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newsjiffy (Free subscription) | yesterday
If, like me, you think not enough is done to tackle homophobia, here is some cheering news from The Oxford Times. The website is Oxhault . Sadly, the "I'm not gay so why should I care" brigade are already mocking. ?, ox on 2:27pm today Surely there are more important issues in the city to be dealing with....... Does ? symbolise this person's questionable judgement?
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Re-infecting pathogens are the latest target for infectious disease control methods. Historically, other infections that illicit life-long solid immunity have been controlled successfully using vaccination. Mathematical techniques are well-established for such infections and have been used to design intervention strategies.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... I find myself involved in this. It's surreal, really." By "this" he means the campaign to save the Oxfordshire village where he and his family have lived for the past 40 years. Weston-on-the-Green, near Bicester, is one of the 15 shortlisted sites across England that could become what the Government calls an eco-town, made up of little green eco-homes, but which Mr Henman and his pressure...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
... The other two are ex-Royal Navy stoker Bill Stone, 107, who was born in Devon but now living in Oxfordshire, and 109-year-old Harry Patch, who lives in Wells, Somerset, the last surviving Tommy to have served on the Western Front. The Government announced two years ago that the death of the last known First World War veteran would be marked by a national memorial service at Westminster Abbey....
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Fulham Reactionary (Free subscription) | yesterday
Race equality council managers refused to give an employee the payrise he had been promised because he was the wrong kind of black, a tribunal has heard. Nolan Victory, 41, claims his bosses, who were all black, ignored his complaints and even bellowed at him because he was from the wrong part of the world. He told an employment tribunal that managers at Oxfordshire Racial Equality Council took...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Three young children and their mother rescued from a fire in Oxfordshire meet the firefighters who saved them.
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Cornish Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cornwall's superior points difference has put Thomas' young side in the driving seat and the experienced coach is hopeful they can make the most of it against an Eastern Counties side, who have won their other two group games."It's a must win game for us," declared Thomas yesterday. "Hertfordshire still have a chance if they beat Oxfordshire by a very big score, but if we win - and we win well...
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Ian Bone (Free subscription) | yesterday
On 17 May 1649, three soldiers were executed on Oliver Cromwell's orders in Burford churchyard, Oxfordshire. They belonged to a movement popularly known as the Levellers, with beliefs in civil rights and religious tolerance. During the Civil War, they fought on Parliament's side, had at first seen Cromwell as a liberator, but now saw him [...]
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The Botheration Log (Free subscription) | yesterday
... caught his trousers. Stuck fast in the cramped upper reaches of St Mary's Church in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, he had to be rescued by firefighters and paramedics. They used a pulley to lower him through a trap door 15ft above ground and down on to a stretcher below. Recovering at home yesterday, Mr Berry, 58, said: “Nothing like this has ever happened before – it gave me a real shock. I think...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
Text Size: Any writer who has struggled to "do the words" would take heart from the epitaph written for himself by Ian Fleming, the raffish Englishman born 100 years ago this month who became one of the most successful authors of his time through the creation of the world's best-loved spy, James Bond.Fleming died in 1964, at 56, of complications from pleurisy after playing a round of golf in Oxfordshire...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nolan Victory, 41, claims his bosses, who were all black, ignored his complaints and even bellowed at him because he was from the wrong part of the world. He told an employment tribunal that managers at Oxfordshire Racial Equality Council took a disliking to him because he was of Caribbean origin and they were from Africa. "The management was made up of black Africans and they discriminated...
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East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | yesterday
... fuel was ignited by a hot pipe in a chamber referred to as Dry Bay Seven.At the inquest, in Oxford, the Air Commodore said: "The fundamental design fault was to have a fuel pipe with couplings in the same compartment as a hot air pipe."The hazard assessment process was an opportunity to catch an inherent design flaw. We didn't catch it. The consequences were catastrophic and appalling."Since...
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fire crews had to lower him through a trap door in the cramped belfry at St Mary's Church in Charlbury, Oxfordshire, using a pulley system.
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Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Oxford (noun): Oxfordshire, a city in England, famous for its university. Oxford Shoe (noun): a style of leather shoe with enclosed lacing. Oxford Shirt (noun): a men's shirt with a collar, a full-length opening up the front from the collar to the hem, and full-length sleeves with cuffs. Oxford Comma (noun): See “Songs By Overhyped Indie Rock Bands,” page 312. Oxford...
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East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
TOP CADETS PROVE THEIR MILITARY METTLE Army cadets from Felbridge have won a competition at Crowborough Training Camp, for their military skills.The competition was judged on a range of tasks including weapons handling, fieldcraft, and shooting.The three cadets, who were representing Surrey, beat off competition from Sussex, Hampshire, the Isle of White, Kent, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire....
