Shark in the News
Local Press
(Oxford Mail and Oxford Times)
- "The dawn of Bill’s amazing flying fish" (15 August 2007)
- "Shark comes of age" (8 August 2007)
- "Shark comes of age" (5 July 2007)
- "Shark was best of a century" (Letter, 19 September 2006)
- "What an eyesore" (Letter, 2 September 2006)
- "Fans Mark 20 fin-tastic years" (9 August 2006)
- "Shark celebrates 18th birthday" (10 August 2004)
- "Shabby shark house angers residents" ( 12 December 2003)
- "Shark adds bite to advert" (14 December 2002)
National press
- "The Headington Shark is 21 today" (The Times, 9 August 2007)
- "In praise of ... the Headington shark" (Guardian leader, 9 August 2007)
There were innumerable mentions in the local and national press when the Shark first appeared in 1986, but these are too old to appear online. They include:
- Bernard Levin: "A fibreglass shark plunging into an Oxford rooftop is a lark that baffles officialdom" (The Times, 11 June 1992)
- "The hunting of the shark" (Sunday Correspondent, 26 November 1989)
- "Flying shark lands in court" (Guardian, 7 August 1989)
- "Hark hark the shark" (Isis student magazine, 1980s)
- "Deep waters" (Independent on Sunday, 1987)