OXFORD: A second man has appeared in court charged with murdering Denis Witney. Wayne Cattell, 36, from Mortimer Road, Rose Hill, Oxford, was brought before Oxford Crown Court yesterday. Mr Witney, 39, was found in St Clement’s Street, Oxford, just
ON YOUR marks, get set, go! Youngsters at Abingdon Kindergarten took part in a unique race to raise money for Children in Need yesterday. Toddlers were sponsored to make their way around a track on tricycles in what was dubbed a kindercycle. The younger
SEE if you can spot the difference in what these youngsters are all wearing. Oxford nursery Kids Unlimited held a spotty-themed day yesterday to raise money for Children in Need. All the children and staff came to the North Oxford-based nursery wearing
TWO teenage boys have been arrested after a 62-year-old man was stabbed in the chest in his Oxford home. Police arrested two people on suspicion of causing GBH following the incident in Valentia Road shortly after 5.30pm yesterday. A 17-year-old boy
A SUPERMARKET made sure a team of firefighters collected for Children in Need on full stomachs. Usually Bicester firemen grab a sandwich or drink in between stints collecting money in Queens Avenue and St John’s Street. But this year, Tesco’s community
SCHOOLCHILDREN in Didcot put their dancing shoes on to raise money for Children in Need. The Manor Primary School held their own edition of Strictly Come Dancing yesterday with children attempting to impress their teachers with their moves. More than
THE other half wasn’t that impressed when I said we’d been invited to review Butlin’s at Bognor Regis for a week. “I was hoping for a bit more Hola! than Hi de Hi!” he admitted. “Dunno if I fancy roughing it at a holiday camp.” I told
Crawley 4 (Barnett 4, 14, Drury 45+3, Howell 53), Oxford Utd 1 (Constable 30) Oxford United were blown away at Crawley this afternoon. Chris Wilder's side never recovered from conceding a fourth-minute goal as they suffered their fourth straight defeat
AN OXFORD pupil won a county competition to design a banner urging drivers to slow down. Brighty Varughese-Kakkunnath, 10, from Wood Farm Primary School, won the competition run in conjunction with national road safety charity Brake.
A GHANAIAN teenager who received free surgery from Oxford doctors for a ‘withered arm’ is living life to the full again. Michael Elvis Eshun, who underwent the operation at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre two years ago, is hoping to gain a university
TOP Oxford music acts including Young Knives and former Supergrass frontman Gaz Coombes are to play at a rotunda which used to house the dolls collection of the wife of novelist Graham Greene. Vivien Greene lived at Grove House in Iffley
WORSHIPPERS are celebrating completing a £330,000 extension project to their Victorian church after 13 years of fundraising. Grove Methodist Church in Main Street now has a new meeting room, kitchen, toilets, and a storage area. The church is planning
CHRIS Wilder has made five changes to his Oxford United line-up for today's game at Crawley. Harry Worley, Liam Davis, Danny Philliskirk, James Constable and Rob Hall all start, with Asa Hall, Jonathan Franks, Deane Smalley and Simon Heslop dropping
Wantage's youngsters are getting to grips with the town’s past by putting together a history trail. Featuring installations around the Market Square, they hope it will allow locals to discover the heritage they didn’t know the town had.
A family that opened its business the same year of the Queen’s coronation have decided it’s time to put their feet up. The Cherry family will close Cherry’s furniture shop before Christmas after almost 60 years’ trading in Bicester’s Sheep Street. Howard
AFTER playing tough cop Jimmy McNulty in downtown Baltimore, Dominic West can now look forward to the more tranquil surroundings of Dorchester Abbey. The star of American detective drama The Wire has also appeared in the BBC series The Hour and as serial
Oxford Hoops climbed to fifth in English National League Division 4 table with an exciting 79-69 home win over Team Gloster. The visitors led 15-9 at the end of the first quarter, but could not prevent Hoops levelling by half time and going on a ten-point
An OXFORD chemistry lecturer has been named this year’s Science and Technology Woman of the Future. Oxford University chemistry lecturer Dr Kylie Vincent, right, received the award, which celebrates the achievements of women under 35, at a ceremony
Traders in the Vale of White Horse and South Oxfordshire were given some hints on how to attract visitors to their area. More than 65 people attended an event at Millets Farm Centre, Frilford, to hear presentations on attracting business, media interest
A woman who underwent costly weight loss surgery on the NHS now wants folds of unsightly skin removed free of charge too. Two years ago Loretta Cox was morbidly obese. At 5ft 3ins tall and weighing more than 20 stone, the mother of two had a Body Mass
New Club went third in Division 1 after edging out Cowley Conservative Club B 2-1. Brian Mabbutt (+20) won a very close first game for Cowley, pipping Nigel Bossom (+10) 200-196. Alan Mander (+40) came back well for New Club in the second, winning
Witney A broke their duck in the Gentworks Oxford & District League Division 1 with a 4-2 victory at Riley B. Their maiden success came thanks to wins from Colin Cutler in the first two frames and Paul Chester in the last two. Riley’s Lewis Moss also
Abingdon GC gymnasts picked up an impressive haul of 31 medals in the Oxfordshire individual apparatus competition at Phoenix GC. Lucy Prower took away the trophy for the best bars and Rosie Isom was awarded the trophy for the best floor. Kinetic Gymnastics
A West Oxfordshire primary schools, named as one of the top in the UK, is set to expand. Woodstock Primary School has won permission from Oxfordshire County Council to take on more youngsters. The school will now take on 15 more pupils each year and
Matt Daynes hit his second successive half-century to help Preston Capes A to a ten-run victory over Hinton in Division 3 of the Banbury Indoor League. His unbeaten 50 saw his side to 102-5 from their ten overs, Hinton replying with 92 off 9.5 overs
Kris Meeke finished fourth in the Wales Rally GB in his Banbury-built Mini John Cooper Works WRC. Teammate Dani Sordo set the second fastest time in the final test, the Power Stage at Monument, and was 20th overall. Meeke left Cardiff on the final day
Division 1 leaders Vikings A had a close battle with Holton in round one of the Oxford & District Table Tennis Association Aubrey Hughes Handicap Shield. The champions had to claw back 260 points at Holton and made a slow start, with Brian Dobson taking
Oxford City Stars will be able to call on the services of Josh Oliver, Dax Hedges and Gareth Endicote when they travel to Bracknell Hornets on Saturday (face-off 6pm) in the first of a Divsion 1 South double header. The trip to Berkshire is followed
A big field of 57 anglers contested the fourth round of the Oxford Winter League on the Oxford Canal from Kidlington to Oxford and the weights were impressive. With the weather still mild and few boats moving around, the canal fished well in most sections
A MAN who decided to dump unwanted household items instead of wait for the tip to open is almost £600 out of pocket. Thomas Paris, of Parklands, Banbury, went to Alkerton tip to get rid of a chest of drawers, cardboard boxes, carpet and children’s clothing
Ben Watson, from St Birinus, warmed up for the Olympic test event in London on December 11/12 when he lifted for GB in the 105kg body weight group at the World Senior Championships in Paris. Watson, who is a member of the GB Olympic team based in Leeds
Luke Holden, 21, claimed a debut victory and the boxer-of-the-night award as Berinsfield ABC recorded eight wins during their sell-out dinner show at the Rover Club in Cowley. He gained a split decision following a pulsating toe-to-toe middleweight clash
A combined Varsity team with boxers from both Oxford and Cambridge Universities will be in action at the Oxford Union on Saturday, November 26 when they host Waseda University, Japan. The match is a return from three years ago when the Blues visited
THERE are very few cyclists who haven’t fallen victim to thieves at some point. Crimes can range from the petty, such as having lights and saddles stolen, to the seriously annoying – such as having one’s entire bike taken. And while not the most distressing
MOST of the 120 soldiers returning to Dalton Barracks from Germany will be living at the Abingdon base by spring next year. Yesterday, the Oxford Mail reported there was not enough room to give members of 43 Close Support Squadron homes at the base when
RAILWAY police say they have put the brakes on bike theft, with the number of cycles reported stolen from Oxfordshire stations dropping by 50 per cent. A special campaign has cut bike thefts by more than 30 per cent at Oxford’s busy railway
WHAT a fabulous excuse for a celebration – saluting those members of the community who, simply by putting down roots and staying put have helped create and foster a neighbourhood of familiarity and trust. Which is precisely what the people of Barton
OXFORD’S new £2.1m community sports arena has been given the seal of approval by Sport England. The new facilities at Oxford City Football Club have been awarded the London 2012 Inspire mark after receiving funding through Sport England’s Olympic legacy
TRAINER Richard Baker brought off a rare 1-2-3 in the A1 last week when Dishoftheday led the trio in the fastest run over the four bends. He was followed home by kennel mates Harlequin Haley and Holycross Ace with only three-quarters of a length separating
BRIGHT Mac, runner-up behind the brilliant Lil Risky last time out, is napped to recoup losses in the Eamer Silver Stakes over 250 metres tonight. TONIGHT'S RUNNERS 7.35: Malbet, KNOCKBOY SLIM, Archies Kay 3, Burwood Indy, Greencroft Teddy, Slaneyside
Eamonn Deeley, from Cowley, Oxford, equalled his personal best river pike with this 25.6.0 specimen from an undisclosed weirpool on the Thames. He said: “After finding the water very coloured, I was sure it was going to be hard and that deadbaits would
FOR Gemma Elms, life was about living, not looking back. Now Miss Elms’s brother has paid tribute to his positive, enthusiastic little sister, who died suddenly of ovarian cancer aged 31. Miss Elms, pictured, of Jacobs Mill, Witney, died on November
Carl Davis ended the year unbeaten with victory in the British Championships at Guildford. Davis, who is the instructor at Vale Taekwondo School, Wantage, won the patterns and 71kg sparring crowns in the black belt division to add to his Scottish, Welsh
Abingdon School pupils Adrian Au, Michael Esnouf, Nicholas Whitehead and Luke Teh are celebrating reaching the national finals of the English Schools’ Swim-ming Association Championships. The youngsters, who are all aged 15, qualified by winning the
Bicester's Darren ‘Daza’ Usher now has a name to focus on as he prepares to make his professional debut at the Olympiad Leisure Centre in Chippenham on Saturday, December 3. Birmingham veteran Sid Razak will be in the opposing corner as former Oxford
THE public in Oxford had to look twice as a giant greyhound on top of a 40ft limousine toured the streets in a bid to promote the sport on Thursday. The size of the greyhound, about 20ft long was an impressive sight and is the initiative of
BANBURY: A rogue trader tried to con a 92-year-old man out of more money than agreed for guttering work. The incident happened at about 3.50pm on Tuesday in Horton View and the trader, who knocked unannounced on the victim’s door, left after the pensioner
OXFORD’S one-time most-wanted man has been convicted of a hit-and-run attack on the city’s Blackbird Leys estate. Rohan Crooks mowed down Orville ‘Dean’ Francis in his green Lexus on October 9, 2008, before going on the run for more than two years.
CHRISTMAS visitors to Oxford Castle Unlocked are being invited to “Dance Around the Gallows”. The musical production, written directed by Ian Giles, left, will guide the audience around the castle, tower and crypt to learn about the 17th century building
OXFORD’S dismal performance wiped out any hopes they had of making any progress in the £150,000 BAGS inter-track competition at the Stadium yesterday. In their home leg, Oxfordslumped to fourth place overall behind Hall Green, Swindon and Perry Barr
AN ABINGDON man was cut free from his mangled car, above, after it was crushed by a train on a level crossing. The 58-year-old was taken to hospital after his silver Volkswagen Polo was shunted 20 yards in the impact in Shiplake shortly before 6.30pm
HOUSEHOLDERS who last week lost a battle against the construction of 55 new student flats in their street now fear 100 more will be built just down the road. People in Mill Street, West Oxford, have spent years opposing plans to build student accommodation
OXFORD: Sir Roger Bannister, pictured, will switch on the city’s Christmas lights this year. The 82-year-old, who was the first man to run the mile in under four minutes, will help launch the festive season on Friday, December 2. The switch-on will
Stuart Millsom is the ideal man in an emergency, as he works as both a firefighter and an ambulance driver. Mr Millsom has just completed 25 years as a part-time firefighter at Wallingford fire station. But the father-of-two from the
WANTAGE: A 63-year-old man has admitted a string of child sex offences. Ian Holden appeared at Oxford Crown Court yesterday and admitted seven counts of engaging in sexual activity with a child and one of a serious sexual assault on a girl under 13.
OXFORD: A second man has appeared in court charged with murdering Denis Witney. Wayne Cattell, 36, from Mortimer Road, Rose Hill, Oxford, was brought before Oxford Crown Court yesterday. Mr Witney, 39, was found in St Clement’s Street, Oxford, just
A NEWLY qualified teacher took photographs of pupils undressing and sexually touched a boy he was mentoring. Joshua Plank, 24, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court yesterday after earlier admitting two counts of voyeurism and one charge of sexual activity
Chris Wilder – for a change – had more good news than bad on the Oxford United injury front ahead of Saturday's trip to Crawley Town. The U’s boss has endured a hugely frustrating time this season with a number of his squad on the treatment
GEORGE and Pauline Wilson love their life in Barton – but their favourite part of it is each other. The couple said they fell in love the minute they clapped eyes on each other. And now, more than 50 years later, they are still as besotted as ever.
KNIFE-wielding robbers lay in wait for a shop worker as she returned home. The 27-year-old woman was tied up and robbed of keys and security codes by three masked men who broke into her home in Ridgefield Road, East Oxford. The gang confronted her in
OXFORD: A man had to be cut from the wreckage of a car after it crashed off Watlington Road yesterday. The grey Vauxhall Vectra left the carriageway near Garsington and travelled about 30 metres off the road. Two fire engines and the police were called
OXFORD: A gang of three attacked a man while burgling a house in Blackbird Leys, snatching sunglasses, cash and an Xbox computer game console. Two 14-year-old boys have been arrested and bailed after the home in Blay Close was raided at about 8pm on
A BENEFIT fraudster who once conned a disabled 80-year-old has admitted falsely claiming more than £45,000 in handouts. Debra Cook, 50, appeared at Oxford Crown Court yesterday and admitted two counts of making a false statement for benefit purposes,
ABINGDON: Lead thieves stripped 20 metres of metal worth thousands of pounds from the roof of Abingdon Baptist Church. The Ock Street church was targeted between 3pm on Sunday and 8am on Monday, police said. Thieves ripped the lead – some of which has
THREE hundred people turned out to say a final farewell to car crash victim Cullum Miles. The funeral of Mr Miles, 25, a painter and decorator who played for Bodicote Sports FC, was held at St Mary’s Church in Horse Fair, Banbury, yesterday, right.
OXFORD United paid the ultimate price for conceding goals at the worst-possible times at Crawley on Saturday. For the second week running Chris Wilder’s side were 2-0 behind within 15 minutes and gave themselves a mountain to climb. However, they had
