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The golden girls
A team of female skydivers went Down Under for the world championships and returned home with gold medals. The team of four, which included local jumpers Sacha Chilton, from Tackley, and Claire Jenkinson, from Lower Heyford, captured the Women's Cup in
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Sacking sparks postal walk-out
A wildcat strike by 42 Royal Mail workers heavily disrupted postal deliveries. The employees, based at Bicester's Murdock Road depot, went on unofficial strike shortly after 5am yesterday and demonstrated outside the building. They were protesting against
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Lucky escape from pub fire
Pub tenants Ben Harding and Sarah Thomas fled for their lives when a fire broke out early today. They were woken at 5.45am at the White House pub, Bladon, near Woodstock, by a crackling noise. Sarah, 29, said: "We realised that the roof space was on fire
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Allan aims for the top
Allan Willett has an ambitious aim - to make Oxfordshire part of one of the top ten economic regions in Europe. As chairman of the South East England Development Agency, he acknowledges the task will be tough. He believes the region urgently needs a boost
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Tonight: It will start off mainly dry but as the night goes on the cloud will build, bringing with i
Tomorrow: There will be an organised band of rain during the day. At times the rainfall will be rather heavy. By the evening, the rain should have cleared. Outlook for Saturday and Sunday: Saturday will be drier and brighter with some good sunny spells
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Oxford promotes hi-tech success
A SHOWCASE to promote Oxfordshire as a centre of world-class hi-tech excellence was being staged today in London. Over the past 25 years, more than 100 spin-off companies have been set up by Oxford academics. They include five major publicly-owned firms
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Hamp steals the show from Henry
Fulham Res 1, Oxford Utd Res 2 THE eyes of many from afar were on Witney Town's Carl Henry as he made his debut for Oxford United in the reserves' Avon Insurance Combination game in London yesterday, but it was second-year trainee Adam Hamp who stole
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Jamie's gunning for his old mates
JAMIE Lambert has admitted he dearly wants to put one over his old club when Oxford United visit Reading in SKY's live Sunday morning game. And the 26-year-old midfielder says he doesn't mind whether he plays on the wing, in a more central midfield role
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New group threatens pre-school
A pre-school playgroup could be forced to close because parents are moving their children to a new Early Years Unit. Wootton Pre-school, in Besselsleigh Road, Wootton, near Abingdon, looks after children aged four and under in Wootton and Dry Sandford
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Survey backs clock chimes
A historic clock, which has remained silent for more than 40 years, looks set to ring out again. The bells at the town clock at St Mary's Church, Wallingford, will almost certainly be restored and allowed to strike hourly. Plans to restore the clock were
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Patient has hair-raising experience
A cancer patient's chemotherapy treatment triggered a fundraising campaign at his local pub. Losing your hair is invariably a reaction to chemotherapy, but Paul Lovelock, 48, who boasted a luxuriant growth of shoulder-length dark hair, said he was less
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Roof-top romeo's 'trophy' returned
A student ignited flames of passion in a university tutor during a roof-top sex session. But the amorous undergraduate's smouldering encounter looks to have saved a college relic from a disastrous blaze. The third-year Oxford University student persuaded
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Vision revealed for run-down site
Developers have revealed plans to smarten up the most run-down part of Abingdon town centre. Lovell Partnerships are confident of a good response to the latest plans for the west central area, which were drawn up following public consultation last year
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Dark Blues meet their match
Worcester 29, Oxford University 18 OXFORD Universirty RFC were given a severe test in all aspects of the game against a full Premiership Division 2 side which included two internationals - Sateki Tuipulotu, the Tongan World Cup full back, and Australian
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Battle for the middle ground
It is a debate that has raged in Oxford for more than a decade. Do middle schools help or hinder our nine to 13-year-olds? Is it better to send them to "big" school at 11 or keep them back until they are 13? Can we blame poor achievement in Oxford's schools
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Never let this man near old folk again
A care home owner who ill-treated a senile old man "should never be allowed near old people again," the victim's son said. Retired bank manager Roger Taylor, 60, spoke out after a jury convicted Souren Ramdoo, 53, of neglecting and ill-treating his father
