High-profile residents and a star reporter help fuel traffic success at Oxford Mail.

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The sports editor at Newsquest’s Oxford Mail has been made redundant less than a year after being recognised in the company’s staff awards. Mark Edwards left the daily paper on Friday, having joined 21 years ago as a junior sports reporter in what was his first journalism job. It is understood Newsquest made his position …

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The Oxford Mail has slammed politicians who dodge the regional press after the daily was “shunned” by Boris Johnson on his visit to the area last week. Downing Street failed to send over any details of the Prime Minister’s Oxfordshire trip last Thursday to the Mail, according to local democracy reporter Nathan Briant who was alerted …

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A teenager who went to the scene of a brutal murder and tried to hide evidence left by a gang of killers was named after a challenge by a regional newspaper reporter. Oxford Mail journalist William Walker persuaded Judge Ian Pringle QC to lift an order which had given anonymity to 17-year-old Alfie Simms, of …

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Two Newsquest titles which have been rapped by the Independent Press Standards Organisation have blamed an inaccuracy on a sub-editor “not reading the story properly” before writing the headline. An online headline published on the Oxford Mail on 22 February read: “Controversial Carterton mayor Lynn Little forced to hand over chains.” The story said the mayor was …

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The National Union of Journalists has claimed “corporate Newsquest just doesn’t care” as the media group plans more cuts to editorial staff affecting at least ten regional titles. Newsquest confirmed that seven jobs at its Oxfordshire and Wiltshire editorial departments could be made redundant. The company is also considering closing the Trowbridge office, home to …

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Newsquest has appointed one of its star editors to head up its Oxford newspapers, which comprise daily the Oxford Mail, weekly the Oxford Times and the weekly Herald series. Samantha Harman will take on the new role from 11 June, leaving her current role as group editor for the regional publisher’s Berkshire and Buckinghamshire titles, …

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The Times and Oxford Mail have won a four-year legal battle to name a multi-millionaire property developer who was arrested on suspicion of being a member of a child sex ring. Property developer Tariq Khuja, 40, was arrested alongside nine other men as part of a Thames Valley Police sting in Oxford in March 2012, …

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Thames Valley Police has again refused to confirm or deny whether it has used the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to spy on journalists. The Oxford Mail has revealed that the force has now rejected its request on the grounds that law enforcement would be compromised by disclosure. The Mail, as well as the Newbury …

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Oxford Mail is first publication to be told FoI questions about RIPA were not "vexatious" Information Commissioner orders Thames Valley Police to release information or rely on other FoI exemption Information Commissioner says level of media interest in finding information is "understandable" Office is critical of police forces' reliance on national ACPO guidance The Information …

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