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Baby hedgehog is in a prickle
A tiny hedgehog is being cared for by animal rescuer Penny Little at her Little Foxes sanctuary in Great Haseley. She survived her nest being destroyed when a sycamore in a Sandford garden blew down and the roots churned up her home. Then she got over
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Tumim resigns from college
Sir Stephen Tumim has resigned as principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, after a long-running dispute with dons, it was revealed today. Sir Stephen, the former Chief Inspector of Prisons and former judge, is reported to have left "Teddy Hall" with a six-figure
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Animal campaigner slams 'injustice'
Animal rights protester Cynthia O'Neill has slammed a court verdict against her as "a gross miscarriage of justice". The 60-year-old campaigner, who has vowed to close down the cat breeding business at Hillgrove Farm, Minster Lovell, was found guilty
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Archer failed to come clean, says critic
Lord Archer's answers to damaging allegations about his years at Oxford have been slammed as "totally unsatisfactory" by his biographer. Michael Crick, a BBC journalist who wrote a damning account of how Jeffrey Archer got into Oxford with no A-levels
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Shoes returned for mending - 50 years later!
Farmer's son Jonathan Woodall had his shoes mended at an Oxford bootmakers 50 years after they were crafted in the shop. The goatskin shoes, which are worn for black tie occasions, were made for his father Kenneth Woodall, who ran Upper Westfield Farm
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Top honours for heart professor
The professor who led opposition to Margaret Thatcher receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University is among 16 Oxfordshire people in the Queen's Birthday Honours List announced today. Prof Denis Noble, Oxford University Professor of Cardiovascular
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Amanda's got a noble way of writing
For the last five years, Amanda Foreman has been living with another woman. A member of the nobility and a relative of Diana, Princess of Wales. She is a Duchess, no less. Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire, to be precise - the subject of Amanda's
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Hospital to shut staff social club
A HOSPITAL'S only social club looks certain to close because it cannot pay £12,000 in rent demanded by the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, it has been revealed. Many of the club's 600 members are angry at the news - fearing staff morale at the hospital
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Wife beaten for not putting washing away
SIXTEEN-stone Gary Barber subjected his missus to years of violent abuse. Now he has been jailed for attacking her when she didn't put the washing away. The vicious thug repeatedly lashed out at wife Jennifer during their stormy 15-year marriage because
