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On this day: Oxfordshire Archive

Oxfordshire Archive

• United bid for keeper foiled

  OXFORD United boss Mark Wright appears to have been foiled in his attempts to sign Swansea goalkeeper Roger Freestone. read more

• Jackson back in Wantage

  Dawn was breaking today as Wantage MP Robert Jackson learned he had escaped the fate of so many of his Conservative colleagues in a second election night slaughter. read more

• Banbury backs Baldry 'to provide strong opposition'

  Tony Baldry held Banbury for the Conservatives with an increased majority, despite a lower turn-out. read more

• Smith makes it four in row

  The people of east Oxford gave Andrew Smith his fourth term as their MP. read more

• Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicholson (Flamingo, £6.99)

  Even before Romeo and Juliet, literature has struggled to illustrate the difference between love and infatuation. read more

• Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop by Charles Shaar Murray

  Shaar Murray is one of the best writers on rock, and his classic account has been revised with a new introduction. read more

• The Way It Was - The Autobiography of Sir Stanley Matthews (Headline, £6.99)

  Matthews, by all accounts a true gentleman, was the most famous of all English footballers, and perhaps the greatest of all wingers. read more

• Code To Zero by Ken Follett (Pan, £6.99)

  Another popular thriller writer on top form. A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station in 1958. read more

• The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh (HarperCollins, £6.99)

  On one level, this is a moving family saga and love story set in Burma - on another it is a searing indictment of colonialism and what it has done to the countries who still suffer the fallout from its legacy. read more

• Hot Six by Janet Evanovich (Pan, £6.99)

  Big-haired bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back and she is on good form. Fellow bounty hunter Ranger is on the run and the other man in her life, vice cop Joe Morelli, is after him. read more

• England's Dreaming by Jon Savage (Faber, £14.99)

  Savage researched the genesis of punk rock - clothes, drugs, sex, fanzines as well as the music- to produce this readable account. read more

• It's ten out of ten for Cheetahs

  Oxford Cheetahs 59, read more

• Oxon all-rounders in silver double

  TALENTED all-rounders Carly Austin and Rachel Brenton won silver medals for Oxfordshire at the English Schools Combined Events regional final at Tilsley Park, Abingdon. read more

• Record-breakers steer Oxford to county title

  OXFORD & Horspath produced a record-breaking batting display to win the Critchley's Ron Maudsley Trophy Under 13 KO competition. read more

• Handsome trophy on offer for stayers' star

  RD RACING, new sponsors of the greyhounds Cesarewitch stayers event, which makes its bow at Oxford in November, have put up a superb special annual trophy. read more

• Teddies strike gold

  ST Edward's School Junior 15 rowing squad struck double gold in the Thames Valley Park Regatta at Reading. read more

• Temple Cowley do it again!

  TEMPLE Cowley continued their domination of the Oxfordshire final of the Lord's Taverners National Primary Schools Kwik Cricket competition by notching their third success in four years. read more

• City surgeries under siege

  Doctors' practices in east Oxford are so swamped with demand that only two out of nine are enrolling new patients. read more

• Harris tightens grip on seat

  Liberal democrat Dr Evan Harris has held on to his Oxford West and Abingdon seat - with a significantly increased majority. read more

• Cameron reclaims Witney for Tories

  The Conservatives have regained the Witney seat - once held by turncoat MP Shaun Woodward - with an increased majority. read more

On this day: Oxfordshire Archive