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Nasty niffs deliver new green power
BUSINESSES in Oxfordshire will next month be offered Ecotricity - electricity generated at sewage treatment works in the county. Thames Water Utilities has teamed up with the Renewable Energy Company, Europe's largest green energy company, to launch the
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Fire victim named
The pensioner killed when a faulty electric blanket caught fire has been named as Dorothy Rowland. Mrs Rowland, 81, died from breathing in smoke after the blaze broke out in her home at Conway Drive, Banbury, on Saturday. Firefighters were called by neighbours
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Paedophile jailed for raping girl, 14,
Paedophile David Foot was today starting an eight-year prison sentence for raping and indecently assaulting a teenager. Foot, 52, of Abbot Road, Didcot, had subjected the girl from a very young age to abuse which had resulted in profound psychological
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Big win for bingo player
Superstitious housewife Tina Sanders is flying high after scooping £6,500 by hitting full house in bingo two weeks in a row. Mrs Sanders, 35, of Chestnut Avenue, Headington - who counts magpies for luck - couldn't believe it when she won £1,500, but was
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Dame Diana appeals for peace
Actress Diana Rigg made a moving appeal for peace when she read a teenage Rwandan girl's poetry to a packed audience. Dame Diana, the new Oxford Professor of Contemporary Theatre, spoke at the Town Hall last night as part of the city's International Women's
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'Bail bandits' targeted
Home Secretary Jack Straw today announced a £120,000 scheme aimed at tackling young "bail bandits" in Oxford. He revealed the details when he addressed a London conference on tackling young thugs. Last month, a ten-year-old Banbury youngster absconded
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Poll tax arrearsto be written off
Poll tax bills in Oxford are finally to be written off. More than 6,500 people in the city still owe a total of £1.3m of the community charge, introduced under Margaret Thatcher in 1990. But the city council has decided it is no longer cost-effective
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Top-class break - for pet rabbits
There will be room for up to seven guests. The spacious surroundings will allow visitors to wander around to their hearts' content. Regular meals will be served up on a daily basis. The real emphasis of this new hotel, though, will be on customer service
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Fears rise over meningitis
Worried patients have been flooding emergency wards frightened that they have the deadly meningitis bug. Staff at the casualty department of Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital have been inundated with people worried that they have symptoms similar to those
