The Latest Breaking News from Oxford

Ministry of Defence spending £756k a year on cabs to ferry around senior staff and VIPs

One single booking cost £5,383 for several vehicles over a three-day period to drive 70 miles from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, to the Ministry of Defence's Whitehall HQ

Daily Mirror · Dec 17, 2022

Last BBC regional news programmes air in Oxford and Cambridge

South Today – Oxford and Look East (West) aired for the last time at 6.30pm on Friday.

The Independent UK · Dec 16, 2022

Mother diagnosed with stage three cancer after breast ‘changed shape overnight’

Angela Butterworth, 42, from Witney in Oxfordshire, was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in March 2020 during the Covid pandemic

The Independent UK · Dec 15, 2022

Parents of Michigan school shooter again ask for lower bond to get out of jail

DETROIT — The parents of the teen who pleaded guilty to the deadly Oxford High School shooting spree last year have again requested that their bond amounts be lowered so they can get released from jail on bond while they await trial next year in their involuntary manslaughter case.

Tribune News Service · Dec 10, 2022

Word of the year announced by Oxford Dictionaries - and it captures the mood of 2022

The term refers to feeling frazzled and overwhelmed, and was the clear favourite among two other words, and it captured the madness of the past 12 months

Daily Mirror · Dec 5, 2022

Woman diagnosed with dementia aged 57 reveals early signs everyone should know

Jude Thorp, 59, who lives in Oxford, said she first started noticing changes in 2016, but she did not receive a formal diagnosis until 2021

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022

Metro Detroit school threats, charges have 'spiked exponentially' since Oxford shooting

DETROIT — A massive increase in threats against Metro Detroit schools in the wake of the Oxford High School shooting has led to an explosion in criminal charges being brought against the alleged perpetrators and prompted two local prosecutors to change how they handle threats cases.

Tribune News Service · Dec 4, 2022

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby review – a strange sisterhood

The two writers’ correspondence is psychologically fascinating, revealing a complex friendship of intellectual striving, power play and passion

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022

Cheating Matt Hancock recalls 'worst conversation of life' as he confessed to wife

Matt Hanock's affair with Gina Coladangelo, his old Oxford pal and former aide, was first exposed when CCTV images emerged of the couple sharing a kiss in his offices

Daily Mirror · Dec 3, 2022

pg // Reports on Oxford school shooting to be released early next year

DETROIT — Two reports will come out of a third-party investigation into the Nov. 30 mass shooting at Oxford High School and be made public early next year, a company official said.

Tribune News Service · Dec 2, 2022