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Stories for 27 April 2000

Oxfordshire Business

Cowley to build new BMW cars

Plans for a massive boost in car production at Cowley as exclusively forecast in the Oxford Mail were unveiled today, writes David Duffy. more...

Pair put sales in the picture

Two entrepreneurs are setting up the world's fastest-growing Internet photogallery. more...

Oxfordshire Education

School talks break down

Union leaders and education bosses have scrapped talks over Oxford's controversial schools shake-up. more...

Oxfordshire Leisure

PREVIEW: Gigs this week, April 27-May 3

Mark S takes a look at what's coming up at venues around the county. more...

Time for the biggest ball of all...

Cyberpace gear, sexy clubwear and tight fitting spangly pants will be the order of the day as 15,000 clubbers descend on the county for the biggest party of the summer festival season, writes Nick Evans. more...

Spotlight: Unbelievable Truth

Unbelievable Truth, in real terms, launched their career with local label Shifty Disco. 'Building' was the second single to be released via the then fledgling shifty disco singles club, writes Templeton Blake. more...

Exhibition: Contemporary Baskets, Oxford Gallery (until May 25)

Each of the 39 pieces in this exhibition challenges the everyday and even humdrum image that basket making often has, writes Anne James. more...

Review: Mack & Mabel, Oxford Playhouse

A full house gave a warm welcome last night (Wednesday) to an impressive first performance in the city of the hit musical Mack & Mabel from the talented youngsters of the Musical Youth Company of Oxford, writes Chris Gray. more...

Oxfordshire News

Oxon: Teachers likely to strike over pay deal

Teachers in Oxfordshire are likely to back plans for a one-day strike over Government plans to link their pay with pupils' exam results, say union leaders, writes Roseena Parveen. more...

Oxford: Hospital blamed for cash let down

Health cash for Oxfordshire could be cut because one hospital has failed to reduce its waiting lists, writes Victoria Owen. more...

Abingdon: Reservoir plan surfaces again

Plans to build a giant reservoir in the Abingdon and Wantage areas that would serve five million people in the South East have been resurrected, writes Karen Rosine. more...

Witney: Hague drops in

Tory leader William Hague was surrounded by more press advisers than police officers during a low-key walkabout in Witney. more...

Oxford: Pioneering treatment goes on trial

Fifty patients in Oxfordshire are to have cement injected into their spines as pain relief for their brittle bone disease, writes Victoria Owen. more...

Oxford: Kirsty hopes to help Iraqi children

Kirsty Gathergood is prepared to risk a prison sentence by taking medicine to Iraqi children, writes Richard Abbott. more...

Wallingford: Weather forces pool to wrap up

Youngsters looking forward to a bank holiday dip at a riverside pool will be left high and dry. more...

Henley: It's time for me to go, says Hezza

Henley MP Michael Heseltine is to stand down from Parliament at the next General Election, he announced today. more...

Headington: Women check out nude talent

A group looking for men willing to spare their blushes and strip off for a nude calendar has been inundated with offers from women. more...

Burford: Work ban on clerk who stole

A solicitors' clerk who stole from his firm's clients was barred from working in a legal office without permission from the Law Society. more...

Ewan scribes his way to short-list

The British film industry could not be in better shape. Smash hit successes including Notting Hill and Shakespeare In Love have put it back on the map once and for all, writes Zahra Borno. more...

Discover the real you

Ever wondered why you don't get on with the boss or your colleague irritates you? Anna Melville-James took the test to prove it's all down to your personality type more...

Women hold secrets to our clan past

Bryan Sykes has traced his family tree back, way back, back almost to the Garden of Eden. And now the Oxford Professor of Human Genetics has identified seven women who are the mothers of Europe. more...

Cowley to build new BMW cars

Plans for a massive boost in car production at Cowley as exclusively forecast in the Oxford Mail were unveiled today, writes David Duffy. more...

Why I spoke up for the Jewish faith

Eyebrows have been raised by the widely publicised comments of the Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Rev Richard Harries, over his suggestion that some believers who find it difficult to accept certain teachings of Christianity should enbrace Judaism. Here is the full text of his message written in Manna, the journal of the Sternberg Centre for Judaism in north London. Judge for yourself if he is being out-reaching or outrageous. more...

Abingdon: Reservoir plan surfaces again

Plans to build a giant reservoir in the Abingdon and Wantage areas that would serve five million people in the South East have been resurrected, writes Karen Rosine. more...

Hague's hard line on crime

Tory leader William Hague was surrounded by more press advisers than police officers. more...

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