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RM wins £12m schools IT deal
5:04pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
SCHOOLS computer company RM has won a £12m contract to provide ICT services to the London Borough of Hackney’s BSF (Building Schools for the Future) programme. The deal covers six secondary schools and four special educational needs schools, and will be delivered over three phases. RM will take responsibility for the design, implementation and day-to-day management of the ICT infrastructure.
New name for Oxford Genome Sciences
5:05pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
OXFORD Genome Sciences, of Milton Park, near Abingdon, has changed its name to Oxford BioTherapeutics (OBT).
Jobs go at Oxfordshire printer
5:02pm Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Picture this. You are the sixth generation member of a family that has run a firm for 176 years. You take over as chief executive and nurse the business through good times and bad. Then you sell it — only to see the administrators called into the premises and most of the staff made redundant less than six months later.
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3:22pm Friday 28th November 2008
28/11/2008 AEA Technology 23.25 BMW 1634 Electrocomponents 146 Nationwide Accident Repair 100 Oxford Biomedica 5.9 Oxford Catalyst 126.5 Oxford Instruments 129 REED 530.25 RM 161 RPS Group 126.25
Oxfordshire education HQ for sale
10:05am Thursday 27th November 2008
THE headquarters of Oxfordshire’s education department, Macclesfield House, is up for sale.
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Early taste of Christmas wine
This week is The Oxford Times Wine Club Christmas Tasting and, with just four weeks to go until Christmas Day, it is an excellent opportunity to sample a specially-selected range of wines for the festive season.
The Mole and Chicken, Easington, near Thame
One of the pictures on this page gives a good impression of the delights to be enjoyed at the Mole and Chicken on one of those sunny days that now seem as far as can be from our present situation.
Imagine This: New London Theatre
I had trouble shifting my +1 for the musical Imagine This, which opened last week at the New London Theatre. No-one was interested (one German friend would have come, but funnily enough I hadn’t thought to ask him), and while nobody actually said, “Sounds like a gas”, there were plenty of unprintable responses, averaging out at: “Holocaust – the musical? Um, no thanks . . . ”
Hansel and Gretel: Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company
Another winter rolls in and, to cheer our spirits, Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company travel hither and yon through the county with colour, music and fun trailing in their wake. For those of us who live in villages these harbingers of the festive season are a welcome sight.
Patto - I deserved more time
Sacked Oxford United boss Darren Patterson feels he was “so close” to bringing the club success.
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