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Flood threat feared
Environment chiefs are keeping an eye on the rivers due to the prospect of heavy rainfall. Many people fear a repetition of the Easter floods which brought chaos to north Oxfordshire as homes were flooded and transport ground to a halt. But despite predictions
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Egg-tossing yobs face crack-down
Police are on alert with special egg-busting measures for Hallowe'en. The crack-down - against egg-throwing hooligans - has sparked a poster campaign and appeals to local stores in Witney. And on Hallowe'en night officers will patrol the town's estates
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Human bomb act was 'stupid'
A young chef stood between two gas cylinders, doused in petrol, with a box of matches and threatened to blow up a pub. Stephen Young, 20, the former head chef at the Lamb and Flag, in Longworth, stood in the pub garden twisting the tops off two propane
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Occult fear as church hit by vandals
Occult ceremonies may be behind a vandalism attack on a tiny village church in Oxfordshire. The churchwarden of the 13th century St Swithun's church in Compton Beauchamp believes devil-worshippers are to blame. Intruders entered the unlocked church and
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Jane's safety call after A34 smash
Motorist Jane Brake wants to warn lorry drivers after she narrowly escaped serious injury in a high-speed crash on the A34. Mrs Brake, 36, of Cherry Tree Drive, Abingdon, is still too shaken to get back behind the wheel of her Land Rover, after being
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United trio get all-clear
INJURY worries Dean Windass, Andy Thomson and David Smith are all set to line up for Oxford United against Sheffield United at the Manor Ground today. Windass (knee), Thomson (thigh) and Smith (groin) trained yesterday - although assistant manager Mark
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Village in shock as postmaster jailed
Villagers packed Oxford Crown Court in support of former sub-postmaster and shopkeeper, Tony Summerfield. Kirtlington residents watched in shock as Summerfield, who falsified his Post Office accounts to the tune of more than £420,000, was jailed for three-and-a-half
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Cat farm activists talk to police
Save the Hillgrove Cats campaigners sat around a table with Thames Valley Police for the first time. In the past, protesters have refused to hold talks with officers over the demonstrations outside Hillgrove Farm, Minster Lovell, despite repeated requests
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Traders slam mess from work on new Bhs
Traders say months of building work for a newly-opened department store has left them facing ruin. Shop owners in St Ebbe's Street, Oxford, claim that builders working on the new Bhs store have caused such a mess in the street that shoppers avoid it and
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Yob who rocked police car jailed
A 20-stone man used his bulk to rock a moving police car from side to side before putting on the handbrake and sending it out of control. Oxford Crown Court heard the police car, which was travelling at 60mph, went down a bank at the side of the road.
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Gay US doll to hit UK market
Move over Barbie, you dumb babe, you always were just so straight. Forget Action Man, butch in all that combat gear but wouldn't be seen dead in tight leather trousers, writes Reg Little. It's time to make way for Billy, the world's first "out and proud
