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Gary's race to cover world's fastest car
CRAFTSMAN Gary Coulin has completed a project with a difference - making covers for the world's fastest car. Gary had three days to make the covers for the 50ft-long Thrust SSC. Thrust, driven by RAF Tornado pilot Andy Green, broke the land-speed record
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Race attack victims are shunning police
SEVEN out of eight racially-motivated attacks are not reported to the police, equality campaigners claim. The number of cases of racial harassment reported to Oxford police between April and October last year was 21. But it is estimated that the true
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Hospital delay warning
STAFF at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, are warning patients to expect lengthy delays in its casualty department. The problem has resulted from an unusually high number of emergency admissions. Bosses - who yesterday issued a warning to all GPs
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Ex-royal footman gets TV makeover
BUTLER Ian Scott-Hunter found himself transformed into a lord by the magic of television. The transformation of the 53 year-old butler, who used to be a footman for the Royal family at Buckingham Palace, will be seen nationwide, on March 10, on the show
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Dad sent judge a death threat
A DAD-of-three has admitted sending a death threat to an Oxford judge after he lost a bitter custody battle over his children. Jobless Anthony Stokes, 39, of Winklebury, Basingstoke, told circuit judge Paul Clark he would "slit his throat" in a letter
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Good news for lawyer in sex change dispute
SEX change lawyer Susan Marshall is celebrating a legal victory after claiming she was the victim of sex discrimination. Ms Marshall, home bursar at Exeter College, now plans to take the Director of Public Prosecutions to an industrial tribunal. She alleges
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Shotton tight-lipped after 5-2 defeat
MALCOLM Shotton whisked his players away from Portman Road last night after Oxford United crashed 5-2 to free-scoring Ipswich. It was United's worst defeat since Shotton took over and he got his players on to the team coach and away from the ground within
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United are bewitched!
Ipswich Tn 5, Oxford Utd 2 OXFORD United became the latest victims of another Ipswich Town goal feast at Portman Road last night. David Johnson hit a hat-trick as the Suffolk club scored five times for the THIRD home game in succession. It was the biggest
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A spooky past - book tells of county's ghostly history
A MONK appearing in a blaze of light at a pub and a lady wafting past in a cloud of perfume are just two of the ghostly happenings included in a new book about the spooks of west Oxfordshire. Retired commercial manager Joe Robinson, of Bibury Close, Witney
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DJ mum to chop off her flowing locks for brave Tobi
SHELLY James has very, very long hair - it stretches down to her thighs and, without provocation, gets her into a scrape or two. "Men seem to love long hair. Once, when I was on the bus, the man who sat behind me started to stroke it. Another time, a
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"Rapist naked under overalls"
PARAMEDIC Gordon Thompson raped one of his victims after calling at her home naked under his green ambulance crew overalls, a jury was told. Oxford Crown Court heard yesterday that 35-year-old Thompson raped the first of his three victims on her sofa
