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Gigs in Oxford September 1 - 7
Friday, September 1: Kooler Klub, Bullingdon, Cowley Road, Oxford: Spacehopper, Jackson's Corner, Plastic Factory, DJ Marky Mark. Zodiac, Cowley Road, Oxford: Disques Vogue easy listening club. Cricketers Arms, Iffley Road, Oxford: Jazz night. Jack Russell
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Ice hockey: Donohoe's back to boost Stars
Oxford City Stars have signed their former favourite Paul Donohoe as they prepare for the big face-off against Basingstoke Buffalo in the English National League on Sunday (5.45), writes Colin Kirby. Coach James Cameron, who is still looking to strengthen
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Cricket: Athers takes one game at a time
Michael Atherton fuelled speculation about his future today by maintaining an air of mystery about his plans to retire at the end of next summer. The 32-year-old opener marked his 102nd Test for England by scoring a determined 83 and enabled them to reach
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Rugby: Banbury without Derwyn
Banbury open their Midlands 1 league campaign at home to Barkers Butts tomorrow without big summer signing Derwyn Jones. The big Welshman will be unable to make his Banbury debut as Beziers, the French side he played for last season, didn't provide the
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Football: Cambridge give nothing away
Cambridge United, Oxford's opponents at the Manor tomorrow, have changed from very attack-minded to a much tighter ship. The U's will be desperate to record their league first win of the season, but it could be another Brentford-like battle of trying
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Music Concerts and recitals in and around Oxfordshire, September 1- 19
Friday, Sept 1: Holywell Music Room: Not the Three Tenors. Accompanist John Oxlade. Mozart, Handel, Rossini, Sullivan. Arias, duets and trios. 8pm. 01865 511962. Profits to Kennington Friends of Cancer. The Mitre, High Street, Oxford: Oxford Jazz Club
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Football: Brilliant Beauchamp makes the difference
Joey Beauchamp once again proved that, when he's fit and in form, he's too good a player to be left out of the Oxford United team. The side had not scored a goal in the league before Tuesday, but then enter Joey. Inside three minutes he scored a brilliant
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Child abuse does happen in Oxfordshire
We rely on the fact that when a lonely, abused or neglected child summons up the courage to phone the NSPCC, there will always be a kind, friendly voice on the end of the phone, writes Katherine MacAlister. Think again. Due to a lack of funding, only
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Hunt launched for growing firms
IS your company the next Easyjet, Body Shop or Virgin Group in the making? The hunt is on for an innovative, successful business to claim the Real Business/CBI Growing Business Awards 'Company of the Year' accolade, sponsored by Grant Thornton. The 'Company
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IT boss joins charity sleep
COMPUTER boss Robin Howell is joining a nationwide sleep-in to raise money for a children's charity, writes Maggie Hartford. Mr Howell, group managing director of Thame-based IT companies RK Distribution and Transformation Software, is used to top hotel
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Live review: Electric performance from Tams
The queues formed early for the John Tams Band at the 36th Towersey Village Festival staged over the Bank Holiday weekend, writes Peter Cann. The wait wasn't an ordeal. After all, fans of this hugely influential songwriter have been waiting several years
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New Release: The Away Team's Lunar Tunes Album
Despite the underground success of many techno acts and DJs, Oxford is best known for guitar-toting bands rather than dance music. Only The Egg and Mo' Wax main man James Lavelle have made any real impact on the dance scene. That's all set to change thanks
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Vine time at the end of a rainbow
Chris Gray on a delightful lunch at a country classic In the days before the huge increase in traffic in Oxford's Botley Road made lunchtime trips to Cumnor a time-consuming activity, the Vine was one of my favourite places to enjoy an hour's break from
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Help pours in for playgroup
Businesses and residents are helping to rebuild a playgroup destroyed by arsonists, writes Paul Warner. More than 1,000 has been donated to the Rainbow Playgroup since its home in Hendon Place, Bicester, was destroyed in a fire a fortnight ago. The Bicester
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Surgeons fight hospital move
Surgeons warned today that the 83m plans to upgrade acute healthcare in Oxford could put patients at risk, writes Victoria Owen. Clinicians at the Radcliffe Infirmary are campaigning against a move to relocate the city centre hospital's services to a
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Police launch blitz on hare coursing
Police have launched an autumn offensive against hare coursing, writes Tim Hughes. The illegal bloodsport is a growing problem in south Oxfordshire, particularly on the rolling downland near Wantage. Hare coursing is a bloody form of gambling in which
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Protests in bid to release Blagdon
Supporters of David Blagdon jailed for life at Oxford Crown Court for setting fire to a pair of church curtains at a south Hinksey church 22 years ago are planning a protest demonstration outside Wellingborough prison later this month, writes George Frew
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Carer faces separation from sick parents
A carer who provides round-the-clock support for her disabled parents is being threatened with separation from her family, writes Alison Bartlett. Caroline Lockyer moved into her parents' home in Bower End, Chalgrove, four years ago to provide 24-hour
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Lynsi cries foul over soccer ban
Soccer-loving Lynsi Horn may take the Football Association to court after being barred from playing for a boys' team, writes Paul Warner. Lynsi, of Thames Avenue, Bicester, has played for Highfield Boys teams for the past four years, but can no longer
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What's on in cinemas in and around Oxfordshire Sept 1 - 8
ABC Magdalen Street, Oxford (01865 251998)Snatch, 18, daily 1.15, 3.40, 6.05, 8.35pm. _________________________ ABC George Street, Oxford (01865 251998) X-Men, 12, daily 1.15, 3.40, 6.05, 8.35pm; Stuart Little, U, daily 1.30, 3.30pm, High Fidelity, 15
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Football: Powell blow rocks United
Oxford United's sorry start to the season took another turn for the worse when their most valuable player, Paul Powell, was ruled out of tomorrow's crunch clash with Cambridge, writes Jon Murray. Powell injured his right knee at the start of the second
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Gardens open to the public in and around Oxfordshire, up to September 3
Sunday, September 3 Bridewell Organic Gardens: Walled garden at Wilcote, near North Leigh, open 2-6pm. Teas and forge demonstration. Tel: 01993 868445 for information. Chivel Farm, Heythrop: 2-6pm. High and open to extensive view; medium-sized garden
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What's on in and around Oxfordshire, September 1 - 7
Friday, September 1: Restore, plants, crafts and card shop: Restore, Manzil Way, off Cowley Road, Oxford, open weekdays from 9am-4pm. Touch for Health: Drop in clinic at The Asian Cultural Centre, Manzil Way, off Cowley Road, Oxford, 10am (01865 246190
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School expels mobile phones
Youngsters have been banned from bringing mobile phones to school after their headteacher told them: "I fear for your health.", writes Mark Templeton. Cheney Upper School at Headington, Oxford, will confiscate phones from children under 15 for fear they
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Internet exam results 'a success'
Schools and colleges will be able to start the new term with free access to a new exam results service. This year, some 90 per cent of schools and colleges received exam results electronically, saving time and paperwork. For computer company RM, based
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Drama, musicals, opera and dance in and around Oxfordshire, Sept 1 - 8
Apollo Oxford, George Street (0870 6063500): Sept 5-9, 7pm, mats Wed and Sat 2, The Ulster Theatre Company presents The Wizard of Oz. ______________________ Oxford Playhouse (01865 798600): Friday 1 Sep, 8pm, Sat, 2.30, 7.30pm, Theatre Royal Bath Productions
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Football: United out to stop rot
This week's back-to-back defeats by Brentford and Walsall have made it Oxford United's worst start to a season for nine years. Not since the 1991-2 campaign have they begun with four straight league defeats. That season, when they eventually finished
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Cricket: Banbury Twenty close in
Banbury Twenty can sew up the Cherwell League Division 1 title if they beat Buckingham tomorrow. But they will have to do it with a depleted side. Skipper Dave Burbidge is away on honeymoon, Phil Densham is on holiday and Mike Wedderburn is also out.
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Tennis: Henman through to 3rd round
Oxfordshire tennis star Tim Henman is through to the third round of US Open after a comfortable 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Chilean qualifier Fernando Gonzalez. The British No 1 from Weston-on-the-Green now plays former Wimbledon champion Richard Krajicek
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Cricket: Radford's injury worry
Neal Radford is a big injury worry for Premier Division leaders Banbury ahead of their title showdown at second-placed High Wycombe tomorrow, writes Richard Tilley. The former England seamer has turned an ankle and is rated no better than 50-50 to play
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Football: Sherwood's fight to face Thame
Carterton Town striker Paul Sherwood is battling to be fit to face his former club Thame United in their FA Cup local derby at Kilkenny Lane tomorrow, writes Russell Smith. Sherwood, who joined Town from Thame in the summer, will be eager to recover from
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Internet exam results 'a success'
Schools and colleges will be able to start the new term with free access to a new exam results service. This year, some 90 per cent of schools and colleges received exam results electronically, saving time and paperwork. For computer company RM, based
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Internet lessons on drug
A jobless man told a court that he learned to grow cannabis plants from the Internet. Leigh Hiscocks, of Grove Street, Banbury, pleaded guilty at Banbury magistrates' court to three offences one of cultivating cannabis and two of possessing the drug.
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Show tops county bill
Organisers of Thame Show are gearing up for a bumper year to celebrate its debut as the official Oxfordshire County Show, writes Ian Townsend. Secretary Mike Howes said: "We have been going 130 years now and to be awarded county show status is a big feather
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Review: Working Title - The Old Fire Station, Oxford until Saturday September 2
Giant, illuminated quotation marks enclose the jumble of asterisks and slashes built into Catherine Oddie's stage set at the Old Fire Station. It's a neat way of explaining that Geoff (Jonathan Margree) and Mike (Dan Benoliel) are trying to write a play
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Review: God and Stephen hawking at the Oxford Playhouse
A Carefully worded notice in the Playhouse foyer tells us that the ideas and actions presented on stage during God and Stephen Hawking are not necessarily those of any real person, writes Chris Gray. It's a response, no doubt, to the criticism of Oxford-born
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Aitken's road to reform
It was somehow inevitable that The Repentant Sinner would turn up in Oxford and find himself chairing a debate on penal reform. Jonathan Aitken and the words "former disgraced Cabinet minister" go together like toast and marmalade but, as Jonathan himself
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Internet exam results 'a success'
SCHOOLS and colleges will be able to start the new term with free access to a new exam results service. This year, some 90 per cent of schools and colleges received exam results electronically, saving time and paperwork. For computer company RM, based
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Review: Was this the best Reading fest ever?
Despite dodgy sound and over-enthusiastic security, Pookie Hudson reckons it was . . . This year's Reading Festival was the BIG one. Weekend tickets sold out weeks in advance. Unsurprising as the annual event boasted a phenomenal line-up. So, with quality
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Pub noise leads to rethink
A decision to allow a town-centre pub to stay open until 2am at weekends is to be reviewed after residents complained about noise, writes Michael Hambleton. South Oxfordshire District Council agreed in February that an entertainment licence for the Broadways
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From Town Hall to concert hall
A group is calling for Oxford Town Hall to be turned into a concert and conference centre, writes Mark Templeton. Headington Forum has written to Oxford's Lord Mayor, Cllr Maureen Christian, and the Oxford Civic Society, asking for their views on the
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Death crash driver took wrong turn
A driver caused "carnage" when he travelled the wrong way along the A34 dual carriageway and collided head-on with another vehicle, writes Andrew Ffrench. Oxford Coroner's Court heard yesterday that Richard Moore, 52, of Mill Street, Oxford, died in the
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Millennium event bigger than ever
Rides at Oxford's historic St Giles Fair are spreading into Beaumont Street for the first time to celebrate the Millennium, writes Andrew Ffrench. In the past, Beaumont Street has been used for parking during the two-day event, but this year ten attractions
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Art Exhibitions and museum displays in and around Oxfordshire, September 1 - 8.
Museum of Modern Art (01865 01865 722733/813830): Tues-Sun 11am-6pm, Thurs 11-9, until Oct 8, Enclosed and Enchanted, ten contemporary artists explore various forms of landscape architecture; in the caf, Joanna Usherwood: Surface Tension paintings probing
