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Store boss offers reward after raid
A SUPERSTORE manager has put up a reward in the hope of catching two men who robbed him of £300 and threatened staff with knives. Brian Hawes, managing director of Chiltern Hills Supastore in Oakley Road, Chinnor, said: "I hope this will jog people's
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Teenage thief found hanged
TEENAGER Ben Mills was found hanged just a day after being convicted of theft by Oxford magistrates. Mills, 18, of Thame, was found in a cell at Reading Young Offenders' Institution yesterday. The teenager had been found guilty of theft on Thursday and
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Facing up to a new image
COSMETICS consultant Nicola King can create miracles when people come to her for a makeover. Nicola, a consultant for Boots, in Cornmarket Street, Oxford, does about five makeovers a week for women who want a new look or just need a little guidance with
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Where do we really live?
IT could be Blackbird Leys, Fry's Hill, Brake Hill or even Oxford Village. Oxford's largest new housing development is leaving hundreds of people confused about where they actually live. Constant development to the south of Blackbird Leys means more than
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Dangerous dog bit a schoolboy
PUPIL Eric Walker was bitten in the stomach by a Rottweiler-German Shepherd cross after it escaped from its owner's garden into school grounds, magistrates heared. Eric, 11, of St Birinus School, Didcot suffered a three-inch-long bruise and cuts after
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Old ornament was a bomb
AN estate agent received the shock of his life when he realised a doorstop and an object on a mantelpiece could be live shells. John Catling, of Taylor and Fletcher in Chipping Norton, was showing clients around the Old Griffin House in the nearby village
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Cutting clinics could raise abortion levels
CLOSING three family planning clinics in Oxfordshire could lead to an increase in abortions, a health worker has warned. Oxfordshire Community Health Trust has proposed shutting clinics in Wallingford, Faringdon and Wantage after the health authority
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Voice manipulator means Elvis Lives for Mail man Reg Little
EVER wanted to sing exactly like Madonna? Or how about belting out a ballad that will convince friends that you have become Shirley Bassey? Well it could soon be possible - even if you can't sing and happen to be a man as well. Oxford University engineer
