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Stories for 10 October 2003

Oxfordshire Education

Headteachers opt out of `unhealthy' school dinners

Children in Oxfordshire are being served unhealthy food at school by the county council's own catering service, headteachers claim.   more...

Oxfordshire News

Conmen foiled by canny pensioners

Two elderly Oxford residents foiled conmen posing as 'water board' officials by demanding to see their identification.   more...

Academic loses racism appeal

An academic who claimed Oxford University rejected his job application because he was black failed in an appeal court bid to have the matter referred to an employment tribunal.   more...

Plans for homes worry residents

Plans to build 20 per cent of Oxfordshire's new homes in the Vale of White Horse are concerning residents in the south west of the county.   more...

Crane displays turbine impact

A huge crane more than 150 feet high towered over a proposed windfarm site in Oxfordshire to show how much of an effect a turbine would have.   more...

Families take time to learn

Young and old will be studying across Oxfordshire this weekend as part of national Family Learning Weekend.   more...

Court told of bank raid parking glitch

An armed robber who stole £126,000 in a bank hold-up discovered his getaway car was blocked in car park, a court heard.   more...

Sunday parking fees 'thin edge of wedge'

Shopkeepers fear car parking fees in Bicester on Sundays could lead to 24-hour and seven-days-a-week charging.   more...

Pool campaigners to meet

Campaigners fighting to keep Chipping Norton's open swimming pool from closure will be holding a public meeting in the town hall on Thursday, October 23, at 7.30pm.   more...

Complaints prompt call for bus summit

A meeting could be held between bus firms and passengers angry at reduced services in south Abingdon.   more...

Clint makes students' day

Hollywood star Clint Eastwood received a standing ovation when he addressed the Oxford Union last night.   more...

Oxfordshire Sport

Football: Local sides gunning for FA Cup glory

FORMER North Leigh hot-shot Andy McCabe will be aiming for a happy return to Oxfordshire when he leads the line for Cirencester Town against Oxford City in the FA Cup third qualifying round tomorrow (1pm).   more...

Fixtures: All the week's sporting fixtures

SATURDAY   more...

Football: McLoughlin faces lengthy lay-off

Cherry Red Records Hellenic League   more...

Rugby: Chinnor forced to ring the changes

CHINNOR have selection problems behind the scrum for their trip to Cinderford tomorrow in Powergen South West Division 1.   more...

Football: Banbury wait on Simms

FORMER Oxford City striker Mark Simms could make his debut for Banbury United if they can sign him from Abingdon United in time for tomorrow's home clash with Dr Martens Eastern Division rivals Sittingbourne.   more...

Oxfordshire Whats On

Review: Iris Murdoch as I knew her by A.N. WILSON (Hutchinson, £18.99)

A bout of literary pugilism is always enjoyable to watch. One thinks, in recent years, of Paul Theroux's sudden turning on his old literary mentor V.S.Naipaul in Sir Vidia's Shadow or Roger Lewis's hilarious hatchet job on the reputation of Anthony Burgess (among others) in his recent biography of the posturing polyglot.   more...

Review: Millennium People by J.G. Ballard (HarperCollins, £16.99)

Middle-class people of the 21st century will become a dysfunctional lot indeed if they ever get to resemble the creatures described in J.G. Ballard's Millennium People (HarperCollins, £16.99).   more...

Review: Bad Boys II (15)

Martin Lawrence and Will Smith reunite with director Michael Bay for this sequel to the hit 1995 action comedy.   more...

Review: Down with love (12A)

The attractive pairing of McGregor and Miss Zellweger is, the producers tell us, an attempt to revive the spirit of those Doris Day-Rock Hudson romantic comedies of the 1950s and 60s.   more...

Review: Cry Wolf, Oxford Playhouse

Tears before bedtime? Very likely -- and hardly surprising in view of the frightening entertainment that so closely preceded it for young visitors to the Playhouse for Cry Wolf. A late bedtime, too, for some of the seven-year-olds for whom this excellent show was said -- incorrectly in my view -- to be suitable.   more...

Review: Finding Nemo (U)

The creators of Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Monsters Inc. dive into a whole new world of computer-animated fun, fantasy, and heartfelt emotion with this brilliant underwater adventure.   more...

Profile: Peter Carey

Some people have suggested that Peter Carey's absence from this year's Booker Prize shortlist is a snub. The author himself laughs out loud at the notion that he should be offended. "That would be ridiculous," he says.   more...

Review: Madam Bovary (Oxford Playhouse)

Their special gift is to turn the pre-Freudian into the post-Freudian," remarks Fay Weldon, creator of the script for Madame Bovary which is Shared Experience's latest venture.   more...

  
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