BRAZILIAN Ferrari driver Felipe Massa won today's Bahrain Grand Prix ahead of McLaren superstar Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton became the first driver in Grand Prix history to finish on the podium in his first three races. Massa's team-mate Kimi Raikkonen
ANTONY Hansen is still in the running for the lead role of Joseph in BBC1's search for a West End star. The 17-year-old, who attends St Birinus School in Didcot is now living in a school of 11 would-be Josephs following the BBC's Saturday night show,
THE last place you might expect to see an England football legend working up a sweat is the lanes of north Oxfordshire. But motorists who looked a bit closer at the backpack-laden jogger near Bicester would have seen a familiar face - Paul Gascoigne
BICYCLES have proved to be such a hit with Abingdon police that they are increasing their two-wheeled fleet. Abingdon officers have had two cycles since September last year. Since that date they have made 120 arrests, issued 19 penalty notices for
THE Jersey Lodge of Freemasons, which meets at Weyland Hall, Bicester, has given £600 to Banbury Breathe Easy, the local support group for the British Lung Foundation. The money was raised in a raffle at a ladies festival in March. Bill Butcher, the
A FREE lecture about Africa and the British Museum will be held at the Said Business School, in Park End Street, Oxford, on Friday, April 27. The talk, called Things Subverting ideas: Africa in the British Museum, will be given by Neil MacGregor, director
A RACE night will be held in aid of disabled sailing charity Oxford Sailability at Benson Village Hall on Saturday, May 12. The night has been organised by Oxford Spires Rotary Club. More information is available at www.oxfordspiresrotary. org.uk
NHS workers are getting ready to perform a swan song for Oxford's oldest hospital. The Radcliffe Orchestra, made up of health workers from across the city, is joining forces with the Headington Singers and Oxford Collutorium to hold a gala concert celebrating
A NATURE trust is celebrating after winning a grant to help protect the declining species. The Northmoor Trust at Little Wittenham, near Didcot, will be able to buy state-of-the-art surveying equipment for collecting information about the local bat
RIDERS in Oxfordshire are linking with their counterparts across the Channel, to give a continental twist to the county's biggest equestrian event. Organisers of the Blenheim International Horse Trials have joined forces with the people behind France's
RESEARCHERS at Oxford University have pinpointed a "fat" gene which could help them fight Britain's growing rate of obesity. Diabetes expert Prof Mark McCarthy said his study showed some people were more susceptible to weight gain - backing the theory
THE Oxfordshire County Youth Orchestra appear on TV tonight as they are scheduled to appear on Play It Again on BBC One. They appear alongside fertility expert and broadcaster Professor Lord Robert Winston in the series about celebrities learning to
IT'S a mystery that would perplex even Inspector Morse - how have two decades gone by so quickly since the first time the wily detective appeared on our screens? Inspector Morse is 20 - and a special weekend is planned later this month climaxing with
STAFF at Oxfordshire's major hospitals have been accused of negligence after it was revealed that patients and visitors have been injured by discarded needles. According to figures from the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust - responsible for the
