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What's on in and around Oxfordshire, October 20 - 27
Friday, October 20: Restore, plants, crafts and card shop: Restore, Manzil Way, off Cowley Road, Oxford, open weekdays from 9am-4pm. Abingdon Craft Festival: open daily 10am-5pm (Friday until 7pm), until October 29. Medieval Abbey Buildings, Abingdon.
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Students on prize shortlist
Two students have been shortlisted in this year's Guardian Student Media Awards. Tom Hill of St Anne's College, Oxford, and Catherine Shoard, from Hertford College, beat off fierce national competition to gain selection for the Student Critic of the Year
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University wins leisure teaching centre bid
Oxford Brookes University has won a bid to run the first centre of its kind for hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism tutors, writes Madeleine Pennell. Its School of Hotel and Restaurant Management now runs the first Learning and Teaching Support Network
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Students can shop all night
Superstore Borders is bringing all-night shopping to Oxford tonight. Borders Books Music Cafe, in Magdalen Street, is opening its doors from 8am today to 11pm on Saturday, October 21. General manager Nancy Doan said a variety of events was being lined
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Plays, musicals and shows in and around Oxfordshire, October 20 - 27
Apollo Theatre (0870 6063500): Welsh National Opera presents The Queen of Spades (today 6.30), Carmen (Sat 7.15pm). Oct 24-28, Gwen Dickey, Limahl and 4 The Boyz in What a Feeling! the rock and pop musicals in concert. ______________________ Oxford Playhouse
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Rugby: Fixtures - Saturday, October 21
All Saturday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides ****TETLEY'S BITTER CUP 3rd round: Otley v Henley. ****ENGLISHCLUBS CHAMPIONSHIP Midlands Div 1: Kenilworth v Banbury. South West Div 2 East: Chinnor v High Wycombe, Chippenham v Witney. Southern Counties
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Football: Knight's a Witney worry
Experiened defender Keith Knight is doubtful for Witney Town's clash with Spalding United in the Eastern Division at Marriotts Stadium. Knight pulled a hamstring in last Saturday's 2-0 win at Sittingbourne. New signings, midfielder Mike Cook, from Weston-super-Mare
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Football: Carterton keeper is booted out
FA Carlsberg Vase Goalkeeper Jake Eggby has gone from hero to zero after being booted out by Carterton Town. Eggby was the toast of the Hellenic League club after making some inspired saves as Carterton dumped Thame United out of the FA Cup in a penalty
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Angling: Trout experts land stunning pike double
In an amazing co-incidence, two anglers fishing from the same boat both hooked 30lb-plus pike at the same time, writes Peter Stone. Trout experts Bob Church and John Emerson spent a day at Grafham Reservoir, where they decided not to fish for the trout
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Football: Striker Druce is City loan star
Ryman League Preview Former Oxford United striker Mark Druce last night signed for Oxford City on a month's loan from Woking and is set to make his debut against Aylesbury United in Division 1 at Court Place Farm tomorrow, writes Russell Smith. The 26
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Concerts and recitals in and around Oxfordshire, October 20 - 29
Friday, October 20: Jacqueline du Pr Music Building, St Hilda's College: Oxford Contemporary Music presentsThe Art of Improvisation featuring Evan Parker (sax), Eddie Prvost (percussion), John Tilbury (piano). 8pm. 01865 791355. Zodiac, Cowley Road, Oxford
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Football: fixtures - Sunday, October 22
All Sunday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides ****MORRELLS OXFORD SUNDAY LEAGUE Premier Div: Wheatley 84 v Rose Hill, Star Wands v Oxford Supps, Blackbird Leys Sunday v Highfield, Star Royal v Six Bells Kidlington, Mason Arms v AFC Jericho. Div 1: Angel
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Women at Work: Strategies for Survival and Success by Anne Dickson
(Kogan Page, 8.99) Dickson a pioneer of assertiveness training outlines the problems women encounter in the workplace, and offers practical role-play suggestions. She covers many things we know but tend to forget handling power without being oppressive
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Hardly a Scholar by Ken Shearwood (Tiger & Tyger, 15)
Eat your heart out Laura Spence schoolmaster Ken Shearwood's description of the 1947 interview which gained him a place at Brasenose College, Oxford, with scanty academic qualifications even for those days, is indeed from another era. Special allowances
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Obiter Scripta by Albi Rosenthal (Offox, 35)
Antiquarian bookseller Albi Rosenthal, as he remarks in more than one of the lectures and interviews collected in this volume, is best known to the general public as the father of ITV sports presenter Jim Rosenthal. However, in international music circles
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Wharton, war and a world of Indie cinema
Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth may seem an odd assignment for Terence Davies after forging his reputation with a couple of working-class melodramas set in his native Liverpool , writes David Parkinson. But the sense of place and time that made both
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Young offenders put on defensive
With youth crime rising all over the country, the Government decided to take radical measures to stop ten to 17-year-olds from re-offending - and they chose Oxford as the place to pilot the innovative scheme, writes Katherine MacAlister. If successful
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Outdoor winners
The outdoor life proved a winner for Oxford's YHA Adventure Shops, writes Sarah Parker. The shop, in St Clements, was chosen from two other finalists to claim the Outdoor Retailer Award 2000 for the South East. The Oxford store won because of exceptional
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Sainsbury shares rocket
Shares in supermarket chain J Sainsbury soared as the group hinted it could agree the sale of its Homebase DIY division within weeks and unveiled a progress report ahead of half-year results on November 22, writes David Duffy. Group chief executive Sir
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Students can shop all night
Superstore Borders is bringing all-night shopping to Oxford tonight, writes David Duffy. Borders Books Music Cafe, in Magdalen Street, is opening its doors from 8am today to 11pm tomorrow. General manager Nancy Doan said a variety of events was being
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University wins leisure teaching centre bid
Oxford Brookes University has won a bid to run the first centre of its kind for hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism tutors, writes Madeleine Pennell. Its School of Hotel and Restaurant Management now runs the first Learning and Teaching Support Network
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Travellers told to get off car park
A community waste service was cancelled this week after travellers moved on to a car park near a town centre. The popular service at Didcot, which South Oxfordshire District Council introduced instead of providing skips for householders to dump their
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Special teacher faces the axe
Down's Syndrome youngsters are set to lose a specialist teacher threatening their chances of staying in mainstream schools. A lack of cash means Oxford-based Sandy Alton Britain's first Down's Syndrome teacher adviser will be out of a job within months
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Crash 'due to poor lighting'
Poorly lit warning signs and road cones without any lights played a part in a road accident in which a former Oxford United footballer died, an inquest heard. Third division Blackpool FC player Martin Aldridge, 25 - who was halfway through a three-month
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Reveller died in railway stunt
A student's exam celebration turned to tragedy when he was electrocuted after crawling under a stationary train, an inquest was told. Yasha Mozaffari, 21, of Hayfield Road, north Oxford, received a violent shock and died from his injuries. His death prompted
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Rail weak spots found in county
Two stretches of railway track in Oxfordshire have "similar characteristics" to those suspected of causing the Hatfield disaster, it emerged today. Railtrack bosses named 81 spots on Britain's railways - including the fast track at Didcot East and at
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Former pupils help out at primary schools
Sixth formers who did voluntary work with children at their old primary schools have been awarded certificates. The work by youngsters from Lord Williams's School, Thame, included being "reading buddies" to children, helping with activities and running
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Dance marks great day for school
Four hundred people flocked to celebrate the Oxford Chinese School's 15th anniversary party at the Town Hall. Pupils performed a traditional Chinese Dragon Dance to entertain guests, who included the Lord Mayor Cllr Maureen Christian. More than 100 Chinese
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Women's rugby: Stokes is Oxon dazzler
Rachel Stokes scored a hat-trick of tries as Oxfordshire's women made a successful start to their first ever County Championship campaign with a comfortable 36-10 victory over Buckinghamshire at Chesham on Sunday. It looked like being anything but comfortable
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Speedway: Cheetahs aim to sign off in style
JT/Fox Oxford Cheetahs bring the curtain down on their 2000 Elite League campaign with yet another encounter against Poole Pirates at the Stadium tonight (7.30pm), writes John Gaisford. It will be the third meeting between the sides in a week following
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Rugby: Banbury put Jones saga behind them
Banbury coach Martin Hobley is trying to forget all about the club's high-profile signing Derwyn Jones, who has been sidelined by injury all season, writes Michael Knox. The 6ft 10in former Wales international was signed amid much acclaim before the start
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Football: Fixtures - Saturday, October 21
All Saturday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides ****NATIONWIDE LEAGUE Div 2: Rotherham v Oxford Utd. ****RYMAN LEAGUE Div 1: Oxford C v Aylesbury Utd, Thame Utd v Boreham Wood. Div 3: Tring Tn v Abingdon Tn. ****DR MARTENS LEAGUE Eastern Div: Langney
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Livingstone's Tribe - A Journey from Zanzibar to the Cape by Stephen Taylor
(Harper Collins, 7.99) Meshing together Africa's colonial history and the personalities of that time with his own memories of the turbulent 20th century and its characters, journalist Stephen Taylor travels from Lake Victoria to the Cape of Good Hope
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John Gielgud - An Actor and His Time 19042000 (Pan, 7.99)
In this updated edition of his best-selling autobiography, Gielgud tells the story of his life in the theatre, from the time of the great actor-managers like Tree and du Maurier and star actresses like Sarah Bernhardt and his own great-aunt Ellen Terry
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Internet plea to adopt children
Social workers have turned to the Internet to find families willing to adopt a brother and sister desperate to stay together. All the usual channels have failed. So now Mark, nine, and six-year-old Katy can be seen at www.adoption.org.uk along with 21
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Internet shopping: A few do's and don'ts
The Shopping on the Internet booklet offers the following advice: **Shop around for the best deals and prices. **Find out as much as possible about the company you are dealing with - it is worth looking for a website which has independent approval by
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Shopping in safety on the Internet
The theme if National Consumer Week this year is Shopping on the Internet. The Trading Standards Institute, organisers of the annual week, began a major drive to guide consumers through the web of Internet shopping after two surveys revealed problems
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Forums to bring change
New equality forums have been set up to benefit local communities in Oxford. An open day was held yesterday at the town hall for people to find out more about how they operate. The forums replace the former Race, Women's and Access sub-comm- ittees. Pamela
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Surgery gets the all clear
Patients were being seen as normal after a fire-damaged surgery was given the all-clear. Smoke damage caused by the fire, in the early hours of Monday, meant the North Bicester Surgery had to close for repairs and cleaning. An emergency phone line was
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Review: Sand Castles at the Abbey Centre, Abingdon - October 20 - 21
Abbey Brass set the pace with some rattling good seaside tunes as the audience waited for the Abingdon Drama Club's production of Bob Larbey's new play Sand Castles to get underway in the Abbey Centre last Saturday evening, writes Helen Peacocke. Sponsored
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Review: The Queen of Spades, Welsh National Opera, Oxford Apollo - October 20
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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Disney's Dinosaur and the hi-tech miracle of IMAX
Traditionally, a half-term movie round-up is a light-hearted affair focusing on the undemanding kidpix that can give parents a couple of hours relaxation during an otherwise hectic week. But, such is the nature of the films on offer this October that
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Quarrying career
Martin Crow was presented with a certificate to mark his long service with Hanson Quarry Products, writes David Duffy. Mr Crow, who lives in New Yatt, near Witney, heads environmental services for the construction material firm and has worked for Hanson
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Biotech in 53m Swiss deal
Loss-making British Biotech has joined forces with Swiss biotech company Serono in a deal which could mark an upturn in its fortunes, writes Maggie Hartford. The company, based in Cowley, is allowing Serono to share in the rights to potential treatments
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Cleaner wins 7,000 from bank
A former cleaner has won more than 7,000 in compensation from Barclays Bank after she was refused insurance benefits because she worked part-time. Sylvia Hayes, 57, worked for 15 hours a week at Windale First School at Blackbird Leys, Oxford, when she
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Lynne, 8, steps into limelight
Eight-year-old Lynne Evans has come top of the class in a national freestyle dance contest. She not only won her solo in the class for under ten-year-olds, but competed against five others who won their classes for other age groups to win a separate trophy
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Delight as big store reopens
Oxford's big Debenhams store will reopen next week after a 35m revamp, bringing traders a new wave of optimism. Workmen are now racing to complete much-delayed street improvements outside the store, ready for the re-opening at 10am on Thursday. The city
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Super Steve makes history
Sportsman Steve Cunningham has broken his own world record as the fastest blind person on water. Mr Cunningham, 37, from Chacombe, near Banbury, reached an average speed over a measured kilometre of 71.23mph on Lake Winder- mere. Last month he tried to
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'Slow down' call to drivers
Buses across the Thames Valley are carrying a hard-hitting message to motorists to slow down, for safety's sake. Three buses in Oxfordshire are among ten in the region displaying the message that three people are killed every week on the roads in Thames
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What's on in cinemas in and around Oxfordshire, October 20 -27
ABC Magdalen Street, Oxford (0870 333063) Dinosaur, PG, daily 12.45, 3.25, 6.05, 8.45pm. _______________________ ABC George Street, Oxford (0870 333064) What Lies Beneath, 15, daily 2.15, 5.10, 8.05pm. Billy Elliot, daily 3.10, 5.45, 8.25pm. Chicken Run
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Chase is on for United
Oxford United adviser Denis Smith has confirmed a step-up in the search for new players as fans wait with interest to see what role consultant Joe Kinnear takes up at the Manor Ground next week. "An offer has gone in for a player and I'm waiting for a
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Art galleries and exhibitions in and around Oxfordshire, October 20-27
Museum of Modern Art (01865 722733, infoline 01865 813830): Tues-Sun 11-6, Thurs 11- from Oct 22 to Jan 7, 2001, Matt Mullican More Details from an Imaginary Universe. Thursday viewpoint talks at 6.15pm: Oct 26, Rob Flint. In the cafe gallery: Isidro
