Oxfordshire | Archive | 2007 | December
ABINGDON will be able to say thank you to 400 Army troops today as they celebrate their safe return from Iraq. more...
A DEVELOPER has been chosen to transform Abingdon's Old Gaol. But with the winning scheme being kept a closely-guarded secret, it has emerged that Trevor Osborne's plans for a hotel and heritage complex were rejected. more...
A FIRE engine was involved in a collision with two cars in Abingdon today, prompting police to close one of the town's major routes. more...
HUNDREDS of people waving flags lined the streets of Abingdon to celebrate soldiers returning from Iraq. more...
ABINGDON will be able to say thank you to 400 Army troops today as they celebrate their safe return from Iraq. more...
A DEVELOPER has been chosen to transform Abingdon's Old Gaol. But with the winning scheme being kept a closely-guarded secret, it has emerged that Trevor Osborne's plans for a hotel and heritage complex were rejected. more...
A FIRE engine was involved in a collision with two cars in Abingdon today, prompting police to close one of the town's major routes. more...
HUNDREDS of people waving flags lined the streets of Abingdon to celebrate soldiers returning from Iraq. more...
A FIRE engine was involved in a collision with two cars in Abingdon today, closing one of the town's major routes. more...
Hundreds of people waving flags lined the streets of Abingdon to celebrate soldiers returning from Iraq. more...
Tom Woolner, who is exhibiting his work at the OVADA Gallery, Gloucester Green, until January 19, is not to be mistaken for Thomas Woolner, sculptor, poet and founder-member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood - he was a 19th-century man. more...
It's refreshing to walk into an exhibition and discover a diversity of works by one artist, rather than a collection which appear to be just reworks of the same theme. The 41 mixed-media and acrylic paintings in Jon Rowland's show in the gallery at Oxford's Said Business School are, as the title suggests, about Places+Spaces+Life. more...
A photograph of the Thames at Abingdon was taken by Eric de Maré just after the Second World War, while hats were still de rigeur on a summer's day. It is one of 24 images collected by English Heritage for The Thames Through Time (£5.99), a book which can be dismantled and turned into postcards. more...
Some sumptuous productions are hitting the shelves this Christmas, which are clearly designed to go straight to the top of aunty's festive list. More from Unmitigated England by Peter Ashley (£18.99, Adelphi), a sequel to Unmitigated England, won't fit into an average-size stocking but would look good on any coffee table. more...
Like her acclaimed The Woman in Black, Susan Hill's The Man in the Picture (Profile, £9.99) is a gothic tale that reveals dark shadows lurking beneath ordinary life. more...
Peter Schofield retired to Oxford after a career as a scientist. His book, The Enjoyment of Opera (Serendipity, £11.95) is a collection of provocative essays about his other great love - opera and its performance more...
The classical music world is not renowned for being particularly wacky, but it does have its fair share of zany moments and colourful characters, as Frances Farrer and Brian Levison discovered when they started digging around behind the scenes. The result is the recently-published Classical Music's Strangest Concerts and Characters, a collection of 85 extraordinary but true tales from concert halls and other venues around the globe. more...
Scientists at an Oxford biotech firm are hoping to make a breakthrough in the search to find an effective treatment for Parkinson's Disease. more...
Family/Comedy/Romance. Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, James Marsden, Rachel Covey, Timothy Spall, Susan Sarandon, Idina Menzel. Director: Kevin Lima more...
Two films this week centre on men with guns. Neither quite works. Yet each has a quirky ingenuity that makes it watchable if never compelling and both boast strong performances by their seemingly mismatched romantic leads. more...
Every Christmas, there are certain films which perfectly embody the festive spirit. Whether it's a small boy flying through the air with an animated snowman, Alastair Sim's Scrooge realising the error of his ways, Bing Crosby dreaming of a White Christmas or Jimmy Stewart learning to value family life (with some prompting from an angel called Clarence), cinema has the power to create a warm, fuzzy glow to stave off the winter chill. more...
Is it my imagination, or are fewer people wearing gloves these days? Tuesday morning was cold - so cold that even I regretted not bringing a pair to Oxford. Yet on a simple observation, I reckon only one person in seven was wearing anything on their hands. The rest displayed digits that ranged in colour from pink to purple - apart from those who stuffed them in pockets. more...
THERESA THOMPSON hears some of the world's experts debate the threats to the world's ecosystems - from the polar regions to the wetlands of Oxfordshire Despite a poll showing that nearly a quarter of British adults were bored with eco news', Oxford-based environmental charity Earthwatch combats any idea of fatigue with lively and engaging discussion full of up-to-the-minute facts. This is the formula used in its annual public debates at the Royal Geographical Society in London. The latest, its seventh, chaired by Alistair Fothergill, co-director of the newly released film Earth, was called Precious Resources, Multiple Threats. more...
To sample this bizarre collector's item I braved the draughty art deco cavern of the Apollo in Hammersmith on a frosty night, sitting throughout without removing my coat and scarf. Happily, a great blast of warmth emanated from the stage, and the source of that warmth was Katherine Jenkins. Here is a woman who would be a star even if she couldn't sing - but my goodness, can't she just! She can also act, she moves beautifully, and in an incredibly short time has learnt an impressive tap routine. more...
AN Oxford cancer patient given a year to live has won the right to have a life-prolonging drug following a three-month battle with NHS managers. more...
DIDCOT Town Council has increased its council tax by more than six per cent - the equivalent of a £4.65 increase for local taxpayers. more...
AN Oxford cancer patient given a year to live has won the right to have a life-prolonging drug following a three-month battle with NHS managers. more...
When a reader asked me what I thought of Eight at the Thatch, the Thame restaurant run by the winners of BBC 2's recent series The Restaurant, I had to admit I didn't know. more...
Many of us have fond memories of school Nativity plays, as parents and children. more...
TO ensure everyone has a good time during the festive season, The Mill at Sonning is staging Ray Cooney's funniest and most popular play, Run for Your Wife. more...
'THE Wantage Stage Musical Company continue their festive tour with their Christmas Variety Show, which includes a mini panto, Little Tommy Tucker, and loads of comic sketches and songs. more...
Retail tracking company Experian is reporting a jittery start to the Christmas rush. The company's Footfall survey reports that high street sales were down 7.5 per cent nationally last Saturday compared to the equivalent day last year, and 1.6 per cent on Sunday. For the whole week ending on Friday, December 6, town centre sales were down 3.7 per cent on 2006. more...
Mince pies were originally made in a stiff inedible pastry cases called coffins, which were shaped like a crib and acted as a dish more...
This year I intend to serve beer on Christmas Day as well as champagne. But not any old beer - this beer has broken the £10 price barrier, retailing as it does at £12.99. more...
KELLY'S THE Luke Kelly scored the second-half winner for Bicester Town as they won 2-1 at Hook Norton on Tuesday night. more...
Ardley United made it two Premier Division victories in a row with a straight-forward win against strugglers AFC Wallingford on Tuesday. more...
Launton Sports will be aiming to get back to winning ways in Division 1 West when they host Wootton Bassett Town. more...
Libbie Allison netted a double as KEA won 4-0 at Hook Norton in the Giles Sports Witney Youth Under 9 B League. more...
Two goals in each half gave Fritwell a 4-0 win over Long Crendon in the only game to take place in Division 1 of the Oxfordshire Senior League. more...
VAL BOURNE dreams not of film stars but of where to plant next spring more...
With some satisfaction I learned this week that I had done my bit to preserve the architectural integrity of one of Oxford's more interesting and distinguished buildings. In short, I have been able to get a pair of satellite dishes removed from the walls of Campion Hall, the Jesuits' Oxford base, in Brewer Street. They haven't actually gone yet, but I am advised by the city planners that they should no longer be there in three months time. more...
I was surprised to see the Sunday Times referring this week to the Duchess of Cornwall as "Camilla Parker Bowles". Had Style's sub-editor's forgotten her rather well-publicised appointment at the altar in April 2005 with the Prince of Wales? The reference was made in an index page plug for Camilla's "Sixtysomething makeover". "Doesn't Camilla Parker Bowles look fabulous?", trilled the newspaper, to which many of its readers will probably have replied: "No." Others might possibly be rallying to the republican cause having learned that she spends an obscene £40,000 a year on her hair. This is rather more, I think, than even Cherie Blair squandered on her dishevelled barnet. more...
A QUAD bike is believed to have been ridden around the Chipping Norton bowls club green, churning the turf into mud. more...
A QUAD bike is believed to have been ridden around the Chipping Norton bowls club green, churning the turf into mud. more...
A HUSBAND today paid tribute to his wife who died in a crash on the M40. more...
A QUAD bike is believed to have been ridden around the Chipping Norton bowls club green, churning the turf into mud. more...
A HUSBAND today paid tribute to his wife who died in a crash on the M40. more...
Point to-point racing in Oxfordshire breaks new ground this season with Dunthrop, near Chipping Norton, staging the first pre-Christmas meeting this Sunday. more...
The Vale council is going to extraordinary lengths to keep secret the fate of Abingdon's Old Gaol. more...
Oxfordshire County Council makes great play on its website on how much it cares for the environment, yet it pursues policies that actively damage it. more...
I worry sometimes about how low the intelligence must be of those who state that 'colour' must be one of the leading criteria for admission to universities (Oxford Mail, November 15). more...
Citizens concerned about the growth of Costa Coffee should note that Costa Coffee in Summertown, Oxford, is displaying Happy 1st Birthday signs all over its premises. more...
Sir, I refer to my letter, Fireworks (The Herald, November 22), and your article about the antique fair at Fitzharrys School, Abingdon, having to finish because of the draconian attitude of the Vale of White Horse District Council in banning signs and banners advertising events (Signs row closes fair, The Herald, November 15). more...
Sir, How I must agree with all the letters in last week's Herald about the traffic in Abingdon - a total disaster. more...
Sir, Yes, this is yet another letter voicing frustration on this subject, but the area in question is not one I've seen anything about before and that's the junction at the bottom of Ock Street. more...
Sir, Councillor Ian Hudspeth appears to have swallowed Government propaganda hook, line and sinker. more...
Sir, The Abingdon Integrated Traffic System has a fatal flaw - two-way traffic in Stratton Way. more...
Sir, Having read the letters in last week's Herald regarding the transfer of land to Didcot Council, it was clear that this was a 'political' issue rather than an issue about what is best for Didcot. more...
Sir, John Flood's statement concerning the value of land in Didcot is the primary reason that all green spaces in urban areas should be placed under the total protection of the Environment Agency (Didcot Herald, December 29). more...
Sir, Not an original topic, but do we now have to accept that the postal service is in disarray? more...
Sir, Jim Moley suggests (Letters, December 6) the best way to deal with issues of anti-social behaviour is to trust the experts, rather than follow the whims of pathetic, vote-hungry politicians. I felt I should respond. more...
Sir, Fingers crossed for Wallingford Town Council which believes that by clearing the shrubbery at the entrance of the Bullcroft Park and making it more aesthetically friendly will deter dog owners from allowing their dogs to use it as a lavatory. more...
Orson's Jason Pebworth tells Tim Hughes why he is still smiling — and why he prefers British pubs to the Californian sunshine more...
Marios Popadopoulos chose demanding works for the core of this recital - pieces which test the performer's technical and musical abilities. His readings were thoughtful and persuasive and he left the audience in no doubt of his physical mastery of the keyboard. more...
Having battled through a blustery evening to reach a carol concert in the candle-lit calm of Dorchester Abbey, it was good to hear John Betjeman's words about "branches bending to the gale". His poem, Advent 1955, was delivered in the sonorous tones of actor Robert Hardy, whose voice had no trouble filling the historic abbey. more...
Eclectica! bring a whole new meaning to the words string quartet. The Oxford jazz guitar duo of Pete Oxley and Luis D'Agostino have replaced the accustomed second violin and the viola in this project that presents a special Christmas concert at the Holywell Music Room tomorrow. more...
Princess Ida is the latest production of Kennington and District Church Choirs, who have produced concert versions of Gilbert and Sullivan twice a year since 1979. The formula is simple: a 50-strong chorus in costume seated en masse behind the front row of principals, who, in extravagant costume, stand up for their entrances, and sing and parley with each other with gusto. The whole is undergirded by John Oxlade on piano and conducted by the choir's founder, Trevor Cowlett. more...
If you enjoy formulaic pop, packed full of electronic gimmicks and distorted vocals then look no further than Kylie's new album X (Parlophone). This is an album of songs made to be heard at clubs or through those hyperactive bass-heavy sound systems favoured by some car drivers. It seems to me that Kylie has gone through her career following in the musical footsteps of Madonna - however, there's a bit of a departure on this album as one of the indistuguishable tunes sounds in part at least, a bit like Pink's classic Get the Party Started. more...
It's not often that you see a horsebox and a donkey conveyance parked outside the New Theatre. But Ellen Kent, that indefatigable importer of Eastern European opera and ballet companies, also loves animals. So in her production of Carmen, a donkey appears in Lillas Pastia's tavern, and a magnificent horse carries bullfighter Escamillo as he makes his grand entrance to the sound of March of the Toreadors. On the human side, Ms Kent also provides four Spanish dancers to entertain the punters in the tavern. In this production, incidentally, Lillas Pastia himself is a very jolly mine host, as opposed to the surly "I've got my licence to consider" character you sometimes encounter. more...
Immediate comments at the end of this evening at the Spin included "one of the best gigs ever" and from an articulate member of the audience the one word "joyous". Curiously, neither pianist John Donaldson nor saxophonist Art Themen (both pictured), have reputations that balloon before them like, for example, Julian Joseph. But this might have as much to do with ego as musicality. more...
NICOLA LISLE talks to Opera Anywhere founders Mike and Vanessa Woodward about Arias on Ice, which is coming to the Oxford Ice Rink later this month The ice may be cold, but the grand finale to Opera Anywhere's Christmas season promises to be a real sizzler. In what must surely be one of the most unusual artistic collaborations ever, Opera Anywhere singers will be joined by a team of ice skaters from the Oxford Ice Rink in a feast of operatic favourites and other festive offerings. more...
More than a band, Gogol Bordello are a force of nature. more...
A QUAD bike is believed to have been ridden around the Chipping Norton bowls club green, churning the turf into mud. more...
A HOUSE in Merton Street, Banbury, may have to be demolished after it was built in the wrong colour brick. more...
A HOUSE in Merton Street, Banbury, may have to be demolished after it was built in the wrong colour brick. more...
A QUAD bike is believed to have been ridden around the Chipping Norton bowls club green, churning the turf into mud. more...
SHOPMOBILITY, which provides scooters and wheelchairs for disabled shoppers, has extended its opening hours on Thursdays during December. more...
A MULTI-FAITH celebration attracted more than 200 people from across Oxford. more...
YOUNG artists proved inspired by an Oxford competition to come up with some ugly work. more...
A HOUSE in Merton Street, Banbury, may have to be demolished after it was built in the wrong colour brick. more...
A HOUSE in Merton Street, Banbury, may have to be demolished after it was built in the wrong colour brick. more...
A QUAD bike is believed to have been ridden around the Chipping Norton bowls club green, churning the turf into mud. more...
A QUAD bike is believed to have been ridden around the Chipping Norton bowls club green, churning the turf into mud. more...
A Kidlington schoolboy wants people to splash out on his book about a dolphin to raise funds for Save the Children. more...
A Kidlington schoolboy wants people to splash out on his book about a dolphin to raise funds for Save the Children. more...
ABINGDON will be able to say thank you to 400 Army troops today as they celebrate their safe return from Iraq. more...
A BANBURY couple who wanted to adopt an orphan in Thailand, found it impossible to choose one from the hundreds available at the orphanage they visited. So they decided to adopt them all. more...
A DEVELOPER has been chosen to transform Abingdon's Old Gaol. But with the winning scheme being kept a closely-guarded secret, it has emerged that Trevor Osborne's plans for a hotel and heritage complex were rejected. more...
OXFORDSHIRE County Council's chief executive is to be the new chairman of the board of governors at Oxford Brookes University. more...
FAMILIES in North Oxford have created a real-life Advent calendar to build a more close-knit community in the run-up to Christmas. more...
KEY coils to deter pickpockets are to be handed out tomorrow in Witney and Carterton. more...
DEVELOPER Spring Residential is to appeal against a decision by Oxford city councillors to reject its plans for a four-storey block of flats on the site of the former Castle Mill boatyard, in Jericho. more...
AN Oxford cancer patient given a year to live has won the right to have a life-prolonging drug following a three-month battle with NHS managers. more...
MOST primary schools in Oxford have this year opted to stage modern versions of Christmas plays with less of a religious element. more...
A FIRE engine was involved in a collision with two cars in Abingdon today, prompting police to close one of the town's major routes. more...
A HUSBAND today paid tribute to his wife who died in a crash on the M40. more...
VIOLENT muggers attacked two men while walking through an Oxford park. more...
PART of the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, was evacuated this afternoon after a fire. more...
BENEFIT cheat and Oxfordshire county councillor Olive McIntosh-Stedman has been expelled from the Labour Party. more...
A MALE nurse who had sex with a teenage girl patient in hospital has been cleared of raping her. more...
A MALE nurse who had sex with a teenage girl patient in hospital has been cleared of raping her. more...
A HAIR consultant has been charged with seven offences of sexual assault on women over the age of 16. more...
A HAIR consultant has been charged with seven offences of sexual assault on women over the age of 16. more...
A LARGE slice of a £115m flooding relief grant from Europe should come to Oxfordshire, it is claimed today. more...
THEATRE cheats claiming to be disabled have forced the New Theatre, Oxford, to abandon its policy of letting carers in free. more...
DRIVERS heading out of Oxfordshire faced long delays tonight after a pile-up closed the M40 in Buckinghamshire. more...
HUNDREDS of people waving flags lined the streets of Abingdon to celebrate soldiers returning from Iraq. more...
A QUAD bike is believed to have been ridden around the Chipping Norton bowls club green, churning the turf into mud. more...
A QUAD bike is believed to have been ridden around the Chipping Norton bowls club green, churning the turf into mud. more...
A HUSBAND today paid tribute to his wife who died in a crash on the M40. more...
A Kidlington schoolboy wants people to splash out on his book about a dolphin to raise funds for Save the Children. more...
A Kidlington schoolboy wants people to splash out on his book about a dolphin to raise funds for Save the Children. more...
A MALE nurse who had sex with a teenage girl patient in hospital has been cleared of raping her. more...
A MALE nurse who had sex with a teenage girl patient in hospital has been cleared of raping her. more...
A HAIR consultant has been charged with seven offences of sexual assault on women over the age of 16. more...
A HAIR consultant has been charged with seven offences of sexual assault on women over the age of 16. more...
ABINGDON will be able to say thank you to 400 Army troops today as they celebrate their safe return from Iraq. more...
A DEVELOPER has been chosen to transform Abingdon's Old Gaol. But with the winning scheme being kept a closely-guarded secret, it has emerged that Trevor Osborne's plans for a hotel and heritage complex were rejected. more...
AN Oxford cancer patient given a year to live has won the right to have a life-prolonging drug following a three-month battle with NHS managers. more...
A FIRE engine was involved in a collision with two cars in Abingdon today, prompting police to close one of the town's major routes. more...
HUNDREDS of people waving flags lined the streets of Abingdon to celebrate soldiers returning from Iraq. more...
Dean Smith is set to make his Witney United debut - at the fourth time of asking - for their trip to AFC Wallingford. more...
Didcot Town boss Stuart Peace has told his players to forget about their midweek defeat at Godalming and get ready for their tough trip to Paulton Rovers tomorrow. more...
'I am just full of the Christmas spirit and I bring tidings of comfort and joy." Thus spake the slightly-less-than-angelic presenter of Nigella Express (BBC2) as her latest series dragged to its self-parodying end with an episode inventively titled "Season's Eatings". Bah! Humbug! You can count me out of any Christmas celebration if it involves Nigella Lawson. She is a byword for the supposedly sexy way she behaves, but her pouting leaves me as cold as turkey on Boxing Day. Even more embarrassing than Nigella's smirking at the camera is her overblown vocabulary. She talks as if she has just discovered alliteration. She showed us how to prepare "fast festive food" consisting of "get-ahead goodies" (including "holiday hotcake" and "party popcorn") for our "full-on festivities". Her recipes are full of "gorgeous goldenness" as well as "golden gorgeousness". Watching Nigella feels like drowning in golden syrup. more...
Oxfordshire 2nd came back from 3-1 down to pip Gloucestershire 2nd 8-7 in Division 3B of the Inter-County Championships at Bartholomew School, Eynsham. more...
Twyford trainer Alan Jarvis enjoyed success with River Bounty at Kempton. more...
Angry traders in Oxford's Covered Market claim their businesses are under threat at the prospect of a major rent increase. more...
Most primary schools in Oxford have this year opted to stage modern versions of Christmas plays with less of a religious element. more...
Budding chefs went bananas - showing off their cookery skills to celebrity chef Raymond Blanc. more...
The John Radcliffe Hospital was evacuated this afternoon after a fire broke out. more...
Violent muggers have attacked two men while walking through an Oxford park. more...
Under-pressure train operator First Great Western is still one of the least punctual in the country, according to new figures. more...
Pupils on an Oxford estate have been strutting their stuff to raise funds for a children's cancer charity. more...
People queued up at Oxford University's Bodleian Library to see historic copies of Magna Carta on display for the first time in 800 years. more...
Rail passengers in Oxford are stepping up their campaign for London-bound commuter fares to be frozen in January. more...
Oxford University's latest figures have shown an increase in student applications and acceptances from ethnic minority backgrounds. more...
Cast members from the hit show Starlight Express took time out from rehearsals at Oxford's New Theatre to give next week's Santa's Little Film Club a boost. more...
A hair consultant has been charged with seven offences of sexual assault on women over the age of 16. more...
Benefit cheat and Oxfordshire county councillor Olive McIntosh-Stedman has been expelled from the Labour Party. more...
Oxford City Council has declared war on unwanted plastic carriers by offering ethically-traded cotton shopping bags for £1-a-go. more...
A slice of £115m flooding relief grant from the EU should come to Oxfordshire, it was claimed today. more...
An Audit Commission report warns that some councils may be unable to cope with a second flooding disaster. more...
Cheats claiming to be disabled have forced Oxford's New Theatre to scrap its policy of letting carers in for free. more...
Hopes for a rail scheme to connect Oxford and Cambridge have been raised after the Government said it would consider workable proposals. more...
CHRIS KOENIG joined the queues for a peep into a Tudor Christmas on view at at the Bodleian Library Apt somehow that the first manuscript on view at this year's Bodleian exhibition, on the theme of a Tudor Christmas, should be a Book of Hours. By the time I reached the exhibit (on my way to see the handiwork of the 11-year-old future Queen Elizabeth I) I had been pondering the unhurried pace of life of Tudor children for almost an hour - while shuffling along in the queue and wondering whether my own hour at a parking meter had expired yet. more...
The undisputed daddy of the swanky places to eat in central Oxford, it's difficult to imagine many folk shelling out £70 to eat here on Christmas Day. more...
A chain, but one that's quite stylish and doing its bit to be eco-friendly. more...
This is probably the most economical place to enjoy a hearty Yuletide nosh-up, writes Paul Stammers. more...
The epitome of gastropubbery in Oxford, The Fishes is offering a pre-Christmas menu with a bit of a twist, writes Paul Stammers. more...
An Oxford institution, so it's all the more surprising that this restaurant hasn't opened before on the Big Day itself, writes Jeremy Smith. more...
I never went into Merton's Bar at the Eastgate Hotel in Oxford's High Street - and, judging by what I could see through its windows, neither did anyone else. more...
Henley Hawks will seek their first ever win at the Rectory Ground when they travel to Redruth in National 2 tomorrow. more...
Australian flanker Chris Alcock plays his final game for Oxford Harlequins in tomorrow's home South West 1 clash with Weston-super-Mare (2pm). more...
Bicester's Chad Ward (pictured) and James Davies are set to return to action after long injury lay-offs. more...
AEA Technology 82 BMW 2978 Electrocomponents 212.75 Nationwide Accident Repair 124 Oxford Biomedica 22.25 Oxford Catalyst 147.5 Oxford Instruments 200 Reed Elsevier 621.5 RM 201 RPS Group 309.5 more...
AEA Technology 78.5 BMW 2946 Electrocomponents 209.25 Nationwide Accident Repair 124 Oxford Biomedica 21.75 Oxford Catalyst 148.5 Oxford Instruments 199 Reed Elsevier 622.25 RM 201.25 RPS Group 300.25 more...
Oxford speedway is on the brink of closure, writes ROBERT PEASLEY. more...
Oxford Cheetahs promoter Allen Trump has started the search for a new site to stage speedway racing, writes ROBERT PEASLEY. more...
Malorie Blackman's hugely popular children's novel Noughts and Crosses has obvious, if not over-stated, parallels with Romeo and Juliet. more...
Tomahawk's new production of Much Ado About Nothing is further proof, if any were needed, that it was Shakespeare, not Jane Austen, who originated the genre now known as romantic comedy. more...
GILES WOODFORDE talks to the musical director of Starlight Express. more...
A Christmas Carol and The Magic Flute are given exciting African treatments at The Young Vic, writes A. S. H. SMYTH more...
Oxford United boss Darren Patterson says he will clamp down on any player who shows a lack of discipline after a catalogue of cards in their FA Cup replay defeat at Southend. more...
United's coaching staff and management will probably see how young keeper Sam Warrall fares in a practice match in training next week before deciding whether to throw him in at Aldershot next Saturday. more...
The Oxford United Girls Centre of Excellence has been one of the club's major success stories this season. more...
Tonbridge Angels may average only 350-400 for home games in the Ryman Premier League, but the little Kent town are hoping to bring around 500 fans to tomorrow's FA Trophy tie at the Kassam Stadium. more...
It would be nice to think that Oxford United could do to Tonbridge Angels what Southend did to them on Tuesday night. more...
VILLAGERS have been handed a boost in their efforts to get a doctors' surgery reopened in Cholsey. more...
FATHER Christmas will be helping the Wallingford fund to raise money for equipment for a new lifeboat when he visits the Lamb Arcade on Saturday. more...
A celebrity cook book compiled by a village pre-school attracted recipes from top chefs, local MP Boris Johnson and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. more...
PROTESTERS fighting to save a music and arts block in Wantage have vowed to fight on, despite being told their campaign has hit the buffers. more...
IT is party time! more...
A 'heart-broken' husband paid tribute to his wife who was killed in a motorway pile-up. more...
Thirteen might be unlucky for some, but not for Ken and Vera Hester. more...
A WITNEY couple are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary on Saturday with a good old-fashioned meal - fish and chips and cups of tea. more...
A Christmas card designed by schoolgirl Bethany Brown will be going out with season's greetings from Witney MP and Conservative Party leader David Cameron. more...
Rat poison and traps have been flying off the shelves of a village DIY store. more...
HUNDREDS of people waving flags lined the streets of Abingdon to celebrate soldiers returning from Iraq. more...
A FIRE engine was involved in a collision with two cars in Abingdon today, prompting police to close one of the town's major routes. more...
A MALE nurse who had sex with a teenage girl patient in hospital has been cleared of raping her. more...
A HAIR consultant has been charged with seven offences of sexual assault on women over the age of 16. more...
Twyford trainer Alan Jarvis enjoyed success with River Bounty at Kempton. more...
A male nurse who had sex with a teenage girl patient in hospital has been cleared of raping her. more...
Budding chefs went bananas - showing off their cookery skills to celebrity chef Raymond Blanc. more...
A celebrity cook book compiled by a village pre-school attracted recipes from top chefs, local MP Boris Johnson and Prime Minister Gordon Brown. more...
The John Radcliffe Hospital was evacuated this afternoon after a fire broke out. more...
Violent muggers have attacked two men while walking through an Oxford park. more...
A judge has criticised the layout of Oxford's Cowley Road after a cyclist was injured avoiding a collision with a bus. more...
A male nurse who had sex with a teenage girl patient at the John Radcliffe Hospital faces jail - despite being cleared of raping her. more...
Oxford City Council has declared war on unwanted plastic carriers by offering ethically-traded cotton shopping bags for £1-a-go. more...
A slice of £115m flooding relief grant from the EU should come to Oxfordshire, it was claimed today. more...
An Audit Commission report warns that some councils may be unable to cope with a second flooding disaster. more...
Cheats claiming to be disabled have forced Oxford's New Theatre to scrap its policy of letting carers in for free. more...
Rat poison and traps have been flying off the shelves of a village DIY store. more...
Hopes for a rail scheme to connect Oxford and Cambridge have been raised after the Government said it would consider workable proposals. more...
Hundreds of people waving flags lined the streets of Abingdon to celebrate soldiers returning from Iraq. more...
Benefit cheat and Oxfordshire county councillor Olive McIntosh-Stedman has been expelled from the Labour Party. more...
A 'heart-broken' husband paid tribute to his wife who was killed in a motorway pile-up. more...
Under-pressure train operator First Great Western is still one of the least punctual in the country, according to new figures. more...
Pupils on an Oxford estate have been strutting their stuff to raise funds for a children's cancer charity. more...
Thirteen might be unlucky for some, but not for Ken and Vera Hester. more...
A WITNEY couple are celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary on Saturday with a good old-fashioned meal - fish and chips and cups of tea. more...
People queued up at Oxford University's Bodleian Library to see historic copies of Magna Carta on display for the first time in 800 years. more...
Rail passengers in Oxford are stepping up their campaign for London-bound commuter fares to be frozen in January. more...
Oxford University's latest figures have shown an increase in student applications and acceptances from ethnic minority backgrounds. more...
A FIRE engine was involved in a collision with two cars in Abingdon today, closing one of the town's major routes. more...
A Christmas card designed by schoolgirl Bethany Brown will be going out with season's greetings from Witney MP and Conservative Party leader David Cameron. more...
Cast members from the hit show Starlight Express took time out from rehearsals at Oxford's New Theatre to give next week's Santa's Little Film Club a boost. more...
A hair consultant has been charged with seven offences of sexual assault on women over the age of 16. more...
Oxfordshire 2nd came back from 3-1 down to pip Gloucestershire 2nd 8-7 in Division 3B of the Inter-County Championships at Bartholomew School, Eynsham. more...
A HAIR consultant has been charged with seven offences of sexual assault on women over the age of 16. more...
A HUSBAND today paid tribute to his wife who died in a crash on the M40. more...
Scientists at an Oxford biotech firm are hoping to make a breakthrough in the search to find an effective treatment for Parkinson's Disease. more...
DRIVERS heading out of Oxfordshire faced long delays tonight after a pile-up closed the M40 in Buckinghamshire. more...
VIOLENT muggers attacked two men while walking through an Oxford park. more...
PART of the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, was evacuated this afternoon after a fire. more...
CONSERVATIVE Party leader David Cameron was due to visit Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney, today to reassure the under-threat attraction he would do all he could to save it from closure. more...
HUNDREDS of people waving flags lined the streets of Abingdon to celebrate soldiers returning from Iraq. more...
BENEFIT cheat and Oxfordshire county councillor Olive McIntosh-Stedman has been expelled from the Labour Party. more...
MOST primary schools in Oxford have this year opted to stage modern versions of Christmas plays with less of a religious element. more...
A FIRE engine was involved in a collision with two cars in Abingdon today, prompting police to close one of the town's major routes. more...
A MALE nurse who had sex with a teenage girl patient in hospital has been cleared of raping her. more...
A HUSBAND today paid tribute to his wife who died in a crash on the M40. more...
A HUSBAND today paid tribute to his wife who died in a crash on the M40. more...
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