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Tonight: Outbreaks of rain by the early hours.
Tomorrow: A bright day with some scattered blustery showers, after early rain has cleared away. Outlook for Wednesday and Thursday: Wet and very windy. Story date: Monday 06 December Converted for the new archive on 30 June 2000. Some images and formatting
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Job fears grow at hi-tech firm
JOB losses are expected at struggling drug discovery company Oxford Molecular, which has issued a profit warning. The group, which employs about 90 people at Oxford Science Park and 300 worldwide, is "pursuing reorganisation options to materially reduce
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All we want for Christmas is ... a new contract
By Jon Murray ROSS Weatherstone made it clear what he wants for Christmas. "I'd like a new contract for a start," he said, just seconds after leaving the pitch at the end of Oxford United's 1-1 draw with Stoke City at the Manor on Saturday. And Jamie
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Tired United are caught short
Oxford United 1, Stoke City 1 STOKE City proved that Oxford United don't have a monopoly on late goals by snatching a point with a 79th-minute equaliser from Peter Thorne at a bitterly cold Manor Ground on Saturday. Under Mickey Lewis, it's been the U's
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City's war on car crime wins award
A council has received national recognition for helping to crack crime in car parks, writes Mark Templeton. Oxford's Gloucester Green underground car park and Peartree, Redbridge and Seacourt park and rides have been awarded Secured Car Park Status. The
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Yule be sorry you had a bright idea
A friendly festive feud turned into a hair-raising ordeal for one house-proud villager, who was left stranded 30ft in the air, write Richard Abbott and Stephen Deal. While most people are content just to hang baubles on a Christmas tree, Anthony Tagliaferro
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Couple take the plunge sky-high over Las Vegas
It was no flight of fancy for Jan and Roger Hutt when they tied the knot - they hit a lovers' jackpot while hovering over Las Vegas in a helicopter, writes Rebecca Smith. Jan, 43, and Roger, 54, decided they wanted to do something different after being
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It's so good to be back home
Oxford don's daughter Alexia Stewart, home after 19 months in an Indian prison, today thanked Oxford Mail readers for their support, writes Stephen Deal. The 29-year-old, wrongfully imprisoned on drugs charges, returned to the family home in Berkeley
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Falling trade shuts in-store post office
A post office branch in Oxford city centre has closed, writes Andrew Ffrench. A post office counter has been open at Littlewoods in the Clarendon centre, off Cornmarket Street for the past six years. But Post Office Counters has now agreed to close it
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£3m shot in the arm for education
A scheme to raise pupils' achievement has been launched, after a successful bid for £3m of Government cash, writes Madeleine Pennell. Sixteen schools in Blackbird Leys, Barton, Littlemore and Rose Hill are to become an education action zone. The Government
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MP faces inquiry over loan
Banbury MP Tony Baldry, who is at the centre of a new sleaze row involving a £5,000 loan, today declared he never intended to mislead anyone, writes Stephen Deal. The Conservative MP is at the centre of a Parliamentary inquiry after admitting he received
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Hannah's rocket logo heads for outer space
Ten-year-old Hannah King is heading for the stars with a logo design which will go into space abroad a rocket, writes Roseena Parveen. Hannah, a pupil at St Helen and St Katharine's School, Abingdon, won the European Space Agency's (ESA) competition to
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It's time for Dark Blues to deliver
By MICHAEL KNOX OXFORD could do without breaking records when they face Cambridge in the 118th University Match in front of a 50,000-plus crowd at Twickenham tomorrow. Defeat for the Dark Blues would be an unprecedented sixth in a row in this historic
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The bugs bite back!
Headlice have been the bane of Sarah's life for the past year, writes Katherine MacAlister. Despite rigorously treating her children's hair on a regular basis, as soon as they return to school they get re-infected. She has called for new measures to clamp
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Retail-only policy is killing our town
One of Oxfordshire's biggest towns is facing a growing crisis, with more and more retailers shutting shop, writes Roseena Parveen. Historic Abingdon now has 16 shops lying empty in its town centre, and many feel the problem is worsened by a planning policy
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Is marriage dead?
Marriage as an institution is on the rocks as more and more people choose to live together rather than tie the knot. Up to 40 per cent of marriages in Britain now end in divorce, with 71 per cent initiated by women. And, since 1992, 30,000 fewer couples