Floods are sweeping across the county and wreaking havoc on homes and businesses. The River Thames is continuing to swell and the rising levels have already left many areas under water. Environment Agency officers are monitoring 61 sites across Oxfordshire
Rover Oxford moved within two points of the leaders in Area Division 2, with a game in hand, after a 1-0 win at home to Enfield. Although dominating the game with at least 20 short corners, the home side could not beat an Enfield goalkeeper in outstanding
Thame United striker Jefferson Louis is a target for Aylesbury United. Ducks boss Cliff Hercules has put in a seven-day approach for the big centre forward, but Thame joint manager Andy Sinnott is hopeful they can hold on to him. "I don't think it will
Kidlington and Gosford juniors struggled gallantly at Maidenhead but still came last. Top three places were achieved by Sam Fowler, Calum Surrage and Trevor Lyle for the boys, plus Charlotte Aust, Natasha Harms- worth, Leah Castle and Laura Holmes for
Grand Prix teams were in Barcelona today ready to start the second three-day test session of the winter. David Coulthard set the early pace as the Grand Prix teams launched their test sessions at Jerez, Spain, last week. The third and final session of
Oxford Harlequins have rejected Chipping Norton's complaints that Saturday's clash at Marston Ferry Road amounted to 'a trial of intimidation'. Quins triumphed 23-10 in a fiercely contested match which saw five players sent to the sin-bin. The first to
An online auction is giving soap fans the chance to snap up a Coronation Street script signed by the cast and the Prince of Wales. FSauctions, the Freeserve auctions site, has teamed up with the makers of Corrie and the TV show This Morning to help celebrate
The UK's leading education website has landed a top award at the prestigious Internet Business Awards. Schoolsnet was named winner of the award for Best Web Content in front of a 400-strong audience during a ceremony in the Corn Exchange, Brighton. The
Chatrooms are not the only way the Internet can help your social life - logging on to CommuniGate could add a little spark to your leisuretime too. Eight social clubs and more than 100 special interest groups and sports clubs have web pages on the free
The Oxford University rugby team go into today's 119th Varsity match as favourites. The Dark Blues will take on Cambridge in front of more than 50,000 spectators today. The bookies are tipping a Dark Blues victory by six to ten points.
Gosford All Blacks finally notched their first Division 2 win of the season when they ran in five tries to beat fellow strugglers Didcot 27-0. Greg Woodley scored two tries one against the run of play while their other scores came from Jim Heskin, James
Oxford Hawks Ladies finished the first half of the season with a convincing 4-0 victory over Marlow in Division 1 of the Trysports Three Counties League. Captain Hannah Williamson opened the scoring after 15 minutes, cracking home a loose ball. Sarah
Trevor Walsh's last game in a Henley shirt ended in disappointment as Manchester ended Hawks' unbeaten home record with a 26-13 victory. The former Oxford University centre is returning home to Australia after four highly successful season at Henley.
Bioscience companies Powderject and British Biotech both reported widening losses in their latest half-year results. However, Powderject, developing a painless injection device, says its takeover of Medeva Vaccines has boosted its cash reserves to £58.4m
Colour pictures of rotting teeth and smoke-blackened lungs should be printed on all cigarette packets, says Oxfordshire's Euro-MP Mark Watts. He is welcoming legislation being approved in Strasbourg this week that forces the tobacco industry to print
Members of a youth club have been given the chance to decide their own future. In a bid to continue improving facilities and opportunities at the Willy Freund club in Bretch Hill, Banbury, a group of members have formed "Us" a committee of young people
Pensioners at an old folks' home are distraught after their Christmas presents were stolen, writes Roseena Parveen. Residents at the Royal Berkshire Court, Green Close, Didcot, were due to sit down to a slap-up Christmas dinner today, and later would
Health experts are making a last minute bid to cut flu deaths in Oxfordshire this Christmas by urging pensioners to have a jab, writes Victoria Owen. Although 65 per cent of the county's elderly people have had the free vaccine this season, health authority
An Oxford University student enjoyed the best night of his life after gate-crashing a Millennium Dome party for the Miss World competition. Robin Kathuria, 21, an engineering student at St Catharine's College, was in London on November 30 when the competition
City of Oxford were given a lesson as they were crushed 6-1 by table-topping Ashford who made it 11 wins out of 11 in the Middlesex, Berks, Bucks & Oxon Regional section. Even City's goal came from an Ashford player, although Richard Lloyd claimed
Oxford Hawks lost 4-2 at home to Nottingham in their last English League Division 1 game before the Christmas break to slump to the bottom of the table. Running jump: Oxford Hawks' Toby Griffiths takes evasive action against Nottingham Hawks made a disastrous
Chinnor for once turned their pressure into points as they won 19-5 on a surprisingly good pitch at Marlow. Playing with the wind behind them in the first half, Chinnor laid siege to the Marlow line and skipper James Davies went over in the corner for
Witney Town could be fined up to 1,000 and be deducted points for allegedly failing to fulfill a fixture, writes Russell Smith. Dr Martens League officials are set to meet in London on Thursday to decide what action to take after Witney failed to provide
Rover Oxford Ladies travelled through horrendous storms on their way to Horsham, intent on finishing the first half of the season on a high note, and they achieved it with a comfortable 2-0 win. Rover soon established control, built on some very competent
Oxford Devils continued their bid for the National League Division 1 title by beating second-placed Kingston Wildcats 82-64 at Oxford Brookes. Devils took a while to clear the cobwebs after last week's Trophy semi-final loss, but stayed in contention
A Sparkling display by veteran Mickey Thomas inspired Banbury to a 26-21 victory over fellow strugglers Stoke-on-Trent at Bodicote Park. After Stoke had taken a 7-0 lead, Bulls dominated the rest of the first half, with 41-year-old fly half Thomas, brought
Oxford City Stars moved into contention for the end-of-season play-offs with two great English National League wins over the weekend, writes Colin Kirby. At Birmingham Rockets on Saturday, Stars showed great character to come from behind, new Swedish
Oxford city councillor Sarah Margetts has resigned from the Labour group - saying she could not stomach the party's policies or personnel, writes Philip Seton-Anderson. But the party was quick to claim that her real reason for leaving was her relationship
The BBC was literally sent packing when it filmed a feature for business and personal finance programme Working Lunch. The regular slot where presenters Adrian Chiles and Adam Shaw turn their hands to different jobs was shot at Clearwater Hampers, in
Julie Pickford, a partner at Mazars Neville Russell in Oxford, looks at whether a company car really is a benefit? In April 2002, the system for taxing company cars will be radically changed. The new rules relate to directors and "P11D employees" provided
Talented young musician Kate Hamilton is through to the final of a competition with the chance of winning £2,000 and a record contract. Kate HamiltonKate, 14, of Woodfield Drive, Charlbury, beat off competition from people all older than herself at one
A town councillor who has collected 25,000 for local pensioners, is swapping her charity fundraising for the sun and sand of the Spanish costas. For the past four years Wantage town councillor Di Ennis, 54, has run market stalls and social events in aid
A teenage computer wizard who tried to blackmail the director of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum failed to win his freedom at London's Criminal Appeal Court. The 16-year-old, from Oxford, used a computer to cover his tracks as he tried to negotiate a 1m ransom
A landlord has been given six months to clean up his act and stop yobs making people's lives a misery. In the meantime his weekend discos have been curtailed by one hour and will stop at midnight. But the move has not pleased residents in Haydon Road,
Oxford United striker Derek Lilley was today set for a move back to Scotland, with Premier League outfit Dundee favourites to sign him. United's director of football, Joe Kinnear, worked on the deal all weekend and I understand Oxford have accepted Dundee's
