Oxfordshire | Archive | 2008 | January
THE White Horse Tennis and Leisure Centre will be a Mecca for modelmakers on Saturday, March 1, when the Abingdon and District Model Railway Club holds its annual exhibition. more...
COMEDIAN and GP Dr Phil Hammond has turned poet on an Abingdon firm's website, www. embarrassingproblems.com more...
AN 89-year-old man has died in hospital after a crash in Marcham. more...
RAMRAIDERS drove into the wall of a warehouse in Abingdon and made off with £10,000 worth of Nokia mobile phones and accessories. more...
THE White Horse Tennis and Leisure Centre will be a Mecca for modelmakers on Saturday, March 1, when the Abingdon and District Model Railway Club holds its annual exhibition. more...
COMEDIAN and GP Dr Phil Hammond has turned poet on an Abingdon firm's website, www. embarrassingproblems.com more...
AN 89-year-old man has died in hospital after a crash in Marcham. more...
RAMRAIDERS drove into the wall of a warehouse in Abingdon and made off with £10,000 worth of Nokia mobile phones and accessories. more...
An elderly male motorist has died following a road accident in a village near Abingdon. more...
A row is rumbling over whether controversial parking restrictions should be introduced in an Abingdon conservation area. more...
A young scriptwriter from Abingdon is hoping his new sitcom can become as successful as smash hit show The Vicar of Dibley. more...
Ramraiders drove into the wall of a warehouse in Abingdon and made off with £10,000 worth of Nokia mobile phones and accessories. more...
Banbury's privately-run treatment centre at the Horton Hospital site has been bought by Australian firm Ramsay Health Care. more...
A former Cherwell District Council employee has pleaded guilty to 18 counts of theft. more...
The 28 possible sites for an incinerator in Oxfordshire, announced on Friday, are whittled down to seven three days later - and a decision on the preferred site is to taken next month. more...
If we pay for first class service, we expect to receive first class service. more...
Sales can be overwhelmingly tempting - but get organised, make lists, and overhauling your wardrobe for the spring can be a doddle, writes LISA HAYNES If you are one of those shoppers that aimlessly spends, spends more...
As the end of January looms, your New Year's resolution of making regular visits to the gym may already be tailing off - surveys show that by February the novelty will be wearing off for 30 per cent more...
Are you suffering from the post-festive blues, and desperately in need of a pick-me-up to alleviate the dull days of January? Why not take the opportunity to indulge yourself with a gorgeously pampering spa treatment more...
Mum-of-four Katherine MacAlister enjoys the ultimate post-baby pick-me-up at Ragdale Hall's new Thermo Spa Iwonder why they asked ME to write about a rescue spa weekend'? Could it be because I've just had more...
Innovative charity scheme enables mum-of-four to set up own business There are some days when mother-of-four Diane Charlett's back pain is so bad she is unable to get out of bed and others when she can't walk or even more...
Gill Oliver meets a TV news reporter-turned-wedding guru who is trusted by celebrities to ensure their marriage ceremonies are . . . more...
Indomitable Vicky Jewson, 22, amazed everyone by raising £1.4m to make her first feature film Lady Godiva. She tells GILL OLIVER just how she managed it . . . more...
GILL OLIVER meets three dynamic women busily building careers in traditionally male-dominated fields From the day we're born we're taught that girls play with dolls, and boys play with cars - so it's little wonder that more...
In our latest Day in the Life profile, GILL OLIVER talks to Louise Morgan, who works as a senior staff nurse at the world-renowned Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford Nurse Louise Morgan, 40, lives in Headington more...
Recycling has become the province of the morally righteous, but bargain-hunters have been doing it for decades, says Good Deal diva Noelle Walsh Bargain-hunters have been recycling for decades, whether more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
A MAN guilty of flytipping has come out of court with a bill of more than £800. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
A GROUP of Witney fundraisers have celebrated a bumper year, which brought in £35,000 for the Oxfordshire charity Against Breast Cancer (ABC). more...
AUDITIONS are to go ahead for a play to celebrate 800 years of Witney history. more...
A VILLAGE school has been judged as outstanding with children who have excellent behaviour and friendliness. more...
RESIDENTS in West Oxfordshire who were recently charged £2.50 per sandbag will be reimbursed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
A MAN guilty of flytipping has come out of court with a bill of more than £800. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
Simon Boardman hit a first-half hat-trick to set Banbury on the way to a 5-3 win over Lewes in the England Mixed Cup first round. more...
Andy Bowen scored twice as City of Oxford Bulls swept aside Portsmouth & Southsea Vets 6-2 in the Wessex Masters League Division 3. more...
Kirsty Brammer hit a hat-trick in City of Oxford's 9-0 demolition of Abingdon in Trysports 3 Counties League Premier 1. more...
Oxfrord Hawks Ladies pushed South Clubs' League Division 1 leaders Southgate all the way before going down 1-0. more...
City of Oxford were crowned the Oxfordshire Under 16 Girls League champions with a 4-1 win over West Witney. more...
Alex Pizzey hit a hat-trick as City of Oxford thrashed Leighton Buzzard 6-0 in South League Middlesex, Berkshire, Bucks and Oxon Division 1. more...
New Labour councillors are doing their best to perfect the art of creating a problem, then pretending to be the solution to it. more...
As an Oxford GP of 25 years, I feel that Government control of medical services has become intolerable. more...
We are fed up with the inconsistency and hypocrisy of the Liberal Democrat group on the county council over the issue of residents' parking charges. more...
So Oxford City Council can afford only one part-time official to see off the pedlars from the city centre (Oxford Mail, December 17). more...
Maybe Tom Ellis, who is selling tennis balls, produced for 2p in the Philippines, at a vastly inflated price (Oxford Mail, January 22), would like to tell us how much of his profit he is returning to the workers. more...
OXFORD Saab is offering the chance to put your local rugby club or school team through its paces in front of a professional rugby coach as part of a new nationwide Get Converted competition launched by Saab Great Britain. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
A BANBURY-BASED charity has been used to trick businesses in Kent into collecting money for a fake fundraising campaign. more...
A BANBURY-BASED charity has been used to trick businesses in Kent into collecting money for a fake fundraising campaign. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
BANBURY'S privately-run treatment centre at the Horton Hospital site has been bought by Australian firm Ramsay Health Care. more...
BANBURY'S privately-run treatment centre at the Horton Hospital site has been bought by Australian firm Ramsay Health Care. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
A REPORT on plans for a Zero Emissions Development for East Oxford are set to be discussed in February. more...
TICKETS are on sale for the city's annual Town vs Gown boxing match. more...
BETHANY Povey celebrated getting the all-clear from cancer with a surprise party. more...
AVID Records, Oxford's last remaining seller of vinyl music, has been forced to close after facing a large rent demand from the city council. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
PEOPLE have just two more days to see the Remembering The 60s exhibition at Thame's Museum, housed in the former magistrates' court, Lower High Street. more...
THE White Horse Tennis and Leisure Centre will be a Mecca for modelmakers on Saturday, March 1, when the Abingdon and District Model Railway Club holds its annual exhibition. more...
COMEDIAN and GP Dr Phil Hammond has turned poet on an Abingdon firm's website, www. embarrassingproblems.com more...
A BANBURY-BASED charity has been used to trick businesses in Kent into collecting money for a fake fundraising campaign. more...
A BANBURY-BASED charity has been used to trick businesses in Kent into collecting money for a fake fundraising campaign. more...
THE A4074 has reopened following a collision between a Thames Travel bus and a Land Rover shortly after 7am today. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
AN 89-year-old man has died in hospital after a crash in Marcham. more...
A FORMER Cherwell District Council employee has pleaded guilty to 18 counts of theft. more...
A FORMER Cherwell District Council employee has pleaded guilty to 18 counts of theft. more...
BANBURY'S privately-run treatment centre at the Horton Hospital site has been bought by Australian firm Ramsay Health Care. more...
BANBURY'S privately-run treatment centre at the Horton Hospital site has been bought by Australian firm Ramsay Health Care. more...
A ROW is rumbling over whether controversial parking restrictions should be introduced in an Abingdon conservation area. more...
POLICE today appealed for witnesses following a road traffic collision near Farmoor that left a young man seriously injured. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
A 23-year-old man has been found guilty of setting fire to Lord Williams's School in Thame. more...
POLICE have carried out an undercover operation in Cowley in an attempt to clamp down on street prostitution. more...
A NEW director has been chosen to take the reins at the Oxford Playhouse. more...
A FAMILY today paid tribute to a man killed in a car crash near Chinnor. more...
RAMRAIDERS drove into the wall of a warehouse in Abingdon and made off with £10,000 worth of Nokia mobile phones and accessories. more...
A MAN guilty of flytipping has come out of court with a bill of more than £800. more...
A WOMAN was robbed as she walked through Wantage. more...
ARSONIST Craig Ford was today behind bars awaiting sentence after being convicted of setting fire to an Oxfordshire school. more...
ORGANISERS of a free, annual pensioners' party that has been held in Oxford since the 1930s have urged OAPs to use it or lose it. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
A MAN guilty of flytipping has come out of court with a bill of more than £800. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
A FORMER Cherwell District Council employee has pleaded guilty to 18 counts of theft. more...
A FORMER Cherwell District Council employee has pleaded guilty to 18 counts of theft. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
BETHANY Povey celebrated getting the all-clear from cancer with a surprise party. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
THE White Horse Tennis and Leisure Centre will be a Mecca for modelmakers on Saturday, March 1, when the Abingdon and District Model Railway Club holds its annual exhibition. more...
COMEDIAN and GP Dr Phil Hammond has turned poet on an Abingdon firm's website, www. embarrassingproblems.com more...
THE A4074 has reopened following a collision between a Thames Travel bus and a Land Rover shortly after 7am today. more...
AN 89-year-old man has died in hospital after a crash in Marcham. more...
RAMRAIDERS drove into the wall of a warehouse in Abingdon and made off with £10,000 worth of Nokia mobile phones and accessories. more...
A WOMAN was robbed as she walked through Wantage. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
This is Max, a handsome five year old Labrador who has come into The Blue Cross Centre through no fault of his own. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ONE in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey has found. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
One in five first class letters is failing to arrive on time, a survey conducted by the Oxford Mail has found. more...
Avid Records, Oxford's last remaining seller of vinyl music, has been forced to close after facing a large rent demand from the city council. more...
The seven sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been revealed. more...
Police seized 13 cannabis plants in a raid on a house in Fringford, near Bicester. more...
The A4074 has reopened following a collision between a Thames Travel bus and a Land Rover shortly after 7am this morning. more...
Craig Ford has been found guilty of setting fire to Lord Williams's School in Thame. more...
A new director has been chosen to take the reins at the Oxford Playhouse. more...
An Oxford woman who was so outraged by the city's controversial fortnightly rubbish collections she refused to pay her council tax, is to stand for election. more...
Members of the Jewish community turned out in force on Sunday to light a candle and say "never again". more...
County council leaders have promised no major cuts in services - despite a council tax increase of just below four per cent. more...
A young man is in hospital with serious injuries following a two-car collision in Farmoor, on Sunday. more...
Television personality Anne Diamond will praise volunteers who have helped at an Oxford breastfeeding drop-in centre when she drops in herself on Wednesday. more...
The back end of a bus is not usually the best place to be associated with - but three budding young artists are seeing their work immortalised on the rear of an Oxford double decker. more...
Police cracking down on prostitution in East Oxford have arrested and cautioned a kerb crawler. more...
Arsonist Craig Ford is today behind bars awaiting sentence after being convicted of setting fire to an Oxfordshire school. more...
Scientists are to launch a £1.4m research project to examine whether young criminals, including murderers, behave better in prison if they are fed vitamins and other nutritional supplements. more...
A lorry carrying rocks and bricks overturned at the Bladon roundabout in Woodstock shortly before 9am today. more...
A multimedia company has announced plans to build the world's largest technology college on the former Littlemore Hospital site in Oxford. more...
A North Oxford pensioner who left £2.3m in her will donated a large part of her estate to charity. more...
Organisers of a free, annual pensioners' party that has been held in Oxford since the 1930s have urged OAPs to use it or lose it. more...
A marketing expert is giving his time free of charge to Oxfordshire's largest hospital trust to help with its bid for foundation status. more...
A mother whose child died of meningitis has welcomed research highlighting how genes could make some people more susceptible to the illness than others. more...
First Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
Skaters at an Oxford park have been told to stay put for another year until they can be found a new home. more...
Abingdon edged out Gosford All Blacks 10-7 in the BB&O Premier Division - just two weeks after losing 46-0 to the same side in the Oxfordshire Shield. more...
Centre Ben Lacy led the way with a try treble as Harwell crushed Slough 2nd 64-22 in BB&O Division 1 South. more...
Witney picked up their first win since November 3 with a 15-0 success at Aylesbury in Southern Counties North. more...
Banbury Bulls recorded only their second league win of the season with a 20-13 home success over Melton Mowbray in Midlands 2 East. more...
Henley Hawks slipped into the National 2 relegation zone after a comprehensive 34-12 defeat at fellow strugglers Blaydon. more...
Chinnor ground down Redingensians with a workmanlike 24-5 victory at Kingsey Road in South West 1. more...
Oxford Harlequins' director of rugby Matt Maudsley felt his side deserved an "important" league win. more...
Oxford Harlequins seized control of this South West 1 clash to beat Maidenhead 27-10 with an impressive second-half display despite often struggling up front. more...
AEA Technology 87.25 BMW 2706 Electrocomponents 183 Nationwide Accident Repair 117.5 Oxford Biomedica 19.25 Oxford Catalyst 144 Oxford Instruments 179.75 Reed Elsevier 591.5 RM 206.5 RPS Group 263.5 more...
AEA Technology 89.5 BMW 2752 Electrocomponents 182 Nationwide Accident Repair 117.5 Oxford Biomedica 19.5 Oxford Catalyst 144 Oxford Instruments 184.5 Reed Elsevier 596.75 RM 205.25 RPS Group 258.75 more...
Boss Darren Patterson insists he's not finished yet in the transfer market and still hopes to bring others in if he can get players out. more...
THE A4074 has reopened following a collision between a Thames Travel bus and a Land Rover shortly after 7am today. more...
THE A4074 has reopened following a collision between a Thames Travel bus and a Land Rover shortly after 7am today. more...
Firefighters freed a bus driver from his vehicle earlier this morning following a collision on the A4074. more...
A fundraising appeal in memory of two Wallingford men to provide equipment for a new lifeboat has beaten its target. more...
BETHANY Povey celebrated getting the all-clear from cancer with a surprise party. more...
A WOMAN was robbed as she walked through Wantage. more...
BETHANY Povey celebrated getting the all-clear from cancer with a surprise party. more...
A WOMAN was robbed as she walked through Wantage. more...
The Conservative-run cabinet of West Oxfordshire District Council has approved a 4.95 per cent increase in council tax next year. more...
A cricket club whose ground disappeared under water in last July's floods is rising from the waves for the coming summer. more...
A young man is in hospital with serious injuries following a two-car collision yesterday. more...
A homeless drug addict has been jailed for six months for a string of shoplifting and motoring offences. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
COUNTY council leaders have promised no major cuts in services - despite a council tax increase of just below four per cent. more...
FAMILIES across Oxfordshire have been asked to throw open their doors and take in a homeless youngster. more...
PEOPLE in Benson and Berinsfield are being invited to meet their police community support officers tomorrow and speak to them about any concerns that they might have within the community. more...
COMEDIAN and GP Dr Phil Hammond has turned poet on an Abingdon firm's website, www. embarrassingproblems.com more...
THE A4074 has reopened following a collision between a Thames Travel bus and a Land Rover shortly after 7am today. more...
A WOMAN was robbed as she walked through Wantage. more...
AN 89-year-old man has died in hospital after a crash in Marcham. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
RAMRAIDERS drove into the wall of a warehouse in Abingdon and made off with £10,000 worth of Nokia mobile phones and accessories. more...
COUNTY council leaders have promised no major cuts in services - despite a council tax increase of just below four per cent. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
FAMILIES across Oxfordshire have been asked to throw open their doors and take in a homeless youngster. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
A FORMER Cherwell District Council employee has pleaded guilty to 18 counts of theft. more...
COUNTY council leaders have promised no major cuts in services - despite a council tax increase of just below four per cent. more...
FAMILIES across Oxfordshire have been asked to throw open their doors and take in a homeless youngster. more...
BICESTER'S twinning association is inviting guests from France and Germany to visit the town in May. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
THE back end of a bus is not usually the best place to be associated with - but three budding young artists are seeing their work immortalised on the rear of an Oxford double-decker. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
A young man is in hospital with serious injuries following a two-car collision in Farmoor, on Sunday. more...
The Lord Mayor of Oxford has condemned a gang that hospitalised a 14-year-old pupil as "cowardly hooligans". more...
Television personality Anne Diamond will praise volunteers who have helped at an Oxford breastfeeding drop-in centre when she drops in herself on Wednesday. more...
The back end of a bus is not usually the best place to be associated with - but three budding young artists are seeing their work immortalised on the rear of an Oxford double decker. more...
Firefighters freed a bus driver from his vehicle earlier this morning following a collision on the A4074. more...
Craig Ford has been found guilty of setting fire to Lord Williams's School in Thame. more...
Police cracking down on prostitution in East Oxford have arrested and cautioned a kerb crawler. more...
A former Cherwell District Council employee has pleaded guilty to 18 counts of theft. more...
Police seized 13 cannabis plants in a raid on a house in Fringford, near Bicester. more...
A new director has been chosen to take the reins at the Oxford Playhouse. more...
An elderly male motorist has died following a road accident in a village near Abingdon. more...
A fundraising appeal in memory of two Wallingford men to provide equipment for a new lifeboat has beaten its target. more...
An Oxford woman who was so outraged by the city's controversial fortnightly rubbish collections she refused to pay her council tax, is to stand for election. more...
Arsonist Craig Ford is today behind bars awaiting sentence after being convicted of setting fire to an Oxfordshire school. more...
Scientists are to launch a £1.4m research project to examine whether young criminals, including murderers, behave better in prison if they are fed vitamins and other nutritional supplements. more...
A lorry carrying rocks and bricks overturned at the Bladon roundabout in Woodstock shortly before 9am today. more...
A multimedia company has announced plans to build the world's largest technology college on the former Littlemore Hospital site in Oxford. more...
A North Oxford pensioner who left £2.3m in her will donated a large part of her estate to charity. more...
A young scriptwriter from Abingdon is hoping his new sitcom can become as successful as smash hit show The Vicar of Dibley. more...
Organisers of a free, annual pensioners' party that has been held in Oxford since the 1930s have urged OAPs to use it or lose it. more...
A marketing expert is giving his time free of charge to Oxfordshire's largest hospital trust to help with its bid for foundation status. more...
A mother whose child died of meningitis has welcomed research highlighting how genes could make some people more susceptible to the illness than others. more...
Two paintings found by art experts in the modest Oxford home of an elderly spinster have turned out to be 19th century masterpieces worth more than £1m. more...
The Conservative-run cabinet of West Oxfordshire District Council has approved a 4.95 per cent increase in council tax next year. more...
Members of the Jewish community turned out in force on Sunday to light a candle and say "never again". more...
A cricket club whose ground disappeared under water in last July's floods is rising from the waves for the coming summer. more...
County council leaders have promised no major cuts in services - despite a council tax increase of just below four per cent. more...
Police are to investigate why so many pedestrians and cyclists were killed on Oxfordshire's roads last year. more...
Skaters at an Oxford park have been told to stay put for another year until they can be found a new home. more...
A young man is in hospital with serious injuries following a two-car collision yesterday. more...
The A4074 has reopened following a collision between a Thames Travel bus and a Land Rover shortly after 7am this morning. more...
A homeless drug addict has been jailed for six months for a string of shoplifting and motoring offences. more...
First Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
Banbury's privately-run treatment centre at the Horton Hospital site has been bought by Australian firm Ramsay Health Care. more...
A row is rumbling over whether controversial parking restrictions should be introduced in an Abingdon conservation area. more...
Ramraiders drove into the wall of a warehouse in Abingdon and made off with £10,000 worth of Nokia mobile phones and accessories. more...
RAMRAIDERS drove into the wall of a warehouse in Abingdon and made off with £10,000 worth of Nokia mobile phones and accessories. more...
A MAN guilty of flytipping has come out of court with a bill of more than £800. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
A FORMER Cherwell District Council employee has pleaded guilty to 18 counts of theft. more...
THE Conservative-run cabinet of West Oxfordshire District Council has approved a 4.95 per cent increase in council tax next year. more...
COUNTY council leaders have promised no major cuts in services - despite a council tax increase of just below four per cent. more...
A MARKETING expert is giving his time free of charge to Oxfordshire's largest hospital trust to help with its bid for foundation status. more...
POLICE today appealed for witnesses following a road traffic collision near Farmoor that left a young man seriously injured. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
PEOPLE in the Wheatley area are being invited to meet their local neighbourhood officer. more...
A GROUP of young people went out on to the streets to confront myths about hoodies and Asbos. more...
COMEDIAN and GP Dr Phil Hammond has turned poet on an Abingdon firm's website, www. embarrassingproblems.com more...
A 23-year-old man has been found guilty of setting fire to Lord Williams's School in Thame. more...
POLICE have carried out an undercover operation in Cowley in an attempt to clamp down on street prostitution. more...
THE A4074 has reopened following a collision between a Thames Travel bus and a Land Rover shortly after 7am today. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
THE back end of a bus is not usually the best place to be associated with - but three budding young artists are seeing their work immortalised on the rear of an Oxford double-decker. more...
TELEVISION personality Anne Diamond will praise volunteers who have helped at an Oxford breastfeeding drop-in centre when she drops in herself today. more...
A WOMAN was robbed as she walked through Wantage. more...
AN 89-year-old man has died in hospital after a crash in Marcham. more...
AVID Records, Oxford's last remaining seller of vinyl music, has been forced to close after facing a large rent demand from the city council. more...
A NEW director has been chosen to take the reins at the Oxford Playhouse. more...
A FAMILY today paid tribute to a man killed in a car crash near Chinnor. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
ARSONIST Craig Ford was today behind bars awaiting sentence after being convicted of setting fire to an Oxfordshire school. more...
A WOMAN who left £2.3m in her will donated a large part of her estate to charity. more...
A MULTIMEDIA company has announced plans to build the world's largest technology college on the former Littlemore Hospital site in Oxford. more...
A CRICKET club whose ground disappeared under water in last July's floods is rising from the waves for the coming summer. more...
ORGANISERS of a free, annual pensioners' party that has been held in Oxford since the 1930s have urged OAPs to use it or lose it. more...
SKATERS at an Oxford park have been told to stay put for another year until they can be found a new home. more...
FAMILIES across Oxfordshire have been asked to throw open their doors and take in a homeless youngster. more...
A DISTINGUISHED Oxford physicist is one of four top environmental scientists calling for the Government to introduce tougher cuts in carbon dioxide emissions in the forthcoming Climate Change Bill. more...
BICESTER'S twinning association is inviting guests from France and Germany to visit the town in May. more...
A MAN guilty of flytipping has come out of court with a bill of more than £800. more...
FIRST Great Western managers have thanked Oxford rail commuters for pulling out of a proposed fares strike today. more...
COUNTY council leaders have promised no major cuts in services - despite a council tax increase of just below four per cent. more...
A MAN was jailed for six months today for a number of crimes committed in the Chipping Norton area. more...
A GROUP of young people went out on to the streets to confront myths about hoodies and Asbos. more...
FAMILIES across Oxfordshire have been asked to throw open their doors and take in a homeless youngster. more...
THE A44 was blocked near Bladon today by an overturned lorry. more...
A GROUP of Witney fundraisers have celebrated a bumper year, which brought in £35,000 for the Oxfordshire charity Against Breast Cancer (ABC). more...
AUDITIONS are to go ahead for a play to celebrate 800 years of Witney history. more...
A VILLAGE school has been judged as outstanding with children who have excellent behaviour and friendliness. more...
RESIDENTS in West Oxfordshire who were recently charged £2.50 per sandbag will be reimbursed. more...
SEVEN sites across Oxfordshire big enough to house an incinerator have been disclosed. more...
A CRICKET club whose ground disappeared under water in last July's floods is rising from the waves for the coming summer. more...
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