http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/ The Oxford Times /news/features/ en-gb Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:36:07 +0100 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:36:07 +0100 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/727338/?type=rsslogo http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/ http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4470765.A_virtual_operation/?ref=rss REG LITTLE reports on a new training technique for surgeons that is being pioneered at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:02:55 +0100 16828210d4c85bbf2a5d729b5dded3be http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4470778.Bust_is_missing_but_founder_is_remembered/?ref=rss Even admirers of Robert Doyne are losing hope of ever seeing again the marble bust of the founder of the Oxford Eye Hospital. Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:04:27 +0100 b41c0115a1a808f2cb386c754e65ea94 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4454478.Travel_light__travel_far/?ref=rss To travel fastest in politics, it’s often best to travel light. David Cameron was hardly overburdened with policy commitments or ideological baggage when he became the most fresh-faced Tory leader in modern history. But it was seeing the man briskly walking down Witney high street that brought this thought to mind. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100 643e6f408c0e84661c1f47eee12515e6 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4435987.Iffley_and_the_former_porn_star/?ref=rss Just seconds beforehand, we had been complete strangers. But somehow I had ended up hand in hand with the former porn star Annie Sprinkle, looking up at the sky. Soon, after the lightest of squeezes, I was being urged to find a single word to sum up my inner feelings at this moment in my life. “How about ‘help’?” I was tempted to mumble. Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:40:00 +0100 acf18605fbc0026c6e8b64fe899815c5 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4424953.Oxford_and_Beatles_come_together/?ref=rss The voice of John Lennon drifted from the open windows of Oxford University’s Faculty of Music. Officers arriving at St Aldate’s police station next door may well have guessed that the sound of Come Together signalled an early weekend party for students, for on a sunny Friday afternoon you can’t do much better than reach for Abbey Road. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:00:00 +0100 8a58a098923b0b49dd3af14652c35448 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4410948.Pair_behind_the_perfect_palace/?ref=rss dTrevor Wood’s grandmother could not have guessed the seed she was sowing as she busied herself potting plants in her greenhouse. Every Sunday afternoon, when his parents were working in their shop, the young Trevor would go around to see her. When it came to plants, his grandma could be fastidious but he always looked forward to watching her at work. Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:20:00 +0100 3bf91c68e366a57453b03477cbdd2d0c http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4388991.New_face_of_Tudor_history/?ref=rss Being around Henry VIII for any length of time proved an unhappy experience for some women. But Suzannah Lipscomb has been happily living with the tyrannical king for two years now, with no separation being contemplated for a while yet. Thu, 28 May 2009 06:40:00 +0100 4095eea66390a948f5e704b20ade34b4 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4377663.Triumph_tastes_trifle_sour/?ref=rss She was only hours away from securing a place in both the history of Oxford and English poetry, but Ruth Padel was feeling anything but triumphant. Thu, 21 May 2009 06:50:00 +0100 b887156074ee693e4146b8d6beb03d1e http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4359518.Handing_back_a_piece_of_history/?ref=rss In the heart of Oxford’s transformed Ashmolean Museum money was exchanging hands. The foreign cash involved hardly represented a vast sum when set against £61m, the hefty bill for what has become the largest museum development in the country. But the transfer of numerous old coins represented the most golden of moments for Ashmolean director Christopher Brown and his staff. Thu, 14 May 2009 06:30:00 +0100 441eeda833a3c2df4b3f02173615e81e http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4336349.Incineration_debate_gets_heated/?ref=rss The anti-incinerator campaigners were detecting some positive signs, with the warming wind of public approval at last beginning to stir in their favour. Thu, 07 May 2009 06:20:00 +0100 11003e513c7f819c28345a8469cd3a91 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4314232.New_direction_for_dawn_chorus/?ref=rss Oxford authorities, both city and university, have long scratched their heads over May Morning. Now it’s the problem of revellers jumping off Magdalen Bridge into the none-too-deep River Cherwell below, while the Magdalen College Choir sings in the dawn from the top of Magdalen Tower, high overhead. Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:10:00 +0100 83d6684293c04dd22c501e4958808987 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4307743.City_s_treasure_trove_reopens/?ref=rss Seeing the three seated figures again after such a long break is somehow reassuring. The two bears, one eating a frog, the other sitting with two cubs at its feet, look well. A raven with a human between its wings makes up the impressive trio of carved figures on the totem pole that arrived in Oxford a century ago to become the largest object at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:10:00 +0100 5b29189d8a5deadebf2ae5cd1b5da3b5 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4281377.Local_man_in_thick_of_it_all/?ref=rss You know that bit in Notting Hill where Julia Roberts invites Hugh Grant to a hotel and he discovers that he’s in with the press pack (minus Horse & Hound, of course) and instead of getting to curl up on the sofa with her he has to bluff his way through a series of questions about a film he hasn’t seen? Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:10:00 +0100 9dcc5bd624292fc8b3c0ffd097e43eb6 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4272469.Jeffrey_on_The_Path_of_Glory/?ref=rss The black bra being dangled in front of Jeffrey Archer’s face told its own story. He had been well and truly caught out. But this was one public humiliation that the novelist could happily laugh off. For when Oxford historian Julie Summers delved in her handbag before triumphantly producing a bra, it was only to bring to her fellow writer’s attention the smallest of slips in his new book, Paths of Glory. Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:10:00 +0100 10948821e6e72b23bc9d9011e7d345cb http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4241130.Divisive_mark_of_reconciliation/?ref=rss The good citizens of Bonn must sometimes wonder about Oxford. Sure enough, the German city will always warmly recall that when it was a bombed city in ruins, Oxford was the first British city to offer the hand of friendship, just two years after the Second World War. Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:20:00 +0100 d80eba320d7a715d8643129be42249e2 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4229457.Short_trip__but_massive_journey/?ref=rss The first patients were already on their way. It was to be only a brief journey for them of some 200 yards, but the distance in clinical terms between the Frank Ellis Unit and Oxford’s newly-opened cancer hospital is immense. Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:30:00 +0000 be514ffb335074071b0aaaa8a074d363 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4205987.Tackling_diseases_of_affluence/?ref=rss They are calling them the diseases of affluence but it hardly looks like even the deepest of recessions is going to cure us of them. Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:10:00 +0000 ec23c62147fd03270486c8bcb170ff8a http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4209998.Life_savers__decade_in_the_sky/?ref=rss Pilot Nigel Findley was not anticipating any rapid return to the skies as he left Luton Airport to drive to his home near Wantage. Having flown easyJet passengers back from Budapest he was approaching Leighton Buzzard in good time. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:03:57 +0000 f2371e99f6bf7e9187dc0b3fa1033012 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4165525.Red_Nose_s_straight_man/?ref=rss As Oxford and Cambridge contests go, it is unlikely to be bettered — well, at least when it comes to the serious business of making people laugh. Thu, 05 Mar 2009 06:30:00 +0000 f3216e3146d3eed2611c0534243f35e1 http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4147308.Bogeyman_or_saviour_/?ref=rss Tariq Ramadan has been described as a Muslim Martin Luther, but he remains banned from the United States as an extremist judged to have provided material support to terrorist organisations. Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:30:00 +0000 d804687c1df01c12e8c2552f968972a1