Oxfordshire | Archive | 2001 | March
Abingdon's multi-storey car park in The Charter is to switch over to a pay-and-display system this summer. more...
New treatments for heart disease are being targeted by an Oxfordshire firm which has teamed up with a German drug company. more...
Opposition to Government plans to abolish health watchdog groups has been voiced by Abingdon Town Council. more...
A lorry carrying diesel overturned on a roundabout causing rush-hour chaos. more...
An adventure club is doing its bit to help ease the uncertainties of the foot and mouth crisis by offering some activities in town rather than in the countryside. more...
A pop concert with a difference at The Manor school in Faringdon Road raised more than £2,000 for Comic Relief. more...
A special working party to co-ordinate celebrations to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations next year is to be set up by the town council in Abingdon. more...
An exhibition of reflections from the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau, near Kracow, in Poland, is on display in the main reception area at Abingdon College, Northcourt Road. more...
The annual Fritillary Sunday in Duckington, which was to have been held on April 22, has now been cancelled. more...
North Abingdon have won Mixed Division 2B of the Oxford & District League after a 7-2 victory over Bicester. more...
New manager Alan Thorne has boosted his relegation-threatened Abingdon Town squad by signing RAF national team members Mark Stevens and Dean Dixon before tomorrow's transfer deadline. more...
A new centre offering long-term treatment for drug addicts and alcoholics has been officially launched this week. more...
Bernard Knight, founder of the Cotswold Sinfonietta Orchestra, has died at the age of 81. more...
Runners struggling to complete the London Marathon are to get a helping hand from a Banbury firm. more...
Banbury travel to Stoke-on-Trent for their penultimate Midlands Division 1 match, and they will be looking to add to their tally of just one away victory this season against a side who look doomed to relegation. more...
Banbury United, who defied the elements to get their home game against Newport IoW on last Tuesday, will be looking to maintain their improved form when they visit high-riding Hastings Town in the Eastern Division. more...
Sally Wills, from Banbury, has has won the Combined Services women's singles title for the third year in succession. more...
Ardley will be looking to continue their unbeaten run which stretches back to early January when they host Worcester College Old Boys in Division 1 West. more...
Cherwell District Council has drawn up plans to eliminate poor housing conditions. more...
Car marketing company QEK Global Solutions has won a major contract in Australia. more...
A seven-year-old girl's poem about her "cool mum" has won her a Mother's Day competition. more...
A bring and buy sale is being held in Blackthorn village hall on Saturday, April 7, from 2pm to 4pm. more...
A van driver was taken to hospital with head injuries today after a collision with a lorry on an Oxfordshire dual carriageway. more...
A collection box for Comic Relief has been stolen from a counter at the Oxfam charity shop in Sheep Street, Bicester. more...
Former school friends Derek Hobbs and Philip Ellwood are busy getting fit to run the Paris Marathon on April 11, to raise money for young people in Colombia. more...
The funeral takes place today (Friday) of a man who helped revive Didcot Cricket Club. more...
Didcot Town make a third attempt to play their Berks & Bucks Trophy semi-final against Holmer Green tomorrow after the tie was postponed for the second time in three days this week due to a waterlogged pitch. more...
Regulars at the Carpenters Arms pub in Botley, Oxford, were astonished to find out it is to become a McDonald's fast-food restaurant. more...
Club steward Melvin Lofthouse has been awarded more than £5,000 compensation after winning a claim for unfair dismissal. more...
Cornmarket Street in Oxford could be reopened to buses while a collapsed sewer is repaired. more...
Pensioners fear they will be left stranded if plans to cut their bus service go ahead. more...
Householders claim their homes will lose light and privacy after being dwarfed by a "monstrosity" of a building. more...
Building work on four Oxford schools to accompany the change to a two-tier education system has been approved by county councillors. more...
A 42-year-old man has been found guilty of assaulting a teenage girl during an argument. more...
Students going home for the Easter break are being warned to take extra measures to make sure their houses are left secure. more...
Water main work in Botley Road, Oxford, is to be delayed so that repairs can be carried out to a collapsed sewer in the city centre. more...
Nils Bartleet, county councillor for the Oxford ward of Old Marston, Sandhills, and Risinghurst, is retiring. more...
Guests at the Oxford Charity Ball will be served a five-course meal and can dance to music played by the James Duke Big Band. more...
Rose Crawford-Crowe, who ran a popular restaurant in Oxford for many years, has died at the age of 88. more...
Oxfordshire's new High Sheriff, Lady Sylvia McLintoch, is going to dedicate her year of office to "the family" and stress its important role in the new century. more...
Pet owners can win up to £1,000 and a year's supply of Supa Dog dog food, by entering a competition. more...
Oxford Universities' season - which starts with a one-day game against Gloucestershire 2nd in The Parks next Friday - should have an extra edge to it this term with the launch of the English Cricket Board's university academies competition. more...
Oxford University have eclipsed all previous records in winning Division 1 of the Five Disciplines League, the county's premier competition. more...
New signing Craig Farley is set to make his Oxford City debut at Aylesbury United in Division 1 tomorrow. more...
Chipping Norton entertain Oxford Harlequins in Southern Counties North. Matt Hardy, Gareth E Jones and Damien Todd are added to the Quins squad. more...
Wolvercote ABC's leading lights are expected to be in action at a tournament at Exeter Hall, Kidlington, on Monday April 9. more...
Thames Valley Police is one of the most poorly manned forces in the country, new figures confirm. more...
Bus services in rural areas have received an extra £257,000 which will allow the introduction of at least three new services. more...
The hunt is on to find a street where a pedestrians and cyclists will take priority over motorists. more...
A teenager appeared before magistrates on a murder charge. more...
All Saturday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides more...
All Sunday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides more...
Oxfordshire have reached the Inter-County Championship Premier Division play-offs for the first time. more...
JT/Fox Oxford Cheetahs will be hoping club captain Todd Wiltshire has got his engines right for tonight's home Sky Sports Elite League opener against Wolverhampton. more...
All Saturday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides more...
New treatments for heart disease are being targeted by an Oxfordshire firm which has teamed up with a German drug company. more...
Former Radio Oxford presenter David Freeman celebrated the first anniversary of his Internet venture with a literary party. more...
Car marketing company QEK Global Solutions has won a major contract in Australia. more...
A farmhouse in the Vale of White Horse offers a good opportunity for anyone wanting to set up a rural office complex. more...
A vicar has made heated claims that new buildings combining two Oxford schools will be "p*** poor" - with classrooms resembling cow sheds. more...
Parents are setting up a fighting fund to take their battle to save Oxford's middle schools all the way to the Court of Appeal. more...
Building work on four Oxford schools to accompany the change to a two-tier education system has been approved by county councillors. more...
Students going home for the Easter break are being warned to take extra measures to make sure their houses are left secure. more...
Parish transport representative Dr Chris Huntingford has set up a local bus page on the Internet, with details of services in the Wallingford area. more...
A barn dance will be held at the Leafield village hall on Saturday, April 21, at 7.30pm. Single tickets cost £7, while family tickets are £20. more...
Chinnor's annual parish meeting, at which councillors can be questioned by the public about their activities, will be held in the Reading Room in High Street on April 23 at 8pm. more...
Thame Operatic Society will be performing The Pirates of Penzance from Monday, April 16, to Saturday, April 21, at Lord Williams's Lower School, Towersey Road. more...
Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway Association is organising days out with Thomas the Tank Engine and friends on May 5, 6 and 7 from Chinnor Station. more...
Guests at the Oxford Charity Ball will be served a five-course meal and can dance to music played by the James Duke Big Band. more...
An adventure club is doing its bit to help ease the uncertainties of the foot and mouth crisis by offering some activities in town rather than in the countryside. more...
A miniature world of planes, boats and trains is expected to attract enthusiasts - including fans of BBC2's Robot Wars - from all over the country. more...
A special working party to co-ordinate celebrations to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations next year is to be set up by the town council in Abingdon. more...
A bring and buy sale is being held in Blackthorn village hall on Saturday, April 7, from 2pm to 4pm. more...
The Witney branch of the National Childbirth Trust is due to hold a new-to-you sale of baby and children's clothes, maternity wear and nursery and maternity equipment at High Street Methodist Church on Saturday, March 31, from 10am to noon. Entrance is £1. more...
Gandalf is on the loose, telling kids all about The Hobbit, as Zahra Akkerhuys discovers more...
Despite some excellent individual performances, there are two major problems with Moscow City Ballet's Cinderella at the Apollo, Oxford. more...
Broken Lace Productions add their contribution to the Thame 2001 festival with a quirky and often comic look at polar exploration on April 4 and 5 at Thame Sports and Arts Centre. more...
Filmed successfully in 1932, then less effectively in 1941 ("not so much evil incarnate as ham rampant," opined the New York Times), and once more in 1971, Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has not lacked attention over the decades. more...
Children's theatre company Theatre-rites will be returning to the Pegasus Theatre on Friday, April 6 to Saturday, April 7, with Sleep Tight, a story written for the under-fives. more...
Amey Hall, Abingdon, is the place to be next week for Noel Gay's catchy melodies from Me and My Girl. more...
John Doyle's adaptation of The Gondoliers, which is now being staged at The Watermill, Bagnor (to Saturday, May 12) may use Gilbert and Sullivan's music and lyrics, but any similarity to the famed Savoy operetta stop there. more...
Members of The Oxford Art Society are staging their 2001 Members' Exhibition at the new Gloucester Green Gallery, which is part of the Old Fire Station complex, with an entrance next to the telephone box at the bus station. more...
When Maria turns 20, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. more...
This slim volume is part of a new series by the man who wrote the Expert series, who was the best-selling author of the 1990s. more...
Scary story about lawyer Bartholomew Crane, in a small lakeside town in Northern Ontario to defend a schoolteacher accused of murdering two teenage girls. more...
Literary snapshots from writers like Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Jamaica Kincaid and Alice Walker exploring the chemistry between mothers and daughters. more...
Teenage Lian is the daughter of intellectuals - high in the traditional caste system but the most despised class in Mao's Cultural Revolution. more...
Surprisingly riveting account of Garrett's return to form after she lost her ability to sing when her marriage broke down. more...
Yasmin leaves her Canadian home to return her mother's ashes to the island of her birth, out of a sense of duty and to escape her splintering marriage. more...
Club steward Melvin Lofthouse has been awarded more than £5,000 compensation after winning a claim for unfair dismissal. more...
A vicar has made heated claims that new buildings combining two Oxford schools will be "p*** poor" - with classrooms resembling cow sheds. more...
BMW is to take on about 1,800 temporary workers at its factory in Cowley. more...
A murder investigation is under way after the body of a man was found in a ditch near Wallingford. more...
Water main work in Botley Road, Oxford, is to be delayed so that repairs can be carried out to a collapsed sewer in the city centre. more...
Householders claim their homes will lose light and privacy after being dwarfed by a "monstrosity" of a building. more...
Building work on four Oxford schools to accompany the change to a two-tier education system has been approved by county councillors. more...
A 42-year-old man has been found guilty of assaulting a teenage girl during an argument. more...
The mayor of Wallingford, Denis Strange, has called for a security camera to be installed to stop "bridge-jumping" this summer. more...
The funeral takes place today (Friday) of a man who helped revive Didcot Cricket Club. more...
We tend to take our bodies for granted - and it's only when they don't work properly that we remember how truly amazing they are. We may abuse ourselves with alcohol, nicotine and countless pollutants every day, but it generally takes quite a lot for our systems to start caving in. more...
The RAF Falcons parachute display team did not have far to fly when they launched their 2001 season. more...
A lorry carrying diesel overturned on a roundabout causing rush-hour chaos. more...
Trout anglers have a choice of waters to fish, despite the foot and mouth outbreak, as the season makes its traditional start on Sunday. more...
More than 300 motorsport events have been postponed or cancelled due to foot and mouth disease since restrictions were introduced. more...
Cyclists will soon be racing on local roads again. more...
The medieval church of St Edburg's in Bicester echoed to the sound of modern pop music and traditional hymns during the funeral service of Richard Clarke. more...
An adventure club is doing its bit to help ease the uncertainties of the foot and mouth crisis by offering some activities in town rather than in the countryside. more...
Chinnor Parish Council has sealed off entrances to the Ridgeway long-distance path - the Upper Icknield Way - where it runs through the village because of the foot and mouth epidemic. more...
David Kemp believes Oxford United need a totally different approach to football. more...
A 14-year-old schoolboy has a driving ambition to make it into Formula 1. more...
More than 300 motorsport events have been postponed or cancelled due to foot and mouth disease since restrictions were introduced. more...
All Saturday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides more...
Cyclists will soon be racing on local roads again. more...
Berinsfield boxer Michael Lobb was given a standing ovation after his 58kg bout against Sean Lamb at Gloucester. more...
Woodstock Bowls and Tennis club has launched an innovative scheme to provide free lessons to local school children. more...
Oxfordshire's Greg Moon (right) bowed out of the round robin stage at the World Indoor Bowls Council singles in Belfast last night. more...
All Saturday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides more...
All Sunday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides more...
Oxfordshire have reached the Inter-County Championship Premier Division play-offs for the first time. more...
North Leigh have just missed out in the Cherry Red Records more...
Chinnor will take another step up rugby's ladder if they beat Marlow in their South West Division 2 East clash at Kingsey Road tomorrow. more...
Trout anglers have a choice of waters to fish, despite the foot and mouth outbreak, as the season makes its traditional start on Sunday. more...
Oxford Universities' season - which starts with a one-day game against Gloucestershire 2nd in The Parks next Friday - should have an extra edge to it this term with the launch of the English Cricket Board's university academies competition. more...
JT/Fox Oxford Cheetahs will be hoping club captain Todd Wiltshire has got his engines right for tonight's home Sky Sports Elite League opener against Wolverhampton. more...
New signing Craig Farley is set to make his Oxford City debut at Aylesbury United in Division 1 tomorrow. more...
Witney Town's Dr Martens League Eastern Division fixture against struggling Wisbech Town tomorrow is in jeopardy with the Marriotts Stadium pitch still saturated. more...
Chinnor will take another step up rugby's ladder if they beat Marlow in their South West Division 2 East clash at Kingsey Road tomorrow. more...
Thame United, who are in danger of throwing away a golden chance to reach the top flight after a disastrous run, have no game this weekend. more...
A planned road to a development of five detached houses would be too dangerous, say Thame town councillors. more...
A ladies' indulgence evening with health and beauty treatments, chocolates, underwear and jewellery is backing a local student's bid to help the poor in the Third World. more...
Chinnor Parish Council has sealed off entrances to the Ridgeway long-distance path - the Upper Icknield Way - where it runs through the village because of the foot and mouth epidemic. more...
Thame Town Council planning committee is maintaining its opposition to a three-storey office block in Thame Park Road, for Rectory Homes, saying it is too big at 50 per cent larger than the original application. more...
The former Walkers Electrical shop in North Street, Thame, should be allowed to revert to a private house, the town council planning committee will tell South Oxfordshire District Council. more...
Chinnor's annual parish meeting, at which councillors can be questioned by the public about their activities, will be held in the Reading Room in High Street on April 23 at 8pm. more...
Thame Operatic Society will be performing The Pirates of Penzance from Monday, April 16, to Saturday, April 21, at Lord Williams's Lower School, Towersey Road. more...
Memories of the successful August Bank Holiday weekend in 2000, Chinnor Parish Council has set up a committee to organise similar celebrations this year. more...
Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway Association is organising days out with Thomas the Tank Engine and friends on May 5, 6 and 7 from Chinnor Station. more...
The town council planning committee in Thame supports plans by computer firm Memec to demolish buildings at its 17 Thame Park Road premises and build a new HQ. more...
Thame Town Council planning committee members are not objecting to a planned extension behind 11 Denbigh Road. more...
A 14-year-old schoolboy has a driving ambition to make it into Formula 1. more...
AFC Wallingford, who haven't played in the Courage Combined Counties League Premier Division for three weeks due to the wet weather, will be looking to get back into action with a trip to fourth-placed Chipstead tomorrow. more...
Berinsfield boxer Michael Lobb was given a standing ovation after his 58kg bout against Sean Lamb at Gloucester. more...
Plans to re-draw the wards for district council elections are being fiercely opposed. more...
The mayor of Wallingford, Denis Strange, has called for a security camera to be installed to stop "bridge-jumping" this summer. more...
A murder investigation is under way after the body of a man was found in a ditch near Wallingford. more...
The search is on for Wallingford's poetry champion. more...
Allstarts, the sport and recreation club for adults with learning difficulties run by South Oxfordshire District Council, will be meeting on Saturday, March 31, at the Castle Leisure Centre, Wallingford, from 11am to 1pm. more...
Town councillors Nigel Moor and Patricia Granados have agreed to join a working party to look at Waitrose's new designs for a superstore in Wallingford. more...
Parish transport representative Dr Chris Huntingford has set up a local bus page on the Internet, with details of services in the Wallingford area. more...
A certificate of lawful development is being sought from South Oxfordshire District Council for the use of a unit at Wards Farm industrial estate, Woodcote, for repairing motor vehicles and storage. more...
A farmhouse in the Vale of White Horse offers a good opportunity for anyone wanting to set up a rural office complex. more...
The public inquiries office at the police station in Church Road, Wantage, is temporarily located in a portable building in the front car park while building work is carried out. more...
Paul Bedwell and Chris Roche both return after suspension for Wantage Town at home to in-form Shortwood in the Cherry Red Records Hellenic League. more...
Witney Town's Dr Martens League Eastern Division fixture against struggling Wisbech Town tomorrow is in jeopardy with the Marriotts Stadium pitch still saturated. more...
North Leigh have just missed out in the Cherry Red Records more...
Woodstock Bowls and Tennis club has launched an innovative scheme to provide free lessons to local school children. more...
Professional cartoonist and entertainer Rosalie Cox is seeking an apology from a company which is using her copyright name Skribble on a number of items. more...
Former school friends Derek Hobbs and Philip Ellwood are busy getting fit to run the Paris Marathon on April 11, to raise money for young people in Colombia. more...
The RAF Falcons parachute display team did not have far to fly when they launched their 2001 season. more...
Work has been completed on a facelift for a historic building in west Oxfordshire. more...
A controversial decision to remove an area of cobbles has been backed by West Oxfordshire District Council's director of planning Andrew Tucker. more...
A miniature world of planes, boats and trains is expected to attract enthusiasts - including fans of BBC2's Robot Wars - from all over the country. more...
The Witney branch of the National Childbirth Trust is due to hold a new-to-you sale of baby and children's clothes, maternity wear and nursery and maternity equipment at High Street Methodist Church on Saturday, March 31, from 10am to noon. Entrance is £1. more...
A barn dance will be held at the Leafield village hall on Saturday, April 21, at 7.30pm. Single tickets cost £7, while family tickets are £20. more...
Firefighters were called to put out a kitchen fire after a grill pan caught alight at a house in Lansdown Road, Faringdon. more...
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