Oxfordshire | Archive | 2003 | July
Top management of US corporation Chiron are moving to Oxford following its takeover of vaccines company PowderJect. more...
Businessman Mark Lawton is allowing people to have sweet dreams sleeping under the stars. more...
Help for children escaping from violent homes in Oxford could be improved, if a bid for extra money is successful. more...
A company is to be told to take down a temporary telecommunications mast it installed in north Oxford without planning permission. more...
An Oxford store manager who had a gun put to her head during an armed robbery was one of the shopworkers who presented a 100,000 signature petition to Prime Minister Tony Blair. more...
Traffic campaigners are stepping up pressure on Oxfordshire County Council for action to cut the number of lorries travelling through their communities. more...
A centre for people with mental health problems could close if cash is not found to secure its future. more...
Oxford Anglicans who opposed gay priest Canon Jeffrey John's appointment as Bishop of Reading say there have been no winners in the divisive church row. more...
An overgrown churchyard which had become a haven for drug users in east Oxford will be made Oxfordshire's sixth Jubilee wildlife space on July 13. more...
The processing of housing benefit claims in Oxford is still among the slowest in the country. more...
Western Europe's first reactor, at Harwell, near Didcot, is to be dismantled, marking a milestone in the history of nuclear power. more...
The chief executive of Oxford's Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre has promised to try to prevent traffic congestion and sewage smells from the hospital. more...
Even the bears were glad for some shade at Park Pre-school's annual teddy bears' picnic in Edmonds Park, Didcot, on July 10. more...
Libraries are planning a series of storytime events during the school summer holidays, for children between three and six. At Banbury's Marlborough Road library, storytime sessions will take place on July 24 and 31 and August 7, 14, 21, and 28. The readings will take place between 4pm and 4.30pm. At Neithrop, the sessions will be on July 23, August 8, August 18 and August 29, between 2.30pm and 3.30pm. There will also be a reading and craft event at the Marlborough Road library on August 20, from 10.30 to 11.30am, for children aged seven to 11. more...
Bicester's bid to set up a community football club -- and get better soccer facilities in the town -- has moved a step closer. more...
A Wantage councillor has questioned council policy after a donation was made to a sports club outside the town's boundaries. more...
A total of 27 balloons floated into the sky above Witney Community Primary School to mark the retirement of lollipop lady Pat Hedges on July 10. more...
Abingdon school singing group Intimate Harmony performed at the Royal Festival Hall in London as part of the National Festival of Music for Youth. more...
Oxfordshire could face a paramedic crisis as workers refuse to pay professional registration fees which have risen by 172 per cent. more...
Banbury bowler Calum Taylor took superb figures of 8-43 as the Oxfordshire Development XI dominated the second and final day of their match against Berkshire at Henley, picking up 20 points to their opponents' eight. more...
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Oxfordshire's batting is strengthened by the return of Charlie Knightley and Richard Kaufman for their Minor Counties Championship Western Division match against Wiltshire at South Wilts CC, Salisbury, starting on Sunday. more...
Oxford City defender Craig Farley could be on his way to Conference side Barnet, if a one-week trial at the Hertfordshire club proves successful. more...
OXFORDSHIRE slipped to a 74-run defeat in their final ECB 50+ encounter against Worcestershire, despite a magnificent century from Oxford Downs's Ian Caunce. more...
Oxfordshire's twin sisters Alex and Beth Simmons helped the Great Britain deaf team make history at the Federation Cup of deaf tennis, at Poertschach, Austria. more...
The tennis world was greatly saddened by the death this week of one of Oxfordshire's finest players. more...
Banbury United start their Dr Martens Eastern Division campaign with a trip to Kent side Ashford Town on August 16. more...
Creation Theatre is well known for having a few tricks up its sleeve, but the sorcery at work in its latest production of The Tempest is breathtaking, writes Monica Sloan. more...
Let's face it, the days of carefree festival-going are largely gone. Those hazy summer gatherings, when all you had to worry about were finding your way back to your tent without tripping over a dog on a string and spilling your cider, are a thing of the past, writes Tim Hughes. more...
Sam Brown had it all. Her debut album sold 2.5 million worldwide, radios everywhere were blasting out her song, Stop, and her career was taking off, writes Katherine MacAlister. more...
Oxford University's Dramatic Society is staging an outdoor preview of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew in Oxford, ahead of a tour to Japan. more...
With his big frame, technique and the way he attacks the piano, you could swear Steve `Big Man' Clayton had 20 fingers on each hand. more...
After a career stretching back nine years, Holly Golightly returns to Oxford to celebrate her 11th album. more...
One of Britain's best-known stately homes will be the setting for an aerial cavalcade of pure nostalgia next month, with the staging of an all-day 1940s-style festival celebrating 100 years of music and flight, writes Phil Clee. more...
Let's face it. William Shakespeare has been done to death. Stratford-upon-Avon has built an entire tourism industry around him, scholars have made him their life work, every school child is taught about him, and each summer thousands flock to his plays. more...
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