AN OXFORD company is planning to spend £1.4m on helping computer greenhorns through the virtual quagmire of electronic wizardry. Dream Direct, of Aristotle Lane, is offering plain English instead of jargon to guide customers through the maze of products
TWO Oxford students stand to win £1m after they bet on becoming Prime Minister by the year 2038. Brookes University undergraduates Justin Tomlinson and Chris Kelly each staked £50 at odds of 10,000-1 on making it to Number 10 within 40 years. The politics-mad
THE Tobi Mills £10,000 Appeal had a huge boost with an anonymous donation of £1,000. The fund, which now stands at about £5,000, is growing daily as well-wishers send in cheques, or buy ribbons or stickers in orange and purple - Tobi's choice of colours
DOG lover Karl Dewar was fined £2,500 and ordered to pay £800 costs for smuggling his pets into Britain without having them checked for rabies. He drove straight past customs after returning home from Spain through the Channel Tunnel with his pet Jack
BUNGLING councils could spell the closure of the crisis-hit Museum of Oxford from April 1. It takes about £85,000 a year to keep the museum in St Aldate's open and neither city nor county council is prepared to budget for that amount. Hard-up Oxfordshire
Phillip Lee, 36, was jailed in 1983 for eight years for the manslaughter of his two-year-old daughter Katrina. He was found not guilty of murder. Katrina died with a crushed pancreas and 21 rib fractures after Lee hit her in the stomach. Now store bosses
STORE manager Steve Frame has been presented with a new £10,000 car - but says he's too tall to drive it. The manager of Woolworth's, in Bury Street, Abingdon, has been given the top of the range Ford Ka after being picked in a national draw. But, at
COUNCIL taxpayers will pay almost 20 per cent more for the services provided by the Vale of White Horse District Council over the coming year, councillors decided. Band D householders in the district will face an average charge of £58.79 for the council's
MALCOLM Crosby last night gave the clearest indication yet that he might not be remaining at the Manor for long, writes JON MURRAY. Denis Smith's former assistant, now No 2 to new United boss Malcolm Shotton, gave a broad hint to fans at an open meeting
MALCOLM Shotton has issued a 'no let-up' plea to his Oxford United players for their Division 1 game at Bradford tomorrow. The U's have registered three wins out of four since Shotton was appointed and the new boss looks set to name an unchanged line-up
OXFORD was built to resemble a giant flying saucer about 4,000 years ago...by tribes inspired by visitors from MARS! That's the amazing claim of mathematician Michael Soper who says the city was designed in the image of a UFO by people inspired at seeing
LOTTE Duncan is a chef who hates cooking in restaurants. That might be something of a problem for most people who earn a crust by using their culinary skills, but for Lotte, it's been the making of her. The 31-year-old is a rising TV star and something
