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Tonight: A mix of clear spells and patchy cloud. This cloud will be thick enough at times to give a
Tomorrow: It will start mainly dry with only isolated showers, but it will soon become cloudy with showery rain moving in from the north. Outlook for Saturday and Sunday: The weekend looks like being fairly bright with some good sunshine. It will feel
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M40 gateway to Internet
A PIONEERING motorway Internet centre has opened for business in Oxfordshire, writes DAVID DUFFY. The Wheatley service area at junction eight of the M40 offers travellers access to personal computer terminals with e-mail, Internet access and fax. Motorists
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Gang of 20 in threats for food
A vicious gang of up to 20 youths is extorting free food from eateries after threatening to beat up staff. They have already attacked a pizza delivery driver, leaving him badly bruised. And staff in other restaurants are living in fear of the youths,
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Agony for Westwood
LEE Westwood's aspirations in the Benson and Hedges International Open suffered a cruel blow when he was forced to pull out of the tournament yesterday afternoon. The bookies' second favourite played only nine holes of yesterday's celebrity Pro-Am at
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Your lover could, one day, be your worst nightmare
Jilted Neil Dawson knew well enough how he would be labelled, writes Reg Little. "I'm not a stalker or a pervert or anything like that," he said after being convicted at Oxford magistrates' court. The court had heard how 30-year-old Dawson, of Cardigan
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SAS man dies in Bosnia
SAS soldier Robert Lyon has been killed in Bosnia - the first British casualty of the Serbian conflict, writes Andrew Ffrench. Sgt Lyon, 30, from Oxfordshire, was on missions against Serb death squads in Kosovo when his Land Rover crashed late last week
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Big Kev is out for the year
OXFORD United striker Kevin Francis is unlikely to play again this year following an operation on what was confirmed as a ruptured Achilles tendon at a Birmingham hospital this week. Francis, who missed most of this season with a succession of knee problems
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College alert on threats terror
Students and staff at an Oxford college are on alert after threats of violence and vandalism, writes Paul Harris. The terror campaign forced the temporary closure of Worcester College's library for security reasons after a series of hate e-mails to students
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Darts blow puts charity in the red
An animal charity has been left with debts of £900 after a darts fundraising event was abandoned, writes Rebecca Smith. West Oxford Animal Rescue had hoped to raise money for a new clinic by holding a marathon darts record attempt with guest appearances
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'Gunman said I'd grassed'
Bootlegger Mark Jenkins, jailed for a £1m CD pirating operation, told a court how a market trader armed with a gun branded him a "grass", writes Karen Rosine. Jenkins, 34, said James McKay threatened him with a gun and accused him of tipping off trading
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Pollution scare halts road work
Work on a major new road junction has been delayed again - by the discovery of contaminated soil, writes Matt Childe. Construction of a new road lay-out, outside Oxford Railway Station in Park End Street, has had motorists and pedestrians fuming since
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Scientist killed on black ice
A research scientist died when he lost control of his car on black ice and careered into the path of an oncoming pick-up truck. Prof Miroslav Ivanovich, 56, of Woodstock Road, Yarnton, failed to regain control of his P-reg Audi on the A4074 just outside
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Authority to battle op claim
Health chiefs are to fight a claim that doctors failed to treat a breast cancer victim properly before she died. Widower George Clegg is suing Oxfordshire Health Authority for more than £100,000 after an operation failed to wipe out his wife Joan's cancer
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Ex-Cheetahs ace Wigg faces brain surgery
FORMER Oxford Cheetahs speedway favourite Simon Wigg is to undergo brain surgery next week. Wigg, who staged his farewell to British speedway at Oxford in March, suffered what appeared to be two epileptic fits late last year and on his way home from Australia
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Darren's gunning for the bookies
DEFENDING Champion Darren Clarke may be rated as a 50-1 outsider by some bookies but that wasn't putting him off his game. He was full of confidence going into today's first round and said: "They can have me at whatever they want, that's up to them."
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My girl's jail hell
She shares her humid Indian cell with convicted killers and prostitutes, writes Reg Little. When her food arrives, the rice comes with maggots while her bed is often a concrete floor. But Oxford don's daughter Alexia Stewart dreams of returning home to
