2005
* Oxford to Cambridge in just 20 minutes – that’s the promise of 18-year-old entrepreneur Martin Halstead who has launched an airline to fly between the two cities.
* Pupils in Marsh Baldon returned to their village school almost a month after parts of the building were destroyed by fire.
1995
* The Duke of Marlborough has dropped plans to plant Christmas trees in the Glyme Valley, which villagers in Wootton, near Woodstock, say, would devastate rare plant life.
* Quick-thinking students rescued a drowning woman as she was swept along the Castle Mill Stream through the grounds of Oxford College of Further Education in Oxpens Road.
1985
* Two runaway horses brought terror to Westbrook Street, Blewbury, as children were leaving the village primary school – no-one was hurt.
* Building workers employed by Oxford City Council are getting a new bonus scheme, which includes free watches to help them improve time-keeping.
1975
* RAF Bicester will close, two Britannia squadrons at RAF Brize Norton will be disbanded and there will be big changes at RAF Abingdon under the Government’s Defence Review.
* Roger Herbert, a detective constable, and golfer Nicola Sparks will captain the Oxford teams in the popular TV sports game It’s a Knockout.
1965
* Mike Hailwood, of Oxford, the world champion motorcyclist, clocked the fastest qualifying time at 100.54mph to win a front row grid position in the US 500cc Grand Prix in Florida.
* Morris Motors Athletic and Social Club’s new £35,000 pavilion in Cowley, replacing one built in 1919, was opened by Mr CW Harriman, chairman of the the British Motor Corporation.
1955
* Oxford City Council is opposing an application to put up bus fares, but rejected a motion to “secure the municipalisation” of city bus services.
* Oxford ratepayers have paid in rates thousands of pounds more than the council needed, so £44,000 is being ‘returned’ by reducing this year’s increase.
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