Author heralds risk for reward in debut book
A Wantage author is inspiring people to take more risks and reap the rewards in life in his first book launched in a town bookshop on Saturday. Tony Houghton has lived in Wantage for 21-years and gave...
View ArticleExposure E-fit
An E-fit has been released to find a man who exposed himself to a 17-year-old girl while laughing from his car window. A blue saloon style car, possibly a Jaguar, slowed down to walking pace alongside...
View ArticleShop move
The Superdrug cosmetics shop in Bury Street closed its doors last Thursday to relocate to a different unit in the same street. The new store in a previously empty unit next to New Look opened on...
View ArticlePothole call
Labour district councillor Duncan Enright took to the roads of Witney by foot on Saturday to raise awareness about potholes and damaged highways. He strolled the streets to use the county council’s Fix...
View ArticleHealthcare event
West Oxfordshire residents are being given the chance to have their say on healthcare in the district next week. Staff from Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group – which buys and manages...
View ArticleTourism boost
The Oxfordshire Cotswolds district has quickly moved up the ranks for areas using social media to boost tourism, moving from 32nd last year to 15th this year. The English Tourism Social Media Index...
View ArticleCars stolen
Two cars have been stolen in separate incidents in Barton and North Oxford in the last five days. A blue Ford Focus with a registration number VU02D** was stolen from Burchester Avenue, Barton, between...
View ArticleEaster donation
More than 100 Easter eggs have been collected by Templars Square shopping centre to donate to Oxford-based grief charity SeeSaw. The Easter egg will be given to children coping with the loss of a...
View ArticleWoman to appear at Oxford court charged with toddler’s murder
A 43-year-old woman deported from Africa is set to appear at Oxford Magistrates’ Court today charged with the murder of 20-month-old toddler Sarah Dahane. She was arrested in Uganda by the Uganda...
View ArticleMan jailed for buying ‘abortion pills’ and pressuring ex to end pregnancy
An Oxfordshire man has been jailed for two years after buying pills to cause a miscarriage and trying to pressure his girlfriend into to have an abortion. James George, of Oxford Road in Old Chalford,...
View Article£2.1m plan put in for town Guildhall
The first Abingdon groups have put their names forward to use the refurbished Guildhall more than a year ahead of the planned completion date for the £2.1 million scheme. Plans for the project were...
View ArticleHappy over weight loss
A man from Drayton has told of how he turned his life around after losing eight stone for a friend’s wedding. Martin Trendall first decided to start dropping the pounds in 2013, weighing 20 stone seven...
View ArticleTown gains a third pop-up
A mum-of-two has bagged occupancy at Wallingford’s third pop-up shop with her business specialising in children’s clothes. Emma Cooper’s enterprise Mon Petit Oscar, which provides clothes and shoes for...
View ArticleReport raises fear over home’s safety
A health watchdog has aired safety concerns about a Chipping Norton care home after it carried out a surprise inspection earlier this year. During a Care Quality Commission (CQC) visit to Beech Haven,...
View Article£30k work set to start
Work on a £30,000 renovation of a busy Witney town centre area is due to start next week, with the hope of breathing new life into a shopping centre. It involves repaving the lower end of Market Square...
View ArticleBuilder told to pay £2,000 for two fly-tips
A builder has been ordered to pay almost £2,000 after two fly-tips were discovered in West Oxfordshire. Joseph Charles Stevens, of Birmingham Road, Pathlow, Stratford-upon-Avon, pleaded guilty to four...
View ArticleArrests of children for firearm offences on rise in the region
Arrests of children for firearm offences have risen across the Thames Valley in recent years, it has been revealed after figures were released this week. A total of 39 children were arrested on...
View ArticleBallard backed: Didcot Town appoint player as permanent manager
Player-manager bags permanent role with Didcot at the Loop Andy Ballard has expressed his happiness after bagging the Didcot Town FC manager job on a permanent basis. The 30-year-old, who also plays as...
View ArticleExtras wanted for TV film in Oxford
Budding actors and television fans are urged to head down to an open casting call for extras for a TV film called ‘The Last Dragon Slayer’ which is shooting in the Oxford area from next month. Men and...
View ArticleWW2 nurse celebrates 100th birthday
A Second World War nurse and great grandmother who has lived in Faringdon for the last 20 years marked a momentous occasion in the town yesterday when she celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by...
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