Oxfordshire | Archive | 2005 | May
Grand adj & n. 1 splendid, magnificent, imposing, dignified. Those four words neatly sum up all the best aspects of Mitsubishi's majestic people mover, the aptly-named Grandis. more...
A service to commemorate the 6Oth anniversary of VE Day in Oxford is being held in July. more...
City councillor Dee Sinclair is correct in saying that water is `streaming from Shotover across the ring road' (Oxford Mail, April 27). more...
I have lived at Wood Farm in Oxford for 50 years and have always found people friendly and helpful, and the families mix with each other. more...
The folly of the bridge jumpers has certainly hit the headlines in both national and local newspapers (Oxford Mail, May 3). And the 'ban 'em and flog 'em' brigade, especially within the council, will be having a field day. I can hear their pious cries of anguish as we speak! more...
Two youths who were threatened by a man with an imitation gun did not run a campaign of harassment and intimidation against him, says their mother. more...
An Oxford 'Make Trade Fair' campaigner has seen his efforts rewarded by the World Trade Organisation. more...
Andy Serkis, star of the Lord of the Rings, has signed up to direct a film on the life of a Barton down and out. more...
A woman wept as her lorry-driver husband was jailed for three years after his HGV toppled on to a car, killing the motorist inside. more...
A village in Oxfordshire has bucked the "doom and gloom" trend of village store closures and is toasting five years of success today. more...
A hosepipe ban for Oxfordshire residents could still be on the cards after water bosses warned that April yielded 92 per cent of expected rainfall. more...
New ticket machines which promise to make railway travel easier are due to be unveiled at Bicester railway station on May 9. more...
Betting shop manager Stella Edwards said she was "just doing her job" when she foiled an attempted robbery at the branch she runs in Abingdon. more...
Seven-year-old brain tumour victim Ben Webber had always wanted a Star Wars arcade game -- but he got an intergalactic shock when the delivery men turned up. more...
Oxford United chairman Firoz Kassam has many talents -- but public relations is definitely not one of them. more...
In your report of Joan Court's hunger strike (Oxford Mail, April 21), you stated that I am 'Diane Gracey, of the Research Defence Society'. I am not. more...
A Banbury-based charity has received one of BBC Children in Need's largest grants to help a new project involving disabled children. more...
Everyone in Bicester is being invited to a massive party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Bicester Village. more...
Blue is the colour of Oxfordshire County Council after the Tories won a landslide victory to seize control of the authority in yesterday's elections, writes Local Government Reporter Giles Sheldrick. more...
Andrew Smith has been returned as Oxford East MP, but only by the skin of his teeth. more...
Flamboyant Boris Johnson was returned as Tory MP for Henley with a greatly increased majority of 12,793 compared with 8,458 four years ago. more...
Tony Baldry (Conservative) scored his sixth election victory in Banbury when he was re-elected as MP for the north Oxfordshire constituency. more...
Evan Harris is on his way back to the House of Commons for the Liberal Democrats in Oxford West and Abingdon -- but with a reduced majority. more...
A campaign to lower the voting age to 16 has been backed by some teenagers at Wheatley Park School -- provided pupils are taught more about politics at school. more...
Election candidates have been called on to lend their support to the cause of elderly people fighting to keep their homes. more...
Beverley Lear If her party was a serious political movement, campaigner Beverley Lear reckons she would sweep to power by a whisker. more...
Up to £25m will be invested to modernise Witney's main college campus -- on top of £1.5m that is being spent to create a new rural skills centre. more...
Britain could take a leaf out of Germany's book when it comes to links between schools and businesses, according to the mayor of Abingdon, Keith Hasnip. more...
As the legal "patients' watchdog" monitoring the work of the Oxfordshire Ambulance Service, I would like to congratulate all the staff of the service on the wonderfully professional care and assistance they gave to the 50 or so ill-advised people who jumped off Magdalen Bridge into the River Cherwell and injured themselves on May Morning. more...
Staff shortages at Oxfordshire's major hospitals cost managers £6m in the last three months of 2004. more...
A good diet could improve behaviour and learning in disruptive children, according to scientists at Oxford University. more...
HORACIO Rodriguez thanked the players and the fans for the support they have given him and his coaching team, to thank everyone - the players, the staff, the supporters for the way they have received us, the people who have worked with us. We were people they did not know, and for the coaching staff it was their first taste of English football. more...
OXFORD United's Argentine coaching team accused chairman Firoz Kassam of lacking ambition for the football club after they resigned yesterday. more...
Oxford City lost their unbeaten record to The Oxfordshire in the Shaw & Co Oxfordshire Foursomes League, but it was 14-year-old Chipping Norton player Matthew Johnson who stole the headlines. more...
Frilford Heath member Katherine O'Connor produced some sizzling golf to lift the Oxfordshire Schools' Championship, beating more than 50 boys in the process. more...
Autotype UTV League: Alfredian Rebels lifted the Alan Alder Trophy with a 2-1 win over ten-man East Hendred at Wantage Town. more...
Morrells of Oxford Sunday League: Cold Arbour stayed on track for the treble as they lifted the League Cup with a 3-1 victory over fellow title-challengers Highfield. more...
Radley's A team got their Southern Women's League Division 1 campaign off to a flying start by finishing joint winners at Tilsley Park, Abingdon. more...
Radley's B team finished second in their opening Southern Women's League Division 2 meeting at Tilsley Park, Abingdon. more...
Henka Gustafsson, Oxford Silver Machine's new signing, faces the toughest of debuts against Coventry Bees in the Elite League at Oxford Stadium tonight (7.30). more...
OXFORD Silver Machine served up their worst display of the season fas they lost 54-40 to Elite League rivals Coventry Bees at Oxford Stadium last night. more...
DIDCOT Town face an anxious wait to learn if they will get the opportunity to play-off for a place in the Southern League next season. more...
CRESSIDA Henderson and Karey Coltart showed they had lost none of their old sparkle as Oxford Sports beat North Oxford B 7-2 in Ladies' Division 1 of the 3-Pair League. more...
OXFORDSHIRE'S 14 & under County Cup team has secured promotion for the second year in a row. more...
Henley Wanderers can finally uncork the champagne after an RFU disciplinary panel confirmed their promotion to South West 2. more...
Oxfordshire's new player-coach, Jamie Hewitt, hopes to be fit for the start of the Minor Counties Championship campaign at the end of the month after having hospital treatment for his back injury. more...
Volunteers are needed to help give a spring clean to part of the Letcombe Brook in Wantage. more...
Cheerleaders will bring some American-style glamour to a village fete in Leafield, near Witney, on Saturday, May 14. more...
A Banbury church is hosting a free family fun day in Spiceball Park on Saturday May 7. more...
A guided walk around the nature reserve at Little Wittenham is being held on Sunday May 8. more...
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