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Some isolated showers, becoming mainly confined to western and southern coastal areas. Tomorrow Another unsettled day with sunny spells and showers, becoming more frequent during the afternoon. Outlook Rather disturbed with sunshine and showers. Story
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Enterprise chief to quit
CHIEF executive of the Heart of England Training and Enterprise Council, Barrie Giles, is to quit after four years in the job. He is to take up an executive post as Director for Enterprise Development in the new South East England Development Agency (
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School worker suspended over sex allegations
A school employee has been suspended after alleged sex offences against a pupil. Police arrested the education department employee, a maintenance worker, at about 4pm yesterday following allegations of offences which are said to have taken place at John
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Better planning plea to Prescott
People are urging Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott to stall plans for hundreds of new houses near their homes. Residents of Bainton Road, north Oxford, say more thought is needed before building is allowed on the Unipart factory site, off Woodstock
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Bone marrow boy loses fight for life
Brave leukaemia patient Jonathan Clark has lost his battle for life. The 11-year-old, who was given a bone marrow transplant just last month, had been in intensive care for a week. He died at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital yesterday. The schoolboy,
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'Neighbourhood Watch man in gun threat'
A Neighbourhood Watch founder threatened to shoot a teenager when he found him playing in a park after dark, a court heard. Marcel Thorbourne allegedly approached a group of youngsters in Marsh Park, Cowley, last September and told them they should be
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Jamie has a date with Royalty
Lucky Jamie Mold has been chosen to meet the Queen when she visits Oxford - adding yet another chapter to his family's long history with University College. The freckle-faced seven-year-old will hand over a bouquet of flowers when the Queen and the Duke
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Con kids warning goes out
Vigilant Alison Redmayne is warning fellow householders to be on their guard for a gang of young boys targeting homes. Mrs Redmayne, 62, of Blenheim Drive, north Oxford, called police after three boys aged 11-15 came to her door on Sunday afternoon. The
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University to sell animal breeding centre
Oxford University is to sell its controversial animal breeding centre. Park Farm, in Northmoor, near Witney, has been the target of animal rights protests along with Hillgrove Farm at Minster Lovell, near Witney. Pigs, dogs, guinea pigs and monkeys were
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Inexperience clue to air crash tragedy
Inexperience or distraction may have been to blame for an accident in which a flying instructor died and his student was seriously injured, a report said today. Oxford flying instructor Tom Dunn died in a light aircraft crash after practising an engine
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Widower to sue on wife's cancer
Widower George Clegg is suing health bosses for more than £100,000 after an operation failed to wipe out his wife's breast cancer. Joan Clegg, 46, of Broughton Road, Banbury, died in June 1996 after a cancer in her right breast spread to her liver. In
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MP calms fears over scouts bill
SCOUTS bosses' concerns over the potential cost of carrying out criminal record checks on volunteers have been investigated by MP Robert Jackson. They raised the issue with the Wantage MP after learning that checks carried out under new Government policy
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Watch out! Esme's on the telly...
Teenager Esme de Courcy has hit the big time in the world of television - thanks to her passionate views. The 15-year-old pupil at Cheney School, Oxford, hosted a TV show arguing that Third World countries should begin the new Millennium without being
