Unipart for ever

1:59pm Thursday 10th April 2008

At 60, John Neill shows no sign of slowing down. He eats, sleeps and dreams Unipart. He has worked for the company since he was 27, having become British Leyland's youngest managing director a couple of years later, when he took charge of the parts and components division.

Trouble with post

4:11pm Thursday 3rd April 2008

The closure of the Cowley Mail Centre, scheduled for early 2009, will bring to an end a history of sorting post in Oxford that dates back more than 350 years. The event is sad twice over - once because of the disruption it will cause the 460 workers at the sorting office, and twice because of the atmosphere of simmering discontent in which the reorganisation is taking place there; discontent which last summer boiled over into a wildcat strike and the sacking of two workers.

Jason's hat-trick

9:47am Friday 28th March 2008

Some people are happy with their lot. They find a career, do reasonably well, make a comfortable living and then retire. They may not have changed the world but then they had no particular desire to do so.

	Sitting comfortably?
	2:23pm Thu 27 Mar 08
	Last year, a new audiobook of a much-loved Oxford classic appeared on shop shelves in and around Oxford. Alice in Wonderland and Nonsense Verse & Prose is set to be the first of many books from Oxford Storypods.

Right type

2:22pm Thursday 27th March 2008

Strange times, these, for small printing companies. In the face of the electronic revolution they seem to either prosper, and attract investment, or go to the wall in almost equal numbers. Take the old established Abingdon company Leach's the Printers, for instance, now set to move out of its Ock Street premises after more than 70 years.

	School-gate ethics
	2:12pm Thu 27 Mar 08
	Buying organic and fairtrade products may bring a warm glow to your heart, but the cold reality is that they cost more. Now an Oxford couple have hit on a novel way of easing the burden on the family budget - the School Ethical Supplies Initiative, or Sesi.

Right advice 'crucial'

2:05pm Thursday 27th March 2008

Robert Kirtland, managing partner of Critchleys, Oxford, says the secret of a happy workforce is respect and responsibility. Here he answers our questions.

Juwel in crown

2:04pm Thursday 27th March 2008

What do you do when you have been a paper millionaire during the telecoms and dotcom boom - and then seen it all fade away when the bubble burst? The answer, in the case of one Henley entrepreneur, is to turn to "something more concrete, something more substantial".

	Royal seal
	2:03pm Thu 27 Mar 08
	An Oxfordshire vineyard and microbrewery has become the first enterprise of its kind to gain a royal warrant from the Queen. The Chiltern Valley Winery and Brewery had to supply some of its bottled beer to Buckingham Palace for five years before it was granted a warrant and permission to carry the legend on its literature By appointment to Her Majesty the Queen Brewers.' Founder David Ealand said: "It was an amazing honour and very fulfilling to receive the warrant."

Watch this space

1:46pm Thursday 27th March 2008

This year had already started well for a young Oxford start-up company and recently it became even better. Fresh from raising a six-figure sum from angel investors, David Langer and Andy Young, the founders of GroupSpaces, have just heard their company has been selected to go to San Francisco for the Web 2.0 Expo exhibition in April.

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