POLICE and firefighters have been at an emergency incident on the Thames in Oxford tonight. Witnesses have said rescuers were searching around Donnington bridge after reports someone had got into trouble in the water at about 8.30pm. The police helicopter
Young people in Bicester are being given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take part in the Olympic celebrations. OYAP Trust is looking for 30 budding performers to take part in a dance project which will form part of two countywide Olympic events:
WHEN Andy Kyle left school at 16, a severe speech impediment meant he was virtually unable to speak and facing an uncertain future. More than a decade later, and thanks to an Oxford charity, the 27-year-old has left his problems behind. But the Pathway
TENNIS players of all standards are invited to a free open day at the University Parks today. The event, from 10am to 6pm, is part of allplay.com – the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) online campaign to help more people play tennis. Jo-Anne Downing, LTA
A CAMPAIGN is being launched to tackle the hundreds of tonnes of waste left behind by students at the end of term. Broken furniture, rotting mattresses and overflowing bin bags are among the piles of rubbish left by students at the start of
OXFORD City have been placed in Blue Square Bet North next season - a move which will hit the club hard in the pocket. City, who won promotion from the Southern League Premier Division, were hoping to get a place in the Blue Square Bet South
A waste firm pulled plans to build an eco-power plant near Sutton Courtenay hours before councillors were due to rule on the project. Waste Recycling Group (WRG) withdrew its plans for an anaerobic digester off Appleford Road on Wednesday. Vale of
Months of hard work came to fruition at Chelsea this week for Oxfordshire gardeners, sculptors and designers. The RHS Chelsea Flower Show finishes tomorrow and many of the county’s residents displayed their gardening talent at the prestigious annual
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OXFORD City Council’s Liberal Democrat opposition group has announced its shadow executive. Group leader Jean Fooks, left, who will be shadowing council leader Bob Price, has announced a 12-man team to help hold the ruling Labour group to account
MOVING into the oil business has given Stainswick Farm, near Shrivenham, a welcome boost. In 2010, owners David and Helen Sanderson, pictured with their children, from left, Izzy, Imogen, Toby and Ellie, took a risk and invested £150,000 and
People who spend their day-to-day lives delivering Porsche sports cars are not easily impressed – but this driver was. “That,” he said, eyeing up the 911 Carrera 4 GTS, “is a proper car.” Proper as in six cylinders, six-speed manual gearbox and hundreds
AFTER decades of decline, farming is showing growth, according to the National Farming Union’s (NFU) man on the ground in Oxfordshire. New government figures show the agriculture and horticulture sector of the economy grew by 25 per cent last
WALLINGFORD’S new water park will open for the summer season tomorrow after council leaders splashed out £180,000. With Oxfordshire basking in the sunshine, the open air pool and fountains at Riverside Park, on the River Thames, will be a popular place
WALLINGFORD’S new water park will open for the summer season tomorrow after council leaders splashed out £180,000. With Oxfordshire basking in the sunshine, the open air pool and fountains at Riverside Park, on the River Thames, will be a popular
Arresting images of an English meadow by day and night are a compelling feature of this year’s Summer Exhibition at the Dadbrook Gallery, in Cuddington, near Thame. They are the work of the award-winning young photographer Barney Wilczak (right
HUNDREDS of children have been working to ensure Bicester shines red, white and blue to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. More than 1,700 children from 15 nurseries, pre-schools and primaries spent months creating 800 metres of patriotic bunting
THE history of Oxford’s biggest estate and the people who live on it will be celebrated tomorrow. To mark the first annual Working Class History Month in Blackbird Leys, residents will come together to talk about their home. The event will feature talks
The children of Adderbury, near Banbury, saw war at first hand. These tractors, clearly marked OHMS (On His Majesty’s Service), arrived in the village hauling guns on their way to the battlefield during the First World War. Frank Packer, the well-known
A CYCLIST died after a crash with a car in Appleton last night. The crash happened in Eaton Road, Appleton, at around 9.20pm. The cyclist, a 39-year-old man from Eynsham, was involved in the collision with a black Ford Focus.
IT might have happened more than 110 years ago, but the intimate details of the last Diamond Jubilee have been laid bare. Readers will now have access to Queen Victoria’s innermost thoughts thanks to work by Oxford’s Bodleian Library. The library
WE have got one of our best competitions with a pair of Round-the-World tickets to give away every day between Monday, May 28 and Saturday, June 2. Yes! Thanks to our friends at Fly To The Past - the nostalgic airshow being held at Oxford Airport
WE have got one of our best competitions with a pair of Round-the-World tickets to give away every day between Monday, May 28 and Saturday, June 2. Yes! Thanks to our friends at Fly To The Past - the nostalgic airshow being held at Oxford Airport in
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HOUSEHOLD waste is set to net North Oxfordshire taxpayers £1.5m thanks to the boom in reycling prices, council bosses say. Cherwell District Council has struck a six-year deal where it will get profits from waste recycled by new contractor UPM. Under
BANBURY Under 11s will take part in a half-time parade of champions at tomorrow’s Aviva Premiership final at Twickenham. The youngsters, pictured right, get to tread on the hallowed turf after winning the London Irish Under 11 Land Rover Premiership
AFTER three years work is finally set to begin on the £3.5m Thornhill Park and Ride expansion – but not before the neighbours are turfed out first. But the people of Sandhills need not worry, as council workers will spend the next couple of months relocating
ECB 50+ County Championship OXFORDSHIRE blew a great chance of victory as they lost by one run to Warwickshire in their opening Group 4 clash at Kenilworth. Needing two runs to win with ten balls remaining, Adrian Manger was run out after being sent
Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League MIKE Higgs is backing Thame Town’s batsmen to come good when they host Farnham Royal in Division 2 West tomorrow. Thame have been dismissed for 56 and 109 in their two defeats so far, leaving them bottom
Red Insure Twenty20 THAME Town captain Mike Higgs has called for a rule change after his side’s exit from the Home Counties Premier League’s Twenty20 competition. Higgs has emailed the organisers with his concerns following Thame’s controversial first
A 91-year-old woman was duped of her purse by a distraction burglar who tricked his way into her home in North Hinksey Lane, Oxford. The man talked himself into the pensioner’s home and stole a black leather purse containing bank cards and
A controversial plan to record all conversations in city taxis is to be looked at again. Oxford City Council is set to launch a “more extensive” consultation which could lead to only video or audio recording, rather than both. Last year it approved
HENLEY Hawks have signed Oxford Harlequins centre Martin Nutt to bolster next season’s National 2 South promotion push. Nutt, who makes his Henley debut at Iffley Road tomorrow, played for Newbury in National 1 in between spells at Quins.
Rich Harrison triumphed for host club Oxford City at Stadhampton on Wednesday. Harrison completed the ten-mile time trial in 22mins 26secs, just seven seconds ahead of Mid Oxon’s Eamonn Deeley. Oxonian’s Mat Rowley came in third, pipping clubmate Malcolm
There was plenty of success for Oxfordshire rowers at the British Masters Championships at Nottingham. Sarah Marshall and Clare Doubleday, of Abingdon RC, won a gold medal in the intermediate 2 coxed pairs. Clubmate Karen Roberts was pipped for the
A SCHOOL criticised for lacking drive, ambition and vision has come out of special measures after 18 months. Parents, staff and pupils at Wheatley Primary School are celebrating after inspectors unexpectedly decided to remove the school from
North Oxford’s promotion hopes were dashed when they lost 8-4 at home to leaders Beckford in the Southern Regional Division of the Aegon Team Tennis League. There was a surprising defeat for North’s first string Jeff Hunter, who went down 3-6, 6-0
It all started at Bangor on August 18, 1989 when The Grey Gunner gave Henrietta Knight her first winner after she had taken out a licence to train a month earlier. The nine-year-old gelding’s success under Bruce Dowling in a novices’ chase at the small
Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League BANBURY face the first real test of their Division 1 title credentials tomorrow when they visit champions High Wycombe. Ian Hawtin’s side top the table after two wins from two matches and are full of confidence
Oxford University fly half Tom Mitchell has signed a full-time England Sevens contract after impressing in the HSBC World Series. Mitchell, who scored Oxford’s final try in their 2011 Varsity Match win over Cambridge, is one of seven players
I HAD the misfortune to watch the Home Secretary’s meeting with the Police Federation and I was shocked and dismayed at the conduct of some of the delegates. Many acted and spoke in a manner which left me wondering how they managed to get into the police
I WAS deeply concerned to hear of Mrs Bishop’s experiences in trying to donate her furniture to our secondhand superstore at Northway. I can only apologise for the frustration and inconvenience she has clearly suffered in trying to gain access to our
SATURDAY. CRICKET. SERIOUS CRICKET HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE. Div 1: High Wycombe v Banbury, Potters Bar v Oxford. Div 2 West: Aston Rowant v Cove, Harefield v Shipton-under-Wychwood, Thame Tn v Farnham Royal. CHERWELL LEAGUE. Div 1: Banbury
THERESA May, the Home Secretary, wants to cut the police force by 20 per cent, meaning fewer police tackling crime on the streets. This will just result in more crime, more people going to court and more people ending up in prison. It is a reckless
I WAS sitting on a bench in Christ Church Meadow, minding my own business, and reading the day’s Oxford Mail, when I noticed an Oriental gentleman, part of a substantial group of young to middle-aged presumed compatriots of his, pointing his camera straight
NICK Clegg’s statement that he wants to end class distinction is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. The Conservative element of this unworkable coalition has always been the instigators of an upper class always associated with wealth and business
CAN anyone tell me what profit is made on petrol and diesel? No two petrol stations charge the same. Some supermarkets offer so much off if you spend a certain amount. Surely they all pay the same when it’s received? The profit made on it must be
DESPITE a vigorous campaign in support of retaining community links and 550 signatories opposing academy status, Cheney governors have ignored local wishes and decided to convert to an academy. In reality, the fate of Cheney’s status was decided last
IT IS a fact that if you want a clergyman to open a conversation, first you should smile at him. It never fails. “Lovely day,” this tall, elderly, dog-collared man of the cloth commented after I flashed the smile. With him in Queen Street were his wife
HEADTEACHER Joan Morters promised Wheatley Primary School would be out of special measures within a year and that has been achieved. Mrs Morters, her teachers, the new executive board, the parents and the pupils all deserve credit for working
I don’t drink beer. I can taste it. I can sip it. I can even appreciate the flavours and how it’s made, but I don’t drink it. Even when beer is the only alternative, I will happily drink water. Understanding all of this, I am looking forward to a
Momentum is gathering pace behind London Welsh’s campaign to overturn the Rugby Football Union (RFU)’s ruling against the proposed Premiership ground-share at Oxford’s Kassam Stadium. Former England captain Will Carling was among the well-known
BURMESE democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi will visit Oxford next month, Oxford University confirmed yesterday. The chairman of the Burmese National League for Democracy, also known as Daw Suu, will receive an honorary doctorate in civil law at the
THE latest military airplane was unveiled in RAF Brize Norton yesterday by defence secretary Philip Hammond. The MP welcomed the £200m C-17 transport aircraft which arrived this week from Boeing’s production plant in California. The
OXFORD is a cycling city by reputation but we don’t half make it hard for our two-wheeled cousins in some areas. If you doubt that, dust down your bike, steel yourself and take a ride under the Botley Road rail bridge. And don’t forget your
WHEATLEY: A 150-year-old horse chestnut tree has been given a stay of execution thanks to some blackbirds. The tree at Waterperry Gardens has been deemed unsafe despite numerous efforts to save it. But when work to fell it started yesterday, tree surgeons
OXON: County branches of stricken retailer Clinton Cards have escaped the first round of closures. Adminstrators at finance specialist Zolfo Cooper have revealed 25 Birthdays stores and 19 trading as Clinton Cards will shut by the end the month
UP TO £840,000 could be spent on transforming the city’s Cycling network over the next four years, it has been revealed. Oxford City Council has a list of 57 projects that would make the city more welcoming for people on two wheels.
A MAN accused of breaching a restraining order by clapping and insulting his neighbours claimed he had actually been talking about the TV show Ugly Betty when his words were overheard. Keith Quartermain, of Austin Place in Abingdon, is banned
A GRIEVING husband wiped away his tears as he gave evidence about the hours leading up to his wife’s death. Mehmet Sahin broke down in the dock at Oxford Crown Court yesterday as his police statement was read to the jury during the trial of his son-in-law
REAL ale enthusiasts will descend on a pub in Wantage today for the start of a three-day beer festival. Landlord Pete Fowler is staging the event for the second year running at The Shoulder of Mutton in Wallingford Street. Mr Fowler,
ALAN Armitage became Lord Mayor of Oxford this week and pledged to support asylum seekers and local artists. He took over from Elise Benjamin, the city’s first Green mayor, at the mayor making ceremony in the Town Hall council chamber. After being given
POLICE officers are inviting Banbury residents to have their catalytic converters security marked. It comes after a trading estate in the town was hit nearly once a week over the past year, with thieves stealing £800,000 of goods, including £13,600 worth
Children at Our Lady’s Abingdon have spent six months working on a project to follow an Antarctica expedition in real time. All areas of the curriculum at the independent school were involved in tracing the steps of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, with
The hunt is on for badminton players to help set a new world record in Oxford for the longest rally with the largest number of participants. The record stands at 112 shots between 112 players, so at least 113 people are needed at the event on July 9
