Rob Duffy is itching to get back and continue from where he left off in Oxford United's match against Tamworth today. The U's 12-goal leading scorer has missed the last two games, and maybe it's no coincidence that they have resulted in two defeats.
A man who spat at his former partner and attacked her has been given an antisocial behaviour order. Michael Manly, aged 20, of Delapre Drive, Banbury, was sentenced at the town's magistrates' court after pleading guilty to a number of offences, including
Sebastian Vettel announced his arrival in Formula One by setting the fastest time in practice for the Turkish Grand Prix today, in just his second session behind the wheel. The German stepped up as BMW-Sauber's test driver as part of the reshuffle which
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The past 24 hours have been pretty crazy - and the next 48 will be crazier still. I'm flying to Switzerland early on Monday morning, but before that I've got serious big sister duties to attend to. One of my sisters is getting married tomorrow and I'm
THE Oxfordshire firm at the heart of the troubled NHS computer upgrade has posted net losses of £382.2m as it counts the cost of a "turbulent" year. ISoft, which employs several hundred people in Banbury, blamed the loss on the cost of buying major
A woman fell down her stairs and died of a head injury after getting up in the night to go to the bathroom, a court heard. Jenny Cross, 53, of Oxford Crescent, Didcot, was found dead by her husband Graham when he returned from working the night shift
Oxford City Council has signed the so-called "Nottingham Declaration", a voluntary pledge to tackle climate change. The declaration, originally launched in October 2000 at a conference in Nottingham for civic leaders, chief executives and senior managers
Michael Schumacher hopes to avoid a repeat of his 2005 Turkish Grand Prix nightmare as he looks to retain the momentum in his world championship fight with Enstone's Renualt F1 team driver Fernando Alonso. Ferrari ace Schumacher has closed the gap on
Kimi Raikkonen's last-gasp lap put last year's winner on top when practice for the Turkish Grand Prix got underway in Istanbul this morning. Raikkonen left it late to clock a lap of one minute 28.315 seconds in his McLaren, keeping Ferrari's Michael
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NORTH Oxford had double reason to celebrate in the OLTA Wilson Inter-Club 3-Pair League. Their ladies team beat Woodstock 5-3 to keep alive their slim hopes of landing the Division 1 title, while an 8-1 thrashing of Goring took their men a step closer
Virtually ever Porsche model ever made will be on show as the Porsche Club Great Britain returns to Oxfordshire for the Porsche Club festival this weekend. The club, which is celebrating its 45th anniversary and tenth birthday of the Boxster and 25th
DIDCOT Phoenix managed a podium position in the team event in the Tour of Dorset. Their trio of Richard Alldred, Nick Beale and Rupert Beale came third out of the 70 starters. Aldred finished 14th in the first stage which was a 5.5-mile time trial
Two's company, three's most definitely a crowd in You, Me And Dupree, a gently effervescent comedy about a couple of newlyweds, Carl and Molly Peterson (Dillon, Hudson), who invite down-on-his luck best man Randolph Dupree (Wilson) into their home while
DIDCOT Town boss Stuart Peace is not yet pressing the panic button, but admits his side must "wise up - and quickly" following their 4-1 home midweek defeat by Swindon Supermarine. Tuesday's reverse in British Gas Business Southern League Division 1
Caroline Hyland finds that taking account of her grandmother's prejudices about burger chains hits the wallet quite hard. I discovered Tootsies a few years ago thanks to my grandmother's social prejudice against popular burger chains. Convinced that
Thousands of Oxfordshire music fans, and even a few of our musicians, are today making the trip down the Thames to one of the world's greatest rock festivals - Reading. The Carling Weekend: Reading Festival, as it is nowadays known, may be a short hop
County pupils are top stuff The GCSE results for high-flying Oxfordshire teenagers reflected the national trend which saw one of the biggest increases on record of students earning top grades. With the hard work and the worrying wait over, thousands
SPORT Italia Hellenic League Premier Division side Chipping Norton Town have signed former Latvian international striker Alex Volosanovs. Volosanovs, who has 29 international caps to his name, the last of which was in 2004, is added to Chippy's squad
ADAM Krol is urging Thame Town to forget the last few weeks and press hard for second spot in Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West. The skipper, who is returning after a fractured wrist, says his third-placed team can finish on a high - starting
There were smiles - and some tears - across Oxfordshire as thousands of teenagers endured the annual rollercoaster of emotions that is GCSE results day. The early indications are that results from schools across the county were better than last year
RAF Flight Lieutenant Ross Chapman is taking to the air to raise funds for the Oxford Children's Hospital Campaign after meeting a three-year-old girl with Spina Bifida. On Monday, September 25, it will be chocks away for Chox when RAF Brize Norton's
OXFORD captain Pat Jobson and his Banbury counterpart Benji Hector both believe one more win will preserve their Home Counties Premier League Division 1 status. And with the two Oxfordshire sides facing trips to lowly opposition tomorrow in West Herts
THE two middle-eastern women, both wearing the burkha, were only feet from the stool on which stood a slender girl in authentic medieval dress. Her face was covered in grey make-up to match her costume, which blended eerily with the ancient walls of St
BANBURY'S Subaru World Rally Team driver Petter Solberg crashed out of Rally Finland on leg two and mechanical problems dropped his team-mate Chris Atkinson out of contention for a podium finish. The Oxfordshire team used the rest of the final leg of
BANBURY'S Aston Martin Racing team finished third and fourth in the GT1 category of the Generac 500 American Le Mans Series race at Road America, after it looked like they were in contention for their third win of the season. The team made a promising
The rantings of 'little Englander' Chris Probert (Oxford Mail, August 21) must be commented on just in case anybody thinks there is any truth in a single word of them. Unemployment is still low compared with the rest of Europe and if 600,000 East Europeans
We all know that thousands of students all over the country picked up their A-Level results on Thursday last week, and I would like to congratulate them all. I know how nerve-wracking it is waiting for the results. As I write this, I am about to receive
CHIPPING Norton driver Ray Kempster, partnered by Ivan Dudley, took their Milner Pro Truck to second place in the national cars category of the inaugural Baja GB, Britain's new candidate for the FIA International Cup for Bajas. Caerphilly's Hugh Haines
The cynics will no doubt be out in force again today telling us that GCSE exams are being 'dumbed down'. The argument goes that questions are getting easier and it is not surprising that more students gain passes every year. But we hope they will
CLUBMATES Calvin Carpenter and Gary Lucas spurred their Banbury Borough teams into the last 16 of the Waitrose English national triples at Worthing. John Philpott, Mark Charlett and Carpenter swept past Woolwich & Plumstead 15-9 in the opening round
Abingdon's main post office in the High Street is expected to re-open today after it was closed yesterday when a power failure knocked out computers and other key equipment. Customers arrived only to find locked doors and notices posted in the windows
Accidents in Cowley Road, Oxford, have fallen since the completion of a road improvement scheme. A 20mph speed limit, three zebra crossings and 'special landscaping', with the road and pavements at the same level, have all been introduced in a bid to
Mums across Oxfordshire are mounting a campaign to save a world-renowned breast-feeding clinic at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital. Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is facing a £33m deficit and is planning to make major cuts, including 600 posts
A waitress, a personal assistant and a former engineer who did not go on to higher education when they finished school have all won places at Oxford University. The adult students, who all hail from Oxford, have each completed a two-year, part-time
Self-harming is far more widespread than previously thought, according to a study involving pupils in Oxfordshire. The findings have been published in a book on deliberate self-harm and suicidal ideas in adolescents co-written by Prof Keith Hawton of
A plea to fishermen to take extra care around swans has been made by rescuer Diana Davies. She was called to rescue a swan at Wallingford Bridge entangled in a line and with a barbed hook in its beak and then immediately had to dash off to Ladygrove
The old Lime Walk sorting office in Headington, Oxford, and inset, an artist's impression of what the new building will look like A former sorting office is to keep some of its working character after councillors approved plans to convert it into offices
This rabbit with massively overgrown teeth and about 80 others have been rescued from an empty house in Grove. The animals had been abandoned in filthy and squalid conditions and left to fend for themselves when a former tenant of the property moved
Sir, I was very glad to read Mrs McLachlan's letter (July 28) as I now realise that I am not alone in finding Mr Gray's articles offensive. For a long time I have suppressed my irritation at his invective and sneering, but, like Mrs McLachlan, I really
Sir, Re recent adverts in The Oxford Times by the Oxford Mole Clinic, offering for £150 a skin examination for possible skin cancer. I would advise anyone concerned about this type of problem to first visit their GP. They will then be referred to the
Sir, After 15 months campaigning to save the last two Radley Lakes, the penny finally drops. The fact that they are a wonderful wildlife site is absolutely irrelevant. The beauty of the landscape and the thousands of people who use and value them are
Sir, This country's for sale, rich companies plundering it. We top Europe's league of dirty coal-fired power stations. Npower's Didcot power station, stingily having no catalytic converter, pumps excessive NOX into the atmosphere and its noxious ash doesn't
Sir, It seems the police in Wallingford have mountain bikes that are too dangerous for mature healthy adults to ride. Could we be informed of the hazards to which others, including children, are exposed. In Headington we have worse problems on our doorstep
Sir, Gillian Salway (Letters, August 11) argues that, while Shores Green would not solve all Witney's traffic problems, it would enable through traffic to avoid the town centre and, at least, not aggravate the existing Station Lane area of the town.
Sir, Your focus on recycling in just one council - Bolton - gives a very misleading picture of the experience of councils up and down the country. Of 362 councils in England, 155 already have fortnightly collection with a further 73 reportedly considering
Sir, I wish to respond to the issues raised by Too Many Trippers (Letters, August 11). Tourism is one of the key sectors of the Oxford economy, with over £410m brought into the local area by visitors and over ten per cent of employment in the city relating
Sir - I am sure everyone welcomes the announcement of determined efforts by the city council to keep streets clean and tidy (Report, August 11), and certainly no one has any sympathy for fly tippers. But I hope that the threat of the stick does not
Avebury "does as much exceed in greatness the renowned Stonehenge as a Cathedral does a parish Church," declared John Aubrey in 1663 when recommending King Charles II to visit this ancient monument in Wiltshire. This Oxford-educated antiquarian was
There have been times throughout the year when the tomatoes I've bought have been so tasteless I've actually thrown them away. Fortunately, this does not happen in August. This is the month when home-grown tomatoes come into their own. You only have
In the Victorian era, tender verbenas were the most popular bedding plant of all, because they hugged the ground and created a carpet of colourful flowers - a style of gardening adored by the Victorians. There were purples, reds and blues. But many
Jonathan Larson's musical Rent won a Pulitzer Prize and is now the eighth longest-running show in Broadway history. However, no one watching Chris Columbus's ghastly adaptation will have the first clue why this La Bohme for the Aids generation has become
AN adventure film festival, which brings together award-winning adventure films from the world's top adventure film producers, comes to Oxford's Vue Cinema, Grenoble Road, from September 11 to September 15. The exciting, five-day programme which offers
Drive along the A40 from Burford to Witney and the 3iver Windrush can be seen meandering through meadows that often flood in wintertime. This ideal Cotswold view changes, however, south of Witney, where the river on its way to joining the Thames at
Jenson Button enters unchartered waters in Turkey when, for the first time in his career, he starts a weekend as a Grand Prix winner. The 26-year-old's stunning triumph three weeks ago in a damp Budapest finally broke his duck at the 113th attempt and
Citroen has served up a hot new special edition in the shape of the C3 Pluriel Latte, which introduces a new body colour, leather upholstery and air conditioning as standard. The £12,745 C3 Pluriel Latte comes in a new Ivory' body colour that is complemented
A new special edition of the Land Rover Discovery 3 has been launched, called the Metropolis. Based on the highly-equipped HSE model, just 300 limited editions of the Discovery 3 will bear the Metropolis name and feature body-coloured wheel arches,
I have a reliable, if admittedly unscientific, system for judging how family-friendly a car really is. It is the tissue test. If a car appears rather aloof, business-like and cold, it invariably remains free of the clutter of family life particularly
Sir, Copies of the new Yellow Pages are now being delivered. People in Oxford city may be interested to know we are allowed to put the old edition in our green recycling boxes; the city council has found an outlet which will recycle them. Susanna Pressel
Sir, During the recent broadcast of the cricket test against Pakistan I noted that the DAB signal had a four-second delay compared to the longwave Test Match Special signal. Acknowledging that DAB broadcasts are terrestrial and can be connected by landline
Sir, In a week when in one of the country's major hospitals the lack of cleanliness and its dire consequences has made national news, I would like to make a comparison with my very recent experience at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. On July 25, I
Sir, Many Oxford residents will be amazed as I am at the duplicity of the county council in their proposals to charge residents for parking outside their homes. At the initial consultation meetings that I attended, officials strongly refuted that the
Sir, We would like to draw attention to the shoddy way Oxford City Council has dealt with a planning application for a bungalow on land adjacent to Westrup Close and to the rear of Hugh Allen Crescent, Marston. In May 2005, an outline application for
Sir, People are right to be worried about the future of the Oxford Green Belt if Oxfordshire County Council's recent performance over Radley Lakes is anything to go by. The County Structure Plan says that proposals for waste disposal involving landraising
Sir, The introduction of a blanket 50mph speed limit on the A34 will not solve the current carnage Drivers are in denial (August 11), it is bad driving that kills. The Government-funded Transport Research Laboratory advises that speed is responsible for
The disagreement over residents' parking permits in Oxford appears to be the latest issue to turn into a political football. The dispute came to a head a few weeks ago when the city council threatening to refuse to administer the county council-inspired
Earlier this year The Oxford Times wrote to every school in the county offering to publish a student-by-student breakdown of GCSE, vocational and A-Level passes this summer. At a time when we are all being urged to recognise and celebrate the achievements
We welcome news of Oxford's first no cold-calling zone which is being established in Wolvercote. Similar schemes already operate in Burford and Woodstock. But what about the rest of us - most of us - who live outside these zones? We discover from a
It seems to make little sense to close a world-renowned breast-feeding clinic at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, when some estimate the number of deliveries per year could increase from 6,500 to 8,000 at the maternity unit. Campaigners say the
Now in its 35th year, the Uffington White Horse Show has developed a winning formula, making it the most popular country show for miles around. Uffington is a small village in S.W. Oxfordshire, just 20 minutes drive from Swindon, and the show is organised
(Serves four) You need reasonably ripe tomatoes for this recipe, as the rice is cooked in the juices you get from them. Although you can add water, a far better flavour is achieved by using the tomato juices. If you have still have a glut of tomatoes
Several street names in Headington commemorate Members of Parliament for the Town - as opposed to the Gown - of Oxford (which returned its own two MPs from 1613 to 1950). Among them, on the Gipsy Lane Estate, are Gray's Road, Stonor Place, and Cardwell
If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise . . . Described as "The Office meets Deliverance", which turns out to be wishful thinking, Severance is a blackly humorous romp drenched in blood, set during a corporate team-building weekend
PEOPLE are being encouraged to get involved in a study that aims to improve access to West Oxfordshire's Lower Windrush Valley. In June, Oxfordshire County Council started a four-month project to find out about routes available to walkers, cyclists
In the UK some of our mammal species are more conspicuous than others. Most people have seen a fox, possibly investigating a suburban dustbin, and grey squirrels are known to anyone who visits a park or feeds garden birds. Moles and hedgehogs, although
Woodstock Live is a celebration of music in the town which shares its name with the most famous music festival of all time. In 1969, Hendrix, The Who, The Grateful Dead et al played at Yasgur's Farm. This year in Oxfordshire's Woodstock, the celebration
Volvo's two-door, four-seater, C30 will make its world debut at the Paris Motor Show in September and is due to arrive in UK showrooms at the turn of the year. Volvo president Fredrik Arp said: "The new Volvo C30 is a cool car. A car that aims for a
A community building threatened with closure has been saved thanks to a £48,500 National Lottery grant. Trustees of the Old School, in Stanton St John, also known as the Holford Centre, feared the building would be lost if it did not get the cash to
Staff at an Oxfordshire garden centre are appealing for help after thieves made a daring daylight raid on a cage of valuable birds. The thieves took flight with two parakeets and two cockatiels worth more than £500 after snatching them from the pet
Abingdon School and Our Lady's Convent school have joined forces to help support a school in Moldova, one of the poorest countries in Europe. Number Four School, in Ialoveni, near Moldova's capital city Chisinau, has been adopted to support the work
You would think Miss England Eleanor Glynn would be looking forward to jetting off to Poland to compete in the Miss World 2006 final. But the 5ft 9in brunette is so petrified of getting on a plane that she is taking a fear-of-flying course before the
An apparently healthy young mother died with her eight-month-old daughter in bed next to her, an inquest heard. Hours before her death, Joanne Foster, 21, of Rissington Drive, Witney, had been laughing and enjoying a family meal, Oxfordshire Coroner's
