Oxfordshire | Archive | 2004 | March
The owners of North Leigh Post Office, near Witney, say the future of rural post offices is under threat in west Oxfordshire under moves to cut business rate rebates. more...
Managers at a media company which last year bought Oxfordshire-based TV and radio stations and a free newspaper group say they are on track, despite making a loss. more...
I read your article about traffic problems in Divinity Road, east Oxford (Oxford Mail, March 4) and feel the need to offer Oxford City and Oxfordshire County Councils a solution to their obviously challenging problem. more...
Oxford City Council has moved to allay swimmers' fears over the loss of single-sex changing rooms at a north Oxford pool. more...
Bus operator Stagecoach is introducing a fleet of low-floor, easy access buses on a busy route linking Oxford's main hospital with the city centre. more...
Controversial proposals to build 3,000 homes on Green Belt land south of Oxford have been thrown a lifeline by a Government report. more...
Only 58 per cent of people in Oxford are satisfied with city council-run services - putting it among the bottom 25 per cent of councils nationally. more...
Up to 100 young Oxford people and students are preparing to march 40 miles from the city centre to protest outside a nuclear weapons development centre. more...
The tragic road death of an Oxford toddler last week has galvanised families living nearby to form an action group to call for safety measures. more...
A major smash caused chaos for drivers in the evening rush hour near Oxford, yesterday. more...
MP Tony Baldry has warned that withdrawing 24-hour care from the children's ward at The Horton Hospital in Banbury could increase pressures on Oxford's already- stretched hospitals. more...
A wreath from Sir Paul McCartney was among the floral tributes to former Beatles chauffeur Alf Bicknell who died at his home in Deddington, near Banbury, on March 9. more...
Gangsters in the glittering jazz age of Chicago were vividly revived when Craig Naylor starred as Bugsy Malone in the performance hall of Cooper School, Churchill Road, Bicester. more...
The case at Oxford magistrates court of a worn carpet should serve as a warning to every employer. more...
An Abingdon school has won its battle to install 11 external lights to illuminate a new £3.5m music and drama building, despite objections from neighbours. more...
A lot has recently been said about Cherwell's recycling scheme. So much so that there may now be some confusion among your readers about its benefits. more...
Young scientists of the future showed off their knowledge and experiments at the annual Science Fair in the Guildhall, Abingdon, on March 16. more...
An accountant was left permanently disabled in an accident at a property management firm - because her employer ignored health and safety warnings. more...
Emergency planners are demanding more money from the Government to combat terrorism in the wake of the Madrid railway bomb attacks. more...
Best Mate thrilled his army of fans by jumping into racing history with a third successive victory in the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup yesterday. more...
Oxford Silver Machine have every chance of pulling back the seven-point deficit when they take on Poole Pirates in the second leg of their Airtek Challenge at Oxford Stadium tonight (7.30). more...
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Didcot Town manager Pete Foley has called on his team to scrap for every point as they enter a make-or-break period in their bid to lift the Hellenic League Premier Division title. more...
Thame United player-boss Mark West has urged his players to keep up the good work at Ryman League Division 1 North form side Wingate & Finchley tomorrow. more...
Oxford Harlequins' talented scrum half Anthony Cope misses his first game of the season tomorrow when they visit Keynsham in a crunch South West 1 relegation clash. more...
Firoz Kassam has told Bristol Rovers that Ian Atkins is staying at Oxford United - but confirmed that there will be no talks of a new deal for the manager until his contract expires in the summer. more...
Redefield look certain to win Division 1 of the Five Disciplines League, writes DICK HASHMAN. more...
Wolvercote's Steve Mullins carries the hopes of the Home Counties on his shoulders as the region's lone representative in tomorrow's ABA semi finals at HMS Nelson in Portsmouth. more...
Mr Smudge, trained by Chipping Norton handler Fran Marriott, will be looking to go one better at the Grafton Hunt meeting at Mollington, near Banbury, on Sunday (first race, 1pm). more...
Perennial bachelor Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) has never dated a woman his own age. In fact, if a woman is over 30, he's just not interested. more...
Famous American movie star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is in Tokyo to shoot a lucrative commercial for a popular Japanese brand of whisky. more...
We rolled along on the crest of a wave once again as The Gang - members of Oxford's Cub, Scout and Guide groups - joined together to provide entertainment for the general public, in the form of a variety show. Many songs, energetic dances, and comic sketches usually make up the content of the show -- and this year's was no exception. With songs ranging from The Lion King to the pop songs of Madonna, it was obvious that The Gang were being stretched to the limit and given the opportunity to show off their diverse talents. And of course, that is what this show is about - showing off what you can do if you work as a team. And from the quality, you could tell it had been teamwork all the way. more...
Peter Blair Denis Bernard Noone is an unlikely name for a music icon. But back in the 1960s, he packed out venues across the land, graced the covers of magazines, attracted crowds of screaming girls and his songs were known by millions. more...
BEN Stiller has proven himself quite adept at playing the romantic misfit, a socially inept, but likeable loser, who usually gets the girl, despite no end of self-humiliation in the process. more...
From the Marcia Blaine Academy of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to the May of Teck Club beloved of The Girls of Slender Means; from the Maud Long Medical Ward, the home to a cantankerous group of elderly inmates in Memento Mori, to the surprisingly worldly religious house overseen by The Abbess of Crewe - Muriel Spark has always been good on institutional life and the eccentricities it cultivates and conceals. Another unusual institution is depicted in the latest - but, she assures us, not the last - novel from this still sprightly, still hugely entertaining 86-year-old. College Sunrise is a school on the move. Lately of Brussels, Vienna and Lausanne, it is now instilling knowledge into nine young pupils, of various nationalities, on the shores of a Swiss lake. more...
Is it possible to be a King of Improv, that essentially communal activity? If so, Mike Leigh has long borne the crown and indeed has now celebrated the Silver Jubilee of this famous play, first performed in 1977 and, as he tells us in the published text, was "evolved from scratch entirely through improvisation". more...
So I'd been told to dumb down, stick to the budget, some of the restaurants I was going to were too upmarket, and the column was meant to search out good meals for reasonable prices, not smart food for poncey prices. So off I went to Petit Blanc. more...
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