Tomorrow: Rain spreading from the south west will by noon have extended to all areas. Outlook: For the whole of the UK there will be mainly northerly winds with showers which will turn increasingly to snow, at first just over Scotland; but during Thursday
A club is to stay male-dominated after a massive vote against allowing women to become full members. Men at the Marlborough Club, Didcot, voted more than 3-1 against the move. Now women must stay associate members without a voice or a vote in how the
A demolition contractor has been ordered to pay £6,000 in fines and legal costs for polluting a brook with diesel fuel and illegally dumping waste. Andrew Baughan, trading as Banbury Demolition, pleaded guilty to letting up to 100 gallons of fuel leak
Fire crews battled to save an ancient cottage owned by the National Trust. More than 40 firefighters were called when flames took hold of the thatched roof at Wayside Cottage, Chapel Road, South Leigh. The fire is believed to have been started by sparks
Animal rights campaigner Vernon Coleman has blasted police after he was stopped and searched. Dr Coleman accused Thames Valley Police of running a "police state" because they stopped him in Oxford and searched his car after he spoke at an anti-vivisection
A machine operator was jailed for four years today for attempting to rape a toddler. Matthew Fletcher, 27, from Woodstock, was convicted of attacking the 23-month-old after her mother found him in bed with the child. The girl was naked, with scratches
CANADIAN snooker star Kirk Stevens has Thame Snooker Club boss John Evans to thank for rescuing his career. Stevens's cue was stolen in Leeds recently and Evans lent him his own when he played an exhibition match against home professional Lee Richardson
CHALLOW & Childrey failed in their quest to reach the grand finals of the ECB indoor cricket competition, losing to a strong Loughborough University side in the regional finals at Evesham. Losing the toss and being asked to bat, Challow saw their
OXFORD United v Sunderland - the first pay-per-view match in British football history - was a big turn-off for any neutral viewers paying £7.95 to watch on the Sky Box Office channel. Sky spokesman Chris Haynes said it would be impossible to tell how
Nothing shocks funeral director Adrian Pink, writes FIONA TARRANT. Not even when the family of a recently departed person asked if they could have Status Quo's Rocking all over the World played as the coffin entered church. "People seem to be a lot more
President Bill Clinton was accused of raping a woman while he was a student at Oxford University during the 1960s, it was claimed today. The accusation, posted on the Internet, alleges that Mr Clinton assaulted the 19-year-old woman after meeting her
COUNTY council trading standards officers have received cultural awareness training from the Ethnic Minority Business Service. The aim of the three two-and-a-half hour sessions was to increase awareness of cultural differences within the various minority
MALCOLM Shotton may try to sign Paul Gerrard for a third month on loan after the Everton goalkeeper's brilliant late save against Sunderland on Saturday. Gerrard made a flying leap to his left to keep out a curling effort from his former Oldham teammate
Oxford Utd 0, Sunderland 0 SUBSTITUTE Andy Thomson came within three inches of a shock late winner against the runaway Division 1 leaders Sunderland in British football's first pay-per-view League game at the Manor on Saturday evening. Latching on to
Pop star George Michael can expect a warm welcome in a village on the Oxfordshire border where he has bought a £1.6m country cottage. George, 35, beat off fellow singer Robbie Williams to snap up the five-bedroom property in Goring, just yards away from
Up to 100 people were evacuated from an industrial estate today after workmen ruptured a gas main. Police and firefighters cordoned off an area of 100sq metres after the gas leak outside Moss Plastics on the Langford Lane industrial estate, Kidlington
Dons at an Oxford college want to cut opening hours in the students' bar - to drive up exam results. But the idea isn't going down well with undergraduates at St Catherine's College - 250 of them turned out for a protest meeting in a bid to scotch the
A teenage French exchange student was today critically ill in hospital after being struck by a car near her host family's home. Charlotte Esciande, 13, from Paris, was struck as she crossed the road in The Avenue, Kennington, at the junction with Manor
Campaigners against the threatened closure of two homes for the elderly branded the plans 'legal murder'. They said the shock of being moved when Cutteslowe Court in Oxford was closed led to the deaths of seven elderly people. Now they fear more deaths
GRESHAM Oxford Cheetahs boss Steve Purchase finalised his 1998 line-up with the capture of Alun Rossiter and Lawrence Hare. He announced his full one-to-seven at a packed speedway forum at Oxford Stadium, but there will be a new team manager to lead them
