OXFORD Magistrates' Court: Wendi Davies, 40, of Bayswater Mill Road, Headington, admitted drink driving in Ambassador Avenue, Cowley on January 12. Had 92 micrograms of alcohol in 100ml of blood, above the limit of 35 micrograms. Fined £500 and
A “CITY deal” which could unlock millions of pounds to fund major transport projects and create jobs in Oxfordshire has been approved. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has tonight announced Oxfordshire was one of 20 regions included in the second
ORGANISERS of the Cowley Road Carnival last night said they were confident the popular festival would return this year, despite raising only a fraction of its cost so far. The 11th annual carnival – pencilled in for Sunday, July 7 – is expected
THE magical smoke-like effect of liquid nitrogen helped give Science Oxford its busiest ever day. More than 300 people poured through the doors of the London Place attraction for half-term science fun on Wednesday last week. Among the shows
FOR one brief day a North Oxford community centre was transformed into an intergalactic hub of rockets, aliens and flying saucers. Animator Emma Dougherty took a group of youngsters on a journey around the galaxy in her stop motion masterclass.
STAFF at Chipping Norton maternity unit were not operating on a ‘unified and cohesive basis’, a report says. Births at the Midwifery-Led Unit (MLU) are still suspended after an investigation was launched in October last year. A full review
Ellen Kent’s Carmen brings a little Andalusian warmth to the New Theatre on Saturday night. Toreadors and matadors burst onto the stage in flamboyant Spanish costumes. Cigarette girls manoeuvre around the set with the kind of sexy, flamenco moves that
WITH patients in their dressing gowns, staff and relatives gathered for a unique private concert in the Churchill hospital’s cancer treatment centre. Students from Suzuki violin school, including Bryony Talbot-Ponsonby, seven, gave an inspiring
A LARGE Audi dealership is set to become the first car showroom on an Oxford business park. Plans have been submitted for one of the plots on Oxford Business Park, off Garsington Road near the Eastern Bypass. The site will include a two-storey
A POLICE doctor, who "arranged a golf trip" while examining a girl claiming to have been raped, has given evidence at the Old Bailey this morning. Dr Christopher Smart, a Thames Valley Police forensic medical examiner, examined the 14-year-old
A FAMILY still struggling to come to terms with the death of a son is urging people to back a charity day in his name. Popular barman Ian North, 22, was found dead at his Bicester home in January 2011 after failing to turn up for work. A post mortem
SPORTY teenager Grace Hadman loved netball and was a dedicated player for her school’s team. But the St Edward’s school pupil’s life was tragically cut short in 2009 when aged just 17 she was killed in a car crash on the A34. It was Grace’s
NEARLY 900 homes may soon be built on land north of Banbury. The major development on either side of Southam Road will feature 880 houses as well as a school, shops and a care home. Two separate planning applications have been submitted to
A GROUP of Oxford residents is hoping to attract more people to appreciate the beauty of their local cemetery. St Sepulchre’s cemetery off Walton Street, Jericho, closed for new burials in 1945 but has since become a much-loved place for quiet
Businesses and entrepreneurs across the county are being urged to enter the Oxfordshire Business Awards before it’s too late. The deadline for entries is March 1 and organisers want to see as many firms and individuals take part as possible to
“COME and have a go if you think you’re good enough!” That’s the challenge being laid down to aspiring musicians by the city’s biggest rock venue. Having hosted shows by some of the world’s top artists, the O2 Academy Oxford is now inviting local
FOUR years after it was first mooted and four months after it was due to open, an East Oxford skatepark is still incomplete. Further improvements to the long-awaited skate park at Blackbird Leys are required but cannot happen until cash is found
SPORTS car owners owe a great debt to Sydney Enever. He was the man who designed the iconic MGA and MGB models that brought sports car motoring to thousands of enthusiasts at a reasonable price. He also designed cars that broke land speed records
NOT a touch of nerves was visible, but no doubt the musicians in our picture were anxious. Members of the City of Oxford Training Band were preparing to give their first concert. The picture, taken in 1983, shows Catherine Westbury, 11, on
THREE pupils from the village primary school were invited to TV studios in London to record ghost stories in 1983. The trio were Joann Jeffrey, 10, Robert Townsend, nine, and Justin Lambourne, 10. Their tales of ghostly goings-on in the village
THE picture of women at Morris Motors raising their glasses (Memory Lane, January 28) wasn’t taken at the seaside after all. We thought three pictures sent in by Olive Pratley, of Brambling Way, Blackbird Leys, were from a seaside outing to Southend
THE story of the blaze at St Michael at the Northgate Church in Oxford brought a reminder of another serious fire in the city. The interior of the ABC cinema in George Street, formerly the Ritz, was wrecked after the evening performance on March
THESE were some of the women who worked in the horseradish sauce department at Frank Cooper Ltd. They were part of a team which helped make the Oxford firm world famous for its marmalade and preserves. The picture comes from Stuart Hickman,
Old Bailey about to hear from Dr Smart who Girl 3 claimed was "on the phone arranging a golf trip" while examining her after rape claim. — @Ben_Wilkinson_ 18 February 2013 Dr says he cannot recall "specific details"
A 19-YEAR-OLD man has been released on bail by British Transport Police on Saturday following a serious sexual assault at Oxford railway station. The teenager, who is from Reading, was arrested by police on Friday and interviewed about the attack
FIREFIGHTERS had to deal with a burning microwave in Howard Street, East Oxford on Friday night.
OXFORD city centre saw two human rights protests on Saturday. Protest group Women in Black held the demonstration in Bonn Square against the use of unmanned drones in Afghanistan. Members of the Oxford Palestine Solidarity Campaign gathered
A MAN who sliced a cut across his girlfriend’s neck during an argument has been jailed for 30 months. Vincent Westwood, who lives on a canal boat in Oxford, committed what a judge called the “utterly reprehensible” crime on April 22 last year.
FOR anyone who has played a computer game the idea of entering the action is mere fantasy. But a group of plucky Oxford cricketers could find themselves immortalised as video game characters lining up against superstar players. If Oxford Brookes
Everything Everything played to a beyond sold out crowd on Thursday, with fans who hadn’t managed to get a ticket lined up outside the O2 in hopes of anyone having a spare ticket to sell. The Manchester-based band opened with the majestic ‘Undrowned
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A WOMAN was treated for smoke inhalation following a flat fire in Grove on Saturday. Fire crews were called to Savile Way at about 12.20pm. The fire was minor, however a female occupant, in her 50s, required treatment at the scene.
POLICE are investigating a suspected arson following a car fire in Kidlington on Friday evening. Fire crews were called to Maple Avenue at 7.17pm. The blaze was finally put out at 10.48pm. No arrests have been made.
CASH, clothes, and electrical goods were stolen from a property in Cowley Road, Oxford, on Valentine’s Day. The burglary happened between 9am and 2.40pm and the thief got in through a bathroom window.
SOME pothole-plagued roads are “like the surface of the moon”, angry drivers have claimed. The Oxford Mail was inundated with responses when it asked residents to point out pothole hotspots after statistics showed the number had trebled in five
TRAIN track maintenance caused major disruption on Oxfordshire’s railways yesterday. Network Rail said it expected to have the work finished by 2am today. Track upgrades were planned for the lines between Reading and Oxford, and Oxford and
FOOTBALL NPOWER LEAGUE TWO Plymouth Argyle 0, Oxford Utd 1. BLUE SQUARE BET NORTH Oxford City 1, Gloucester City 2. EVO-STIK SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Banbury Utd 0, Hitchin Tn 4. Div 1 South & West: Abingdon Utd
Banbury United had no answer to Hitchin’s in-form striker John Frendo, who scored his second hat-trick in as many Evo-Stik Southern League Premier Division games on Saturday, in their 4-0 vicroy. This was the second successive home game in which
A depleted North Leigh slipped to a disappointing defeat on a bumpy pitch in Evo-Stik Southern League Division 1 South & West on Saturday. The Millers were missing centre-back Tom Franklin and injured midfield general Kieran Sanders, who was
Two goals from Matty Biddle gave Abingdon United the points against the Evo-Stik Southern League Division 1 South & West’s basement club at Northcourt Road on Saturday. There was plenty of effort but few good chances in the first half-hour
Didcot Town stretched their unbeaten run to eight games, but they had to rely on a last-minute goal from Joel Meade to earn them a draw with Cinderford at the npower Loop Meadow. Neither side played well in Saturday’s frustrating Evo-Stik Southern
WHY does David Cameron keep going abroad to try to snatch some of our powers back, when all he has to do is listen to the electorate and get out of the EU? This way we will have our independence back and everything that goes with it. It sickens
WHAT is all the brouhaha about Oxford University inventing cars that drive themselves? Such vehicles have long been on Oxfordshire’s roads. They are programmed to drive down the middle of narrow roads and swerve only at the last second to emphasise
I WOULD like to agree with Steven Dunkerley of Abingdon on Trouble with Technology (ViewPoints, February 11). I am one of the ‘50 plus brigade’ who does not want to go online with information technology. I do not understand it and if I did
By the speed at which Mr Lee (Viewpoints, February 8) responded to my letter it just goes to show how irritable some people become when they realise that an organisation like UKIP is performing so well in the polls and coming second (once third) in
I did something profoundly stupid last Friday. In fact, I’m being too easy on myself, since whenever anyone else does it, I always smugly deride them for being so...now, how do I normally put it?.. oh yes, INSANE! But my back has been killing me
Naivety cost Oxford City a hard-won point against Gloucester on Saturday, according to manager Mike Ford. “I just thought we were really naive today for the whole game,” said Ford. “If you’re going to win a game of football, you’ve got to be
OXFORDSHIRE County Council has said it is on top of pothole repairs amid growing public complaints about the state of the roads. But it has admitted that if money was no object, it could spend at least another £10m on top of what it had put aside
REFERRING to (ViewPoints, February 11), the chairman of Cyclox, James Styring, should rename it ‘Cyclops’ the one-eyed giant that only looks ahead, as for his ridiculous comments that cycling through red lights is a harmless crime is stupid. The
THE story about cyclists ignoring red lights (February 11) needs some context to make clear the relative scale of the problem. In Britain in 2011, there were 406 reports of pedestrians hit by cyclists compared with 21,321 pedestrians hit by cars
I am writing to express my absolute disgust at the way the council planning office has mislead the Cowley residents immediately affected by the development of the Lord Nuffield Club and the 43 dwellings proposed on the adjoining Green Space at William
THE current fiasco over horsemeat only goes to highlight the benefits of a vegan diet. When humans eat meat, they simply have no idea what they are consuming. As one writer succinctly put it: “Meat contains drugs, bugs and mugs eat it... you
OXFORD City Council is failing local communities. Bill Baker’s comment (February 13) regarding the community centres facing closure threat is no pie in the sky. The Labour-run city council only wants to give out the three-year leases of community
LAST week was half term and whilst I tried my hardest to keep things moving apace in the Artweeks office, children rampaging outside the door was not conducive to top level productivity. And I can report with certainty that The Youngest is neither
LYN Jones felt London Welsh lost their discipline to let in Sale Sharks in the final 15 minutes. The Exiles’ coach was happy with a lot of their play, but said: “The turning point came at 15 to go. “We had a scrum and the Sale loose-head did
JOSH Parker admitted there was relief all round at the final whistle as Oxford United beat Plymouth Argyle 1-0 to claim their first win in six games. James Constable’s first-half strike secured the result to end a barren run for Chris Wilder’s
OXFORDSHIRE’S Hannah England says her focus this year is on the outdoor season, after finishing well off the pace in Saturday’s British Grand Prix indoor meeting in Birmingham, writes STUART WEIR. England, Oxford City’s world championship silver medallist
A DELIGHTED Chris Wilder’s only complaint after Oxford United beat Plymouth Argyle was they had not won more handsomely. Maximum points were secured by James Constable’s 16th-minute tap-in, only the side’s third goal in six games. A failure
SIX stretches of river across Oxfordshire were on flood alert yesterday. They included four parts of the Thames, including areas between Abingdon down to and including Little Wittenham, and tributaries in the Oxford area, including Wolvercote down
THE Diamond Light Source super microscope at Harwell Oxford is being used to study serious viruses including AIDS, hepatitis and some types of flu. The synchrotron is the first and only place in Europe where pathogens requiring high levels of containment
SWINGEING cuts to services and a council tax hike are expected to be approved at a crunch meeting today. Oxfordshire County Council is set to approve its budget for the next year as it looks to save £77m between now and 2017. Its component
ABOUT 20 National Union of Journalists members at BBC Oxford went on strike from midnight in a nationwide dispute over redundancies at the corporation. BBC Oxford chapel father, Andy Gordon, said the NUJ was planning a picket line at the station
A MAN who plagued Oxford restaurants by dining and then refusing to pay will again be eating prison food. Christopher Travis, right, was twice jailed in Oxford in late 2011 after breaking an antisocial behaviour order that bans him from every pub
THREE young girls will never have an excuse to be late for school again. Triplets Lily, Grace and Eve Gilmour, 10, spent Saturday afternoon making pocket sundials at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. The Chilton Primary School
A CHARITY'S vision for a new centre that would support cancer sufferers and their families is now one step closer. Maggie’s Oxford has raised £3m – which is enough to make its dream come true and for building work to start this year. The charity
THE moronic violence that occurred at The Nelson pub on Friday is an absolute disgrace. Without pretending the venue is anything it is not, it’s still staggering that a gang of men somehow thought it was right and proper to tear up the establishment
A period of uncertainty lies ahead for businesses, shoppers, library users, church-goers, residents and anyone who uses Botley’s ageing shopping centre. And while the story of farmer Edward Howse’s decision to build a shopping parade in 1937 has
Oxford City were beaten 2-1 by a controversial goal in the dying minutes of their Blue Square bey North game against Gloucester City at Marsh Lane on Saturday, writes MATTHEW BRUCE. Gloucester had taken the lead midway through the first half thanks
THE landlord of The Nelson pub last night told how a brawl was sparked by two carloads of “lunatics” ambushing two men. Terrified customers, including children, watched as the men attacked the pair in the pub in Between Towns Road, Oxford, at about
THE reaching of a £3m target to allow the building of a new centre to support cancer sufferers and their families is brilliant news. Maggie’s Oxford could not have picked a worse time, economically, to launch its drive for a new centre but the
Reaction to the possible closure of the main post office in Witney has been swift and predictably angry. Like its counterpart in St Aldates, Oxford, the most memorable feature of the Witney post office is the queue that regularly stretches out
THE campaign to clean up Cowley continues apace. A blitz on cigarette end and chewing gum hotspots is under way by officers of the Cleaner, Greener campaign. The concerted effort to clean up Cowley Centre reached Templars Square Shopping Centre
A BID to sell food and alcohol 24 hours a day from a home in South Oxford has sparked concerns. Georgios Stavropoulos has applied to Oxford City Council for a premises licence at 25 Gordon Street, off Vicarage Road. He wants to sell Greek deli
EAGLE-EYED James Channon spotted the perfect opportunity to create a bird of prey attraction. Now Vale of White Horse District Council has granted planning permission for the Millets Farm Falconry Centre, near Abingdon, to go ahead. Building
A SURVEY of Wolvercote residents is being held in order to allow the village’s common to be used for the whole community. The Wolvercote Commoners committee is tracking down all of the people who hold rights over the ancient piece of land to find
