Oxfordshire | Archive | 2006 | May
The brass nameplate had slipped when three of the screws holding it had corroded away several years ago. It slewed diagonally and reclined upon the base plate of the brass doorbell with an air of decayed elegance. more...
There are many different ways to start collecting antiques. For some, a favourite designer can become a passion. more...
There are many different ways to start collecting antiques. For some, a favourite designer can become a passion. more...
There are many different ways to start collecting antiques. For some, a favourite designer can become a passion. more...
Police have recruited just a fifth of the number of community support officers necessary for "proper coverage" of north Oxfordshire, according to Tony Baldry, Conservative MP for Banbury. more...
A milkman admitted receiving benefits he was not entitled to because he did not declare he had started full-time work. more...
AEA 111 BMW 2773 ELECTROCOMPONENTS 255.5 ISOFT 93 OXFORD BIOMEDICA 27.75 OXFORD INSTRUMENTS 206.5 REED ELSEVIER 526 RM 185.25 RPS 210.5 TOREX RETAIL 90.25 more...
AEA 111 BMW 2773 ELECTROCOMPONENTS 255.5 ISOFT 93 OXFORD BIOMEDICA 27.75 OXFORD INSTRUMENTS 206.5 REED ELSEVIER 526 RM 185.25 RPS 210.5 TOREX RETAIL 90.25 more...
A pharmacist has won her battle to re-open a chemist's shop a year after she first put in her application. more...
A pharmacist has won her battle to re-open a chemist's shop a year after she first put in her application. more...
The heat is on in the battle to find the county's best businesses of the year. more...
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Oxfordshire have arranged a youth team friendly against Dorchester on Sunday. more...
Doctors in Didcot and Wallingford have criticised a new patient referral system introduced in December. more...
ASTON Rowant signalled that they intend their return to the league to be a temporary visit by thrashing Buckingham Town on the opening day. more...
ASTON Rowant signalled that they intend their return to the league to be a temporary visit by thrashing Buckingham Town on the opening day. more...
ASTON Rowant signalled that they intend their return to the league to be a temporary visit by thrashing Buckingham Town on the opening day. more...
A FLUENT unbeaten 65 from Dan Gaunt swept Cumnor to a surprisingly easy nine-wicket win over last year's promotion challengers, Tiddington. more...
CUMNOR 2nd and Sandford St Martin's game ended in a tense draw with both sides left rueing a heavy shower. more...
CHALLOW & Childrey 2nd regretted dropping stand-in opener Tim Brooker on nought as he went on to hit a fine 100 not out for Princes Risborough, who triumphed by 271 runs. more...
BANBURY 3rd recovered from 48-7 to get within four runs of Shipton-under-Wychwood 2nd's 185-9 before a direct hit run-out handed Shipton maximum points. more...
ROBIN Newman took 5-20 from 23.2 overs as Abingdon Vale 2nd dismissed Wolverton Town 2nd for 131 to win by 149 runs. more...
With a commitment to reduce carbon emissions by 60 per cent by 2050, the UK has set itself a tough challenge. Indeed, a recent government report hints that this may might no longer be a viable target. more...
Award-winning artist Joy Perkins is half way through her part-time art degree at Banbury College of Art. Although she was awarded the high accolade of the Mary Moser award in Oxford Artweeks 2004, Joy drives up to Banbury every Thursday and Friday, working for her degree. more...
Highwaymen were a hazard to travellers for centuries. One notorious highwayman was Captain James Hind, a saddler's son, who was born in 1616 in Chipping Norton, educated at the local grammar school and apprenticed as a butcher. James however wanted a life of adventure and left to seek his fortune in London. more...
For a really creamy dish with loads of flavour, try making this dish with a clutch of free-range guinea fowl eggs, with their attractive sandy coloured shells, from Worton Farm Organic Vegetable Garden. As these eggs are slightly smaller than standard chickens eggs I'd advise using three guinea fowl eggs to every two chicken eggs. You will find that guinea fowl eggs have slightly tougher shells than other eggs. This is good, because they don't crack so easily during storage; but it makes opening them a little more difficult. more...
I didn't just return home from Worton Farm Organic Vegetable Garden clutching a box of freshly laid guinea fowl eggs with their glorious creamy yolks. I returned with a wealth of natural images supplied by the birds that inhabit this lovely part of Oxfordshire, too. more...
Watching Carson Hill create a dish from the spring menu he designed for the Cherwell Boathouse is rather like witnessing a whirlwind in full flight. In fact, he moves with such speed and confidence it is mesmerising. more...
May is a leafy month full of soft foliage. Using swathes of colurful tulips above the spring-green surge can lift a garden to new heights. But the technique only works when three of four excellent varieties are planted en masse. more...
FRIENDS of a man who died in a motorcycle accident plan to pump 1,000 tons of iron to raise money for the county's air ambulance. more...
Couples who have difficulties conceiving often find themselves in physical and emotional turmoil. more...
Film star Johnny Depp's The Libertine grossed $2.2m on its release in North America earlier this year. The movie tells the story of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, a courtier, wit and poet who lived a dissolute life as X-rated as his brilliant, licentious verse. more...
That's a hairdresser's car," were the first words uttered to me when I announced I was test driving the Mazda MX5 for the weekend. more...
That's a hairdresser's car," were the first words uttered to me when I announced I was test driving the Mazda MX5 for the weekend. more...
Britain is full of follies; curious, bizarre and often outrageous structures built by people with money and a passion, just because they could. more...
A brief chat with the Californian Wine Institute serves to tell me two things. Firstly, they are feeling quite pleased with themselves, having seen imports to the UK of Californian wine increase by 17 per cent in 2005 and secondly, they are still battling with the gap'. more...
Will Bratt produced an absolutely faultless drive during round four of the Formula Renault UK Championship at Oulton Park to take a memorable first race victory in single-seaters. more...
Honda team boss Nick Fry is a man with a plan to revitalise the Brackley team's season after a disappointing Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona. more...
The Banbury-based, Prodrive-run Aston Martin Racing team recorded a podium finish at the second round of the American Le Mans Series in Houston, Texas. more...
A pharmacist has won her battle to re-open a chemist's shop a year after she first put in her application. more...
AFTER a difficult weekend, 15-year-old Oxfordshire schoolboy Bradley Smith (pictured above) continued his grand prix education with a 22nd place finish in the 125cc race at the Pollini Moto GP of China. more...
Will Bratt produced a faultless drive in round four of the Formula Renault UK Championship at Oulton Park to take his first victory in single-seaters. more...
Friends of a teenage boy killed in Oxford's Eastern Bypass tragedy parachuted from 15,000 feet to collect £3,000 to help fund a memorial garden. more...
A Cowley couple have just returned to England after celebrating half a century of happy marriage with a holiday in sun-soaked Mauritius and South Africa. more...
A Cowley couple have just returned to England after celebrating half a century of happy marriage with a holiday in sun-soaked Mauritius and South Africa. more...
Pupils at an Oxford school are being sponsored by local businesses for the amount of time they spend revising for GCSE exams. more...
Oxford's residents have been told to recycle more after it was labelled among the worst in the South East. more...
Burglars were scared off committing crime during the police's Operation Backlash against them. more...
Drivers using Oxford's Southern Bypass have demanded action from highways managers after repeatedly getting caught in rush-hour traffic. more...
So-called 'postcode snobs' have complained that a new sign welcoming visitors to an Oxford estate may send the price of their neighbouring homes tumbling. more...
A woman was killed yesterday and eight other people injured during another day of gridlock and pandemonium on Oxfordshire's roads. more...
Oxford lobby group Pro-Test has welcomed Tony Blair's decision to sign an online petition in support of animal testing. more...
Two Oxford United fans have been banned from all football games for three years including the World Cup after trouble flared at the U's final league match. more...
Two Oxford United fans have been banned from all football games for three years including the World Cup after trouble flared at the U's final league match. more...
A flat identified as a so-called 'crack den' has been closed by police after residents complained that addicts had been making their lives a misery for years. more...
An emergency drought order should be introduced in Oxfordshire now because water supplies are already at serious risk, according to the Environment Agency. more...
An emergency drought order should be introduced in Oxfordshire now because water supplies are already at serious risk, according to the Environment Agency. more...
An emergency drought order should be introduced in Oxfordshire now because water supplies are already at serious risk, according to the Environment Agency. more...
Some Thames Valley Police officers have said they would rather resign than carry a gun, new research has found. more...
Oxford is the most improved postal delivery area in the Midlands, hitting record levels of service, according to an independent survey. more...
It seems logical to follow up the story of Mike Hailwood (Limited Edition February) with a tribute to his equally talented father, Stanley William Bailey Hailwood. more...
OXFORDSHIRE found another gear as they destroyed Berkshire 50-19 in their final County Championship Pool 3 clash at Tadley. more...
OXFORDSHIRE found another gear as they destroyed Berkshire 50-19 in their final County Championship Plate Pool 3 clash at Tadley. more...
RAAKAI Maxwell has revealed how his season turned around after making the most of his workplace. more...
ADAM White scored a brace of tries as hosts Oxford Cavaliers opened their TRL Conference West Midlands Division season by defeating Redditch Ravens 30-22. more...
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AEA Technology 111 BMW 2779 Electrocomponents 258 iSoft 94.5 Oxford Biomedica 27.75 Oxford Instruments 206.5 RM 185.75 Reed Elsevier 525.75 RPS 213.5 Torex Retail 90.25 more...
In my Wordplay article last December, I mentioned Gustave Flaubert's Dictionnaire des Ides Reues, which consisted of definitions of hackneyed expressions and thoughts (such as Weather, eternal topic of conversation'). more...
In my Wordplay article last December, I mentioned Gustave Flaubert's Dictionnaire des Ides Reues, which consisted of definitions of hackneyed expressions and thoughts (such as Weather, eternal topic of conversation'). more...
In my Wordplay article last December, I mentioned Gustave Flaubert's Dictionnaire des Ides Reues, which consisted of definitions of hackneyed expressions and thoughts (such as Weather, eternal topic of conversation'). more...
In my Wordplay article last December, I mentioned Gustave Flaubert's Dictionnaire des Ides Reues, which consisted of definitions of hackneyed expressions and thoughts (such as Weather, eternal topic of conversation'). more...
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