Stories for 15 May 2000

Oxfordshire Business

New base boosts firms in fast lane

CREATIVE entrepreneurs are being offered offices at a new innovation centre in Banbury, writes Maggie Hartford.  more...

Oxfordshire Education

Schools in a class of their own

Two single-sex secondary schools have again been confirmed as high-flyers with the grant of 'specialist' status for a further three years.  more...

Oxfordshire Leisure

Give us each day our daily bread...

Anna Melville-James celebrates British Sandwich Week   more...

Oxfordshire News

Tears and smiles for top rider's son

A year after the death of top horserider Peta Beckett, her family and friends masked their sadness with smiles by staging a birthday celebration for her son.  more...

Schools in a class of their own

Two single-sex secondary schools have again been confirmed as high-flyers with the grant of 'specialist' status for a further three years.  more...

Granny, 86, tackles fierce fire

A pensioner put out a fierce blaze at her home without bothering to call the fire brigade, writes Roseena Parveen.  more...

Companies tackle drugs in workplace

More than 40 firms attended a drugs seminar for businesses organised by a boss who lost one of his employees to heroin addiction, writes Roseena Parveen.  more...

Mum's horror as gunman hurts girl

A young mother watched in horror as a gunman hit her child in the face after fleeing from an armed raid on a Oxford post office.  more...

Titanic task to track big iceberg

Scientists are using their expertise and state-of-the-art technology to track the largest iceberg seen in modern times.  more...

Dexter upset at rewrite

INSPECTOR Morse author Colin Dexter is disappointed that TV chiefs have rewritten the detective's death for the small screen.  more...

Cash for sports

Plans to create a major centre for sport have been backed with a 100,000 grant.  more...

Floral tributes left for cyclist

Floral tributes have appeared at the spot where a woman cyclist died in an accident with a tipper lorry.  more...

Colleges to target poorer students

Seven oxford colleges were joining today forces to attract more students from poorer backgrounds.  more...

Give us each day our daily bread...

Anna Melville-James celebrates British Sandwich Week   more...

Plans for riverside brewing

Major improvements to a town's river front are at the centre of redevelopment plans by local brewers.  more...

Superstore cheque out

A playgroup is to receive a 750 donation thanks to the generosity of supermarket staff and customers.  more...

10,000 will buy Lucy legs

Teenager Lucy Tong needs 10,000 to buy a pair of lifelike artificial legs.  more...

Oxfordshire Sport

Rugby Union: It's all over for Oxon

It was a gloomy Oxfordshire camp which made the long trip back from Redruth after Saturday's 27-16 defeat to Cornwall in the last eight of rugby union's Tetley's Bitter County Championship.   more...

Results: May 13-14

Weekend sporting round-up . . .  more...

Rugby Union: Cornwall 27, Oxfordshire 16

Match report by Richard Tilley  more...

Cricket: Oxfordshire CA round-up

Big-hitting Radley batsman Ian Clewley made the Chipping Norton bowlers toil in the afternoon sun as he hit 156 in their Division 4 game, writes ROGER WISE.  more...

Cricket: All-rounder Taylor is Banbury's star

A briilliant all-round display by David Taylor saw Banbury to a comfortable victory over Bicester and North Oxford in the first-ever Home Counties Premier League encounter at White Post Lane on Saturday, writes Michael Knox.  more...

Fixtures: May 15-19

Your online guide to the sporting week in Oxfordshire . . .  more...

Cricket: Oxfordshire prepare for Cardiff

Skipper Rob Williams revealed that Oxfordshire had considered fielding an overseas player for tomorrow's NatWest Trophy second round tie but only in the event of veteran seamer Keith Arnold being unavailable.  more...

Rally: Brilliant Burns is king in Argentina

Oxfordshire's Richard Burns, driving a Subaru Impreza WRC prepared in Banbury, won the Rally of Argentina to extend his lead in the 2000 World Championship to 14 points.  more...

Oxfordshire Talkshop

Seeking old school friends and instructors

From: Mrs T Ringoringo, nee McKnight (mrstringo@aol.com)  more...

Short and sweet

From Jeff Jagger (jai110@hotmail.com)  more...

Testament to willpower

From: MJ Sargeant, of St Peter's Road, Didcot   more...