Woke up thinking about Kirsty. How hard it must be to have your family spend a fortune coming to Beijing to see you in the final, only for your body to let you down in the first round. Her time was nearly 4 seconds slower than her GB record. Days continue
Woke up thinking about Kirsty. How hard it must be to have your family spend a fortune coming to Beijing to see you in the final, only for your body to let you down in the first round. Her time was nearly 4 seconds slower than her GB record. Days continue
Disgraced singer Gary Glitter, who was born in Banbury, will be met by police on his return to the UK next week. The convicted child molester will be released from jail in Vietnam on Tuesday and flown to London, his lawyer said. Glitter, 63, whose real
More than 1,000 pieces of children's art will completely take over an Oxford gallery at the end of a year-long project unique to the county The MY project, co-ordinated by Oxfordshire County Council, has been granted exclusive use of Modern Art Oxford's
An Army sergeant based at Dalton Barracks in Abingdon who was found with a stash of illegal weapons at his home was jailed for five years today. Duncan MacGillivray, 39, of 21 General Support Squadron, Royal Logistic Corps, served with the Army for more
Oxford City player-manager Justin Merritt is looking for his side to finish at least mid-table in their first season back in the British Gas Business Southern League Premier Division. City's boss, whose side won promotion from Division 1 South with
A taxi driver tonight spoke of his relief after being cleared of sexually assaulting a teenage passenger in Oxford. A jury at Oxford Crown Court took less than an hour-and-a-half to clear Qazi Rehman of attacking the 15-year-old girl in his Volkswagen
DEVELOPERS planning to build flats at a former boatyard in Oxford insist they have done enough to provide alternative facilities for boaters. Last year, the city council rejected developer Spring Residential's plans to build 54 one and two-bedroom flats
Dozens of Eastbourne Borough fans missed their club's first-ever win at Conference National level at Stevenage on Tuesday night - thanks to the M25. They had set off from Sussex, but the M25 was blocked solid and, knowing they wouldn't make kick-off
There was a visitor with a difference at Oxford United yesterday when the British Vice Consul in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, called in. He was accompanying Berlayneh Teshome, a former professional footballer who is now chairman of Electricity
Oxford United skipper Adam Murray says the new "Respect Campaign" for referees is all very well, but they also need to show some respect for the players. Under the new FA-backed campaign, refs communicate with captains much more, to avoid players suddenly
Oxford United's Community department gave a helping hand to Greater Leys Youth FC last week. Greater Leys are a new team who were looking for some footballs and United donated two bags of footballs and three sets of bibs. Pictured above, United's
It's no good suggesting to chairman Nick Merry that he should have had a pair of socks on for the Oxford United team photo - he doesn't wear them, he says. Perhaps next year, though, he will be persuaded to don the kind of full-length trousers that,
Yemi Odubade is fired up to face his old club Eastbourne Borough on Saturday - and the U's badly need a goal from last season's leading scorer. With question marks still over Jamie Guy's fitness, it will probably again be James Constable and Odubade
A major review of buses and cyclists in Oxford is to be launched in a bid to make the city centre more pedestrian friendly. Faced with renewed calls for a reduction in the number of buses in High Street, Oxfordshire County Council pledged that it is
Neighbours shocked by the incident that left a builder fighting for his life outside an Oxford nightclub were meeting police tonight. East Oxford area Inspector Brian Cooper called the meeting after Richard Waters was injured outside the Regal nightclub
Exactly 100 years after Winston Churchill popped the question at Blenheim Palace, another Winston chose the same spot to propose to the love of his life. Winston Ramsey, 68, surprised his Australian girlfriend Gail Parker as they sat together at the
Councillors have rejected Thames Water's case for a £1bn reservoir near Abingdon. The Vale of White Horse District Council said the company's draft water resources management plan failed to provide a "compelling and unequivocal" case for the reservoir
A new men's football team on an Oxford estate is hoping to raise £1,000 to fund its inaugural season in the league. Rose Hill Football Club, the first senior team in Rose Hill for decades, is holding a family fun day on Saturday to help pay for the
The history of car production in Oxford will be celebrated at an exhibition of the city's classic motors. More than 100 exhibitors have signed up to show their rare vehicles at the first Cowley Classic Car Show on Sunday. Vehicles on display will
Oxford teenage musicians Ruthless Street Boys have recorded a video to go with their debut single. And now 'grime' act RSB have performed on camera especially for the Oxford Mail. Each of the band members helped pick out locations synonymous with
A homeless alcoholic and heroin addict died from head injuries after falling and hitting his head on a pavement, an inquest heard. Alex Smith, 26, who lived in Oxford's Luther Street Night Shelter, died in December 2007 - two days after he was admitted
The NHS is frequently accused of being over-burdened with management, leaking money and generally not being very business-like. Anyone listening to the news is more likely to hear about problems with superbugs, postcode lotteries of drugs or cash-strapped
With two young children, sports-mad couple Louise and Lee Peffers took a big gamble when they gave up their jobs to set up their swimming school business, Swimrite. They took an even bigger risk when they bought a rundown farmhouse with grade II listed
Heythrop Park Hotel guests enjoying a stroll in the extensive gardens get a big surprise if they follow the footpath up the hill from the lake. As they crest the rise, they suddenly see camels and dromedaries at pasture, then giraffes' heads might pop
One of Witney's oldest independent shops is to close following the death of 96-year-old Elvira Delnevo. The family has decided to shut the business at 36 High Street in December. What will happen to the premises has not been decided. The shop, E Delnevo
Smalls' used to mean breeches' but around 1943, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, the word began to be applied to underwear. This euphemistic usage does suggest that many people feel slightly embarrassed about what they wear under their clothes
Smalls' used to mean breeches' but around 1943, according to The Oxford Dictionary of Slang, the word began to be applied to underwear. This euphemistic usage does suggest that many people feel slightly embarrassed about what they wear under their clothes
Jo Hodges, science enterprise manager at The Oxford Trust, highlights some of the benefits from the Nuffield Science Bursary Scheme that stimulates links between students and R&D This summer the Nuffield Science Bursary Scheme sees 25 students from
Life has a series of defining moments and Stephen Baughan is experiencing one of those turning points right now. At the age of 50, he has decided to invest £1.1m into Aston Pottery, the business he runs with his wife Jane in the charming west Oxfordshire
They may not know it themselves, but many of the people in USA who enforce the law of the land undergo psycholgical screening for their jobs - using tests controlled by an Oxford firm. Business psychologists, OPP, who employ about 150 people at their
Teenagers across the county found out if two years of hard work had paid off as they opened their A Level results. Thousands of pupils gathered at their schools to find out if they had made the grade. Topping the table for Oxford School, formerly
Zhenzhen Ma was celebrating after being just one mark away from scoring eight A grades at A Level. The Didcot teenager, from Fleet Meadow, is among the very highest scoring pupils in the country - and yesterday the Department for Children, Schools and
AEA Technology 47.5 BMW 2284 Electrocomponents 164.75 Nationwide Accident Repair 132.5 Oxford Biomedica 8.6 Oxford Catalyst 168.5 Oxford Instruments 217.5 Reed Elsevier 603.25 RM 176.5 RPS Group 293.5 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley, Abingdon
The last time I blogged I was a week or so out from racing Antwerp 70.3, so it's great to be able to report a cracking result from that race... I really enjoyed the whole weekend - from hanging out with the boys (cheers to Oz, CP & DJ for plenty
Congratulations to the hundreds of Oxfordshire students celebrating their A-level results this week. Early indications suggest that many schools have achieved their best-ever results. It is testament to all the hard work put in by students and their
Not much needs to be said about the Policy Exchange think tank's proposal that development should be allowed to run riot around Oxford to create a metropolitan area the size of the West Midlands. One need only reference the time of year that the authors
Action/Sci-Fi/Drama. Featuring the voices of Samuel L Jackson, Christopher Lee, Matt Lanter, Ian Abercrombie, Anthony Daniels, Tom Kane, Ashley Drane, Matthew Wood JUST when you thought George Lucas had milked his intergalactic cash cow dry with endless
Comedy/Romance/Action. Adam Sandler, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rob Schneider, John Turturro, Nick Swardson, Lainie Kazan DURING the opening chapter of Dennis Dugan's comedy about an Israeli agent who dreams of becoming a hairdresser, one of the coiffure-crazed
Comedy/Drama. Emma Roberts, Kimberley Nixon, Sophie Wu, Linzey Cocker, Juno Temple, Alex Pettyfer, Natasha Richardson, Georgia King, Shirley Henderson, Aidan Quinn, Eleanor Turner-Moss, Ruby Thomas. GIRLS just wanna have fun in Wild Child, a culture
A MAJOR review of how buses and cyclists operate in Oxford is to be launched in a bid to make the historic city centre more pedestrian-friendly. Faced with renewed calls for a reduction in the number of buses on the High Street, Oxfordshire County Council
Minor Counties Championship Rob Williams will captain Oxfordshire in their Western Division clash with Dorset at Bournemouth, starting on Sunday. Williams, a former Oxon skipper, takes over from Ian Hawtin, who is likely to miss the rest of the season
Mattthew Arnold School pupils make like the kids from Fame to celebrate their results.
Police have arrested 11 people and charged five as part of a crackdown on car crime in Oxford. The arrests were made in East Oxford, Headington and Greater Leys on Sunday and Monday. Pc Steve Martin, of the auto-crime team, said the arrests were part
Bartholomew School sent in this picture of some students who performed very well in their A Levels.
Home Counties Premier League Banbury captain Benji Hector has many selection questions to mull over ahead of tomorrow's trip to Reading in Division 1. But one player he won't be calling on is seamer Ed Smith, who has been banned for two matches,
UK TAXPAYERS, who finance the National Health Service, are being told by an unelected playing God' body - the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) - that some of their number are being denied medication, and the right to live, on the basis
ECB 50+ Championship Oxfordshire must avenge the only defeat of their campaign so far on Sunday if they are to reach the semi-finals. They face Wales at Croesyceiliog, near Newport, having lost their group match by nine wickets at Merthyr Tydfil
A FEW years ago, my husband and I moved to Cumbria. One of the first things we noticed was how friendly and helpful shopkeepers were. This was a nice surprise, as we had become used to a 'take it or leave it' attitude in Abingdon. Recently, I went
LAST week, I witnessed what I thought was a miracle. All the traffic coming into Oxford from Botley Road was flowing well, people got to work early, cyclists and buses blended seamlessly into the traffic and there were no reports of accidents. Why
Eight teams will be battling it out in the annual Majid and Anum Khan Tournament at Rover Cowley Sports Ground on Sunday, August 17 (10.30am-7pm). They include Cumnor and The Tigers, who shared the trophy last year. Other teams lining up will be East
Switching off some street lights at night time is a fantastic idea, not only for global warming, but to save us hard-working council taxpayers money. I worked in Germany from 1986-89. The street lights were switched off from midnight to 6am. It was
Oxfordshire County Council, under the disguise of 'green issues', has decided to switch off some street lights during certain hours (Oxford Mail, August 7). In reality, we all know this is a cost-saving exercise and that it doesn't really care about
Tim Middleton, Joseph Delo and Harry Desmond, all aged 18, celebrate their passes achieved at Abingdon School.
Margaret Randall is celebrating 40 years' service with Lloyds Bank - 39 of them at the Wallingford branch. And next month she is hosting a party for colleagues who have worked with her over the past four decades. Miss Randall lives in Sands Way, Benson
If you can, go and see Eoin Colfer tomorrow before it's too late. Because he's on the way up, and with Hollywood chomping at the bit for his work, it's only a matter of time before he spreads himself more thinly on the ground. With all five of his children's
St Birinus School Headteacher Chris Bryan says well done to some of his students in Didcot.
Oxford University looks set to be granted special dispensation to build a new five-storey science block that breaks the city's height limit for buildings. Oxford City Council's planning committee has already recommended to allow a new £29m Earth Sciences
Wantage ladies' had a day to remember in Division 1 of the Ladies 2-Pair League, writes MARK EDWARDS. o Their A team enjoyed a 3- triumph over Bicester A, winning both final-round matches in three sets to secure a comfortable victory. But their B team
Oxford City time triallist Corin Simmonds showed the men the way home in the Mid-Oxon promoted Brill Hilly 17-mile time trial Simmonds covered the notoriously hard course in 45mins 6secs to beat Tucker Murphy by 30 seonds. She finished second in the
I've always been jealous of the Portuguese. They've got stunning landscapes, beguiling music, wonderful architecture and a happy-go-lucky approach to life. They also have to contend with a great climate, stunning landscapes and some very decent beaches
SATURDAY. FOOTBALL. BLUE SQUARE PREMIER. Oxford Utd v Eastbourne Boro. BRITISH GAS BUSINESS SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Premier Div: Banbury Utd v Oxford C. Div 1 South & West: Didcot Tn v Cinderford, Bishops Cleeve v N Leigh, Taunton Tn v Abingdon Utd. FA
Keeping your kids amused over the holidays is one thing, but teenagers is whole new ball game! Which is why you'll be delighted to hear that BBC Blast is rocking into Oxford on Thursday, kitted out with the kind of up-to-date technology that they can
Seven successful students from Magdalen College School. Front - Jack Shukman, Phil Derry, Ollie Withers Back - Sam Diserens, Alex Creak, Beau Schofield, Richard Abraham
The results make good reading for Sarah Hetherington Rachel Danham and Liam Burden at King Alfreds School in Wantage.
Our photographers captures a tense moment for Diana Peck as she opens her reults envelope at King Alfreds School in Wantage.
Mike Winstanley has a seat while he lets his results sink in at King Alfreds School in Wantage.
Rukhsana Ali and Sheba Ziyenge of Oxford Community School anxiously scour their results.
Students collecting their A Level results at Bicester Community College. Front to back are: Mark Wright, Laura Wilson, Charlotte Philip, Stephanie Latham, Helena Mills & Matthew Gardner.
I don't like August. It's a flat month in the wine world. Everyone's on holiday and my daily flood of emails from wine-maker friends and colleagues completely dries up. On the upside, it's a time to catch up on all the magazines, press releases and articles
Photograph shows 6 of 13 students who achieved 3 or more straight As at Wood Green School in Witney. Left to right: Mark Dale, Matthew Jellings, George Bibby, Tom Neary, Esther Lock and Emily Pratley-Hutt
Andrew Ffrench searches for motives behind local crime writer Mark Billingham's latest novel. CHIPPING Norton crime writer Mark Billingham has taken a big risk. His series of London-based novels, featuring DI Tom Thorne, has won him the Sherlock Award
Anna Thompson-Rowlands, Emily Manolopoulos, Rossie Edenbrow, Arabella Cooper Maddocks, Hannah Brown, Emily Doll, Charlotte Culpin (Head girl), Gaby Masefield, Emma Brown, Helen Mackreath, Rheanna Underwood and Natasha Logan.
Not A lot of people would expect an exhibition about doors to be particularly stimulating; front doors, back doors, bathroom doors, how much fun can it really be? But Modern Art Oxford is currently showing the door paintings of Gary Hume, one of the
STUDENTS across Banbury have been celebrating A-level successes with scores getting grade As. Many teenagers are now gearing up to leave the town to study a host of subjects at universities around the country. Overall pass rates have gone up this
Jack Shukman, Phil Derry and Ollie Withers, pupils at Magdalen College School in Oxford, compare grades.
There's only so much I can say about the funk/soul/reggae and all-round eclectic night Shake!' at the Carling Academy on Friday nights. The limited appeal of paying £5 to spend until 3am in a room the size of a small village hall makes me wonder just
Torrential rain, thunder and lightning caused the postponement of the today's entire rowing programm. The lightweight women's double sculls of Wallingford's Helen Casey with Hester Goodsell, was one of the crews who had to wait 24 hours before making
TEENAGERS across Oxford found out if two years of hard work had paid off as they opened their A-level results. Thousands of pupils gathered at their schools to find out if they had made the grade. Topping the table for Oxford School, formerly Oxford
There may be the Olympics, but domestic events, possibly discovering future stars, continue with this weekend's Oxford City Royal Regatta hosting a total of 500 compeititors. City are staging a 1000 metre regatta on the Isis on Saturday and one of 500
Steph Hill, right, and Lizzie Hawksworth, both 18; congratulate each other at Our Lady's Convent School.
Deborah O'Brien, Laura Dziewullski, Harriet Drury and Victoria Luimey-Cook, all aged 18, celebrate their A level results at Our lady's Convent School in Abingdon.
Teenagers from the small west Oxfordshire town of Charlbury are looking forward to their biggest-ever challenge - performing at the Edinburgh Festival. The 33-strong cast from Shed Theatre and director Sue Cochrane are setting off to the Scottish capital
Modest field perched beside the Thames will this week become the hottest property on the planet. On Friday, August 22, the planet's biggest bands will be joined by 80,000 fans just a few miles beyond the Oxfordshire border at the Reading Festival.
They may rock a slightly academic, even geeky look, but the first thing to know about New York band We Are Scientists, is that they aren't. Cool? Yes. Funky? Yep. Clever? You bet! But scientific? Frankly, this lot could barely change a lightbulb.
A couple who met at a dance have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. Gerald and Joan Wyatt knew each other, as they worked in next-door units in Wallingford, but romance only blossomed for the mechanic and shop assistant when they started meeting
A nanny who had tea with former American President Franklin D Roosevelt has celebrated her 100th birthday. And Florence Bennett, who lives at Glebefields Nursing Home, in Drayton, near Banbury, was not alone as fellow resident Annie Pocock also reaches
Detainees at Campsfield House immigration centre in Kidlington today vowed to continue their hunger strike. The protest started at the Langford Lane detention centre on Saturday and has now escalated to involve about 70 detainees. The hunger strike
No one can accuse Mark Billingham of not being in tune with the zeitgeist. Teenage gangs in London; guns, knives and corrupt cops. Nostalgic commentators harking back to the old days of older, more traditional London gangs like the Krays, when there was
Irene Black, who has an MA in South Indian art, has set her second novel Darshan (Goldenford, £8.99) in Oxford, Wales and Bangalore. Available from the Inner Bookshop in Magdalen Road, East Oxford, it follows the story of Saraswathi, half-Welsh, half-Indian
Tom Bedlam George Hagen (Sceptre, £7.99) Orphan Tom Bedlam is working in a Victorian porcelain factory when his mother dies, followed by the arrival of his perfidious father, and then a benefactor who pays for Tom's education. So far, so Dickensian
FIELDWORK Mischa Berlinski (Atlantic Books, £11.99) Many books are good enough that you want to read to the end; some books are so good that you can't put them down until you have finished; a rare few are so exceptionally good you deliberately read
Teenagers across the county have been celebrating record grades as they tore open their A Level results this morning. At Bartholomew School in Eynsham, headteacher Andrew Hamilton said he was "delighted" with the school's results. Of the 64 pupils who
A HOLLYWOOD ENDING Robyn Sisman (Orion Books, £9.99)Robyn Sisman has created a deliciously glamorous holiday read for summer 2008. A Hollywood Ending follows the life of Los Angeles starlet Paige Carson as she swaps Hollywood for London's West End.
Giving people a bed . . . and a reason to get out of it is the description sometimes given to the work of the Emmaus Communities in helping the homeless. Emmaus Communities enable people to move on from homelessness, providing work and a home in a supportive
THE BROTHER GARDENERS Andrea Wulf (Heinemann £18.99) As Captain Bligh sat in the crowded open boat in the middle of the Pacific, watching HMS Bounty sail away, his thoughts might have turned to the 1,000 or so Tahitian breadfruit saplings sitting in
Businessman Tim Fenn has won a regional award for his new 'eco-homes' venture, Green Carbon Construction, set up last year to design and build a new generation of high-performance eco-homes. After winning the regional heat in the 2008 HSBC Start-Up Stars
Green adventurer Ben Mayo is planning to drive across Europe in a car powered by chip fat. Mr Mayo, who works for Milton Park-based alternative fuels company Regenatec, is taking part in the Grease to Greece challenge, setting off from London on Saturday
CHRIS KOENIG looks back to a time in rural Oxfordshire when harvests could mean joy - or hunger If rising food prices are a worry now, spare a thought for the pre-First World War inhabitants of rural Oxfordshire. For them August was a busy but
Where to go for a quiet lunch when Oxford is buzzing with wall-to-wall tourists, most of them teenage language school students? Years ago, in the days when publishers were awash with expense accounts, I remember meeting authors at the Randolph Hotel,
When combining colours, consider the whole plant, says VAL BOURNE I regularly visit Banbury market on Saturday mornings to buy plants from a Lincolnshire grower with a pitch near the bus station. Four or five well-grown plants for a fiver is a
If you live in Oxfordshire and wonder how the local authorities spend your council tax, this might interest you: the county council pays £60,000 a year to Oxford city centre management company OX1; and the county council pays it another £45,000. Now
Property developers may be right up there among the front runners when it comes to business people being squeezed out by the credit crunch. But Henry Reily Collins, okat just 23, is a developer with a mission, who hopes to ride out the economic downturn
Pupils from one Oxfordshire primary school built their own wildlife garden - with a little help, of course, writes ELIZABETH EDWARDS Pupils from Sunningwell Primary School, near Abingdon, had their help of BBC's Springwatch and the Berkshire,
THERESA THOMPSON reviews The Fabric of Myth, a fascinating exhibition at Compton Verney, near Banbury Off the top of your head, how many words or phrases can you think of that have their roots in the world of fabric making? How many stories, yarns
GILES WOODFORDE talks to classical conductor Brad Cohen about teaching ex-Blur bassist Alex James during the television series Maestro "Brad is cool," ex-Blur bass player Alex James told the Spectator. "He was clearly demonstrating his ability
Sir - Around 150,000 hunting, shooting and fishing enthusiasts attended the CLA Game Fair on the Blenheim Estate. The traffic problems generated by this event are well known but the risks posed to the local community have not been highlighted. Woodstock
Sir - Car parking in residential streets is an issue that can make people's blood boil, as witnessed in the report (August 1) about Brookes students' cars. In a good many city streets, car parking has destroyed any sense of place. Parking policy is
Sir - The bike safety campaign should target noisy drivers who cannot hear other vehicles, endangering themselves and other road users. Driving motorbikes and cars very fast in low gears makes a horrible whining noise far louder than other vehicles, startles
Sir - To read most of the media one would think that the thing most dangerous to one's health would be a trip to one of our hospitals. However, having just completed a delicate ear operation at the JR I have discovered that the picture painted in the
Sir - Donald Alcorn and David Knowles (Letters, August 1) raise a number of points in relation to the proposal by WRG for an energy from waste incinerator at their Sutton Courtenay site. WRG is one of two companies bidding to treat Oxfordshire's residual
Sir - The letters from Y. Beaumont and Keith Farr (August 1 and 8) highlight problems familiar to all Oxford Pedestrians' Association (OxPA) members. Pedestrians' rights to safe and pleasant walking conditions are being eroded as their territory is
Sir - Like Witney Lakeside allotment holders (Flood-hit allotment holders want refund, August 8), both parish councils of Kidlington and Gosford & Water Eaton have been shocked to receive a letter from the Environment Agency to inform them that they have
Sir - Like many, I am sure, I sympathise with the woes of the traders of Woodstock as voiced by shop owner Chris Bayliss in your paper last week, concerning the absence of town centre custom during the Blenheim CLA Game Fair. Perhaps he may draw some
Sir - Pat Whitehouse has a cheek suggesting the proposed Hindu temple be built in Cumnor (Letter, August 8). Having lived in Headington, I would tend to agree that it is already overcrowded and perhaps not the best place for such a building. But Cumnor
Sir - I don't really wish to prolong this particular correspondence but I feel I must claim the right to reply to the somewhat unwarranted, vicious and sarcastic response to my letter about Kidlington Buses from Hugh Jaeger. My original letter was, in
Sir - Your readers will have seen that Oxfordshire County Council has announced plans to switch off some street lights in the name of cutting down on the county's carbon emissions and with a potential saving of £7,835 per year. However, a Liberal Democrat
Sir - Richard Dawkins surely deserves better than the superficial and rather rude review of his recent programme (Weekend, August 8) by Tony Augarde. The programme could be criticised for being a little out of balance in places (e.g. more time could
Sir - Tony Augarde rightly describes Richard Dawkins as arrogant and opinionated. Having watched The Genius of Charles Darwin, I am astonished that a purveyor of facts' should cling so tenaciously to notions long since discredited. For example, the
Sir - East Oxford residents' invitation for Brookes to adopt Cambridge's no car model' for undergraduates was never a suggestion that students are "lesser citizens", just an opportunity for the university to enforce its own no-car policy in the community
Sir - Your recent letters on student parking are all premised on the false assumption that Brookes students living in Oxford are a homogeneous group and that by simply banning' them from using cars parking problems will be resolved. The reality is very
The last week or so I have been feeling very lonely. All my friends have been going out in town and having fun and doing all the things I used to do whilst I have been sat at home! This is the first time It has really bothered me. it wouldn’t be so
The last week or so I have been feeling very lonely. All my friends have been going out in town and having fun and doing all the things I used to do whilst I have been sat at home! This is the first time It has really bothered me. it wouldn’t be so
As we draw closer to the end of our summer season and embark on our holidays, the angst has started! Do I start on those outstanding DIY chores before I venture off to sea and sun? Or simply acknowledge that they won’t get finished, so don’t start and
Don't you just hate those people with kids who complain that doing anything more complicated than walking to the bottom of the garden is like "a small military operation"? Yeah, we used to, too. Now we have become those people. Since the arrival of
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WHEN La Capannina in Oxford's Cowley Road first opened in 1964, the Beatles conquered America, war was escalating in Vietnam and The Sun newspaper made its first run off the press. Now the popular Italian restaurant - thought to be the city's first
Abingdon School is in seventh heaven this morning after five teenagers were in the top 10 nationally for chemistry and one of them achieved seven A grades. Howard Loh, 19, scored his A level grades in accounting, Chinese, chemistry, economics, maths,
Eleven students from an Oxford school were wrongly given a zero mark for their coursework in today's A level results. The blunder was only spotted when Magdalen College School's exams officer Brian Macdonald checked the results early yesterday. The
OXFORD West and Abingdon MP Evan Harris warned a precedent could be set for affordable housing levels if a new block of flats in Jericho gets the go-ahead. Last year, the city council rejected developer Spring Residential's plans to build 54 one- and
A think tank's idea for one million new homes in Oxford was yesterday dubbed "a vision of hell". Policy Exchange, which has close links to the Conservative Party, unveiled the idea as it argued Oxford, Cambridge and London should take a million homes
Road crash victim Gary Franklin's death has left a huge gap that will never be filled, his family said last night. Motorcyclist Mr Franklin was killed in a collision with a Ford Transit Van on the A4074 between the Berinsfield and Golden Balls roundabouts
No wonder the Tories are rushing to distance themselves from a report that suggests turning Oxfordshire into a county of concrete. We were tempted to say that the ideas put forward by the Policy Exchange were among the barmiest we have heard. Correction
When La Capannina in Oxford's Cowley Road first opened in 1964, the Beatles conquered America, war was escalating in Vietnam and the first editions of The Sun newspaper were rolling off the press. Now the popular Italian restaurant has said farewell
