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Teenager stabbed in chest
A teenager was recovering in hospital today after suffering a punctured lung in a knife attack. A resident of Mallard Close, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, dialled 999 when the 18-year-old appeared on her doorstep with a stab wound to his chest at 8.40pm yesterday
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Barking mad bank account
Dog rescuer William Walker thought bank bosses had gone barking mad when they paid £139,106 into his account by mistake. William, 39, who runs the Staffordshire Bull Terrier Centre in Yarnton, was stunned when Barclays sent him a statement showing the
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A true court jester
AS a professional juggler, Justin Andrewes is used to performing for fancy dress kings at mock medieval banquets up and down the country. But on Friday he will be a jester at the real Royal Court. Justin - better known as Justin Time the Juggling Jester
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Alice In Wonderland first edition to be sold
A rare first edition of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass was expected to fetch up to £20,000 at an auction today. The novel, inscribed by the Oxford don to family friend Frederica Adeline Bremer in Christmas 1871, goes under the hammer in what
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Brum all-ticket
OXFORD United supporters are reminded that Saturday's match at Birmingham is all-ticket. United's allocation of seats is less than 1,000 and, following the tremendous support at Watford last Saturday, the club expects to sell them all. Tickets are £16
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Race is on for Deano
CASH-STRAPPED Oxford United may end up selling top scorer Dean Windass - if they can make a profit on the striker they've yet to pay a penny for. Seven-goal Windass is being eyed by Sheffield Wednesday, Coventry, Southampton, Wolves and Bolton, according
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Spice girl Tina defies the death threats
Today is National Curry Day and as the nation sits down to enjoy its favourite dish, KATHERINE MacALISTER talks to one of the only women in the country to run her own Indian restaurant. She describes the problems she encountered from her own community
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Mistakes 'rare' - health bosses
Birth tragedies played down Health bosses at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital have been playing down the impact of two huge compensation payouts within days of each other. Director of public health Sian Griffiths said the two cases of oxygen starvation
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Scientists itching for success
MOSQUITOES, ticks and other blood-sucking insects could be used to treat human ailments from asthma to heart disease, a new Oxford company hopes. Evolutec, based on Oxford Science Park, aims to extract compounds from the insects' saliva to develop medicines
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Train operator axes services
Railtrack blamed for loss A rail company which runs services through Oxfordshire is cutting its peak-time services by ten per cent. Chiltern Railways, which runs trains from Marylebone to Thame and Haddenham Parkway, Bicester North and Banbury, has blamed
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Hospital waiting lists 'a disgrace'
MP blasts huge rise in numbers SHOCKING figures obtained by the Oxford Mail show a huge increase in patients waiting for treatment in Oxford's hospitals over the last year. Today, Health Secretary Frank Dobson was due to announce a 6.5 per cent nationwide
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'Shy' Armando leaves his box
You might expect someone with a name like Armando Iannucci to hail from Little Italy or to be some sort of refugee from the notorious Glasgow ice-cream wars, writes GEORGE FREW. And Armando does indeed belong to Glasgow - but his Italian dad owned a pizza
