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Cool new image for asthma sufferers
YOUNG asthma sufferers are being offered a cool new image by an Oxfordshire company which aims to make children eager and willing to take their medicine, writes Maggie Hartford. Euromark, based in a converted barn on the outskirts of Tubney village, near
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Savage end for pet puss
A mum-of-three found the family's kitten dead in the garden after it was savaged by a dog. Six-month-old Tinkerbell is the second cat the Evans family, of Coriander Way, Greater Leys, Oxford, has lost in just seven months after their first pet was hit
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Hospital patients in pillow fight
Patients face a daily fight for pillows at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital with nurses filling pillow cases with blankets to ease shortages. Few patients had real pillows in the emergency ward yesterday - even though nurses are constantly ordering more
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Town clerk quits feuding council
Get yourselves sorted out, now - for the sake of Wantage's future! That's the blunt message to feuding town councillors from their outgoing clerk, Adrian Wheldon, who is stepping down after just three months looking after the town's affairs. Frustrated
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Gran's brush with success
When Mary Meagher's nine-year-old granddaughter won some acrylic paints and a book on how to use them in a drawing competition at school, she did what any caring granny would do. She sat down with her and patiently went through the book, chapter by chapter
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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
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Heart to heart
Paul Harris reports on the international effort to save the life of a sick little boy... Surgeons flew an artificial heart from Germany in a last-ditch attempt to save a little boy with a gigantic diseased heart. A team of specialists, led by Oxford surgeon
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Secret poets revealed
One woman's works are well-known to English students, the other is finally getting public recognition - at age 85. Gemma Simms reports... Elizabeth Jennings' name is a familiar one to anyone who has taken an A-level in English. Students will know a lot
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Campsfield trial collapses
Campaigners today attacked the decision to prosecute nine West African immigrants for rioting at Campsfield House detention centre after the trial dramatically collapsed. The defendants protested their innocence from the start of the case, which followed
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Light relief from 'Mr Moonlight'
Entertainer Frankie Vaughan raised some smiles when he officially opened a £680,000 extension to the Pain Relief Unit in Oxford. The singing star was treated for back pain at the Churchill Hospital unit a year ago and last September he cut the first turf
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Mobile phone traps a thief
A prolific mobile phone thief, who plagued company car parks, was caught by the technology he was so fond of stealing, a court heard. John Winslow, 24, and another man toured car parks in hired cars and targeted mobile phones. But when they were spotted
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Rebellious pub opens again
A pub whose ale once sparked riots by poor farmers over disputed common land on Otmoor has re-opened. The Crown at Charlton-on-Otmoor threw open its doors for the first time in eight months on Friday . New landlords Duncan and Jackie Cooper took over
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Thousands back hospital appeal
MORE than 14,000 people have now signed the petition to save Burford Community Hospital from the axe. Hundreds more signatures are still coming in from all over the county, including some collected by Eynsham Parish Council, in protest against the cuts
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Brave mum's incredible battle
Lin didn't think things could get any worse when the family home was destroyed by fire. Then her daughter broke her back. Phil Clee reports... Single mum Lin Coxhead's world fell apart when a fire gutted the rented house where she lived with her three
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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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Lessons in learning
Clever Naomi Norman and Stephanie Wilde have come to the rescue of panicking GCSE and A-level students. The two qualified teachers have founded Classy Tutors, a tutorial, non-profit-making agency set up to help pupils from state schools revise subjects
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Time for a spot of Jock therapy
A new survey has revealed that people of Celtic ancestry have a far higher chance of suffering from MS. George Frew reports... What's in a name?, asked Shakespeare dismissively. But then he could afford to be dismissive - he was English. It appears that
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Nick swaps Street for stage
Nick Cochrane (Andy McDonald in Coronation Street) has his acting L plates on in Spring and Port Wine, which opens at the Oxford Apollo tonight. Helen Peacocke reports... It's difficult to work out where Andy MacDonald, the TV Soap character from Coronation
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Long knives in fusty gowns?
The resignation of Sir Stephen Tumim from his position as Principal of St Edmund Hall has once again fuelled speculation that, behind the scenes, academic life can be a dirty business, writes GEORGE FREW. Sir Stephen, 67, a distinguished judge, Oxford
