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  • Davis could return for Lewis's big test

    STEVE Davis came through yesterday's training session in the pouring rain and could be set for a return to the Oxford United side for the Division 2 derby at Reading. Tomorrow morning's live SKY match at the Madejski Stadium (11am) is being regarded as

  • Staff to lose jobs in Unipart merger

    About 30 staff at the Unipart Group of Companies are facing redundancy in the wake of the group's merger. Management teams, working with the help of worker representatives from every grade level, are now looking at job duplications caused by the merger

  • Fresh setback for stadium scheme

    Plans to develop Oxford United's half-built stadium could be further delayed, writes Andrew Ffrench. Last week, it appeared that club owner Firoz Kassam would be able to go ahead with his plans for a hotel and a multiplex cinema next to the stadium at

  • Musician returns to conduct

    Former Oxford High School pupil Sian Edwards, the first woman to conduct the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, is to perform in Oxford next week. Sian, who streaked naked through a school assembly, is due to appear at the Apollo Theatre on November 10 and

  • Asylum seeker sex pest is jailed

    An asylum-seeking sex predator was jailed for two years for indecently assaulting two women. Farid Boudra, of Magdalen Road, Oxford, admitted two charges of indecent assault and one of indecent exposure. Basil Hillman, prosecuting, told Oxford Crown Court

  • They all want the United job!

    OXFORD United have been inundated with applications for the new manager's job, writes JON MURRAY. Chairman Firoz Kassam said that he had received 60 applications, including a number from bosses who had managed at Premiership level. And this has come without

  • Evans exit is Manor bombshell

    MAURICE Evans' decision to resign from Oxford United and join Reading, just hours before tomorrow's Thames Valley derby, came as a bombshell at the Manor Ground. Many of the staff expressed their great disappointment at the loss for the club of a father

  • Youth denies death drive charge

    A teenage motorist has appeared in court charged with causing the death by dangerous driving of a French exchange student. Ole Bonnichsen, 19, of Norfolk Close, Radley, yesterday denied killing thirteen-year-old Charlotte Esciande - who was aged just

  • Tributes to 'modest' Lord

    Friends spoke of "the modest, unassuming" Lord Montague who kept himself to himself. Edward Reily-Collins, managing director of Hallidays Carved Pine, in Dorchester, said the 67-year-old bachelor, who had lived in the village for 20 years, would be deeply

  • Bubbly launch for riverside hotel

    Hundreds of well-wishers joined in the Champagne launch of a new £8.5m hotel on the banks of the River Thames. Heading the guest list at Oxford Spires, on a 40-acre site off Abingdon Road, Oxford, were Oxford East MP Andrew Smith, who was promoted to

  • Hot-shot Lee on crest of a wave

    LEE Richardson has been telling himself to calm down and not get too carried away - after winning what has been described as the best match ever seen in the Benson & Hedges Championship at Malvern. The Thame professional defeated Ireland's in-form

  • Hospitals' food for thought

    It used to be the butt of tired jokes. But as the Millennium approaches hospital food produces few laughs, as we now recognise it to be the great hidden scandal of our national health service. To many it's still incomprehensible that patients in our hospitals

  • Peer dies after collapsing in Lords

    LORD Montague of Oxford, a Labour life peer, died after collapsing in the House of Lords debating chamber. Peers rushed to the aid of the 67-year-old as he slumped in his seat shortly after taking part in a debate on energy yesterday. A Government spokesman