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Jockey relives his air terror
Top jockey Frankie Dettori the rider of a record seven winners on one day at Ascot two years ago provided proof of his amazing return to fitness following an air crash last summer. The twice flat race champion, who had to have surgery on a broken ankle
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Speedway: Oxford duo third
Oxford riders made their presence felt in the big meetings over the weekend, with Todd Wiltshire finishing third in the Czech Golden Helmet and Ales Dryml occupying the same spot in the Czech Golden Ribbon. This prestigious annual event, which has six-rider
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Table Tennis: Classy Crown set the pace
CROWN House A are the only side in Division 1 of the Oxford and District League to gain maximum points from their first two matches of the new campaign, writes Luke Smith. A 9-1 victory away to Morris Motors B was followed by a home win over Forum B.
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Football: Youth League - Hero Henry lifts Oxon
Anthony Henry scored the all-important goal as Oxfordshire Under 16s began their East Midlands Youth Combination campaign with a 1-0 victory over Leicestershire & Rutland at Thame United. The goal came midway through the second half of an evenly-contested
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Cricket: GWR given deadline for Cherwell season
Swindon GWR have been given a November 30 deadline by the Classic Press Cherwell League to confirm they will be able to take up their place in next season's competition. GWR, whose first team are due to line up in Division 4 next season alongside clubs
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Football: Six-shooter Lee blasts Chalgrove
Lee Sharkey hit no fewer than six goals as Magdalen Arms cruised to double figures at Chalgrove in the second round of the League Cup, writes Geoff Bower. Arms eventually ran out 11-1 victors, with the other goals coming from Warren Bustin (2), Ian Bishop
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Bar Billiards: Masons get off to flying start
Newly-promoted Masons Arms A took Section 1 by storm by winning 5-0 at home to Viking Sports Club, writes PETE EWINS. Martin Wood took the opening game against Ian Moss 7,320-1,530 and was superbly backed up by Alan Lowe (6,000), Dave Rose (5,800) and
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Out Of Place: A Memoir by Edward Said
(Granta, 8.99) Said grew up in the late forties and early fifties, and witnessed the collapse of the old Arab order, in the midst of both British and American imperialism. Born in Jerusalem, he was brought up in Cairo and spent summers in a Lebanese mountain
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Survival Guide for Young People in Oxfordshire by Susan Mendelsohn
(SLM, 3.99) Mendelsohn has put together a useful and interestingly laid-out guide to everything well, almost everything that 14 to 18-year-olds need to know about but which they won't necessarily learn at school. While it is probably a little optimistic
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Bike fans wing their way on to the Web
If you want an insight into the real passions and preoccupations of your neighbours, CommuniGate is a good place to start. The online service for non profit-making organisations has already been used by a range of clubs and societies in the county, offering
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Preview: Pygmalion, RAF Brize Norton - October 19 to 21
The tale of how Professor Higgins tried to turn Cockney Eliza Dolittle into a lady is to be staged in Oxfordshire. RAF Brize Norton Theatre Club will be presenting the play Pygmalian at the station's conference facility from October 19 to 21. The club
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French firms aim for high-profile
French rivals Renault and Citroen are bidding to steal the limelight when motorists surge into the Birmingham motor show. They were bidding for media coverage on the press days in Paris with the all-new Renault Laguna, pictured, and Citroen's sleek C5
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Preview: Motoring event of the year at NEC, Birmingham - Friday, October 20
The British International Motor Show looks set to be the biggest and best ever with special features, themes and attractions backing up the array of new cars, writes David Duffy. Star Studio, sponsored by Virgin Cars, is the show's exclusive main feature
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Off Road: Land Rover launch new, improved, Freelander
Land Rover has announced its new 2001 Freelander model range, featuring a V6 engine, a new turbo-diesel engine, a new automatic Steptronic transmission, and improvements throughout the range, writes David Duffy. The company said the changes should further
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Preview: Opera at the Apollo - October 17-21
A new production of Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades, which will be sung in Russian, opens the Welsh National Opera's autumn programme at the Apollo Theatre this week. Antony Walker conducts on Tuesday (October 17) and Vladimir Jurowski on Friday. The
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Speedway: Cracker on the cards
There's a cracking meeting in prospect at Coventry on Saturday when Brandon hosts the Elite League Riders Championship normally one of the best and hardest meetings of the season. It brings together the cream of each track and many believe it is a better
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Boxing: Woods turns on the style for points win
Wolvercote's Chris Woods, the 25-year-old light middleweight from Marston, was in impressive form at Meadway Sports Centre, Reading, this week, beating Daniel Taylor, from Foley ABC in Surrey, on points. Clubmate Yuri Andregg also won his welterweight
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Review: The Wind will carry us
Abbas Kiarostami reinforces his claim to be world cinema's most ambitious director with The Wind Will Carry Us, a resolutely non-drama, that is more interested in the sights and rhythms of the everyday than anything so mundane as narrative, writes David
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Czech Film festival at NFT
Mention Czech cinema and most people will think of the Film Miracle of the 1960s, when artists like Milos Forman, Jiri Menzel and Vera Chytilova took advantage of the political thaw to deliver a courageous series of humanist comedies and surreal satires
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Simon Nix road tests the Peugeot Elyseo
Remember the petrol crisis? Is it still a vivid memory? Can you recall getting frantic as your car fuel gauge teetered on the big red 'E', or how you fumed as you guarded your place in the petrol station queue? Then consider this. How would you have felt
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How author Steve found love on a BSA Twin
Steve Wilson's love-hate relationship with motorcycles is obvious, writes David Hall. The 57-year-old motorcycle enthusiast explains it in the first chapter of his latest book, called Down the Road (Haynes, 17.99). And on the day that we spoke, things
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Modern jazz trio at St Hilda's
On Saturday, October 21 at the Jacqueline de Pr Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford under the Oxford Contemporary Music banner you can catch Bubbling Under, featuring the acclaimed string quartet from Later...with Jools Holland together with one
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Special guest
The sixth anniversary service of a Unitarian Fellowship on Sunday will be conducted by a special guest. The president of the Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, Judith Crompton, will conduct the service to mark the Banbury group's anniversary. At Sunday's
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For answers, just Ask Jeeves
David McManus enjoys the celebrity launch of the first ever Dot Com Quiz League There's nothing like a good battle of the intellects to get the senses vibrating and that is probably how I would have felt last week when I attended the first ever fixture
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Holiday project appeal
A coffee morning due to be held on October 21 will mark the start of a 5,000 appeal to fund a holiday for youngsters growing up in the shadow of the Chernobyl nuclear power station disaster. Many of the children have weak immune systems as a result of
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Tips on selling up
A seminar for anyone planning to sell their business is to be held at Le Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons next month, writes Sarah Parker. Organised by Q3 Corporate Finance, the seminar will cover pre-sale planning tips, finding the right buyer and negotiating
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M3 points route to market
Small and medium-size firms in the county are set to benefit from a new marketing and management consultancy, writes Sarah Parker. M3 is based at Islip and run by Dianne Brown-Wilson a professional services marketeer, and Gail Courtney, a lawyer qualified
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Printer invests 1m
Abingdon's oldest printer, Abbey Press, has invested more than 1m in new technology to cope with increased demand, writes Sarah Parker. Mike Edwards, chairman of the Edwards Graphic Communications group, which bought Abbey Press two years ago, said the
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Unipart wins safety first
A leading Oxfordshire company is among the safest in the country because of investment and training, writes Sarah Parker. The Unipart Group of Companies based at Cowley has eliminated reportable accidents over the last three years, saving 300,000 since
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Pretenders to the throne
Guitar music is back. That's official. There's a new generation of exciting bands trailblazing across the country and making inroads into the stale, teen dominated, charts, writes Pookie Hudson. Bands such as Birmingham's King Adora. Barely a year old
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Harwell apprentices
From D Cambrey, of Enright Ave, Santa Clara, CA, USA Do the Harwell (AERE ?) apprentices have an E-mail address? I am an ex-apprentice from 1950 to 1955. dcambrey@mindspring.com
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Bicycles stolen
Four bicycles have been stolen from a school by a thief with bolt-cutters. The bikes, belonging to pupils of Banbury School, were locked in the cycle area at the Ruskin Road school entrance. They were stolen last Thurdsay afternoon. School officer Pc
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Scouts win rule change
A scout group has scored a notable victory in its fight to keep older members in its troop. Early this year, the Scout Association announced plans to reduce the leaving age from 15 and a half to 14. The move would have forced several members of the 1st
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Pc ticked off over Mars bar
A police officer who flew into a rage after staff at an off-licence refused to sell him a chocolate bar because he was in uniform has been reprimanded by Thames Valley Police, writes Emma Henry. The force's complaints authority, which met yesterday (WEDS
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Drug-smuggling warder is jailed
A prison officer who smuggled more than 500 worth of drugs into jail in his lunchbox was jailed for 3T years. Mark Schooley, 28, of Laurel Close, Carterton, took drugs into the jail four times after pressure from a gang of prisoners known as The Untouchables
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Car thief killed in crash with tree
A warehouse worker was killed when he drove a stolen car at high speed and crashed into a tree, an inquest in Oxford heard. Henry Nelson, 24, who lived in a caravan at Station Approach, Banbury, died instantly when the Audi veered off the A4074 at Cane
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Mini staff told 'think of England'
Car workers from Cowley star in a BBC TV programme tonight looking at the nature of "Englishness. Southern Eye, part of Think of England, a week of regional BBC programming to explore the nature of "Englishness", follows car workers transferred for three
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Still queen of his heart 65 years on
Soldier Bill Trafford met the love of his life when he cheekily asked to walk her home only minutes after they met in an Oxford street. That was 67 years ago today the sweethearts are celebrating 65 years of married bliss. Queenie was walking home after
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Kinnear signs up for United
Oxford United today announced that Joe Kinnear is coming in to be a consultant at the club. United chairman Firoz Kassam also revealed that Birse are to take over completing the new stadium at Minchery Farm. The former Wimbledon manager was unable to
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Gardens open to the public on Sunday, October 8
Clock House, Coleshill: 2-6pm. Admission 1.50, children free. Teas and plants. Wheelchairs welcome. No dogs. Gardens open by appointment 4 Northfield Cottages, Water Eaton: open all year. 1.50. 01865 378910. Small's House, Mackney, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
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Top names take part in debate
The great and good are no strangers to the hallowed hall of the Oxford Union debating chamber. But on Thursday night (Octo 19), four famous names will be taking the stand before a student audience for Question Time. Chaired by David Dimbleby, the panel
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Gigs in Oxford - October 19 - 27
Thursday, October 19 Twister (see Interview), Holy Roman Empire, Sylvia Wayne, Abel Jones, Snakebite City night, The Kooler, Bullingdon, Cowley Road, Oxford; Singer-songwriter night, Hors and Jockey, Woodstock Road, Oxford; Tim Whitehead (sax), The Spin
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Lots of lovely toys!
Youngsters at a playgroup will enjoy playing with new toys, thanks to a helping hand from the Millennium fund. The Bright Start Pre-School, in Carterton, meets five mornings and three afternoons a week in the town's social centre, with up to 42 children
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Strike threat as university staff ballot
Hundreds of staff at Oxford's two universities are being balloted on strike action over pay, writes Madeleine Pennell. The trade union Unison, which represents non-academic workers, is balloting its members at universities and higher education colleges
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Speedway: Cheetahs set to miss out on final
Poole Pirates 47, Oxford Cheetahs 43 Oxford Cheetahs came close to qualifying for the Craven Shield final at Poole last night but missed out in the final couple of heats, writes Leon Hill. Once again, the racing was straight out of the top drawer, with
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Football: B-Line Oxford Boys League
Benson experienced both highs and lows before securing an exciting 4-3 victory away to Steventon in the Under 12 A League. Bold Benson went into an early two-goal lead, but well-taken goals by Hudson, Wright and Hemmings put Steventon 3-2 up midway through
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Football: Sub Scott puts Tap well clear
Substitute Scott Ollif scored an 85th-minute winner for Brewery Tap as they beat neighbours Athletico Indaline 2-1 to go three points clear at the top of Division 1, writes Mick Day. Kenny Rogers gave Tap the lead after 35 minutes with a drive from just
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Speedway: Now Cheetahs can build for the future
Oxford speedway fans will be relieved to hear they won't have to sweat through another winter wondering if they will see any action at Sandy Lane next year. Steve Purchase's statement earlier in the week that Cheetahs will compete in the Elite League
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The Isles: A History by Norman Davies (Papermac 15)
Oxford historian Norman Davies challenges the traditional picture of 1,000 years of 'eternal England' and considers the history of the British in the light of parallel events on the continent. He looks at four countries England, Ireland, Scotland and
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What's in a name?
Maggie Hartford profiles the internet names organisation Nominet . . . If you wanted to look up your favourite store on the Internet, where would you look? Anyone who knew a bit about surfing the Web would try marks&spencer.co.uk or marks&spencer.com
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Bullying teenager knifed pupil
A teenager admitted slashing a schoolboy with a blade after bullying him and demanding that he hand over his trainers. The 15-year-old boy, who cannot be named because of his age, had demanded the pupil hand over 20 and cut him with a three-inch bladed
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Dawn raid on theft suspects
Eight people have been arrested in a blitz on suspected car crime criminals in Oxford this week. A team of detectives from St Aldate's carried out dawn swoops at a number of addresses across the city during the last three days to coincide with the launch
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New delay for brewery plan
Developers of Oxford's Morrells brewery site spoke of their disappointment after councillors postponed their development plans again. Beer ceased to be brewed at The Lion Brewery in St Thomas' Street 20 months ago when the Dorchester-based Thomas Hardy
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Saab's classy Aero gets a sporty look
A sporting new look for Saab's 9-3 Aero sets the tone for a series of performance enhancements across the latest 9-3 and 9-5 model ranges. The 205 horsepower sporting flagship is given new styling treatment first seen last year on the 9-3 Viggen limited
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Safety comes first at the Motor Show
Safety will be one of the top priorities at the British International Motor Show 2000 with more than 45 brand new cars making their debut crammed with the latest technology to protect both passengers and pedestrians in the event of an accident, writes
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Show is Wilde-ly different
A modern interpretation of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest including musicians and tap-dancers will entertain audiences at Wallingford's revamped Corn Exchange next week, starting on Tuesday, October 24 at 7.45pm. The Sinodun Players will
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Review: The Queen of Spades, Welsh National Opera, Oxford Apollo
Anyone who saw the WNO's production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel last year, either at the Apollo or as the BBC's Christmas Day telly opera offering, will know of the remarkable visual effects that producer Richard Jones and designer John Macfarlane
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Golf: Hadden Hill close gap at the top
Hadden Hill took advantage of a hiccup by Divison 1 leaders Frilford Heath to close the gap at the top of the Shaw & Co Oxfordshire Foursomes League to two points. While Frilford were losing 2T-T away to Ellesborough, Hadden Hill edged to a 2-1 victory
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Car smash inspires a cash boost
The John Radcliffe hospital's leading trauma unit has been given a cash boost to improve its already pioneering practices, writes Victoria Owen. Millionaire philanthropist Michael Kadoorie has ploughed 1.2m into a new building at the Oxford site, where
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Antiques go on display
An antique dealers is celebrating 50 years of trading with an exhibition of English cabinet-making. The exhibition, spanning 150 years from William III to William IV, opened in W.R. Harvey and Company's Corn Street showrooms on Saturday, October 14 and
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Trainees earn while they learn
Six employees at Oxford Instruments company Superconductivity have successfully completed their training as engineers, writes Maggie Hartford. Several are now being sponsored to compete full-time university degree courses. Superconductivity, based at
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Getting in a twist at The Bully on Thursday, October 19
Originally from Aylesbury, Twister started life as The Poptarts, until a certain breakfast cereal company took exception to their use of the name, writes Honey Townsend. The glam-trash five-piece released their first few singles on local-ish label Rotatar
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Review: Toploader at Brookes on Tuesday
Toploader have enjoyed their most successful year yet with a series of appearances on Chris Evans's TFI television programme, Templeton Blake. They've also released their debut album, Onka's Big Moka and played some storming sets at many of the summer
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Folk veteran: Ralph McTell at Nettlebed on Monday
Oxfordshire has played a big part in the life of singer/songwriter Ralph McTell. "I spent school holidays in Banbury. I've played most of the county's music venues over the years, and my new album Red Sky was recorded at Barford," he says. "I always enjoy
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Campaign pushes recycling
A campaign to boost waste recycling, backed by Cherwell District Council and local traders, saw shoppers being encouraged to buy reprocessed items. Retailers were asked to stock recycled goods and support the campaign with leaflets, posters, and displays
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Crumbling shops to be given facelift
Crumbling shops on Oxford estates are being lined up for a major facelift, writes Mark Templeton. Oxford City Council has drawn up a list of proposals to overhaul the eyesore parades which have been left vandalised and empty. Revamp ideas include a new
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Grateful patient gives JR 2.6m
One of the world's richest men has given 2.6m to Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital as a thank-you to surgeons who saved his life, reports Victoria Owen. Last summer, Hong Kong businessman Michael Kadoorie was left critically ill after his beloved vintage
