, 89) Banbury United suffered late heartbreak as they went down to defeat against bogey side Chippenham at Spencer Stadium on Saturday. It was harsh on Banbury who looked the better side for much
Didcot Tn 1 (Gunn 46) Brackley Town 1 (Sandy 19) Didcot Town’s resurgence continued under new boss Ady Williams as his ten-man side made it three Premier Division games unbeaten with a draw against Brackley. Elliott Osbourne-Ricketts was sent off
YOU reported David Cameron’s passion for the Big Society and how the cuts are undermining this policy (Cuts undermine Oxfordshire’s Big Society, Oxford Mail February 15). It seems odd that a policy which Mr Cameron says will define his premiership is
WHEATLEY Secondary School’s policy was to include as many children as possible in its annual shows. That was certainly the case in 1955, when more than 200 of the 330 pupils on the school roll were involved. The show, the fourth, began with The Follies
EIGHT hundred officer and staff jobs will go within Thames Valley Police over the next four years, police said. Thames Valley Police Authority has set its 2011/12 budget at £383m after the Government reduced the force’s funding allocation by 3.7 per
TWO men were sentenced for an attack on a mother and her teenage son at an Oxford car boot sale. Kyron McFarlane and Kane Smith assaulted the two stallholders at the event in the car park of the Kassam Stadium on July 4 last year. Both men were sentenced
Iconoclast gave Banbury trainer Alex Hales a 37th birthday present with a last-gasp victory under a never-say-die ride from Paul Moloney at Ascot on Saturday. The ten-year-old was left trailing in last place after blundering at the ninth fence
The fact no-one living on Wood Farm reported the police “burglars” as they prowled around houses after dark offers little hope for the Big Society. We often hear about the strength of community spirit on Oxford estates but this exercise seems
Widow Karen Witney won an important battle in the way patients in cancer drugs trials are treated. Despite her husband’s tragic death, Mrs Witney has still championed the need for trials and the changes she has fought for will benefit everyone.
WHAT would you do if you spotted someone trying to open your neighbour’s door or peer in your front window? If you lived in Wood Farm, apparently nothing, according to police. When plain clothes officers prowled around the Oxford estate
A WIDOW fighting for better treatment of patients involved in cancer drugs trials met senior hospital officials who vowed to improve the system. Last month, the Oxford Mail reported how Andy Witney, a former Cowley car plant warehouseman, died
A four-vehicle crash today caused delays for drivers on the A34. The southbound carriageway between the B4027 Islip turn and the Peartree Interchange was blocked for a time. Congestion was reported back to junction nine of the M40. All lanes were reopened
The cost of parking in the UK is a postcode lottery - as is the chance of getting a ticket, according to a consumer watchdog. Drivers in London predictably face the highest charges, but Manchester, Edinburgh and Leeds are also expensive, Which? found
Chris Wilder praised Asa Hall for “coming to the party” as his Oxford United team eased to their biggest away win of the season. Hall hit a double and fellow midfielder Paul McLaren got his first goal for the U’s as they won 3-0 at Morecambe
THE multi-million pound Oxford Academy building is now finished, with staff busy moving in furniture ahead of its opening. Pupils will take their first lessons in the £33million academy this week. Half of the youngsters will use the classrooms for the
