Hotel set to open in the New Year
A NEW hotel is set to open its doors in Chipping Norton in January creating dozens of jobs. The Premier Inn, in Spring Street, is under construction and is due to open early in the New Year. Up to 30...
View ArticleDriverless car tested in public for first time in UK
A driverless vehicle equipped with Oxford-developed autonomy software has been tested successfully in public for the first time in the UK. The two-seater electric vehicle travelled in a 1km (0.6-mile)...
View ArticleCameron rated as one of the worst Prime Ministers
Political experts have rated David Cameron as the third worst prime minister in modern history. The former Conservative leader came third from bottom in the table of post-war leaders rated by the...
View ArticleScores of scared children call Childline over ‘killer clowns’
A counselling service for young people says it has received a ‘sudden deluge’ of calls from children frightened by people dressing up as ‘creepy clowns’. Childline said that a quarter of its calls...
View ArticleTravelodge to create 1,000 new jobs
Oxfordshire-based hotel group Travelodge is to recruit 1,000 new staff as it prepares to open new hotels in six UK locations. The positions include openings for managers, housekeepers, receptionists,...
View ArticleGift of another award for Secret Santa Courtney, 18
A teenager has won another award for her Secret Santa campaign delivering thousands of gifts to the most vulnerable people in Oxfordshire. Nursing assistant Courtney Hughes picked up a St James’s...
View ArticleSix arrests after man critically hurt in fight
Six men have been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a fight in Banbury left a man in a critical condition in hospital. Police believe the seriously-injured man, who is in his 20s, was...
View ArticleTree to remember babies
A RIBBON tree has been planted as a permanent living memorial for babies who did not get the chance of life. The tree, a silver birch, has been planted in People’s Park, Banbury, as a way for parents...
View ArticleDanaher denies listing celebrity targets
The man accused of murdering Oxford book dealer Adrian Greenwood has admitted buying a stun gun disguised as an i-Phone but denied creating an ‘enterprise’ list of celebrity targets. Michael Danaher,...
View ArticleClumps under threat from £5m Earth Trust expansion
One of Oxfordshire’s iconic landscape features, Wittenham Clumps, is in danger from a £5m expansion of the Earth Trust’s headquarters at Hill Farm, Little Wittenham, according to a group of local...
View ArticleCampaigners in call on refugee children
Oxfordshire councillors, trade unions and campaign groups supported an Oxford rally as part of a national day of action for refugee children. The Oxford protest on Friday, which took place at Carfax...
View ArticleGallery: Work by artists with learning difficulties exhibited in Oxford
A group of artists with learning disabilities, who have broken out from community arts into mainstream professional arts, held an exhibition at Modern Art Oxford. Film Oxford presented the new work by...
View ArticleNew care service launched to help cut bed-blocking
A NEW service aimed at reducing bed-blocking has been launched in North Oxfordshire. Called HART, Home Assessment Reablement Team, the service aims to deliver more care in patients’ own homes. The...
View ArticleBraving bonfire challenge
The Guardian’s charity of the year Blue Skye Thinking is asking people to take on a brave challenge this bonfire night. Founders Sally and Andrew Hall have organised a firewalk at the Nag’s Head pub in...
View ArticleDream realised in the opening of a new deli store
AFTER spending months scouring the UK for products Hannah Jones and Joe Bastin opened the doors to their new venture today. The couple have given up the security of permanent jobs to focus on...
View ArticleTrio want your help to teach them new skills for charity
Three friends are touring the country hoping to learn new skills and raise cash for charity at the same time – and they want your help. Matthew Bowen, Nick Street and Alice Albery are set to hit...
View ArticleKiller sentenced to life for murdering Oxford bookseller
A man who killed an Oxford bookseller and art dealer has been sentenced to life imprisonment and will spend at least 34 years behind bars. Jurors unanimously convicted Michael Danaher, 50, of murder...
View ArticleDate confirmed for GP surgery to close doors
A date has been given for the closure of a Witney medical centre, health bosses have confirmed. Deer Park Medical Centre, which looks after 4,400 patients from the town, has learned its fate and will...
View ArticleTributes for ‘amazing, lovely, kind-hearted’ dance teacher
Students have been “shocked and saddened” by the death of a dance teacher who was killed in a car crash in Oxford last week. City of Oxford College teacher Stephen Piper was driving his Suzuki Swift...
View ArticleMan sentenced to life for rape
A Witney man has been sentenced to a lifetime behind bars after being convicted of rape. Callum King, 25, of Priory Mill Lane, pleaded guilty at Oxford Crown Court on September 29 to one count of rape,...
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