Pewsey Vale 3 (Fitzgerald 26, Sell og 82, Elliott 88) Letcombe 4 (Claydon 5, 30, 84, Denny 57) Letcombe were missing key players due to two weddings, but still claimed their first ever win at Vale in Division 1 West of the FTL Futbol Hellenic League
Kidlington 4 (Baker 12,72 pen, 79, Williams 46) Sandhurst Town 1 (Wilde 31) Mark Baker served up a tasty hat-trick to ease Kidlington into the next round of the FA Cup. The hosts went ahead in the 12th minute of the extra preliminary round tie
A fourth-wicket stand of 110 between Freddy Magee and Matt North helped Chadlington to a 54-run victory over Ducklington in the OCA's Steve Dixon Cup final at Combe yesterday. Magee batted throughout to top-score with an unbeaten 89 and North hit 34
Tom Boardman hit a magnificent 108 in tricky batting conditions as Westbury boosted their OCA Division 1 title hopes with a 118-run victory over Charlbury on Saturday. Westbury rattled up a formidable 275-6, with Michael Loggin chipping in with 61.
FOOTBALL BLUE SQUARE PREMIER Oxford Utd 6, Eastbourne Boro 3. BRITISH GAS BUSINESS SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Banbury Utd 1, Oxford City 0. Div 1 South & West: Didcot Tn 0, Cinderford 2; Bishops Cleeve 0, North Leigh 0; Taunton Tn 1, Abingdon
Home Counties Premier League - Div 1 Oxford roared back to the top of the table with an incredible ten-wicket thrashing of previous leaders Tring Park on Saturday. Opening bowlers Jack Brooks (6-22) and Stuart Hole (4-34) ripped through Tring on
Home Counties Premier League - Div 1 Benji Hector led Banbury to second spot with a match-winning century in their seven-wicket victory at Reading. Hector's unbeaten 114 steered his side to 254-3 as he and Jamie Noble (58no) put on 149 for the fourth
Home Counties Premier League - Div 2 West A home draw with Buckingham effectively sealed Kidlington's relegation to The Oxford Times Cherwell League, although they came within millimetres of victory. Bowling at Buckingham's final pair, the third
Home Counties Premier League - Div 2 West Luke Merry's 5-56 was the highpoint for Thame Town as they inched to a draw at home to Burnham. Merry was well supported by the spin of Jaydeep Bhatti (3-49) as Burham made 225-9 in their 60 overs, with Aftab
Oxford City's Andy Gunn was sent off in the incident that settled their opening Premier Division game of the season in the British Gas Business Southern League on Saturday. Not that there could be any complaints. The defender - who had looked the best
Micheas Herbert scored for both sides as Abingdon United opened their Southern League Division 1 South & West campaign with a victory on Saturday. After Billy Beechers saw his shot clawed away by Taunton keeper Simon Cooper, Herbert put Abingdon ahead
Didcot Town carried on last season's poor home form into the new Southern League Division 1 South & West campaign by conceding two second-half goals on Saturday. Against one of the tallest sides into the league, fought an even first half, with debutants
Southern League new boys North Leigh did everything but score in a goalless Division 1 South & West draw away to their former Hellenic League rivals Bishops Cleeve. Cleeve striker Gareth Hopkins's run and shot was comfortably saved by Richard Barrett
There was no holding hot favourite Star of Twilight as the black dog completed a hat-trick of wins to land the Property Care Complete Maintenance Oxfordshire Stakes Stakes on Saturday. The Paul Sallis-trained runner (11-10), had just half a length
A century partnership between Charlie Knightley and Shahbaz Ali gave Oxfordshire a solid start to their Western Division clash with Dorset at Bournemouth. Knightley's unbeaten 88 and 57 not out from Shahbaz steered Oxon from 143-5 to 285-5 in their
Oxfordshire saw their ECB 50+ Championship quarter-final against Wales rained off before they even travelled to the Principality yesterday. The sides were due to meet at Croesyceiliog, near Newport, but will now play on Wednesday with the Welsh venue
A father and son team from East Oxford have successfully completed the Mongol Rally. Steve, 54, and Will Merrow-Smith, 28, from Hertford Street and Rymers Lane respectively, arrived in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar yesterday. They spent a month
Hundreds of car enthusiasts marked Oxfordshire's motoring heritage for the first time this weekend. The Rotary Club of Oxford hosted the debut Cowley Classic Car Show, at the Lord Nuffield Club, in William Morris Close, today. About 170 cars - dating
Team spirit went from strength to strength in Kidlington today, as rugby players heaved an eight-tonne bus in tribute to a sick four-year-old. Members of the Gosford All Blacks Rugby Club decided to pull the double-decker bus - which weighs more than
An allotment site in Cowley was transformed into a buzzing community festival complete with music, workshops and stalls. Usually a haven of tranquillity, the Elder Stubbs Allotments, in Rymers Lane, Cowley, opened its gates yesterday to about 3,000
A lifeline service for families struggling with household bills could buckle under the weight of its own success. Bosses at the Blackbird Leys Credit Union have admitted they do not have enough staff to cope with hundreds of people wishing to cash cheques
Sunday 17 August Yesterday ended at 12.40am with a contribution to Sports Spectrum’s live radio broadcast. The alarm went of at 5 this morning. Two hours later I was in Tiananmen Square for the start of the women’s marathon. The runners return to the
Sunday 17 August Yesterday ended at 12.40am with a contribution to Sports Spectrum’s live radio broadcast. The alarm went of at 5 this morning. Two hours later I was in Tiananmen Square for the start of the women’s marathon. The runners return to the
It was not the kind of visitor people in Saxton Road, Abingdon, were used to seeing every day. But, a quarter of a century later, neighbours and former residents have been fondly remembering when one of the world's most famous sportsmen dropped by.
Blog 16 August I am writing this in the Birdsnest ˆ athletics stadium. I am directly in line with the finish line, the front row perhaps 15 metres from lane 8. My computer is plugged in to power and I have my own TV monitor with 7 channels so that I
Blog 16 August I am writing this in the Birdsnest ˆ athletics stadium. I am directly in line with the finish line, the front row perhaps 15 metres from lane 8. My computer is plugged in to power and I have my own TV monitor with 7 channels so that I
Mara Yamauchi, who started her athletics career with Headington Roadrunners and Radley Ladies held on to take a very creditable sixth place in the women's Marathon. Constantine Tomescu led for much of the race with Mara running with a pack of 6-8 runners
As reigning world champions, Britain's women's quad sculls team of Fran Houghton (Wheatley), Debbie Flood (Henley), Annie Vernon and Katherine Grainger were hotly tipped to go one better than their silver of 2004. They led the race from the start
CAST iron manhole covers are going missing all over the country and are being sold for a fortune - £12 each! Councils are spending a fortune replacing them - up to £500 a time, depending on size. But how are they being sold? Are shady people meeting
A hunger strike at Campsfield immigration detention centre could end tomorrow. Up to 70 detainees have been on hunger strike for ten days, but Fazzel Abdul-Ahmed, who is at the centre, said a group of Iraqis involved were expected to break the strike
An RAF helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in Israel due to technical problems. The Ministry of Defence said the helicopter was on its way back to RAF Benson from Iraq when the pilot decided to divert to Ben Gurion International Airport
Waste chiefs are urging residents to join forces and target litter hotspots in Oxfordshire. Oxford city councillor John Tanner, chairman of Oxfordshire Waste Partnership (OWP), told the Oxford Mail he wanted to spearhead the biggest clean-up in the
Traders in Abingdon have been shown how to introduce waste-cutting measures. Eleven Stert Street businesses took part in a free waste audit where recycling measures were put to the test to see if they could cut costs as well as waste. The audits were
