A KNIFE-wielding robber stole the contents of a till after threatening a woman at an Abingdon service station. The raider, his face hidden with a red scarf, entered the Esso garage, in Drayton Road, about 9.45pm on Wednesday. He produced a knife and told
RESIDENTS have won their battle to get a controversial traffic measure scrapped - but lost their bid to rid their neighbourhood of speed humps. People living in the Lye Valley estate, Headington, called on Oxford City Council to rip out the tarmac speed
A CHAUFFEUR had an affair with his mayor after telling her he was a bodyguard for Diana, Princess of Wales. But Stan Brookes was not a Thames Valley police officer but a handyman in Kidlington. Mr Brookes, 35, swept Margaret Layland, Mayor of Worcester
CONVICTED drug abusers should be offered shorter jail sentences in return for quitting their addiction, a meeting in Oxford was told last night. Sir Stephen Tumim, the former chief inspector of prisons, told an audience at St Edmund Hall that most serious
THE judge in the case of three protesters acquitted of stealing kittens from the Hillgrove cat breeding farm launched a blistering attack on police after the verdicts. Recorder Christopher Tickle told Oxford Crown Court it did not take Sherlock Holmes
HAVING overtaken Reading and Swindon Town, among many others, on their incredible climb up the table, Oxford United now have Denis Smith's West Bromwich Albion in their sights. Malcolm Shotton's team are bidding for a fourth successive victory when they
A SECRETARY told today how the married man she had a 12-year affair with became an obsessive stalker when she dumped him for refusing to divorce his wife. "I loved him," said Mary White, 36, of Cowley, Oxford, "but when I finished our relationship, he
MYSTERY surrounds the closure of a historic town centre hotel. Closed signs went up on Wednesday at the Marlborough Arms Hotel in Oxford Street, Woodstock. In 1994 the London-based Sudbury House Hotel and Conference Centre, which ran the Marlborough Arms
A FREAK power cut left homes in Bampton without electricity all last night. Fire crews went to Mercury Close after a resident heard an explosion behind his home. An electricity transformer in a sub station had blown leaving a hole in the ground. A Southern
PSYCHIATRIC nurse Patrick McDaid has been struck off for having sex with one patient in her home and groping another in his car. The married 43-year-old nurse was working in Kidlington and Bicester for Oxfordshire Community Health NHS Trust from 1994-
A CRUMBLING road running through an Oxford housing estate will continue to crack up and could become dangerous in just three months if £300,000 is not found to rebuild it. Oxford City Council needs to find the cash to save Fettiplace Road, in Barton,
OXFORDSHIRE Probation Service says it is powerless to stop a paedophile returning to a village where he terrorised children. Villagers fear that child rapist Rhys Hughes intends to move next door to the family of one of his victims - a girl he assaulted
Swindon 41, Oxford 49 GRESHAM Oxford Cheetahs continued their superb opening to the season with a brilliant victory over old rivals Swindon in a challenge at the Abbey Stadium last night. Just 24 hours after thrashing King's Lynn, they expected a battle
EVERY day Jenny Croxford cooks and washes up in the kitchen where her son was murdered. She says that remaining in the house is a bitter-sweet experience. The family home in Windmill Road, Headington, Oxford, is full of wonderful memories of her son Timothy
LOOKING at Jean Kaye, it is hard to believe the grandmother of seven has been arrested endless times. Jean has even done time in Holloway Prison, sharing a cell with a drug user and another serving time for grievous bodily harm. The 71-year-old widow
