Oxford City are sweating on the fitness of Jon Gardner ahead of Tuesday night's British Gas Business Southern League Division 1 South & West home game against Marlow. The goalscoring winger is struggling with the ankle ligament strain that forced him
Turns out that Littl'un's spots weren't half as bad as the other kids' at nursery and following the weekend, they're all but gone. She definitely got off lightly. As the spots have cleared, something else has emerged - our baby is not only walking, but
AN outbreak of a winter vomiting virus has hit Oxford - with four wards at the John Radcliffe Hospital closed to new patients. About 50 patients and as many members of staff at the Headington hospital have been affected by the Norovirus outbreak.
A POPPY appeal organiser jailed today for stealing more than £6,000 of charity money betrayed war heroes, say charity members. Father-of-one Mark Ellis, of Reynolds Way, East Challow, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court to six months after admitting
An outbreak of a winter vomiting virus has hit Oxford - with four wards at the city's John Radcliffe Hospital closed to new patients. About 50 patients and as many members of staff at the Headington hospital have been affected by the Norovirus outbreak
Complaints that a pensioner is receiving "absolutely disgusting" care at Oxford's John Radcliffe and Churchill hospitals has prompted an investigation by NHS managers. Charmaine Taylor claims her mother, Phyllis Dolton, 75, of Rose Hill, Oxford, has
Funding for school pupils in Oxfordshire will rise by more than 12 per cent over the next three years, the Government announced yesterday. Figures released by the Department for Children, Schools and Families revealed that county schools will receive
A primary school devastated by a massive blaze is getting a £560,000 new hall. Staff, parents and pupils were stunned by the fire at Marsh Baldon Primary School in February 2005, which destroyed the oldest part of the school, dating back to 1880.
A POPPY appeal organiser jailed yesterdaymon for swindling more than £6,000 of charity money betrayed war heroes, say charity memberso. Father-of-one Mark Ellis, of Reynolds Way, East Challow, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court to six months after
BOGUS water workers tricked their way into an Oxford home but left empty-handed. Police said tonight that two men claiming to be from the water board got into the property in Lambourn Road, Rose Hill, by saying that there had been a water leak in the
Burglars left empty handed after conning their way inside a house by claiming to be from the Water Board. Two men called on a house in Lambourn Road, Rose Hill, Oxford, between 5.30pm and 6.30pm on Friday claiming there was a water leak in the area
I thought this week I'd write a little about bike lights. This might not be a subject close to your heart. It's certainly not as exciting as say talking about your favourite chocolate (perhaps I'll try and write that one next week), but bike lights are
Super Furry Animals are so much more than a band. So it stands to reason that their live appearances are way more than gigs. Less a group than a movement, SFA take their listeners on a rollercoaster ride between the inter-connecting worlds of psychedelia
Yobs forced their way into a block of apartments and created havoc with fire extinguishers. The louts got in to Duce's Court in Limborough Road, Wantage, through a downstairs window some time between 1pm on Saturday and 7.30am on Sunday. They set off
VEGETABLE plots are being left empty in Oxford because of vandalism and a lack of interest, an allotment association treasurer has claimed. Mervyn Allmond, field secretary and acting treasurer for the Rose Hill and Thompson Terrace Allotment Association
A WOMAN walking her dog and her pet were mauled in the latest of a string of attacks by Staffordshire bull terriers in Oxford. Sharon Boaler and her dog Charlie were both wounded by the terrier during an early morning stroll around Gillians Park in
ACADEMICS in Germany have questioned whether Michelangelo sketches kept at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, are genuine. Three academics have written a five-volume study which casts doubt on the origins of the work. They are among 40 per cent of surviving
So Patrick Murray, the Lib Dem portfolio holder for improving housing for Oxford City Council says: "finally we're there" regarding the Rose Hill redevelopment (Oxford Mail, November 5). He goes on to say "most of all I would like to thank the residents
STAFF and managers at a building firm are celebrating after coming top of the pile in a national competition. Bybridge Construction based in Bucknell, near Bicester, beat competition from thousands of firms to be voted Master Builder of the Year for
Thanks to Standlake Arena for a very enjoyable day out on November 4. My son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren attended, none of us having been before. At £10 per adult and no charge for children, we watch six hours of fun banger racing followed
I write to thank you for reporting on my brother Eric Farr's death in the obituary column. I was sorry his full title was omitted - Dr Eric Farr PhD - which he gained following research at Hertford College. He was a very humble person and would not have
Despite the excitement and pleasure fireworks give to parents and children on bonfire night, I think the indiscriminate sale of fireworks should cease and only properly organised displays allowed. The terrible experience of the family in Ramsey Road
Chinnor overpowered Maidenhead 53-6 at Kingsey Road to record the biggest victory of their South West 1 campaign. With leaders Chinnor specialising in narrow victories and Maidenhead in close-run defeats, many expected this to be a tight encounter.
There was a time 40 years ago when Oxford was awash with public toilets. Sadly those days have gone - I guess it's the druggie culture that permeates this city. At that time, most loos had a concierge system and were looked after - the one in St Giles
Chinnor director of rugby Lynn Evans felt his team deserved plenty of praise. He said: "I think over 80 minutes that was our best display of the season. "Our ability to retain possession and pressurise the defence was immense. "We always seemed
Oxford Harlequins produced a lacklustre display to lose 25-8 at Weston-super-Mare in South West 1 - just a week after turning on the style to thrash St Ives. Quins only burst into life in the final ten minutes, by which time it was too late. Full
In 1875 the Health and Safety Act ordered that household rubbish must be collected once a week. Will Mrs Fooks please tell us when this Act was repealed? And if it has not been repealed, what is she going to do about it? Someone richer and less lazy
A penalty in the sixth minute of injury time saw Henley Hawks lost 9-8 at home to Southend in National 2. Andy Frost did the damage from 45 metres after missing two earlier attempts. Hawks began brightly with wing Felise Ah-Ling being held up just
Banbury Bulls let a lead slip late on as they lost 19-12 at home to Hinckley in Midlands 2 East. Bulls were 12-7 up with ten minutes to go, but just couldn't hang on. Grant Holmes fed Dave Phipps for Banbury's opening try, which Pete Papenfus converted
Wallingford made it five league wins in a row in Southern Counties North by beating Slough 32-0 at home. Wing Richard Turner, who bagged a hat-trick, scored their opener and fly half Pete Strang converted. It was no surprise when Neil Bird and fellow
A dog walker and her pet were mauled in the latest of a string of attacks by Staffordshire bull terriers in Oxford. Sharon Boaler and her dog Charlie were both wounded by the terrier during an early morning stroll around Gillians Park in Blackbird Leys
Midfielder Stefan Bailey has returned to QPR after his month's loan at Oxford United. The 20-year-old made five appearances for United, but his loan ended after Saturday's FA Cup win over Northwich Victoria. United had asked to extend the loan, but
Bicester went second on points difference in the BB&O Premier Division after a 35-17 victory at Gosford All Blacks. Flanker Martin Linstrom, returning just two weeks after a serious eye injury, starred with two tries in an excellent display. A weakened
German academics have questioned whether Michelangelo sketches kept at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum are genuine. Three academics have written a five-volume study which casts doubt on the origins of the work. They are among 40 per cent of surviving sketches
Leaders Harwell battled back to defeat Grove 2nd 32-25 in BB&O Division 1 South. Grove led 17-10 at the break with Dave Beaven and Andy Lee crossing for Harwell. Harwell rallied with tries from Mike Giddings, Andy Paton and Beaven, who added two conversions
Three non-executive directors have been reappointed to the trust which runs Oxford's main hospitals and The Horton at Banbury. Dr Ken Fleming, Brian Rigby and Prof Adrian Towse will continue to serve on the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust board
Online shoppers were advised to make sure they know their rights yesterday at the start of National Consumer Week. Oxfordshire County Council's trading standards team will be urging online shoppers to do more to protect themselves. The council's trading
Berinsfield celebrates its 50th anniversary next year and the parish council is looking at four ideas to mark it officially. Meanwhile a working party is thinking how to make the annual Celebration Day extra-special in 2008. Parish council chairman
Poor children in eastern Europe will get presents in time for Christmas this year after an Oxfordshire businessman stepped in to provide a warehouse. Each year volunteers from Operation Christmas Child in the county send out about 15,000 boxes of presents
A BUDDING musical partnership are hoping to take the nation by storm after auditioning for a television talent show. Singer Wende Blowfield, 36, from East Challow, along with her guitarist friend Brian Staton, 59, from Wantage, went to London last week
An exceptional performance by Isabelle Carré as a spurned lover with a pathological talent for deceiving herself and others is the highlight of Michel Spinosa's Anna M. Rarely has cinematic psychosis been presented with such raw sensibility and unnerving
During decades of social, economic and racial turmoil, the world's greatest superpower has consistently lost the battle against drugs. In 1971, President Nixon declared: "America's public enemy number one, in the United States, is drugs." At the time,
One of the first things that chef David Leake did when he took over the canteen at Bartholomew School, Eynsham, last year was to paint the dining area and decorate the walls with food posters. He then bought some brightly coloured gingham table cloths
Strictly speaking, almost any cooking apple will do when you are creating a baked apple dessert. But if you do have a choice, go for Bramleys. This apple will puff up perfectly as it cooks, to give you a melt-in-the-mouth texture and a wonderfully balanced
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PEOPLE in Burford will be learning how to beat bogus callers. A mobile police station and display stands will be set up in Frethern Road, from 9.30am to 1.30pm on Wednesday, November 21, and police will be providing advice on how to deal with suspicious
Santa Claus and his two reindeer helpers gave children an early Christmas treat at the weekend. At 11am on Saturday Father Christmas arrived at Wyevale Garden Centre in his stylish sleigh. This was the first time the garden centre in Bicester had
Staff and bosses at a building firm are celebrating after coming top of the pile in a national competition. Bybridge Construction based in Bucknell, near Bicester, beat competition from thousands of firms to be voted Master Builder of the Year for the
Staff at an Oxford law firm are to plant hundreds of trees to mark a special anniversary. Marshall and Galpin, based in New Inn Hall Street, is planting 225 trees at a site near the A34 at Kennington tomorrow to commemorate its 225 years in business
Vegetable plots are being left empty in Oxford because of vandalism and a lack of interest, an allotment association treasurer has claimed. Mervyn Allmond, field secretary and acting treasurer for the Rose Hill and Thompson Terrace Allotment Association
POLICE this afternoon renewed an appeal for help from the public to trace a 17-year-old missing from his home in Stile Road, Headington. Ben Tait was last seen on October 28 and reported missing by his family on November 2. He is slim, 6ft 2in tall
Two teenagers have appeared in court accused of starting a blaze at an Oxford house with a firework. Jamie Matthews, 18, of Manor Farm Road, Oxford, and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, appeared at Oxford Magistrates' Court
Young footballers are collecting old mobile phones to raise money for their club's 2008 tour. East Hendred Boys FC is taking part in the Fones4Schools campaign, one of the largest mobile phone collection and recycling campaigns in the country. The
There is always something going on at the Abingdon home of 11-year-old Leah Graham. With two older sisters, two younger brothers and three step-sisters, life is chaotic enough without adding the complication of Leah's cystic fibrosis, a terminal condition
Family and friends gathered to remember a 12-year-old Oxford girl on the first anniversary of her death from meningitis. Jackie Williams and her family met at Wolvercote Cemetery on Saturday to pay tribute to her daughter Kyomie who died from the bacterial
TWO teenagers have appeared in court accused of setting a house ablaze with a firework. Jamie Matthews, 18, of Manor Farm Road, Oxford, and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named, appeared at Oxford Magistrates' Court today accused of arson with intent
A MAN who died after his car crashed while being pursued by police was named today. The man has been identified as 31-year-old Mathew Young, of Quarry Road, Witney. At the family home, his parents Stephen and Mary Young were too distressed to say
Independent investigators have started their inquiry into the death of a man who was being pursued by officers in a police car. The man has now been identified as 31-year-old Mathew Young, of Quarry Road, Witney. At the family home today, parents
Police today made an appeal for witnesses following a failed Halloween arson attack on a bookmakers in Bicester. Between 10.10pm on Wednesday, October 31, and 6am on Thursday, November 1, paper was set alight and posted through the letterbox of Coral's
POLICE this afternoon made an appeal for witnesses to come forward following an attempted arson attack on a bookmakers in Bicester. Paper was set alight and posted through the letter box of Coral's Bookmakers in Bowmont Square, overnight between 10.10pm
Work to build a new £560,000 hall at a primary school outside Oxford will begin on Monday, November 26. Marsh Baldon Primary School was badly damaged in February 2005, when 40 firefighters fought a huge blaze. Earlier this year, Oxfordshire County
The row over the faulty car park barrier at Oxford Station wasn't the only dispute to hit British Railways in the 1960s. Tempers flared with even greater ferocity when Western Region bosses suddenly closed off the downside ticket office and entrance
It was a kick-off of a different sort for Oxford United goalkeeper Jim Barron. He was asked to perform the opening ceremony of a new discotheque at Minchery Farm, Oxford, in 1969. He is pictured with Rajia Nachat, 19, who was in charge of the record
These gardeners obviously had green fingers. Their skill with the soil - with possibly a little help from the weather - produced a bumper harvest. They are all members of the East Oxford Liberal Club. The pictures were sent in by Lynda Millin, of
The Remembrance Day service and parade in Oxford in 1965 was held on one of the coldest days for months, writes George Dugdale. Temperatures were so low that several young girls collapsed. They were taken to a nearby shop, owned by Mr and Mrs H Bailey
ROSS Brawn is to join the Brackley-based Honda F1 team where he will take up the position of team principal with full responsibility for designing, manufacturing, engineering and racing Honda's Formula One car. He will work alongside Nick Fry who
WORK to build a new £560,000 school hall at a primary school outside Oxford will begin on Monday, November 26. Marsh Baldon Primary School was badly affected by fire in February 2005 when 40 firefighters fought a huge blaze, and major renovation work
As the opening night approaches for our production of ‘Popcorn’, nerves start fraying, a lack of confidence kicks in and general ‘what the hell am I doing this for’ remains in the thoughts. Happens every time. Many years ago, there were nearly fisticuffs
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FOOTBALL FA CUP 1st round: Oxford Utd 3, Northwich Victoria 1. BRITISH GAS BUSINESS SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Banbury Utd 1, Hitchin Tn 1. Div 1 South & West: Abingdon Utd 2, Godalming 2; Bracknell Tn 2, Didcot Tn 3; Windsor & Eton 1, Oxford
Smokers who enjoy a drink are set for their biggest challenge yet with winter weather set to see them shivering outdoors. But one pub boss is upbeat about the effects of the ban on trade and is looking forward to a good festive period. Ian Marchant
A DRUG addict who took part in the robbery of an Oxford betting office has been jailed for a year. Oxford Crown Court heard that 20-year-old Craig Saxton, of Sorrel Road, Blackbird Leys, kept watch as another man - who was not named - used a kitchen
A BENEFIT fraudster conned thousands of pounds over five years to pay for his disabled daughter. George Allen, 59, admitted falsely claiming £22,923 in benefits at Oxford Magistrates' Court. Allen, who lives in a caravan but gave an address of South
POLICE are treating a fire which seriously damaged four vehicles, as a suspected arson attack. Fire crews were called to Mascord Road, off Woodgreen Avenue, Banbury, at about 1.05am on Saturday. On arrival, they found three small vans and one car
FANS of singer Zoë Mace can help raise money for the charity Downside Up from today by downloading the track Tears in Heaven from her website zoemace.com The song is from her third album, Once Upon a Time, which is being released next Monday and can
FIREFIGHTERS were called to a fire at a derelict building in a disused quarry near Sonning Eye, south Oxfordshire, in the early hours yesterday. The blaze was put out before it could spread.
THE last governor of Oxford Prison, John Talbot, has died at the age of 58. He joined the Prison Service in 1971 and later, after a spell at the Home Office, became governor at Oxford until its closure in 1995.
JUST weeks after the city hosted a festival of Chinese films, an Oxford cinema is celebrating movies from another Asian country - Korea. Today, the Odeon in George Street begins a Korean Film Festival - the first of its kind held in the UK outside London
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to keep Oxford's Peers Sports Centre open until September 2008 are making a final plea today. The centre, including its swimming pool, is due to close on January 1 after Oxford City Council agreed to pull out of an agreement to
FANS came out in an upbeat mood from Oxford United's first winning game under new manager Darren Patterson on Saturday. Young supporters in particular gave the thumbs-up for the change from 67-year-old Jim Smith to younger blood following a 3-1 home
THE family of a woman who was killed after running into the path of an oncoming vehicle on the A34 have paid tribute to her. Bibi Richardson, who died following the accident last week, has been described as a "larger than life character" by her loved
OXFORD'S looming tower blocks could be demolished within 15 years. A radical vision for regeneration is set to be drawn up that could see four of the council-owned residential towers pulled down and replaced with housing 'fit for the 21st century'.
AN OXFORDSHIRE bookseller is one of the people behind a new Book of the Year award. Independent bookshop customers are being invited to vote for their favourite book in the inaugural award, organised by the Booksellers Association. Patrick Neale
A WORK of art inspired by the Uffington White Horse will be on display at the county council-run Oxfordshire Museum, Woodstock, from Friday, November 23, to Sunday, November 25. The work of art, which comprises a converted horsebox and a collection
THE Friends of the Vale and Downland Museum will be staging the 30th anniversary town mayor's annual craft fair in the Civic Hall, Wantage, on Sunday, November 18. Refreshments will be provided by the Guides - and Santa will be in his grotto. Grotto
PLANNING permission has been given for four houses on the site of the Costcutters store in High Street, Shipton-under-Wychwood. The revised designs, drawn up by Witney architect David Corley for Heritage (Cotswolds) Ltd, were approved by West Oxfordshire
COWLEY police officers are to target people parking on the pavements on the upper end of Cowley Road. A section of pavement on the road between Marsh Road and Gillians Way was recently replaced after becoming pitted and dangerous thanks to cars parking
COGGES Farm Museum, Witney, is to be featured on ITV's This Morning programme on Wednesday, November 28. It features celebrity chef Phil Vickery cooking on the range, milking a cow, feeding the pigs and collecting seasonal vegetables from the kitchen
More than half of Oxford's 48 councillors have been criticised by war heroes for not attending the city's annual Remembrance Sunday service. Twenty five councillors failed to show up at the parade in St Giles on Sunday - and just eight sent their apologies
Oxford's looming tower blocks could be demolished within 15 years. A radical vision for regeneration is set to be drawn up that could see four of the council-owned residential towers pulled down and replaced with housing 'fit for the 21st century'.
The electricity company running one of Oxford's most important sub-stations has been told to ensure the facility is properly defended against future flooding. During the height of the summer flooding, more than 30 firefighters spent three days ensuring
