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Queen's Awards for booming companies
TWO Oxfordshire companies received their Queen's Awards for exports from the Lord Lieutenant, Hugo Brunner. Acting on behalf of the Queen, he presented the awards for export achievement to Oxfordshire Business of the Year Award winner Software 2000 and
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Man killed by train
A man died today after he was hit by a train on the railway line at Oxford. Paramedics were called to the train station at 12.20am and rushed the man to the John Radcliffe Hospital, but he died of his injuries soon after he arrived. The man has not been
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Posties balloted on strike
Hundreds of angry postal staff are to be balloted over possible strike action after the sacking of four colleagues. In recent weeks, two postmen working from the delivery office in East Oxford, as well as a postman at Abingdon and a driver based at the
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Plea for hospitals delivered to Blair
Campaigners trying to save Oxfordshire's community hospitals from closures and cutbacks delivered petitions to Prime Minister Tony Blair today. Protesters marched to 10 Downing Street before handing in thousands of signatures. Oxfordshire Community Health
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TV bid to catch robbers
One of Oxford's biggest armed robberies is to be featured on TV's top crimebusting programme, Crimewatch UK. Two armed robbers burst into Rowell Silversmiths in Turl Street on May 18 and ordered staff to lie on the floor. They grabbed £250,000 of jewellery
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Prankster cranks up shop's stereo
A prankster pumped up the volume when he used a remote control from outside a hi-fi shop to turn on a stereo. Noise-busters from Oxford City Council's environmental health department were called to turn it down, in one of the more unusual of the 1,970
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Brave Louise loses fight for life
Brave Louise Morland has lost her fight for life - just weeks after enjoying the holiday of a lifetime. A month before her death the ten-year-old, who was suffering from an acute form of leukaemia, jetted off to Disney World in Florida with 12 relatives
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Tributes to Oxfordshire cricketer
FORMER Oxfordshire captain Joe Banton led the tributes to legendary bowler David Laitt, who died aged 67 on Saturday. Banton, his long-time captain for the county and also at Cowley St John, said: "David was without doubt the finest bowler ever to play
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Why put Batty on the spot?
EXTRA time was 13 minutes old when the perspiration started forming on my forehead, writes JON MURRAY. I'd scanned across the pitch of a game that seemed destined to remain deadlocked, and I could see only four England penalty takers. The names of Shearer
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Tory sell-off ruled out
Tory plans to sell every county council-owned building in Oxfordshire to the private sector have been ruled out. Lib Dems, Greens and Labour county councillors yesterday voted against spending £25,000 on a consultants' feasibility study of the idea, known
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Morrells 'grand old lady' quits
The battle for Oxford's Morrells brewery took a dramatic turn today with board member Margie Eld quitting after 54 years. Mrs Eld staged a walkout from a board meeting at the brewery in St Thomas's Street in protest at what she called the "needless destruction
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Cash chaos at tenants' association
The finances of an Oxford tenants' association were a fiasco, watchdogs have discovered. Auditors from Oxford City Council recommended this month that the Barton Estate Tenants' and Residents' Association - Betra - should be dissolved immediately. But
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Angel wings his way to West Brom
OXFORD United winger Mark Angel joined up with his old boss Denis Smith again by moving to West Bromwich Albion today on a free transfer. Angel, 22, paid the price for being in a position where United have a surplus of riches. He found himself fourth
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No shame in defeat, say fans
England's heroes outnumbered the one villain for hundreds of fans watching the World Cup drama across Oxfordshire last night. The ten Lionhearts left on the pitch after David Beckham's moment of madness had big screen-watchers alternately in rapture and
