Stories for 3 May 2000

Oxfordshire Business

Uniting young minds

Maggie Hartford looks at how trade unions are taking to the classroom to get across their message Pictures of the Rover Cabriolet and the new Mini adorn the walls of the technology classroom where Year 11 are having a careers talk. But they are not being asked whether they want to work at the car factory, with children or animals, or if they have an aptitude for numbers. Instead, postman Mr Tony Clack is talking about dog bites.   more...

Nurture creativity to grow

Innovation is the key to good business, writes Bob Muller, director of the Oxford Institute  more...

Share research to fuel success

Dr Allyson Reed, director of marketing and business development at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, describes how a collabroative approach adds to the enterprise economy of Oxfordshire  more...

Motorway helps business

The M40 is moving business in Oxfordshire into top gear, according to a survey.   more...

Help for firms seeking cash

A SCHEME to help hi-tech Oxfordshire businesses to track down cash backing was launched today, writes David Duffy.  more...

Oxfordshire Internet

Anna's a virtual newsreader

Who needs real people to read out the Web news bulletins? asks David McManus   more...

Anna's a virtual newsreader

Who needs real people to read out the Web news bulletins? asks David McManus?   more...

Mayor condemns Internet attack

A Web site which describes Abingdon as "cut off in almost every way from the rest of the world" and "easily forgotten by travellers" has been condemned.  more...

Net rewards for two firms

Business Link Heart of England TEC sponsored two rapidly growing Oxfordshire companies at a top level e-business conference in Oxford.  more...

Graduate starts up e-jobs firm

Former Oxford Union president Lucy Aitkens has launched an Internet recruitment firm exclusively for Oxbridge graduates.  more...

History set to go online

Historic buildings in the county are to be photographed and the pictures recorded in an Internet archive.  more...

Oxfordshire Leisure

Performances: Five to catch

A selection of forthcoming shows you won't want to miss . . .  more...

We love you, yeh, yeh, yeah

BEETLEMANIA is back more than half a century after Volkswagen put the original car on sale, writes David Duffy.  more...

The quickest Kwak

IT happens to everyone who has ever slung their leg over a bike. At some point, they will make a complete ass of themselves in front of an appreciative audience, writes John Gilbride.  more...

The shape of things to come?

HYUNDAI has unveiled a vision of its family car of the future, writes David Duffy.  more...

Motoring briefs

Top award  more...

Sneak peek

THE motorcycling Mayor of Didcot, Trevor Louch, had a sneak preview of the Victory motorbike when he visited E.P Barrus in Bicester.  more...

Oxfordshire News

Mayor in hot water over pool power

Town mayor Mike Le Mesurier has been given a public ticking off for not leaving things to the professionals.  more...

Playing fast and Lucy

Once accused of smudging the ivory tower, Lucy Aitkens is now busy rebuilding it. The former Oxford Union president has launched an Internet recruitment firm exclusively for Oxbridge graduates.  more...

Estate denies 'greed' over play charges

The Blenheim Estate has denied it is being greedy after introducing new charges for the use of its adventure playground.  more...

Seat scheme will tighten up safety

Motorists are making sure their child passengers are as safe as possible, following the launch of a new road safety initiative.  more...

Surf's up for seniors

Age was no barrier for the 25 windsurfing veterans who took to the water at Farmoor over the weekend.  more...

What's so frightening?

George Frew finds Ann Widdecombe is not as formidable as she seems Feeling like one of Lord Raglan's doomed 600 Cherrypickers charging into the Valley of Death, I enter the swish portals of Oxford's Randolph Hotel to make my appointment with the formidable Ann Widdecombe.  more...

DIY teachers in class of their own

Bullying is often the spark, though it can be religion. For Ben Morris and his father, Tim, a row over geography homework on a miserable Sunday afternoon seemed to have been the great catalyst, while for Mrs Wendy Plested it all came down to her eldest daughter's slow descent into agoraphobia.  more...

Long wait continues for David Blagdon

A damp fog hung round Lindholme Prison in South Yorkshire yesterday morning as a three-strong parole board team gathered to consider the case of lifer David William Blagdon.  more...

Where have all the voters gone?

Zahra Borno reflects on the state of democracy in the run-up to Thursday's local elections.  more...

Swearing on a new moral code

If anyone in Whitehall is likely to play Mr Clean, it's Tony Blair. Those little annoyances, that for most of us go almost unnoticed, offend his sensibility making his eyes pop and that perma smile go a little awry, writes Zahra Borno.  more...

Oxfordshire Sport

Football: United stay in Division 2

Oxford was today breathing a sigh of relief as United were saved from relegation. The club owe it all to Gillingham, who beat Cardiff City 4-1 at home last night. It was enough to guarantee another season of second division football and safeguard jobs at the Manor Ground.  more...

Cricket: Kidlington welcome newcomer

Newcomers Kidlington add all-rounder Mark Strong, who was at Stokenchurch last season, to their ranks in Division 3A of the Classic Press Cherwell Cricket League.  more...

Rugby: Silver lining for Chippy

Chipping Norton, who spent much of the season fighting against relegation, ended with some silverware as they beat Littlemore 21-11 in the final of the county's consolation competition at Gosford All Blacks' new Stratfield Brake ground.  more...

Rugby: Rampant Oxon set fair for quarters

OXfordshire virtually secured their place in the quarter-finals in the Tetley's Bitter County Championship when they made it two emphatic wins out of two in South Pool 2 at Bournemouth.  more...

Football: Strong given late reprieve

Striker Dwaine Strong has had a dramatic reprieve from a one-match ban and will play for injury-ravaged Oxford City in tonight's Oxfordshire Senior Cup final against old rivals Thame United at the Manor Ground (7.30).  more...

Speedway: Cheetahs axe falls

Oxford Cheetahs have made the first change to their new line-up by dropping No 7 Jon Underwood.  more...

Football: Witney sue ref in pitch row

Marriotts Stadium Limited, who rent their pitch to Witney Town, are taking legal action against Swindon referee Bob Desmond following the recent abandoned game against Dartford.  more...

Cricket: It's Wales in NatWest

Oxfordshire will take face Wales Minor Counties in the second round of cricket's NatWest Trophy in Cardiff on Tuesday, May 16.  more...