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OAP hurt in hit-and-run
A car driver left an elderly woman with a broken leg and wrist in a hit-and-run accident. The 80-year-old woman was crossing Vicarage Hill outside the Royal British Legion club in East Challow, near Wantage, when she was struck by a light-coloured saloon
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Kate toasts being 103
Former pub landlady Kate Wren went back to the pints to toast her 103rd birthday. Kate, the oldest resident of Oseney Court home for the elderly in Botley Road, Oxford, used to run The Greyhound in Worcester Street. The pub was demolished in 1987 to make
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Eight-pint man 'can't remember'
Pensioner John Keyes told a jury he could not remember trying to rob three banks in Oxford after downing eight pints of beer. The frail 68-year-old, of Hockmore Tower, Cowley, Oxford, is alleged to have demanded money from cashiers at Lloyds at Carfax
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Vandals smoke drugs in derelict buildings
Fears are growing that a run-down alleyway is becoming a haven for drug users, writes Paul Warner. Residents fear derelict buildings in Priory Lane, Bicester, attract youths to smoke cannabis. Boarded-up buildings have been vandalised, while an old mobile
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Moggie stuck in pipe for a week
It was an emergency worthy of the BBC's 999 drama - a major rescue operation is launched after noises are heard from under an Oxford bridge. But in this case it was not a man, woman or even a small child trapped in a life threatening situation - but Tim
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Murder accused 'blacked car out'
A man accused of murdering two teenagers in an arson attack asked a friend to black out his car window hours before the fatal fire, a court heard. Anum Khan, nine, died in the blaze at her home in Magdalen Road, east Oxford, on August 26 last year. Her
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Woolford's sights set on repeat show
NESTA Woolford, the only surviving member of the Frilford Heath quartet who reached the final of the Mail on Sunday Golf Classic two years ago, is confident of emulating that success this year. Woolford was just 17 when she helped Lynda King, Brigitte
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Joey: Why I turned down Fulham
OXFORD United winger Joey Beauchamp has admitted he may have been expecting too much after Fulham called off his proposed £1m transfer. Beauchamp talked with the Division 2 big spenders yesterday and turned down the move because he was unable to agree
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I've lost 66lb and I'm a new woman
Mum Sarah Hackston has more than the usual motherly glow of pride when she looks at her two young children, writes DAVID HORNE. For Holly, aged three, and Ben, 18 months, are exactly the combined weight that she has lost in the past 30 weeks. If she picks
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More hi-tech jobs hit as orders drop
MORE redundancies have been announced at Oxford Instruments, where orders have been hit by the strong pound and the economic crisis in Asia, writes Maggie Hartford Five people at Industrial Analysis, in Abingdon, have been given formal redundancy notices
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Crooks take cash meant for funeral
Thieves stole £1,000 a grieving widow had set aside for her husband's funeral. The woman, who does not want to be identified, had withdrawn the cash to cover the cost of a funeral for her husband, who had only recently died. But two days before the funeral
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Royal date for litter-picker Danny
Litter picker Danny Cox, five, had a date with royalty when he received a Tidy Britain Group award for his efforts to keep his area tidy. Danny, of Walton Street, Jericho, Oxford, was given his Queen Mother's Birthday Award by HRH Princess Alexandra in
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Family searches for stolen pet
A farming family are offering a reward after their pet spaniel was snatched from their pick-up truck. The black-and-white springer, named Whisky, was taken while his owner Mac Spence was working on farm machinery. Now Mr Spence and his wife Elizabeth
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Folland sinks Swindon
Swindon Tn Res 0, Oxford Utd Res 1 UNITED'S Reserves gave probably their best performance of the season as they earned their second local derby win in a week in the Avon Insurance Combination Division 1 last night. They beat an experienced Swindon side
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The hidden shame of male rape
The account of the rape was both detailed and harrowing, writes REG LITTLE. But there could be no doubting the degree of trust that had come to exist between the pretty dark-haired woman and the softly spoken middle-aged man. The victim, reliving the
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Hell's decibels!
They're the sort of people who have no need of telephones and no use for fax machines or e-mail - because they have only to open their mouths and the chances are that you'll be able to hear them in the next postal district, writes GEORGE FREW. They are
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Delving into a painful diary
Sue Townsend's book Ghostchildren covers a subject that many find distressing - abortion. FIONA TARRANT reports... Sue Townsend would rather clean out a drain or clear out her cupboards than write. It's not that the author of the Adrian Mole books doesn't
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Evicted nurses 'ready to quit'
Nurses are on the point of quitting Oxford hospitals over the mass influx of recruits from Down Under, writes Karen Rosine. The ploy to end a staffing crisis by recruiting 102 nurses from Australia and New Zealand could backfire as staff here claim they
