Police officer Raymond Lees has won an appeal against his sentence for careless driving. Pc Lees hit a car at Marcham, near Abingdon, while on his way to a burglary. Lees was fined £100 after pleading guilty and had his licence endorsed with four penalty
A security guard needed hospital treatment after he was beaten-up while on duty at Oxford Brookes University. Managers said they were investigating today after the attack at the Gypsy Lane campus in the early hours of Saturday morning. The security guard
Brave teenager Claire Webster has won a special award after battling on after open heart surgery. Claire, 17, of Horspath Road, Cowley, Oxford, was diagnosed with a heart condition the day before her 16th birthday in April last year. But after her operation
Parents Yvonne and Jeremy Sanderson are challenging Education Secretary David Blunkett in the High Court to let their son keep his place at a private boarding school. Dyslexic Alastair Sanderson, 11, could be forced to leave the private King's School,
Staff at four magistrates courts across the county were on tenterhooks today as they waited to hear whether their courthouses would be closed. A decision on the future of the courts at Abingdon, Wantage, Thame and Henley was made at a private meeting
OXFORD United manager Malcolm Shotton and centre back Phil Gilchrist have denied a report that there was a bust-up between the two of them on the players' end-of-season holiday in Cyprus last month. It is alleged that a row developed one evening and Gilchrist
A timebomb is ticking which could force millions of people on to the breadline, make taxes rocket and cause a crippling housing shortage. The source of this impending explosion? A huge rise in the number of old people in Oxfordshire. Improved diets and
Mavis Knight doesn't need a stress counsellor. If the 41-year-old service manager has a particularly hard day at work, she doesn't fret. She just watches a football match and shouts until she feels better. To say Mavis is a football fan is something of
A group of hard-up Oxford nurses have lashed out at millionaire pop star Sir Elton John for pulling out of a concert they travelled 150 miles to see. Nurses Jeni Brownlee, 37, Pat Brown, 40, Mary Murray, 30, and Simon Darwin, 30, each paid £35 for tickets
HIGH street bookseller WH Smith has moved to fend off the threat from on-line retailing by snapping up Europe's biggest internet book retailer, writes David Duffy. WH Smith is paying £8.8m for bookshop.co.uk, parent company of Oxford-based The Internet
Police are blocking bids by north Oxfordshire pubs to get extra opening time during the World Cup. Banbury police area commander Superintendent Matt Holmes said that the force would object to applications for extensions to licensing hours unless England
An alcoholic held a man at knifepoint - and then offered him cans of Fosters lager. Johnny Rebb, 32, of Middleton Road, Banbury, threatened Martin Earley with a combat knife just yards from his home and then frogmarched him inside. Oxford Crown Court
An elderly couple escaped a severe fire in the bedroom of their Oxford house just days after water flooded their street. A pensioner, 73, had to throw water at his 74-year-old wife yesterday when her hair caught fire in the blaze at their home in Harold
A new £9m secure unit for 40 mental health patients is to open in Oxford. Contracts have been signed for the medium secure unit which will be built behind existing mental health wards at Littlemore Hospital, run by Oxfordshire Mental Healthcare Trust.
FORMER Oxford United defender Matt Elliott is urging his Scotland teammates not to become too preoccupied by the threat of Ronaldo in their World Cup opener against Brazil tomorrow. Yet boss Craig Brown is quietly confident that Scotland can surprise
A nursing and beds crisis is gripping Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. As reported in two Oxford Mail exclusives, an emergency ward had to close for three days and some patients are dying before reaching the operating table as the situation reaches chronic
A nursing and beds crisis is gripping Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. As reported in two Oxford Mail exclusives, an emergency ward had to close for three days and some patients are dying before reaching the operating table as the situation reaches chronic
ANNE Brunner-Ellis couldn't find the words to describe the pain of not being able to have a second child. Her daughter, Jessica, was born in 1990 but Anne, 42, was desperate to have a child with her second husband, 35-year-old Robin. Despite numerous
