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£2.5m boost for bug hunters
AN ABINGDON company that hunts down and destroys computer viruses has attracted a £2.5m cash injection from top venture capitalists 3i. Sophos, founded in 1986, is now one of the world's five leading independent suppliers of corporate anti-virus software
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Novelist Margaret Potter dies at 72
Novelist Margaret Potter, the daughter of one writer and wife of another, has died aged 72. Mrs Potter, of Larkins Lane, Old Headington, Oxford, wrote under her own name and three pseudonyms - Anne Melville, Margaret Newman and Anne Bette- ridge. She
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Air passenger safety probe
Research by the Aviation Study Group at Linacre College, Oxford is investigating whether pre-flight safety instructions for airline passengers help save lives. The Aviation Study Group will study whether more information should be given to passengers
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Famous author aids new talent
Top novelist John Fowles is linking up with his old Oxford college to establish a retreat where writers can nurture their literary talents. The 72-year-old plans to leave his home in Lyme Regis, Dorset, to a trust for writers. The author of classics including
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I'm so sorry, says exam cheat
Shamed Oxford student Katherine Rainwood, expelled for cheating in her final exams, has broken her silence to apologise to family and friends. Miss Rainwood, 22, resigned as student union president in June shortly after she was sent down. She has been
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UK firms helped Japanese in war
Oxford historian Bernard Wasserstein has uncovered shocking revelations that British police and businessmen collaborated with the Japanese enemy during the Second World War. The treachery uncovered by Dr Wasserstein, a fellow of St Cross College, will
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Handy Andy is united saviour
OXFORD United striker Andy Thomson felt the world had been lifted off his shoulders after he grabbed the injury-time goal to earn a point in a 3-3 thriller with Ipswich on Saturday. His wild celebrations at the Manor were entirely understandable for it
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Missed appointments costing £19.8m
Thousands of patients are failing to turn up for hospital appointments in Oxfordshire - costing the NHS millions of pounds. The shock figures were released today by Oxford health bosses following revelations of a bleak national picture from the Department
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Branson signs on
Tycoon Richard Branson is visiting the Virgin Megastore in Cornmarket Street, Oxford, on Wednesday, September 23, to sign copies of his new autobiography Losing My Virginity. Staff expect Mr Branson, who lives in Kidlington, to sign copies of the book
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Driver ends up over a barrel
A driver found himself over a barrel when he crashed at a petrol station. A black Ford Capri was turning into the station at the Tesco store in Abingdon yesterday afternoon when a wooden ornamental barrel, which contained flowers, became wedged underneath
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Postmaster admits fraud charge
Former sub-postmaster Tony Summerfield admitted pocketing more than £400,000 through false accounting at his post office. During a ten-minute hearing at Bicester Magistrates' Court, Summerfield, 58, of the Post Office, Kirtlington, pleaded guilty to falsifying
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Horse dies at international horse trials
Rider Chris Hall told today how his favourite horse collapsed and died during the Blenheim International Horse Trials. The 11-year-old horse, McCadam, had a heart attack as Mr Hall prepared to jump a fence at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on Saturday. Mr
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It's the Splice Squad!
It was Girl Power all the way for the wedding of Scary Spice Mel B to dancer Jimmy Gulzar - for the couple were married by woman priest the Rev Sue Irwin. Miss Irwin, a former church deacon in Kidlington, had to be escorted to the ceremony by four police
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Andy saves point in Manor thriller
Oxford Utd 3, Ipswich Tn 3 ANDY Thomson ended weeks of personal anguish with a dramatic injury-time equaliser to bring United the very least they deserved from a marvellously entertaining Division 1 game at the Manor Ground on Saturday. The free transfer
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Appeal over halal shop arson
Detectives are investigating an arson attack on a meat shop in Oxford. The blaze, which caused serious damage to Halal Meats, in Cowley Road, took place during the early hours of Saturday morning. Police and fire officers attended the incident and established
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Knife raid terror for lone shop worker
A young woman shop assistant was threatened with a knife during a robbery at a Co-op store. The robbery, which left the lone assistant at the store in Church Road, Wheatley, shocked but not hurt, happened at 7.30pm on Saturday. The man walked into the
