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Oxfordshire's boom fuels skills shortage
THE Oxfordshire economy is booming, with companies performing well above the national average, according to a new report. The report featuring the county's top 75 companies, compiled by Business Link Heart of England and business advisers Grant Thornton
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Crash victim was former United star
Former Oxford United star Hughie McGrogan was named last night as the man who died when his car hit a railway bridge near Bicester. Mr McGrogan was driving towards Aylesbury on Tuesday when his Peugeot 405 veered into the Blackthorn bridge. The car burst
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Man held in net child sex probe
Detectives investigating an international paedophile ring operating through the Internet have arrested a man with two addresses in Oxfordshire. He was one of 11 men being questioned in the UK after an operation, led by British police, involving 12 countries
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Students on beauty course left in a mess
Students have had the plug pulled on their funding half-way through a two-year beauty therapy course. With just a week before they were due to return to college, the 12 girls have learned that their course has been axed. And it has left red-faced administrators
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Ex-Celtic star on trial for OxfordUnited
OXFORD United have been taking a look at ex-Celtic, Portsmouth and Manchester City ace Gerry Creaney in their desperate search for a striker. The former Scotland Under 21 international, now aged 28, signed Combination forms to play for the reserves at
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Sandra's living nightmare
Virtually a prisoner in her own home, Sandra Lockyer spends most of her day in bed, unable to sit up, unable to stand unaided, unable to do almost anything, writes KAREN ROSINE. A trip to the toilet just a few feet from her bedroom is a gruelling feat
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Hoaxers have a field day
It was PT Barnum who allegedly remarked that there was a sucker born every minute. And the old showman pulled enough scams in his colourful lifetime to know, writes karate black belt GEORGE FREW (fooled you!) American playwright Edward Albee - whose work
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Man charged over rape bid on one-year-old
A MAN has appeared in court accused of trying to rape a one-year-old girl. Matthew Fletcher, 27, of no fixed address, faced Oxford magistrates at a special hearing. He is charged with the attempted rape of the youngster, who is approaching her second
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Vintage bike is still going - 79 years on
Retired civil engineer Terence Crowley is very attached to his old motor bike. He first started riding it 68 years ago - and, before that, his father used it for GP visits. In fact, the Triumph LW "Baby" is now 79 years old and still in good nick. The
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RAF arms dump wrecks dream
A couple who built a summerhouse as a retreat have been told to pull it down - because it is too near an RAF bomb dump. George and Deidre Dudley wanted peace and quiet from the RAF planes constantly passing over their home. A small wooden chalet, complete
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Teen thugs burn boy
A YOUNGSTER was pinned down and burned with a cigarette lighter in a play area. Police at Witney are "appalled" by the attack, carried out by three teenagers who just picked on the nine-year-old as he was playing on a rounda- bout. "They did not know
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Shoppers petitioned in market rent fight
Shoppers at Oxford's Covered Market are being urged to sign a petition against huge rent rises facing traders. Oxford City Council, the landlord of the market, has warned tenants that rents could double as part of a five-year review of leases and rents
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Pace ace Henman makes it curtains for Aussie Draper
TIM Henman just loves life in the fast lane - and where the US Open is concerned, it's the quicker the better. The British No 2, from Oxfordshire, raced into the second round of the US Open on the super-fast courts of Flushing Meadow with an emphatic
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Check out these chicks!
Three flamingo chicks have hatched at the Cotswold Wildlife Park after two barren years. Renovation work on their lake disturbed the birds at the park near Burford and put them off breeding. But the newest arrival struggled into the world on Monday, allowing
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Bridge too far for a new Robin Hood
Long-distance archer Barry Groves is a victim of his own success. For while he can shoot an arrow that would reach from Carfax Tower to Magdalen Bridge, it's his huge range that could prove his downfall. He's in danger of missing the chance of a shot
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How to cope when the kids flee the nest
The Oxford Mail has teamed up with Central TV to bring you features every day this week on relationships. Today's topic is empty nesters and how you can look on the time you finally have to yourselves as a second honeymoon. Tonight on Central, Sherrie
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It's so funny how we don't talk any more
It's Day Three of Relationships Week and FIONA TARRANT talks to psychotherapist Philip Rogers about what couples can do to learn to love each other again... Psychotherapist Philip Rogers came across a sentence many years ago which had a profound effect
