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Firm scores hit with computer game
WORK on a new football computer game has put a Banbury computer animation company into a league of its own. Audio Motion, of Beaumont Road, Banbury, helped develop the lifelike movements in the game World League Soccer '98, developed by the firm's sister
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UN wants refugee review
A top United Nations body today demanded an urgent review into why three asylum seekers cleared of rioting at Campsfield House, Kidlington, are still held in prison. In a letter to the Immigration Department, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees
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Mum's fury as boy gashes hand
Playtime in the park turned into a nightmare when toddler Jordan Bachelor gashed his hand on broken glass left in a play tunnel. The two-year-old needed stiches at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, after he crawled through the tunnel in Edmonds Park
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Hanging followed drink-drive arrest
Storekeeper Brian Stockford was found hanged from a stepladder a day after he was released from Banbury police station following his arrest for drink-driving. One of the workmen demolishing an old building in Bridge Street, Banbury, discovered the 32-
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Henman going for glory
OXFORDSHIRE tennis star Tim Henman was carrying the hopes of the nation at Wimbledon today. Henman, from Weston-on-the-Green, went into his first men's singles semi-final against the world No 1 Pete Sampras as a 3-1 underdog. But he said defiantly: "I'm
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Blackmail note 'wasn't my idea'
A man accused of blackmailing a Henley businessman told a court that a poison pen letter he wrote was the businessman's own idea. Iran-born Ramtin Ebrihimpourkoloor, 28, is accused of threatening to tell the businessman's wife about an affair he was having
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D-day looms for brewery
Anxious Morrells' staff and publicans will learn whether the brewery has a future at a crunch meeting next Thursday. The new chairman and chief executive, Ken Hodgson, has asked all employees and pub tenants' representatives to attend. Mr Hodgson called
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Covered market status surprise
News that Oxford's Covered Market was to become a listed building came as a surprise to conservation groups - they thought it already was. The present market buildings between High Street and Market Street date from the 19th century and traders there
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Unipart factory may close
Motor parts group Unipart is to shut its factory off Woodstock Road, Oxford, and move production to new state-of-the art plants. In all, 420 people work at Oxford Automotive Components, which will be run down by 2001. Unipart says it will offer jobs to
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Robbo at the helm for United
POPULAR defender Les Robinson is to become Oxford United's new club captain. The 31-year-old full back, voted Player of the Year last season, will take over from Mike Ford who was released by the club last month and has now joined Cardiff City. Manager
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Firemen offer blaze hero a job
Hero Rob Hudson pulled his neighbour from a burning summer house - and impressed firemen so much they invited him to join up. Rob, 25, of Waverley Avenue, Kidlington, was in an upstairs bedroom when he heard Pamela Francke's cry for help and saw the converted
