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What's on in and around Oxfordshire, November 24 - December 1
Friday, November 24: Restore, plants, crafts and card shop: Manzil Way, off Cowley Road, Oxford, open weekdays from 9am-4pm. Bridge session: Experienced Acol players only please, Ferry Centre, Summertown, 2pm. Christmas bazaar and craft fair: Eynsham
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Rapist gets eight years
Teenage rapist Jatindar Pal was starting an eight-year jail term today after being trapped by DNA tests. The attack on the 18-year-old girl in Oxford was so horrific that she thought she was going to die. Convicted: Jatinder Pal Pal, 17, of Freelands
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Project is literally an excellent idea
An Oxford-based literacy project is celebrating its fifth anniversary and teaching its 1,000th pupil. Reading Quest started with six pupils at one school and now has six specially-trained tutors working in 22 schools throughout the city. Tutors work on
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Plays and musicals in and around Oxfordshire, November 24 - December 1
Apollo (0870 6063500): English National Ballet today and Sat 7.30pm, Sat mat 2.30, Swan Lake. Glyndebourne Touring Opera in Nov 28 and Dec 1 at 7.15pm, Don Giovanni and Nov 29 and Dec 2 at 7.15pm, La Boheme; also Nov 30 at 7.15pm, The Last Supper. ___
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Angling: Giles stars with chub and perch
Barry Giles won the third round of Kidlington Angling Society's Green Road Social Club Winter League on the Oxford Canal at Kidlington. He bagged 10lb 8oz of chub and perch on pole-caster to finish more than two pounds clear at the top. Andy Benwell (
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Football: Hughes banking on takeover bid
Witney Town manager Brian Hughes is looking to the club's proposed takeover to inject new life into the Eastern Division outfit, writes RUSSELL SMITH. Shareholders are set to meet at Marriotts Stadium on Tuesday to vote on the offer for the football club
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Football: City's Trophy replay washed out
Oxford City's FA Umbro Trophy first round replay against Folkestone Invicta was postponed last night with the Court Place Farm pitch waterlogged. The game is now due to take place on Monday (7.45). It's the latest twist in a tie which has become something
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Badminton: Power lose points after office slip-up
National Power have paid the price for an administrative error by having their Oxford and District matches in November declared null and void. Power's Mixed Division 2b side and Men's Division 6 team won their respective matches against Oxford Brookes
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Football: Angry Quarry threaten to snub 'cry-off' fine
Quarry Nomads are up in arms after being fined 100 by the league for crying off on the morning of a game. Nomads found they were unable to raise a side for the Division 1 East fixture at Henley Town on Saturday October 7, the day of England's international
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Concerts and Recitals in and around Oxford, November 24 - December 1
Friday, November 24: Christ Church Cathedral: Christ Church Festival Orchestra. Vaughan Williams, Overture The Wasps; Finzi, Clarinet Concerto; Vivaldi, Spring and Summer from the Four Seasons; Beethoven, Violin Concerto Romance No 2 in F; Monti, Czardas
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Football: Fixtures - Sunday, November 26
All Sunday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides **MORRELLS OXFORD SUNDAY LEAGUE Premier Div: Masons Arms v Star Royal, Wheatley 84 v Highfield, Six Bells Kidlington v Oxford Supps. Div 1: Angel Witney v AR Blues, Cowley SC v Oxford Exiles, AFC Viking
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The Darwin Awards Edited by Wendy Northcutt (Orion, 5.99)
The Darwin Awards, or 150 Bizarre True Stories of how Dumb Humans have met their Maker is named after the father of evolutionary theory. The book started as a Web site to commemorate those people who have improved our gene pool by killing themselves in
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Ingenious Pursuits - Building the Scientific Revolution by Lisa Jardine
Changes in intellectual outlook during the 16th and 17th centuries formed the basis for the so-called 'scientific revolution' which brought together the humanities and natural sciences in an unprecedented ferment of conceptual and practical creativity
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Novel move for Alan
Top TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, left, stopped off in Oxford yesterday to publicise his new novel. Alan Titchmarsh in Oxford this week The green-fingered host of BBC TV's Ground Force joined more than 100 shoppers for coffee and croissants at Waterstone's
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The Bewitching of Anne Gunter by James Sharpe (Profile, 8.99)
Sharpe tells the story of Anne Gunte, a 17th-century villager in North Moreton, near Didcot, who her parents claimed had been bewitched. She had fits during which she writhed and contorted; she fell into trances; she vomited and voided foreign bodies,
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Cheap flights in online auction
An online auction Web site is selling cheap flights to European destinations. FSauctions, the second most visited auction site in the U.K., has teamed up with British Midland to offer flights to major European cities from as little as 1. Users can bid
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Preview: Pantomime at the Playhouse, November 1 - January 14
Next Friday the curtain goes up on the Oxford Playhouse pantomime, Aladdin. A real family show is promised by writer Paul Knight and director Michelle Hardy, who have created our pantos for many years. Regular dame Christopher Scott returns too as Widow
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Preview: Mottram's Organillo at the Pegasus, November 30 - December 2
Following a sell-out premiere at the Pegasus Theatre in the spring, Stephen Mottram's Animata returns with Organillo, for three nights from Thursday. This show is the culmination of an 18-month collaboration between Stephen Mottram, and electro-acoustic
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The Road to Mecca, The Old Fire Station, Oxford November 24 -25
The Old Fire Station's student season continues with a powerful South African drama,The Road to Mecca , recounting the moving tale of Helen Martins (played by Laura Murray) who fought for the recognition of her artistic identity within a puritanical and
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Entrants can take a hike
Stormy weather is expected as hundreds of people get set to don their walking boots for an annual hiking competition. The 35th Tour de Trigs walking contest starts on December 2, and when entries closed on November 21, a total of 115 three-man teams had
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Nov 24: Waiting game is finally over
There's a new browser on the block, vying for the attention of surfers everywhere. For experimentation purposes, I've been using Netscape6 (www.netscape.com) for the previous seven days and, boy, it's been more than a bit of a tough ride. Actually, without
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Builders scale the heights
Symm and Company, of Osney Mead, Oxford, the specialist building contractors, scaled the highest spire in Oxford during this year's annual maintenance contract. Symm worked with steeplejack and lightning conductor sub-contractors Best to carry out the
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Parts maker wins award
Car parts factory Unipart Yutaka Systems, of Cowley, Oxford, has been voted one of the world's safest companies. The joint venture firm, which will be owned by Japanese car maker Honda and Yutaka Systems from next January, will be presented with a Sword
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Course aims to plug skills gap
A new course to help fill the gap in Oxfordshire's booming biotech industry has been launched at the Oxford College of Further Education. The college has received funding from the European Social Fund and expects the HNC course to grow over the next two
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Flood scheme a step nearer
Kidlington's flood defence scheme has at last been put out to tender. But the £250,000 scheme could still be in jeopardy because the Environment Agency is unable to reach agreement with one resident. The agency has signed deals with about 20 families,
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Planners say no to Thame United plan
Cash-strapped Thame United football club, which faces bankruptcy unless it can do a 5m deal, was shown the red card by local councillors. Thame Town Council planners said 'no' to the club's application to sell its five-acre Windmill Road ground for housing
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Fury over car fees
Rising parking charges in Oxford city centre will hit the Christmas shopping trade, say furious business leaders, writes Andrew Ffrench. The Oxfordshire Chamber of Commerce strongly criticised a decision by Oxford City Council to increase charges at the
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City centre street revamp approved
A £1.5m scheme to improve a main shopping street in Oxfordhas been given the go-ahead. Oxford's city councillors have now recommended that £1.1m should be made available to allow changes to Cornmarket Street to take place, in a partnership deal with the
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What's on in cinemas in and around Oxfordshire, November 24 - December 1
ABC Magdalen Street, Oxford (0870 3339063) Charlie's Angels, 15, daily 1.15, 3.45, 6.10, 8.40pm. _____________________ ABC George Street, Oxford (0870 3339064)What Lies Beneath, 15, daily 2 (not Sat and Sun), 5, 8.05pm. The Little Vampire, U, Sat and
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United boss keeps tabs on Robinson
Oxford United are keeping track on Birmingham City midfielder Steve Robinson as they look to strengthen their squad further in a push to climb away from the foot of the second division, writes Jon Murray. I understand that United's director of football
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Initiative adds up
Parents joined children at a numeracy evening aimed at showing maths can be fun. To try to convince any doubters, Julie Jeffery maths co-ordinator at Chilton Primary School, near Didcot, and colleagues even laid on "mathematical refreshments (cakes and
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Rugby: Fixtures - Saturday, November 25:
All Saturday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides **ENGLISH NATIONAL LEAGUE Div 1: Henley v Orrell. **ENGLISH CLUBS CHAMPIONSHIP Midlands Div 1: Scunthorpe v Banbury. South West Div 2 East: Chinnor v Slough, Witney v Amersham & Chiltern. Southern
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Burns' title bid in balance
Richard Burns's bid to clinch the World Championship at the Network Q Rally of Great Britain looked to be in trouble on the very first stage in the Welsh forests today. The 29-year-old from Kidlington was reported to have emerged from the 8.5-mile St
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Football: Prison officer Pete on stand-by
Prison officer Pete Bryan is ready to come to the rescue again for AFC Wallingford if required as they take on Raynes Park Vale in the Premier Division at the Hithercroft. Bryan is unable to make the start because of work commitments, but is expected
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Football: Fixtures - Saturday, November 24
All Saturday fixtures involving Oxfordshire sides **NATIONWIDE LEAGUE Div 2: Oxford Utd v Notts County **RYMAN LEAGUE Div 1: Braintree Tn v Oxford City, Thame Utd v Bromley. Div 3: Abingdon Tn v Ware. **DR MARTENS LEAGUE Eastern Div: Histon v Banbury
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Screen Savers by Quintin Jardine (Hodder, 5.99)
Life is sweet again for Oz Blackstone, private inquiry agent turned money magnet. Lottery winner, television performer and reunited out of tragedy with his partner Primavera Philips, he has just been offered a part in a movie and it seems like an offer
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Two men in court for PO raid
Two men were appearing in court today (Fri)in connection with an armed robbery at Benson post office earlier this month, where the postmistress and her son were assaulted. John William Lamb, 27, and Joseph Edward Lamb, 26, both of Waddesdon, near Aylesbury
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Duke joins party people
The Duke of York will be in Kidlington tonight (Friday) as the guest of Sir Richard Branson at a fund-raising dinner for the NSPCC the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Prince Andrew, who is chairman of The Full Stop Campaign
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Fire destroys motorbike shop
Firefighters were today still at the scene of an explosion and fierce blaze which destroyed a motorcycle showroom and workshop at Didcot. The blaze takes hold Homes and businesses in lower Broadway were evacuated as 40 firefighters from across the county
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Preview: Opera at the Apollo, November 28 - December 1
Glyndebourne Touring Opera are staging three works when they come to the Apollo Theatre next week, beginning with Mozart's Don Giovanni (Tuesday and Friday). Puccini's La Bohme (Wednesday and Saturday) is followed by Harrison Birtwistle's The Last Supper
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Jools Holland at the Apollo - Sunday, November 26
Pianist Jools Holland, who performs a boogie woogie number with as much ease as a blues number, is coming to the Apollo Theatre on Sunday. This popular entertainer has just released a new album Hop The Wag, with eight of his own compositions and six interpretations
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Review: Miguel Arteta's Chuck & Buck at the Phoenix, Oxford this week.
Having made his debut with a film (Star Maps) about a father who sells his own son into prostitution, it's readily apparent that director Miguel Arteta does not view life through the rose-tinted spectacles worn by even the most sincere Tinseltown realists
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Waiting game is finally over
There's a new browser on the block, vying for the attention of surfers everywhere. For experimentation purposes, I've been using Netscape6 (www.netscape.com) for the previous seven days and, boy, it's been more than a bit of a tough ride. Actually, without
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Fun for funds
A run in the park and some strutting on the catwalk is bringing in hundreds of pounds. Pupils at Woodstock's Marlborough School went from trainers and shorts to the latest in youth fashion wear this week to rake in the cash. The double event was part
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Guild has crafty gifts for holiday
If Oxfordshire has a wealth of professional craftsmen then it has a dearth of exhibiting space, writes Katherine MacAlister. The majority of artists are scattered throughout the county, working away in their studios and relying on passing trade, their
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Where's that life of leisure?
What happened to the vision of technology helping us with our chores? Isn't it funny to see those old television clips from Tomorrow's World back in the early 1960s? According to the presenters of the day, by now we should all be living a life of leisure
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Anna's a virtual newsreader
Who needs real people to read out the Web news bulletins? asks David McManus. Reading stuff on the Web is all very well and good, but when you want the latest news in a hurry, scanning lines of text can be a bit of a chore. What we want from the Net is
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Fundraising with The Italian Job - November 24 and 25
A music shop in Wallingford is gearing up for a weekend of fundraising using themes from the cult 1960s film The Italian Job. The film soundtrack has just been released on CD by Universal Music, and staff at The Music Box, in Market Place, Wallingford
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Village revives ancient era
Villagers will be seeing their fellow men and women as they have never seen them before, writes Nigel Hanson. Twelve volunteers, including a publican, carpenter and landscape gardener, are the stars of a photographic exhibition at Brightwell-cum-Sotwell
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Hi-tech takeover boosts sales
Computer company Information System Networks has bought up a software sales firm which could add £750,000 to its annual turnover. The company, based at Abingdon Science Park, has bought up Runcorn-based Simply Business Systems, which sells accountancy
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German boost for painless jab firm
A German pharmaceutical boss has joined the board of painless injection company Powderject, based at Oxford Science Park, writes Maggie Hartford. Gerald Mller, former chief executive of Boehringer Mannheim, has 25 years' experience in the pharmaceutical
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High-pressure race to road safety
Fiddling with a valve and pressure gauge on a cold winter morning to check tyre pressures is dirty, time-consuming and no-one's idea of fun. Small wonder, then, that it is a job we put off, saving it for that long trip or special occasion. Everyone knows
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Name of MG set to return in 2001
MG Rover has released the first official photograph of a vehicle codenamed MG X10, one of three new MG sports saloon cars that will be launched in 2001. The three MG sports saloons will be in production during 2001 and result in Longbridge manufacturing
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Closure rumours rejected
Residents have been promised that their police station is to stay open. The assurance comes amid rumours in the town that the Burford Road station in Carterton may have its opening hours cut, or even be shut down completely because of a shortage of officers
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Police crack down on zig-zag line motorists
Taxi and delivery van drivers flouting traffic restrictions are being warned that they risk a fine from now on. Officers in east Oxford are set to clamp down on taxi and private hire drivers, as well as delivery drivers, who are parking illegally on yellow
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Anger at rail deals
Passengers' groups have reacted with disappointment to the compensation packages offered to Oxfordshire's commuters following the rail crisis. Although the county was not one of the worst-hit areas, emergency timetables, speed restrictions, delays and
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Outrage as trees are cut down
Villagers are furious about a council "chainsaw massacre" they say destroyed a row of mature trees without consultation. After the October storms, residents in Windrush Road, Berinsfield, told Oxfordshire County Council that two rowan trees had blown
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A painting fit for the Queen Mum
A painter from Oxford will return to Britain from China to present the Queen Mother with a watercolour commemorating her 100th birthday celebrations. David Paskett, 56, of Bickerton Road, Headington, will meet the Queen Mother for the first time when
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Art galleries and musuem exhibitions November 24 - December 1
Museum of Modern Art (01865 722733, infoline 01865 813830): Tues-Sun 11-6, Thurs 11- 9, until Jan 7, 2001, Matt Mullican. Thursday viewpoint talks at 6.15pm: Nov 30, Cathy Gale. ________________________ Ashmolean Museum (01865 278015): Tues-Sat, 10-5,
