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Games firm fires up an alternative election
More than 10,000 online games players in the last week have voted with their game guns in a virtual battle, as an alternative to the election. Players are hunting down Hague and blowing away Blair during an online quest to reach Number10, using a new
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Preview: Piano duet at the Sheldonian, Oxford (May 26)
Jack Gibbons, the gifted Oxfordshire pianist who narrowly cheated death after a head-on car crash in March, returns to the concert stage on Saturday alongside pianist Tom Poster and the City of Oxford Orchestra at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford.
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Preview: 1984 at Corn Exchange, Newbury, June 5-9
To celebrate a new production of George Orwell's 1984 by Northern Stage Ensemble, at the Corn Exchange, Newbury, from Tuesday June 5-9, the theatre is giving away free tickets to anyone whose birthday takes place during the show's run and was born during
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Dance review: Stars of the Bolshoi at the Apollo, Oxford - May 21
What we got on Monday evening at the Oxford Apollo was a taster menu of excerpts from eight different works. There was a period during the Iron Curtain years when the Kirov or the Bolshoi would come to the UK for a rare season and serve up programmes
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Review: A Slight Hangover, at The Mill at Sonning until June 23
Ian Ogilvy might have been 'The Saint' in the television series featuring the detective Simon Templar, but the language in the first play he has written and directed was anything but saintly, writes David Hall. In fact, the first blusteringly abusive
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Review: The Lady Vanishes at the Everyman, Cheltenham - Saturday May 26
Ethel Lina White is not a highly-rated writer today, but she has her place in film history. After two straight novels in the 1930s, she tried her hand at a thriller and wrote The Wheel Spins, published in 1936, writes David Bellan. The film-rights were
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Lib Dem calls for tactical voting
May 25 report: The Liberal Democrat candidate for Witney, Gareth Epps, is urging Labour voters to vote for him at the General Election to defeat the Conservatives. Mr Epps, pictured left, said: "People in our area are saying to me it's clearly the Liberal
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Students can gain Euro MSc
A EUROPEAN management college with a branch in Oxford can now award a British master's degree, validated by City University, London. ESCP-EAP European Management College students will now be awarded a European MSc in Management. Masters students spend
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Police hunt for lorry hijackers
Police were today continuing their hunt for thieves who kidnapped a lorry driver, forced him into a car boot and stole his vehicle and valuable cargo. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Oxford Mail, the driver was ambushed on the A34 south of
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Cycling: Hart in 25-mile national
Oxonian's Chris Hart took part the CTC National 25-Mile Championship on a course near Aldermaston and recorded a time of 1hr 7.41mins. Competing the following day in Didcot Phoenix CC's 25-mile event on the Milton-to-Botley course, Hart improved slightly
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Preview: Medieval merrymaking in Abingdon (May 28-June2)
Dana Gillespie, Denny Illet, the Oxford Waits, e2K, and Mrs Ackroyd Band are taking part in a revival of a15th-century period of merrymaking, at Kingfisher Barn, Culham Road, Abingdon, opening on Monday.
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Preview: Blood Wedding at Pegasus, Oxford (May 28 - June 3)
The Oxford School of Drama is staging two plays by Federico Garcia Lorca at Oxford's Pegasus Theatre next week. First is Blood Wedding (Mon-Wed), a story of revenge and peasant life. Yerma (Thurs to Sat) is part of a trilogy of Spanish tragedies and tells
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Preview: The Miser at the Playhouse, Oxford from May 30
Moliere's classic comedy The Miser is being given a fast-moving new production by Avare Productions in association with OUDS at the Playhouse from Wednesday. Ranjit Bolt's adaptation is said to contain all the satirical edge of this timeless French farce
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Preview:West Side Story, at the Apollo, Oxford May 29 - June 9
West Side Story comes to the Apollo from Tuesday until June 9, following a sell-out season at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. Celia Graham plays Maria and Norman Bowman is the ill-fated Tony, in a modern day re-telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and
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Labour stalwart goes it alone
May 25 report: An independent politician has unveiled his manifesto to get more money spent in Old Marston and Risinghurst in Oxford. Ken Tiwari, who has represented Labour on the city council for ten years, is standing as an independent county council
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Science under the political microscope
May 25 report: More than 150 scientists and engineers turned up at a Save British Science meeting to hear how the different political parties would tackle science issues. At the Oxford meeting, science minister Lord Sainsbury clashed with Dr Evan Harris
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Retain hunting, says candidate
May 25 report: Wantage Conservative parliamentary candidate Robert Jackson has said that abolishing foxhunting will destroy a rural way of life. Mr Jackson, pictured with huntsman Michael Scott at the kennels of the old Berkshire hunt near Faringdon,
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Name key issues, says Chamber
COMPANIES in Oxfordshire are being asked to identify the key issues facing their business, as part of a new lobbying initiative by the county's Chamber of Commerce. The Oxfordshire Chamber of Commerce & Industry is preparing a business manifesto to
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Prodrive gears up for a market float
By Maggie Hartford Business Editor MOTORSPORT group Prodrive has bought automotive engineering company Tickford, creating one of world's largest independent vehicle technology businesses. The new company, based in Banbury and with bases in the UK, USA
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Ready, steady, grow!
Green-fingered enthusiasts and novice gardeners across Oxford are being encouraged to take part in Oxford in Bloom 2001, which is officially launched today. Gardening tips and advice on how to plant the perfect hanging basket will be available at the
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Clinton returns to his beloved Oxford
Surrounded by an ever-vigilant posse of armed secret service agents, William Jefferson Clinton returned to his beloved Oxford yesterday. More than 30 years ago, the man who would be president enjoyed an anonymous life during his two years as a Rhodes
