Thousands of campaigners took to the streets of Banbury last night in one of the biggest public demonstrations in the town's history. An estimated 3,000 people ignored the rain and cold to form a mile-long torchlight procession as they marched to protest
Oxford University researchers have won £300,000 of funding to improve weather predictions and give residents better warning that their homes could be flooded. The research will help hydrologists and civil engineers take appropriate measures to protect
More than 1,300 runners are warming up to raise thousands of pounds for cancer res- earch in the fourth annual 10k run at Blenheim Palace in Wood- stock. Tomorrow at 10am, Barbara Summers, a cancer survivor from Tackley, near Bicester, will fire the
Rookie Oxford film director Vicky Jewson is hoping to be given some money for her birthday - a cool £150,000. Miss Jewson will celebrate her 21st tonight with a special screening of a rough cut of her film, Lady Godiva, which is mainly shot in the city
A prison officer was jailed for six years after police raided his house and found £8,000 worth of heroin, steroids and cannabis hidden in shampoo bottles. Police believe Jonathan Rattigan, formerly of Kingfisher Way, Bicester, was planning to smuggle
You've done it! That's the message from fundraisers at the Oxford Children's Hospital Campaign after Oxford Mail readers raised a staggering £2.5m. With the hospital's January opening just months away, fundraisers announced yesterday that the local
A fisherman escaped being crushed to death by a falling 50ft tree on his birthday - by moving from his favourite angling spot just seconds earlier. The enormous ash tree crashed down in the exact place 70-year-old Albert Lovegrove had been fishing before
Thousands of campaigners took to the streets of Banbury last night in one of the biggest public demonstrations in the town's history. An estimated 3,000 people ignored the rain and cold to form a mile-long torchlight procession as they marched to protest
HUNDREDS of horse chestnut trees across Oxfordshire are under threat in what looks to be the worst case of tree blight since Dutch elm disease 30 years ago. The trees have been hit by the arrival in the region of the horse chestnut leaf-mining moth.
CHRISTIJAN Albers has confirmed he will drive for the Spyker Formula 1 team during the 2007 season as they look to complete their driver line-up ahead of next year. The team will drive under the Spyker colours for the first time in this weekend's Chinese
DEATHS on Oxfordshire's roads went up last year but fewer people were seriously injured. New figures showed a drop of 14 per cent in the number of people badly hurt in road crashes, but 40 victims lost their lives, compared with 33 in 2004. Overall
A LORRY driver arrested following the death of a man on the A40 near Oxford has been released on bail. The man, who was being questioned on suspicion of failing to stop at the scene of a collision and careless driving, has been bailed to return on November
A MAN killed in a collision on the A4260 in Deddington has been identified as John Coleman, a village resident. Mr Coleman, 44, died after the Ford Mondeo in which he was a passenger hit a tree alongside the road on Friday, September 22. The driver
POLICE have released an e-fit to help trace a man suspected of indecently assaulting an 11-year-old girl in Southmoor. The girl was walking down Stonehill Lane in Southmoor at 5.40pm on September 14 when she was approached by a man who tried to indecently
