Further cuttings		Environmental reporting is an area I hope to explore further, especially the political hot-potato of genetic modification.
Oxford Mail		Facing the bride of Frankenstein foods –  makeup Soya and corn oils are ingredients in numerous paints and potions, especially skin creams, but no GM labels are required. Heat is on GM backers Concerns led to a ban on commercial planting of GM crops until 2003. However, protesters would like to see a longer ban and more laboratory research. Many, like Mr Foulk, want a moratorium on GM animal feed as well. Homes battle on a towpath Forget Newbury – Oxford is about to witness a far more exotic activist than Swampy. Enter the Blue-Rinse Blockade, a bunch of angry grandparents who are set to brave bulldozers to stop a canal development. No hands to the pumps? Amanda Castleman looks at the issues behind today's planned petrol boycott . . . Tony's people are angry. The giddy honeymoon is over and the baby is howling howling about the highest petrol prices in Europe.
Oxford Times		If you go down to the woods today... you can be sure of an aerobic workout? Green gyms: Conservation tasks prove more efficient and amusing than treadmills Keeping a lookout for the baiters The Burmese python was hungry and rather active when the police arrived. Released into the wild, the exotic pet snake had grown thin and was covered in burn marks from curling around a naked lightbulb, desperate for heat. "It was quite lively," explains Pc Simon Towers. "A woman found it, took it home and put it in a box. She didn't know what it was."
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