Banbury burglary
CCTV images have been released after bottles of alcohol were stolen when four men broke into a hotel in Horse Fair. Offenders raided Whately Hall Hotel at around 4am on January 14. Police released...
View ArticleWoman fights off man in sexual assault outside Oxford restaurant
A 34-year-old woman fought off a man who sexually assaulted her outside a Cowley Road burrito restaurant yesterday. She was walking along Cowley Road between the junctions of Stockmore Street and...
View ArticleOxford’s Iffley Road closed due to unexplained death of a man
A road in Oxford is closed after an unexplained death of a man inside a property. Police were called to the address in Iffley Road at 2.58pm where they found the body of a man inside. His next of kin...
View ArticleOxford road still shut after body found
Oxford’s busy Iffley Road is still closed this morning after the body of man was found inside a property in the street. A police cordon was set up yesterday after police were called to the scene at...
View ArticlePlans for new Oxfordshire quarry filed
A planning application to quarry land the size of 165 football pitches between Didcot and Abingdon has been submitted to Oxfordshire County Council. About 2.5m tonnes of sand and gravel would be...
View ArticleWeather cancels Abingdon boat race for first time in 25 year history
Abingdon’s renowned annual boat race has been cancelled for the first time in its 25 year history because of wet weather and river levels. The Abingdon Spring Head of the River race was expected to...
View ArticlePolice upgrade unexplained death in Oxford’s Iffley Road to ‘suspicious’
An unexplained death which has shut Oxford’s Iffley Road is now being treated as suspicious, police confirmed this morning. Officers were called to a house in Iffley Road at 2.58pm yesterday after a...
View ArticleBus drivers morph into superheroes
Passengers hopping on buses around Oxfordshire today have been getting a superhero surprise. Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman are among the characters getting people from A to B to raise funds for an...
View ArticleVIDEO: Police release message to public after man found dead in Oxford
A video was released by police this afternoon to reassure the public after a man was found dead in a house yesterday in Oxford’s Iffley Road. Local police area commander Superintendent Christian Bunt...
View ArticleHarry Potter dealer stabbed to death in ‘vicious’ knife attack in Oxford
The man found dead in his Oxford home in Iffley Road has been named as 42-year-old art dealer and historian Adrian Greenwood. A murder investigation was launched by police on Saturday after Mr...
View Article50-year-old man arrested after murder of Oxford Harry Potter collector
A 50-year-old man from Peterborough in Cambridgeshire has been arrested on suspicion of murdering Oxford art dealer and historian Adrian Greenwood. Mr Greenwood was found dead at his Iffley Road home...
View Article£1m potholes cash is ‘a drop in ocean’
News that Oxfordshire will benefit from more than £1 million from the Government to repair potholes has been criticised by transport leaders claiming it was ‘a drop in the ocean’. The Department for...
View ArticleBoy escapes abduction attempt
A 10-year-old boy managed to escape from a man who grabbed his wrist and told him ‘you’re coming with me’ during an attempted abduction in Blackbird Leys. The boy was walking in Cuddesdon Way on Friday...
View ArticleGALLERY: Britain’s Got Talent is Oxford dance school’s crowning glory
Britain’s Got Talent viewers from Oxford might have spotted a few familiar faces on Saturday as members of a Blackbird Leys dance school took to the stage to impress Simon Cowell and his fellow judges....
View ArticleFly-tip problems on the increase in Cherwell area
A council says it will clamp down on dog fouling, littering and fly-tipping after figures showed an increase in rubbish being dumped across the Cherwell district. In the last financial year of 2015/16,...
View ArticleMustang to thrill plane fans at Flywheel event
People will be able to get up close to a Second World War American Mustang fighter when it make a “rare” appearance at a Bicester show. Flywheel Festival, hosted at Bicester Heritage, off Buckingham...
View ArticleMan charged with murder of Oxford art collector Adrian Greenwood
A 50-year-old man from Peterborough was charged yesterday with the murder of an Oxford art dealer who was found dead at his Iffley Road home last Thursday. Michael Dahaner, 50, of Hadrians Court in...
View ArticleGroup hits out over ‘promise’ to save Oxfordshire’s on child centres
A campaign group has accused a council of breaking what it claims was a promise to spend £2 million on keeping Oxfordshire children’s centres open. Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) plans to close 44...
View ArticleOxford murder overview: Man charged after author stabbed to death
A 50-year-old man has been charged with murder after an Oxford art and book dealer was found dead in the hallway of his Iffley Road house last week. The body of Adrian Greenwood, 42, was discovered by...
View ArticleCouncillor’s motion calls for a single authority for Oxfordshire
A West Oxfordshire councillor has called for his council to look at joining a single unitary authority for the county. The county’s five district and city councils want to see the present set-up...
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