OUP status attacked
	12:25pm Fri 16 May 08
	The charity tax exemption of publishers Oxford University Press is coming under increasing fire from rival companies after a change in regulations.

Emergency stop

11:38am Thursday 8th May 2008

Some of the 90 workers at the Oxfordshire- based Formula One racing team Super Aguri expressed wry surprise this week after learning that their team had pulled out of the 2008 FIA Formula One Championship.

Saudi Prince's Oxfordshire estate

11:23am Thursday 1st May 2008

Should any inhabitant of west Oxfordshire happen to look up and see an Airbus flying overhead, resplendent in silver and blue, they should wonder not: it is only their neighbour, Prince Bandar, stopping off at his Oxfordshire pad between Riyadh and Washington.

	Bookman's life
	4:41pm Fri 18 Apr 08
	With a shop floor only 9ft wide and 11ft deep, it is one of the smallest bookshops in the country, but Evenlode Books in Market Street, Charlbury, is a flourishing business offering a valuable service to the 3,000 residents of the town and customers from surrounding villages.

Matrix revolution

4:37pm Friday 18th April 2008

Toxic waste from metalworking could be cleaned up and turned into grey' water by bacteria in an environmentally-friendly process being developed by an Oxford company.

A head start

4:33pm Friday 18th April 2008

A hat can be more than just the finishing touch to an outfit for a special occasion - for clients of Eda Rose Millinery of Wallingford, it can equally well be the starting point. A personal consultation with Eda Rose, for her expert advice on which style and colour she feels will best suit the client, usually begins with a consideration of the other items in the new outfit which it is to complement, but that is not always the case.

	Complete package
	3:12pm Fri 18 Apr 08
	It is a fact that some multi-million pound businesses are based on products which the everyday consumer will either never come across or pay scant attention to. Packaging is a prime example. Naturally we are far more interested in what is inside the box or under the plastic than the what is wrapped around it.

	Business blossoms
	3:08pm Fri 18 Apr 08
	The cut flowers industry is a huge one - worth £2.2bn at retail level in the UK, which puts it ahead of the music industry. However, as the chilly season is coming to an end, the hottest time of the year is past for local flower sellers Darren Oretagu who has been running the Westgate Flowers stall opposite Oxford's Bonn Square for the past 18 months, and Paul Birtles, who owns The Garden shops in the city's Covered Market and at Headington.

Climate change opportunities

11:57am Thursday 17th April 2008

The only time you could harness wasted energy from a car is when it is braking, a BMW engineer in Munich once told me. Conceivably, this could be done by sinking some sort of energy pick-up into the surface of the road, say at the approach to traffic lights, or by allowing the braking wheels to charge up a battery, and then feeding the stored energy into the grid when you get home.

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.

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