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£1m centre aims to make better builders
A £1M training centre for the construction industry is to be built in Oxford, writes David Duffy. The Heart of England Training and Enterprise Council has led a successful bid for £248,500 from the Department of Education and Employment Skills Challenge
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Niece of TV's Bill jailed for hate mail
The obsessive niece of Oxfordshire weatherman Bill Giles was starting a six-month jail sentence today after waging a seven-year hate campaign against him. Joanna Toner, 38, bombarded the BBC's Bill, from Chinnor, and his family and friends with vicious
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Jet ski death hearing delayed
A court case against the owners of a water-ski park where a 17-year-old jet skier was killed has been adjourned. Thame magistrates agreed to wait until an inquest into the death of Faye Grundy, of Benson, has been completed later this month. She died
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Hospitals' joy at injection of cash
Stephen chanell's home has been the children's Intensive Care unit at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital for the last six weeks. The 17-year-old was brought to the hospital's paediatric ward after an operation to remove a cyst from his spinal chord. He
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Traders fume over Broad Street ban on traffic
CITY centre traders have warned that they face the prospect of going bust if controversial proposals to change access and parking in Broad Street, Oxford, go ahead. Shopkeepers say the proposed ban on loading and unloading vehicles on the stretch of road
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City's streets of shame leave pedestrians injured
Great-grandmother amy Gardner suffered horrific injuries after tripping on a pavement in Oxford city centre. Widow Mrs Gardner, 70, fell head first when she tripped on a piece of protruding concrete outside Harry Ramsden's restaurant in St Ebbe's. According
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Big Kev could be out for a month
KEVIN Francis has NOT been given the green light to resume training yet by a specialist. The United striker has been given another 14 days to try to clear up the infection in his knee. It is now looking more like three to four weeks before he could return
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United boss hopping mad
MALCOLM Shotton blasted his Oxford United players for thinking they are "big-time Charlies" after a humiliating cup exit last night. And he warned that some will be shown the door unless they start producing. The team threw away the hard work of a 3-2
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In the world of firefighting, women are proving they're hot stuff
One day, they might be called on to rescue a four-footed purr wrapped in fur stuck up a tree, the next they could be cutting through the horrific tangled consequences of another bout of motorway madness, or dealing with the smoking result of a chip-pan
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Helping hands: Meet faith healer John
John Mayo lets out a chuckle when I ask him if he's a real-life Dr Dolittle, writes KATHERINE MacALISTER. The 58-year-old can't talk with the animals but he can communicate with them. Somehow. He says: "I can put animals to sleep just by using my hands
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Coping with 'the change'
It's something all women dread but no-one talks about. It happens to the 5.3m women, aged between 45 and 60, and takes about two years to get over, yet women know very little about it. Luckily the menopause is big news and help is at hand in Oxford. The
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Pub raided in drugs operation
DRUGS with a street value of £200,000 were seized from a pub near Wantage as part of an international operation led by the Metropolitan Police. Officers from the force's organised crime group raided premises at The Greyhound pub, in Main Street, Letcombe
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United go crashing!
Oxford Utd 1, Luton Tn 3 (Luton win 5-4 on agg) WORTHINGTON is "a man thing", according to the adverts, but there was a distinct lack of masculinity in United's performance as they crashed at the Manor last night. They were dumped embarrassingly out of
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County starts its countdown for the Millennium
IT will be the biggest celebration Britain has ever seen. With 500 days to go before the year 2000, towns and villages, from the Outer Hebrides to Penzance, are getting into gear to make their own mark on the 21st century. And communities across Oxfordshire
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Grandad escapes from fire with pet
Grandad aubrey Godfrey told how he and his pet dog fought their way through a wall of flames - before calmly popping down to Sainsbury's to do his weekly shopping. The 75-year-old former marine spotted smoke coming from the airing cupboard of his home
