TWO former police officers who worked in Kidlington and trained near Witney were commended for their work on catching Great Train Robbers. The commendation ceremony at Eynsham Hall, formerly a police training centre, marked 50 years since one of
DRIVING through Oxford has changed a lot in the past four decades. Cornmarket Street has been pedestrianised, hamburger roundabouts have become familiar features and 20mph speed limits have become a fact of life – though that doesn’t mean drivers
A MOTORSPORTS project keeping young people on the straight and narrow is one of five good causes shortlisted for a prestigious £5,000 Diamond Jubilee grant. The grants were created to give much-needed cash help to the county’s small and struggling
THE restored University Church of St Mary the Virgin in High Street and the West Wing of the Said Business School are among the new additions to this year’s Oxford Open Doors. The city’s annual heritage celebration will take place on the weekend
OXFORD University says it will still move students into a controversial housing development in the autumn, despite the threat of a legal challenge. Campaigners will put their case to a judge at the High Court in Birmingham on October 23, claiming
THOUSANDS of pounds are once more up for grabs as the Oxford Mail’s parent company launches its big cash giveaway. The Gannett Foundation is offering up to £10,000 to charitable causes across Oxfordshire. The winners of last year’s grants have
ON A bitterly cold and wet day last November, I called into The Harcourt Arms cuddling an eight-week-old, fluff ball of a border collie puppy. We had travelled from Old Sodbury in the Cotswolds, where my new canine companion Barnaby was born, and
RESIDENTS have branded plans for nearly 200 homes on the site of Wolvercote’s former paper mill as absurd. Oxford University wants to sell off the site for housing but first wants to get planning permission for 190 homes there. A planning application
