The Local Newspaper

A MURDER investigation has been launched after a woman’s body was discovered in Horspath this morning.

PLANS for a new country park in Banbury should be approved, a council officer’s report has recommended.

HERE’S one man who can mix it with the best of them.

NO ACTION will be taken for the time being over a derelict house in an Oxford conservation area, despite two months having gone by since a city council order to improve it expired.

A group of police officers were given a PE lesson by school students to help get more people involved in sport.

Calls for a ‘fat tax’ on food have been criticised by a clinically obese man who is awaiting NHS weight loss surgery.

A Bicester family had to battle it out on television to win their daughter her dream wedding.

AN 11-year-old boy had his foot crushed by a double decker school bus yesterday morning.

Nine-year-old children armed with cameras and clipboards took to the streets to tackle problem parking around their Littlemore school.

QUICK-thinking nine-year-old Brandon Trafford saved his mum’s life when she collapsed at their Barton home after eating a spring roll.

Today's repatriation ceremony for two servicemen has been delayed by about an hour.

STAFF at two Oxford theatres and an art gallery are celebrating today after being awarded hundreds of thousands of pounds in grant funding.

BRITAIN’S Got Talent stars The Jive Aces flew into Oxford to launch the spectacular airshow Fly to the Past.

A COMMITTEE of MPs has praised Oxford’s joint ticketing scheme after visiting the city this week.

A HISTORIC Oxford building firm which cut its workforce as the recession struck in 2008 is looking to recruit once more.

A MOTORIST drove a car without one of its tyres before punching a policeman in the face.

FOR these actors, all of Cumnor is a stage. They are putting on a new play on William Shakespeare’s life to raise money for charity.

Auditions for quiz show Mastermind have been held in the city over the past two days.

The Bodleian Libraries have acquired the archive of composer and musician Edmund Rubbra.

A 42-year-old woman has appeared at Oxford Magistrates’ Court accused of carrying out a distraction burglary.