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Stories for 07 May 2004

Oxfordshire Business

Newsagent's sold, jobs safe

WH Smith store in Headington, Oxford, will shut tomorrow because managers say the shop is too small.   more...

Oxfordshire Education

Muslims' battle for school looks lost

Muslim families look to have lost their long battle for a state-funded Islamic school in Oxford.   more...

Oxfordshire News

Bloom honour at risk

The days of floral glory may be fading fast for Oxfordshire's towns and villages as they face the prospect of exclusion from the Britain in Bloom contest.   more...

Tidiness costs wildlife dear

Sir -- Can I please renew my annual campaign to deter South Oxfordshire District Council from defacing the countryside with their trashing machines?   more...

Protesting against deathly silence

Sir -- I remember a time when north Oxford residents protested against the move of Oxford United to the leafy environs of our fair city -- 'Not in my back yard,' was the cry!   more...

Parking scheme approved

A controlled parking zone to stop commuters' cars clogging up Headington's streets has been rubber-stamped.   more...

Muslims' battle for school looks lost

Muslim families look to have lost their long battle for a state-funded Islamic school in Oxford.   more...

Killer guilty of hostage attempt

A violent killer has been found guilty of holding a female warder hostage in his prison cell with a weapon he made out of razor blades.   more...

Paedophile waits for retrial decision

A paedophile is waiting to find out if he will face a retrial for rape after a jury convicted him of a string of sex offences against young girls, but failed to reach a verdict on the most serious allegations against him.   more...

Remembering the fallen

Buglers played The Last Post in a moving tribute to nine Oxford brewery staff who died during the First World War.   more...

Colourful MP promoted

MP Boris Johnson has been promoted to the Conservative Party front bench.   more...

Culture cash bid goes in

Oxford has submitted a bid for £600,000 of Lottery money to help cushion the blow of not becoming the 2008 European Capital of Culture.   more...

Griving family gives £13,000

A GRIEVING family rebuilding their lives after the tragic deaths of brother and sister Tom and Hazel McIntyre has passed on more than £13,000 to charities helping terminally ill children.   more...

May 7: Wise words from Dr Reid

If you're about to tuck into a burger and chips, then round it off with a post-meal cigarette, look away now.   more...

Teenager cleared of rape

A teenager has been cleared of raping a 17-year-old girl during a night out to celebrate his A-Level results.   more...

Residents plan how to tackle troublemakers

A plan has been drafted to combat antisocial behaviour on a Bicester housing estate where a doctor was attacked.   more...

Georgina goal

It's time to say goodbye to the boys and and strike out with another football team for Georgina Stone, the only girl who has ever played for the Wantage Concords.   more...

Pub fined to the tune of £1,000

Former village pub landlord Carlos Rocha liked playing background music at the Thatched Tavern, in Appleton, near Abingdon -- but one customer didn't like what he heard.   more...

Careful cyclists avoid the scares

Sir -- At the risk of being contrary, every one of the problems encountered in your piece 'A scary way to travel' (Oxford Mail, May 5) can be minimised or avoided by correct technique.   more...

Kassam wants matchday films

Oxford United owner Firoz Kassam has appealed to the Deputy Prime Minister to lift a planning restriction which stops him opening his new cinema on match days.   more...

Back in the firing line

Late night bus services in Blackbird Leys could be scrapped after yobs hurled bricks at another vehicle. Oxford Bus Company's number 5 service was targeted on May 7.   more...

Oxfordshire Whats On

Review: After These Things by Jenny Diski (Little, Brown, £16.99)

Having already reimagined the story of God, Abraham and Sarah as an unstable love triangle in Only Human, After These Things goes on to rework the story of Abraham's descendants, Isaac and Jacob.   more...

Time for a spring clean

It is time for spring cleaning at many of the wine club warehouses and there are some marvellous offers available.   more...

Review: Wonderland (18)

Director James Cox chronicles one of the seedier episodes in Hollywood's none-too-clean history. When police arrive at Wonderland Avenue, they discover four drug dealers have been slaughtered.   more...

Review: Trojan Women (Oxford Playhouse)

It's strange how things sometimes come in pairs. First the Theatre, Chipping Norton, presented the African Collective Artistes company in a vivid, and most successful adaptation of Euripides's tragedy Trojan Women. Now the Playhouse stages a new student production, as part of the Oxford Greek Festival 2004.   more...

Older Young

This exclusive interview with Will Young aims to highlight the first Cornbury Music festival near Charlbury in the summer. The Pop Idol star is headlining the spectacular weekend event which will feature music from, amongst others, Jools Holland and Blondie.   more...

Review: Van Helsing (12A)

This clumsy wannabe-blockbuster focuses on a swaggering Victorian hunter whose mission is to track down and destroy Count Dracula.   more...

Review: Bergdorf Blondes by Plum Sykes (Viking Hardback, £10)

If you think a Brazilian is a foreigner, that PJs are simply pyjamas and an ATM is a hole in the wall, then you haven't met the Bergdorf Blondes.   more...

Blood on the tracks

Throughout the bad old days of British Rail and the more recent heavily subsidised, privatised network, passengers have always found plenty to complain about.   more...

Witch way

Liars are as New York as the Empire State Building or the Staten Island Ferry. So why are the Brooklyn art punks so wrapped up in mid-European folk tales of witches flying on broomsticks?   more...

Supergrass are back in town

Supergrass come home to Oxford on May 7, as Gaz and Robert Coombes, Mick Quinn, and Danny Goffey celebrate their tenth anniversary.   more...

Taking it easy

Hotel California, Take It Easy and Desperado. Hear all your favourite Eagles tunes at the ultimate tribute show to the West Coast country-rockers.   more...

Review: Hi Lo Jamaican Eating House

What is it about me, restaurants and bottoms? At Christmas I sat in Bar Meze in Headington, Oxford, under the watchful gaze of a mooning cherub, which formed part of the festive decorations. Now I drop by Oxford's Caribbean restaurant, only to be ushered to a table directly beneath a latex, life-size posterior pinned to the wall.   more...

It's out of this world

Dave Scott, Apollo 15 Commander, is one of just 12 humans to walk on the Moon.   more...

  
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