Oxfordshire | Archive | 2005 | April
As both a keen cyclist and motorcyclist, taking every opportunity I can to enjoy both forms of transport, I was sorry to read of the experience of Seumas Leahy (Oxford Mail, April 11). more...
On a train journey from Oxford, I bought a copy of your paper and was struck by the headline, He's not Shipman (Oxford Mail, April 7). I went on to read, sadly not in disbelief, the account of poor surgeon Henk Giele's treatment by the General Medical Council. He is not alone in suffering in this way. more...
The number of compensation claims against BMW from ex-car workers with damaged hearing has passed the 1,500 mark. more...
The number of Thames Valley Police special constables has more than halved in the last eight years, according to Home Office figures. more...
Musician Art McConnell, watching TV one evening, was astonished to discover that his great-uncle's wallet had been found. more...
The number of compensation claims against BMW from ex-car workers with damaged hearing has passed the 1,500 mark. more...
A company which helps schools take control of their catering services has been set up by an Oxfordshire couple. more...
Tory hopefuls Virginia Morris and Amanda McClean enlisted the help of flamboyant MP Boris Johnson to kick-start their election campaigns as they tried to woo students at Oxford Brookes University. more...
Only one shop in Oxford has applied for a new licence to sell alcohol 24-hours per day, Oxford City Council has revealed. more...
Didcot police station was daubed with red paint by graffiti vandals who went on a wrecking spree around the town. more...
When is a consultation not a consultation? more...
A gesture by town councillors to build a bridge across a ditch to improve access to a children's park has backfired and is causing a headache for residents. more...
Villagers are fed up waiting for a lorry ban to start which they say was promised months ago. more...
Musician Art McConnell, watching TV one evening, was astonished to discover that his great-uncle's wallet had been found. more...
I am sorry that city councillor Gill Sanders is so cross about the Conservatives' county manifesto on transport in Oxford (Oxford Mail, April 9). more...
Patients of struck-off plastic surgeon Henk Giele are urging others to join their fight to get him reinstated at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary. more...
A massive consultation exercise to help decide future housing development in Oxfordshire has been denounced as a shambles. more...
A superb tactical substitute ride from Niels Kristian Iversen turned this clash on its head at a damp and cold Oxford Stadium last night. more...
Top scorer Tommy Mooney has been left out of Oxford United's team at Swansea tonight. more...
Didcot's bid hit by rivals DIDCOT Town's GLS Hellenic League Premier Division title bid suffered a setback with a 1-0 defeat at local rivals rivals Wantage Town in front of 300 last night. more...
Chinnor aim to break Alliance's grip CHINNOR and Henley Hawks Alliance have issued contrasting team bulletins as they go into the Oxfordshire Cup final at Iffley Road, Oxford tomorrow (3.30). more...
City fired up for Stourport crunch RELEGATION-threatened Oxford City will be without suspended striker Colin Simpson when they host Southern League Division 1 rivals Stour- port, tomorrow. more...
Chris in demand OXFORD United winger Chris Hackett is enjoying the best form of his career - and he's put it down to getting a run in the team. more...
North Oxford hotshots are more...
Anwar's half-century is in vain A HARD-HIT 76 by Omar Anwar was not enough to save Oxford UCCE from defeat by Warwickshire 2nd in a 50-overs match in the Parks yesterday. more...
As the daughter of two veteran Radio Four listeners who enforced a rigid television and non-Radio Four programme ban, the cheesy pop of the 1980s almost passed me by. But for one song. I possessed one tape alone (which I sent off for, having collected tokens from Weetabix boxes for weeks) with a song I listened to over and over again -- Fame. more...
There are tales aplenty about the extraordinary ways songwriters have found their muse. more...
House-hunters beware: if the stress and strain of finding a property and securing a mortgage doesn't kill you, the vengeful spirit of the previous owner just might. more...
As well as being a classics professor at Oxford University, Richard Jenkyns is also a descendent of Jane Austen's elder brother, James. He has recently published a suitably slim and elegant appreciation of Jane Austen's novels, entitled A Fine Brush on Ivory (OUP, £12.99). more...
Just mention the word Ovisher Tandoori and people's faces light up. If you've been, there you are a convert for life. If you haven't, pay a visit. more...
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