Baring all on the walls of the Houses of Parliament will be just one of the experiences TV presenter Gail Porter will be sharing with university students tonight. The Top of the Pops presenter - who is a regular pin-up in young men's magazines - will
Two doctors, a convent and three neighbours face a High Court confrontation over their community hospital. They have been named as objectors in a dispute over the future of the 12-bed hospital at Burford. They aim to prevent the sale and redevelopment
Oxford Mail writer George Frew reports from the scene of the Paddington rail disaster As always, the scene of disaster is picked out by the tidemark of a sea of cellophane-wrapped flowers. They stand in a long row against the railway wall which looks
Mystery surrounds two men in black who called at the Didcot home of Paddington rail crash victim Tony Beeton last night. The men, believed to be Government officials, pulled up at the detached house in a black, chauffeur-driven Mercedes before spending
Tomorrow: Mild and blustery but feeling fairly humid. There will be plenty of cloud as rain moves in from the east. Outlook: Pressure will build in the south to bring more settled conditions with some sunshine over England and Wales. It will stay wet
Police were today staying tight-lipped over reports that up to 19 cars belonging to victims of the Paddington rail crash may still be in car parks at Didcot Parkway Station. Since Tuesday's crash, Thames Valley officers have been making daily checks on
A family were told their daughter had been killed in the rail crash just minutes before she rang saying she was safe. The heartbreaking mix-up happened when Evelyn Paler, of Sunningwell, near Abingdon, gave a dying passenger her coat, which was later
A pensioner has told how bogus police officers burst into his home and stole a cash box. The 72-year-old man, who did not want to be identified, said the two men forced their way in through the back door of his house in Headington Road, Oxford. They walked
Jean Lees's husband phoned her to say his train was on fire - and then rang off to escape from his burning carriage. The mother-of-one was left waiting for ten minutes, praying that her husband would get out of the inferno alive. Eoin Lees, 52, of East
Economist Gavin Cameron has launched a £10m discrimination battle against the International Monetary Fund after losing a job offer because he suffers from cystic fibrosis. "I'm not too bothered about the money but I would love to do this job," he said
GRESHAM Oxford Cheetahs will need to pull off the shock of the season if they are to overcome the Coventry Bees in the second leg of their Craven Shield semi-final at the Stadium tonight (7.30pm), writes JOHN GAISFORD. Trailing by a massive 20 points
