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Worker illegally dumped waste in Childrey
A WASTE worker has been fined for dumping rubbish in a lane. Victoria Pengelley-Loraine, 36, dumped five large builders’s bags of construction waste, double glazed window units and door frames, mattresses and cardboard boxes on the Ridgeway, at Hackpen
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Big wheel plans for city fall over
PLANS for a big wheel to be set up in an Oxford city centre car park have been dropped, it emerged yesterday. Great City Attractions submitted a planning application to the city council to set up the attraction in Worcester Street car park,
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Get it down your neck
You know those days when you’re hungry but can’t decide what to eat? Well, Giraffe is the restaurant equivalent of marmite on toast, macaroni cheese or a bowl of cereal – it caters for all appetites at all times. So next time you’re traipsing
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Bicester woman Rosemary’s inner piece with puzzle
A GRANDMOTHER is celebrating after spending up to 12 hours a day for five months completing the world’s largest jigsaw. Retired Rosemary Mulvany, of Redwing Close, Bicester, used 24,000 pieces to construct the 14ft by 5ft puzzle, which now stands proudly
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Dog days
MARY Meagher arrived in Oxford in 1979 and it wasn’t long before she had launched a successful campaign to build an ice rink in the city. A frequent flyer, she is a part-time instructor for glider pilots at Shenington Glider Club near Banbury, and has
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Into the Valley
Summer’s gone and you still can’t afford a mortgage, a joint of meat and, even if you could, you still might catch swine flu. So boy oh boy, a trip away to France is something of a lifesaver. At least it was for me, and even though I
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Flying Solo
Raw talent will only get you so far. More often than not, it’s the people you know and being in the right place at the right time. The Soloist is an inspirational true story about a musical prodigy crippled by schizophrenia, who unexpectedly gets a second
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Fame: remember its name
Thirty years ago, the world was a very different place. There was no reality TV, no Big Brother, and no Simon Cowell eager to sign up the next big thing. When the original Fame was released in 1980, the new intake of students at the
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Fake That and Party
Philip Olivier passed the auditions for Never Forget with flying colours. He had a body to die for, and a face and name that everyone knew. The rest he could pick up on the way...or could he? “It was the dancing that got me,” he explains. “The routines
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Win tickets for the Mikado!
Strictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood and Tony Award-winning orchestrator Sarah Travis’s electrifying new show Hot Mikado will have your toes tapping and fingers clicking, and is enjoying nightly standing ovations. Based on The
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Mince meet
SO, HOW did popular camp comedian Julian Clary mark his half-century earlier this year? “I threw a big garden party in May, and we had a fab time,” he beams. “I’m loving being 50. I’m a much happier person now. I get more content with every decade.”
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OX4: The Truck stops here...
THE REST of the country may have realised that the festival season is over, but they seem to have forgotten to tell those fun-loving folks at Truck. The guys who brought you the Truck and Wood festivals this summer, are set to launch their latest grin-worthy
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Getting fresh
As an alumnus of Brookes, I remember my own Fresher’s Week with fondness. I went to precisely the same venue on the same night an alarming five years ago. On returning to the Student Union, my first impressions of the enormous SU venue
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Taking care of business
MUMFORD & Sons like to imagine themselves as a family firm. “We are like a fishmonger’s,” says singer and keys man Ben Lovett. “You know, when you go in one of those places there’s always a good vibe. I always associate it with pleasurable
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Zero tolerance
AFTER almost a decade of serving up deliciously laidback down tempo grooves, Zero 7 have decided it’s time to move on. Don’t worry, the kings of ambient chillout haven’t released a metal of heavy metal, but they have turned up the tempo.
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Pick of pubs win slot in top guide
TWENTY-four Oxfordshire pubs have been given a boost after being named as new entries in the 2010 Good Beer Guide. The national guide – the real ale enthusiast’s bible – lists 4,500 of the best places to have a pint across the country. Seventy pubs
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Cooks urged to use leftovers
HOME cooks are being urged to beat the recession and create delicious dishes — by using more kitchen leftovers. Oxfordshire Waste Partnership, which represents Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford City Council and the county’s four district councils, is
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Everything you could need at Oxford Mail wedding fair
AN EVENT to turn brides-to-be into wedding belles is being held this weekend. The Oxford Mail Wedding Fair will offer a feast of information on all aspects of a couple’s big day. The event is being held at the Spread Eagle Hotel, in Cornmarket, Thame
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FOOTBALL: Witney set for biggest test
Witney United boss Andy Lyne wants his FTL Futbol Hellenic League underdogs to enjoy the big stage when they entertain Blue Square South side Eastleigh in the second qualifying round on Saturday. In their biggest game since the club formed
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Arsonists put Witney special school buses off the road
A SCHOOL for children with severe learning difficulties is struggling to cope after vandals set fire to two of its minibuses. Springfield School in Witney has been forced to cancel trips for its pupils after the arson attack last Friday wrecked both
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Inspectors rate Chilton School 'outstanding'
OFSTED inspectors have rated Chilton Primary School outstanding for the first time. Inspectors visited the 220-pupil school in July, and have now reported back that standards and teaching are consistently high. One pupil was quoted as
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Garden is a haven away from the city
A QUIET garden in East Oxford is providing prize-winning therapy for people with mental health problems. The Beehive garden, in Manzil Way, has picked up the Oxford in Bloom Community Garden Therapy Award for the second year running. More than 250 gardeners
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New pool makes a big splash
SCHOOLCHILDREN are making the most of their revamped swimming pool and changing rooms after being awarded a special prize in our School Build Save Our Schools competition. The contest offering one lucky school a £7,500 building project, in conjunction
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FOOTBALL: Quartet miss out
North Leigh will be without five key players as they aim to get back to winning ways against Bedfont Green in Zamaretto Southern League Division 1 South & West on Saturday. Simon Futcher (ankle), Ben Reardon (groin), Jamie Jackson (hamstring), Joe Burnell
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Traders fears over East Oxford parking plans
TRADERS fear a new parking scheme planned for East Oxford will hit business and cause tension among householders. Oxfordshire County Council plans to turn Magdalen Road and Divinity Road into controlled parking zones, which businesses claim will leave
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FOOTBALL: Bolton set for Kidlington return
Kidlington are set to include new signing Lee Bolton when they host Division 1 East outfit Thame United in the preliminary round of the Bluefin Sports Insurance Cup at Yarnton Road on Saturday. Bolton left Kidlington to join FTL Futbol Hellenic
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The greatest away run in Oxford's history
United's amazing run of 15 away games without defeat, which ended at Mansfield on Tuesday, was another club record. The U’s had already set one mark last weekend with six successive clean sheets, and extended the number of minutes without conceding to
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Gateshead boss is unhappy
Gateshead manager Ian Bogie says his team’s start to the season has been “unsatisfactory”. The Heed, as they are known, are fourth from bottom, having tasted defeat in seven of their 11 league games. Ex-Newcastle midfielderBogie believes that he has
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Woodley could get chance
Young striker Aaron Woodley could feature on the bench for the first time, as Alfie Potter is struggling with a virus, and the timing could not be better as the U’s introduce a new lottery to support their youth development. The 16-year-old, from Abing-don
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United breaking new ground
The sign of a good team is often whether they can bounce straight back after a defeat – and Oxford United want to show that quality. But manager Chris Wilder is warning that the unusual surroundings of the Inter-national Stadium in Gates-head means the
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Get your boots on fos sixes
OxVox are holding a six-a-side tournament with all the profits being donated to the 12th Man Fund. The event will take place on Sunday, November 22, on the astroturf at Oxford Brookes’s Headington campus. Places are limited to 16 teams and squads should
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Hot-shot Constable goes top of the charts
James Constable and AFC Wimbledon’s Danny Kedwell have joined Cambridge United’s Chris Holroyd on nine goals at the top of the Blue Square Premier goalscoring charts after their Tuesday night strikes. And Oxford United’s leading scorer, whose goals often
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Shoppers queue up to join donor list
OUR campaign to recruit new blood donors gained more momentum after we took to the streets to sign people up. The Oxford Mail has teamed up with the National Blood Service to encourage 1,000 new blood donors to give the gift of life before winter hits
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Pioneering op takes place in Greece - but not in Oxford
A SURGEON from Oxford who led a pioneering heart operation in Greece has demanded to be allowed to do it on the NHS. Prof Stephen Westaby, who works at the John Radcliffe Hospital, spoke out after leading a surgical team in Greece who used
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Bodleian to host crime day with top authors
AUTHOR PD James is leading a line-up of popular writers taking part in a special crime day in Oxford. The award-winning novelist will be joined at Oxford’s Bodleian Library by fellow crime writers Kate Summerscale, Val McDermid and Ruth Rendell on Friday
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Learning about the sound of Steppes
A GROUP of folk musicians are bringing the traditional sounds of Russia to Oxford tomorrow night. Karavai, a balalaika quartet from Perm, Oxford’s twin city in the Ural mountains, are rounding off a visit to Britain this week with a concert at the Newman
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Former landlord ran Botley pub for four decades
A PUB landlord who served customers at the same pub for more than four decades has died. Bernard Herbert, who ran the Seacourt Bridge Inn, in West Way, Botley, for 41 years, died last Friday after a long illness. He was 85. Mr Herbert, who was once
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University tennis plan hits a winner
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a £6m tennis centre off Iffley Road have been given the go-ahead. Oxford University’s plan for part of its famous Iffley Road sports ground was opposed by some neighbours, who said it would be an eyesore in a conservation area
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Home support
Oxford has always been a centre of trade and commerce. From its days as a medieval market town to today, businesses have thrived in the city and surrounding countryside. This is no different now — the recession has seen people set up their own small
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Training manifesto
Staff training is rightly viewed as essential to the development of careers within a business. But there is often a question mark over whether the trainer is actually delivering what was promised, and whether the training is, in fact, good value for money
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Mi Mi Mi
A fashion and beauty business has relaunched and relocated within Woodstock. Expansion has meant Mi Mi Mi has moved from its old home in Park Street to new premises in Oxford Street, which now include two beauty rooms, an express bar and a range of clothing
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Windows at sawmill
Expanding firm Timberwindows.com has become the latest occupant of the Blenheim Palace Sawmills development at Woodstock. The windows systems provider has taken almost 6,500 sq ft of office and warehousing space at the award-winning site, and will move
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Retail solution
A company which offers stock management and signage for retailers has become the latest business to occupy the Arena 14 development at Bicester. RD Retail Solutions has taken Unit 13 at the park, which specialises in industrial and warehouse units. Alastair
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Builders move
A building firm has snapped up a half-acre site at Ventura Park in Carterton. Walkplace, which will shortly be celebrating its 25th anniversary, will use the site to build a new office and compound for the business. Spokesman Frank Davey said: “We saw
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Africa venture
The devastation wreaked by the tsunami unleashed a massive public response, with charities deluged with funds from generous donors. Villagers in Cholsey, near Wallingford, were desperate to contribute, but they wanted to do it in a way which forged a
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Less 'fluff' more talking
What was your first job and what did your responsibilities include? Royal Navy — seaman (radar), I was responsible for the upper deck maintenance and working as a radar operator in the ship's operations room. How much was in your first pay packet
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Sensitive scheme
An Oxford college has undergone a major refurbishment, thanks to guidance from Cambridge architects. University College on the High Street had a new two-storey extension of the buttery in the Master’s Garden, had its access facilities enhanced and its
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Multi-tasker sets to it
We all dream of something that looks unattainable, whether it be a holiday, a car or a trip into space. But few of us actually do something about it, tending to be content with our lot rather than actually setting out to make that dream become
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Joy over hopes of visit by Pope
POPE Benedict XVI is “very likely” to become the first Pontiff in history to visit Oxford when he tours Britain next year, church leaders said last night. He will reportedly explore the city’s strong links with the Ven John Henry Newman, the
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Exploration is their expertise
Explorer, adventurer and writer Robert Twigger has been a tour leader with the Explorer School since 2006, but the sum total of other human beings he has come across on the expeditions he has led is — nil. Now he and fellow director of the
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Local share prices (PM)
AEA Technology 30.25 BMW 3146 Electrocomponents 152.3 Gladstone 25.75 Nationwide Accident Repair 83 Oxford Biomedica 11.25 Oxford Catalysts 62.5 Oxford Instruments 190.5 Reed Elsevier 475.8 RM 150 RPS Group 233.6 Courtesy of
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CRICKET: Rowant hearing due next week
The Home Counties Premier League’s disciplinary hearing into an incident during the Aston Rowant v Basingstoke match last month, is expected to be held next week. Rowant, whose Australian all-rounder Tim Miles clashed with Basingstoke batsman
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RUGBY UNION: Chinnor facing Taunton test
Chinnor head coach Jason Bowers is under no illusions as to the threat posed by tomorrow’s National 3 South West opponents Taunton. The Somerset side, who won all 22 matches in securing promotion last season, have a 100 per cent record this
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Data centre opens
A STATE-of-the-art data centre for the IT and telecoms business bm-it based at Bloxham Mill Business Centre is being officially opened by Tony Baldry MP today (September 24). The bm-it data centre will house customer servers from a variety of
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Walk on the wild side
Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens is set in 140 acres of landscaped parkland surrounding a listed Victorian manor house. It offers an ideal venue for companies wishing to hold conferences or training days in a relaxing atmosphere, away from
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Tips on organising a successful conference
Conferences are at the forefront of modern communications, whether this is for internal communications, or as a vehicle for communicating with key audiences — such as press launches and some technical conferences. For those expecting to find
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The birthplace of Traidcraft
A family home in Walton Manor, Oxford, which witnessed the creation of one of the UK’s leading fair trade organisations, is on the market at £985,000. Owner Ian Davis moved to the semi-detached property in 1972 with his late wife, Judy, a special
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Firm scraps plan to bring big wheel to city
PLANS for a giant wheel to be set up in a city centre car park in Oxford have been withdrawn, it emerged today. Great City Attractions submitted a planning application to the city council to set up the attraction in Worcester Street car park
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Mental health trust 'one of worst performing in country'
MENTAL health bosses in Oxfordshire will launch their own review after a national survey said the trust was one of the worst performing in the country. The Care Quality Commission carried out a survey of patients at 66 mental health trusts, including
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FIXTURES September 25
SATURDAY. FOOTBALL. BLUE SQUARE PREMIER. Gateshead v Oxford Utd. PUMA ALLIANCE. Under 18 South West Conference Cup: Oxford Utd v Hereford. FA CUP. 2nd qual round: Abingdon Utd v Cirencester Tn, Didcot Tn v Paulton Rov, VT FC v Oxford City, Witney
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UPDATE: Police respond over shooting fine
Police have apologised to a call centre worker shot during a firearms awareness training course and admitted the incident was “embarrassing”. Call centre worker Keith Tilbury, 51, was shot by Pc Dave Micklethwaite, 52, who accidentally slipped
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Secrets of Low Cost Marketing for Manufacturers
Date: Tuesday, 10th November, 2009. Venue: Oxford Centre, 333 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7PL. Times: Registration: 8a.m.; Start: 8.30a.m.: Finish: 12.30p.m. Coffee and bacon butties on arrival. On a modest marketing budget but want to attract more
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Local share prices (AM)
AEA Technology 29.75 BMW 3123 Electrocomponents 154.35 Gladstone 25.25 Nationwide Accident Repair 83 Oxford Biomedica 11 Oxford Catalyst 62.5 Oxford Instruments 192.5 Reed Elsevier 479.2 RM 153.25 RPS Group 233 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley
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Hard lessons learned
Did you know that one of the biggest employers in Oxfordshire is Amey? Perhaps not, but then it is not surprising that the listed company has rather hidden its light under a bushel recently. Six years ago it was in trouble, running into debt
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Magnetic adventure
There's something about sheds. Mozart composed great works in one, authors George Bernard Shaw, Jilly Cooper and Oxford's Philip Pullman wrote books in theirs. And many businesses started life in one, including Oxford Instruments, set up 50 years
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Police and officer fined over shooting
Thames Valley Police has been fined £40,000 after a firearms instructor shot a colleague during a training day. Pc Dave Micklethwaite, 52, shot call centre operator Keith Tilbury, 51, in the torso after mistakenly loading a Magnum .44 revolver
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Councillors have ignored the future interests of the city
Sir — It was pure theatre watching a special meeting of the full city council last Thursday voting to reject the Brookes redevelopment proposals and then scrabbling around trying to find a reason for the rejection. This extraordinary decision flew
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Hiding behind label
Sir – Cyclox’s Kevin Hickman (letter, September 17) paints a bleak picture of lethal, fear-laden Oxford streets which, I’m relieved to say, I don’t recognise. Even though I cycle regularly, I’ve seldom had an issue with drivers or anyone else. I don
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Lodge Hill solution
Sir – Presumably John Mills (letter, September 17) is not aware that the “cheap” full linking of the partial exit/entrance to the A34 at Lodge Hill is not in the gift of any of the local councils (town, district or county). It is in the gift of the Highways
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No easy fixes
Sir – Without wishing in any way to take issue with the concerns being expressed about concentrations of housing being occupied by university students (letter, September 17), the welcome for the “new laws which have been proposed by Mr Denham as Communities
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Top recyclers, best loos
Sir – I’d like to respond to Mrs Bale’s and Mr Burlingham’s comments about extra bags of rubbish and public toilets (letters, September 17). The response to the city council’s ‘no extra rubbish’ campaign has been very postive and our hope is to have even
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Visual intrusion
Sir – Irene Gill (letter, September 10) is wrong to suggest that CPRE is objecting to the proposed wind turbine at Horspath on ‘aesthetic grounds’. Personally, I too regard them as beautiful objects, but only when they are situated in the right place.
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Uncomfortable streets
Sir – Your feature on Network Rail’s proposals to enlarge Oxford station (September 10) made little mention of the difficulties in getting to and from the station, even today. From whatever direction, walking and cycling are uncomfortable experiences
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Students are welcome
Sir – In your letters pages over the last few months I have seen many negative comments about students and the creation of ‘student ghettoes’. Headington and East Oxford Residents’ Association, amongst others, quick to blame students, but forget to mention
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Open and closed doors
Sir – Last weekend I, along with 25,000 others, entered the hallowed halls and secret gardens of Oxford during the Open Doors event. A city which has often seemed to me to present an unfriendly face to tourists, with its locked gates and forbidding
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Generosity of spirit
Sir – Open Doors is such an inspiring concept and glorious celebration of Oxford. Of the huge variety of events on offer, I enjoyed the unveiling of the gargoyles, the canal boats with their cheery bunting and the open gates of All Souls — how rare is
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The truth
Sir – Mr Pullman (Pullman’s new religious work, September 17) is quoted as saying that: “For every man or woman who has been led to goodness by a church, there has been another who has been inspired by the same church to a rancid and fanatical bigotry
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New Pullman book is bound to be good read
Sir – So the Philip Pullman poison pen strikes again! Not content with taking an oblique swipe at God in His Dark Materials, he now launches a direct attack on the Son of God with his latest work of fiction, the provocatively titled The Good Man Jesus
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Brookes farce
Oxford City Council’s handling of the Oxford Brookes University proposal to develop its Headington campus has degenerated into a farce. Whichever side one stands on the argument — and we have not taken sides — the way in which the application was called
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Ridiculous idea
Sir — Last week it was made public that Oxfordshire County Council is having to compensate pedestrians injured on unsafe pavements at an average rate of £1,600 a week. I was in communication with the council on the subject of dangerous pavements some
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Ranting and raging
Sir – Headington motorist Mr Matheson describes views other than his own (letter, September 17) opposing trial Latimer Road and Lime Walk closures as “selfish arrogance in the extreme”, believing these side roads are resisting their due share of the city
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A warm welcome from Swindon
The smiles on the faces of the Swindon councillors spoke volumes — many millions of volumes, in fact. Swindon had not only stolen a march on the famous city 20 miles or so down the A420, it had secured for itself a large piece of one of Oxford’s greatest
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Super silky grass
One famous garden writer, Helen Yemm, wrote a book called Gardening in my Nightie. I think I should pen a tome called Gardening in my Witch’s Hat because this year I have been summoning up the spirits to make things flower! If I had occult powers I think
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Historic walk around Cumnor
A few years ago, a small team of enthusiastic volunteers planned and mapped out a series of half-day walks in and around Cumnor, highlighting the charm and diversity of the countryside around the parish. The walks were published for all to follow and
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Get out and go wild
The big journey: Did you know that every autumn there is a mass animal migration taking place in the UK to rival the stampeding herds of wildebeest and zebras of the Serengeti? Autumn bird migration is the only mass animal movement that we can observe
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Lottery grant helps work to conserve geological sites of interest in county
A public open day held at Rock Edge nature reserve in Headington, Oxford, will be the first of several aimed at getting people interested in geological conservation, writes Elizabeth Edwards. Oxfordshire Geology Trust has won cash from the Heritage Lottery
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Autumn season of jazz and world music
In the seams of the city between the club scene for students and baroque-for-tourists lie rich veins of more recondite music. But they are more difficult for the uninitiated to dig out. Jazz still has a lower profile outside London, and classical music
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Hot Mikado: Oxford Playhouse
A doctor or a hospital consultant. A career in the police or the law. All may well feature in the aspirations of graduates fresh out of college. But Sarah Travis’s career went in a much more unusual direction: she became a musical arranger. “I had a
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Random Dance: Oxford Playhouse
The award-winning choreographer Wayne McGregor is one of the most exciting dance-makers around. He has just had his contract as choreographer in residence at the Royal Ballet renewed — but don’t get the idea that his work looks in any way classical; he
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Spy Who Came in from the Cold case, £71
Many will remember the days when Bulgarian, Hungarian and Romanian wines were to be found in many wine shops — and now they are making a comeback as the Eastern bloc has moved towards privatisation and exports have increased. Here is a selection of modern
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Oxford surgeon leads pioneering heart operation
A heart surgeon based at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital has used a combination of an artificial heart and stem cells to save the life of a dying man. It is understood to be the the first time that the pioneering comination has been used. Greek patient
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Bergerac steps out of shadows
On the very first trip I made to France, as a green-behind-the-ears wine trade professional, I met and befriended the utterly delightful Richard Doughty. I was thrilled to meet him for all sorts of reasons: first because of his Saussignac that I have
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Police and officer face court over shooting
Thames Valley Police and one of the force’s firearms instructors are due to be sentenced today after he shot and almost killed a civilian colleague. Pc David Micklethwaite, 52, who had failed part of a gun training course, mistakenly loaded a powerful
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Slow going on M40 in South Oxfordshire
Drivers have been forced to go slow on the M40 near the Oxfordshire border this morning following an accident. The accident involving a lorry and a car happened after 7am on the sounthbound carriageway, between junction six at Watlington and junction
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Fossil pioneers
REMARKABLE CREATURES Tracy Chevalier (HarperCollins, £15.99)Remarkable Creatures is an enthralling scientific romance that captures a time when the world was being turned upside down by new ideas of science and religion. It was also a time when many
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Search for utopia
Our ‘broken society’ is a topical issue, courtesy of the Conservative Leader and Witney MP David Cameron. But in the late 19th-century, a group of influential figures pinpointed rather different solutions. A breakdown in social values, following financial
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Stories of different worlds
Rupert Brooke left behind him far more than his poetry. His good looks were legendary and undisputed; more disputed, however, were his sexuality and the possibility that he fathered a daughter with a Tahitian woman. In her novel The Great Lover (Sceptre
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Medical advances
Every day a new and mind-boggling advance in medical science appears, with researchers manipulating genes and stem cells to encourage the human body to heal itself. Investors in biotech companies may be frustrated that few of the ground-breaking discoveries
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Man with magic eyes
When a first novel comes out in nine different countries, including the United States, as soon as it is published, it has to be pretty special. Ali Shaw’s The Girl With Glass Feet is not just special — it’s remarkable. And now he is in line for a £10,000
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Local author
Richard Tolson’s, poetry, diary and letters to his mother give a picture of Army life during and after the Second World War. His widow Rosalind, who lives in North Oxford, has collected them into a book, A Soldier Poet (£9.95)
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Bargain hunters
BRITONS love a bargain and the crowds at the opening of a 99p Store yesterday was no surprise. The bigger bonus though is the filling of a significant space within Templars Square, in Cowley. Some may look down their nose at the 99p Store, but surely
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Oxford United aiming to bounce back
Oxford United’s players were devastated at losing their unbeaten record at Mansfield – but they are now ready to regroup and start again. That’s the message from striker Jamie Cook, who was desperately unlucky with two efforts that hit the bar in United
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Cancer victims should not have to fight again
WHEN Nice, the National Institute of Clincial Excellence, finally relented and decreed Sunitinib could be given to kidney cancer victims, it seemed an important war had been won, and not just the battle. These cancer sufferers and even the relatives
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Patients denied cancer drugs
CANCER campaigners last night claimed they were being left to die after learning that a string of treatments would not be funded by Oxfordshire health chiefs. County-based Justice for Kidney Cancer Patients urged the Government to step in after discovering
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Business leaders attack Brookes decision
BUSINESS leaders have warned that Oxford’s economic future will be damaged by the “short-sighted” council decision to throw out the multi-million-pound redevelopment of Oxford Brookes University. But while the business community expressed astonishment