Stately style
	2:00pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Have you ever wandered round a National Trust property and wondered what it would be like to stay in a stately home?

Mass of words

1:57pm Wednesday 6th August 2008

Tony Augarde muses on the ‘parts of speech’ and the complications imposed by categorising words

	Fleas, swifts and plankton
	1:51pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Julie Webb is inspired by the fascinating diversity of life on display at Oxford’s University Museum of Natural History

	Bonny from over the ocean
	1:47pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Sarah McCleery meets legendary winemaker Randall Grahm

	Trusting in the future
	1:44pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Gill Oliver talks to Debbie Dance, director of the Oxford Preservation Trust

	King of the river
	1:41pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Chris McLaren celebrates August in the Oxfordshire countryside

	Typicaly tropical
	1:38pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Val Bourne gets a taste for the exotic on a trip to Norfolk

	Rock steady
	1:35pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Gill Oliver discovers why Joe Brown has no plans to slow down after 40 years on the road

	Forever young
	1:30pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Forget the blue rinses and beige crimplene, today the maturer lady looks good, keeps fit and is up for fun and adventure!

Chilled to perfection

1:13pm Wednesday 6th August 2008

Putting yourself first is really important as the demands of life push up the stress - but trying to cram all the nice things into those two precious days at the weekend can be quite exhausting!

	Plastic fantastic
	1:10pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Breast enlargement continues to be the most popular plastic surgery, but women are queuing up to improve all the other bits of their bodies that they don’t like too, reports Gill Oliver

	Fashion forward
	12:57pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Oxford has long been feted for its academic excellence, but it has never really been regarded as one of the UK’s fashion hotspots. Consequently, serious shoppers head off to London, Birmingham or Manchester to find cutting-edge designer fashion. But that may all be about to change, thanks to two enterprising young women who are determined to revolutionise retail in the university city

	Finding Aubrey Hall
	12:53pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Toni Ramsay reveals how her long-distance hunt for the perfect home to renovate worked out so well in the end...

	Slices of time
	12:43pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Oxford artist Angela Palmer’s see-through sculptures of the Ashmolean Child Mummy are at the meeting point between science and art, writes Theresa Thompson

	Frozen in time
	12:39pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Nicola Lisle looks at the legacy of Oxfordshire artist J A Shuffrey, who was recently honoured with one of the county’s latest Blue Plaques

	The archivist and the family silver
	12:33pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Continuing our desert island antiques series, Sylvia Vetta meets John Forster, achivist to the Duke of Marlborough

	Prue's rural idyll
	12:29pm Wed 6 Aug 08
	Gill Oliver meets a writer and cook who is just as happy in her Oxfordshire garden as she is in her kitchen . . .

	From MG to Nissan
	3:29pm Fri 11 Jul 08
	Readers may have watched and been entertained by the recent TV series The Long Way Down, in which Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman travelled from John O'Groats to South Africa, on motorcycles.

	Breaking the rules
	3:28pm Fri 11 Jul 08
	A high performance sports coupé wrapped up in a SUV body with a lower roof and all the aggressive styling looks of a Raid Rally competition car - perhaps now is not the politically correct time for the BMW X6 to be making an appearance.

	Down among the daisies
	3:26pm Fri 11 Jul 08
	If there is one plant designed to please the insects and the bees it is the traditional daisy with its dense middle of tiny flowers surrounded by showy ray petals. The hundreds of tiny flowers packed into the central disc produce nectar over a period of many days or weeks.

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