Oxfordshire | Archive | 2004 | November
Sir - You ask why Oxford City Council should be getting involved in the Iraq war, which you think does not concern it. Had you read the entire motion tabled by myself and Cllr Simmons, you would realise that we address such objections in the text. more...
Sir - While I adore nine-year old singer Zoe Mace's amazing voice on the £5.99 album in aid of the Oxford Children's Hospital Campaign, let's not forget the hundreds of others also doing so much to help boost the appeal's coffers. more...
Two teenage thugs robbed a 64-year-old man with Parkinson's disease after he visited an Oxford post office to collect benefit payments. more...
The Oxford-based British Potato Council is hoping to get the message across to children that potatoes do not grow on trees. more...
Students at Oxford Brookes University are organising a candle-lit march down a dark lane in Oxford tonight (Thursday, November 25) to highlight violence against women. more...
Thames Valley Police will only get 60 of the 193 Police Community Support Officers it bid for as part of a national £50m package announced by the Government. more...
Oxfordshire councils could be given powers to crush cars and charge their owners under plans to rid the country of abandoned vehicles. more...
Relatives of disabled people have spoken in support of an Oxford care agency that is being investigated over complaints made by a former staff member. more...
Residents of Standlake say their village is being clogged up with traffic, because motorists are ignoring diversion signs. more...
The director of a Oxford language school has fled the country, leaving parents thousands of pounds out of pocket and 20 teachers unpaid. more...
More than 50 residents attended a public meeting called in a bid to save two historic hotels in west Oxford. more...
Traders are calling for urgent action to install CCTV cameras in Didcot because of a continuing plague of vandalism. more...
Oxford's Lord Mayor, Bryan Keen, is right to be concerned that so few city councillors turned up to the Remembrance Day service and parade in St Giles. more...
Banbury's deputy mayor has called for pubs to be allowed to stay open round-the-clock - as the town's traders prepare to discuss ways of tackling alcohol-related violence and vandalism. more...
Complaints against a senior councillor accused of foul play during a Wantage by-election campaign have been thrown out. more...
A row has erupted over plans to close off a paddock which has been in public use for more than 40 years. more...
Plans to transform Abingdon's Old Gaol and police station into an arts and cultural centre are moving forward - but the price has gone up and it could still be another three to four years before the dream is realised. more...
Sir - After the news that an enterprising Headington pub is offering nurses parking spaces because their hospital won't (Oxford Mail, November 20), when is the council going to realise that people don't want to use public transport because it doesn't work? more...
Oxford Lord Mayor Bryan Keen has launched an attack on his fellow councillors for snubbing this year's civic Remembrance service and said his year in office has been "tainted" by a lack of support from them. more...
The families of the two people who died in separate incidents on the same evening have been sharing their grief with each other. more...
Jamie Brooks is determined to keep his place in the Oxford United side because of hard work - not through sympathy. more...
The famous name of Summertown lives on in the bowls world - but by the slenderest of threads. more...
Autotype UTV League: Childrey OHB held their nerve to send Autotype UTV League rivals Wallingford Exiles crashing out on penalties in the third round of the Berks & Bucks Sunday Junior Cup. more...
Oxford City Stars made an amazing start to their English National League South clash away to Bracknell Hornets,s coring six times in the first 14 minutes. more...
Morrells of Oxford Sunday League: The Division 2 match between hosts Berkshire House and leaders Barton United was abandoned when home striker Tom Denton broke his leg. more...
Tributes have been paid in for Oxfordshire bowls veteran Mick Gallagher, who has died after a long illness. more...
Harley Mace and Scott Southey delivered a double success for the Abingdon gym with impressive points victories at the Witney ABC dinner show in the Langdale Hall. more...
Keith Stopps has been sacked by Milton United as the club bid to arrest an alarming slump which has seen them drop into the relegation zone in the GLS Hellenic League Premier Division. more...
© Newsquest Media Group 2008