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Stories for 18 March 2003

Oxfordshire Business

Biotech firm still looking for offers

Biotech company Oxford GlycoSciences is looking for new companies interested in taking it over after withdrawing support for an all-share bid by rival Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT). more...

Oxfordshire Education

Single-sex lessons bring about improved standards

Single-sex lessons at Oxfordshire's poorest performing school are raising standards, according to teachers and pupils. more...

Oxfordshire News

Cash boosts training for care staff

Training for thousands of care workers in Oxfordshire has been given a £100,000 boost. more...

Grant helps train new Samaritans

The Samaritans have received a £300 grant from the Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell to help train new volunteers in Oxfordshire. more...

Diocese did not order church to quit

Your lead story, Diocese orders church to go (Oxford Mail, March 6), was factually inaccurate, and your editorial was plain wrong. more...

Charity enjoys suspense

Hundreds of thousands of pounds were raised across Oxfordshire at the weekend as people pitched for Red Nose Day 2003. more...

Money wasted on traffic scheme

So Headley Way at Headington, Oxford, has been given the go-ahead for a pedestrian crossing, with a possibility of another near St Joseph's School. more...

Pensioners opt to have flu injection

The vast majority of pensioners in Oxfordshire opted to have a flu jab this winter. more...

Children deserve praise for demo

I observed the anti-war demonstration organised by Oxford schoolchildren as a proud parent (Oxford Mail, March 14). more...

Three hundred school pupils take to the streets to protest about this maddening drive to war. What an amazing show of solidarity with Iraqi school children. What an inspiration. What a grasp of social morality in this privatised world. more...

No hiding place for MP over war

Many people have negative perceptions of Rose Hill, Oxford, so it was great for the estate to be on the map for something so positive as the anti-war demo at The Oval (Oxford Mail, March 8). more...

Tenants face big rise in charges

I have received a letter from Oxford City Council telling me that my house rent is going up by 5.7 per cent and my garage rent by 20.75 per cent. more...

Protesting with consent

In response to your front page article and editorial on `rioting pupils' (Oxford Mail, March 14), I would like to put forward a parent's perspective. more...

Orinoco is back in the hunt for scrap

An Oxford charity is relaunching its popular service recycling scrap for creative activities, after a six-month gap. more...

Residents support bicycling bobbies

A poll of attitudes to policing in east Oxford has revealed officers on bicycles are popular with residents. more...

Shop must shut to save cash, councillor insists

City council leaders have refused to reconsider a decision to close a one-stop shop in north Oxford. more...

One step beyond for officer

A police inspector whose career has taken him one step beyond Oxfordshire to influence national policies is to receive a long-service award. more...

Volunteers blitz litter

Volunteers gave their community a spring clean by spending a morning picking up other people's litter in Wheatley. more...

Kassam ranked 19th on Asian rich list

Oxford United owner Firoz Kassam will appear in this year's list of Britain's richest Asians. more...

Police seek two witnesses

Police believe two men may have witnessed a robbery in Oxford. more...

Land deal clears way for £2.25m sports centre

A land deal has been agreed to allow a £2.25m Centre of Excellence for cricket and rugby to be built in Oxford. more...

Sticking to tradition

Six hundred people took part in this year's World Pooh Sticks championships at Little Wittenham, near Didcot. more...

March 18: Back our troops

Our thoughts today are with the British troops, particularly those from Oxfordshire, who are on the brink of war with Iraq. more...

Walk proves eye-opener

A campaign to make Banbury safer for blind people has been launched by town mayor Tony Mepham. more...

Ex-slaughterman slit victim's throat

A former slaughterman slit the throat of a moneylender and cut his telephone cord so that he could not call for help as he bled to death, a court heard. more...

Motorcyclist dies at scene

A motorcyclist has died in a three-vehicle collision on the A41 at Woodham, between Waddesdon and Bicester. Andrew Duggan, 50, from the Bicester area, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which happened at 1.50pm on Saturday, March 15. more...

Event aims to get villages on line

Residents in rural areas of Oxfordshire are being invited to an advice session on ways to close the technology gap between them and people in towns. more...

Traffic curbs demanded by residents

Residents who fear a new health centre, supermarket and school will tempt more motorists to use their estate as a rat run are demanding traffic calming measures. more...

Microlight makes emergency landing

A microlight aircraft flipped on to its back during an emergency landing in a field near East Hanney. more...

Centre potential for arts explored

People in Witney are to be asked whether they want to make better use of the town's Corn Exchange as a performing arts centre. more...

Shop chain gifts help school

Penhurst School in Chipping Norton has received a makeover courtesy of shop chain Argos. more...

March 14: City centre mayhem

There is no excuse for the chaos which brought Oxford city centre to a standstill yesterday, however strongly children may feel about a possible war with Iraq. more...

March 17: Progress at a cost

It was announced today that David Highton is leaving his job at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, a decision mutually agreed with his colleagues and Thames Valley Health Authority. more...

March 1: Rip-off at the pumps

It's official - motorists in Oxford are paying through the nose for their petrol. more...

March 15: Accolades

We offer our congratulations to the police, whose detective work led to substantial jail sentences for five Jamaican drug dealers in Oxford. more...

March 12: Rip-off at the pumps

It's official - motorists in Oxford are paying through the nose for their petrol. more...

Call to recruit specials

Wallingford's mayor has renewed his call for people to become special constables to help tackle the problem of loutish behaviour in the town. more...

Dogs back up RAF guards

A team of guard dogs has joined the sentries who patrol RAF Benson, near Wallingford. more...

Development to bring new shops

Abingdon's town centre will get a much-needed boost this summer when two new shops open in one of the oldest buildings in the High Street, the former Braggs Cycles shop. more...

Why the car run is a necessity

I am one of the parents who drive their children to school and cause "chaos" in Caldecott Road, Abingdon (Oxford Mail, February 27). more...

On the right track

Trains may be on the wrong track as far as the public is concerned but their popularity in miniature form shows no sign of running out of steam. more...

We'll shut down city if there's war, warn protesters

Peace campaigners are planning to shut down Oxford on the day that war breaks out with Iraq. more...

Hospital takes up position on pitch

The new £50m private hospital being built at Oxford United's former football ground is taking shape. more...

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