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Fun day helps Pakistan effort

Amina Mudassar, four, with her mother Rizwana Wyaid

4:12pm Thursday 2nd September 2010

HUNDREDS of people in Banbury joined a family fun day to raise money for flood victims in Pakistan.

County below average in writing tests

9:30am Thursday 2nd September 2010

ONE IN five of the county’s seven-year-olds failed to meet the expected levels of writing this year.

Drivers flout 20mph limit

Chris Walker clocks a driver breaking the limit in Morrell Avenue

9:26am Thursday 2nd September 2010

Drivers are still ignoring Oxford’s controversial 20mph speed limits 12 months after they were introduced, a speed check has shown.

Drivers desert the city

Concern: Traders spokesman Graham Jones

8:00am Thursday 2nd September 2010

Stay-away motorists are adding to Oxford City Council’s mounting financial worries, with a big drop in car park use costing the council hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Oxford coffee drinkers wanted for Macmillan

Marks & Spencer Summertown cafe staff, from left, Marta Biro, Annette Wiggins, Flick Harker, David Jaggs, and Nikki Tinson

7:40pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

A CANCER charity is busy brewing support in Oxfordshire for a fundraising coffee morning.

Four walk free from court after brawl

6:29pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

FOUR men who brawled outside a nightclub have walked free from court.

John Radcliffe Hospital praised for quality of stroke care

6:27pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital has been ranked in the top 10 per cent of hospitals nationally for the quality of its care for stroke patients.

Missing girl found safe

4:02pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

A girl who went missing in Banbury on Monday has been found safe and well.

GREAT NORTH RUN: Oxford fields fundraisers

Sir Christopher Ball

12:10pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

VETERAN runner Sir Christopher Ball should have no problem completing the Great North Run half-marathon to raise funds for an autism charity.

How would you save £200m from council budget?

10:30am Wednesday 1st September 2010

Oxfordshire County Council wants you to tell it how to slash £200m over the next five years.










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