Archive
-
Date
Parents risk jail over truant schoolchildren
Parents are being warned they could face jail by letting their children play truant. Education officials say the case of the Banbury mother imprisoned for 60 days for allowing her two teenage daughters to stay away from school, should send a powerful
-
Date
Goalposts put on railway line
Vandals put a set of football goalposts on a railway line in Oxford, bringing a London-bound express train grinding to a halt just 24 hours after the Potters Bar tragedy, it was revealed today. The 1.45pm Thames Trains service between Banbury and Paddington
-
Date
Mast work sparks anger
Residents in north Oxford were horrified to discover that a mobile phone base station was being erected on top of a roof overlooking their homes. Notices posted around Oakthorpe Road, off Banbury Road in Summertown, warned people that the road would be
-
Date
End to cheap classes as computer college closes
A computer college for adult learners in Oxford is to close, with the loss of 10 jobs. The Oxford Learning Centre, above the Clarendon Centre, in Cornmarket Street, will shut at the end of June. Run by Swindon College and funded by the Swindon and Wiltshire
-
Date
Parents risk jail over truant schoolchildren
Parents are being warned they could face jail by letting their children play truant. Education officials say the case of the Banbury mother imprisoned for 60 days for allowing her two teenage daughters to stay away from school, should send a powerful
-
Date
Euro-MP pledges to help farmers
Euro-MP James Elles has pledged to step in over French threats to halt the importation of British lamb. He promised local members of the National Farmers' Union meeting in Thame that he would write to the European Union demanding action over a new proposal
-
Date
Asylum centre will be built despite protest
A new centre housing hundreds of asylum seekers will be built near Bicester, the Government said today. Home Secretary David Blunkett was due to make the announcement this afternoon. The move comes despite massive local opposition led by Tory MP Tony
-
Date
Rugby: Kent too quick for outclassed Oxon
Kent 78, Oxfordshire 24 Oxfordshire, fielding a young and largely inexperienced team - no fewer than 16 of the squad of 22 were representing the county for the first time - proved no match for Kent in the Tetleys Bitter County Championship match at Westcombe
-
Date
Murder bid: suspect held
A man charged with the attempted murder of a 64-year-old woman in Matthews Way, Wootton, near Abingdon, has been ordered to be detained at Littlemore Hospital, Oxford. The case of David Newport, 48, of no fixed address, went before a judge at Oxford Crown
-
Date
School takes prize for community links
Banbury School has won a Heart of the Community award for the fourth time. Banbury is the only school in Oxfordshire and one of just 250 in the UK to get the coveted Schools Curriculum Award -- which lasts for three years -- for the quality of its relationships
-
Date
Parents risk jail over truant schoolchildren
Parents are being warned they could face jail by letting their children play truant. Education officials say the case of the Banbury mother imprisoned for 60 days for allowing her two teenage daughters to stay away from school, should send a powerful
-
Date
Mayor hands out cheques to charities at farewell
Thirty-four charities are better off after Banbury mayor Jim Vine shared out his charity fund. Cheques of varying amounts were given to representatives of charities at a ceremony in the town hall on Friday. The mayor's fund totalled £6,400, raised at
-
Date
Dotcom declares profit success
Ingenta was today celebrating its first profits after becoming the leading publisher of UK academic research on the Internet. The company, which employs several hundred people in Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, manages and distributes published scientific
-
Date
Funding will help develop job skills
Hundreds of people looking to get back into education and training will benefit from an injection of funding into four centres. They will share £817,000 -- composed of £584,000 from the Learning and Skills Council and £233,000 from Oxfordshire County
-
Date
Recruitment begins for £235m science lab
Recruitment has started in Oxfordshire for Britain's biggest scientific project for more than 30 years. The £235m Diamond project, due to open at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, near Didcot, in 2006, will employ at least 200 people. Programme
-
Date
Euro-MP pledges to help farmers
Euro-MP James Elles has pledged to step in over French threats to halt the importation of British lamb. He promised local members of the National Farmers' Union meeting in Thame that he would write to the European Union demanding action over a new proposal
-
Date
Children's play scheme boosted by £5k cheque
A scheme to revamp an Oxford park can go ahead after a donation of £5,000. The money, donated by the Oxford branch of Bradford and Bingley, brings the total raised to £50,000, which will fund a children's play area at Manzil Gardens, off Cowley Road.
-
Date
John Radcliffe heart treatment trials could save NHS millions
Doctors at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital are taking part in heart trials that could save the National Health Service £20m a year. Cardiologist Dr Adrian Banning is leading the study, which is working with 43 patients suffering from heart disease to
-
Date
Disabled man 'beaten by friend'
A disabled man was called a "no-good cripple" by a friend who knocked him to the ground, attacked him and hit him with a bill hook, a court heard. Oxford Crown Court heard yesterday that Kevin Norton needed hospital treatment for wounds to his head and
-
Date
John Radcliffe heart treatment trials could save NHS millions
Doctors at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital are taking part in heart trials that could save the National Health Service £20m a year. Cardiologist Dr Adrian Banning is leading the study, which is working with 43 patients suffering from heart disease to
-
Date
Football: Joey facing crunch week
Joey Beauchamp sees a specialist tomorrow about his troublesome foot - and must then make up his mind about his future. The 31-year-old midfielder is believed to have been one of the players United manager Ian Atkins interviewed a week ago about a perceived
-
Date
Motor sport: Berger joins debate over Ferrari farce
Former Ferrari ace Gerhard Berger has led the criticism following Michael Schumacher's victory in the race of shame in Austria. The four-time champion's triumph, after teammate Rubens Barrichello obeyed team orders and moved over at the last corner on
-
Date
Racing: Sir George Turner to land Dante
Mark Johnston, who has already picked up three of this season's major Vodafone Derby trials, can add to that record with Sir George Turner in the Convergent Dante Stakes (2.55) at York tomorrow. The Middleham-based trainer has produced the winner of the
-
Date
Cricket: Super Shipton hammer Challow
Division 1 Shipton-under-Wychwood, last year's runners-up, made their intentions clear as they bid to go one better with an emphatic eight-wicket win over visitors Challow & Childrey, writes Peter Fenn. Having been put into bat, Challow made a good
-
Date
Hyprotech deal closed
Former nuclear business AEA Technology has sold its engineering software arm for £67.5m. US company Aspen Technology has bought the Hyprotech business, which has been up for sale since last June. It sells simulation software to petroleum refineries. The
-
Date
Euro-MP pledges to help farmers
Euro-MP James Elles has pledged to step in over French threats to halt the importation of British lamb. He promised local members of the National Farmers' Union meeting in Thame that he would write to the European Union demanding action over a new proposal
-
Date
School takes prize for community links
Banbury School has won a Heart of the Community award for the fourth time. Banbury is the only school in Oxfordshire and one of just 250 in the UK to get the coveted Schools Curriculum Award -- which lasts for three years -- for the quality of its relationships
-
Date
Rail link improvement project runs on time
THE key stage of a major modernisation project on an Oxfordshire railway line has been completed on schedule. Chiltern Railways and Railtrack have reinstated double track between Bicester North station and Aynho junction, near Banbury. The second track
-
Date
End to cheap classes as computer college closes
A computer college for adult learners in Oxford is to close, with the loss of 10 jobs. The Oxford Learning Centre, above the Clarendon Centre, in Cornmarket Street, will shut at the end of June. Run by Swindon College and funded by the Swindon and Wiltshire
-
Date
Mayor hands out cheques to charities at farewell
Thirty-four charities are better off after Banbury mayor Jim Vine shared out his charity fund. Cheques of varying amounts were given to representatives of charities at a ceremony in the town hall on Friday. The mayor's fund totalled £6,400, raised at
-
Date
Anger at restaurant's 'ugly and overbearing' display
Residents living near Oxford's Folly Bridge are seeing red over an Italian restaurant's publicity campaign. The Aqua Vitae restaurant, which is based in a building next to the bridge, has put up a number of large signs. One is red, and positioned a few
-
Date
End to cheap classes as computer college closes
A computer college for adult learners in Oxford is to close, with the loss of 10 jobs. The Oxford Learning Centre, above the Clarendon Centre, in Cornmarket Street, will shut at the end of June. Run by Swindon College and funded by the Swindon and Wiltshire
-
Date
Council board decisions to be open to public
Oxford City Council's new executive board is promising to make its decisions open to the public, unless there is a compelling reason not to. Labour regained control of the council on May 2, and the new leader, Alex Hollingsworth, is promising today that
-
Date
Children's play scheme boosted by £5k cheque
A scheme to revamp an Oxford park can go ahead after a donation of £5,000. The money, donated by the Oxford branch of Bradford and Bingley, brings the total raised to £50,000, which will fund a children's play area at Manzil Gardens, off Cowley Road.
-
Date
Council board decisions to be open to public
Oxford City Council's new executive board is promising to make its decisions open to the public, unless there is a compelling reason not to. Labour regained control of the council on May 2, and the new leader, Alex Hollingsworth, is promising today that
-
Date
Football: Becks says 'I've got nothing to prove'
England captain David Beckham defiantly tackled his critics head on today and insisted: "I've got nothing to prove in the World Cup." The Manchester United midfielder, who yesterday pledged he would be back from his foot injury for the June 2 opening-game
-
Date
Recruitment begins for £235m science lab
Recruitment has started in Oxfordshire for Britain's biggest scientific project for more than 30 years. The £235m Diamond project, due to open at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, near Didcot, in 2006, will employ at least 200 people. Programme
