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. Regrettably many declined the offer. We are happy to publish results from the
PREPARATIONS are already under way for Oxford's colourful St Giles Fair. The annual two-day fair will be officially opened by Lord Mayor Jim Campbell, pictured, on Monday, September 4. Visitors will be able to enjoy all the traditional funfair rides
STUDENTS at two Oxfordshire schools had more reason than most to celebrate A-Level results - their grades put them in the UK's top 50 comprehensive schools. Cherwell School, in Marston Ferry Road, Oxford, and Faringdon Community College, Faringdon,
FRANCIS Maddison, the Arabist and historian who became Curator of Oxford's Museum of the History of Science, has died aged 78. A love of languages and a delight in the bizarre, allied to careful and accurate scholarship, were the characteristics that
WHEN I was growing up in Oxford in the 1970s, Port Meadow was a place for pony-mad girls to get their hands on a real live animal, to learn to ride and care for a pony, and to hang out with lots of other pony-mad girls. We were down there before and
A DEAL to collect council tax debt in Oxford has ended up costing the city council money. Oxford City Council turned to the private sector in a trial it hoped would improve its record of collecting debt. But after paying London-based firm Capita £18,700
A MAN said he felt his mother, a retired Oxford don, was failed by the system after she hanged herself - despite repeatedly seeking help for depression. Speaking after an inquest at Oxford Coroner's Court this week, Nathaniel Graham said more should
IT took her three decades to pass her driving test, but Venida Crabtree has just completed her first year as a fully qualified driver - and without a crash in sight. The 51-year-old, from Burgan Close, Cowley, finally passed her driving test last July
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 come from Oxford, have each completed a two-year, part-time
THE average weekly cost to Oxfordshire social services of caring for adults is among the highest in the country - £679 a week. The county comes near the top of a league table showing the cost per person of intensive social care services. But the man
PEOPLE in Bicester have described their shock at a double stabbing in the town centre which left a 20-year-old man fighting for his life. Former Cooper School pupil Craig Kelly, 20, received serious wounds to his stomach during a disturbance in Market
OXFORD University has now erected a permanent warning sign at the spot where a teenager drowned in University Parks. Hassan Hussain died when he jumped into the River Cherwell on June 29 while out with friends at Parsons' Pleasure in University Parks
THREE young brothers were left blistered and burnt after touching a common plant while playing in their garden. The parents of two-year-old twins Adam and George Newitt and brother Luke, five, have released shocking images in hope of warning others
WOULD-BE bogus callers have been warned off preying on those living in Wolvercote after the area became Oxford's first 'no-cold-calling zone'. Signs have gone up in roads around the villageto coincide with a publicity campaign warning people of the
A COURT showdown between Oxford City Council and County Hall over residents' parking permits has moved a step closer. City council lawyer Jeremy Thomas has written to Oxfordshire County Council chief executive Joanna Simons hinting that the Town Hall
WEEKS of nervous waiting finally came to an end as thousands of Oxfordshire teenagers discovered how they had fared in this year's GCSEs. Magdalen College School was once again one of the top performers in the country, with star pupil Alastair Green
POSTAL workers in west Oxfordshire are postponing a three-day strike until next week so school pupils get their GCSE results on time. More than 100 members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) voted to call off an official strike scheduled for yesterday
DRIVERS have been warned to avoid the A40 at Headington, Oxford, next week as a new phase of work starts on remodelling the Green Road roundabout. Oxfordshire County Council has taken the unusual step of advising motorists to seek an alternative route
OXFORDSHIRE County Council is considering relocating an estimated 450 staff to new offices on the edge of the city. It is planned to move people working in the finance and human resources departments, who are spread across offices in County Hall and
THE terror alert has spread to Oxford courtrooms where "over zealous" security guards have been telling visitors to sip their bottles of water to prove they are not bombers. Staff at Oxford Magistrates' Court reacted to the alleged terror plot to blow
A MAN stabbed in a mass brawl at the weekend is in a serious but stable condition at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Samuel Gray, 20, was left fighting for his life after he was stabbed in the neck during a barbecue in the early hours of Saturday
MOTHERS across Oxfordshire are mounting a campaign to save a world-renowned breast-feeding clinic at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust is facing a £33m deficit and is planning to make major cuts, including 600
ACCIDENTS in Cowley Road, Oxford, have fallen since the completion of a major road improvements 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
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KEEN sportswomen Leigh Hubbard has graduated from a prestigious RAF college to become an Acting Pilot Officer. Leigh, 28, completed the Initial Officer Training Course No 1 at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire. She is a former pupil of Chenderit School
PARENTS Chris and Janice Tredwell are taking their four children for a charity hike next month in memory of their fifth child, who died from heart problems aged just ten. The Tredwells - mum and dad, along with children Emily, nine; Isabelle, six; Imogen
BUDDING artists have taken their inspiration from the canal's heyday for an exhibition at Banbury's museum. Users of the Sunshine Centre, a project for children and families based in Bretch Hill, painted spoons, pots, cans, clocks and even a pair of
A NORTH Oxfordshire housing association has been given a vote of confidence by its tenants. Banbury Homes, which has properties in Banbury, as well as Bicester, Kidlington, and some other villages, has improved its performance in virtually all key areas
BRAZEN thieves cut through two fences before driving off in a pair of brand new Range Rovers, worth £120,000. The top-of-the-range off-road vehicles were stolen from a business called Walon Ltd, based in Heyford Park, Upper Heyford, early on Thursday
A MAGICAL garden involving a wilderness, a woodland and even Alice in Wonderland herself, is to feature on a television gardening show. The Barn in South Newington, near Banbury, will be appearing on BBC Two next month after the Open Gardens team arrived
A WIFE was whisked off her feet by her husband for a lunch date with a difference this month. Ann Lyons, of Adderbury, was taken out in a two-seater Katana aircraft for a cosy meal overlooking the sea on the Isle of Wight by RAF trainer husband Patrick
LOYAL customers of a Banbury cafe have been going online to vote it the best traditional cafe. Cafe Six, in Church Lane, is in the running to win £40,000 after it was nominated for the UKTV Food channel's Local Hero 2006 competition - presented by celebrity
SHOPPERS in Banbury will witness a well-organised shouting match on Saturday, September 2. Town mayor John Donaldson is inviting residents and visitors to the town to be part of the annual Street Organ Festival and National Town Criers' Competition. The
EPWELL villagers are to get fire safety advice next week as part of a hard-hitting advertising campaign. Firefighters will call on householders warning those without working smoke alarms that they are twice as likely to die in a blaze. Oxfordshire's
ADDERBURY teenager Will Bratt is celebrating outstanding A-Level exam success with A grades in History, Maths and Art meaning the Formula Renault UK racing driver will go on to take up his place at the University of Oxford. The 18-year-old was delighted
SCHOOLS and colleges in Banbury have been celebrating after A-Level students received their results last week. All the Sixth Form centres reported great results, with many exceeding targets and topping the previous year's results. Blessed George Napier
CHARLES Newey, the founder of the award-winning Deddington Farmers Market, has died - but the market will go ahead on Saturday with a traditional jazz band fulfilling Mr Newey's last wish. Mr Newey was inspired by a desire to help the local farming
UNTAXED cars have been clamped and crushed in the first operation of its kind in Banbury. A total of 172 cars that were found without a valid tax disc were removed from the town's streets during the three-month operation. Just under half of those
FORTY residents at The Ridings residential home in Daventry Road, Banbury, celebrated the tenth anniversary of the home on Thursday of last week. Two of the residents, Robina Price, 85, and Mary Attwood, 88, had been at The Ridings since it opened in
OXFORDSHIRE'S top policeman has defended the recent knife amnesty in the wake of the weekend's double knife attacks. Chief Supt David McWhirter, commander for Oxfordshire, spoke out after the attacks in Oxford and Bicester, saying the amount of knife
GRADUATES, who would like to combine further study with travel abroad, could access funding from Banbury's Rotary Club. The town's Rotarians are keen to put forward a candidate for the association's Ambassadorial Scholarship programme before the scheme's
THE family of Bob Edgar, the Banbury motorcyclist killed in a road accident last week, have issued a tribute. Mr Edgar, who was born in Middleton Cheney in 1947, had six brothers and one sister. His passion was motorcycling and motorcycle trials riding
SUPPORTERS of the Horton manned a stall at Banbury's Saturday street market at the weekend to launch a new petition and sell Save the Horton T-shirts. Local MP Tony Baldry helped volunteers sell 130 shirts and collect 1,100 signatures. He said: "There
OBJECTIONS and protests are continuing to halt plans to cut health services in north Oxfordshire. The Keep the Horton General campaign has called for a human chain to be formed around the Horton Hospital, Banbury, on Sunday, September 3. The group
NEARLY 6,000 new houses are planned for Banbury within the next 20 years. The revelation follows the release of a document listing possible building sites in and around Banbury - and Cherwell District Council is asking residents to respond now to a
THE head of the university computer network Ukerna has visited the site of its new £5m headquarters at Harwell. Tim Marshall, the chief executive of Ukerna, visited the building, where up to 100 people will be employed when it is finished in February
OXFORD University has become one of the few academic institutions to manufacture gene therapy products for clinical trials. It has already been making monoclonal antibodies for clinical trials for ten years. Now the Medicines and Healthcare products
UP TO 180 jobs will be created at a new Oxfordshire depot for retailer Bathstore. It says its new warehouse in Basil Hill Road, Didcot, will be its biggest and busiest distribution centre and will eventually store half the Bathstore stock in the UK.
OXFORD'S modern art gallery has been given a boost after being backed by a local accountancy firm. Modern Art Oxford, in Pembroke Street, has added Critchleys to its list of corporate partners, which also includes French fashion designers Agns B, urban
THE company at the heart of the troubled NHS computer upgrade said the UK's financial watchdog had launched an investigation into possible accounting irregularities at the firm. ISoft, which has its UK headquarters in Banbury, said it had been told
My heart sank soon after launching into Bitter Ocean, the dramatic story' of the Battle of the Atlantic during the Second World War. A former New York Times shipping correspondent, David Fairbank White may know his stuff, but his first work of non-fiction
Behind the Counter: Shop Lives from Market Stall to Supermarket (Sutton, £20), is by Oxford social historian Pamela Horn, who has naturally included local examples in her overview of what many people believe was the highpoint of the British retail industry
For Otto Penzier "the most dangerous women are those who are irresistible". Owner of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York and winner of the Ellery Queen Award, he has gathered 17 hard-hitting, chilling thrillers by different authors in Dangerous Women
Family Wanted True Stories of Adoption Sara Holloway (Granta, £7.99) This thought-provoking anthology of pieces by writers who have adopted or been adopted raises interesting questions about identity and modern families. Matthew Engel has written
Oxford University lecturer Bryan Ward-Perkins's slim, accessible book The Fall of Rome (Oxford, £8.99) won the Hessell-Tiltman prize for history. It was described by the judges as "superb for a variety of reasons", written "economically, beautifully and
A man said he feels his retired Oxford don mother was failed by the system after she hanged herself -despite repeatedly seeking help for depression. Speaking after an inquest at Oxford Coroner's Court yesterday, Nathaniel Graham, pictured, said more
In Never Had It So Good, Dominic Sandbrook produced such a readable account of the late 1950s that he succeeded where many of his academic colleagues failed - at making history popular. The title came from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's famous 1957
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A knife became embedded in the neck of a stabbing victim who is still in a critical condition in hospital following a mass brawl in Oxford, police have revealed. Officers have spoken to 50 people about the attack on Samuel Gray, 20, at a barbecue in
A teenage cyclist was punched, kicked and robbed in a "swift and vicious" attack in Oxford. The robbers attacked their 19-year-old victim as he cycled along Shepherd's Hill, Greater Leys, at 10.10pm on Monday. They grabbed his handlebars and demanded
A thieving nurse has been struck off by the Nursing and Midwifery Council for shoplifting and lying about her convictions. Juliet Rosamond Cavanagh, 52, was yesterday found guilty of a "serious breach" of her professional code of conduct by a disciplinary
Oxford will feature on the big screen once again as a the backdrop for a romantic comedy about arranged marriages and lesbians. This week, the independent British Indian movie I Can't Think Straight was shot around the city. It tells the story of
The dangers of working on the frontline for Oxford City Council have been exposed in a shocking list of attacks on its staff. In the past two years staff, from leisure centre managers to dog wardens, have been punched, kicked, beaten with a crutch -
A decision on the possible extension of Oxford's free bus scheme for pensioners was delayed because of "insufficient information". Oxford City Council's policy-making executive was due to discuss extending the scheme so OAPs living in the city could
A church minister says he was arrested and handcuffed for asking a shop manager to cancel his mobile phone contract. Preacher Gitau Gakuo was hauled into a police car after trying to end a deal with Phones4u in Cornmarket Street, Oxford. The
Trading standards inspectors have continued their secret testing of hire equipment with a purge on Oxfordshire's bouncy castle companies. Less than a month after two women were killed in Co Durham when an inflatable sculpture containing dozens of people
Strict security measures will be in place when the Princess Royal visits Abingdon next month as part of the 450th Royal Charter celebrations. The town centre will be sealed off to traffic for an hour-and-a-half during the Friday, September 15, visit
The attitude of Jerry Patterson, leader of the Vale of White Horse District Council, is astonishing (Oxford Mail, August 17). He sat at the same presentation I did when Mori presented the results of the staff survey, although he didn't hang around
INTERNET blogger Antonia Bance, the Labour city councillor, has found some reassuring words from fellow "bloggers" on her website www.antoniabance.org.uk In case you missed the story, Ms Bance, was invited on a taxpayer-funded jolly to Budapest to learn
Charles Newey, the founder of the award-winning Deddington Farmers Market, has died aged 70 - but the market will go ahead on Saturday, with a jazz band fulfilling Mr Newey's last wish. The Jolly Boys Traditional Jazz Band will play in the Market Square
The family of Bob Edgar, the Banbury motorcyclist killed in a road accident, is inviting donations in his memory. Mr Edgar was born in Middleton Cheney in 1947 and had six brothers and one sister. His passion was motorcycling and motorcycle trials
Francis Maddison, a historian who became curator of Oxford's Museum of the History of Science, has died aged 78. A love of languages and a delight in the bizarre, allied to accurate scholarship, were the characteristics that led Mr Maddison from his
A demonstration in support of at-risk services at Banbury's Horton Hospital is being organised for Sunday, September 3. Members of the public are being urged to form a 'ring around the Horton' by joining hands in a show of strength for the campaign
Performers will descend on Woodstock this weekend for a festival of sound, poetry and theatre. A total of 30 artists are expected to perform at the three-day Woodstock Live! event, which is being staged at nine different venues across the town. In
Jessica Byles (Oxford Mail, August 17) reveals the hypocrisy of many cyclists when she defends her decision to cycle on the pavement by saying she is "not the kind of person who would deliberately ride on the pavement". Oh, since when was deliberately
Most aunties might send the odd birthday card or perhaps offer to babysit every couple of months. But for one Bicester woman, being an aunt meant conquering her fear of heights - and jumping out of an aeroplane 13,000ft above Weston-on-the-Green.
Vandalism, antisocial behaviour and speeding cars are at the top of the list of things people want dealt with when the Wallingford Neighbourhood Action Group is formed. Public meetings in Cholsey, Wallingford and Benson have all put those as the three
An Oxford school which last year became the first secondary school in the county to be put into special measures has today achieved its best GCSE results in years. Peers School head- teacher Lorna Caldicott said she was absolutely delighted with the
Four-year-old African girl Gorata Poonyane has died after losing her long battle against cancer. Little Gorata - whose fight against the rare childhood eye cancer retinoblastoma has featured in the Oxford Mail over the past two years - passed away with
A massive relocation of staff working at Oxfordshire County Council would be costly and achieve little, it has been claimed. The Oxford Mail understands the council is looking at two potential sites - Oxford Business Park South in Cowley and Unipart
It was always going to be an uphill struggle. But little African girl Gorata Poonyane fought as hard as she could before losing her long battle against cancer. Gorata, known as Rati, had touched the hearts of many people after Abby White, of Oxford
FRILFORD HEATH Ladies' August Stableford - Div 1: 1 S Walker 39pts, 2 C Pearce 38 (cb), 3 F Banks 38. Div 2: 1 A Auger 44, 2 J Kilpatrick 41, 3 E Newton 36 (cb). Ladies' Pairs Open: 1 C Porter & G Cairns (Gerrards Cross) 43pts (cb), 2 D Child & D Randall
CHIPPING Norton junior Matt Johnson has added Frilford Heath's Junior Gold Medal to his impressive list of achievements in 2006. Johnson claimed victory in the Buildbase-sponsored event after rounds of 67 and 74 gave him a one-under-par total of 141
MARK Grootz and Katherine O'Connor continued the season of low scoring by breaking course records at their respective clubs. Grootz shot a seven-under-par 64 in Hadden Hill's August Medal to beat the previous amateur record of 65 - despite a gusty wind
CRAIG Drew successfully defended his Studley Wood club championship with a six-shot victory. Drew did the damage with a first round 72, one-under-par, adding a 79 for a 151 total. Joe Fathers edged out Neil Petit for second place on countback after
Training today is most definitely going to be of an indoor kind after getting drenched yesterday. Riding in the rain is all good experience. But then there's good experience and then there's just cold, wet and miserable. About 20 miles from home in
STEVE Jenkins dashed from his daughter's birth to help Studley Wood to their first Shaw & Co Oxfordshire Foursomes League victory this season. Jenkins, who turned 40 earlier this month, was on the tee just two hours after his wife Lucy gave birth to
