Stories for 19 February 2000

Oxfordshire News

New manor for Kassam

Oxford United chairman Firoz Kassam has a new manor, write David Duffy and Phil Clee.  more...

That was the week that was WOW!

Air kisses and absurd outfits, champagne and tantrums...Yes, it was London Fashion Week this week, when the fashion pack descended on the capital for parties and shows - and to find out what the well-dressed Brit will be wearing next winter, writes Georgina  more...

Chance to revive city canal gem

The classic Joni Mitchell song Big Yellow Taxi could almost have been about the Oxford Canal Basin, writes Reg Little. "Don't it always seem to go, but you don't know what you've got 'till it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."  more...

This is a woman's world

Firefighting has always been seen as a man's job, with hot, smoky conditions, gruesome car wrecks, huge fire engines and macho locker-room banter, writes Rebecca Smith.  more...

Straw to act on killer companies

Home Secretary Jack Straw will publish proposals next month for a new law of corporate killing - a move campaigned for vigorously by the Oxford Mail.  more...

'Postcode lottery' hits deaf

New parents in Oxfordshire could be unaware that their children are deaf because health chiefs will not fund £13 hearing tests for newborn babies, writes Victoria  more...

Bookworms get a say on library cash

Library users have been promised a say in how a £190,000 injection into the county's library service should be used, writes Reg Little.  more...

Stadium still under threat

News of Mr Kassam's purchase of Heythrop Park came on the same day that he issued another veiled threat that he might walk away if obstacles are not removed from his ambition to complete Oxford United's new stadium at Minchery Farm, writes David Duffy.  more...

We're rally having smiles of fun

When children at Helen House Hospice were told they were going to spend a day at the Silverstone Rally School, a look of disbelief came over their faces, writes Victoria Owen.  more...

£32,000 keeps kids amused

Youngsters in Oxfordshire are to benefit from a £32,000 Lottery cash boost for after-school activities, writes Tim Hughes.  more...

Persistent burglar jailed for break-ins

Persistent burglar Noel Costello cut phone wires in an elderly couple's home and disabled their stair-lift so he wouldn't be caught, writes Andrew Ffrench.  more...

Oxfordshire Sport

James is king of the South

NINE-year-old James Harris has won the South of England Cyclo-Cross Championship in his first full season.  more...

Judge's no learner when it comes to coaching

ONE of the stars of Oxford United's Milk Cup victory at Wembley is back helping the club try to recapture some of their glory days.  more...

Crosby: I should have stayed

MALCOLM Crosby has admitted he made the wrong decision by leaving Oxford United when he passed over the job of being their permanent manager.  more...