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Oxfordshire | Archive | 2001 | July

Stories for 28 July 2001

Abingdon News

Football: More Abingdon signings promised

Abingdon Town, who open their pre-season programme with a friendly away to Quarry Nomads tomorrow, have made six new signings - with the promise of more to follow. more...

Bicester News

Cricket: Banbury and Bicester in derby clash

Oxfordshire's finest go head to head tomorrow when defending champions Banbury host Bicester & North Oxford in Division 1 of the Premier League. more...

Public consulted over Garth House

Everyone in Bicester will be able to have their say on the future of Garth House at a forthcoming open day. more...

Oxford News

Nurses' homes are back in action

Accommodation for 50 nurses is to be re-opened at Oxford's John Radcliffe in a bid to boost the hospital's recruitment campaign. more...

Jury finds drug dealer guilty

A dealer awaits sentence after a jury found him guilty of possessing heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply. more...

Oxfordshire Leisure

Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream- Pegasus Theatre, until July 28

The Oxford-based Young Actors Company started a run of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Pegasus Theatre on Tuesday, writes Richard Hollingum. more...

Preview: Piano festival - At Hilda's College, from August 5

The Oxford Piano Festival begins on Sunday, August 5 with a masterclass by the festival's founder, Marios Papadopoulos. more...

Summer Festival at Exeter College until August 19

Early music by candlelight can be enjoyed at Exeter College over the next few weeks when members of the popular Charivari Agréable Ensemble perform their annual summer festival. more...

Preview: Brazilian exhibition at MOMA until October 21

The work of 18 of Brazil's most influential and ground-breaking artists will go onshow from July 28 at Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. more...

Preview: Reduced Shakespeare Co. - Playhouse, Oxford - July 30- August 2

The Reduced Shakespeare Company return to the Oxford Playhouse on Monday July 30 to Thursday August 2 complete with doublets and tabards ready to pay tribute to the Bard with their popular show, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). more...

Preview: Masked theatre - touring various venus August 7-9

Trading Faces, the masked theatre company based in Abingdon, will be touring Oxfordshire with their latest production, Double Trouble, a madcap comedy of mistaken identity and unrequited love. more...

Preview: James Bowman sings Bach at New College - July 31

Countertenor James Bowman returns to New College on Tuesday July 31, where he will join forces with the award-winning period instrument group Fiori Musicali in the college chapel. more...

Preview: Songs for a New World - Old Fire Station, Oxford - July 27- August 4

Oxford theatre-goers are being offered a taste of Broadway at the Old Fire Station when Joker 79 Productions stage Songs for a New World, as part of the New Century Arts Festival from Friday, July 27 to August 4). more...

Oxfordshire Marketplace

Harley hits new UK sales record

Harley-Davidson UK registered a third successive record sales year in 2000 with 2,892 motorcycles sold, up 12% on 1999. more...

Broker offers one-stop shop

A new 'insure yourself' scheme is being piloted in Oxfordshire that could change the way the rest of the UK conducts its insurance business. more...

Oxfordshire News

Prison development plan gets go-ahead

Developers have been given the green light to build a hotel and leisure complex on the historic Oxford Prison site, writes Philip Seton-Anderson. more...

Report slams postal bosses and workers

Postal services in Oxfordshire face more disruption unless managers and staff improve industrial relations, a report said today. more...

Cabbie guilty of indecent assault

A taxI driver is awaiting sentence for indecently assaulting a young woman passenger. more...

Pub brawl 'caused fatal heart attack'

A pathologist has told a court a man suffered a heart attack because of the stress of seeing members of his family become involved in a pub brawl. more...

Storm over roadworks

Council workmen finished resurfacing a road one day - and Thames Water dug it up the next. more...

Traders' joy at parking u-turn

Councillors have reversed one aspect of the controversial Oxford Transport Strategy by allowing the return of short-stay parking to Broad Street, writes Andrew Ffrench. more...