HOUSEHOLDERS say they are shocked at plans to add Port Meadow to the city’s parks where motorists face parking charges. Oxford City Council, which previously announced it would charge for parking at some other parks across the city, revealed the extended
ABBEY Gardens in Abingdon has been judged one of the best parks in the country after it was awarded Green Flag status for the third year in a row. The gardens which are owned and maintained by Vale of White Horse District Council, first scooped the Green
SUPERMARKET staff got their football kits on to raise £238 for a charity helping street children in Africa. Staff from Tesco Extra off Marcham Road in Abingdon played in the tournament against staff from Tesco Metro in Kidlington High Street and staff
A 17TH century clock made by a former Mayor of Oxford has been sold at auction for £75,000, more than twice its estimated price. A private collector won a bidding battle against dealers to acquire the table clock, made in 1685 by John Knibb
COTSWOLD stone walls are the quintessential image of West Oxfordshire’s countryside. But many of the historic structures are beginning to fall down, and repairing them can cost a small fortune. However a small team of volunteers from conservation charity
TOWN council leaders in Wallingford have stepped in to help fund a new youth worker as youth services are cut by the county council. The town council has linked up with the charity Parents And Children Together to fund the post. It will pay £15,000
PETROLHEADS from across the country will descend on Oxford this weekend to fuel their passion and also do their bit for charity. A specially customised car will be on show at Sunday’s Cowley Classic Car Show. The Ford Ka is owned by
A BID to remove affordable housing from a controversial West Oxford flats development has been refused by councillors. Developer Peter Mills last year got planning permission for a three-storey block of eight flats at the former Oxonian Press in Lamarsh
Efforts to find a solution to parking problems at Hanborough railway station are to be applauded. While the increased use of the station, which is responsible for the situation, is welcome, the use of nearby roadside verges as unofficial parking and
The city council is poised to take control of the Pear Tree, Redbridge and Seacourt sites from the county council, which says it no longer can afford to run them. And the city council has warned that the return of parking fees to cover the £700,000 annual
TAKINGS at an Abingdon charity store have been halved after drainage works added to misery caused by a major renovation scheme at the town’s museum. Davina Wilkinson, manager of the Sue Ryder shop off Market Place, said footfall and turnover were down
A WANTAGE woman has been knitting full steam a-head for charity. Janet Wornham, 73, began a knitting crusade when she saw an appeal in the Oxford Mail in March 2010. The appeal asked for hats, scarves or gloves to be knitted for children in Africa,
WANTAGE Civic Hall has been given a boost, thanks to the introduction of new facilities. The changes have been made following suggestions from members of the public who attended an open day in February, specifically organised to guage people’s views
I am not a boy and I am not a racer. But try telling that to anyone who saw me at the wheel of Audi’s outrageously liveried A1 Sport. The compact hatchback came splashed in full Audi Sport colours, complete with large number 1 transfers on both doors
EFFORTS to raise £70,000 for a feasibility study into reviving a direct railway link between Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon have gone into extra time. Oxfordshire County Council has given the backers of the scheme until the end of this month to show
A REVOLUTIONARY pill for multiple sclerosis sufferers, which was tested out in Oxford, has been rejected by the Government’s drugs ration-ing body, Nice. Fingolimod was licensed as a “‘second line” treatment for MS patients who had failed on other medication
Witney Town start life under their old name with a home game against Bracknell in their Uhlsport Hellenic League Premier Division opener. Back after the demise of Witney United, they give return debuts to Andy Younie and Harry Burnley. “It’s a new start
AMONG the sights and venues open to the public will be: Hinksey Sculling School, Hinksey Lakes, Hinksey Park. Under 18s are invited to visit the rowing club and have a go at sculling or indoor rowing. Oxford Fencing Club, Town Hall, St Aldate’s. Members
SECRET locations across Oxford will throw open their doors to allow access to fascinating, famous and even frightening venues next month. Now the country’s third largest Heritage Open Day, Oxford Open Doors will see 180 venues open their doors for free
AEA Technology 2.95 BMW 5152 Electrocomponents 207.25 Nationwide Accident Repair 87 Oxford Biomedica 6.35 Oxford Catalysts 62 Oxford Instruments 854.5 Reed Elsevier 477.4 RM 97.6 RPS Group 200.8 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley, Abingdon
Oxfordshire RFU will elect a new representative to convey their views at Twickenham. The new person will replace Paul Murphy, who is now the Rugby Football Union’s (RFU) acting chairman, so cannot continue with his county role. Information packs have
The news that Luton had made an official bid for James Constable certainly got Oxford United fans talking. And for Chris Wilder, news that other clubs are interested in his players leaves him with mixed feelings. “I guess you’d be concerned
A 17-YEAR-old boy was killed in a car crash on Wednesday night. The teenager, who is from the Banbury area, was driving a black Ford Ka when the accident happened in Broughton Road. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash, which took place
THEY has been playing tennis non-stop for almost 72 hours but left the best to last. Just minutes from the end of the record-breaking tennis marathon, Andy Aitken delighted spectators by playing a trick shot through his legs, rounding off an exceptional
Abingdon United boss Richie Bourne is optimistic that his Division 1 South & West side can finish in the top half of the table. Last season, Abingdon finished 16th, and Bourne, whose side host Taunton on Saturday, wants an improvement. They were due
North Leigh boss Mark Gee says his side are more than capable of reaching the play-offs ahead of their Evo-Stik Southern League Division 1 South & West opener at home to Mangotsfield United. Gee made a number of summer signings including striker John
Didcot & Hagbourne (Seaton, 5 sent 182): 1, 2, 3, 6 Gilbert & Newport 1568, 1542, 1534, 1472; 4, 5, 8, 9 Lloyd & Kelly 1505, 1503, 1442 (x2); 7 R Edwards 1467; 10, 11 M/M Webber & son. Shotover & District (Seaton, 11 sent 143): 1, 6, 17 R Wiggins & son
Wantage sprint-racer John Paul is celebrating after becoming a double champion at the European Under 23 Track Cycling Championships in Portugal. The 18-year-old Scot came away from Sangalhos with gold medals in the individual sprint competition
Chipping Norton racer Robert Yeatman produced a tremendous ride to win the British Paracycling National Championships at the Rudy Project promotion near Worcester. The 17-year-old, who rides for the Team Jewson-MI Racing-Thul-CNP team, is registered
SATURDAY FOOTBALL NPOWER LEAGUE TWO Oxford Utd v Bradford City. EVO-STIK SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Banbury Utd v Hitchin Tn, Oxford City v Redditch. Div 1 South & West: Cinderford v Didcot Tn, North Leigh
THOUSANDS of folk music fans started arriving at Fairport Convention’s Cropredy festival near Banbury yesterday. Fairport Convention got the festivities under way with an acoustic set and will close the festival with a three-hour performance
THE company behind the annual Truck Festival has gone into liquidation, we can reveal. Last week we reported a hole in the finances of the event, which attracted 7,000 music lovers to Hill Farm, at Steventon, near Abingdon, last month.
Oxford bid to maintain their good Twenty20 form when they face hosts Ealing in the Barbados Cockspur Club T20 South East Area finals on Sunday. The Home Counties Premier League Twenty20 champions play Ealing in the semi-finals at 10am, with
There were goalkeeping legends galore at the Kassam Stadium on Wednesday. I don’t mean just United’s No 1 Ryan Clarke or goalkeeping coach Alan Hodgkinson, but also England greats Peter Shilton and Gordon Banks. The duo were at the Kassam
Didcot Town boss Francis Vines has told his new charges to forget about their disappointing pre-season run, starting with Saturday's Evo-Stik Southern League Division 1 South & West opener away to Cinderford Town. The Railwaymen completed their programme
Aston Rowant seamer Karl Penhale has been banned for two weeks after clocking up his second disciplinary offence in the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League this season. Penhale misses tomorrow’s home game with Division 2 West leaders
OVERCROWDING on rush-hour trains between Oxfordshire and London Paddington is getting worse. All 10 of the most overcrowded peak trains in and out of London’s major stations last autumn were First Great Western (FGW) services at Paddington
WE saw the cyclist when he was 100 yards or more away in Park End Street, we being retired postal worker Ken and me. What made the cyclist stand out was that he was fully six-and-a-half feet tall and was riding his bike on the pavement, bearing down
I WAS interested in the article (August 2) on a “vision” to “one day”, turn RAF Bicester into a heritage site. Your readers may be interested to know that in Lincolnshire (bomber county), two farmer brothers purchased the ex-RAF base of East Kirkby (close
I READ (Oxford Mail, Saturday July 30) that ARCh (Assisted Reading for Children in Oxfordshire) are asking for volunteer readers. The article was ambiguous stating that 25 per cent of ‘11-year-olds do not reach the expected level in English
There was plenty of reasons to be cheerful despite Wednesday’s Carling Cup defeat at the hands of Cardiff. But it’s the bread and butter of league action tomorrow, and everybody in and around Oxford United knows just how vital it is to get some points
THE proposed East-West Rail link, connecting Oxford and Bicester with Milton Keynes and Bedford, could generate more than £38m a year for the UK economy, according to a new study. Forecasters from Oxford Economics, based in St Aldate’s,
I HAVE been saying for some time now that the humps on Bayswater Road should be taken up and done away with, they were put in during the bad era of the so-called joyriders. But now the council says they are for traffic-calming. What a load of rubbish
I AM told that the reason Oxfordshire County Council is abandoning the disabled and elderly to the private sector is that a carer employed by the council costs £30 per hour, yet the carer’s hourly wage comes nowhere near that. It would seem a case of
AFTER reading (The Issue, August 5, Oxford Mail, Should Headington car park be built on?), I am somewhat bemused. The NO view given by Neil Holdstock makes every sense as far as residents and businesses are concerned, whereas the YES view by Councillor
I CANNOT seem to join in with the euphoria that the forthcoming Olympics has caused in this country of ours. Maybe it’s because I am a bit of a pessimist. As I see it, anybody that steps onto this land of ours and decides that they do not wish to return
OVER the last few weeks I have read with interest and some amusement the replies to Ken Roper’s original letter regarding tailgating. Some comments have been constructive, others not so, but Mr Roper was quite right about tailgating. This is of course
I READ with interest about the appeal for £18,000 for a repatriation bell for our wonderful heroes who give so much for our country. The change in route seems to have caused great consternation. I feel the ‘bell’ will cause even more. Geography
Banbury United’s new boss Ady Fuller has been handed a boost after signing Oxford United striker Aaron Woodley on loan for six months. Woodley, 19, will feature in Saturday's Premier Division opener at home to Hitchin, if the paperwork arrives in time
A PLEDGE to put all of Oxford’s cancer services under the roof of a dedicated £109m cancer unit is under review, the Oxford Mail can reveal. Meanwhile, equipment has been left to gather dust in a dedicated suite that has remained empty for
A FORMER Mini worker caught selling stolen parts from the factory on eBay has been ordered to pay almost £25,000 in compensation. Safouane Selatnia was found by police with 26 amplifiers and 10 air-conditioning pumps worth £24,876. The 39-year-old was
ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe they may have found the remains of Bicester’s patron saint, St Edburg, underneath a former block of flats. The team believe it could be the first time in the country the bones of a saint have been found. It could
Lewis Guy admitted he was massively disappointed not to become an instant hero at Oxford United. The striker, who agreed a one-month loan on Tuesday, made his debut as a substitute in the Carling Cup defeat against Cardiff. And it was nearly a dream
A Cardiff City fan was arrested before Wednesday night’s Oxford United game on suspicion of punching a steward. The 46-year-old man, pictured being detained, was arrested at the Kassam Stadium at around 7.35pm. The victim, a 41-year-old
Ralph Goodson, from Heads2gether Head and Neck Cancer Support Group, is strong in his criticism of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust today. He says it has not fulfilled its promise. The plan in 2009 was to bring all cancer services in the city under
Pity the poor rail commuters. Squeezed in a stuffy corner, on a stifling day as the train rumbles back to Oxford from Paddington. We’ve heard it all before, but when is it going to get any better? New figures in today’s Oxford Mail really
