Stories for 10 February 2000

Oxfordshire Business

Support for small firms

PEOPLE running small businesses in Oxfordshire can find out more about the support available at an advice day being held next week at Oxford Town Hall.  more...

Oxfordshire News

Flood of support for little Joe

The fund to help little Joe Smith communicate with the outside world today stands at almost £3,000.  more...

How Bullingdon is winning the war with drug dealers

Every lunchtime a cluster of women stands patiently outside Bullingdon Prison waiting to be ushered into the visitors hall to see their menfolk, writes Zahra Borno. The day I saw them they were blue from the freezing cold and their eyes were haunted with anxiety.  more...

Americans or the Brits - who has the last laugh?

Tonight the Oxford Union debates whether British comedy is superior to American. George Frew (UK) and amanda Castleman (USA) slug it out first. We gave them Charlie Chaplin, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, writes George Frew. They gave us... Friends.  more...

Technology pulls plug on studios

World-famous recording studios in Oxfordshire have closed due to lack of business, writes Nick Evans.  more...

Golf ball farmer is still tee-d off

Farmer Hubert East has won £1,000 compensation after being bombarded with stray golf balls writes Paul Warner.  more...

Prisoner witness denies doing deal

A prison inmate denied he "shopped" a suspected murderer to police to get his sentence reduced, writes Phil Clee.  more...

Flattened by the flatpacks

Shopper Nicholas Hardaker was left covered in blood when he went to buy two bookcases - and was buried under a pile of them, writes Richard  more...

Parents' aid plan piloted

A new programme has sprung into action to help single parents Mark Templeton.  more...

Detectives issue appeal after spate of robberies

Police have issued an E-fit of a man wanted for three robberies.  more...

Classroom crisis

The headteacher of an Oxford school today speaks out about the crisis facing her maths classes and her struggle to find a teacher, writes Mark Templeton.  more...

Oxfordshire Sport

FA offer to chair county's EGM

THE Football Association have offered to chair the Oxfordshire FA's extraordinary general meeting, called in the wake of Ron Leaver's sacking as their general secretary.  more...

Great Glenn lands national U25 title

OXFORD'S Glenn Allen stormed to the All-England Under 25s singles indoor bowls title at Nottingham on Sunday, then admitted: "I hate singles!"  more...

Class of '96 say farewell to Aldo

By Jon Murray THE Class of '96 gathered together yesterday to pay their final respects to one of their own, Martin Aldridge.  more...

Davis return gives United a boost

Oxford Utd Res 1, Bristol Rov Res 1 STEVE Davis made a successful comeback for Oxford United Res, who had victory snatched from their grasp in a well-contested Avon Insurance Combination game at the Manor last night.  more...