Has someone got to be killed before something is done about the traffic lights at the Tesco roundabout at Cowley, Oxford? There was a three-vehicle smash there on Saturday morning which needed all three emergency services in attendance. In the short time
STRIKER John Mitchell is set to return for Oxford City as they look to regain top spot in the Spartan South Midlands League Premier Division at Tring Athletic. However, the second-placed side are without Chris Potter who is unavailable, while Garry Hartley
FLY half Matt Watts and prop Matt Brocklebank return to the Witney side as they host a much-improved Amersham & Chiltern in Southern Counties North. But combative No 8 Gareth Williams misses out after sustaining a rib injury in Saturday's 22-8 defeat
OXFORD Cheetahs skipper David Howe will lead England for the first time in the indoor ice speedway international against the Rest of the World at Telford on Sunday, February 12. The 23-year-old, whose sporting hero is England football captain David Beckham
A woman who set up a company to help autistic children through a new sort of play therapy is appealing for volunteers to become 'playpals'. Jane Stooks set up the business -- Future Kids -- after her own severely handicapped son George, seven, was helped
An inexperienced motorcyclist was killed in a road accident on his way to an advanced riding course. Horst Gellissen, 43, of Thame Road, Warborough, near Wallingford, died on May 15 last year when the 500cc Honda motorbike he was riding collided head
People living alone are being encouraged to write a message in a bottle as part of a £3,000-a-year scheme to ensure they get rapid help in an emer- gency. Oxford City NHS Primary Care Trust has teamed up with the Lions Club of Oxfordshire to promote the
Oxford may be recognised worldwide as an ancient seat of learning, but now three of the city's estates have been handed £1.7m to get adults back into education. Community centres in Blackbird Leys, Rose Hill and Barton are being turned into adult learning
Headteachers are being urged to face the "stark and uncomfortable fact" that in GCSE pass rates, Oxfordshire is being outperformed by deprived areas in big cities. The county's former chief education officer, Prof Tim Brighouse, and an ex-headteacher
Your front-page article, 91% of you say: Ban it now (Oxford Mail, January 14), is yet another example of misleading data. It states that the city council sent survey forms to 64,000 households, of which 1,150 responded, yet the generalisation is made
Paramedics in Oxfordshire have been criticised for relying on firefighters to help save patients' lives in remote areas of the county. Since March, Fire and Rescue Service staff in Chipping Norton, Bampton and Thame have been summoned to 146 999 calls
A teenager whose girlfriend and another girl were killed after he lost control of his car a week after passing his driving test has appealed for people to wear seatbelts. Sarah Ertl died when her boyfriend lost control of his car Daniel Hadland, 18, of
HOLDERS Didcot Town have fitness doubts over Stuart Beavon for their Challenge Cup quarter-final tie against North Leigh tomorrow. The striker is rated 50-50 with an ankle injury. Bradley Ward returns from a groin injury. Didcot have won the competition
OXFORD, the reigning Conference League champions, have been forced to scrap their academy team for this year. The shock news comes after Oxford Academy's promising youngsters were sold by former Oxford owner Nigel Wagstaff to an undisclosed Elite League
CHINNOR coach John Brodley knows tomorrow's trip to South West 1 leaders Clifton will be their biggest test yet this season. But he maintains the result will not prove decisive in the title race. Clifton have lost just once this season - 22-19 at Kingsey
SATURDAY FOOTBALL COCA-COLA LEAGUE TWO Rushden & Diamonds v Oxford Utd. SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Banbury Utd v Merthyr Tydfil. Div 1 West: Rushall Olympic v Thame Utd. GLS FOOTBALL HELLENIC LEAGUE Challenge Cup 1st round: Old Woodstock Tn v Pegasus
banbury Muslim leader Sarfraz Bhatti flew to Pakistan yesterday (January 26) to plan the rebuilding of an Asian school that was wrecked by last year's earthquake. Mr Bhatti will be away for two months to set up the project, which will see pupils in Banbury
The decision to train some Oxfordshire firefighters as paramedics has paid handsome dividends. In the past 10 months, fire crews have used equipment to restart patients' hearts during cardiac arrest eight times and given oxygen 68 times. But now there
An Oxford graduate has been jailed for four years for grooming boys over the Internet and being part of a paedophile ring. Paedophile Paul Watson Paul Watson, was found with more than 2,000 computer images, Internet movies and photographs of teenage and
A singing hopeful with Parkinson's disease has made it through to the final round of Oxford's own X-Factor style reality TV programme. There were cries of joy as well as tears of disappointment as hopefuls congregated at the estate's community centre,
Residents in East Oxford are campaigning to get their local Post Office reopened. The Divinity Road Residents' Association said it was "feeling the strain" following the closure of the post office on the corner of Cowley Road and Divinity Road. They want
YEMI Odubade says he is desperate to prove he can cut it as a Football League player after Brian Talbot gave him a second stab at it this week. "I'm very excited, I never thought I'd get a second chance," said the former Eastbourne Borough player, who
England were handed a dream qualifying draw for Euro 2008 in Montreux today. They will face Russia and Croatia in the championships which take place in Switzerland and Austria, but managed to avoid the likes of Italy, Germany and Spain. They also managed
It is a pity Sarah Morris (Oxford Mail, January 11) did not reveal her own or her mother's productive achievements, or lack of them, before criticising the proud mother of nine. I am the proud father of four and at 86, I think I can safely say that I
The horrors of the Jewish Holocaust and more recent genocides in Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur come under the spotlight this weekend, as Oxfordshire marks Holocaust Memorial Day. Today (January 27) is the sixth annual Holocaust Memorial Day, and the theme
