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Students in fast lane to GP success
A DRIVE to produce the best engineers in the motorsport industry is being spearheaded by an Oxfordshire college. Top name companies in motorsport like Benetton, TWR Arrows, Reynard and Parallel Motion have chosen Rycotewood College, Thame, to help produce
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A royal treat for WRVS
The Queen is to attend a garden party at Milton Hill House, near Abingdon, to celebrate the diamond anniversary of the Women's Royal Voluntary Service. Among the volunteers the Queen will meet at the party will be those who helped mourners following the
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Sex attack on student
A sex attacker indecently assaulted a young woman in Oxford city centre. The man approached the 18-year-old victim as she waited for a taxi near the men's toilets in St Giles between 11.15 and 11.30pm on Friday. Police said he pushed her into the stairway
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New plea to return Tytus the guard dog
Tytus, the Rottweiler guard dog which let thieves take him away with the loot, has disappeared into thin air - and his owners are devastated. Despite a £1,000 reward for his return, nothing has been heard of the six-year-old dog - described as a big softy
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University prejudice challenged
A scheme aimed at dispelling the Brideshead image of Oxford University has proved so successful that it is being extended. A total of 120 sixth-formers from state schools as far north as Aberdeen and as far south as Penzance will be sampling student life
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Grim sight to greet historic city visitors
Visitors to Oxford are greeted by a grotty bus station, lines of wheelie bins and a struggle with their luggage, it is claimed. Critics say the bus station at Gloucester Green and the market place beside it are dirty, rubbish-strewn and badly maintained
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CRITCHLEYS OXON KO CUP
HOLDERS Bicester and North Oxford overcame a tricky hurdle by beating fellow Adkin Cherwell League club Sandford St Martin by seven wickets in the first round. Sandford's 73 never looked enough to test Bicester's powerful batting line-up and they cruised
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United start at Bristol City
OXFORD United will open their new Nationwide League Division 1 campaign with a visit to newly-promoted Bristol City on Saturday, August 8. United's first home game will be against Wolves, who visit the Manor on Saturday, August 15. In their Christmas
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They used us as guinea pigs
MICHAEL HAMBLETON reports on a ex-serviceman's disgust at this week's decision by the European Court of Human Rights not to back claims for compensation for two veterans of 1950s nuclear tests... A veteran of 1950s nuclear tests, who watched the blast
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Like a cat with nine lives
Gemma Simms on the 100-year-old author of the Orlando books... Kathleen Hale's father died when she was just five years old which changed her life for ever. The Oxford author and talented artist, now 100, was forced to live with relatives, who beat her
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Three lions on my Sherpa (well, actually it's a Fiesta van
FOOTBALL crazy Nigel Wemyss has to be England's number one van. The 36-year-old, of Mallard Way, Grove, has decorated his old white Fiesta van with the cross of St George. And he's used red electrical tape to print the slogans "Come on England" on the
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White Christmas for town
It's going to be all white on the night in Abingdon during the Christmas festivities. Heavy snowfall has been forecast in the town on November 27 when the Abingdon Chamber of Commerce will be holding its annual Christmas Extravaganza in the town centre
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England match halts a nation
England's most eagerly awaited soccer fixture since 1990 was set to kick off today - and bring the country to a halt. Millions of fans who have endured an eight-year wait since England's last appearance in the World Cup finals were expected to take the
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Fringford to fight cup ban
FRINGFORD, one of the favourites for the Telegraph Cup, are up in arms after being thrown out of the competition by the OCA League. The Premier Section Division 3 club claim they have been treated shoddily for failing to notify cups secretary Peter Baring
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Food for thaw-t
A culinary revolution is poised to hit schools across the county, writes GiILL SMITH... Lumpy custard, soggy semolina, prunes and corrugated chips - the image of school dinners is legendary. Not all of us liked them, except perhaps for the stodgy puddings
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Red kite is on fast road to recovery
They love stealing knickers from washing lines but move with awe-inspiring grace. Few creatures can claim to be more wild, yet their favourite haunt in Britain appears to be the M40 in Oxfordshire. Now there can be few doubts that the once-extinct red
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College tries the holistic approach
Think of Ryecotewood College and you tend to conjure up images of furniture designers and agricultural students. But the Thame college is striking out into a whole new area - holistic healing. There are courses on reflexology, reincarnation, Tibetan pulsing
