Oxfordshire | Archive | 2004 | August
Antiquarian bookseller and keen musician Albi Rosenthal has died at his home in Boars Hill, near Oxford, aged 89. more...
Award-winning farmer and conservationist Paul Warburton, 62, was killed in an accident while harvesting at North Farm, Shillingford Hill. more...
A Normandy veteran has died, aged 85, after an illness. more...
SIR -- Your article about illegal cycling at Bicester (Oxford Mail, August 5) was another example of the way riders flout the law. more...
SIR -- I was appalled to read Councillor Claire Kent's letter (Oxford Mail, August 5), which ducked away from Councillor Tony Brett's timely challenge to her and Councillor Stuart Craft over their prejudice against people with mental health needs. more...
A scheme to provide information technology to children in Blackbird Leys, Oxford, who are unlikely to own computers could be extended to other parts of the city. more...
Representatives of the Oxford Mail and the city's Muslim community have met to discuss claims that the relationship between the two had broken down. more...
Wallingford's Riverside Park -- which was in danger of being closed permanently last year -- is now to have £400,000 spent on refurbishing it. more...
Areas in Oxford are officially described as deprived, despite the county being named this week as one of the richest districts in Europe. more...
Oxford University has made improvements to its teaching provision and management structure, according to an independent report. more...
RUN-DOWN garages are to be redeveloped for social housing, Oxford City Council leaders have agreed. more...
Court bailiffs could soon have the right to knock down doors in a bid to recover a £2.6m backlog owed by Oxfordshire's fine dodgers. more...
Families are protesting that noise and dust caused by work on the town centre redevelopment at Didcot are making life a misery. more...
There are two common perceptions of our criminal justice system: that sentences are too soft and fines are a waste of time, because the blighters just don't bother to pay them. more...
Banbury residents have welcomed the introduction of new beat officers to tackle antisocial behaviour in the town. more...
An action group claims a report has vindicated its campaign to get a compete ban on lorries using their village as a rat run. more...
Town councillors want to vet the recruitment strategy for nurses at Wantage Hospital because of a deepening mistrust of NHS administrators. They say they need evidence of a concerted effort by the South West Primary Care Trust to staff the community hospital to prevent its closure. more...
Wallingford's Riverside Park -- which was in danger of being closed permanently last year -- is now to have £400,000 spent on refurbishing it. more...
Calls for a rethink of a futuristic-looking building that one trader says could make Abingdon a "laughing stock" have been rejected. more...
SIR -- Your report on Oxford City Council sickness rates (Oxford Mail, August 5) refers to the new sickness absence policy, which came into effect last year. more...
More homes are on the way for central Abingdon after a planning inspector stepped in and over-ruled a council's decision to block a development. more...
Military personnel are being placed on stand-by to prepare for another fire strike in Oxfordshire. more...
An elderly woman died of hypothermia after being trapped in her airing cupboard following a catastrophic series of events as she tried to fix a leaking pipe. more...
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