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School's appeal for help
PARENTS are battling to save a cash-strapped primary school in Wantage which has called on the local community to help it survive. The 81-pupil Garston Lane school needs an extra £20,000 a year or 30 more pupils to save it. These stark statistics were
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Speed warning after crash tragedy
A TOP paramedic today called for drivers on the A34 through Oxfordshire to slow down after yet another motorist died in a horrific crash. Although it is not yet clear what caused yesterday's tragic accident, ambulance area commander Dave Banham said there
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Shotton inspires United's change of form
UNDER their new manager Malcolm Shotton, Oxford United are now one of the form teams in Division 1. Since he took charge they have won five, drawn two and lost two of their nine matches. And the past six league games show a return of 11 points, bettered
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Pupils flee fume-filled school
KIDS and staff fled an Oxford school when mystery fumes left them with streaming eyes and noses. The scare struck at St Augustine of Canterbury School in Iffley Turn, when 40 pupils and several staff were hit by the fumes at lunchtime yesterday. All 657
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Secure award
SECURITY equipment firm Wychwood Security Services of 5b West End, Witney, has gained the NACOSS national security industry standard. The company has been operating for five years and has 400 systems installed in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire area
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Fusion man wins physics medal
CULHAM: Derek Robinson, director of UKAEA fusion, was awarded the Physics Guthrie medal and prize for 30 years of outstanding scientific, managerial and advisory contribution to the international fusion programme. The silver gilt medal and £1,000 prize
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SOUTHERN Electric has hit on a way to help children while learning more about how to offer customers
For every questionaire returned, the utilities company will give 10p to children's charity Barnardo's. Alison Lock of Southern Electric, pictured surrounded by returned forms, says that if every customer returned their form Barnardo's would receive £220,000
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Cat breeder attacked in street
CAT breeder Chris Brown today branded two masked men who beat him up when he tried to take down an animal rights poster a "pair of thugs". Mr Brown, the owner of Hillgrove Farm, Minster Lovell, was attacked in Witney as he tried to remove a poster calling
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Milk for giraffe is a tall order
HEARD the one about the Kidlington dairy, 100 pints of milk and the Irish giraffe? Well you have now! Workers at the Unigate Dairy in Kidlington have stuck their necks out to save Aoife, the very thirsty baby giraffe at Belfast Zoo. Ten-day-old Aoife
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Library opening hours cut
PLANS to cut opening hours at all Oxfordshire's libraries by either ten or 15 per cent have been given the go-ahead. Under the plans, put forward by Tom Forrest, the county council's director of leisure and arts, 35 libraries will see their hours cut
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United offer Cook a new deal
OXFORD United have rewarded Jamie Cook for his fine progress in recent weeks by offering him a new two-year contract. The 18-year-old left-sided midfielder, who scored the clinching goal in United's 2-0 win at Manchester City last Saturday, is expected
