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Tonight: A rather chilly night with largely clear skies.
Tomorrow: There should be some pleasant sunshine. Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Plenty of sunshine, but gusty winds likely. Story date: Monday 18 October Converted for the new archive on 30 June 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost
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Branson's busy on the Net
VIRGIN boss Richard Branson has launched a package to give small businesses an easy way of getting on to the Internet. The service - www.virginbiz.net - hopes to double the amount of small businesses with a Web presence by the end of the year. The UK
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'Good man' walks free after fatal lorry crash
A portuguese lorry driver who killed a motorist by driving on the wrong side of the road has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence. Jose Luis Correia de Jesus was driving in England for the first time when he ploughed into Dorothy Waring's car
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Claim sent in after widow injured in fall
An elderly widow has launched a claim for compensation after breaking her wrist in a fall. Joan Baron is claiming up to £1,000 from Oxfordshire County Council for inconvenience and pain. She slipped on a hollow in the paving around a manhole near Witney's
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Pensioners' group to fight insulting 73p rise
Pensioners are to fight Government plans to increase their pensions by only 73p in April 2000. The Oxfordshire Pensioners Action Group (OPAG) has written to Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown demanding more cash. They want an increase
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Jeanette rescues holiday pool boy
Brave nurse Jeannette Rose told today how she saved a four-year-old French boy called Thomas from drowning while on holiday in Malta. Now Thomas has sent her a thank-you in faltering English. The youngster had stopped breathing when he was lifted from
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End of the line for £10 degrees
It is a tradition stretching as far back as the Middle Ages. But now the convention of offering Oxford University students automatic Masters' degrees in return for the princely sum of £10 could be at an end. The Government's Quality Assurance Agency (
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Time's running out for Blades
OXFORD'S ice hockey team, The Fox Blades, look to have played their final games after managing to fulfill their weekend fixtures, but without finding any white knight to come to their rescue. The club, whose directors said they would fold unless they
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Witney go down fighting
Yeovil Tn 2, Witney Tn 1 BRAVE Witney bowed out of the FA Cup, but only after a tremendous display against one of the giants of non-league football. For long periods of the first half, Witney dominated their illustrious opponents and were left to rue
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Don't let shake-up break up our lives
A campaign is under way to stop the Catholic church closing a school it shares with the Church of England. A support group wants to keep St Augustine of Canterbury Upper School, Iffley Turn, Oxford, a joint Anglican and Catholic school. The move to open
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Girl escapes crash horror
Six-year-old Daisy Ogle is lucky to be alive after her father's car ploughed into the back of a scaffolding lorry. Shocked Graham Ogle, 46, of Seacourt Road, Botley, told how the truck's tailgate ended up inches from Daisy's head as she was showered in
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United miss the boat again
Brentford 2, Oxford United 0 IF YOU can't score when golden chances come your way and you then commit elementary defensive mistakes, there's only one outcome - defeat. And for the third match running, United suffered a two-goal beating. This, though,
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All change after OTS admission of 'failure'
Changes are to be made to the road junction near Oxford Station after key parts of the £20m Oxford Transport Strategy were branded a failure. The county council admitted the new station square was causing delays after engineers studied traffic flow in
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Pew for rail crash families left empty
A single pew reserved for the relatives of victims of the Paddington rail disaster remained empty as the first remembrance service in Oxfordshire was held yesterday. Hundreds of people, including civil dignitaries from across the county, joined the community
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City's heroes clinch dream tie at Wycombe
Oxford City 2,Salisbury City 1 By NIALL JEGER HEROIC City booked their place in the first round proper of the FA Cup on Saturday - and a dream tie away to their old adversaries Wycombe Wanderers - in a match straight from the top draw. Underdogs City
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Cup draw just the job
BOTH Oxford United and Oxford City were well pleased with the draw for the first round of the FA Cup. Struggling United landed a home tie against non-League Morecambe, but most interest will be on Oxford City's plum draw away to old adversaries Wycombe
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I survived childhood
Andrea Ashworth is a beautiful, intelligent, engaging, down-to-earth, best-selling author whose first book has already sold nearly 100,000 copies worldwide. You would certainly never guess that she spent 14 years being brought up by a succession of physically
