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Hugs bunny is a hit with the kids
Dozens of toy rabbits have found a new home - in a children's ward of a hospital. The 18in tall bunnies, known as Tweaks 2000, have been selling fast as £10 Christmas presents at the Allders store in Oxford. However, staff kept some aside for the young
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Ivor good idea on mystery machine
A former aircraft engineer claims to have cracked the identity of a mystery object. The unusual piece of equipment has had readers baffled since it was featured in last Friday's Oxford Mail. The bizarre item was discovered at a car boot sale by Andrew
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Baring up under the strain
Two brave painters and decorators raised £500 for the Oxford Mail's Medibike Appeal - by having their chest hair removed. Ian Smith, 32, and Karl Ross, 33, had their chests waxed and the hair ripped out in front of pals at the Jubilee '77 Community Centre
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Never the last straw
When other farmers fumed about a ban on straw burning, Charles Peers was already getting himself into hot water. The reason he positively glowed with quiet satisfaction back in 1992 was that he was already way ahead of the field, after successfully finding
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Hammer teacher banned by school
A supply teacher has been banned from an Oxford school after using a hammer to frighten a class of eight-year-olds. Children at Orchard Meadow First School in Wesley Close, Blackbird Leys, Oxford, started crying after the incident on Friday afternoon.
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Fastest-growing firms in the UK
FIVE Oxfordshire firms scooped places in a new list of the UK's 100 fastest growing firms. Computer company Connectology, of Thame, was the highest of the Oxfordshire firms, taking ninth place in the Sunday Times Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100 league
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United ring the changes at Manor
By Jon Murray IT'S all change for tonight's Auto Windscreens Shield game at the Manor Ground with Oxford United and Luton Town treating the competition in much the same way as the top Premiership clubs treat the Worthington Cup. Despite all the noises
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Poster rape claim false
A man put up posters around villages falsely accusing two former work colleagues of being child rapists. Derrick Scott, 35, of Botley Road, Oxford, admitted placing several posters with the words "Protect Our Children" in the villages of Bladon and Chipping
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Police offer support for drug addicts
More than £600,000 has been given to Thames Valley Police to help people escape the downward spiral of drugs and crime. The award of £624,000 by the Home Office will be spent during the next three years to develop schemes to treat addicts. Det Insp Ian
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'Terrifying rape' ordeal for girls, 13
A man raped two 13-year-old girls after accusing them of getting him beaten up, a court heard. Akim Okumu, 24, allegedly subjected the girls to the terrifying ordeal after an all-night party in May. He had met the girls, who cannot be identified for legal
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Tribute to jet-ski victim Faye
A permanent memorial has been unveiled to a teenager, who was killed in a horrific jet-ski accident. Faye Grundy, died a week after her 17th birthday in 1997, when a jet-ski on which she was riding pillion collided with a powerboat at the Queenford Lake
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Thame boss Sinnott lands award
THAME United joint boss Andy Sinnott has been named the Ryman League Division 1 manager of the month for November. Sinnott and joint manager Alan Thorne took Thame to the top of the table last month, winning three of their four games. Thame also came
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Les turns back on England
OXFORDSHIRE'S Les Gillett bowed out of the England international bowls team last night - and lashed out at the game's bosses as he went. The 29-year-old, who plays for Chipping Norton indoors and Banbury Borough outdoors, took no prisoners as he claimed
