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  • Radioactive waste levels too high, hospitals told

    Two Oxford hospitals have been criticised by inspectors for putting too much radioactive waste down drains. The John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals, both in Headington, have been ordered by the Environment Agency to improve their storage and disposal

  • Exam 'repeated earlier questions'

    AN Oxford lecturer set an English exam that had been given to students at another university three years previously, a newspaper has claimed. University newspaper The Cherwell has alleged that two English literature papers, one set by Glasgow University

  • Skills council to close top computer college

    A computer college for adults in Oxford will close at the end of this month, despite last-ditch efforts by staff to save it. Mike Newbury, acting manager of the Oxford Learning Centre, and his colleagues will lose their jobs when the college closes at

  • Vigil for torture victims

    Thame's Amnesty International group members are inviting people to join them for a 30-minute vigil to remember victims of torture. The vigil, on June 26 between 7.30pm and 8pm, will be held by the group's new trellis in the war memorial gardens in Upper

  • Long wait is over as village prepares for hall opening

    A village hall which has taken 33 years to complete is to be officially opened this week. The long campaign to get Lewknor a hall started in 1969. Since then work has gone slowly while funding was secured. Now it is finished, it will be called the Jubilee

  • Eight injured in crashes

    Eight people were hurt in three separate road accidents in the Bicester area over the weekend. A family of four was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, yesterday after their car overturned on the M40 near the Wendlebury junction. On Saturday

  • Ex-Cheetah dies at 46

    FORMER Oxford speedway rider Ashley Pullen lost his battle against cancer and died in hospital on Thursday. He was 46. He started his career at Rye House in 1976 before moving closer to his Blackbird Leys home and joined Oxford Cheetahs for two seasons

  • Family escape candle blaze

    A family of three had a lucky escape after a candle left burning overnight toppled over and set fire to a bedroom. The unattended candle set light to floorboards and a carpet at the house in Buckingham Crescent, Bicester, shortly after midnight on Saturday

  • Cricket: Weekend results check

    Games played on June 8 and 9, 2002 ECB 38 COUNTY COMPETITION Oxon v Bucks cancelled. HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Division 1 Beaconsfield 157 (64.4 ov, M Aitken 62no), Henley 158-3 (33.5 ov, A Edwards 79). Beaconsfield 4pts, Henley 25. High Wycombe 202

  • Square plans put on show

    Bicester residents are being asked their views on a proposed redevelopment of the Market Square. A two-day exhibition featuring four options is being set up by Cherwell District Council on Friday. The first option would see the traffic system stay the

  • Speedway: Wiltshire and Adams wow 'em

    Oxford-owned rider Todd Wiltshire wowed the 40,000-plus fans as he rode out of his skin to grab second spot in a pulsating EGG British Speedway Grand Prix at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. In front of the biggest crowd to watch a British meeting

  • Fatal crash

    One man died and one woman was thrown from her vehicle when two cars collided on the A4155 in Shiplake last night. Fire crews from Henley, Watlington, and Kidlington freed three people from the wreckage.

  • Scouts go green for cash

    Scouts in Oxfordshire are being invited to join a new nationwide recycling initiative which can earn them cash to fund their activities. They would collect used toner and printer cartridges and old mobile phones which are no longer wanted and sell the

  • Vigil for torture victims

    Thame's Amnesty International group members are inviting people to join them for a 30-minute vigil to remember victims of torture. The vigil, on June 26 between 7.30pm and 8pm, will be held by the group's new trellis in the war memorial gardens in Upper

  • Chile trek boosts charity

    Research editor Riham Abu-Deeb is set to trek 100km across Chile to raise money to help people with cerebral palsy. It is the second time Miss Abu-Deeb, 24, of St John Street, Oxford, has taken on such a challenge. Her last trek in Peru for the charity

  • Health trusts put to the test

    A district council is putting the new primary health care trusts in its area under the microscope. News that there could be a re-organisation of the recently formed trusts has prompted the move. Preventing ill health is one of South Oxfordshire District

  • Square plans put on show

    Bicester residents are being asked their views on a proposed redevelopment of the Market Square. A two-day exhibition featuring four options is being set up by Cherwell District Council on Friday. The first option would see the traffic system stay the

  • Group aims to make life better

    A group set up with the aim of improving life in Oxfordshire will meet for the first time tomorrow. More than 100 members of the Oxfordshire Community Partnership will discuss improving the delivery of services at a meeting at Templeton College, Kennington

  • Woman in Lakes fall

    AN Oxford woman is in hospital in Carlisle following a 200ft fall down a mountainside in the Lake District. The 47-year-old woman, who has not yet been named, suffered injuries to her head, neck and spine. She had been walking in the Langdale Pike area

  • Hi-tech firm goes into liquidation

    AN award-winning hi-tech firm has become another victim of the dot.com slump. Thame-based Connectology, which in 1999 became the top Oxfordshire firm in the Fast Track 100 list of most rapidly growing companies, appointed liquidators Errington Walker

  • Chairman named on awards shortlist

    A woman described as a cornerstone of village life in Appleton has been nominated for the National Farmers Union Countryperson of the Year Award. Margaret Reading, 66, has been chairman of Appleton-with-Eaton Parish Council for five years. She is also

  • Chile trek boosts charity

    Research editor Riham Abu-Deeb is set to trek 100km across Chile to raise money to help people with cerebral palsy. It is the second time Miss Abu-Deeb, 24, of St John Street, Oxford, has taken on such a challenge. Her last trek in Peru for the charity

  • Mystery over trail of blood in street

    A trail of blood along an Oxford riverbank remains a mystery -- despite a massive police hunt. Officers and the police helicopter searched the area along Botley Road, but found nothing. At one stage Botley Road was sealed off by police between Seacourt

  • Two-tier education changes 'on time'

    Work to prepare Oxford's first schools for the change-over to a two-tier education system is reaching completion, with all building work set to be finished within a month. Education officers and headteachers have welcomed the culmination of the year-long

  • Skills council to close top computer college

    A computer college for adults in Oxford will close at the end of this month, despite last-ditch efforts by staff to save it. Mike Newbury, acting manager of the Oxford Learning Centre, and his colleagues will lose their jobs when the college closes at

  • Radioactive waste levels too high, hospitals told

    Two Oxford hospitals have been criticised by inspectors for putting too much radioactive waste down drains. The John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals, both in Headington, have been ordered by the Environment Agency to improve their storage and disposal

  • Skills council to close top computer college

    A computer college for adults in Oxford will close at the end of this month, despite last-ditch efforts by staff to save it. Mike Newbury, acting manager of the Oxford Learning Centre, and his colleagues will lose their jobs when the college closes at

  • Racing: Nayyir shines for Butler

    Nayyir, Blewbury trainer Gerard Butler's progressive four-year-old, graduated to the big time at Epsom by running away with the Vodafone Diomed Stakes. The winner of a handicap at Beverley on his previous start, Nayyir surged clear under Eddie Ahern to

  • Football: United's £50,000 bonus

    Oxford United, and their fellow third division clubs, will be better off to the tune of £50,000 at the start of each of the next five seasons following an agreement reached to increase promotion and relegation from the Conference to the Football League

  • Speedway: Wiltshire and Adams wow 'em

    Oxford-owned rider Todd Wiltshire wowed the 40,000-plus fans as he rode out of his skin to grab second spot in a pulsating EGG British Speedway Grand Prix at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. In front of the biggest crowd to watch a British meeting

  • Warning about garden crime

    Police will be taking a stand at the Blenheim Flower Show next week to draw attention to the fact that garden crime is on the increase. They plan to display easy and inexpensive anti-crime ideas, and will also illustrate how the strategic planting of

  • Robber jailed after taking Lotto tickets

    A man who robbed a newsagents of National Lottery tickets was recognised by a local policeman from a security video taken at the time of the raid. David Buckingham, 22, of Cherwell Avenue, Kidlington, was also later pointed out by the shopkeeper of Oxford

  • Stadium rugby noise leads to complaints

    The public address system at Oxford United's Kassam Stadium may have exceeded the noise limits set as part of a deal with the city council. Residents complained to the council's environmental health department on the morning of the Parker Pen European

  • Two-tier education changes 'on time'

    Work to prepare Oxford's first schools for the change-over to a two-tier education system is reaching completion, with all building work set to be finished within a month. Education officers and headteachers have welcomed the culmination of the year-long

  • Hi-tech firm goes into liquidation

    AN award-winning hi-tech firm has become another victim of the dot.com slump. Thame-based Connectology, which in 1999 became the top Oxfordshire firm in the Fast Track 100 list of most rapidly growing companies, appointed liquidators Errington Walker

  • Cricket: Hanborough owe it to the old hands

    Hanborough recovered from early shocks to win the clash of the two unbeaten OCA League Division 1 sides at Brill on Saturday (June 8). As was witnessed in many games, runs proved hard to come by on a damp track and the home side struggled to 140-8, which

  • Asylum protest groups team up

    An action group, fighting plans to house asylum seekers near Bicester, has joined forces with protesters from Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. Now the groups plan to hold regular meetings, swap information and link websites. Sue Baxter, of Bicester Action

  • Cricket: OCA League results

    Results from games played over the weekend of June 8/9, 2002 Division 1 Brill 140-8 (P Rose 4-22), Hanborough 141-2 (R Lovick 85no, M Busby 43no). Broughton 131 (T Young 32, M Ahmed 3-31), Great Horwood 132-3 (T Hall 41, S Parker 37). Garsington 94 (C

  • Woman in Lakes fall

    AN Oxford woman is in hospital in Carlisle following a 200ft fall down a mountainside in the Lake District. The 47-year-old woman, who has not yet been named, suffered injuries to her head, neck and spine. She had been walking in the Langdale Pike area

  • Twins enjoy birthday fun

    The first birthday celebrations of an Oxford Twin Club took place on Saturday. Three-year-old quads Jamie, William, Jack and Rose Smy, from KidlingtonThe Twin Club was set up a year ago by Trudy Aries, who herself has three-year-old twins, to help offer

  • Cash boosts message in a bottle scheme

    A message in a bottle scheme that provides emergency services with vital information about vulnerable people's medical conditions has received a £1,000 grant. The money, donated by the Oxford, Swindon and Gloucester Co-op from its community dividend grant

  • Warning about garden crime

    Police will be taking a stand at the Blenheim Flower Show next week to draw attention to the fact that garden crime is on the increase. They plan to display easy and inexpensive anti-crime ideas, and will also illustrate how the strategic planting of

  • Mystery over trail of blood in street

    A trail of blood along an Oxford riverbank remains a mystery -- despite a massive police hunt. Officers and the police helicopter searched the area along Botley Road, but found nothing. At one stage Botley Road was sealed off by police between Seacourt

  • Professor reassures parents

    An Oxford University professor says children living in homes with high levels of radon gas or gamma radiation do not face a greater risk of developing cancer. Scientists from the UK Childhood Cancer Study measured radon gas and gamma rays in the bedrooms

  • Target set to help street children

    A little-known Oxfordshire charity is trying to raise its profile to help abandoned street children in one of the poorest countries in Africa. John and Gill Hedge with Mahmadou Kone, centre, director of Jeunesse Et Developpement Mali Development Group

  • Solicitor cycles for charity

    An Oxford solicitor is cycling more than 200 miles across three counties to raise £6,000 for charitable causes. Jeremy Irwin-Singer, set to cycle 200 miles for charityJeremy Irwin-Singer, president of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Law

  • Internet site clicks up water funds

    Thames Water has so far donated £150,000 to promote safe water supplies, thanks to a website it operates in conjunction with the charity WaterAid. Since February, the site has received two million visits. Every visit to the site raises more money for

  • Drug to combat anaemia trialled

    Gene research firm Oxford BioMedica is trialling a new product designed to tackle anaemia. Preclinical data presented by the firm's principal scientist, Dr Katie Binley, to the American Society for Gene Therapy showed Repoxygen successfully cured the

  • Plea for traditional brewing to continue

    Shareholders and management at a historic Oxfordshire brewery are being urged to continue producing beer from its traditional base. The Campaign for Real Ale wants to prevent any move by Brakspear to halt its brewing operation in Henley, where it has

  • Long wait is over as village prepares for hall opening

    A village hall which has taken 33 years to complete is to be officially opened this week. The long campaign to get Lewknor a hall started in 1969. Since then work has gone slowly while funding was secured. Now it is finished, it will be called the Jubilee

  • Wreck leaves family down in the dumps

    A Horspath family returned from a holiday in the Canaries to find the burnt-out wreck of a car on their doorstep. Gary Weaving with the burnt-out car While Gary and Sarah Weaving and their daughter, Ella, seven, were soaking up the sun in Lanzarote, car

  • Rail operators give views on merger

    Oxfordshire rail operators First Great Western and Thames Trains have had their say on proposals to merge them. The Strategic Rail Authority wants the two companies and Wessex Trains to merge so services in the south and west would be run by a single

  • Asylum protest groups team up

    An action group, fighting plans to house asylum seekers near Bicester, has joined forces with protesters from Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. Now the groups plan to hold regular meetings, swap information and link websites. Sue Baxter, of Bicester Action

  • Solicitor cycles for charity

    An Oxford solicitor is cycling more than 200 miles across three counties to raise £6,000 for charitable causes. Jeremy Irwin-Singer, set to cycle 200 miles for charityJeremy Irwin-Singer, president of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Law

  • Jubilee party keeps going

    The Golden Jubilee celebrations continue at East Hagbourne with St Andrew's Church fete on Saturday. Joe Corderoy, with his wife Janet and the flag Villagers, especially children, are being encouraged to dress up as royalty for a procession through the

  • 'Rail crossing risks lives'

    Allotment holders in Oxford are at loggerheads with the city council over plans to close a railway level crossing because it is near a new school site. The footpath, across the railway track at Port Meadow, has been used for more than 100 years and is

  • Stadium rugby noise leads to complaints

    The public address system at Oxford United's Kassam Stadium may have exceeded the noise limits set as part of a deal with the city council. Residents complained to the council's environmental health department on the morning of the Parker Pen European

  • Scouts go green for cash

    Scouts in Oxfordshire are being invited to join a new nationwide recycling initiative which can earn them cash to fund their activities. They would collect used toner and printer cartridges and old mobile phones which are no longer wanted and sell the

  • Group aims to make life better

    A group set up with the aim of improving life in Oxfordshire will meet for the first time tomorrow. More than 100 members of the Oxfordshire Community Partnership will discuss improving the delivery of services at a meeting at Templeton College, Kennington

  • Professor reassures parents

    An Oxford University professor says children living in homes with high levels of radon gas or gamma radiation do not face a greater risk of developing cancer. Scientists from the UK Childhood Cancer Study measured radon gas and gamma rays in the bedrooms

  • Target set to help street children

    A little-known Oxfordshire charity is trying to raise its profile to help abandoned street children in one of the poorest countries in Africa. John and Gill Hedge with Mahmadou Kone, centre, director of Jeunesse Et Developpement Mali Development Group

  • Rail operators give views on merger

    Oxfordshire rail operators First Great Western and Thames Trains have had their say on proposals to merge them. The Strategic Rail Authority wants the two companies and Wessex Trains to merge so services in the south and west would be run by a single