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Stick race is raising the stakes
ORGANISERS of this year's World Poohsticks Championships want to strike a blow for Britain against the USA. The contest, immortalised in the Winnie the Pooh books, takes place on the River Thames, near Days Lock Island at Little Wittenham, near Didcot
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Getting the low down on buses
REVOLUTIONARY new buses have come to Oxford and will make travel by public transport an option for many disabled people. The buses have no steps to climb and spaces for wheelchair users, baby buggies and shopping trolleys. The buses' very low footwell
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Staff voucher plan scrapped Outrage prompts county to drop pay idea
CONTROVERSIAL plans to pay county council staff with supermarket vouchers have been scrapped. Hard-up Oxfordshire County Council hoped to save up to £500,000 a year by giving employees ten per cent of their pay in the form of vouchers for Sainsbury's,
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Brave Charlotte at London awards ceremony
BRAVE Charlotte Johnson - who has repeatedly put aside her own battle with leukaemia to help others - is to receive a top award for her courage. The ten-year-old, of Hollybush Road, Carterton, is today due to attend a star-studded ceremony at London's
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Months of searching for derelict house owner finally ends thanks to the Oxford Mail
MISSING homeowner John Piotrzkowski has been tracked down by the Oxford Mail after a futile search for him by the city council. Labelled a love rat by his former lover and chased by the city council over a derelict home, we got on to the case and found
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Twins' heartbreak appeal: 'Could you be our mum?'
TWINS Lauren and Ashton Mills have written the saddest note of their lives - an advert for parents to replace their dying mum. The ten-year-olds' plea reads: "Kids and dog for hire. Life term contract. Sad gits need not apply." Single mum Tobi Mills,
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Investment whiz-kids are tipped for top
TEENAGE money-makers from two Oxford schools have tipped their way into the quarter finals of a top investment competition. Teams from Magdalen College School and Matthew Arnold School were among the 25 best out of 1,400 who entered an investment competition
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Wright and Murphy shine for United Reserves
MIKE Ford and Christophe Remy made successful comebacks for Oxford United in last night's Avon Insurance Football Combination Game at the Manor Ground, but the architects of the 3-2 win over Watford Res were Tony Wright and Matt Murphy. Ford and Remy,
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Ace United defender to leave in next month
DARREN Purse will be the next Oxford United player to be sold. The central defender, who celebrates his 21st birthday this Saturday, seems destined to leave the Manor Ground before next month's transfer deadline. And a move could come much sooner than
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No force required...why cops chose to go on screen the second time
WHEN Thames Valley Police opened its doors to the cameras 16 years ago, horrified viewers saw detectives browbeating a woman into dropping an allegation of rape. As a direct result of the documentary series called The Police, officers nationwide changed
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Dying mum asks: Please help my kids
TOBI Mills knows she is dying but she is fighting her cancer with all the spirit she can muster. "Some days are better than others. I'm very open about it with the children but there are moments when I'm terrified about it," she said. Her primary concern
