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Woman trucker killed
A woman lorry driver died after a collision on the A34 near Weston-on-the-Green early today, triggering rush-hour traffic chaos. Paramedics rushed to the southbound carriageway of the A34 between Wendlebury and the Kidlington turning at 2.20am after the
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Baby hurt as terrier snaps his face
Baby Simon Pegram narrowly escaped being blinded when one of his family's pet dogs bit right through his eyelid and punctured his cheek. Eight-month-old Simon, of Elms Road, Cassington, was rushed to hospital by paramedics with his face covered in blood
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Bid to save Morrells building
City planners have been instructed to issue a building preservation order to safeguard the historic Morrell's brewery. The move by Oxford City Council's planning committee comes just days after the sale of the St Thomas Street site to a pub tycoon was
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Arsenal gun for young City striker
OXFORD City's exciting striker Jermaine McSporran is set to spend a dream week training with Premiership champions Arsenal. The 21-year-old forward, who has been terrorising Ryman League defences this season with his lightning pace, is also understood
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Where there's a will...there won't be a vicious family dispute
I have made a will, writes KATHERINE MacALISTER. I thought it was the sort of thing you did when you retired but when I discovered that 46 per cent of people dying intestate are women, I changed my mind. Intestacy is when someone dies without leaving
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How Helen copes with her husband's pre-senile dementia
Helen Beaumont noticed her 42-year-old husband Clive was becoming forgetful. Then things got worse. FIONA TARRANT reports... Hindsight is a wonderful thing, says Helen Beaumont. "With it, I might have known something was wrong with Clive a lot sooner.
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Protesters occupy trees
Protesters have set up home in two horse chestnut trees outside the railway station to stop them being chopped down for the road-widening scheme in Park End Street. Most of the campaigners were involved in the occupation of the nearby LMS building. Previous
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Flooding blamed on bungling - report
Damage caused by the Easter flash floods that left 350 people homeless in Oxfordshire was made even worse because the authorities bungled the rescue. In a shock report out today, the Environment Agency is accused of giving most victims no prior warning
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University exam cheat loses appeal
Disgraced student Katherine Rainwood has failed to persuade Oxford University to overturn its decision to expel her for cheating in exams. Ms Rainwood, 22, resigned as president of the Oxford Students' Union in June, shortly after she was sent down. She
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Crash victim left seat-belt off
Company director Michael Neal, who was killed when his car spun off a country road and hit a tree, had drunk more than twice the legal limit of alcohol, an inquest heard. Mr Neal, 52, of The Spinney, Launton, near Bicester, was not wearing a seat-belt
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'Bagpipe music for cat farmer at 1am'
Cat breeder Chris Brown told a court he heard the sound of bagpipes playing outside his house at one o'clock in the morning. He said he considered it part of a harassment campaign by protesters trying to close down his business. At Witney magistrates'
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Radiohead tops the bill
Top band Radiohead is backing Amnesty International by heading an all-star concert in Paris in December. The award-winning Oxford band, fronted by Thom Yorke, will be performing at the Bercy Stadium on December 10, to mark the 50th anniversary of the
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Mudslip rips into homes
Villagers are counting the cost after a mudslide tore through their gardens and homes leaving a trail of devastation. Residents in Larch End, Garsington, were woken in the early hours by a crashing sound and could not believe their eyes when they went
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Vandals spill oil in school car park
Mindless vandals spilled 2,000 litres of oil across a school car park. The intruders tampered with an oil tank outside the kitchen of Dr Radcliffe's Primary School, Steeple Aston, and the contents gushed out across a car park. The school has been left
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Tragic end to punting treat
A punting trip ended in tragedy when non-swimmer David Colban fell out and drowned in the River Cherwell. Mr Colban, 22, was knocked into the water when a second punt collided with his, 150 yards from the Cherwell Boathouse, Bardwell Road, north Oxford
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Oxford bowlers in national title success
AN impeccable display by England international bowler Kathy Hawes, capped a wonderful weekend for the bowlers of Oxford City & County, as they won the Travelsphere National Club Championship as the leading women's club in England. Hawes, who did not
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Why losing a breast is not the end of the world
Annie Dodd may have had a double mastectomy but she's not going to hide behind thick jumpers - she's about to proudly strut her stuff on the catwalk, writes GEMMA SIMMS. The divorced mum-of-two is one of 15 models from around the country who have been
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The unthinkable about the unsinkable
The video release of Titanic this month will see James Cameron's blockbuster movie set still more records. But the release coincides with an astonishing new book from Oxford author Robin Gardiner about the "unsinkable" liner, which suggests the truth
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Coping with the death of a child
Few people, unless they have experienced it themselves, can imagine the intense grief and pain a parent feels at the loss of a baby or other child. Oxford Sands - a support group for people in just that terrible situation - has now launched two new schemes
