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Meal Mistake
3:48pm Friday 3rd July 2009
ATWO young boys who suffer from a wheat allergy became ill after being wrongly given pasta by a stand-in chef at their school.
Comments (2)Gardeners urged to show green talents
3:42pm Friday 3rd July 2009
GARDENERS have just a few days left to enter this year’s Oxford in Bloom competition.
Stornoway go down a storm at Glastonbury
2:32pm Friday 3rd July 2009
TOPPING the bill at a huge music festival must be on every new band’s wish-list.
Ban on shorts gets bus drivers heated up
7:30am Friday 3rd July 2009
IN the middle of a heatwave, bus companies in Oxford are split over the best route for their drivers when it comes to summer uniforms.
Pupil has swine flu
6:30am Friday 3rd July 2009
A PUPIL at Oxford High School has been diagnosed with swine flu, it was confirmed last night.
Music legend to open school centre
5:50am Friday 3rd July 2009
Headington School’s new music school is being officially opened tomorrow by top record producer Brian Eno.
Oxford public toilets could close
8:45am Thursday 2nd July 2009
A NUMBER of Oxford’s public toilets are facing closure this winter as part of plans to save £50,000 a year.
Judges back pre-nuptial decision
7:11pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
Three senior judges upheld a pre-nuptial agreement in a case involving one of Germany’s richest women and her £30,000-a-year former husband, a biotechnology researcher at Oxford University.
'Peers School dumped special needs pupils on me'
7:08pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
A TEACHER at Peers School in Littlemore, Oxford, said she was given an “unreasonable” number of special needs children — and told to “get on with it”, a hearing was told.
'OX4 soldier' Jake gets youth award
7:09pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
A DYING teenager from Oxford who has been battling terminal cancer for the past six years has been honoured for his courage, bravery and charity work.
'I will take subway battle to Downing Street'
6:59pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
A COMMUNITY leader has vowed to take his battle to save an Oxford subway to the very top.
500 jobs to go at county council
6:25pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
FIVE hundred jobs are being axed from Oxfordshire County Council.
Anger as council votes for £442,000 demolition of Northway Centre
6:17pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
COMMUNITY leaders and residents tonight condemned plans to spend £442,000 demolishing an Oxford office block and sell off the site for housing.
Cast a vote for exercise
3:52pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
Women in Oxford are being given the chance to choose which exercise classes they would most like to see start up on their estate.
'Ear all about it: Alice's Day is back
3:51pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
ACTORS dressed as white rabbits have been bouncing around Oxford to remind people to enjoy Alice’s Day on Saturday.
Wacky racers head out on the highway
3:23pm Thursday 2nd July 2009
TWO Oxford men will be on the starting line today for a real-life wacky race across Europe.
Crash cyclist released from hospital
10:47am Thursday 2nd July 2009
Cyclist Katie Lapper was released from hospital yesterday after she was injured in a collision with a car in Oxford.
Update: Cycle crash girl was Larkmead pupil
10:00am Thursday 2nd July 2009
A young cyclist involved in a collision with a van last night was a pupil at Larkmead School, it has been revealed.
Shot cat has to have leg amputated
6:10am Thursday 2nd July 2009
A CAT shot twice in a matter of months is recovering at home after vets were forced to amputate his leg.
DOG ATTACK UPDATE: Rottweiler handed over to RSPCA
6:10am Thursday 2nd July 2009
A DOG has been seized by police after a woman was attacked in Greater Leys.
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