A THRIVING pre-school has been saved from closure after being given hundreds of thousands of pounds for a new building. Little Pippins Pre-school at Harwell has received the go-ahead for the eco-friendly £265,000 building. The pre-school
THE public are being urged to line the streets for bomb disposal heroes returning from Afghanistan when they march through Didcot next month. Seven members of the Counter IED Task Force — two based at Didcot — have died during their current six-month
FIXTURES. SATURDAY. FOOTBALL. ZAMARETTO SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Premier Div: Didcot Tn v Bashley. Div 1 South & West: Uxbridge v Abingdon Utd. FTL FUTBOL HELLENIC LEAGUE. Premier Div: Abingdon Tn v Pegasus Jun, Fairford Tn v Wantage Tn. Div 1 West
A SOLDIER who served alongside her fiancé dodging landmines has spoken of her experiences on the frontline in Afghanistan. Corporal Lisa Cracknell, 26, based at Dalton Barracks, Abingdon, spent six months on tour in Afghanistan on convoys ferrying
Joe Coleman scored a late winner for Banbury United as they beat Didcot Town 1-0 in their Zamaretto Southern League Premier Diviison match at Spencer Stadium on Tuesday Didcot came the closest to breaking the deadlock when Martin Brown hit the bar.
RESULTS. FOOTBALL. ZAMARETTO SOUTHERN LEAGUE. Premier Div: Didcot Tn 1, Farnborough 2. Div 1 South & West: Abingdon Utd 1, Cinderford 1. FTL FUTBOL HELLENIC LEAGUE. Saturday Bluefin Insurance Brokers Cup 2nd round: Eton Wick 0, Abingdon Tn 3.
Ten youngsters from King Alfred’s Community & Sports College, Wantage, went head over heels to qualify for the National Schools’ Trampoline Championships in Bristol next month. In the southern zonal round at Dagenham, King Alfred’s produced wins from
Two goals by Mark Simms helped Abingdon Town cruise into the quarter-finals of the FTL Futbol Hellenic League’s Bluefin Insurance Brokers Cup with a 3-0 win at Eton Wick on Saturday. Abingdon took the lead in 0the second-round tie against
A quartet from Abingdon Amblers represented Oxfordshire in the Inter-Counties 5k Race Walk Championship at Warwick and collected the ladies’ team silver medal. The successful walkers were Judy Howard, Roz McKenzie, Katerina Johnson and Noel
Dan Rivers, of Wantage Target Shooting Club, has just become a British Junior champion for the second time. The 19 year-old, who lives in Didcot, regained the British Junior 10m precision air rifle title he first won at Bisley in 2008. Rivers (pictured
Wallingford B sent Oracle B slipping to their second successive 3-2 home defeat in the Didcot & District League. Premier Division side Wall-ingford took a 2-0 lead when Dave Glaves beat Richard Saunders 70-63 and Kevin Pickworth thrashed Jamie Saczac
Abingdon Amblers' Paul Fernandez emerged victorious in the final round of the Oxford Mail Cross Country League at Oxford in a thrilling sprint finish, writes Kieren Bushnell. But he had to settle for joint-second place in the senior men’s championship
Alex Murphy was in record-breaking form as he won three gold medals in the Oxfordshire & North Bucks Championships at Aylesbury. The 14-year-old, from the Didcot Barramundi club, smashed three championship age group records. Murphy won the open 200m
Drayton A stretched their lead to eight points with a 10-0 whitewash over Didcot C in Division 1 of the Didcot & District League, writes Geoff Cherrill. In second place are Didcot A who recorded an 8-2 win of their own over RAL B helped by Nigel Taylor
Ralph Smith scored all Wallingford’s points in a 13-8 victory at Trowbridge on Saturday. Wing Smith put the visitors ahead with a penalty early in this South West 1 East game. Trowbridge’s big forwards then took control and an overthrown line-out led
Wallingford came from a goal down with ten minutes left to beat Oxford Hawks 2nd 3-2 in the South League Regional Division. Rowan Wheeler equalised with a simple tap-in at the far post after Hawks had drawn first blood. Late in the second half, Hawks
