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Sick son keeps dad out of jail
A lorry driver who helped steal £30,000 worth of coffee from a Banbury food firm has escaped a jail sentence so he can care for his young son, who was badly burned two years ago. Raymond Tuckey, 26, of The Fairway, Banbury, pleaded guilty to theft along
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Estate vandalised as police guard farm
Frustrated residents say they are fed up with vandalism and drunken behaviour on their estate while police are spending more than £500,000 on protecting a cat breeding farm less than a mile away. People living on the Deer Park estate, Witney, called a
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Legal bill shock for fighter Fred
A pensioner faces a huge legal bill after losing a High Court battle with his local council. Fred Saunders, 83, took West Oxfordshire District Council to the High Court claiming it ignored more than 1,000 objections to its local plan. His protest had
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University snubbed by 'biased' teachers
Pupils in state schools across Britain are being blocked from going to Oxford University by biased teachers. That's the claim of a new survey that shows an anti-Oxford prejudice against the Brideshead Revisited stereotype. The news will cause alarm at
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Firms helped to turn Bjork into a polar bear
TURNING a pop star into a polar bear is all in a day's work for an Oxfordshire computer animation company, working in conjunction with a Hollywood giant. AudioMotion, of Banbury, in partnership with special effects specialist Digital Domain of Los Angeles
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Trickster robs OAP
A 91-year-old Grove pensioner lost £30 cash to a woman trickster claiming to be a council employee. The bogus official called at the OAP's bungalow home in Oxford Lane claiming that the local council had cash to give away to deserving cases and asked
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I smuggled cat to safety
Former Hillgrove cat farm worker Allie Moore told how she smuggled out her favourite cat. Ms Moore, 25, of Frys Hill, Oxford, left the farm in October last year, after a month off sick, and was asked not to return because she had taken the cat, Buddy.
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Hard work earns £89m for Oxfam
Oxfam is the top earning charity in the UK, beating its nearest rival for funds by more than £4m. The Summertown-based charity earned £89,188,000 in 1996/97 - making it the highest earner among Britain's top 500 fundraising charities, which earned £4.4bn
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Service to help carers unveiled
A new service for people caring for sick relatives is being launched in Abingdon Community Hospital. The hospital, in Marcham Road, was unveiling the new initiative during a coffee morning at the start of carers' week today. The service is a joint venture
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Oxfordshire through to last eight
OXFORDSHIRE'S cricketers secured a place in the last eight of the MCC Trophy with a comfortable eight-wicket win over Nottinghamshire in the third of their four group matches at Challow yesterday. As Leicestershire's game against Staffordshire was rained
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Gollob in new speedway controversy
CONTROVERSIAL Polish speedway ace Tomaz Gollob was at the centre of more Grand Prix drama in Pocking, Germany. Gollob, a member of the flying Ipswich Elite League squad, was accused of rough riding in the Hackney round three years ago and was thumped
