Stories for 4 October 2003

Oxfordshire Business

Striking car workers agree to deal

The long-running strike action at luxury car maker Aston Martin is over.   more...

Oxfordshire Education

Teacher wins awardfor 'walking bus' idea

Teacher and parent governor Mark Sutherland has collected a top national award for helping to pioneer 'waking buses' and other ways of getting children to walk or cycle to school.   more...

School change

The Cherwell School is to hold an open evening for parents of prospective pupils on Thursday, October 2.   more...

Oxfordshire Local Info

Norman Hoffman

A pioneering skydiver, who survived a 5,000ft drop when his parachute failed to open, has died aged 79.   more...

Sir Christopher Foxley-Morris

Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris, 86, one of the dwindling band of Battle of Britain pilots once dubbed 'The Few', has died.   more...

Oxfordshire News

Cameras 'are working' but death rate climbs

Speed cameras have cut the number of serious accidents and deaths on Oxfordshire's roads -- despite a leap in the number of fatalities this year.   more...

NULL

  more...

Sex pest to be jailed

A former taxi driver who was found guilty of 20 sex offences was told by a judge he was a danger to young girls.   more...

Parade to mark festive light-up

Traders in Oxford are linking up with city council events organisers to stage a parade before the annual switch-on of Christmas lights.   more...

String of flat bids refused

Oxford city councillors have defied advice from planning officers and rejected a series of developers' applications that were vigorously opposed by Cowley residents.   more...

City council will shut down for 11 days

Oxford City Council is giving staff a late Christmas present -- an extra day off on January 2.   more...

Gang of yobs terrorising area -- claim

Wolvercote residents have complained they felt let down by police following a vicious attack on a Brazilian family.   more...

Beloved bookshop reaches final page

It's the final chapter for The Little Bookshop in Oxford's Covered Market, which is closing after more than 25 years.   more...

TA four take role as peacekeepers

Four soldiers from Oxford's Territorial Army are preparing to head out to Iraq on peacekeeping duties.   more...

Joyriders cause head-on crash

Joyriders caused a head-on crash and then damaged three other cars while manoeuvring to get away.   more...

Sculptor gives up fight with college

SCULPTOR Martin Jennings abandoned his long-running battle with St John's College this week, when he left the Oxford studio where he has worked for the last 18 years.   more...

Barracks to host 300 homes

Vauxhall Barracks in Didcot will be sold off to create a new 300-home community including a hotel, recreation ground and community centre in the heart of the town.   more...

Police remove 'hate posters'

Police have removed hate-campaign posters put up in Banbury by friends of an alleged rape victim.   more...

Long wait for service medal

A Bicester police officer has finally received his long-service medal -- more than a year after qualifying for it. Town centre beat officer Matt Jenkins, above, was recognised for his 22 years of service last May.   more...

Pub faces licence concerns

Noise and obscene behaviour at a Wantage pub have become "unbearable" since its licencing hours were extended, according to residents.   more...

Crash survivor told of tragedy

An eight-year-old survivor of a car crash woke from a coma to be told her mother, stepfather and brother were dead.   more...

Furniture workers left in limbo

The future for hundreds of workers at Chipping Norton furniture maker Parker Knoll is shrouded in doubt with the company set to pull out of the town.   more...

Allotments could go

Cholsey Parish Council is considering selling off under-used allotments to pay for a new village hall.   more...

Beat flu -- get a jab

Wallingford mayor Betty Atkins kicked off the local campaign to keep flu at bay by getting a jab at the town's medical practice from nurse Pippa Lamb.   more...

Course roll expands

More Oxfordshire students have enrolled on a course to try their hand at farming.   more...

Judge shows Digger mercy

Oxfordshire's traffic-calming measures are under review after a district judge expressed "great sympathy" for the builder who dug up a noisy road hump.   more...

Oxfordshire Sport

Oldfield sounds the battle cry

DAVID Oldfield has warned Oxford United's players not to rest on their laurels - and keep concentrating hard on picking up all three points in every match they play.   more...

Clubs results check

Recent golf club results in Oxfordshire   more...

Leaders crash to Frilford

Ellesborough Golf Club still lead the race for the Shaw & Co Oxfordshire Foursomes League Section 1 title, despite suffering their second whitewash defeat in a row.   more...

Shields shines in Trophy

Burford's Gerry Shields shot the best nett round of the day to finish third in the handicap event of 36-hole Berks, Bucks & Oxon's Autumn Trophy played at The Springs, Wallingford.   more...

Golf fixtures

Matches for Saturday, October 4, 2003   more...

Football fixtures

Games to be played on Saturday, October 4, 2003   more...

Football fixtures

Matches to be played on Sunday, October 5   more...

Crosby set to return

Ian Atkins is set to drop one of his Oxford United players to make way for returning skipper Andy Crosby - but has told them in the dressing room not to take it personally.   more...

Wise returns to give City a boost

Oxford City have received a boost after striker Danny Wise declared himself fit for tomorrow's preliminary round clash with high-flying Dr Martens Eastern Division side Folkestone Invicta.   more...

Allen lift

Defender Jason Allen has given Banbury United a lift ahead of their game at Dr Martens Western Division side Team Bath, after rejecting a move to Brackley Town.   more...

City relay vets in the medals

Oxford City picked up team bronze in the over 50 section of the Southern Counties Veterans' Road Relay Championship at the Rushmoor Arena in Aldershot.   more...

Harriers miss qualification

Woodstock Harriers failed to qualify for the national finals of the 6-stage relay, finishing 37th from 93 in the South of England Road Relay, held at the same venue.   more...

Young Barker is man of the week

Ben Barker, one of two 15-year-olds in the Oxford Academy line-up, has been named 'Conference League Man of the Week' in the Speedway Star following his second successive maximum against Rye House last week.   more...

Veteran Cairns lands title in Master class

By Michael Knox   more...

Mills's sad blow mars Academy double first

Oxford 54, Sheffield 39   more...

Striker poser for U's boss

WITH Julian Alsop starting a four-game suspension, United face a three-way choice between Mark Rawle, Andy Scott and Jefferson Louis up front for today's Division 3 game at York Street.   more...

Colton looking to cash in with Euro

Nick Colton aims to become the first Oxford greyhound trainer to land the prestigious TV Trophy with his top staying bitch Creamery Euro at Wimbledon on Tuesday.   more...

Hockey fixtures

Games to be played on Saturday, October 4   more...

Stars seek more of same

OXFORD City Stars travel to Slough Harrier Hawks tomorrow (5.45pm) hoping to keep up the good work after their best start to a league campaign for many years.   more...

Messageboard put on hold

THE Oxford United official website's club messageboard has been suspended following fears about fans naming names in the alleged rape case, involving a Premiership club, that has rocked the game.   more...

Maskens and Swift hit form to claim top titles

Jonathan Maskens and Evelyn Swift are The Oxford Times Open singles champions after securing the titles at Abingdon's White Horse Leisure & Tennis Centre.   more...

Godfrey tribute

The official opening of Witney RFC's clubhouse extension on Sunday, October 12, will be used as a memorial to Mark Godfrey, who tragically died in January.   more...

Rugby fixtures

Games to be played on Saturday, October 4, 2003   more...

Charlie's back for Chinnor

Chinnor are expecting flying winger Charlie Oyebade to make his seasonal debut when they entertain strong Bristol-based club Clevedon in South West 1 on Saturday.   more...

Oxfordshire Whats On

Review: Millennium People by J.G. Ballard (HarperCollins, £16.99)

Middle-class people of the 21st century will become a dysfunctional lot indeed if they ever get to resemble the creatures described in J.G. Ballard's Millennium People (HarperCollins, £16.99).   more...

Review: Down with love (12A)

The attractive pairing of McGregor and Miss Zellweger is, the producers tell us, an attempt to revive the spirit of those Doris Day-Rock Hudson romantic comedies of the 1950s and 60s.   more...

Review: Bright Young Things (15)

Comedian Stephen Fry makes his film directorial debut with this adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1920s novel, Vile Bodies.   more...

Review: Madam Bovary (Oxford Playhouse)

Their special gift is to turn the pre-Freudian into the post-Freudian," remarks Fay Weldon, creator of the script for Madame Bovary which is Shared Experience's latest venture.   more...

Profile: The Wannadies

Autumn in Sweden. The leaves are turning to gold in the southern forests, and if you are lucky, you may see the first traces of the ghostly Northern Lights on the horizon.   more...

Chancellor at church

The Chancellor of Oxford University, Chris Patten, will attend a gala supper on October 3 at St Aldate's Church, Oxford.   more...

Review: Bad Boys II (15)

Martin Lawrence and Will Smith reunite with director Michael Bay for this sequel to the hit 1995 action comedy.   more...

Review: Iris Murdoch as I knew her by A.N. WILSON (Hutchinson, £18.99)

A bout of literary pugilism is always enjoyable to watch. One thinks, in recent years, of Paul Theroux's sudden turning on his old literary mentor V.S.Naipaul in Sir Vidia's Shadow or Roger Lewis's hilarious hatchet job on the reputation of Anthony Burgess (among others) in his recent biography of the posturing polyglot.   more...

Review: Serjeant Musgrave's Dance Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham

Famous though it is, excellent though it is, John Arden's anti-war drama Serjeant Musgrave's Dance has never done well at the box office.   more...

Profile: Cara Dillon

With a voice that could charm the very angels, it is no   more...

'We've a lot to learn from the French'

I recognised him immediately. So did everyone else in the pub -- after all this was the chef whose new Channel 4 foodie series French Leave, attracted more than three million viewers when it went on air two weeks ago.   more...

Get planting for charity

A cancer charity is looking for volunteers to help plant 15,000 daffodil bulbs.   more...

Twinners meet

The German group of the Town Twinning Association is meeting at the civic hall at 8pm on October 2.   more...

  
Restrict search to 4 October 2003