Archive - Thursday, 23 May 2019

'Best ever line-up' revealed for Oxford music festival
Pop band Teleman, electro-rockers The Comet Is Coming, rising star Self Esteem and Oxford pop-punks Young Knives are among the big names revealed today for this year’s Ritual Union Festival.
George HACKNEY
HACKNEY George Edward Died very peacefully in the early hours of 29th April at the end of his 95th year. He had flown with the R.A.F. in World War 2. A keen sportsman and honorary member of North Oxford Golf Club, he devoted many years to guiding the…
William COUND
COUND William (Bill) of Olney, formerly of Kidlington Sadly passed away on 11 May, aged 91 years. Beloved husband to Lorraine and loving father of Sue, Nigel and Cathy. The funeral will be held on Thursday 30 May at Nene Valley Crematorium,…
Stanley NEALE
NEALE Stanley Of Wytham, Sadly died at his home on 24th April 2019, aged 83 years. A dearly loved Brother, Uncle and Great Uncle, very sadly missed by all his family and many friends. A service to celebrate his life, will be held on Thursday 6th June…
D-Day hero tribute and edible garden make Chelsea Flower Show bloom
IT is the world's greatest celebration of gardening- a bonanza of blooms... a feast of flowers.
RESTAURANT REVIEW: Double delight at Cumnor's Bear and Ragged Staff
My enthusiasm for Cumnor’s Bear and Ragged Staff is such as to overcome an aversion – oh, the tedium of it! – to eating twice within a week at the same place (my home apart).
REVIEW: Rich comedy but nasty misogyny in The Provoked Wife at Stratford
Played for laughs though it is – and very successfully so at times – the Royal Shakespeare Company’s new production of John Vanbrugh’s The Provoked Wife starkly reveals the thoroughly nasty and misogynistic side to the play.
GRAY MATTER: Criminal capers of a villain in a dog collar
Breaking off from reading of the various villainies of one world-famous master of mendacity, I turned my attention to a gripping study of a lesser-known but equally compulsive liar whose activities proved to be every bit as astonishing.
Parky at the Pictures (In Cinemas 23/5/2019)
Reviews of Memoir of War; High Life; Too Late to Die Young. Strike; John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection; Against the Tides; The Inquiring Nuns; and XY Chelsea
Parky at the Pictures (DVD 23/5/2019)
Reviews of Mary Queen of Scots and The Favourite

22nd May 2019