UNIPART has sold off its Abingdon-based mobile phone company UniqueAir to Vodafone for £51m. UniqueAir, which employs 430 people at its headquarters on the Abingdon Business Park and at retail outlets in the south east, has 291,000 customers, about 70
POLICE are investigating the death of a teenager through a possible drugs overdose. The body of 17-year-old Seb Hewlett was found at his home in Merton Close, Eynsham, on Tuesday afternoon. An assortment of drugs paraphernalia was found close by. It is
Keen cyclists are looking for a 'chain reaction' to help build up a network of dedicated bike tracks spreading out from their village. The Bampton group, calling itself Chain Reaction, has already started fundraising for its first project - a £125,000
Home Secretary Jack Straw heard disturbing allegations of the drugs shame of an Oxfordshire prison. Former heroin addict Marc Porter claimed drugs were widely available at Bullingdon Prison, near Bicester. And the ex-prisoner alleged that even the drug
Water chiefs have apologised to customers after making families wait seven weeks to repair a leak. Peter Leaver and his wife, Gwyneth, rang Thames Water in July, after noticing a leak from the water meter outside their home in Stapleton Road, Headington
Detectives are appealing to the public to help them catch a would-be rapist before he attacks again. Police are convinced the sex fiend would have raped a 16-year-old girl on an Oxford towpath if the teenager had not fought him off. An underwater search
What have TV car show host Jeremy Clarkson and Oxford United manager Malcolm Shotton got in common? Answer: The colour red for their cars. And that, according to Oxford University psychologists Dr Peter Collett and Dr Peter Marsh, makes them full of life
A mild night with gentle winds and largely clear skies, but dawn will bring some patchy mist and low cloud. Tomorrow Plenty of sunshine after any early mist or low cloud have melted away. Outlook More warm sunshine on Saturday, but showers on Sunday in
WHEREVER I travelled on holiday this year - modern resorts, remote historic sites, jungle villages and encampments - one thing was constant . . . makeshift football pitches. On rock, on dirt, in car parks, between lines of washing, in the streets. Everywhere
Plans to raise standards in Oxfordshire's schools have received rare praise from the Government. Oxfordshire County Council's Education Development Plan - which sets out its policies for the next three years - has been endorsed by Education Secretary
A sex pest was jailed for seven months after twice assaulting women on the London Underground. Russian Sergui Ivanov, 30, of St Peter's Road, Oxford, claimed in court he was gay, so could not be the man responsible. During the trial at Horseferry Road
A cat lover claims the RSPCA dumped a stray cat back on a building site because its rehoming centre was full with Hillgrove Farm cats. Jerry Tubbs, of Silver Road, Oxford, says he handed the black-and-white cat to the animal charity two weeks ago after
