Stories for 15 February 2000

Oxfordshire Business

Hi-tech warning issued to firms

BUSINESSES in Oxfordshire were warned that failure to take electronic commerce seriously could spell disaster.  more...

Oxfordshire News

Travel guide rough on Oxford's night life

IF you are looking for a wild night out, forget Oxford, says a new travel guide.  more...

Living with the aftermath of meningitis

LUCY Tong sips tea in the kitchen of her family home in Great Boughton, Banbury. She is a pretty, vivacious teenager, dressed in jeans and a T-shirt, who speaks with a self-possession beyond her 17 years.  more...

Concrete future for city oasis?

IT'S difficult to imagine but within a stone's throw of the bars and restaurants that make up Oxford's busy Cowley Road, there exists an ancient haven of rural tranquillity complete with its own roaming deer, writes Mark Templeton.  more...

Man gets life for killing teenager

Killer Mark Numms calmly walked into the offices of the Oxford Mail and boasted of how he had "found" his young victim's body.  more...

Youths face £500 fine for drinking in street

NEW laws to curb youths who drink in public places are to come into effect in Faringdon on March 6.  more...

Car 'clocking' device inventor jailed

OXFORD computer expert Colin Whittall was jailed for nine months for promoting a hi-tech device to 'clock' car mileage readings.  more...

Students 'too shocked' to talk of death fall

POLICE are still trying to piece together the last hours of an Oxford University student who died after plunging 200ft from a builders' crane, as reported on This Is Oxfordshire yesterday (Monday).  more...

Rustlers slaughter bull at side of road

RUSTLERS stunned a bull with a high-voltage gun and then slaughtered it by the roadside, police revealed today.  more...

Walker dies in train horror

A MAN was killed after he walked into the path of a high speed train.  more...

Tough new targets for police

TOUGH new targets have been set for Thames Valley Police to reduce burglary and car crime drastically over the next five years.  more...

Oxfordshire Sport

MOTOCROSS: Wheeler survives mayhem

ABINGDON'S Darren Wheeler was the best placed local junior rider in Oxford Ixion's St Valentine's Massacre Motocross meeting at a sunny Culham on Sunday.  more...

RUGBY: Oxford set to plumb the rugby depths

Chipping Norton 40, Oxford 17  more...

DARTS: Newcomer gives Dutch ace a fright

NIGEL Russell made it an A team debut to savour when he came up against Dutch star Roland Scholton in Oxfordshire's latest Inter-County Championship match against Leicestershire at Berinsfield at the weekend.  more...

UNITED LATEST: Smith blasts bad boys

DENIS Smith finished Valentine's Day by insisting his Oxford United players were getting far too many cards.  more...