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New delay for steel tower voyager
Intrepid sailor Bob Dyer has hit another snag in his attempt to start his round-the-world trip - Hurricane Georges. Bob, of Upperhill, Moulsford, near Wallingford, has been planning to set sail in his converted hospital steel tower, Pipedream, for almost
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Street protest moves
Police say a Reclaim the Streets protest planned for today (SAT) appears to have been cancelled. A large-scale police operation had been planned by officers to deal with a large-scale demonstration anticipated at noon at Carfax Tower, Oxford. But police
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Broody boas up for sale
Student Tim Barker is looking for a caring owner to take his two four-foot boa constrictors and start a family. The 16-year-old, from Bloxham, near Banbury, wants to sell the two-year-old male and female snakes as they are ready to breed and he has to
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Three hurt as 'stolen' car crashes
A teenager was critically injured and two other youths badly hurt after a car ploughed into a wall and burst into flames early today. The youths, aged 16 to 18, were in a Vauxhall Belmont car which crashed near the Coach and Horses pub, in Chislehampton
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Farewell to city taxi driver
More than 100 people packed a chapel to say goodbye to taxi driver Godfrey Hillier, who has died aged 63. Two taxis driven by Mr Hillier, of Sandy Lane, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, during his time at Radio Taxis, of Warwick Street, east Oxford, carried his
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Henman puts Britain in charge
WITHOUT ever playing at their best, Greg Rusedski and Oxfordshire's Tim Henman put Great Britain in charge of their Davis Cup World Group qualifying round tie against India at Nottingham yesterday. Britain gained a 2-0 lead when Rusedski beat Leander
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Oxford to be air safety capital of the world
The world's leading airlines are to be asked to help fund a £5m air crash research centre in Oxford. Big rises in the number of disasters and near-collisions have led to plans to make Oxford the air safety capital of the world. Linacre College and the
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Dennis Potter made an impact from day one
The minute Dennis Potter arrived in Oxford as an undergraduate, he made it clear exactly where he was coming from. The man whose fame would eventually border on notoriety as Britain's most controversial TV playwright had humble roots. His father was a
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Motorist in tree crash
Motorist Richard Gibbs had to be cut from his Citroen AXC car after it smashed into a tree, in Manorsfield Road, Bicester, shortly after 8am today. Mr Gibbs, 19, was taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, with a suspected broken leg and facial
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Sale to fund new community centre
A community centre is to be sold to pay for a purpose-built replacement. Oxford city councillors approved plans to sell the existing West Oxford Community Centre site, a former school in Binsey Lane, to housing developers. The land will be put up for
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Quads joy for mum Min
A family is celebrating after quads were delivered in the maternity unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Mum Min Smy gave birth to two sets of twins, one identical. Mrs Smy and her husband Nicholas, both in their thirties, of Fox Close, Begbroke
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Man fished for bathing gear through letterbox
Deaf Duncan Goodman was caught in a police car's headlights fishing women's swimming costumes out through the letterbox of a charity shop. A jury heard that Goodman, 26, of London Road, Bicester, was using a straightened metal coat hanger to pull the
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Anger at cycle track on ancient lane
Plans to build a cycle track along an ancient right of way have caused uproar among councillors and residents. Green Lane, Woodstock, is a popular footpath and bridleway but has been earmarked as part of a £42.5m national cycle network. The track is pioneered
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Young guests miss the big day
The high-profile launch of an £8m Millennium project to help disadvantaged young people was awash with local dignitaries and other representatives - but not the young people themselves. It was not that Oxford City Council did not invite a group of young
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City council benefits from allotments sale
A charity has handed over more than £360,000 from a land sale to Oxford City Council. The cash constitutes a quarter of the £1.2m raised from the sale of allotments at Temple Cowley and was paid over in return for planning permission to develop the site
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Soft side of the British bulldog
To the world Churchill was the epitome of the British bulldog - tough, defiant, irrepressible. But a soon to-be-published collection of letters penned by Sir Winston Churchill reveal just what an old romantic the great war leader really was. Intimate
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WBA visit no longer all-ticket
OXFORD United fans thinking they would have to rush to get their ticket in advance for Tuesday night's Division 1 game against West Brom at the Manor Ground need not worry - the game has been de-regulated and is no longer all-ticket. Supporters of both
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Sister Frances's home from home is a lifeline
Lesley Harvey had four sons. The eldest would now be aged 18, the twins 16 and the youngest eight. But she only has one son left. Stephen and the twins, Mark and Ian, all died of Sanfillipo, a degenerative disease that rendered them speechless and confined
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Secret location for rare pasqueflowers
A white Ford van sped along Oxfordshire's narrow country lanes at the head of a small convoy - its mission was to save a little part of England that is slowly dying. A Land Rover and a car behind carried a group of experts, all sworn to keep their destination
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Don't mention im-Perch-ment
Their student years are well behind them but a group of old friends gather outside a favourite Oxford pub to laugh about old times - and look, it's Bill and Hillary Clinton! They all have crazy antics to recall, though the presence of new girlfriends
