OXFORD city centre music shop Russell Acott is considering moving out of town and selling its High Street shop to a top chain of restaurants and bars. The shop, which has sold sheet music, records, musical instruments, radios and other electrical music
A plane owned by an Oxford air taxi firm skidded across a runway - after the pilot forgot to lower the landing gear. The six-seater Piper Seneca plane, owned by Air Med, based at Oxford Airport, Kidlington, had been chartered to pick up an ITV film crew
Partying at Oxford's Dolly pub is set to continue into the early hours after bosses were granted permission to serve drinks until 2am. Oxford magistrates at a licensing hearing yesterday granted the change to the pub's special hours certificate, allowing
Up to 260 workers at Rover's Cowley factory face upheaval after the car firm announced it was closing all tool-making operations in Oxford. Workers were told yesterday that the body and pressings tool manufacture and model making plant at Cowley will
More than 100 police launched a huge operation early today to evict protesters at Oxford's historic LMS railway station. Codenamed Operation Buffer, officers and bailiffs evicted the first of about 30 squatters from the Park End Street building at 6am
A drugs raid uncovered cocaine with a street value of hundreds of pounds. The class A drug was seized by police along with a quantity of cannabis resin during a search of a flat in St John's Road, Banbury. A teenager was arrested on suspicion of possessing
Children and teachers at the school where Bahamas murder victim Joanne Clarke worked, have held an assembly in her memory. Pupils at Neithrop Junior School, Banbury, where Joanne was a classroom assistant, now hope to open a memorial fund in her memory
Drivers in Oxfordshire could be forced to have medical check-ups every five years under proposals being looked at by the county council. The idea is one of five being investigated after a consultation exercise into a series of innovative road safety proposals
Angler Harry Taylor nearly drowned after he was pushed into 8ft of water as he sat on the riverbank. Grandad Mr Taylor, 68, was fishing in a backwater of the River Thames, near his home in Weirs Lane, Oxford, when he was suddenly pushed from behind. He
Soccer colleagues and fans were among the many mourners at the funeral of former football star Hugh McGrogan, who died in a car crash last week. The Rev Des Devenney, who had officiated at Hugh's wedding in 1981, suggested to mourners, in one of the service's
Chemist Jeff Harris is threatening to withhold his council tax after claiming that shoppers are staying away as a result of traffic gridlock. Mr Harris said his trade had been squeezed because customers have so much difficulty getting to his shop in Oxford's
LYNN Gibson, who is a member of Oxford City but lives in Andover, gets a second chance of Commonwealth Games action in Kuala Lumpur over the next fortnight. She finished ninth in the 1500m at Victoria four years ago and is confident she can improve when
OXFORD United will give key defender Phil Gilchrist as much time as possible to get fit for tonight's all-ticket Division 1 derby at Swindon. Gilchrist hobbled off with a suspected pulled hamstring in Sunday's 3-0 win over Portsmouth, but the diagnosis
