Oxfordshire | Archive | 2008 | January
THIRTY homes have now been evacuated after a fire broke out at a filling station in Sutton Courtenay. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze say they now have the fire under control and are helping evacuate local residents. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze in Sutton Courtenay say the cause of the explosion is still not known. more...
A KNIFE-WIELDING robber snatched cash in a raid on a newsagents in Abingdon. more...
MP Dr Evan Harris will meet Post Office managers on Friday over plans to axe up to 30 of the county's 180 branches. more...
DISAPPOINTMENT is the word on many Abingdon residents' lips after plans were unveiled for the Old Gaol. more...
A MAN who died after a road accident in Marcham was named today by police. more...
THIRTY homes have now been evacuated after a fire broke out at a filling station in Sutton Courtenay. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze say they now have the fire under control and are helping evacuate local residents. more...
TRADERS at Abingdon have launched a petition against the town's controversial new traffic scheme. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze in Sutton Courtenay say the cause of the explosion is still not known. more...
'DISAPPOINTMENT' was the word on many Abingdon residents' lips after plans were unveiled for the Old Gaol last week. more...
A KNIFE-WIELDING robber snatched cash in a raid on a newsagents in Abingdon. more...
MP Dr Evan Harris will meet Post Office managers on Friday over plans to axe up to 30 of the county's 180 branches. more...
DISAPPOINTMENT is the word on many Abingdon residents' lips after plans were unveiled for the Old Gaol. more...
A MAN who died after a road accident in Marcham was named today by police. more...
Disappointment is the word on many Abingdon residents' lips after plans were unveiled for the Old Gaol. more...
A man who died after a road accident in Marcham has been named by police. more...
Woodstock Harriers are holding the first Clanfield Off-Road relays on March 16. more...
Oxford City's Melissa Hawtin continued her superb season as she won individual silver in the under 15 girls' race in the SEAA Cross Country Championships at Parliament Hill, London. more...
Steve Kimber can take another step towards his third successive senior men's crown as the Oxford Mail Cross Country League goes out of the county on Sunday. more...
Headington Roadrunner Roy Smith, one of the first men in Oxfordshire to clock up 100 marathons, has died aged 69. more...
Woodstock Harriers are holding the first Clanfield Off-Road relay race on March 16. more...
Witney picked up their first win since November 3 with a 15-0 success at Aylesbury in Southern Counties North. more...
Alex Muir and Alistair Duff gave Abingdon School a double success in the Vale of White Horse Schools' Cross Country Championships at Radley College. more...
Phil Wilkins's 15-doll haul proved in vain as Cricketers were walloped 6-0 by Cowley Workers in the Gladiators Beer Seller Friday League. more...
Thirty-eight motorists were stopped by police in Banbury this morning for failing to wear their seatbelts and three others were fined for driving while using mobile phones. more...
Soldiers who spent six months on active service in Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia are to be officially welcomed home. more...
A top Whitehall official tonight apologised for the waste of millions of pounds on abandoned plans to build an asylum centre in Oxfordshire. more...
A new breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
Nick Broomfield has always been an intelligent documentarist. Unfortunately, his insufferable habit of making himself the centre of the story has deflected the purpose of some of his more significant work, giving it a parodic feel akin to that of the even more limelight-craving Michael Moore. However, Broomfield subtracted himself from the equation in Ghosts, his tribute to the Chinese cocklepickers who drowned in Morecambe Bay, and the result was a drama of acuity and authenticity. Wisely, he has adopted the same approach for Battle for Haditha, which focuses on a savage US Marine reprisal for a roadside bombing in Iraq, and, consequently, he has produced his most consistently compelling film to date. more...
Presumably the Rev Adam Romanis, the vicar of SS Mary and John Church, in Cowley Road, Oxford, is a fan of those seasonal heroes Roy Wood and Wizard? more...
Bravo! Hurrah for the Government! Not a sentiment oft expressed chez Styring, but credit where credit's due. more...
The precise steps of some classics are the subject of debate; not so the choreography of Swan Lake. Nicholas Sergeyev a young dancer at the Maryinsky Theatre was put in charge of noting ballets down. When he fled the revolution, he took detailed notes of 17 ballets with him, and mounted Swan Lake in London for Ninette de Valois. This is why the Russian version and our own - and others around the world - are so remarkably similar. The work is a masterpiece by Petipa (Acts 1 and III) and Ivanov ("White acts"), but seemingly not good enough for Viktor Smirnov-Golovanov, who has replaced large chunks with his own efforts. more...
The Russian Ice Stars are back with another hugely enjoyable show. They reached Oxford as they approach the halfway stage in a long tour that began in November and continues around the country until July, but the performance was as fresh as if they'd only just started. more...
Every year, more than three million people watch a Holiday on Ice performance somewhere in the world, and UK audiences have a chance to see its latest production, Romanza, when it opens in London this week. Romanza, the story of love and all its consequences - good and bad - will be performed on an ice pad at the new Wembley Arena containing more than 5,000 litres of frozen water. With 46 world-class skaters, the show uses exhilarating skating, dramatic staging, stunning costumes and innovative lighting to surprise and entertain, creating a visual feast on the ice and in the air, complete with flying, fire and death-defying magic. more...
THIRTY homes have now been evacuated after a fire broke out at a filling station in Sutton Courtenay. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze say they now have the fire under control and are helping evacuate local residents. more...
THIRTY homes have now been evacuated after a fire broke out at a filling station in Sutton Courtenay. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze say they now have the fire under control and are helping evacuate local residents. more...
Residents in Sutton Courtenay were evacuated from their homes this morning following a fire and explosions at a petrol station. more...
Thirty homes have now been evacuated after a fire broke out at a petrol station near Didcot. more...
Firefighters tackling a petrol station blaze near Didcot say they now have the fire under control and are helping evacuate local residents. more...
Firefighters tackling a petrol station blaze in Sutton Courtenay say the cause of the explosion remains a mystery. more...
Electricity has been restored to all homes outside a cordon put up around the site of a petrol station destroyed by fire in Sutton Courtenay today. more...
Today, we report on radical plans to build as many as four giant wind turbines in Oxford. more...
Thanks to the members of the Brize Norton Theatre Club, there's still a chance to enjoy a little panto magic in the Station Theatre, RAF Brize Norton, where they are staging the family panto Sleeping Beauty. more...
Witney & District FA Veteran Simon Gibbs smashed a superb hat-trick as Wychwood Forest got their Supplementary Cup campaign off to a flying start with a 7-2 victory over Ducklington A in Group 1. more...
Witney & District FA Milton booked their place in the second round of the Junior Cup after a 4-3 extra-time victory over Minster Lovell. more...
Witney & District FA Defending champions Freeland went back to the top of the Premier Division after a nail-biting 3-2 victory over arch rivals Hailey on Saturday, writes Anthony Barlow. more...
Roberta Dix smashed a four-timer as Tower Hill Vixens Blue won 5-0 at Summertown Stars in the Under 13 B League. more...
Giles Sports Witney Youth League Dan Hayman was the star of the show as Eynsham Youth saw off Carterton Barracudas 6-3 in the Under 14 B League. more...
Oxfordshire Senior League Matt Tarry scored a late winner as Stonesfield ended Chadlington's unbeaten Premier Division record with a 2-1 win. more...
Sport Italia Hellenic League North Leigh 3, Harrow Hill 1 North Leigh moved back into second place in the Premier Division table after a comfortable victory at Eynsham Park. more...
Sport Italia Hellenic League Clanfield 4, Pegasus Juniors 3 (aet) Ashley Johnson hit a wonder goal in extra time to give Clanfield a thrilling victory over Premier Division Pegasus Juniors in the Soccer Kits Plus Supplementary Cup first round. more...
Witney & District FA Veteran Simon Gibbs smashed a superb hat-trick as Wychwood Forest got their Supplementary Cup campaign off to a flying start with a 7-2 victory over Ducklington A in Group 1. more...
Witney & District FA Milton booked their place in the second round of the Junior Cup after a 4-3 extra-time victory over Minster Lovell. more...
Witney & District FA Defending champions Freeland went back to the top of the Premier Division after a nail-biting 3-2 victory over arch rivals Hailey on Saturday, writes Anthony Barlow. more...
John Willis hit a hat-trick as Harwell Village saw off Botley United 5-2 in the third round of the North Berks Cup, writes Andy Wells. more...
Jack Hurst-Hall, Luke Ailing and Luke Higgins notched doubles as Brightwell Rebels set up a quarter-final trip to Whitley Athletic with the 7-2 destruction of Calcot in the Berks & Bucks Sunday Junior Trophy. more...
Tom Srawley smashed five of Goodlake Arms goals as they thrashed Abba Athletic 9-2 in the third round of the Autotype UTV League's Devenney Cup, writes Tim Siret. more...
Chris Da Silva scored twice as St Birinus School, Didcot lifted the Oxfordshire Under 13 Schools' Cup with a 3-2 win over Wheatley Park in the final at Oxford City FC. more...
Milton United came out on top 4-2 in a dramatic penalty shoot-out after their SBJ Sports Insurance Hellenic League Cup quarter-final against Highworth Town finished 2-2 after extra time on Saturday. more...
Alistair Booth officially unveiled Frilford Heath's centenary flag as he drove in as their new captain. more...
NORTH OXFORD Ladies' Stableford No 12 - Silver Div: 1 1 C Peddy 33pts, 2 M Booth 30. Bronze Div: 1 1 L Hardy 31, 2 E Rummings 30. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. 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...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. 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...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A £20,000 carrot is being dangled in front of villagers in an innovative community-wide scheme to cut energy consumption. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
Chris Catlin, who is leading the all-weather jockeys' championship, was celebrating after notching four winners in a day for the first time. more...
Gerard Butler may be set to move from his Blewbury yard, near Didcot, later this year - but in the meantime he is eyeing some big prizes with the flying fillies Baharah and Silver Pivotal. more...
Mulberry Lad, trained by Peter Hiatt at Hook Norton, provided Chris Catlin with another winner in his quest for the all-weather jockeys' championship with victory at Lingfield yesterday. more...
Oxford City Stars coach Darryl Morvan was delighted with the determination shown by his team in their double-header against Peterborough and Telford. more...
Oxford City Stars emerged from their travels unbeaten after tough encounters against Peterborough Islanders and Telford Tigers in the space of two days. more...
MONEY figures largely in two of our main stories this week, the financial dealings going on behind Witney's major shopping and housing developments and the staggering cost of last July's floods. more...
The county council is wrong to say that there is no viable option to burning Oxfordshire's waste in an incinerator (Oxford Mail, January 25). more...
One of your correspondents, commenting on a student demonstration at the Oxford Union, said the protesters were "worse than the people they were targeting". more...
I voted for Maurice Shea in the May 2007 elections and, having read councillor Alison Rooke's letter about Abingdon (Oxford Mail, January 15), I realise why I did. more...
I read your article about the Old Gaol at Abingdon with great interest (Oxford Mail, January 23). more...
The Spin kicked off a new season with the audience packed from stage to entrance to see American Joel Harrison's quintet playing one of only two venues in the country before moving to other parts of Europe. Harrison's website confirms what was very much in evidence, that, despite his abilities as a guitarist, this quiet, unassuming musician sees himself as much a composer as player. With a quintet of superb musicians Harrison himself was primarily the band leader who led his players through the intricacies of his scores while leaving much of the soloing to the saxophonist Miguel Zenon (pictured) and second guitarist, Brad Shepik, with Jordan Perlson drums and Fima Ephron bass. more...
Usually it's rather like an old-fashioned school crocodile as the 50-odd members of the Oxford Philomusica orchestra file into the Sheldonian. But this time it was different: just five musicians appeared at the beginning of the concert - not because everyone else was late, but because the Philomusica was trying an experiment. The orchestra had decided to embrace both intimate and large-scale Schubert by programming the Trout Quintet and his Symphony No 9 (The Great) together in one concert. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. more...
THIRTY-EIGHT motorists were stopped by police in Banbury today for failing to wear their seatbelts and three others were fined for driving while using mobile phones. more...
THIRTY-EIGHT motorists were stopped by police in Banbury today for failing to wear their seatbelts and three others were fined for driving while using mobile phones. more...
FINE, antiquarian and secondhand books, maps and prints will be on sale at a book fair at The Oxford Centre in Banbury Road. 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...
A CHEQUE has been presented after inmates at Bullingdon Prison raised more than £600 for Children In Need. more...
A CHEQUE has been presented after inmates at Bullingdon Prison raised more than £600 for Children In Need. 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 MOTHER whose child died of meningitis has welcomed research highlighting how genes could make some people more susceptible to the illness than others. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A £20,000 carrot is being dangled in front of villagers in an innovative community-wide scheme to save energy. more...
COUNCILLORS tackling flyposting in East Oxford have warned they will take action against the perpetrators. more...
PLANS are being drawn up for four giant wind turbines in Oxford. more...
THE rector of one of Oxford's largest Anglican churches last night called plans to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from the city's main mosque "un-English". more...
THE Imam of Oxford's Central Mosque has invited people to see for themselves what the call to prayer involves. more...
AN inquest into the death of a cyclist at a busy crossroads in the city centre will take place today. more...
THIRTY homes have now been evacuated after a fire broke out at a filling station in Sutton Courtenay. more...
MEDIEVAL bones were dug up yesterday by contractors working on a major improvement scheme for Bonn Square, Oxford. more...
A MOTORCYCLIST who died yesterday following a crash on the A420 at Buckland has been named as Norman Clayson, 51, of Butts Road, Faringdon. more...
FORMER racehorse trainer John Bosley died on Monday following a long battle with cancer. more...
SCIENCE Oxford, the cultural centre for science in St Clements, is hosting a Girls Into Physics event today. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. more...
AN INQUEST has today been opened into the death of a young Oxford climber who plunged down a rock face into the sea. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze say they now have the fire under control and are helping evacuate local residents. more...
THIRTY-EIGHT motorists were stopped by police in Banbury today for failing to wear their seatbelts and three others were fined for driving while using mobile phones. more...
THIRTY-EIGHT motorists were stopped by police in Banbury today for failing to wear their seatbelts and three others were fined for driving while using mobile phones. more...
POLICE teams across Oxford are enjoying the media spotlight as stars of an ITV television documentary about their work. more...
A WOMAN was chased by a man wielding a knife in an attempted robbery in Marston Road, Oxford. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze in Sutton Courtenay say the cause of the explosion is still not known. more...
A KNIFE-WIELDING robber snatched cash in a raid on a newsagents in Abingdon. more...
CYCLIST Tsz Fok died as a result of an accident, Oxfordshire's deputy coroner ruled at an inquest today. more...
POLICE this evening disclosed a second schoolboy has been assaulted in Faringdon in the past fortnight. more...
SUMMERTOWN is to get a £1.1m facelift this summer, including a series of traffic calming measures. more...
POLICE behind a crackdown on prostitution in East Oxford have warned kerb crawlers they face being named and shamed in court. more...
MP Dr Evan Harris will meet Post Office managers on Friday over plans to axe up to 30 of the county's 180 branches. more...
DISAPPOINTMENT is the word on many Abingdon residents' lips after plans were unveiled for the Old Gaol. more...
THREE teenagers were arrested tonight in connection with an attack on a 14-year-old boy in Littlemore, Oxford. more...
A MAN who died after a road accident in Marcham was named today by police. more...
THE operation to remove Oxford eco-protester Gabriel Chamberlain - who is due to answer police bail tomorrow - from his tree in Bonn Square cost Oxford City Council almost £12,000, it emerged tonight. more...
POLICE are investigating whether the body discovered in Iffley Lock, Oxford, on Monday is that of a 57-year-old East Oxford woman reported missing last week. more...
A TOP Whitehall official tonight apologised for the waste of millions of pounds on abandoned plans to build an asylum centre in Oxfordshire. more...
A TOP Whitehall official tonight apologised for the waste of millions of pounds on abandoned plans to build an asylum centre in Oxfordshire. 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...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. more...
A CHEQUE has been presented after inmates at Bullingdon Prison raised more than £600 for Children In Need. more...
A CHEQUE has been presented after inmates at Bullingdon Prison raised more than £600 for Children In Need. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
BICESTER'S Round Table Christmas float raised more than £4,300 during the festive period. more...
A TOP Whitehall official tonight apologised for the waste of millions of pounds on abandoned plans to build an asylum centre in Oxfordshire. more...
A TOP Whitehall official tonight apologised for the waste of millions of pounds on abandoned plans to build an asylum centre in Oxfordshire. more...
POLICE this evening disclosed a second schoolboy has been assaulted in Faringdon in the past fortnight. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
THIRTY homes have now been evacuated after a fire broke out at a filling station in Sutton Courtenay. more...
A MOTORCYCLIST who died yesterday following a crash on the A420 at Buckland has been named as Norman Clayson, 51, of Butts Road, Faringdon. more...
FORMER racehorse trainer John Bosley died on Monday following a long battle with cancer. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze say they now have the fire under control and are helping evacuate local residents. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze in Sutton Courtenay say the cause of the explosion is still not known. more...
A KNIFE-WIELDING robber snatched cash in a raid on a newsagents in Abingdon. more...
MP Dr Evan Harris will meet Post Office managers on Friday over plans to axe up to 30 of the county's 180 branches. more...
DISAPPOINTMENT is the word on many Abingdon residents' lips after plans were unveiled for the Old Gaol. more...
A MAN who died after a road accident in Marcham was named today by police. more...
FOOTBALL International Oxford City's Court Place Farm will host international football on Sunday. more...
Centenarian Grace Moore, one of the county's oldest residents, has passed away three months short of her 101st birthday. more...
Distinguished psychoanalyst and social scientist Isabel Menzies Lyth, from Iffley, in Oxford, who made a major contribution to the field of psychotherapy, has died aged 90. more...
Tributes have been paid to the Rev Martin Garner, who died suddenly of heart failure. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
A NEW breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
Oxfordshire's Premier team crashed out of the English Short Mat Association Inter County Competition with a 27-9 defeat by Warwickshire in the first knockout-out round. more...
Section 1 side Gladiators A pulled off their best win of the season by defeating Premier hopefuls Horse & Harrow 4-1 at home in the Johnson's Buildbase Oxford & District League, writes PETE EWINS. more...
Witney's youngsters gave the club the ideal start to the Chiltern League with a comprehensive victory in the first round gala at Dunstable on Saturday. more...
FOUR members of the St Birinus School Club at Didcot enjoyed success at the Central Championships at Walsall. more...
Josh Tomlinson bagged a brace after setting up the opening goal for Andy Ringsell as Abingdon beat Witney 3-2 in South League Area Division 1 at Tilsley Park. more...
Gladiators Club made an excellent recovery to beat Rose & Crown B in Division 3 of the Wallingford & District League. more...
Wallingford C produced the biggest surprise in the Didcot & District League when they defeated previously unbeaten Harwell A 3-2 in Division 3. more...
Drayton B won a crucial match in their bid to avoid relegation from Division 1 of the Didcot & District League when they beat their depleted A team 7-3, writes Roger Templeman. more...
Abingdon Vale won three golds and a host of other medals at the Maxwell Designated Open Meet in Aylesbury. more...
Abingdon Eagles Under 18s put in a superb team effort to demolish Bristol City Academy Storm 96-42 in the South West Conference. more...
Radley and Oxford remained firm favourites for promotion from Division 2 of the Five Disciplines League as they edged past Windrush 238-210 at the European School. more...
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Wallingford Rowing Club's successful year in 2007, was marked when they were given a reception by the Wallingford Town Council. more...
The rector of one of Oxford's largest Anglican churches last night called plans to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from the city's main mosque "un-English". more...
A motorcyclist who died yesterday following a crash on the A420 at Buckland has been named as Norman Clayson, 51, of Butts Road, Faringdon. more...
Medieval bones were dug up yesterday by contractors working on a major improvement scheme for Oxford's Bonn Square. more...
The city of dreaming spires could become the Windy City after it emerged plans were being drawn up for four giant wind turbines. more...
A group of enterprising students designed and produced their own children's book to help a charity run by a teacher at their school. more...
A woman was attacked by a man brandishing a knife while she was walking along Marston Road, near the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. more...
A young Oxford climber has died after falling from a rock face into the sea in Dorset. more...
Cyclist Tsz Fok died as a result of an accident, Oxfordshire's deputy coroner ruled at an inquest today. more...
Police behind a crackdown on prostitution in East Oxford have warned kerb crawlers they face being named and shamed in court. more...
People shared their experiences of living on the streets during an event to raise awareness of homelessness. more...
Summertown - one of Oxford's most desirable suburbs - is to get a £1.1m facelift this summer, including a series of traffic calming measures. more...
Children at a village youth club are jumping for joy after winning a grant to buy a custom-built bouncy castle. more...
A shortage of building workers is preventing flood victims from returning to their homes more than six months after July's devastating floods. more...
Hundreds of skeletons could be buried beneath Oxford's Bonn Square, according to the archaeologist overseeing redevelopment work. more...
MP Evan Harris will meet Post Office bosses on Friday over plans to axe up to 30 of the county's 180 branches. more...
The county's fire and rescue service is one of the best performing in the country, according to figures published today. more...
Hundreds of people from Oxford's Chinese community are set to descend on the Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, tomorrow to mark the beginning of the Chinese New Year. more...
Morris Minor lovers from across the globe will descend on Oxford this year to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cowley-built car. more...
Three teenagers were arrested tonight in connection with an attack on a 14-year-old boy in Littlemore, Oxford. more...
Members of the Thames Regional Flood Defence Committee have agreed a fund of £10m to be spent on regional flood risk management projects over the next year. more...
The operation to remove Oxford eco-protester Gabriel Chamberlain - who is due to answer police bail tomorrow - from his tree in Bonn Square cost Oxford City Council £12,000, it emerged tonight. more...
Police are investigating whether the body discovered in Oxford's Iffley Lock on Monday is that of a 57-year-old East Oxford woman reported missing last week. more...
At Oxford Town Hall this evening, Respect MP George Galloway copmpared Gordon Brown and David Cameron to "two cheeks" of the same backside. more...
Henley Hawks' struggles are not confined to on-field matters, their latest newsletter reveals. more...
Banbury Bulls coach Grant Holmes is adamant they can still avoid relegation from Midlands 2 East despite being eight points off safety. more...
Wallingford prop Chris Gabbett won't play again this season as he bids to recover from a neck injury. more...
Two players have entered the running to be Oxford University captain for this year's Varsity Match. more...
Anthony Jackson is looking forward to a new lease of life with Oxford Harlequins after almost quitting the sport. more...
Tom Hall scored a hat-trick of tries as Berks, Bucks & Oxon League Premier Division leaders Chipping Norton defeated Stow-on-the-Wold 23-3 in a dour contest. more...
Abingdon edged out Gosford All Blacks 10-7 in the Berks Bucks & Oxon Premier Division on Saturday - just two weeks after losing 46-0 to the same side in the Oxfordshire Shield. more...
Witney & District FA Veteran Simon Gibbs smashed a superb hat-trick as Wychwood Forest got their Supplementary Cup campaign off to a flying start with a 7-2 victory over Ducklington A in Group 1. more...
Witney & District FA Milton booked their place in the second round of the Junior Cup after a 4-3 extra-time victory over Minster Lovell. more...
Witney & District FA Defending champions Freeland went back to the top of the Premier Division after a nail-biting 3-2 victory over arch rivals Hailey on Saturday, writes Anthony Barlow. more...
Witney & District FA Veteran Simon Gibbs smashed a superb hat-trick as Wychwood Forest got their Supplementary Cup campaign off to a flying start with a 7-2 victory over Ducklington A in Group 1. more...
Witney & District FA Milton booked their place in the second round of the Junior Cup after a 4-3 extra-time victory over Minster Lovell. more...
Witney & District FA Defending champions Freeland went back to the top of the Premier Division after a nail-biting 3-2 victory over arch rivals Hailey on Saturday, writes Anthony Barlow. more...
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At the outset, I do have to confess that I walked into this production with two prejudices. First, I detest farce, and this play is a classic, if not the classic, example of this genre. Second, it is a student production and my previous experiences of student productions are very mixed. I believe I was never destined to enjoy this play wholeheartedly. This review therefore should be taken with a pinch of salt. more...
'What's he written about me?" Max's ex-wife Harriet asks anxiously. Liz, Max's secretary (it's the 1980s, so secretaries aren't yet extinct) is, however, the soul of discretion, and refuses to show Harriet the manuscript of Max's autobiography, which she has just been typing up (the 1980s also means that no computer yet sits upon Max's grandiose desk). Max, a writer, is conveniently absent - gone to Munich, where a Hollywood producer is allegedly salivating over the film rights of his latest novel. Unfortunately the Hollywood producer is very soon very dead. Shot. But by whom? And why did the producer turn out to be interested in Max's autobiography, while he couldn't care less about the novel? more...
The dark heart of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Oklahoma! was thrown into sharp relief in the North Oxford Youth Theatre group's production staged at Wolvercote village hall last week. The show famously starts with an uplifting song about the beauty of a prairie morning - but clouds soon gather as hints of prejudice, social conflict and even murder creep in to sour the show's sunny aspect. more...
Colin Nicholson takes a ski holiday in the German Alps and finds that history is never far away, even out on the slopes — which once hosted the Nazis' showpiece Winter Olympics more...
Oxford United fans had reasons to be cheerful - even though their team went down again. more...
A MOTORCYCLIST who died yesterday following a crash on the A420 at Buckland has been named as Norman Clayson, 51, of Butts Road, Faringdon. more...
FORMER racehorse trainer John Bosley died on Monday following a long battle with cancer. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze in Sutton Courtenay say the cause of the explosion is still not known. more...
POLICE this evening disclosed a second schoolboy has been assaulted in Faringdon in the past fortnight. more...
POLICE this evening disclosed a second schoolboy has been assaulted in Faringdon in the past fortnight. more...
FORMER racehorse trainer John Bosley died on Monday following a long battle with cancer. more...
A MOTORCYCLIST who died yesterday following a crash on the A420 at Buckland has been named as Norman Clayson, 51, of Butts Road, Faringdon. more...
FIREFIGHTERS tackling a petrol station blaze in Sutton Courtenay say the cause of the explosion is still not known. more...
THE riverside pub I visited for this week's Gazette was voted one of the five best child-friendly pubs in the UK last autumn, but I was there for a grown-up meal, with my friend Corin, who owns the Emporium cookware shop, in Eynsham. more...
A Chipping Norton man has been found seriously injured, with cuts to his throat. more...
Museum staff who less than three months ago were living under the shadow of closure are now busy getting ready for a new season. more...
TRADERS at Abingdon have launched a petition against the town's controversial new traffic scheme. more...
TOWNSFOLK are anxious about the number and quality of homes set to be built on the edge of Wallingford. more...
USE it or lose it - that is the message as the new first aid unit opens in Wallingford tomorrow. more...
PENSIONERS in Grove have said they are being tormented by groups of unruly yobs who have plagued their estate with threatening behaviour for months. more...
THE tragic story of five brothers who ended up in an orphanage is being traced by a descendant. more...
POLICE this evening disclosed a second schoolboy has been assaulted in Faringdon in the past fortnight. more...
'DISAPPOINTMENT' was the word on many Abingdon residents' lips after plans were unveiled for the Old Gaol last week. more...
THIRTY homes have now been evacuated after a fire broke out at a filling station in Sutton Courtenay. more...
MP Dr Evan Harris will meet Post Office managers on Friday over plans to axe up to 30 of the county's 180 branches. more...
DISAPPOINTMENT is the word on many Abingdon residents' lips after plans were unveiled for the Old Gaol. more...
A MOTORCYCLIST who died yesterday following a crash on the A420 at Buckland has been named as Norman Clayson, 51, of Butts Road, Faringdon. more...
FORMER racehorse trainer John Bosley died on Monday following a long battle with cancer. more...
A MAN who died after a road accident in Marcham was named today by police. more...
MORRIS Minor lovers from across the globe will descend on Oxford this year to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cowley-built car. more...
A KNIFE-WIELDING robber snatched cash in a raid on a newsagents in Abingdon. more...
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Wallingford Rowing Club's successful year in 2007, was marked when they were given a reception by the Wallingford Town Council. more...
Josh Tomlinson bagged a brace after setting up the opening goal for Andy Ringsell as Abingdon beat Witney 3-2 in South League Area Division 1 at Tilsley Park. more...
FOUR members of the St Birinus School Club at Didcot enjoyed success at the Central Championships at Walsall. more...
Gladiators Club made an excellent recovery to beat Rose & Crown B in Division 3 of the Wallingford & District League. more...
Wallingford C produced the biggest surprise in the Didcot & District League when they defeated previously unbeaten Harwell A 3-2 in Division 3. more...
Drayton B won a crucial match in their bid to avoid relegation from Division 1 of the Didcot & District League when they beat their depleted A team 7-3, writes Roger Templeman. more...
Abingdon Vale won three golds and a host of other medals at the Maxwell Designated Open Meet in Aylesbury. more...
Abingdon Eagles Under 18s put in a superb team effort to demolish Bristol City Academy Storm 96-42 in the South West Conference. more...
Radley and Oxford remained firm favourites for promotion from Division 2 of the Five Disciplines League as they edged past Windrush 238-210 at the European School. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. more...
THIRTY-EIGHT motorists were stopped by police in Banbury today for failing to wear their seatbelts and three others were fined for driving while using mobile phones. more...
BICESTER'S Round Table Christmas float raised more than £4,300 during the festive period. more...
A TOP Whitehall official tonight apologised for the waste of millions of pounds on abandoned plans to build an asylum centre in Oxfordshire. more...
MP Evan Harris will meet Post Office bosses on Friday over plans to axe up to 30 of the county's 180 branches. more...
The county's fire and rescue service is one of the best performing in the country, according to figures published today. more...
A Chipping Norton man has been found seriously injured, with cuts to his throat. more...
Residents in Sutton Courtenay were evacuated from their homes this morning following a fire and explosions at a petrol station. more...
Firefighters tackling a petrol station blaze near Didcot say they now have the fire under control and are helping evacuate local residents. more...
Cyclist Tsz Fok died as a result of an accident, Oxfordshire's deputy coroner ruled at an inquest today. more...
Hundreds of people from Oxford's Chinese community are set to descend on the Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, tomorrow to mark the beginning of the Chinese New Year. more...
A group of enterprising students designed and produced their own children's book to help a charity run by a teacher at their school. more...
Morris Minor lovers from across the globe will descend on Oxford this year to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cowley-built car. more...
Three teenagers were arrested tonight in connection with an attack on a 14-year-old boy in Littlemore, Oxford. more...
A top Whitehall official tonight apologised for the waste of millions of pounds on abandoned plans to build an asylum centre in Oxfordshire. more...
Police behind a crackdown on prostitution in East Oxford have warned kerb crawlers they face being named and shamed in court. more...
Dozens of people were last night staying at an Oxford hotel after fire ripped through a petrol station in an Oxfordshire village. more...
Travel agent Craig Burkinshaw is booked on a £100,000 trip out of this world. more...
People shared their experiences of living on the streets during an event to raise awareness of homelessness. more...
Summertown - one of Oxford's most desirable suburbs - is to get a £1.1m facelift this summer, including a series of traffic calming measures. more...
Members of the Thames Regional Flood Defence Committee have agreed a fund of £10m to be spent on regional flood risk management projects over the next year. more...
A man who died after a road accident in Marcham has been named by police. more...
Museum staff who less than three months ago were living under the shadow of closure are now busy getting ready for a new season. more...
Children at a village youth club are jumping for joy after winning a grant to buy a custom-built bouncy castle. more...
Soldiers who spent six months on active service in Afghanistan, Iraq and Bosnia are to be officially welcomed home. more...
The operation to remove Oxford eco-protester Gabriel Chamberlain - who is due to answer police bail tomorrow - from his tree in Bonn Square cost Oxford City Council £12,000, it emerged tonight. more...
Police are investigating whether the body discovered in Oxford's Iffley Lock on Monday is that of a 57-year-old East Oxford woman reported missing last week. more...
A lorry driver broke down in tears yesterday as he recalled the moment a cyclist was crushed under the wheels of his truck. more...
Thirty-eight motorists were stopped by police in Banbury this morning for failing to wear their seatbelts and three others were fined for driving while using mobile phones. more...
Thirty homes have now been evacuated after a fire broke out at a petrol station near Didcot. more...
A shortage of building workers is preventing flood victims from returning to their homes more than six months after July's devastating floods. more...
At Oxford Town Hall this evening, Respect MP George Galloway copmpared Gordon Brown and David Cameron to "two cheeks" of the same backside. more...
Electricity has been restored to all homes outside a cordon put up around the site of a petrol station destroyed by fire in Sutton Courtenay today. more...
Disappointment is the word on many Abingdon residents' lips after plans were unveiled for the Old Gaol. more...
A woman was attacked by a man brandishing a knife while she was walking along Marston Road, near the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. more...
Firefighters tackling a petrol station blaze in Sutton Courtenay say the cause of the explosion remains a mystery. more...
A young Oxford climber has died after falling from a rock face into the sea in Dorset. more...
Hundreds of skeletons could be buried beneath Oxford's Bonn Square, according to the archaeologist overseeing redevelopment work. more...
Oxfordshire's Premier team crashed out of the English Short Mat Association Inter County Competition with a 27-9 defeat by Warwickshire in the first knockout-out round. more...
Section 1 side Gladiators A pulled off their best win of the season by defeating Premier hopefuls Horse & Harrow 4-1 at home in the Johnson's Buildbase Oxford & District League, writes PETE EWINS. more...
POLICE teams across Oxford are enjoying the media spotlight as stars of an ITV television documentary about their work. more...
A WOMAN was chased by a man wielding a knife in an attempted robbery in Marston Road, Oxford. more...
THIRTY-EIGHT motorists were stopped by police in Banbury today for failing to wear their seatbelts and three others were fined for driving while using mobile phones. more...
THE rector of one of Oxford's largest Anglican churches last night called plans to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from the city's main mosque "un-English". more...
THE Imam of Oxford's Central Mosque has invited people to see for themselves what the call to prayer involves. more...
AN inquest into the death of a cyclist at a busy crossroads in the city centre will take place today. more...
POLICE this evening disclosed a second schoolboy has been assaulted in Faringdon in the past fortnight. more...
SUMMERTOWN is to get a £1.1m facelift this summer, including a series of traffic calming measures. more...
POLICE behind a crackdown on prostitution in East Oxford have warned kerb crawlers they face being named and shamed in court. more...
THIRTY homes have now been evacuated after a fire broke out at a filling station in Sutton Courtenay. more...
MP Dr Evan Harris will meet Post Office managers on Friday over plans to axe up to 30 of the county's 180 branches. more...
DISAPPOINTMENT is the word on many Abingdon residents' lips after plans were unveiled for the Old Gaol. more...
A SHORTAGE of building workers is preventing flood victims from returning to their homes more than six months after July's devastating floods. more...
MEDIEVAL bones were dug up yesterday by contractors working on a major improvement scheme for Bonn Square, Oxford. more...
AMERICAN coffee giant Starbucks wants to turn Summertown into a real coffee republic by becoming the 12th store in the area to offer customers a caffeine hit. more...
MUSEUM staff who have been living under the shadow of closure are busy getting ready for a new season. more...
HUNDREDS of skeletons could be buried beneath Oxford's Bonn Square, according to the archaeologist overseeing redevelopment work. more...
HUNDREDS of people from Oxford's Chinese community are set to descend on the Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, tomorrow to mark the beginning of the Chinese New Year. more...
A MOTORCYCLIST who died yesterday following a crash on the A420 at Buckland has been named as Norman Clayson, 51, of Butts Road, Faringdon. more...
FORMER racehorse trainer John Bosley died on Monday following a long battle with cancer. more...
A NEW information point offering advice on employment, benefits, housing and debt is being launched at Harwell primary school. more...
A GROUP of enterprising students designed and produced their own children's book to help a charity run by a teacher at their school. more...
THREE teenagers were arrested tonight in connection with an attack on a 14-year-old boy in Littlemore, Oxford. more...
A MAN who died after a road accident in Marcham was named today by police. more...
THE operation to remove Oxford eco-protester Gabriel Chamberlain - who is due to answer police bail tomorrow - from his tree in Bonn Square cost Oxford City Council almost £12,000, it emerged tonight. more...
POLICE are investigating whether the body discovered in Iffley Lock, Oxford, on Monday is that of a 57-year-old East Oxford woman reported missing last week. more...
A new breed of entrepreneurs opened for business at a special event in Cowley. more...
FIREFIGHTERS from Didcot look set to conquer Wales' highest mountain for charity - but without the help of their ladders. more...
MORRIS Minor lovers from across the globe will descend on Oxford this year to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cowley-built car. more...
A TOP Whitehall official tonight apologised for the waste of millions of pounds on abandoned plans to build an asylum centre in Oxfordshire. more...
AN INQUEST has today been opened into the death of a young Oxford climber who plunged down a rock face into the sea. more...
A KNIFE-WIELDING robber snatched cash in a raid on a newsagents in Abingdon. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. more...
A YOUNG man was airlifted to hospital after he was found with serious injuries to his throat in Chipping Norton. more...
MUSEUM staff who have been living under the shadow of closure are busy getting ready for a new season. more...
Witney's youngsters gave the club the ideal start to the Chiltern League with a comprehensive victory in the first round gala at Dunstable on Saturday. more...
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