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West Oxfordshire Conservative Associaton welcomed Tory leadership hopeful Liz Truss to Carterton this afternoon. County councillor Liam Walker, who represents Hanborough and Minster Lovell, tweeted: "This afternoon we welcomed @trussliz to Carterton to meet with members of WOCA. "Although I’m supporting @RishiSunak in this contest it was great to meet & hear from Liz. No matter
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THE SENTENCING of a Barton affray had to be delayed again – over confusion about why since-convicted killer Lewis Brown wasn’t at court to learn his fate. The 21-year-old’s co-defendants Andee Williams, 50, and Cameron Merritt, 18, had attended Oxford Crown Court on Wednesday to be sentenced for the incident in Underhill Circus last June.
Radcliffe Meteorological Station It has been the driest year in Oxford since 1976. The Radcliffe Meteorological Station recorded only 236.1mm of precipitation between January and July 2022, the lowest since '76 when there was a two-month heatwave. The station, located within the grounds of Green Templeton College, in the shadow of the iconic Radcliffe Observatory, also recorded no rainfall
A PHOTO has emerged of low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) bollard being vandalised in Oxford. The photo, sent to the Oxford Mail anonymously, shows a man jumping on top of the bollard in Bullingdon Road, off Cowley Road, this evening (10) at about 8.15pm. It appears a blue car was waiting behind him to pass through once the
Oxford's newest hotel The Store is expected to open in about a year's time. The former Boswells department store has now been demolished inside and the new building is starting to take shape, according to a contractor. Shoppers were shocked when Boswells in Cornmarket shut for good in 2020 and then Debenhams also closed. Read
THE mum of an autistic student who took his own life after struggling at university is hoping to positively impact the lives of others. Cameron Fraser died in March, while studying law at the University of Exeter. The 20-year-old’s mum Shelly Fraser, from Littlemore, has created a GoFundMe, with the aim of helping those who
A MAN was found dead in his home only a couple of days after texting his friends to say he thought he was being “tracked”. Jonatan Bucko, known to his friends and family as Jonny, was found at his home in Greenhill, Banbury on April 16 this year. The 34-year-old, who was a cyber security
AFTER two years of cancellations due to the coronavirus pandemic, the longest-running music festival in Oxfordshire has returned. Fairport’s Cropredy Convention was set up and is still run by the folk-rock band Fairport Convention who are still based close to the site near Banbury. The 41st anniversary of the evening is returning tomorrow (11) for
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s president will formally pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, one year after he was released on parole from a prison sentence for bribing former President Park Geun-hye as part of the massive corruption scandal that toppled Park’s government, the justice minister announced Friday. Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin and two
SAO PAULO — Thousands of Brazilians flocked to a law school Thursday in defense of the nation’s democratic institutions, an event that carried echoes of a gathering nearly 45 years ago when citizens joined together at the same site to denounce a brutal military dictatorship. In 1977, the masses poured into the University of Sao
South Korea said the possible operation of a controversial American-made missile shield was “not negotiable,” pushing back at China’s efforts to hold President Yoon Suk Yeol to his predecessor’s policy to freeze its deployment. Decisions on the deployment of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system was a matter of South Korea’s self-defense, a
Thanks to Senator Joe Manchin (D., W. Va.), there isn’t much in the way of consequences for big CO2 emitters in Democrats’ new climate bill. But there are huge new rewards for high-emitting companies to pump their greenhouse gasses underground, and for facilities that propose to remove emissions directly from the atmosphere. Those provisions have
