New airport terminal launched

11:32am Thursday 24th July 2008

Builders Wates Construction handed over a new £2.5m Oxfordjet building to the management of Oxford Airport, watched by invited guests, including private aircraft owners and operators of business charter jets.

Jobs likely to go at publisher Pearson

5:05pm Wednesday 23rd July 2008

UP TO 40 jobs are likely to go at an educational publisher in Oxford following its sale last year for £475m to multinational Pearson.

Factory workers face job cuts

9:39am Tuesday 22nd July 2008

MORE than 70 workers at Stewart Milne Timber Systems factory in Witney are facing redundancy.

Biotech firm in £70m deal

9:37am Tuesday 22nd July 2008

OXFORDSHIRE biotech company Summit has bucked the economic downturn by signing a £70m deal with a US company which could offer hope to sufferers of a fatal genetic disorder.

One millionth Mini exported

3:47pm Friday 18th July 2008

The one millionth Mini for export has now left Plant Oxford, said carmaker BMW. More than 80 per cent of Mini production is sent abroad, with the largest export market being the USA, where sales hit a record in the first half of the year, with 26,400 cars sold, an increase of 33.6 per cent.

Government to invest £400m in Harwell

11:22am Thursday 17th July 2008

OXFORDSHIRE has taken the lion's share of £400m Government investment in the science of the future.

IT network revived

11:18am Thursday 17th July 2008

Jan Hruska, co-founder of Abingdon-based computer security company Sophos, will launch ITsON, a new series of events for the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector, at 6.30pm on Wednesday at Science Oxford, St Clements, Oxford. Organiser The Oxford Trust hopes to revitalise the regional ICT network. Register at www.itson.org.uk/events_register.html.

IT network revived

11:18am Thursday 17th July 2008

Jan Hruska, co-founder of Abingdon-based computer security company Sophos, will give the keynote speech at the launch of ITsON.

'Miniversity' at motor show

11:00am Thursday 17th July 2008

THE home town of the Mini will be the theme of Mini UK's stand at the British International Motorshow next week.

Cancer trial in doubt

10:46am Friday 11th July 2008

OXFORD researchers have given their backing to trials of a new cancer vaccine, despite a setback in a US-based study of the treatment.

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