A ROAD close to the Oxford Airport runway was closed tonight due to a crash. The A4095 Upper Campsfield Road was shut both ways between Bladon Roundabout and Banbury Road at Shipton-on-Cherwell, and remained so as of 8.45pm this evening. ALSO
Pop band Teleman, electro-rockers The Comet Is Coming, rising star Self Esteem and Oxford pop-punks Young Knives are among the big names revealed today for this year’s Ritual Union Festival. The festival, which takes place in indoor venues along
Pop band Teleman, electro-rockers The Comet Is Coming, rising star Self Esteem and Oxford pop-punks Young Knives are among the big names revealed today for this year’s Ritual Union Festival. The festival, which takes place in indoor venues along
A SCHOOL hopes to create a tuck shop to cut the 'health and safety risks' of canteen queues. John Mason School in Abingdon has applied for permission to install a temporary classroom to house a small tuck shop selling 'small eats' for students
THE SUPPORT available for people with dementia and their loved ones has been in the spotlight this week. Nationally, Dementia Action Week seeks to raise awareness of the condition and Oxfordshire towns have been holding everything from information
With a musical tradition as long and rich as ours, it may seems strange to say that our classical tradition is often overlooked. But while the big hitting composers get a decent airing, there is a vast body of music beyond Britten, Holst, Vaughan
A MAN who admitted possessing a stash of cannabis weighing 223 grams has been fined more than £200. Byron Thomas pleaded guilty at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Saturday to one count of possession of a class B controlled drug. ALSO READ: Cannabis
INTERNATIONAL fury over anti-LGBT laws has led to the Sultan of Brunei handing back an honorary Oxford University degree. In April the institution confirmed the decision to confer the degree of civil law by diploma to Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in
REVITALISE, a national charity creating holidays for disabled people, has identified the Ashmolean Museum as the number one attraction in the South East. The survey scored UK visitor attractions across the region on hoist availability, staff training
THE battle of the trains and cars continues as new research has claimed that it is cheaper to travel by road than by rail. The research, which comes from PetrolPrices.com, shows that travelling by train to and from Oxford can be up to seven times
TALENTED young writers have been recognised at an awards ceremony in memory of a long-time library supporter. The Friends of Grove Library (FROGS) hosted its first awards presentation for the Brian Edwards Poetry and Prose competition near Wantage
A MUSLIM convert from Oxford dubbed Jihadi Jack ranted about decapitating an old school friend after finding out he was in the British Army, a court has heard. Despite Jack Letts' apparent online outburst about Linus Doubtfire, his supportive parents
A RIVAL restaurant chain has guaranteed job interviews for all former staff affected by the collapse of Jamie's Italian. Jamie Oliver's network of Italian restaurants went into administration earlier this week, putting as many as 1,300 jobs at
Jamie's Italian has closed for good in Oxford unless a buyer can be found for the chain. But there are plenty of other options for fans of Italian cuisine. We'd love you to tell us your favourite Italian restaurant - and why you like it the
POLICE say they are 'very concerned' for the safety of a Cowley teenager who disappeared nine days ago. Elvis Manzi, 17, has been missing since Tuesday last week. Appealing for information today, Thames Valley Police said officers believe he
BOVIS Homes has defended itself after being criticised over an unfinished housing estate in Wantage. The developer has built hundreds of homes on the Stockham Farm site – now named Letcombe Fields – off Denchworth Road. One former Wantage resident
IT is the world's greatest celebration of gardening- a bonanza of blooms... a feast of flowers. And for horticulture-lovers from Oxfordshire, there is plenty to pique the interest at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show- and reasons to be proud
NUMEROUS renovation projects have come together at a South Oxfordshire sport centre over the last 12 months. Wallingford Sports Park has seen its main pavilion kitchen extended and refurbished and new automatic doors for wheel and pushchair users
THERE is now one week to go until discount clothing store TK Maxx opens in Oxford. The new store will open at the Clarendon Centre on Thursday, May 30, taking up the unit previously occupied by Spanish fashion chain Zara, which has switched to the
My enthusiasm for Cumnor’s Bear and Ragged Staff is such as to overcome an aversion – oh, the tedium of it! – to eating twice within a week at the same place (my home apart). So it was that a Saturday evening dinner, perfect in every detail, was
OLYMPIC gold medallist Greg Rutherford MBE has been unveiled as the 2019 host for the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce business awards. Due to take place on Thursday, June 27 at the Hilton Hotel, Reading, the awards recognise the talents, innovation
Played for laughs though it is – and very successfully so at times – the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of John Vanbrugh’s The Provoked Wife starkly reveals the thoroughly nasty and misogynistic side to the play. This does not make for
Breaking off from reading of the various villainies of one world-famous master of mendacity, I turned my attention to a gripping study of a lesser-known but equally compulsive liar whose activities proved to be every bit as astonishing. My first
OVER £5 million worth of new buses are joining Stagecoach’s Oxfordshire fleet this summer. The bus company has announced that 21 new buses will launch on the S1 and S2 routes operating between Witney and Oxford and will start running from August
A DRIVING force behind Oxfordshire tennis has died, aged 64. Nicky Maskens was chair of the sport in the county and held several positions on the national Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). Her years of experience even took her to the famous All
Feminism can be a dirty word. For many people, it conjures up an image of an angry, man-hating woman determined to take over a world where woman can reign supreme. Even when people do not feel so apprehensive about the word, they can still find
HUNDREDS of small businesses in West Oxfordshire have saved more than £1m combined since April 1 thanks to rates relief discounts. All 353 eligible firms in the district have been automatically granted the new Retail Rate Discount, which cuts retailers
WORK on a £15m easyHotel in Summertown is now under way. The city council gave planning permission for the 180-bedroom hotel in Banbury Road last year, despite a number of objections, including one from the headteacher of nearby Summer Fields School
FIREFIGHTERS were scrambled to put out a fire on a landfill site near Didcot last night. Crews from Didcot, Goring, Abingdon and Wheatley were called to the recycling and landfill site just before 8pm. They worked with the site owners to extinguish
BURGLARS broke into a home in East Oxford and stole a bicycle. Thames Valley Police said the incident took place in Rectory Road, off St Clement’s Street on Wednesday between 7pm and 9pm. Revealed: Oxford's hotspots for burglary The thieves got
WAITROSE has recalled a range of beetroot over fears it could contain glass. The warning concerns the 340g jars of Essential Waitrose Pickled Sweet Sliced Beetroot, which have an expiration date of September 2020. An alert by the Food Standards
OXFORD United will play Fulham in a pre-season friendly at the Kassam Stadium. The Londoners, favourites for the Sky Bet Championship title following their relegation from the Premier League, are due on Tuesday, July 23. It is the second and
A LAND Rover's four doors and bonnet were stolen in a brazen overnight theft. The incident took place between 10pm on Sunday, May 19 and 4.50am on Monday, May 20 on Green Road, Kidmore End, near Henley. The vehicle was a blue Land Rover Defender
A PROJECT that gives young people a home and a fresh start in life has been expanded. Our House, where tenants live in a shared house and gain life skills, has taken on a second property in Witney. The search for suitable tenants has begun ahead
Bella Napoli's surroundings do not immediately give the impression of an authentic Italian experience, writes JAMES ROBERTS. The restaurant sits on Broad Street, a fairly unremarkable section of Abingdon between Stratton Way and the town centre.
JOSH Ashby and Jack Self are the latest players to re-sign for Oxford City. The midfield duo join Zac McEachran and Ben Jefford in committing to the Motorama National League North club for next season. Ashby, who joined City permanently after
VOTERS across Britain go to the polls today for the European parliamentary elections. Polling stations are open until 10pm tonight, so you can have your say in an election many thought would never happen. Here is everything you need to know
A BROKEN down HGV that has caused significant delays on Oxford's Eastern Bypass this morning has been cleared. The vehicle had blocked a lane where the road meets the A40 at the Green Road roundabout, Headington. Read also: City's conservation
BRITAIN goes to the polls on Thursday, in an election many thought would never happen. Voters across the continent will elect 751 new Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for a five year term - and those in Britain could be out of a job within
NEW slip roads will help improve air quality in one of West Oxfordshire’s most polluted areas, according to the district council. Bridge Street in Witney was declared an Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) in 2005 due to excessive Nitrogen Dioxide
BRITAIN will go to the polls today (Thursday, May 23) for the European parliamentary elections. The government admitted that the UK would have to take part in the elections after it became clear that Brexit would not be delivered in time to avoid
RETAIL group Arcadia will shut a further 23 shops, it has been revealed. Branches of Topshop, Wallis, Miss Selfrige, Burton and Evans all face the axe, wth more than 500 jobs at risk. Oxfordshire survives the axe, with no stores set to close
Marguerite Duras stopped making films a year before she published La Douleur (1985), a consciously obfuscated blend of fact and fiction that drew on the diaries she had kept while awaiting news of husband Robert Antelme, who had been sent to the Dachau
OXFORD Brookes University have upped sticks to the new facility at Horspath Sports Ground. The £1million community site, of which Oxford Harlequins are the custodians, is home to an RFU-funded artificial pitch. Work only started off Horspath
CHILLY weather made for some dramatic see-saw scoring in the Oxford & District League. As the evening went on and the temperature fell, the rink conditions changed. Division 1 saw the most extreme case as Banbury Central won 4-2 at home to
OXFORD City claimed the V65 title for a third year in a row at the 32nd BMAF Road Relay Championships in Sutton Coldfield. Stewart Thorp, Roy Treadwell and John Exley produced strong performances to dominate their age group, winning by more than
OXFORDSHIRE recovered from a slow start to beat Gloucestershire 121-113 in their second Middleton Cup trial. Playing at Kidlington, the home side trailed by ten shots after five ends. They failed to improve the situation by the tenth end, before
A GROUP of 12 girls from Oxford High School are taking their international business to a regional final today. Elixir UK, who are negotiating deals with foreign countries worth tens of thousands of pounds, are set to compete at Buckingham University
MELVYN Johnson will play Roger Tomlin in the Never Won Cup final, writes PETE EWINS. Oracle B’s Johnson won both legs against Berinsfield’s David Naylor at Masons with a total score of 10,370. Tomlin progressed after a 2-0 victory over Dave Gordon
MEMBERS from two Oxfordshire taekwon-do clubs scooped nine gold medals between them at the Scottish Open Championships. Didcot TKD’s squad claimed half a dozen titles, with Lisa-Marie Betteridge (twice), Gabriella Rhodes, Seren Fullbrook, Harvey
CARL Davis won gold at the 2019 International Taekwondo Federation European Championships. More than 900 competitors from 30 countries competed over four days in Rimini, Italy. Davis, who runs the Vale TKD School, won gold in the 4th degree individual
SALLY Balcombe, CEO of VisitBritain and VisitEngland, is to attend a tourism conference in Oxford today. Destination management organisation Experience Oxfordshire, which runs the visitor information centre in Broad Street, is hosting the conference
FREE compost giveaways could give north Oxfordshire gardeners a chance to reap the rewards of their recycling. Food and garden waste collections from brown bins are made every fortnight, then composted at high temperatures at a plant in Ardley ,
NEW parts of the city are set to be added to Oxford’s Central Conservation Area for the first time in nearly 50 years. The area was first designated by Oxford City Council in 1971. It has been reviewed four times since – but the last time was in
AN OXFORDSHIRE councillor has been urged to choose whether he represents residents here or in Hampshire after it was revealed he holds seats in both counties. Tim Bearder was elected the Liberal Democrat county councillor for Wheatley in November
We have to blame Friedrich Schiller for the notion that Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots ever met, as he created a confrontation between the Tudor cousins for his 1800 play, Maria Stuart. It's no surprise, therefore, to see Saoirse Ronan and Margot
A HISTORIC city centre pub is to close for months as an Oxford college builds new student rooms. Rooms for undergraduates above the former coaching inn are badly in need of an upgrade and Lincoln College began a two-year building project in January
JASON BEN CLOETE, 26, of Ogbourn Close, Wantage, admitted assaulting a woman by beating her in Oxford, on February 24. A community order was made and he must attend treatment for alcohol dependency for nine months. A restraining order was put in place
A STALKER launched a six-month campaign of abuse, bombarding his victim with hundreds of messages and threats, after their short-lived virtual love affair came to an end. Gareth Clatworthy, of Nursery End, Stanford in the Vale, appeared at Oxford
A GROUP of Oxford parents backing the 'school strikes' over climate are encouraging adults to show their support at the latest protest, on Friday. Oxford's 'Parents For Future' group will join demonstrators in Bonn Square as pupils again walk out
FRANK Bachmann was barely three years old when he first fell in love with the Mini. Growing up in Zurich, Switzerland, the managing director, who is leaving Oxford this week, describes seeing a neighbour driving her red Mini classic in and out of
OXFORDSHIRE'S first ever cabinet member for climate emergency has been appointed in the south of the county. Green councillors Sue Roberts has said she will oppose ‘unfettered development’ and that ecology must be prioritised ‘first and foremost
TWO Oxford neighbours from across the Brexit divide have paid tribute to each other ahead of today's European elections. The sign-wielding activists on Botley Road have reignited light-hearted rivalries first kindled in the build up to the 2016
STAFF at Blackwell’s Bookshop in Oxford allowed a special dog into the store as they highlighted mental health issues. Sirius the 4ft resin statue has been travelling around schools in Oxfordshire to raise awareness of mental health problems, in
A DOCTOR accused of sexually assaulting a woman at the John Radcliffe Hospital has been cleared of any wrong-doing. Dr Anandagopal Srinivasan, who was working at Oxford's main hospital at the time of the alleged assault, had always denied the single
