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I'm a fast but accurate proofreader.
We're in the last days of a sleaze-ridden Tory government, university education is free and only total geeks use email. Yes, it's 1996 again; how else do you explain the fact that Dodgy are performing in front of such an adoring crowd?
"If you're drinking Southern Comfort, you're coming with us. If you're on the Red Bull, you're going to be disappointed." Richard Catherall of Gappy Tooth Industries is explaining how this week's Gappy Tooth night is going to become more chilled-out as it progresses.
What is the climate anyway?
The Pocket Oxford Dictionary defines climate as the "prevailing weather conditions of an area". Basically, climate is the long-term weather tendencies in any given area - or in the world as a whole. It's not about the weather on any given day, it's about the average weather over a long period of time.
So what's climate change?
Her name may not mean anything to people outside the art world, but P J, or Pamela, Crook's paintings are instantly recognisable. Her vast canvases and innovative use of frames would make her a cult figure even without her distinctive brushwork and crowded scenes. No wonder, then, that her work has been exhibited all over the world and attracted the attention of celebrity collectors. Her latest exhibition, though, is closer to home, at the Brian Sinfield gallery in Burford, from July 1-31.
Owners of second homes could be hit in the wallet by a recent decision to slash the usual discount on council tax.
Until recently, second home owners in Oxfordshire enjoyed a discount of 50 per cent on council tax, but the decision by Oxford City Council and West Oxfordshire District Council has reduced that discount to just 10 per cent.
The decision was made early this month and will take effect from April 1 this year.
Two of the biggest worries we have about the future – both nationally and personally – concern pensions and housing. Rumours that we are facing a pensions shortfall are causing headaches for ministers and workers alike. At the same time, the shortage of housing, particularly in the south-east, is a concern shared by everybody.
Roddy is dead. And he’s the lead character. In most other plays, this would be a cue for the audience to pack up and go home, but in Boogie Nights 2 this just means it’s time for his lover to sing a grief-stricken cover of Eternal Flame by the Bangles, before we follow Roddy, played by Mark Jones, to heaven. Apparently heaven is a place where people in T-shirts sing Heaven is a Place on Earth. It’s also a good place to meet David Essex, apparently. A giant Rubik’s Cube appears on the screens behind Roddy, and it’s flashback time. (Well, it worked for the Aeneid…)
It's official: families are changing shape. The UK family tree is becoming taller and thinner, as people live and keep their health for longer and the younger generations are having children later and later in life.
While the traditional family home, designed for mum, dad and numerous children, may never go out of fashion, increasingly people are finding that it does not serve their needs as well as other types of property.
At the end of next week, I’ll be leaving Leys News, the community newspaper I’ve been editing for the past two years. I’ve learnt a lot in that time, but the biggest epiphany was this: community journalism is a sector in its own right.
It used to be only the A40 that linked Witney to Central London. But new salon Jason Shepherd Hairdressing has changed all that. London-trained Jason has opened his own salon to bring the capital's style to Oxfordshire. So why has Jason opened a salon in Witney?