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AEA Technology 101 BMW 2695 Electrocomponents 229.75 Isoft Group 64.75 Oxford Bio 25.25 Oxford Instruments 208.5 Reed Elsevier 536 RM 162.25 RPS 220 Torex Retail 57.75 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley, Abingdon

A motorcyclist has died after crashing into a road sign in Banbury. Police today appealed for witnesses following the fatal collision in Ruscote Avenue near the Lockheed Close roundabout on Saturday at 6.42pm. The man was riding a white Suzuki motorbike

Division 1 Oxford Caribbean 333-8 (D Prosper 117, B Barrett 67, R Mills 39, R Matthews 30, M Green 4-51), Minster Lovell 154-9 (K Bushnell 47, D Brown 33, N Harris 30, B Barrett 3-36). Horley 79 (C Quow 6-26, R Foster 4-43), Tetsworth 80-4. Twyford

AFTER making the headlines for all the wrong reasons two weeks ago when Hanney suffered seven ducks in their match against Chalgrove, they rattled up a mammoth 348-5 against Chesterton in Division 5 on Saturday. But amazingly, it still wasn't enough

DAVE Prosper hit his second century in as many games as Oxford Caribbean thrashed an under-strength Minster Lovell by 179 runs in OCA Division 1 on Saturday. Prosper smashed 117 and Bryan Barrett 67 as Caribbean rattled up a formidable 333-8 in their

BICESTER & North Oxford's miserable season hit a new low on Saturday when they were bowled out for just 53 by Gerrards Cross at Akeman Street in Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West. The eight-wicket defeat leaves them rooted to the foot of

KIDLINGTON huffed and puffed at leaders Farnham Royal on Saturday, but left well beaten despite having more than enough chances to clinch a game they had to win to mount a serious title challenge in Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West. Winning

PACEMAN Luke Merry was the hero as Thame Town remained hard on the heels of Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West leaders Farnham Royal by beating Beaconsfield by five wickets at Church Meadow on Saturday. Put in to bat, Merry quickly had Beaconsfield

HIGH Wycombe remain firm favourites to retain their hold on the Home Counties Premier League Division 1 title after rolling over one of the main rivals for the crown, Henley, by 177 runs on Saturday. And once again, it was South African Test star Nante

BANBURY were unable to make up any ground on the leading pack in Home Counties Premier League Division 1 after going down by two wickets in a tight game at Falkland. The visitors won the toss and batted, but none of their batsmen could really get going

OXFORD have done it at last! They recorded their first Home Counties Premier League Division 1 win this season at the ninth attempt by beating Tring Park by seven wickets at Roman Way on Saturday. The victory moves them off the foot of the table as

CRICKET MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP Western Division Wales 307-9 (G Rees 135, J Harris 34, L Ryan 3-72), Oxfordshire 31-0. HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Division 1 Banbury 208-9 (66 ovs), Falkland 209-8 (51.3 ovs, W Challenor 69, D Balcombe 56

OXFORDSHIRE were frustrated by a superb innings of 135 by Wales' Gareth Rees on the first day of their Minor Counties Championship Western Division clash at Banbury. After winning the toss and asking the visitors to bat first, Oxon made an early breakthrough

A brief mention of the Red Rhythmics harmonica band has prompted reader Derek West to send in these two pictures. They show the band, in which he played, at two engagements in the 1930s and 1940s. Mr West, of Forest Hill, near Oxford, writes: "One

Joan Clifford had one complaint while she was training to be a Land Girl - hunger. She recalls: "Our food rations were a pot of jam to last a month, a small bowl of sugar and a dish with our ration of butter and margarine to last the week (it never

We're off to the seaside - even if it is raining heavily and a day for overcoats. The weather didn't stop this group of Oxford people heading by coach for their annual outing to Southsea. The picture was taken in August 1962, outside Brasenose College

On june 21, 2002, you were kind enough to publish my letter protesting at the destruction of a large lake at Radley by Didcot Power Station for the disposal of pulverised fuel ash. That valuable wildlife habitat was duly destroyed and replaced by the

The death and injury toll on our roads is shockingly high. Hardly a week goes by without someone losing their life in a road accident in Oxfordshire, leaving a family distraught. That is why we at the Oxford Mail are fully backing the aims of 365

The organiser of Oxfordshire's Cornbury Festival has hailed this weekend's event as the year it came of age. Record crowds of 10,000 on Saturday and 9,000 on Sunday enjoyed sunny weather - albeit with rain overnight - for the third annual gathering

Residents in Jericho, Oxford, will today make a racket to persuade city councillors to vote against allowing an 11ft razor wire fence around a boatyard to remain for three years. British Waterways erected the fence around the Castle Mill boatyard site

Nearly £20,000 is to be spent on giving a children's centre on an Oxford estate a bright new look. An adventure playground, a barbecue area and a children's art wall are among the plans for Rose Hill Sure Start centre, off The Oval, Rose Hill. Artists

A new ornamental pond is to be installed at an Oxfordshire drug rehabilitation centre thanks to three Oxfordshire firms. Paul McCabe, of Energy and Vision, a charity which educates youngsters on the danger of drugs, began fundraising for the pond at

Vandals are repeatedly breaking into a building site and throwing fences, plastic tubes, bricks and polythene into a picturesque stretch of the River Windrush in Witney. A warning has now been issued that the yobs are endangering wildlife and the environment

Almost £40,000 is to be spent on building 13 car parking spaces at council-owned bungalows in Iffley. Oxford City Council has defended its decision to install the car parking bays at Azor's Court, off Tree Lane, as a good use of taxpayers' funds.

A conman who ripped people off to the tune of almost a quarter of a million pounds using stolen credit cards and wallets across the UK has been jailed for six years and three months. Anthony Brookes, 40, of no fixed address, admitted 22 counts of obtaining

It was the day when Oxford proved it was still United behind its football team. They may have been relegated, but hundreds of fans, young and old, showed their support for the relegated side at a fun day in the Kassam Stadium on Saturday. Loud applause

Mail deliveries across Oxford could be hit as the city's postal workers consider staging a wildcat strike in support of colleagues in west Oxfordshire. More than 100 staff in Witney and Carterton have been on unofficial strike since the last week.

In 10 years 365 people who would have died in either road crashes or fires in Oxfordshire will hopefully still be alive. That is the aim of 365 Alive, a new crusade launched by Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service after seeing far too many tragedies

Cheeky Save Radley Lakes campaigners turned a cooling tower at Didcot Power Station into a 360ft protest ahead of today's crunch meeting of county councillors. The campaigners beamed a slogan on to one of the towers - which stand at 110m (360ft) high