Mon, 6th Feb 2012

Bicester News

Dozens of cars trapped on M40 by snow

10:00am Sunday 5th February 2012

UP TO 100 cars were stuck on the M40 for more than three hours last night due to the heavy snow.

Prison work praised

5:00pm Friday 3rd February 2012

FOUR prison workers have been awarded for their “excellent work” in tackling inmates’ alcohol problems.

Privacy's pegged for hospital patients

1:10pm Friday 3rd February 2012

Ward Sister Geraldine Yebra, top, and assistant practitioner Annie Walsh show off the new pegs on the John Radcliffe’s acute stroke ward

THESE red pegs will soon be a common sight for hospital patients across Oxfordshire in a move to improve their dignity and privacy.

OAP is attacked in his own home

8:20am Friday 3rd February 2012

BICESTER: A man who claimed his car had broken down assaulted a pensioner and stole cash after asking to use his phone.

Mental health project helps war-scarred veterans

7:00am Friday 3rd February 2012

Neil Littlewood

A FORMER solider has welcomed the arrival in Oxford of a mental health project that “saved his life”.

Radio brainwave

6:00pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

BUDDING DJs are urged to join a project to get Bicester on the internet radio waves.

UPDATE: Repatriation tribute information Thursday and next Tuesday

4:20pm Wednesday 1st February 2012

Veterans pay their respects

This is the latest information for the next repatriation tribute near RAF Brize Norton and outside the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

Firms create 400 new county jobs

10:00am Wednesday 1st February 2012

Oxfordshire has been given a boost of more than 400 jobs as three firms set up new businesses in the county.

Reconnected

9:30am Wednesday 1st February 2012

BT engineers were today cross-checking phonelines in Steeple Aston after completing reconnection work to restore service to some 350 homes and businesses cut off by copper cable thieves.

JR bus route is ‘not ideal’

5:00pm Tuesday 31st January 2012

Diane Maudling

A NEW bus service connecting Bicester with Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital is leaving patient visitors hanging around for hours.

Tweeting to help fight crime

4:16pm Tuesday 31st January 2012

Tweeting to help fight crime

A BICESTER police officer is planning to fight crime with technology as she gears up to use social networking service Twitter in the town.

A race car from scratch

1:00pm Tuesday 31st January 2012

Picture: OX50067 Jon Lewis

MOTORSPORTS students have been testing their new-found skills by building a car to compete in a race.

Backing for free school

1:00pm Tuesday 31st January 2012

FUNDS of £11.6m have been announced for a North Oxfordshire free school at a former Cold War base.

Bicester town centre revamp gets under way at last

10:00am Tuesday 31st January 2012

Work starts on the redevelopment

SEVEN years after plans for rejuvenating Bicester town centre were first mooted, the bulldozers have finally rolled in.

Cash sales ban hailed as 'positive step' in fight against metal theft

9:50am Tuesday 31st January 2012

A MAJOR step in the battle against metal thieves looks set to be won after a campaign by the president of an Oxfordshire rail campaign group.

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