Town honours sporting heroes
SPORTSMEN and women across Chipping Norton have been honoured at the ninth annual sports awards. A string of awards were presented to celebrate young people’s achievements and adults who help run the...
View ArticleRural bus service helps put people before cars
A transport group has challenged West Oxfordshire District Council to ‘put people before cars’ by finding a way to expand bus routes to villages without a service. Bus Users Oxford laid down the...
View ArticleLooking forward to a ‘new home’
Brownies and girl guides looked on in astonishment as demolition work started on their club headquarters. Girlguiding Kidlington have used the same building located in an alleyway between Green Road...
View ArticleSwift actions helped to save lives after crash
The ‘swift’ actions of a member of the public have been hailed for saving a driver and passenger’s life after their car flipped upside down, crashed into a house and then caught fire. The dramatic...
View ArticleOxford teen stabbed in neck
An Oxford teenager was stabbed in the neck during a fight on Wednesday evening. The victim, a 17-year-old boy, was involved in the scuffle with a group of people at the junction of Middle Way and...
View ArticleAspiring to help disadvantaged
There are no signs of the wheels coming off an Oxford-based charity that helps disadvantaged people back into work after opening its workshop doors to a cycle repair centre. Aspire Oxfordshire...
View ArticleMini car, walking and beer attractions scoop visitor awards
Oxfordshire is clearly the place to be after a trio of attractions scooped accolades for quality visitor experiences. Cowley’s MINI Plant, Oxford Official Walking Tours and Witney’s Wychwood Brewery...
View ArticleNever a dull day in all his 25 years
From lumbering cumbersome equipment around to using state-of-the-art technology and having wider responsibility, a lot has changed in the fire service over the last quarter of a century. Few know that...
View ArticleCollege in the running for awards
A college and its apprentices are celebrating after being recognised for several prestigious awards. Abingdon & Witney College has been nominated for awards at both a regional and national level,...
View ArticleLife-changing physio to aid children’s lives
Children’s disability charity Footsteps Foundation was one of the many charities to be nominated for our charity of the year. Here, foundation manager Maggie Davies reveals all about the...
View ArticleHelping Baby to grow up
A tiny kitten found abandoned in a cardboard box by some shop bins in Carterton has found a new home. Five-week-old Baby was found all alone by a passing cyclist who heard her desperate meows. She was...
View ArticleHelping to launch job opportunities
People in social housing across Oxfordshire need to be given the tools to ‘thrive, not just survive’. That is the vision behind several projects that are being launched by housing association Soha. The...
View ArticleSexual offences among the crimes unrecorded
Thousands of reported crimes including rape, assault and domestic abuse are going unrecorded by Thames Valley Police, a watchdog has warned. A damning report, published by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of...
View ArticleRethink need on plans for A40
Robert Courts has been told to “try harder” by a transport group frustrated by the Witney MP’s “rash” comments suggesting that a rail link ‘may not be the answer to A40 chaos’. Witney Oxford Transport...
View ArticleSponsorship an option for future of the Force horses
Police could have to resort to sponsorship to save the mounted section after the chief constable of Thames Valley Police refused to offer reassurances on the unit’s future. Scrapping the division in...
View Article‘Money better spent on a PCSO than on helmets’
Plans to restore the classic British police helmet to Oxfordshire’s frontline officers’ uniforms have been slammed as “style over substance”. Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner Anthony...
View ArticleTraffic concerns highlighted in a survey to improve town
Abingdon’s road conditions, traffic management and public transport were revealed as the biggest concerns for residents in a community survey published recently. The Abingdon for All Community Survey...
View ArticleNervous wait for business award nominees
Dozens of businessmen and women will have their fingers crossed after the finalists of the 2018 West Oxfordshire Business Awards were revealed last week. Thirty three finalists will compete in 11...
View Article‘We must all act to cut plastic waste and save environment’
‘Everyone must do their bit to protect the environment by cutting plastic waste’. That is a message behind a motion that will be put forward for consideration by Cherwell District Council on Monday...
View ArticleWelcoming the new year
Bicester Village was transformed with Chinese traditions and dances to ring in the Year of the Dog. Guests including Xu Jin, from the Chinese embassy in the UK, arrived at the retail outlet to...
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