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Beef briefs threat 'tongue in cheek'
Management consultant Adrian Williams has assured everyone that a letter he wrote claiming to have banned French knickers from his home as part of the ongoing beef row was written tongue in cheek. The 61-year-old, of Old High Street, Headington, Oxford
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Jobs could go as training HQ shuts
Up to 35 jobs could be lost after the Government decided to close a training HQ it opened just 18 months ago. The Department for Education and Employment said yesterday it will close Oxford's Training Standards Council headquarters with the service moving
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Jab boosts the war against meningitis
The first batch of vaccine to help prevent meningitis C in children and young people has reached Oxfordshire. In the first wave of vaccinations, teenagers who were 15, 16, and 17 at the start of the school year will be offered immunisation from November
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Watch in safety - go to a firework display
Fire chiefs have urged the public to do the sensible thing if they want to see fireworks light up the night sky this weekend - go to a properly-organised display. Every year, both children and adults are injured by fireworks, with the vast majority of
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United and City up for the Cup
OXFORD United and Oxford City go into their FA Cup first-round ties today as hot favourites and rank outsiders respectively. United, in their first game under caretaker manager Mickey Lewis following Malcolm Shotton's departure, are 2-5 with Oxford bookmakers
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Link made stronger by tragedy
A five-year-old girl is receiving her first school uniform from an aid worker. In many ways the photograph of young Marina about to embark on her new life perfectly shows how a hurricane finally brought together Oxford and its twin town Leon, in Nicaragua
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Tonight: Some rain at first but this should soon clear, leaving it dry by the early hours.
Tomorrow: Breezy but largely dry with sunny periods and only patchy cloud. Outlook for Monday and Tuesday: Monday will be very windy with rain during the course of the day. It will remain very windy for Tuesday with showers breaking out. Story date: Saturday
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Neanderthal man closer to our time
Neanderthal man may not have become extinct as long ago as previously thought, raising new questions about the spread of modern humans across the world, say Oxford University researchers. The university's Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit has, for the first
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As bold as brass
Music would seem to be Joe Chadwick's ticket to bigger things. The talented 14-year-old cornet player has beaten off stiff competition to be shortlisted for the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain. Joe, of Greenacres Drive, Wantage, now has a nervous
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Massive pay cut outrages carers
Angry carers at two residential homes are facing a pay cut of up to £200 a month and demotion. Care officers at Lake House, Adderbury, and Glebe House, Kidlington, have been offered compensation of up to £6,500 in exchange for giving up pay and status
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Medics, quacks and healers could not save me from my allergy misery
Susan Stratford vomited after meals, her skin was red raw, she felt tired all the time and she was extremely prone to illness. This was her life for eight years. But although she suspected she had a food allergy, her doctor refused to help and simply
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Bathers fall ill in pool bug scandal
Swimmers have fallen sick because they used a bacteria-infested swimming pool in Oxford - a scandal the city council tried to cover up. There have been 27 reported cases of people suffering diarrhoea, fever, vomiting and abdominal pain caused by the water-based
