Stories for 21 July 2005

Oxfordshire Local Info

Doris Aldridge

Singer Doris Aldridge, who was dubbed 'Auntie Doris of the BBC' during the 1930s and 1940s, has died at her Burford home, aged 94.   more...

Carol Humphreys

A well-respected member of the paediatric team at Oxford's Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre has died of cancer at the age of 51.   more...

Oxfordshire News

It was just a mistake

I can't understand why you made such a fuss over a letter with the wrong post date on it (Oxford Mail, July 14).   more...

£70k is excessive

I was astounded to read that a new director of fundraising for the new Children's Department of the John Radcliffe Hospital is to be offered a salary of £70,000 (Oxford Mail, July 12).   more...

Keen recyclers swamp centre

Residents are taking to recycling with so much gusto they are forcing the Redbridge recycling centre in Oxford to close on occasions.   more...

Slow result

Residents in Mill Street, Oxford, are celebrating after winning a 10-year campaign to have 'Slow' signs painted on their road.   more...

'Quitting fags saved my leg'

Trevor Fortt believes hospital staff saved his leg from amputation when they helped him give up smoking.   more...

Heart attack theory in fatal crash

A young father was killed after his car drove across two lanes of traffic and hit a tree, an inquest heard.   more...

Immigration centre 'still on'

Plans for a removals centre for failed asylum seekers, on the site of the scrapped immigration centre near Bicester, are still very much under way, Immigration Minister Tony McNulty said in Oxford.   more...

Crash boy goes home

Anton Dublin has become the latest survivor of the Eastern Bypass crash to be released from hospital.   more...

Touchline tantrums

It is understandable that parents should show passion -- even bias -- when watching their sons and daughters on the football field.   more...

Tory breached conduct code

MP Tony Baldry has been ordered to apologise to the House of Commons for breaching the MPs' code of conduct.   more...

Fear over pub hours

Concern over antisocial behaviour is growing as pubs and clubs prepare to take advantage of new licensing laws to apply for extended opening hours.   more...

Farewell party for sacked manager

Families and friends of the former manager of the new Family Centre in Abingdon are holding a special party to bid her farewell.   more...

We must build more homes

Attempts by a Conservative-dominated South East England Regional Assembly (Seera) to stop a democratically-elected Government plan to tackle the housing crisis is disgraceful (Oxford Mail, July 15).   more...

London blasts

Explosions have sparked the evacuation of three Tube stations in London and the closure of three lines, but the incidents appear to be minor.   more...

Final whistle for bad dads

Parents abusing referees at children's football matches risk seeing their sons given the red card under a new proposal.   more...

Oxfordshire Sport

Football: Talbot's backing the kids

Brian Talbot says that he will not be scared of using Oxford United's promising youngsters this season.   more...

Tennis: Three defeats, but Oxon refuse to give up hope

Oxfordshire's women lost their third successive Division 1 fixture at Eastbourne yesterday when they went down 6-3 to Surrey - but they haven't given up hope of avoiding the drop.   more...

Football: Joyce vows to carry on playing

Thame United's new boss Tony Joyce has vowed to carry on playing after taking over the helm of the Southern League Division 1 West club, writes NICK FARRANT.   more...

Football: Strudley stars for old boys

Wallingford Old Boys goalkeeper Paul Strudley earned his side victory in an action-packed Robin Antonowicz memorial tournament.   more...

Golf: Eddie denied by on-song Lane

Promising junior Eddie Pepperell had to be content with second place in the BB&O Courage Trophy after being beaten by a man 50 years his senior.   more...

Bowls: County strike at the double

Oxfordshire gained their second successive Home Counties Premier League win with a 135-122 shot victory over Kent at South Oxford.   more...

Bowls: Oxon go marching on in pole position

Oxfordshire ran out 199-155 winners away to West Sussex in their section of the English Short Mat Bowling Association Inter County Summer Competiton.   more...