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Asheville Beer Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
One of the things I love about beer is that every beer and brewery has a story, and sometimes the story is as interesting as the beer itself. That is the case with the Hook Norton Brewery , located in Oxfordshire County, England. The brewery is one of the last remaining Victorian 'tower breweries' and they have been brewing at the site since 1849. Even more interesting, the brewery still employs the...
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ExpoSay (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
A man who rushed up to Britain's Queen Elizabeth's car and started swearing as she left Oxfordshire has been arrested. The monarch was leaving Banbury's Leonard Cheshire Care Home, where she had completed a royal visit, when the man in his 30s ran up to her vehicle and started gesturing and cursing.
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The engineer (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The government and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed an agreement-in-principle to develop an ESA research centre at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, UK.
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Startup Meme (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire , will get a research centre chartered by the European Space Agency and Innovation minister Lord Drayson. The charter being itself worth of €10bn.The centre will research on topics such as Finding out new cheap power sources Developing robots fro space. The development of ExoMars - a robotic probe which will search for life on Mars. It demonstrates...
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[SoftRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
The Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire , will get a research centre chartered by the European Space Agency and Innovation minister Lord Drayson. The charter being itself worth of...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
The European Space Agency (Esa) is to open a research centre near Oxford. The facility, which will be built at the Harwell science and innovation campus in Oxfordshire, could be up and running within a year. The science minister, Lord Drayson, and Esa's director-general, Jean-Jacques Dordain, signed an agreement after a two-day ministerial meeting in The Hague. The government will bear the cost -...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
An Oxfordshire man's skull finally makes it to the stage 26 years after he left it to the Royal Shakespeare Company.
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Oxfordshire's Olympians and Paralympians from this summer's Beijing Games are honoured at a civic reception in Oxford.
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Dog News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
A much needed PR boost for a much (unfairly) maligned dog breed. Chris Tuffrey from Banbury, Oxfordshire has praised his pet Rottweiler for locating a cancerous mole. As reported by BBC Oxfordshire, Mr Tuffrey is thanking his dog, Beamish for continuously ‘nuzzling and licking’ him and trying to lift his arm to indicate where the cancerous mole [...]
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Two people in their 20s are killed in a road accident in Banbury, Oxfordshire.
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Signs of the Times (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
A man from north Oxfordshire has credited his pet Rottweiler with sniffing out his skin cancer. Chris Tuffrey, from Banbury, had a mole on his chest for 15 years but "put his head in the sand" and ignored it. But he said thanks to his dog Beamish "nuzzling and licking" him and trying to lift his arm near the mole, he went to a doctor to get it checked out. Within a two weeks, melanoma was confirmed...
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Neatorama (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
What’s even cuter than a lil’ pygmy hippo? How about a pygmy hippo who loves to be fed with a "Madagascar" movie hand puppet? The Daily Mail has the story: Zoo keepers at the private zoo near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire said they had been ‘trying everything’ to tempt the fussy eater back to his meals when [...]
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
A teenage girl is sexually assaulted at a party in Thame Leisure Centre in Oxfordshire.
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newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
A webcam has been set up to allow residents of an Oxfordshire estate who want legal advice to speak with experts without having to visit their offices. The system has been launched in the Cuddesdon Corner Family Centre in Cuddeston Way, Blackbird Leys. More details at the Oxford Times .
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UniqueDaily.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
“Zoo keepers at the private zoo near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire said they had been ‘trying everything’ to tempt the fussy eater back to his meals when they stumbled across the hippo glove puppet in a supermarket promotion. Now keepers don the puppet to hand feed the diminutive hippo, a relative of the larger hippopotamus [...]
