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Oxford Brookes University is to be transformed by a £110m development scheme at its Headington and Wheatley sites. The University says its ageing buildings are no longer compatible with its long-term ambition to become Oxford's second internationally

Upton House, that National Trust mansion on the Oxfordshire-Warwickshire border, is barely a cannonball's throw from Edge Hill, scene of a bloody Civil War battle more than 350 years ago. On Monday, indifferent weather forced many Bank Holiday visitors

Bic Runga's music has a hauntingly beautiful quality, which places her apart from other singer-songwriters. So it comes as some surprise to find her hanging out in that bastion of pop culture Simon Cowell's office. "It's really wacky being here!"

On September 11, 2001, I vividly recall standing in front of a television set, staring dumbfounded at CNN's live footage of the second plane crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Centre. Confusion and disbelief gradually turned to horror

A man waiting for a hip replacement operation is trekking 55kms tomorrow to raise money for the £15m Oxford Children's Hospital Campaign. Despite finding it painful to walk, Dave Robertson, the regional director of Buildbase, based in Watlington Road

There is no doubt that our hospitals do much good work, saving lives every day. But sometimes, things go horribly wrong - and sadly we report one of those cases today. Shirley Cyprien, a 44-year-old mother, was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital

Henry Sambrooke Leigh wrote: "If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, and never touch bread until it's toasted or stale". Alas, I flouted all these

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is associated in most people's minds with Milos Forman's film adaptation. Among its seven Oscars was one for Jack Nicholson and his bravura performance as a rebellious inmate fighting the oppressive regime in a state

FORMER top Didcot CC man Nick Druce upstaged his old clubmates in the Didcot club 10-mile time trial on the Wallingford course. Druce, now an Oxonian CC first claim member, took victory in 23mins 19secs. He finished just four seconds ahead of Didcot's

SATURDAY CRICKET HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Div 1: Finchampstead v Banbury, Henley v Oxford. Div 2 West: Basingstoke & NH v Thame Town, Bicester & N Oxford v North Maidenhead, Kidlington v Burnham. THE OXFORD TIMES CHERWELL LEAGUE Div 1: Banbury

THAME United are set to play their home games at AFC Wallingford's Hithercroft ground after the newly-relegated club reached an agreement with their Hellenic League Premier Division rivals. The proposal now has to get the approval of the league following

EUROPEAN Solheim Cup director Mark Casey insists they are not "playing games" by delaying announcing the venues bidding for the 2011 event. The Oxfordshire, near Thame, was among the courses to submit applications by last Friday's deadline and expected

RAIN severely disrupted matches in the Oxfordshire LTA Wilson Inter-Club League last weekend with more than half of the Saturday fixtures washed out. However, Esporta were able to complete their Men's Division 1 match against Oxford City A in the 2-

TIM Henman slammed the way play was brought to an end on Wednesday evening after his second-round defeat in the French Open. The Oxfordshire ace resumed his match against Russia's Dmitry Tursunov two sets down yesterday, and although he rallied by pulling

WEST Ilsley trainer Mick Channon believes Championship Point has all the right attributes for tomorrow's Vodafone Derby. The three-year-old is a son of the top-class German performer Lomitas, whose progeny tend to improve with age, and the former Southampton

INDIAN off-spinner Haresh Dahabi will finally make his Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West debut for Thame Town at Basingstoke & North Hants. Thame had hoped to have Dahabi in from the beginning of the season, but were delayed due to problems

STEWART Laudat will captain Oxford tomorrow when they face Henley for the second time in a week. Laudat takes over from the injured Pat Jobson for the Home Counties Premier League Division 1 clash at the Brakspear. All-rounder Ian Evans is also out

OXFORDSHIRE will need calculators at the ready when they host Cambridgeshire at Challow in their final Group 4 game on Sunday. With only the group winners progressing to the semi-finals, victory alone will not guarantee Ian Hawtin's men passage into

BEN Harmison, younger brother of England fast bowler Steve, was Durham's star in The Parks yesterday, but it was the Oxford UCCE youngsters who held the upper hand. Harmison became the first Durham player for 12 years to score a century on his first-class

OXFORD'S final pre-season friendly has been confirmed. It will be against League One side Chesterfield at the Kassam Stadium on Saturday, July 29 (3pm), writes JON MURRAY. United's other two home friendlies are against Portsmouth and Manchester United

OXFORD United chairman Nick Merry and director Kelvin Thomas are giving up the Florida sun to concentrate on the club. oBoth men have been very successful in business in the United States, but are moving back to Oxfordshire over the summer to devote

TUESDAY Discussion: Travel writer Sara Wheeler will discuss the life of Karen Blixen's lover and companion, Denys Finch Hatton, at Blackwell Bookshop at 7pm. Her new book Too Close to the Sun will be available to buy. Tickets £2 available from Blackwell

Like Wolves in the Fold Mike Snook (Greenhill, £19.99) The epic quality of the battle of Rorke's Drift, when 150 Redcoats and other defenders held off a 4,000-strong Zulu army, has inspired British soldiers to this day. Their great stand in 1879

Oxfordshire's Hatti Dean recorded a start-to-finish victory in the 2,000m steeplechase at the CAU Inter-Counties Championships at Bedford. Radley's national cross country champion stormed home by around 30m from her nearest rival to win in 6mins 44.9secs

Bering Gifts lived up to his name by securing a trophy haul for Aston Rowant owner-trainer Alan Hill and jockey James Tudor with victory at the Berks & Bucks Draghounds Hunt meeting at Kingston Blount, near Chinnor. The 11-year-old's win in the men's

Oxfordshire failed to erase the ghosts of 2003 as they fell to an ultimately narrow defeat at Twickenham on Monday. This was a far closer game than three years ago when they were convincingly beaten 27-8 by Northumberland. And they can point to a

Abingdon School's first eight came so close to maintaining their hold on the Queen Mother's Cup for the championship men's eights at the National Schools Regatta at Nottingham last weekend, writes Mike Rosewell. They safely reached the final six where

James Hewitt was supposed to be on tour in Dubai this week after playing for Oxfordshire at Twickenham on Monday. But he is now laid up at home in Thame with his right leg in plaster following a freak injury just hours before the County Championship

Oxford United's French striker Eric Sabin has decided to retire from professional football. The 31-year-old former Swindon Town and Northampton striker had spoken several times towards the end of last season about his desire to return to his homeland

AUSSIE ace Troy Bayliss won both World Superbike races at Silverstone on Sunday, but the biggest cheers from the 71,000 crowd were for British riders James Toseland, Chris Walker, and Tommy Hill. Title-chase leader Bayliss (Ducati) outgunned Japan's

PLANS to close the special care baby unit at Banbury's Horton Hospital have been described as a "death waiting to happen". A nurse at the Horton has risked her job this week to expose details of how cutbacks to NHS services in Oxfordshire will affect

CUTBACKS in health services at Banbury's Horton Hospital have "dismayed" Cherwell District Council. The council says it particularly regrets proposals to end 24-hour paediatric care at the Horton, the loss of out-of-hours emergency surgery, in-patient

STALLHOLDERS on Banbury's street market are urging shoppers to support the twice-weekly event. They say the market is packed with bargains but suffers from a lack of customers. Former town mayor Surinder Dhesi is backing the traders. She said: "

TENANTS in North Oxfordshire are having more say over the way their homes and neighbourhoods are managed, according to a housing association. More than 100 people in Banbury, as well as Bicester and Kidlington, met the contractors who look after the

WHEN Heather Barlow was seven years old, doctors discovered a tennis ball-sized tumour on her kidney. Her condition led to a year's chemotherapy at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, where she and her family watched the Oxford Children's Hospital

THE vast majority of Oxfordshire parents secured their choice of state primary and secondary school this year and an above average number successfully appealed, according to Government figures. The figures show that of the small percentage of parents

A HOST of weapons have been seized by Oxfordshire police in their battle to stop violent offenders carrying knives. Deadly Samurai swords and kitchen knives are among the items seized from suspected offenders and crime scenes. Officers are encouraging

POLICE stopped hundreds of motorists in Deddington last Thursday in a bid to find out how a young doctor died. Drivers heading north and south on the A4260 were asked if they were on the road a week earlier when Dr Margaret Davidson was killed in a

Oxford University colleges have rejected plans to deprive them of the final say over which students they should admit. Proposals outlined last year would have given the central administration the right to over-ride decisions made by the university's

THE General Secretary of the UK's largest union of teachers and headteachers visited schools across the county last week to discuss the issues teachers are facing. Chris Keates, who leads The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers

A wooden cross that stood high over south Oxfordshire has been pulled down after a six-year planning wrangle. The 16ft-high wooden cross at Churn Knob, near Blewbury, marked the spot where St Birinus converted Wessex to Christianity in 634AD, and was

PRIMARY school children in Oxfordshire will be able to learn a musical instrument for free thanks to a £30,000 cash injection from the Government. School Minister Andrew Adonis announced national funding of £2m across the country, with more money promised

A WELL-LOVED family doctor from Oxford who won his patients over with his reassuring bedside manner has died, aged 86. Dr Martin Stewart, of Davenant Road, North Oxford, was a general practitioner in Beaumont Street and the chief medical officer for

VIC Barney, a former Headington United captain who became one of the first Englishmen to play league football in Italy, has died at 84. Mr Barney, who lived in Farmers Close, Witney, died at the John Radcliffe Hospital on Friday. It was in 1946 that

A DIPLOMAT and academic who played an important part in the latter years of the Cold War has died, aged 78. Sir Julian Bullard, who lived in North Oxford for much of his life, died last week after a long illness. His long and impressive career culminated

A WEST Oxfordshire man has admitted he is behind a World Cup song featuring, improbably, Neil and Christine Hamilton. Former BBC Radio Oxford presenter Dan Chisholm, of Clanfield, near Witney, was approached by a production company and asked to collaborate

SOMEWHAT aptly perhaps, Tangled Up in Blue the seminal song by Bob Dylan, was revealed this week as a favourite of David Cameron, the Witney MP and leader of the Conservative Party. But his attempt to namecheck Oxford band Radiohead appears to have

ONE of the men accused of killing Sam Barr at a wedding reception in Oxford was released on bail last Friday after his convictions were quashed. Peter Fury junior, 27, of Poyle Park, Colnbrook, Slough, was jailed for seven years at Oxford Crown Court

POLICE caught 120 people in just five hours during a clampdown on Oxfordshire motorists who do not wear seatbelts. The operation was planned to coincide with the anniversary of the Eastern Bypass crash. The crash claimed the lives of four people,

A SIKH man was racially abused by two men and had his turban torn off while up to 40 onlookers stood by and did nothing. The attack on Rattandeep Singh Ahluwalia, pictured, took place in Oxford city centre. Mr Ahluwalia was waiting at a bus-stop outside

THEY risked their lives and their homes. Boaters, who usually eke out a quiet and peaceful living on Oxford's beautiful waterways, put their bodies and their boats on the line during the eviction of Castle Mill boatyard, in Jericho, on Wednesday. It

HEAVY downpours and showers, which made May the wettest for 23 years, have made it less likely that there will be tougher curbs on the use of water. Thames Water is continuing to review the need for a drought order but admitted that the record 96mm

Land Rover plans to launch a new Defender model next year which will guarantee it continues in production until at least 2010. The extension to the long life of the Defender, which has been in production in various models since 1948, will preserve more

Thirty-four years after the first Civic appeared, Honda's best-seller has gone under the surgeon's knife for a major makeover. The project leader for the eighth generation of the car, Yoshiyuki Matsumoto, was given a clean sheet and complete freedom

Organisers of an Oxford festival have planned a jam-packed afternoon after listening to people's views about last year's event. And as the day is predicted to be a sunny one, they are hoping for more people than ever to attend the fourth annual Headington

Kia is introducing special Zapp! models of the Rio, Cerato and Picanto. The Rio is getting the exclusive Kia Zapp! treatment this month. Coming in at £1,000 under the current GS model at £7,495, the limited edition 1.4-litre petrol Rio Zapp! has air-conditioning

Champ Cars, a new motor dealer specialising in Marcos, TVR and performance Toyota vehicles, has opened in Bicester. As the Marcos factory is starting series production of its first new model, Champ Cars is taking orders for the V8 Marcos TSO GT2 for

PAPERWORK to deport foreign criminals held at an Oxfordshire prison is being sent to a member of the public in Bicester by mistake. Roger Booker, of Lawrence Way, has received almost 20 deportation orders on his home fax over the last two years even

SINGER Morrissey branded Oxford "the shame of England" in an attack on Oxford University's animal research lab. The pop star spoke out against the laboratory, being constructed in South Parks Road, during a show at the New Theatre. The musician, pictured

OXFORD Brookes University is the "most belligerent university in the sector", according to union members who are now threatening all-out strike action in an escalating dispute over pay. Members of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) and the

A GERMAN girl was dragged inside a house by two men and violently raped after she got lost in the city. The 17-year-old language student, who cannot be named, was trying to get back to her host family's house in east Oxford, but she caught the wrong

FREE on-street parking at the evenings and at weekends in Oxford is set to continue but it could be more expensive during the day. Oxfordshire County Council's transport implementation committee will be asked to approve proposals to continue free parking

OXFORD City Council has made insignificant improvements and continues to offer poor value for money. That is the final verdict of district auditor Andy Burns of the Audit Commission the public spending watchdog in his annual inspection of the city

OXFORD University is pressing ahead with controversial plans to make sweeping changes to its management structure. In a White Paper, published yesterday, the institution sets out plans to slash the number of members on the Council the body responsible

NEWS that Oxfordshire NHS managers are still footing the bill for a privately-run mobile eye unit have led to calls for the resignation of the chief executive of Thames Valley Strategic Health Authority. The private service has withdrawn its service

OXFORD Brookes University is to be transformed by a £110m development scheme, centred on its Headington and Wheatley sites. The university says its ageing campus buildings are no longer compatible with the scale of its long-term ambitions to become

Four vanloads of recyclable waste and two skips filled with rubbish were removed from a quiet corner of an Oxford estate in a community clean-up day. About 25 bikes, scrap metal, timber, broken television sets and computers were picked up from Kingfisher

Neighbours of the Castle Mill boatyard in Oxford were enraged by "concentration camp" style security, including flood lights and razor wire designed to keep evicted boaters out. Until two days ago, residents of St Barnabas Street, in Jericho, could

Sickness absence at councils across Oxfordshire in 2005/06 cost taxpayers £6m. Last year, public sector workers at Oxfordshire County Council and the five district councils took a combined 119,762 days off ill - an average of more than seven days per

A coroner has accused an Oxford hospital of neglect following the death of a woman who was left untreated for more than a year after her illness was detected. Experts said yesterday that Shirley Cyprien would still be alive if she had received treatment

Oxford City Council has made gradual but insignificant improvements and continues to offer poor value for money. That is the final verdict of district auditor Andy Burns, of the Audit Commission, the public spending watchdog, in his annual inspection

A week before the World Cup kicks off, the footie-mad Matthews' family have transformed their semi-detached house into a flag-tastic tribute to the England team. Huge St George flags adorn the front and even the roof of their house in Grebe Close, Abingdon

Oxford University is pressing ahead with controversial plans to make sweeping changes to its management structure. In a White Paper published yesterday, it set out plans to reduce the number of members on its council - the body responsible for governing