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Firm cashs in on payroll cost-cutting
HANDLING other people's payrolls and invoices is proving profitable for a growing company, writes Chris Koenig. Outsourcing firm CSL Group, which already employs almost 100 people in Oxfordshire, has now won a three-year contract to run Oxfordshire County
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Kids' pool evacuated in broken glass horror
A children's pool was evacuated after two people, including a five year old child, were slashed by glass. The area at Temple Cowley Pools was shut and swimmers ordered out last night after glass was found by the steps. Stephanie Hale, of Norham Road,
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Disabled OAP must pay for own ramp
House-bound pensioner Joyce Parrott has been told her plea for a wheelchair ramp has been put to the front of the queue - but she will have to pay for it herself. Mrs Parrott, 76, of Saxon Close, Wallingford, has not been able to get out of her own home
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Taxis face bus lane ban
Cabbies are queuing up to oppose plans to ban taxis from bus lanes in Oxford. Oxfordshire County Council, the highways authority, has made the proposal because it says taxi passengers should not enjoy advantages over other car travellers in Oxford. But
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Attacks on nurses are getting worse all the time
Clare Hamer has suffered three terrifying attacks at work in her career. But she does not work in what has traditionally been seen as a violent profession - she is a staff nurse working for the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust. New research from the
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Englishman's castle is his home
Lord Saye and Sele talks to GEORGE FREW... If an Englishman's home is his castle, then these days he must be prepared to lower the drawbridge and admit the odd paying guest or two if he wants to keep it, At Broughton Castle, the ancient ancestral home
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Will it be D-day or A-day for students?
FOR the lucky ones today will be a time of elation and celebration, writes GILL SMITH. A-level candidates who clinched that yearned-for place at university can at last heave a massive a sigh of relief and look forward to the future. But for many Oxfordshire
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Bomb expert suffocated in mud-slide
Army bomb disposal expert Michael Watkins suffocated to death after being buried alive in a First World War trench. Lt Col Watkins, 51, of Standlake, near Witney, was part of a crack team surveying tunnels at Vimy Ridge, near Arras, in northern France
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Snakes alive - we've adder population rise
By SIMON BURCH HOSPITAL staff have stocked up on anti-snake venom serum following reports of an increase in the numbers of adders in north Oxfordshire this summer. The accident and emergency department at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury has ordered
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Morrells sale leaves landlord heartbroken
Meet Oxford's unluckiest new landlord. Since the age of 18 plumber Trevor Dingle has dreamed of running his own pub. Trevor, 44, thought his dearest wish had come true when the tenancy of one of his favourite hostelries, The Bookbinders Arms in Jericho
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There's no stopping Borough!
BANBURY Borough's Alan Prew, Greg Moon and Les Gillett went storming on in the English Bowling Association Championships at Worthing yesterday. Following on their success in the fours, the three moved into the triples and had two easy victories. There
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Rob's ECB call is blow for Oxon
OXFORDSHIRE will be without Rob Williams for their final Minor Counties Cricket Championship match of the season against Berkshire at Falkland Cricket Club, Newbury, on Sunday and Monday. The Bicester and North Oxford batsman has been picked to play for
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Witches cast spell on sorry Cheetahs
Ipswich 63, Oxford 27 GRESHAM Oxford Cheetahs' miserable week continued at Ipswich last night, where they were dealt their heaviest Elite Speedway League defeat of the season. Cheetahs excelled when they visited Foxhall Heath back in May, and remain the
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TV's fatal attraction
Oxfordshire is the perfect setting for yet another murder mystery. ANDREW FFRENCH reports... Television producers are making Oxfordshire the perfect setting for murder. The latest mystery to join the likes of Inspector Morse is being filmed later this
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How we played a part in history
From toilet makers to convicts - the Crapper family dates back to 1683. SUZANNE HUBAND reports... Ernest Crapper was delighted to help when he received a letter out of the blue from some distant relatives in Australia trying to trace their ancestry. He
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Boss Shotton wields axe
OXFORD United will be told to smarten up as they switch from the Manor to the Palace tomorrow. And those who don't look the part seem certain to miss the trip. Boss Malcolm Shotton is set to make at least three changes after the dismal display which sent
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Invasion of the super-wasp
The invasion of the super-wasp is well under way in Oxfordshire, writes REG LITTLE. But the real sting in the tail is that the first reported swarm is in the garden of a Witney man who is allergic to wasps. Brian Thorn, 58, spotted several giant wasps
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Horror of the Holocaust
Marianne Elsley tells KATHERINE MacALISTER why she had to come to terms with her parents' atrocious deaths and speak out about a terrible period of history... For German Jew Marianne Elsley, every day is Holocaust Day. Living in Berlin when the Nazis
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In search of the Grail
Next week, the hunt for the Holy Grail centres on Oxford as a four-day conference on the subject opens at St Hilda's College. REG LITTLE reports... The Nazi SS chief Heinrich Himmler believed its magical power would change the course of the war. Others
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Trapped by nightmare wasps
Horrified Pete Dalton was rescued by firefighters after being kept captive in his bedroom by wasps. Pete's ordeal began at his home in Blackbird Leys Road, Oxford, when he went to the loo in the early hours of the morning. "As I pulled open the bedroom
