The niece of BBC weatherman Bill Giles was due to be returned to Devon after walking out of a psychiatric hospital and failing to turn up at court. Joanna Toner, 38, who suffers from a mental illness, was due to be sentenced on Friday at Tiverton, Devon
Postal workers in east Oxford and Abingdon have voted for more strike action. Staff are angry after four workers lost their appeals against dismissal for "wilful delay of the mail" and agreed in a ballot to take action in support of their colleagues.
A photographer and a reporter from the Oxford Mail were escorted away from a crunch meeting between Oxford United and city councillors today. United managing director Keith Cox was due to give councillors a date for work to re-start on building the club's
A Nigerian asylum seeker who had been on hunger strike for 19 days has been treated at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Kola Tunde Jinadu was admitted to hospital from Campsfield House on Friday. He and a Russian man have been drinking only water in
CRICKET throughout the county was washed out at the weekend as the rains returned with a vengeance - not for the first time this season. The Adkin Cherwell League was decimated, with all 1st and 2nd XI fixtures abandoned. One 3rd XI match went ahead at
REBEL bowler Howard Watts, bombed out by Oxfordshire earlier this season, has had the last laugh. He qualified for a place in the National Finals at Worthing next month when his Summertown team, skipped by ex-England captain Gary Harrington, yesterday
Catriona has your number the moment she sees you. GEMMA SIMMS reports... Catriona Cusick Riley can tell plenty about people she hasn't met before - just by looking at their faces. The 34-year-old natural health practitioner, who teaches at the holistic
THREE Oxfordshire students are among the pick of Britain's most brilliant young inventors. Ben Young, at 13, reckons he can ease the parking misery of millions of drivers. And it won him top prize at the regional final of the Young Engineers for Britain
A COMPANY which published the complete works of Shakespeare on interactive CD-Rom before going into administration with the loss of about 40 jobs has been bought up, writes Chris Koenig. Andromeda Interactive, an Abingdon company founded in 1993 as a
A senior Catholic friar and former head of an Oxford theology college is to marry an ex-pupil. Dominican friar the Rev Paul Parvis, 52, who has quit as Regent of Studies at Blackfriars in St Giles, will wed Sara Dudley Edwards, 29, in September. She was
Hundreds of animal rights protesters marched into Oxford causing traffic chaos after they were banned from demonstrating in West Oxfordshire. A five-mile exclusion zone imposed around Witney stopped them holding a rally in Station Lane, Witney, followed
Shocked Morrells' workers were given redundancy details within hours of learning that the brewery was for sale. Workers say the company wasted little time in dashing lingering hopes that brewing would continue at St Thomas' Street, Oxford. They were called
OXFORD United's big summer signing Dean Windass is relishing his move back to England where he hopes to get a fresh break from referees. The Aberdeen midfielder was flying south to sign for United today on a three-year deal for a club record £475,000.
A priest has been suspended from an Oxfordshire church after claims of sexual abuse involving a young boy. Father Ted O'Malley, 53, has been asked to leave St Joseph's Catholic Church in Banbury while detectives investigate. The allegations are understood
