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Rail firm to invest in staff and safety
RAIL company Thames Trains has announced a boost in jobs and technology to improve security and safety for passengers. The firm is to recruit an extra 40 people to increase its on-board and station workforce to strengthen staffing on busy commuter routes
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Wycombe's Shotton bid rejected
OXFORD United have turned down an audacious approach from neighbours Wycombe Wanderers for Malcolm Shotton to be their new manager. The approach came last week and Shotton was informed of it by the club's directors. And last night he told me: "I'm more
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Tait to play - if he can see!
IF he can see, he'll play - that was the main team news from manager Malcolm Shotton over eye injury victim Paul Tait for United's Division 1 game at Wolves tomorrow. Tait took a kick above his left eye from Chelsea's Celestine Babayaro during the second
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Rider dies in crash with cars
A motorcyclist died today in a crash which also left two children injured. The collision between two cars and the motorbike happened on the B480 Watlington Road at Chalgrove. Six paramedics were called but the motorcyclist, who has not yet been named,
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Cable fire blackout for shops
Shops and businesses in a busy town centre were without power for eight hours because of a burning underground cable. Firefighters and electrical engineers were called to St Mary's Street, Wallingford, after passers-by spotted smoke pouring from a nearby
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Parking charges to go up in city
Sunday shoppers are to pay the same for Oxford city centre car parking as weekly users. At present people using the Westgate, Worcester Street and Oxpens car parks on Sundays pay a flat rate of £1.20 until 1pm. City councillors have voted to increase
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Walker savaged by dog in park
An animal lover is facing plastic surgery after being attacked by a dog. Ruby Marriott, 59, from Shadwell Road, Berinsfield, suffered extensive bite wounds when she was attacked while walking her own dog in Dorchester recreation park on Sunday. Wallingford
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Climber 'owes life to dead friend'
A climber who survived a six-day ordeal trapped in freezing conditions in the French Alps today told how his friend froze to death next to him. Jamie Andrew, 29, from Edinburgh, who suffered severe frostbite in all his limbs, said he owed his life to
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Pilot killed in plane crash
An Oxford flying instructor died and his 19-year-old pupil was seriously injured when their plane crashed during a training flight. Instructor Tom Dunn, 24, took off with his trainee in the dual-control Cessna 150 at Turweston airfield, near Brackley,
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Let Blagdon out, says witness
The man who raised the alarm the day David Blagdon set fire to a church's curtains and pews, said today he would have let him go if he had known he would get a life sentence. Chris Moss, 55, founder of the Witney-based Wychwood Brewery, recalled the events
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Brackley wait for new buyer
BRACKLEY Town chairman Clive Lomax is confident that buyers can be found for the debt-ridden club after they decided to go into voluntary liquidation. The Dr Martens League club, who have debts of £125,000, have called in the London-based firm Rothmans
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Real Rooms? More like a real mess!
Turn the telly on at almost any time of day and there's bound to be a decorating programme on. Real Rooms, Changing Rooms, the Arts and Crafts Hour, Dream House, Home Front, Our House . . . the list goes on. But when the decorators have gone, what do
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Meadow death turns to murder
Detectives last night arrested a man in connection with the murder of a teenage boy, found dead in an Oxford park. Richard Jackson, 16, of Brassey Close, Chipping Norton, was found dead in Angel Meadow on Friday night. He was discovered lying face down
