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Jobs boost at hi-tech centre
A MULTINATIONAL company will bring a 100 jobs boost to Oxfordshire. Vertex Pharmaceuticals is to set up its new European headquarters and laboratories at Milton Park, near Abingdon. The company has taken a 15-year lease on 25,000 sq ft at a rent of £12
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Judge tells jury to reach verdict
Jurors at the Khan murder trial stunned a packed courtroom when they told a judge they had failed to reach verdicts against two defendants, following a week of deliberations. The five-women, seven-men jury earlier this week found four men guilty of murdering
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New bid to beat scourge of Aids
A professor has launched a major new research project as part of the search for an Aids vaccine. Prof Andrew McMichael, from the Medical Research Council's Human Immunology Unit at Oxford University, is leading the new initiative. It marks the start of
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School cuts lead to frozen meals
Children at 50 schools in Oxfordshire are to be served frozen meals in a continued drive to cut costs. The move, which will mean some dinner ladies losing their jobs, will save cash-starved Oxfordshire County Council up to £200,000 a year. The cost of
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We step in with boost for United
Her every movement is greeted by roars of approval by the Oxford United faithful. Her runs from the wing may lack the pace of a Joey Beauchamp but she has a strike rate second to none. Not to stretcher point, Marie McSweeney, of St John Ambulance, is
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Feeder spots for Cherwell
TWO, or possibly three, Cherwell League clubs look set to be invited into the new feeder league under the restructuring of local cricket in the year 2000. That was the message from league chairman Derek Primett to clubs at last night's annual meeting
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Activist case dropped
The case against an animal rights activist has collapsed after a legal error. Paul Rogers, 33, of Iffley Road, Oxford, had been standing trial at Portsmouth Crown Court in Hampshire on charges of inciting arson and criminal damage. It was alleged that
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Warning to public over perfume offer
Trading Standards officers are warning the public to be on their guard against a mail order perfume offer - the third such warning in 14 days. They urged consumers in the county not to be taken in by the mail order offer from an American company known
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U-turn over school grading
Headteachers in Oxfordshire are celebrating after persuading the Government to drop proposals to grade secondary schools. Education ministers had been planning to introduce the new progress measure in school performance tables due out in December but
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Quizzing the quiz master
So here we are, quizzing the Grand Inquisitor. His detractors like to portray Jeremy Paxman as some kind of journalistic Torquemada, because of his robust interviewing style - this is, you will recall, is the man who once asked the then Home Secretary
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We're proud of our estate
It is 40 years since the first houses went up at Blackbird Leys, an estate known throughout Britain for all the wrong reasons, writes REG LITTLE. Over the years it has been called the Black Hole, the Ghetto, Botany Bay and the Place for Forgotten People
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Postman Paul had cash out of cards
Postman Paul Horgan stole thousands of pounds by pinching the cash out of birthday cards. Horgan told Post Office investigators he stole up to £80 a week over an 18-month period. According to his solicitor, the total could have topped £6,000. Horgan spent
