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Stories for 27 February 2004

Oxfordshire Business

Unwanted hotel rejected again

A lapdance bar owner has failed again in his bid to turn a disused Oxford shop into a hotel.   more...

Oxfordshire Education

Children plan memorial for caretaker

A memorial is being planned by children and staff for a caretaker at an Oxford primary school who died from Legionnaire's disease.   more...

Oxfordshire News

Bus helps to recruit new carers

Organisations across Oxfordshire have joined forces to launch a campaign aimed at persuading people to take up new careers as carers.   more...

Club rethinks its housing plans

War veterans are rethinking their £3m clubhouse and flats scheme after householders complained it would ruin their view of Oxford's dreaming spires.   more...

Alarm over future of school

St John's College is facing a fresh controversy over the future of the old St Philip and St James school site.   more...

Unwanted hotel rejected again

A lapdance bar owner has failed again in his bid to turn a disused Oxford shop into a hotel.   more...

11-year mission delayed

The hopes of Oxfordshire scientists and engineers were dashed when Europe's space mission to chase and land on a comet was postponed again on February 27.   more...

Hood-wearers warned

Gangs of youths will be thrown out of Banbury's Castle Quay shopping centre if they wear hoods.   more...

Davis backs battle over asylum centre

Shadow Home Secretary David Davies pledged to abandon the Government's controversial asylum seeker accommodation centre policy if the Conservatives won the next General Election.   more...

Thoughts focus on CCTV

Shopkeepers and residents are being urged to have their say on the use of surveillance cameras to deter trouble in a village square.   more...

New man on the beat

A new beat officer assigned to a troubled estate at Abingdon said that police intelligence had identified a gang of troublemakers.   more...

One in four vehicles breaks weight law

Roadside spotchecks have revealed one in four vehicles are overloaded in Oxfordshire -- creating a danger and damaging road surfaces.   more...

Girlfriend gives birth five months after baby's father died in custody

THE teenage girlfriend of a man who died in police custody has given birth to his baby son -- and named him after his father.   more...

Oxfordshire Sport

Football: Why won't the boss pick me?

Matt Bound, who could return for Oxford United at Bristol Rovers tomorrow, says he has been mystified and angered by his recent omission.   more...

Football: FA chiefs win fight

The chances of Oxfordshire's top five non-league clubs - Oxford City, Thame United, Banbury United, Didcot Town and AFC Wallingford meeting in a newly-formed Southern League next season have moved a step nearer.   more...

Speedway: Fisher faces mates in debut

New signing Ryan Fisher's first ride for Oxford Silver Machine will be against his former Coventry teammates.   more...

Fixtures: All the weekend's sporting fixtures

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Football: Didcot boss warns team of 'chokers'

Didcot Town manager Pete Foley has warned his team not to become a bunch of 'chokers' as his outfit continue their push for the Premier Division title.   more...

Rugby: Chadbone's keen to sign off with win

Promising front row forward Simon Chadbone plays his last game of the season for Oxford Harlequins when they travel to face Truro in South West 1 tomorrow (2.30).   more...

Football: City boss Sinnott's fired up for Leyton

Oxford City boss Andy Sinnott says his side face the biggest test of his managerial reign when they take on Ryman League Division 1 high- fliers Leyton at Court Place Farm tomorrow.   more...

Badminton: County send Jersey packing

Oxfordshire 2nd beat Jersey 10-5 in Division 2D of the Inter County Championships at Radley College.   more...

Point-to-point: Martin holds a strong hand

Hook Norton's Andy Martin is set for a busy time at the Farmers Bloodhounds meeting at Dunthrop, near Chipping Norton, on Sunday.   more...

Football: Morrisey hits back

Terry Morrisey has dismissed claims that he was sacked by Premier Division leaders Didcot Town.   more...

Oxfordshire Whats On

Adoptees in search of their lost mother

Joanna Trollope's new novel takes up where she left off at the end of her last novel, Girl From the South, which raised the question of how our personality is influenced by family, and where we come from. Brother and Sister takes that issue and explores it further by dealing with adoption.   more...

Making money from Brideshead image

Oxford has long been one of Europe's most recognisable movie locations. Thanks to the likes of Iris Murdoch, CS Lewis and -- of course -- Harry Potter, in recent years it has also become one of the busiest.   more...

Review: Oracle Night by Paul Auster (Faber, £15.99)

This is another of Paul Auster's complex, compulsive books -- part detective story, part ghost story; a tale within a tale within a manuscript.   more...

It's the one that I want

Nikki Chapman, the 'nice' Pop Idol judge, memorably told hopeful Suzanne Carley at her audition last year that she was "a ray of sunshine".   more...

Top of the pops

Marty Wilde is more than a musical legend. The man is a pop icon.   more...

Making punctuation into a bestseller

Author and broadcaster Lynne Truss is as amazed as the rest of us at the phenomenal success of her book -- the rank outsider in the pre-Christmas rush which romped home as a bestseller, selling half a million copies to date. And what is its subject? Punctuation. I asked Truss whether the success of the book had hit home yet.   more...

Interview: Post-match Pinter

A casual game of football produced an unexpected result when two of the players decided to team up again -- after becoming successful actors.   more...

Deal time

Here's something that will give hope to all budding musicians -- and anyone who has ever dreamed of getting a band together and taking on the world.   more...

Review: St Giles Cafe, St Giles, Oxford

Green is supposed to be a soothing colour, which is why theatres traditionally have a green room where luvvies attempt to lift the tension before treading the boards.   more...

  
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