TWO people have been killed and 49 people injured - including six critically - following explosions near the finish line of today's Boston Marathon. A third explosion has happened at the city's JFK Library, police have said, although it is not
Oxford John Agnew, 59, of Luther Street, Oxford, admitted being drunk and disorderly in a public place at The Nightshelter in Oxford on March 14. Fined £75 and told to pay £20 victims’ surcharge. Craig Cripps, 28, of Stocks Lane, Carterton,
PEOPLE CONVICTED OF OFFENCES AT MAGISTRATES’ COURTS AROUND THE COUNTY RECENTLY BANBURY Daniel Dyer, 23, of Bader Drive, Upper Heyford, admitted using threatening words or behaviour to cause harassment alarm or distress in Sheep Street, Bicester
BANBURY. Edward Wassell, 33, of Wadards Meadow, Witney, admitted causing criminal damage to front door of a police station in Welch Way, Witney, and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour in Witney on March 28. Fined £100 and
OXFORD. Robert Dopson, 31, of Trent Road, Didcot, admitted driving while disqualified and without insurance in Trent Road on March 3. Given eight-weeks prison suspended for 12 weeks with 120-hour unpaid work requirement. Told to pay victims’ surcharge
A LARGE Audi dealership should be allowed move onto a Cowley business park, a council planning officer says. Oxford City Council’s Andrew Murdoch recommends councillors at the east area planning committee approve the Oxford Business Park plan.
Rotary clubs in Oxfordshire will host a free blood pressure event to celebrate 10 years of supporting stroke prevention. The Know Your Blood Pressure event with the Oxford Isis and Oxford Spires clubs will take place at Templars Square in Cowley
A CONTEST is being launched to design a new wall at a community garden in the heart of East Oxford. Barracks Lane Community Garden is offering a £200 prize for the winning design for an innovative and interesting way to replace an existing retaining
BELLRINGER John Pusey is appealing for new members to ring saintly sounds at a North Oxford Church. There are about 10 regular bellringers at St Giles’ Church but they are on the look out for experienced people as well as beginners to boost numbers
PLANS to slash the number of council watchdog committees in half have been criticised by opposition councillors. Oxford City Council wants to merge its two scrutiny committees into one as part of a review of how decisions are made and monitored
The Oxford Preservation Trust (OPT) is seeking entries for its annual building awards, looking for projects which have made a significant contribution to the natural or built environment of Oxford. The OPT Awards, now in their 36th year, recognise
LONDON Welsh have given a strong indication that they will not play in Oxford next season. The Exiles’ chairman Bleddyn Phillips says Kassam Stadium rents make it “financially imprudent” for the club to remain in the city for 2013/14. Welsh
WHEN Liz Tandy attempts her first 10-mile Pink Ribbonwalk at Blenheim next month, the mum-of-two says it will be a celebration of her loved ones’ victories over breast cancer. Mrs Tandy, 40, a full-time mum from Wallingford, will be among hundreds
DESIGNERS, plant lovers and sculptors across Oxfordshire are gearing up for their gardening Mecca. The county’s greatest gardeners are pulling together their designs for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show next month. The world’s most prestigious flower
A PUBLIC meeting has been called in Kidlington tonight over plans for a 54-room retirement complex. The Bedfordshire Pilgrims Housing Association Limited (BPHA) and the Orders of St John Care Trust want to build a 54-room extra care facility on
CHILDREN performed as creatures of the forest in Eynsham Women’s Institute drama group’s production of Snow White. Michaela Pettet, who lives at Witney, writes: “I played the part of a squirrel and am the one in the picture, right, whispering to
WALKING home alone from school, carrying crates of milk into class, risking life and limb on a go-kart and watching the Red Arrows practising. These are some of the boyhood memories of Jim Hudson, who spent his early life at Shipton-under-Wychwood
THERE were no prizes for guessing the main topic of conversation in the Bishop household. Most of the family worked in various capacities at the Morris Motors’ car factory at Cowley. Mary Bishop worked there, her mother, father and grandmother
FRIENDS visiting Albert Squibb were always certain of somewhere comfortable to sit. He had an unusual hobby – collecting antique chairs. He spent his spare time visiting junk shops and storage sheds of antique dealers in his search for the unusual
EIGHTY senior citizens were invited to St Swithun’s School in 1988 to have tea and listen to pupils singing. Infant and junior children sang while the older children served and looked after the guests. In the picture, immeditately below, Laura Sutton
Abingdon United shook off the dismissal of Paul Taplin to secure their Evo-Stik Division 1 South & West future with a goalless draw against the play-off contenders. It was also the first time they have drawn a game at Northcourt Road all season
Goalkeeper Warren Carter was the hero as Banbury ended a run of three Evo-Stik Soutehrn League Premier Division defeats with a 2-1 victory at Hemel Hempstead Town. With seconds left, Jordan Parkes had the chance to score the winner, but Carter
RAW SEWAGE has been making life a misery for people on one Carterton estate. Residents of Hill View woke up three weeks ago to find their car park was flooded with foul-smelling effluent, containing excrement, sanitary towels and condoms. And
THESE children starred in a production of Snow White. The pantomime was performed by members of Eynsham Women’s Institute drama group. The picture comes from June Pettet and her daughter Michaela, who were both in the cast. They were prompted
AN Abingdon man has been elected as the new president of international charity the 41 Club. Martin Green, 61, a health and safety consultant, will now lead more than 800 smaller 41 clubs in their activities, such as organising local events like
Wantage Town’s Uhlsport Hellenic League Premier Division title hopes look to have ended after the second-placed side lost 3-0 to leaders Marlow at Alfredian Park on Saturday. A Ben Gladwin brace and a Stuart Cattell own-goal sealed victory for
SOME of Oxford’s finest exports took to the highway to celebrate and commemorate the car factory centenary. The second Cowley to Longbridge convoy event took place on Saturday to mark 100 years of what is now the Cowley Mini Plant. Drivers
Didicot Town twice away the lead as they went down to a last-gasp 3-2 home defeat in Division 1 South & West at the npower Loop Meadow Stadium on Saturday. Leading 2-1 at the break, the Railwaymen allowed the visitors to hit back for victory
Oxfordshire enjoyed a victorious start to their season following a 71-run win in their friendly clash with Buckinghamshire at Aston Rowant yesterday. Luke Ryan’s side recovered from a poor start with the bat to record a convincing victory.
Kimi Raikkonen was more than happy to take second place after recovering from a bad start at the China Grand Prix on Sunday. Raikkonen, from the Enstone-based Lotus team, fought back after a poor start from the front row of the grid to finish behind
Drivers on the A34 faced delays yesterday after a single-vehicle crash. One person was taken to hospital with minor injuries after the 6pm accident oin the southbound carriageway between Drayton and Didcot.
MAGDALEN Bridge will be open again on May Morning this year. Revellers were last night warned to behave themselves after council officials confirmed the bridge would remain open on May 1 for the third consecutive year. May Morning celebrations
Oxford City extended their unbeaten run to four matches in Blue Square Bet North as they dented the visitors’ play-off ambitions with a determined display in a goalless draw at Marsh Lane on Saturday. It boosted City’s hopes of a top-ten finish
A motorcyclist was taken to hospital after a road accident near Banbury. Two cars, a motorbike and a cyclist were involved in the collision on the A423 near Banbury. Police closed the road near the junction with Mollington Road at 2pm on Saturday
The former chief of Cowley-based charity Oxfam has been appointed head of an all-women college in Cambridge. Dame Barbara Stocking, left her post at Oxfam earlier this year and was replaced this month by Mark Goldring, former chief executive of
BRITAIN is still shying away from confronting the extent of sexual exploitation of children and women, a conference has been told. The Voice for Justice Tackling Sexual Exploitation conference took place at St Aldate’s Church on Saturday. Dozens
THE evidence heard in the ongoing Bullfinch trial of nine men accused of being involved in a gang that allegedly sexually abused and prostituted girls in Oxford has widely reported. But whatever the outcome of those proceedings, the message of
A BOAT has been refloated months after spending months partly-submerged. The narrow boat, which sank close to Godstow Lock near Wolvercote during heavy rain and high water levels last November, was finally pulled up on Saturday. A team from Oxford
LITTLE Bea Bowie dressed up as nursery rhyme favourite The Fine Lady Upon a White Horse to help raise cash for her village school. The four-year-old was one of hundreds of people who got on their bikes to help raise cash for a charities close to
Given that all hedgerow and tree-cutting operations are discouraged between March 1 and July 31 by law to protect nesting birds, I noticed with some horror this week that our city council tree team are pollarding the willows growing along the river
With its story Pressure mounts over flats, on March 29, the Oxford Mail photographs buildings purported to be student flats, creating a hideous backdrop to the scenic view of popular walking spot Port Meadow. But they are no such thing. Shame on
SHOULD we organise a search party? As a regular reader of the Mail and an avid follower of issues on your letter page, I am slightly concerned as to the whereabouts of Roger Tucker. Has he emigrated? Is he ill? Does anyone know where he is?
HOMELESS charities and shelters in Oxford will suffer when a £1m grant from central Government is cut, a campaigner has warned. Organisations that help to look after and shelter homeless people in Oxford get a share of a £950,000 grant from the
COUNCILLOR Chris Robins (ViewPoints, April 10) feels that replacing the Didcot power station towers with wind turbines would be no more of a blot on the landscape – be careful what you wish for! The Watchfield turbines may have been a commercial
SURELY any intelligent life would think more than twice about invading planet earth or, to be a little more specific, the city of Oxford? My sarcasm is based on the recent snow/rain. To be fair, there wasn’t a substantial amount but, guess what
OXFORD United’s gritty win at Dagenham & Redbridge proved the players have not given up on the season, according to match-winner Alfie Potter, writes DAVID PRITCHARD. The winger, who was again used to good effect in a more central role, netted
LONDON Welsh head coach Lyn Jones vowed to bounce straight back after seeing his side relegated from the Aviva Premiership yesterday, writes MICHAEL KNOX. After the 31-14 home defeat against Northampton Saints, Jones said: “I’m coming away sad
FOOTBALL NPOWER LEAGUE TWO Dagenham & Redbridge 0, Oxford Utd 1. BLUE SQUARE BET NORTH Oxford City 0, Harrogate 0. EVO-STIK SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Hemel Hampstead 1, Banbury Utd 2. Div 1 South & West: Abingdon
SIGNS of spring are in the air this week in Oxfordshire as warmer weather hits the county. Higher temperatures were felt across the county over the weekend, reaching 17.7C at Benson at 2pm yesterday, making it the warmest day so far this year.
CHRIS Wilder was pleased to see a ruthlessness from Oxford United at both ends as a poor run came to an end with a 1-0 win at Dagenham & Redbridge on Saturday, writes DAVID PRITCHARD. Alfie Potter grabbed what proved to be the winning goal
DEPUTY Prime Minister Nick Clegg has agreed to look at plans to cut congestion on the A34. During a visit to Oxfordshire on Friday, the Lib Dem leader backed the county’s emerging “city deal” plan to generate investment and growth. Community
LITTLE Charlotte Nott was joined by football legends to kick off a star-studded charity football match. Former manager Ron Atkinson, sports presenter Jim Rosenthal and entertainer Timmy Mallett were joined by a host of former Oxford United players
Harley Davidson enthusiasts took part in the annual Jake Spicer Memorial Run delivering toys to sick youngsters at Oxford Children’s Hospital, in Headington, yesterday. The motorcycle toy run, by the Harley Davidson Owners Group, is named after
FORMER Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Sir Denis are to be remembered by a plaque in an Oxfordshire church. Baroness Thatcher’s late husband, who died aged 88 in 2003, left instructions in his £1.3m will that a plaque was to be
THE results of our investigation showing the numbers of drivers stopping on a controversial level crossing should ring alarm bells with everyone. Since the crash in January which killed 85-year-old Banbury man Tom Pizzey, the crossing at Sandy
NERVOUS drivers are risking their lives by stopping on a controversial level crossing because they don’t trust the safety barriers, it was claimed last night. An Oxford Mail investigation found 26 drivers in just one hour came to a complete standstill
The county’s air ambulance is back in the air after being grounded. The Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance was grounded at a sports field in Ascot, in Berkshire, after landing on Friday night. Flights were suspended over concerns about the
LONDON Welsh’s relegation – seemingly inevitable for the past month – was confirmed when they lost to play-off chasers Northampton Saints at the Kassam Stadium yesterday. Sale’s convincing victory over Gloucester on Friday night meant that the
AS I stepped into the People’s Supermarket for a volunteer shift, I was immediately drawn to the bright-coloured graffiti on the walls, writes Tom Burrows. “People were sceptical to start with about that,” said assistant manager Sarah Thorne, “
YOUNGSTERS got to recreate a mummy and handle ancient Egyptian objects at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum. Artist Francesca Shakespeare hosted the annual event on Wednesday and Thursday. The Oxford artist said: “Each year I devise a project which
A CHURCH hall that has fallen into disrepair in Barton will have to be abandoned next year, according to surveyors working for the Oxford Diocese. And residents fear it could now become a target for vandals. Community groups that use St Mary
I WANT to question why a person can hold a city and county councillor position at the same time (April 6). A small band of councillors wielding so much power enables them to ignore the electorate’s wishes and concerns. There is no transparency
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