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Stories for 19 January 2001

Oxfordshire Business

Record breakers: Oxfordshire Business Awards

New sponsors, new categories and a new look await firms in this year's Oxfordshire Business Awards. Now in their seventh year, the awards are set to build on the record-breaking response to last year's event. more...

Record backing for 'new-look' awards

New sponsors, new categories and a new look await firms in this year's Oxfordshire Business Awards. more...

Biotech firm is tops for quality

Biotechnology company Serotec has won an international quality award for the design, development, manufacture and supply of its products. more...

Building a wider Web

Staff at Oxfordshire's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Didcot, will play a key role in developing an advanced global computing network. more...

Pub refit sparks jobs search

A 1m refurbishment of an Oxfordshire pub will create more than 30 new full and part-time jobs. more...

Oxfordshire Education

Broad Street outcry

Four Oxford college heads have joined an alliance calling for an end to "clutter and mess" in Broad Street. more...

Oxfordshire Internet

Just what is Ginger's secret?

Have you heard the news about Ginger? No, I'm not talking about a certain bespectacled DJ and his relationship with a teenage pop star. You can read the tabloids for that kind of nonsense. The exciting and interesting Ginger I am talking about is a project that has got the world of technology and certain corners of the Internet buzzing, writes David McManus. more...

Oxfordshire Leisure

The Wife of Bath: Pegasus Theatre, Oxford

Popular local theatre company Trading Faces returns to the Pegasus Theatre tomorrow night with The Wife of Bath one of their most successful shows. more...

Stuart to keep track of wolves in India

Carpenter Stuart Bell is to leave the cosy comforts of Oxford to track wild wolves in India. more...

Aspiring artists show off

The first Didcot Youth Art exhibition - Art 2000 - attracted nearly 30 entries. more...

Review: Ring2 at the ICA in The Mall

One of the reasons why Ring proved so popular with critics and audiences alike was its unblinking refusal to answer every question it raised. This sense of ambiguity chimed in perfectly with the vogue for irrational horror created by The Sixth Sense and The Blair Witch Project, writes David Parkinson. more...

Review: Points of View

It's 20 years since Ellen Burstyn last warranted Oscar recognition. Having picked up a nod for The Exorcist (1973), she won the coveted statuette in 1975 for her performance in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, writes David Parkinson. more...

Review: Kiss Me Kate at the National Film Theatre

Shot in Ansco Color and MGM's Metrovision Tri-Dee process, this adaptation of Cole Porter's stage musical relies heavily on the 3-D effects that have been restored for this special reissue. But, it's not just Hermes Pan and Bob Fosse's dance routines that have been tailored to exploit the 3-D effect, writes David Parkinson. more...

Preview: The Apartment at the Phoenix

Billy Wilder's Oscar-winning comedy was abysmally bowdlerised last year by Amy Heckerling in Loser. It was Wilder's follow-up to Some Like It Hot and it ranks as his last unqualified classic, writes David Parkinson. more...

Relatively Speaking: at The Mill at Sonning

A curious omission from the Mill at Sonning's programme for its new production of Relatively Speaking is the information - surely not without interest to theatregoers - that Lucy Fleming, one of the four members of its cast, is reviving a role originally created in the West End by her mother, Celia Johnson. more...

Young musician winner at the University Church - January 27

The award-winning Oxford pianist Tom Poster will be performing with the Oxford Sinfonia on Saturday January 27, at the University Church. more...

Preview: Bedroom Farce at the Oxford Playhouse: January 23 - 27

Alan Ayckbourn is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Bedroom Farce by taking it on tour. This hit comedy about relationships and pilchards on toast, is at the Oxford Playhouse from Tuesday to Saturday. more...

Which book made its mark on you?

Students are being asked to pinpoint the book that has had the most impact on their lives to win a survival kit worth 1,350. more...

Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin And End by Charles Jennings

Made famous by Wren's buildings on the Thames waterfront used as a hospital, naval college and now a university over five centuries, Greenwich enjoyed massive Royal patronage from the Tudors onwards. more...

The Mentor by Sebastian Stuart (Piatkus, 5.99)

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Still Waters by Tami Hoag (Orion, 5.99)

This has been reissued following the success of Hoag's more recent books. This one is about Elizabeth Stuart, looking for a new home for herself and her son to recover from a particularly bruising divorce. Still Creek, hidden in the lush Amish farmlands of Minnesota, seems the perfect place. But the locals are distinctly cool to the newcomers and when Elizabeth becomes involved in a murder case, she realises that there is a lot more to life in Still Creek than meets the eye. more...

The Secret Woman - The Virago Book of Classic Short Stories ed. Lynn Knight

Marriages and love affairs inevitably figure large in this anthology, ideal for dipping into to sample the best women's writing over the past century or so. Relationships contented or otherwise are the focal point in some stories; in others they are simply part of life's upholstery. The authors include Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Elizabeth Taylor, Rosamond Lehmann, Rebecca West, Colette, Antonia White and Edith Wharton. (Virago, 8.99) more...

The Promise of Sleep by William C. Dement (Pan, 6.99)

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The Brian Epstein Story by Deborah Geller (Faber, 8.99)

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Oxfordshire News

Neighbours forced out to escape loud music

A noisy neighbour's music was so loud people living nearby had to abandon their homes just to get a good night's sleep. more...

Historic meadow is turned to quagmire

Horses and cattle have been damaging open spaces in Oxford by grazing there following flooding. more...

Rent shock for college tenant, 81

A second Oxford college has come under fire for hiking rent charges. more...

Cyclist's death prompts alert on blind spots

A cyclist died after being crushed beneath the wheels of a lorry on one of Oxfords' busiest roads because the driver could not see her in his mirrors, an inquest heard. more...

Wife 'crushed' by death of husband

A mother-to-be has spoken about the loss of her "fantastic" husband after he was killed following a night out in Bicester on Saturday. more...

Sermon is worthy of good book

An Oxford vicar has had one of his sermon's published in The Times Book of Sermons after being nominated by members of his congregation. more...

'Pregnant nurse didn't disgust us'

Dental bosses accused of refusing to buy a nurse a bigger uniform when she was pregnant have denied being disgusted that she was expecting. more...

Store slammed over bag snatch

A shopper whose bag was snatched in a supermarket car park has called on the store to improve its security. more...

Water workers start canal restoration

An ambitious and innovative restoration of part of the Oxford Canal is under way. more...

Broad Street outcry

Four Oxford college heads have joined an alliance calling for an end to "clutter and mess" in Broad Street. more...

Three weeks to save science

Science is in danger of becoming a Cinderella of the school timetable. Physics, chemistry, maths and biology can be tough to understand and rely on good, old-fashioned learning skills. more...

Drugs gang: Judge orders £150,000 be seized from dealers

Judge Anthony King ordered that more than £150,000 should be seized from the drugs gang. more...

Drugs gang: Crime brought no lives of luxury

Defence lawyers argued that although about £2m passed through the gang, the members did not lead lavish lifestyles. more...

Appeal to unite against crime

Police are asking residents to unite against shoplifters in a bid to wipe out a crime that costs thousands of pounds every week in stolen goods and police time. more...

Police warn of bogus workmen

Police in Oxford are warning pensioners to be on their guard against bogus workmen. more...

Assault was just a 'prank'

A brother and sister were kicked and beaten by a pair of Millennium revellers playing a "prank". more...

From Russia with love

An interpreter from the former Soviet Union has been given a taste of Oxfordshire life, after being treated to a holiday in the county by church-goers. more...

Passengers given travel choice

Pensioners and disabled people in South Oxfordshire face a choice over their travel plans. more...

Call for protest funding

Home Secretary Jack Straw is being asked to reverse his decision not to give cash aid for policing protests outside Hillgrove Farm, near Witney, which bred cats for experimentation. more...

£2m drug gang smashed

Key members of a gang in a £2m drugs racket were today starting jail sentences totalling more than 30 years, writes Rebecca Smith. more...

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