A MAN who helped create the blockbuster Star Wars films is helping bring the past to life at the award-winning Vale and Downland Museum in Wantage. Former Nasa technician turned Hollywood designer, Harry Lange, is working alongside his curator son, John
FORMER Cowley car worker Mark Robins became the victim of a race hate campaign in Northern Ireland - because he was an Englishman. He has now won £3,000 compensation and become the first person to win a racial discrimination case in the province. Mr Robins
CYCLIST Colin Fisher, who suffered a heart attack during a road race, is fighting fit after his life was saved by fellow competitors and paramedics. Mr Fisher, 51, of Water Eaton Lane, Kidlington, was just two miles into the time trial at North Leigh,
STRIKER Steve Jenkins and midfielder Phil Mason face fitness tests before Oxford City's Ryman League Premier Division game with Aylesbury at Court Place Farm tonight (7.30). Mason picked up a knock in Monday's defeat at Basingstoke, a match that Jenkins
SIR Cliff Richard may be getting on a bit but he's hardly most people's idea of Moses. And when it comes to the singer's campaign for a set of ten trendy new church commandments, the message from Oxfordshire is clear: keep taking the tablets, Cliff. The
THE Government's long-awaited report on Campsfield House is published today. PAUL HARRIS visited the immigration detention centre in Kidlington... A ROLLER-coaster ride between hope and despair - that's how the chaplain of Campsfield House describes life
IT was like a scene from a disaster movie. Weathermen gave no indication of the scale of the deluge which was to strike Oxfordshire during 48 hours of the worst floods seen for generations. Families valiantly struggled to protect their homes as the torrent
HAROLD Macmillan reckoned it to be "one of the last bastions of freedom of speech in the Western world". But choose the right night and you could well come across Lindi "Miss Whiplash" St Clair in cracking good form, or soccer legend Diego Maradona demonstrating
SPIES in the sky will soon be pinpointing problems from leaves on Oxfordshire's rail lines, writes Chris Koenig. The new system, which will be pioneered by Thames Trains, uses global positioning satellites to pinpoint exactly where falling leaves are
WE'RE the business - and we've got more prizes to prove it. Your favourite paper has landed another award as business editor David Duffy has been voted regional business journalist of the year for the second year running in BT's London and Northern Home
AN articulated lorry crashed into safety barriers and overturned on the M40 today, injuring the driver. It was travelling south between junction nine at Wendlebury and eight at Oxford when it struck the central reservation and spun over at about 5am.
SUPPORTERS of Watlington Community Hospital turned up in large numbers with the town's MP Michael Heseltine to grill hospital managers who propose to close it down. About 450 people from across Oxfordshire and even parts of Buckinghamshire packed into
A HEROIN addict stole £2,000 worth of stereo equipment on a visit to see his doctor, a court heard. Instead of calling at the surgery, Liam Leather, 23, broke into the house to steal valuables to pay for his drug habit. Oxford Magistrates' Court heard
STAFF at Oxford's world-famous Botanic Garden are celebrating a narrow escape from disaster. There had been fears that hundreds of rare plants would be lost when the River Cherwell burst its banks on Saturday morning. But the historic garden, near Magdalen
WEST Witney Ladies hope to follow in the footsteps of Oxford Hawks men this weekend by securing their place in the National Hockey League next season. Like Hawks, West Witney finished near the bottom of their National League division, in the play-off
VIEWERS of TV's top soap in Oxfordshire have given a shocking verdict on the Deirdre Rachid jail saga: we don't give a damn. Not one person has signed a petition to "Free Deirdre", set up in Dillon's newsagent in Elms Parade, Botley. And branches elsewhere
'After our last op I kissed the ground' - Book tells of Stan's wartime hell AT the age of just 19, Stan Bradford watched as an exploding flash of light signalled that a British RAF plane had been shot down - and the German fighter responsible had his
PHIL Gilchrist is a major injury doubt for Oxford United against Tranmere Rovers at the Manor Ground tomorrow. The centre back hobbled off after just nine minutes at QPR on Tuesday with a groin muscle injury and has been receiving treatment since. Said
MIDWIFE Ethel Burns is at the heart of a row over the use of drugs during childbirth. The senior delivery unit nurse is on "special leave" from the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford after a disagreement over the use of the synthetic analgesic drug pethidine
HAYFEVER sufferer Agnieszka Fornalewska, 30, was so impressed when she tried aloe vera gel that she now sells it for a living. "My hayfever started when I was just four and no one knew why because nobody else in my family suffered from it. "It was getting
ANGRY immigrants at Campsfield House could riot again unless the "overloaded" detention system is transformed, according to a damning Government report. The long-awaited report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons demanded 94 improvements to the immigration
