Stories for 17 April 2006

Abingdon News

Clown and out

Funfairs and circuses could be banned from setting up on football pitches in Bicester after more than £4,000 of damage was caused to a sports field.  more...

Banbury News

Beer festival opens

Banbury's annual three-day beer festival opens on Thursday and volunteer bar staff will be pulling pints until 11pm on Saturday.  more...

Editorial Comment

The politics of parking

Parking charges for residents in Oxford continue to be the subject of some baffling political games.  more...

Football

FOOTBALL: Didcot celebrate league title

Didcot Town claimed the GLS Football Hellenic League Premier Division title for the first time for 52 years with a hard-fought 1-1 draw at Bishops Cleeve on Saturday.  more...

FOOTBALL: Ardley reach final

Ardley United are through to the GLS Football Hellenic League Challenge League Cup final after drawing at Tytherington on Saturday.  more...

FOOTBALL: Abingdon United step up promotion push

Abingdon United kept up their push for third place in the Premier Division and possible promotion by hammering Highworth Town 5-1 at Northcourt Road on Saturday Mark Simms set Abingdon on their way by scoring with a shot from an acute angle in the 11th minute.  more...

FOOTBALL: Bicester bid dealt a bow

Bicester Town's GLS Football Hellenic League Division 1 East title hope were dented as they were beaten 3-1 at Badshot Lea on Saturday Steve Miles headed home a Paul Spittle corner five minutes before the break to put Ardley ahead.  more...

FOOTBALL: City stay eight points clear

Oxford City maintained their challenge for the Spartan South Midlands League championship with a comfortable 3-1 win over Biggleswade United at Court Place Farm on Saturday.  more...

FOOTBALL: Banbury are well beaten

Banbury were unable to hold third-placed King's Lynn who returned to form with a 2-0 win in Saturday's Southern League Premier Division contest.  more...

FOOTBALL: Thame sunk by old boy Cort's treble

Former Thame United striker Wayne Cort was the scourge of his old club when he scored a hat-trick for Brackley in one-sided Southern League Division 1 West game on Saturday, which finished 5-0.  more...

Letters

Society is back to front

Tony Blair has been in office for 10 years. When he came to power, he said he would turn the country around, but look what a state we're in now.  more...

Ambiguous words

House prices in Oxford have escalated to heights which are now beyond the reach of the young, unless they are in lucrative jobs or are fortunate to have received inherited wealth.  more...

Motorsport

Touring cars head for Ireland

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship is preparing to make its only trip of the year outside of the UK to the Mondello Park circuit in Ireland on Sunday.apr 23 After the opening rounds at Brands Hatch, James Thompson leads the standings in his new SEAT Leon. But right behind in second, enjoying his best start to a BTCC season, is Northern Ireland's Colin Turkington, driving Team RAC's MG ZS. The 24-year-old from Portadown took a fourth and two seconds on Sunday and is a former double winner at Mondello.  more...

Touring cars head for Ireland

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship is preparing to make its only trip of the year outside of the UK to the Mondello Park circuit in Ireland on Sunday.  more...

Top riders line up for grasstrack bonanza

Top grasstrack riders from all over the country will descend on Oxfordshire on Monday, May 1, for the annual Berks Bonanza.  more...

Other Sport

RESULTS: April 15-16

FOOTBALL COCA-COLA LEAGUE TWO Oxford Utd 2, Barnet 0.  more...

Oxford News

Killer clues

Former drug addicts could be the key to solving a brutal murder in Oxford which has remained unsolved for four years.  more...

Cash kicks off football fun

Rose Hill Youth Centre, in The Oval, has been awarded £50,000 from the Football Foundation, as well as £20,000 from Oxford City Council and £17,000 from the Oxford Safer Communities Partnership.  more...

Food of love

Christians are to unite for Love Oxford a series of major events, starting with the city's answer to the feeding of the 5,000.o The burgers and hotdogs have been ordered for the fifth annual 5,000 Plus barbecue, in Bonn Square, from May 3 to 6.  more...

Zone rebels

Plans to charge car-owning householders in Oxford to park outside their own homes have been given a big thumbs-down by the people who represent them.  more...

Pathway to a better future

The Pathway Workshop, based in Dunnock Way, Blackbird Leys, almost shut down in October 2004, due to a funding crisis.  more...

Pathway to a better future

In some ways, the people who work for Pathway are like 'black hole people', the project's general manager Jenny O'Loughlin said.  more...

March will be 'biggest yet'

Campaigners promise massed Animal rights campaigners say Saturday's protest march against the building of a medical research centre in the city will be the biggest of its kind staged in the city.  more...

Plan is 'over due and overbudget'

The refurbishment of an Oxford children's home is many months behind schedule and will cost £127,000 more than first thought.o Last April, Oxfordshire County Council agreed to refurbish Maltfield House, a children's home in Marston, as part of its 'placement matters' strategy to improve the conditions in which children in care live.  more...

Radio times

Distress messages from the sinking Titanic are among items going on display at a radio and television exhibition in Oxford.  more...

Guns charge man in cour

A man charged by police after three illegal guns and ammunition were discovered at his home has been remanded in custody.  more...

In the pulpit for 50 years

He was ordained 52 years ago and yesterdayEaster Sun marked his 49th Easter Day service at one Oxford church.  more...

In the pulpit for 50 years

He was ordained 52 years ago and yesterdayEaster Sun marked his 49th Easter Day service at one Oxford church.  more...

Radio station requests bands' demos

Musicians are being asked to send demos for a new radio station's first broadcast.  more...

Rugby

RUGBY: Quins edge to cup final triumph

Oxford Harlequins rode their luck on Sunday to defeat a spirited Witney side who came close to causing a major upset in the Oxfordshire Cup final.  more...

RUGBY: We were terrible says Quins boss

Oxford Harlequins director of rugby Matt Maudsley struggled to look on the bright side despite his side's victory.  more...

Wallingford News

Man hurt in fire

A man suffered serious injuries after a fire broke out at the mobile home he was staying in near Chinnor.  more...