Oxfordshire | Archive | 2004 | February
A lapdance bar owner has failed again in his bid to turn a disused Oxford shop into a hotel. more...
A memorial is being planned by children and staff for a caretaker at an Oxford primary school who died from Legionnaire's disease. more...
Organisations across Oxfordshire have joined forces to launch a campaign aimed at persuading people to take up new careers as carers. more...
War veterans are rethinking their £3m clubhouse and flats scheme after householders complained it would ruin their view of Oxford's dreaming spires. more...
St John's College is facing a fresh controversy over the future of the old St Philip and St James school site. more...
A lapdance bar owner has failed again in his bid to turn a disused Oxford shop into a hotel. more...
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...
Gangs of youths will be thrown out of Banbury's Castle Quay shopping centre if they wear hoods. more...
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...
Shopkeepers and residents are being urged to have their say on the use of surveillance cameras to deter trouble in a village square. more...
A new beat officer assigned to a troubled estate at Abingdon said that police intelligence had identified a gang of troublemakers. more...
Roadside spotchecks have revealed one in four vehicles are overloaded in Oxfordshire -- creating a danger and damaging road surfaces. more...
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...
Matt Bound, who could return for Oxford United at Bristol Rovers tomorrow, says he has been mystified and angered by his recent omission. more...
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...
New signing Ryan Fisher's first ride for Oxford Silver Machine will be against his former Coventry teammates. more...
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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...
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...
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...
Oxfordshire 2nd beat Jersey 10-5 in Division 2D of the Inter County Championships at Radley College. more...
Hook Norton's Andy Martin is set for a busy time at the Farmers Bloodhounds meeting at Dunthrop, near Chipping Norton, on Sunday. more...
Terry Morrisey has dismissed claims that he was sacked by Premier Division leaders Didcot Town. more...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Marty Wilde is more than a musical legend. The man is a pop icon. more...
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...
A casual game of football produced an unexpected result when two of the players decided to team up again -- after becoming successful actors. more...
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...
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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