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Straw sued over demo
An author angry at police banning an animal rights demonstration in Witney is suing the Home Secretary. Campaigning writer Vernon Coleman was due to speak at a rally organised by Save the Hillgrove Cats on July 11. But the event was vetoed the night before
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Raise girls' age of consent to 18, says baroness
The Oxford peer, who led a House of Lords vote against lowering the age of consent for homosexuals, is urging the Government to consider raising the age when girls can legally have sex. Baroness Young, who lives in north Oxford, was speaking after an
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Jail for dealers caught on film
Three heroin dealers were jailed for a total of 14 years after police spied on their customers calling them to order drugs from a telephone box outside an Oxford school to order the drug. Aaron Clarke and Leon Graham, both 21, who come from Luton, stored
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Pilot error blamed for death crash
Pilot error was the most likely cause of a helicopter crash which killed its millionaire owner, an inquest heard. Businessman Colin Sanders, 50, was killed when his twin-engine Squirrel helicopter crashed near his family home at Souldern Manor, near Bicester
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Hot coal's good for your sole
George Frew discovers there's a time when being hauled over the coals is good for your job prospects... In less sophisticated times, employers used to encourage their staff to greater efforts by placing a few extra crisply-laundered fivers in their brown
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The animals are the stars, not me
RSPCA inspector Tracey Davenport isn't letting fame go to her head. Gemma Simms reports... Tracey Davenport spends her working day battling with ferocious swans and saving the lives of many other animals. The 32-year-old, who lives near Witney, is the
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Chances with wolves
Zoologist Claudio is fighting to save a species in peril. MATT CHILDE reports... In an office deep inside Oxford University's zoology department sits the saviour of the world's rarest dog. Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, 37, grew up in Argentina watching Daktari
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Council weed squad boycott OAP's garden for being overgrown
A hit squad set up to tackle garden weeds for the elderly has told an 87-year-old widow her plot is too overgrown to qualify. Bessie Sharpe watched her garden turn into "a wilderness" as she waited for Oxford City Council staff to come and sort it out
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Brewery bosses under fire for pay-offs
Managers at the crisis-torn Morrells brewery have been blasted by a union chief over redundancy pay. The Transport and General Workers Union says it has been flooded by applications from brewery workers since the firm announced plans to sell three weeks
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Man killed by 125mph train
A business consultant threw himself into the path of an InterCity 125 train after the break-up of his marriage. Anthony Matthew Costley-White, 52, from Wytham, near Oxford, killed himself just days after he received copies of his divorce papers. The jury
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We need more buses for all these students
Bus passenger Cathy Foot is calling on Oxford's bus firms to lay on extra services to deal with the summer influx of foreign language students. People living on the Greater Leys and Blackbird Leys estates are having to wait up to half an hour to get their
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Schools 'set for new cash crisis'
Government plans to give schools responsibility for more of their budgets could spell disaster for some Oxfordshire schools. A major teaching union has criticised the proposed changes before a special meeting on Tuesday to discuss the county's response
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Survivor of PoW camps dies at 78
Japanese prisoner of war camp survivor Leslie Newport has died, aged 78. Mr Newport, of Swinburne Road, Cowley, Oxford, was missing, presumed killed in action, for 15 months during 1942 and 1943. In fact, the RAF medical orderly had been captured twice
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City away to league rivals in FA Cup test
OXFORD City are on the road in the FA Cup after being drawn away to Ryman League Division 1 rivals Molesey. The winners of the preliminary round tie on Saturday, September 5 will be at home to Chertsey Town, also of Ryman Division 1, in the first qualifying
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Cheetahs off the bottom
Oxford Cheetahs 47, Poole Pirates 43 GRESHAM Cheetahs 'Kangaroo Kid' Jason Crump sent his fellow 'Roos' packing in a dramatic all -Aussie final heat to lift his team off the bottom of the table at the Stadium last night. The Elite League victory was all
