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Crowds welcome Queen
Crowds of cheering schoolchildren, waving flags, welcomed the Queen as she arrived to open Henley's new River and Rowing Museum. It was a colourful sight as she travelled down the Thames in the company of eight Royal Watermen clad in their traditional
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Student denies ordering attack
Student Haroon Sharif denied being the 'ruthless general' who ordered his troops to set fire to a house with people in it. Anum Khan, nine, and brother Majid, 15, died following a blaze at their home in Magdalen Road, East Oxford, on August 26 last year
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A34 rat-runners rip peace apart
For hundreds of years Wytham village has remained a charming, unspoiled place of thatched and shingle-roofed cottages. The calm of this quiet little village nestling in the countryside outside Oxford was rarely disturbed. Until now. When roadworks began
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Here's a happier way to be slim
If you have reached the end of your tether with diets that don't work, and are fed up with yo-yo eating habits, diet guru Pete Cohen may have the answer, writes GEMMA SIMMS. The 28-year-old, who is currently moving to Oxford, has lectured in sports science
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A nation pauses to honour the fallen
On Sunday, it will be a full 80 years since the guns fell silent, marking the end of the conflict that had been labelled The War To End All Wars, writes GEORGE FREW. In four hellish years, more than two million British servicemen were wounded and 908,
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Jail 'would kill' disgraced cop
The son of shamed police inspector Tony Laycock fears that if his father is jailed, it will 'kill' him. Laycock, 44, yesterday (FRI) admitted assaulting Pc Paul Oliver while at Banbury police station and using threatening behaviour towards Sgt Anthony
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Computer boss hid drugs in pants
A regional manager with a computer boss company went around London rave clubs collecting ecstasy and other drugs which he planned to give to his wife and friends to celebrate his 45th birthday party, a court heard. Shamed Garath McGee, of Frilford, near
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Driver denies knowing of theft
A lorry driver who ferried tons of chocolate out of a warehouse said he didn't realise they were stolen. In a statement, Anthony Deakin told Gloucester Crown Court how he was recruited to join the 'Chocolate Run' - ferrying tons of stolen confectionery
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I'm sorry, says Windass
STRIKER Dean Windass has apologised to staff at the Manor Ground for his statement that he hoped the club would go into administration so that they could sell him on. Windass said: "I didn't know that going into administration would mean staff at the
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United buy some time
OXFORD United have staved off administration - for the time being - but their long-term future remains clouded in doubt. After a 2-hour board meeting yesterday, the directors pledged to try to keep the club as a going concern. Thanks to a supportive Lloyds
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You can count on man's best friend
His mathematical skills don't quite extend to dogarithms - but this teacher's pet is certainly best in his class, writes GILL SMITH. Ashley the lurcher likes nothing better than a good pedigree sum. And he always ends up getting top barks. While other
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Best of all worlds
Successful companies often begin life in people's homes. Women's Editor FIONA TARRANT talks to two entrepreneurs who are moving on to greater things - and juggling family life as well... Sally-Ann Thomas used to break out in a cold sweat when business
