Exhibition charts changes in Bampton's Market Square

Bampton resident Adrian Simmonds, whose photographs feature in the exhibtion, in front of Thornberry, which stands on the site of the old Market Square Garage

4:20pm Thursday 14th March 2013

An exhibition running at Bampton Library puts the community’s focal point in the spotlight.

Agricultural engineer remains at cutting edge

Agricultural engineer Graham Cherry in the workshop at his company’s base near Enstone

12:00pm Wednesday 30th January 2013

An agricultural engineering firm founded 30 years ago, when its boss was a teenager, is still going from strength to strength, discovers Jane Marriott

Fiddle girls take a bow for female folk

United: Carthy, Hardy, Farrell and Young and, left, Bella Hardy

3:25pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013

Four folk musicians were united by their love of fiddling and songs. Tim Hughes talks to Bella Hardy about coming home

On trail of Chastleton House's links to Gunpowder Plot

The current Chastleton House and the adjacent St Mary’s Church, where Robert Catesby’s son Robert was baptised in November 1595

3:00pm Wednesday 31st October 2012

This weekend bonfires will be lit to celebrate the foiling in 1605 of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament and assassinate King James I and many leading members of his Government. We explore West Oxfordshire’s connections to the conspiracy and the leading plotter Robert Catesby

Philip Selway goes off the beaten track

Gentleman of rock: Philip Selway

10:00am Thursday 11th October 2012

As one of the world’s greatest bands, Radiohead don’t do things by half. Their current world tour has seen them sell out gigs at some of the biggest arenas on the planet. Tonight and tomorrow that includes the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy – a 17,000-seat show for which every last ticket has been snapped up.

Enjoy food and walk with your dog

Enjoy food and walk with you dog

2:35pm Tuesday 9th June 2009

WHEN writer Helen Peacocke retired from the office last August, she vowed that her pub visits, which she wrote for the Witney Gazette, would continue in the form of a book.

Circus is in town!

Cirkus is in town!

11:56am Wednesday 20th May 2009

JUGGLERS, clowns and acrobats — the spring term break would not be complete without a circus to keep fidgeting children still for an hour or so.

Wildlife park: New arrivals every day

Jamie Craig feeds animals in Madagascar enclosure

8:12am Wednesday 13th May 2009

ZOO keepers are busier than ever at Burford’s Cotswold Wildlife Park with new arrivals coming every day.

Wildlife park: It’s time for counting

“People don’t realise what goes on behind the scenes,” said Jamie Craig

2:55pm Tuesday 3rd March 2009

NOAH had it easy.

Christmas lights are on!

Jim Smith, Mark Wells and David Cameron switch on the lights

11:25am Monday 1st December 2008

WITNEY has an extra sparkle in the run-up to Christmas after the turning on of the Christmas lights at a festive fair in the town centre.






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