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Housing for Oxford: Labour misses the opportunity

Saved on 19/07/2008

So, Ms Blears announced, like the Fairy Godmother to Cinderella, that Oxford can have an urban extension. People will rush to fight over whether south of Grenoble Road is the best place to build, but in scrambling to do so, they'll miss the bigger issue.What has been announced, from what I have seen,...

Housing for Oxford: Labour misses the opportunity

What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 17 - Thu 24 July)

Saved on 17/07/2008

WALL-E (U) starring Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin. Contains very mild threat and violence. Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose...

What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 17 - Thu 24 July)

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Fri 18 - Thu 24 July)

Saved on 17/07/2008

Oxford Playhouse:Topless Mum - A topical satire on tabloid journalism - how far can the story be spun to stop the real truth leaking out? Gervase Phinn -...

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Fri 18 - Thu 24 July)

This Week's Music Highlights (Fri 18 - Thurs 24 July)

Saved on 17/07/2008

Friday:Cello And Piano Recital - Holywell Music Room Charivari Agreable: Early Music by Candlelight - Consonanze Stravaganti - Exeter College Chapel, Turl St.Songs for Mary - Hertford College ChapelJazz Dinner Concert with the John Hoare Trio - Brookes RestaurantMartin Shaw (trumpet) Graham Harvey...

This Week's Music Highlights (Fri 18 - Thurs 24 July)

What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 11 - Thu 17 July)

Saved on 10/07/2008

Journey to the Center of the Earth (PG) starring Brenden Fraser, Josh Hutcherson. Contains intense adventure action and some scary...

What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 11 - Thu 17 July)

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Fri 11 - Thu 17 July)

Saved on 10/07/2008

Oxford Playhouse: Kit and the Widow - With fifty years apiece, this leading piano-and-voice-based lounge act may well be in their prime. Almost unbelievably (until...

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Fri 11 - Thu 17 July)

This Week's Music Highlights (Fri 11 - Thu 17 July)

Saved on 10/07/2008

Friday:Opera For Midsummer - Jacqueline du Pre Music Building Acoustic Improvisation: Voice - St Barnabas ChurchMark Hanslip (sax) with Tim Lapthorne (piano), Tim Dawes (double bass) - Old Parsonage14Ten - Jericho TavernThe Shaker Heights + Freakishly Long Mirrors - The WheatsheafSaturday:Romantic...

This Week's Music Highlights (Fri 11 - Thu 17 July)

With friends like these

Saved on 08/07/2008

I'm not sure that this one has reached the British press yet: a diplomatic incident has occurred concerning President Bush and his proclaimed 'good friend' Silvio Berlusconi, the 'colourful' PM of Italy.Showing their typical sensitivity to those curious species, foreigners, the White House helpfully...

With friends like these

What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 04 - Thu 10 July)

Saved on 03/07/2008

This Wednesday and Thursday there are advanced screenings of Forbidden Kingdom (12A) starring Jackie Chan, Jet Li. Contains frequent...

What's in the Cinemas This Week? (Fri 04 - Thu 10 July)

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Fri 04 - Thu 10 July)

Saved on 03/07/2008

Oxford Playhouse:And Then There Were None - Set on a remote island off the coast of Devon, Agatha Christie's own stage adaptation...

What's in the Theatres this Week? (Fri 04 - Thu 10 July)

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