Rev your engine for banger quest
One hundred teams are gearing up for a 200-mile quest driving from Witney to France and back in budget bangers for charity. Crews of up to five will pile into cars costing less than £500 for the Twin...
View Article‘History will judge us’
Witney campaigners have voiced their disappointment after MPs rejected a call to welcome 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees to Britain from migrant camps in Europe. In a vote in Parliament on Monday, a...
View ArticleBicester to Bilbao for hospice
A trio of Oxfordshire students will be dedicating two weeks of their summer holidays to cycling more than 1,000km from Oxfordshire to Spain in a charity quest. Alex Milne, from Lyford near West Hanney,...
View ArticleDamning report of Wantage care home
Health inspectors observing an elderly care home in Wantage had to intervene after a resident needing the toilet was left unattended for almost three hours. Wantage Nursing Home, in Garston Lane, has...
View ArticleAppeal to help Olly as tragedy strikes
IN just a few hours little Oliver Johnson changed from being a happy-go-lucky child to a little boy fighting for his life. The three-year-old, known as Olly, was poorly with a sickness bug when he...
View ArticleA conversation with: Dr Vitali Klitschko
Growing up behind the iron curtain has given Ukrainian former world heavy weight boxer and now Mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, a different view of the European Union (EU). As the EU debate wages on in...
View ArticleRape offences rise in Oxford
Rape and arson were among the offences that have seen big increases in Oxford within the last year, Thames Valley Police statistics have revealed. The yearly breakdown of figures of offences across the...
View ArticlePrince William to visit Oxford
Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, is set to visit Oxford next Wednesday to officially open Magdalen College’s new Longwall Library off the High Street. The Prince will open the doors to the...
View ArticleLeaders debate the future of Wallingford’s children’s centre
The future of Wallingford’s children’s centre is safe until March next year but services could have to be scaled down afterwards, a town councillor has warned. Ros Lester pledged Wallingford Town...
View ArticleOver 2,000 campaign to keep hospital open
Plans to close Wantage Community Hospital have faced huge opposition from residents who launched a petition signed by more than 2,000 to save the centre. The hospital is set to close this summer over...
View ArticleUPDATE: Witness appeal after man arrested in post office ram raid
An appeal for witnesses has been launched after a ram raid at an Oxfordshire village post office in the early hours of this morning. A 35-year-old Oxford man has been arrested and is currently in...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: West Oxfordshire District Council election results
Welcome to the Oxfordshire Guardian’s coverage of the West Oxfordshire District Council election count taking place at the Windrush Leisure Centre in Witney. We will have live updates and tweets...
View ArticleLIVE BLOG: Oxford City Council elections
Welcome to the Oxfordshire Guardian’s live blog of the Oxford City Council 2016 elections taking place from Oxford Town Hall with 24 councillors bidding to take their seat at the council for the next...
View ArticleELECTION 2016 OVERVIEW: West Oxfordshire District Council
There were some nervous faces dotted around the hall of the Windrush Leisure Centre in Witney for the council election results last night. But despite some close shaves and misplaced votes there were...
View ArticleELECTION 2016 OVERVIEW: Oxford City Council’s full results
Oxford’s political spectrum turned a darker shade of red in today’s city council election results as Labour extended their stranglehold on the council by another two seats. The council’s Labour...
View ArticleStansfeld retains PCC role
Anthony Stansfeld has been re-elected as the police and crime commissioner for the Thames Valley following yesterday’s election. The Conservative candidate won following a second-round count. He polled...
View ArticleSister’s plea to find 16-year-old missing in River Thames by Abingdon
The sister of a 16-year-old boy who went missing on Saturday while swimming in the River Thames has made an emotional plea for help to find her brother. Alex Downes posted on social media last night to...
View ArticleCyclist dies after crash near Wantage
A 33-year-old cyclist has died after colliding with a car near Wantage yesterday. At around 1.10pm the man was cycling along the B4507 Blowing Stone Hill, near Kingston Lisle, when he was in a...
View ArticleChipping Norton store celebrates 150 years
Chipping Norton Museum is set to benefit from a bag designed to mark a shop’s 150th anniversary. Co-op designed a shopping bag with a montage of photographs from the store’s past, including the...
View Article£2m Bicester school expansion underway
A £2 million project to expand a Bicester school by a third before September is underway. Pupils at Longfields Primary School watched on as a crane lifted six new modular classrooms into place. It...
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