PIONEERING Oxford United take their place in football TV history tomorrow when they stage the first pay-per-view match in this country. The clash with Sunderland forms the centrepiece of a three-hour programme - on Sky Box Office 3 - which starts at 5.30pm
Hundreds of students queued for free antibiotics at Oxford Brookes University last night in the main hall and at its Wheatley campus. Although the three recorded meningitis cases are not being linked, Oxfordshire Health Authority has recommended all first-year
Teenage rider John Wilson died when he fell off a pony after jumping a straw bale, an inquest heard. It is believed the 14-year-old's skull was crushed by the weight of his mount falling on to him in a field near his home in Woodway Farm, Sibford Ferris
Thirty squatters are celebrating after being allowed to take their case to court. At Oxford County Court, Judge Paul Clark adjourned an application by Oxfordshire County Council to evict them. He gave the group, represented by one of their number, David
BRIAN Buckingham, the Oxfordshire Junior Open badminton tournament organiser, has hit out at the Spiceball Park Leisure Centre in Banbury, for refusing to stage this year's event and holding a roller-disco instead. The junior open was held at Spiceball
CURRENT world speedway champion Tony Rickardsson will head one of the best line-ups ever seen at Cowley for the Simon Wigg farewell meeting at Oxford Stadium on Sunday, March 28. The Swede, a double world champion, will be just one of five former world
More rain across southern England, becoming dry by dawn. Tomorrow Mainly dry and bright with some sunny spells and blustery showers. Outlook Unsettled with periods of heavy rain, especially on Sunday. Story date: Friday 26 February Converted for the new
By MAGGIE HARTFORD Business Writer BUILDING materials specialist Hanson, which employs several thousand people in Oxfordshire, produced a buoyant set of full- year results. Hanson, which ten years ago took over ARC quarry company, based in Sutton Courtenay
THE continuing uncertainty over Oxford United's future means on-loan goalkeeper Paul Gerrard will return to Everton after tomorrow's Division 1 game against leaders Sunderland at the Manor. United manager Malcolm Shotton had been hoping to keep Gerrard
MIDFIELD battler Martin Gray and his Oxford United teammates will be out to prove a point when they take on his former club Sunderland at the Manor Ground tomorrow (6pm). The 27-year-old was one of the few players to emerge with any credit as Oxford suffered
Hopes of holding a Millennium night extravaganza in Oxford's town hall have been dashed. The St Aldate's venue was seen by many as the ideal place for a major celebration to welcome the year 2000. But city councillors have decided that town hall staff
Football fan Matthew Osbury was the victim of "sub-zero tolerance" after police arrested him as a tout for trying to pass on one ticket. Magistrates heard that, as a result, Oxford United fan Osbury, 28, of Malford Road, Barton, Oxford, missed the "match
An Oxfordshire skier today criticised the slow response of rescue teams after avalanches killed 62 people in the Alps. Patrick Lowney, who was rescued from the deep snow with his six-year-old son, said only ten small helicopters, taking four people at
FORMER Oxfordshire junior coach Bill Bailey has expressed his disgust that five of his pupils have been refused entry into the Oxfordshire restricted badminton tournament. Bailey was replaced as county coach just over a year ago, and in protest at the
Moggies beware. The arrival of the killer cat flap is now only a matter of weeks away. But it could prove the purrfect answer to exterminating fleas. Oxfordshire inventor Bob Hobbs has been just itching to get his flea-blasting device into our homes.
Andrew Ffrench looks at a fantasy role-playing game which led to one Oxford student being arrested with a replica machine gun Like many other Oxford University students, third-year medic Ian Yeung, 20, joined the Oxford Guild of Assassins for a bit of
Two female Oxford students have been struck down with meningitis two weeks after a teenager died from the killer disease in the city. An 18-year-old at Oxford Brookes University is today recovering after treatment for suspected meningitis at the John
