http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/ The Oxford Times /news/features/ en-gb Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:58:34 +0000 Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:58:34 +0000 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/resources/images/999282/?type=rsslogo http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/ http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/5047810.Memories_of_the_swinging_sixties/?ref=rss Few were the drinkers at his pub in Charlbury who knew anything about Roy Flynn’s hard rocking past. As London’s best known club owner, he had just about seen and done it all. Once he banned Keith Moon for dancing naked on his dancefloor and on another night entertained the Beatles, who happened to be celebrating their performance of All You Need Is Love to a worldwide audience of 350m. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:10:00 +0000 a827cf0fe200ed460eab0b68928560cd http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/5034816.Maligned_treasure_trove/?ref=rss The ceremonial opening of the New Bodleian Library in 1946 by George VI is still remembered for the highly embarrassing moment when a silver key broke in the lock of the building’s ‘front door’. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:30:00 +0000 ae662f5e1bad416dec148498a4caf4f7 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/5022802._The_world_s_finest_Christ_scholar_/?ref=rss In a few weeks’ time The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ will offer Philip Pullman’s radical new account of the life of Jesus, challenging the myths and mysteries of the gospels that have shaped the course of the last 2,000 years. Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:20:00 +0000 58ddae62c7e73536ece4c12d866d0d70 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/5008192.Never_ending_war_on_disease/?ref=rss Friends of Professor Andrew Pollard suggested he did not look an altogether welcoming figure the last time he appeared in The Oxford Times, holding up a syringe in his surgically gloved right hand. Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:20:00 +0000 25c94f824b5e472d7e1a628f7dfaecdd http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4994811.Blowin__in_the_wind/?ref=rss How many wind turbines must one city have, before you can call its energy policy green? Well, as Bob Dylan famously sang, the answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind. Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0000 63f9a5c106c994e8616f28c355bfd8a5 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4881039.The_Queen_s_new_man_in_county/?ref=rss The Queen has, down the years, been represented in Oxfordshire by other men with close ties to Eton College, but surely never one quite like Monawar Hussain. Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:10:00 +0000 b1f3443a981e1deffa469c5dd1e5d036 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4870241._Clive_Owen_is_me_on_big_screen_/?ref=rss Exposing the follies and childish foibles of our rulers takes up much of Simon Carr’s time these days. As a political columnist with the Independent he earned the ultimate badge of honour: being described as “the most vicious sketch writer working in Britain today” by Tony Blair, no less. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 06:20:00 +0000 936c392456102cb7ae6286735143acad http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4853940.New_home_for_storytelling/?ref=rss To many it is not in the least fanciful to describe Oxford as the Hollywood of children’s literature. With a list of greats stretching from Lewis Carroll, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R Tolkien to Philip Pullman, it seems that Oxford has always been the home of great storytelling — it’s just that storytelling has never had a proper home in Oxford. Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:30:00 +0000 214c3916a953225f25b411110f6cc00c http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4848503.Discover_what_the_Romans_did/?ref=rss What have the Romans done for us? As the revolutionaries in Monty Python’s Life of Brian pointed out, not much — apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order. Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0000 86f5effaca292a25f80d3c1e5c1d1408 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4832537.Fond_memories_of_school_days/?ref=rss We were meant to be talking about what it is like working with hordes of rampaging St Trinian’s schoolgirls — well, I was, at least. But instead of focusing on how Sarah Harding had transformed herself from wild mini-skirted singer with Girls Aloud into her new role as the wild mini-skirted indie chick Roxy, the bursar of St Trinian’s seemed intent on learning more about the head of an altogether different girls’ school in Oxford. Thu, 07 Jan 2010 06:30:00 +0000 b0d9d35b11be265562431cff461ff62d http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4824098.Conflicts_old_and_new_define_2009/?ref=rss JANUARY IT WAS to be a year that would see British servicemen and women suffer heavy losses in Afghanistan. But in January, Oxford mourned the death of William Stone, one of the last three surviving veterans in Britain of the First World War. Mr Stone, who lived in Watlington for more than 20 years, died at the age of 108. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000 0d61fe465c3d2b54a808a68206cd1ca0 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4793199.One_of_the_great_treasure_hunts/?ref=rss After many years of trying, at the age of 82 Sir John Boardman is still looking for his American millionaire. Sir John does not know yet know his name, although he does have an old photograph of the fabulously rich American, who he hopes to one day make an exceptionally happy man. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:40:00 +0000 fb1b88e74be005d0e223bfa44bc99caa http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4778202.Morse_man_s_clues_to_code_cracking/?ref=rss It has been a tough few weeks for Colin Dexter, with his heart and eye conditions necessitating visits to the doctor and a short spell in hospital. So, it came as something of a surprise to find him fresh, not from the John Radcliffe, but an altogether different kind of institution near Bicester. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:10:00 +0000 024647fd7cb9e8e6c6caa9e0a9cd368f http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4769484.The_greatest_story_ever_told/?ref=rss If a white suit has long been the trademark of Martin Bell, there is no doubt who is now firmly established in the minds of television viewers as the smart guy in the white hat. The magnificent panama that Diarmaid MacCulloch sported on his travels from Damascus to San Francisco is sitting on the desk in his book-lined study in Oxford University’s Theology Faculty. Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:20:00 +0000 78235acc4996ca7cccd9ac4bafe24fff http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4757223.How_the_head_boy_in_blue_saw_it/?ref=rss Long after his father’s death, Sir Ian Blair’s mother told him that she had seen her husband cry only once. It was the day that young Ian had left them to join the police. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:30:00 +0000 49622b7aa457824eab0a87beb484d490 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4741975.Wooden_ghosts_sent_to_haunt_us/?ref=rss The “Ghost Forest” was in place by dawn – just as Angela Palmer had promised it would be. Right there, close to Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, were the massive rainforest stumps that she had somehow managed to bring over from Ghana in the hope of shaking London to its roots. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:40:00 +0000 d0045469d9ce00b245e69c647366d4e8 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4728039.Demolishing_the_Jenga_myth/?ref=rss For more than an hour I had sat listening to the story of a pile of wooden bricks. Gripping stuff eh? You bet. For these very bricks transformed Leslie Scott’s life forever, placing her firmly at the top of any world ranking of game inventors. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:50:00 +0000 20eee0f7c4f85d9d55648f7330460d44 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4715067.The_man_who_saved_millions/?ref=rss Tens of millions of people are alive today who would otherwise be dead had Richard Doll not made his enduring contribution to medical science. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:00:00 +0000 f5b5df47171d4449e4cf04272e1a4d53 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4702810.Fresh_approach_to_food_waste/?ref=rss As you fill your supermarket trolley with reduced peaches or pastries, perhaps you sometimes pause to contemplate what happens to the food that the ‘best before’ bargain hunters leave behind. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:20:00 +0000 dc92f1c6582be88be59dfb945ee3ae50 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4693639.Rock_star_discovers_lost_village/?ref=rss Brian May, the guitarist with Queen, could barely contain his excitement. After years of effort, the rock star’s long search had come to an end in a quiet corner of Oxfordshire. 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