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Ask the vet

5:54pm Monday 8th February 2010

Oxfordshire vet Barton stephen answers your pet problems

Cycle parking is better off underground

Your green dictator is in the wings

3:05pm Monday 8th February 2010

Last month, Mary Clarkson, the Lord Mayor of Oxford, gave me and four others an Oxford Green Travel Award. Not that I really deserved it to be honest, but I accepted it on behalf of all at Cyclox as, together, we manage to keep the cycling flag aloft.

Stubble: It's a man thing

Beauty always wins

6:05pm Sunday 7th February 2010

Stubble... Not great if you want to grace Page 3, I grant you, but otherwise, an aesthetic statement of masculinity that almost all men aspire to (I know I do).

Gum work is a sticky business

Cabbages and Kings

4:20pm Thursday 4th February 2010

FOR as long as there is chewing gum, Dennis will never be out of work. A cheerful mountain of a man, working for a Portsmouth firm, Gum Clearer with his three mates, he said they were in the city to again remove the unsightly stuff from Gloucester Green.

ONE IN THREE: Fresh hope for the NHS

3:18pm Thursday 4th February 2010

A Happy New Year. Yes, I’m back again; you can’t get rid of me that easily. I thought it best to give us both a break from all this boring old cancer stuff over the Christmas period, as it would be the last thing you want to read about while tucking into all that lovely food!

The Insider

Charismatic, captivating Keith?

6:14pm Wednesday 3rd February 2010

A weekly update from the corridors of power

Sassy and Single: Let's celebrate a special anniversary

Sassy & Single

3:17pm Tuesday 2nd February 2010

I received an invite to a special occasion today that a few years ago I would never in a million years have expected.

ASK THE VET: Collie’s discomfort has me stumped

4:00pm Monday 1st February 2010

Q Our 12-year-old collie cross was castrated at eight months and six months ago started dripping blood. His prostate was found to be enlarged. He was given five Tardak jabs, but this never completely stopped it. The last few days he has started bleeding again and we don’t know what to do.

On Yer Bike

Your green dictator is in the wings

3:48pm Monday 1st February 2010

Earlier this week saw a sequence of events which meant I lay looking upwards in a dentist’s chair, thinking each breath I took would be my last.

End coupon craziness

Beauty always wins

7:15pm Sunday 31st January 2010

Coupons... Now I know, in these recession hit times, anyone who can cut their weekly grocery bill should be saluted.

Pinky leads a 'purrfect' life

Cabbages and Kings

4:30pm Thursday 28th January 2010

PINKY was in the pink – covered with a blanket and nestling on a hot water bottle, a Thermos flask at the ready for a top up. The city might have been struggling with sub-zero temperatures, but not him.

A weekly update from the corridors of power

Charismatic, captivating Keith?

5:28pm Wednesday 27th January 2010

A red-face moment for Oxford city councillor Antonia Bance on Monday when she was accused of swearing at a member of the public.




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