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CABBAGES & KINGS: Window undresser fails fashion test

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

TWO 14-year-old girls were having a severe fit of the giggles, leaning on each other and emitting loud shrieks and caring little for the mixed glances they attracted.

THE INSIDER: A weekly update from the corridors of power

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

‘IN my 10 years as Leader of the Council, I have led an unremitting war against sloppy use of English,” thundered county council leader Keith Mitchell on his Internet blog on Friday.

LIFE LESSONS: Born to be the voice for our communities

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Today we talk to Anthony Church, the town crier of Oxford and several other towns in Oxfordshire WHAT I’M CALLED: Anthony Church BEM.

LARGER THAN LIFE: Baring all about my affair

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

IHAVE found over the past three months that writing this column has been a most cathartic experience.

LIFE LESSONS: We are all storytelling beings

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:00:00 +0000

WHAT I’M CALLED: Cath Nightingale.

THE QUIZ LEAGUE: Brief welcome back for Exiles

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:40:00 +0000

Albeit for one week only, it was wonderful last Thursday night to welcome old friends back into the fold.

ON YER BIKE: Souper way for women to learn about their bikes

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000

DO YOU want to know where to get the best soup in Oxford? Do you want to learn how to fix your brakes and punctures at the same time?

LIFE LESSONS: Being made an MBE was proudest moment by far

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Today we talk to Sue Holden, the company secretary of Barton Community Association WHAT I’M CALLED: Sue Holden.

MAN ABOUT TOWN: A night in the company of the city's brightest

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Damn, if only my gene pool had been different. Damn, if only the synapses in my brain fired off a little quicker.

MOTHERING SUNDAE: Nits make me tear my hair out

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000

Yesterday I learned from a friend’s Facebook that she’d discovered a nit in her child’s hair and although not even a super-flea could leap the physical chasm between our electronic outposts, I immediately started scratching.

CABBAGES & KINGS: Much confusion as TV presenter hits the street

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000

THAT’S Sally Magnusson, I told myself, recognising the TV presenter and regular host on BBC’s Songs of Praise as she walked down Cornmarket Street.

THE INSIDER

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:00:00 +0000

THE Insider is always intrigued to watch young Oxford University students to fathom the source of their wisdom.