A HOUSING association has been forced to increase the amount of social homes at a Wantage development due to the recession. Thames Valley Housing made the decision to increase the number of affordable homes for rent at its St Mary’s development by almost
RIVER users have warned that new £200,000 moorings planned for Wallingford will not be fit for purpose unless the design is changed. South Oxfordshire District Council, which is funding the project, has submitted a planning application to build 136
THE family of kidney cancer patient Andy Crabb plans to help other patients by setting up a charity in his memory. Mr Crabb, 50, a builder from Abingdon, who died on October 3 from the disease, was one of the leading campaigners to get the
TRIBUTES have been paid to a Didcot bomb disposal expert who died in Afghanistan on the final day of his five-month tour. Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, of the Royal Logistics Corps, died instantly on Saturday after a bomb exploded in the Sangin
We do not believe that residents living near the St Mary’s School site redevelopment have anything to fear from the increase in the number of affordable homes for rent to 50 per cent of the total. The state of the economy will have a bigger impact on
DIDCOT’S Civic Hall is set to have a £1.3m facelift at taxpayers’ expense. Town councillors voted on Monday to back plans to build a new entrance block fronting on to Broadway and to redesign and improve the building. They decided to
A MOTHER who suffered a stroke aged just 44 has launched a campaign to raise money for the specialist unit which helped her recover. Deb Little, of Charney Bassett, had run cancer charity fundraising group Passionate Pink since 2002 until she suffered
PEOPLE from across Oxfordshire will pay their respects to Britain’s war dead at services across the county this weekend. People in towns and villages will mark the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918, by parading through the streets, laying
A depleted Grove slipped to third in Southern Counties Northafter losing 22-6 at Amersham & Chiltern - their their first defeat of the league campaign Prop Richard Keen and lock Rob Weaving were unavailable on the morning of the match.
