Sara Olson

Picture from Thames Valley Police Banbury on Twitter A MAN is in hospital with 'serious injuries' after a major crash. At 8.30pm on Monday, a dark-blue coloured Aprilla motorbike crashed into the roundabout on Hennef Way in Banbury. The rider, a man in his 40s, has been left with serious injuries.  *UPDATE* HENNEF WAY has…

News   Washing machine bursts into flames FIREFIGHTERS were called to a house in the middle of the afternoon after a washing machine burst into flames.  Two fire trucks from Abingdon Station went to the scene on Tuesday. When they arrived, they wore breathing equipment to get into the house and extinguish the fire before…

Police hunt for this man after burglary in the middle of the night POLICE are hunting for this man after a burglary in the middle of the ngiht.  A man, who is in his 20s, woke up on the morning of April 26 to find his laptop missing from his living room and the front…

Boots now offering Covid-19 vaccines HIGH-STREET giant Boots is now offering the Covid-19 vaccine.  The Oxford store on Cornmarket Street is one of 31 new vaccination centres set up in Boots Pharmacy.  It started giving out the jab on May 8 - meaning if you are allowed to book a vaccine, you can choose to…

THE BODY of a man found dead in woodland was so decomposed that it was impossible to say exactly how he died, an inquest heard yesterday. Adam Stanmore was found dead in an area behind Grenoble Road in Blackbird Leys on June 13, 2019 – four weeks after he went missing. Yesterday, 10 jurors at…

AS candidates gathered to hear the results of Oxford's electoral contest, another competition was playing out in the halls of power. The amount of shoe leather used by candidates as they wandered the city's streets stacked up quickly over a short period of time this year. Election canvassing was only allowed from mid-March as Covid…

MATTHEW Barber is the next police and crime commissioner for the Thames Valley area.  Labour's candidate Laetisia Carter came second with 233,446 votes.  The election was so close after the first preference votes were tallied that officials were forced to count second people’s choices last night.  READ MORE: Everything you need to know about the PCC role Initially,…

'Sensational' election results for Lib Dems THE Liberal Democrats have recorded 'sensational' results as they gained eight seats to elect their largest ever group to Oxfordshire County Council. Layla Moran, MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, has said she is 'delighted' by her party's success and that they show a 'ringing endorsement of the hard…

VLLAGERS were left confused after their reinstated telephone lines were reconnected to each other's phone numbers. Telephone poles were knocked down in Rousham, near Bicester in March after a lorry crashed into them causing residents to be cut off from the outside world. ALSO READ: Residents to get Internet and phone service after three weeks without…

Local elections Alex Evangelou lost out in the elections Miss Oxfordshire winner Alex Evangelou had her hopes of becoming a city councillor dashed at the weekend. The 24-year-old Oxford Brookes student was standing as an independent candidate in the Churchill ward – the same one held by city council leader, Susan Brown. But the aspiring councillor…