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Tonight: Prolonged periods of rain likely.
Tomorrow: It will stay mainly dry with just isolated showers and some spells of wintry sunshine. Outlook for Sunday and Monday: Boxing Day will be fairly bright with a mixture of sunshine and showers. Early rain will clear away throughout Monday morning
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Farmer bunkered as golf fight hits rough
A frustrated farmer has lost his battle to stop golf balls flying on to his land. Hubert East, of Corner Farm, has been fighting for four years to have the 14th and 15th greens at Kirtlington Golf Club moved because of stray balls. Cherwell District Council
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'Successful' OTS could go county-wide
A controversial city transport scheme could be adopted across the whole of Oxfordshire, according to the Government. Oxfordshire County Council is carrying out studies in Abingdon, Banbury and Bicester following the implementation of the Oxford Transport
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Precinct bid given tepid reception
A £3.6m scheme to revive a rundown shopping centre is being given a lukewarm welcome by businesses. Threadneedle Properties, which leases the Bury Street shopping precinct, in Abingdon, has presented the Chamber of Commerce with the same design the Vale
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Firm's hope for new antibiotics
AN OXFORD University spin-off company, Prolysis, has been launched to search for new antibiotics. Hospitals are concerned about new strains of bacterial diseases like pneumonia, which are resistant to common antibiotics such as penicillin. Prolysis was
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Doomed hospital closes beds early
Burford Hospital closed its doors to in-patients yesterday due to crippling staff shortages. It was revealed last month that the tiny 11-bed service was to be axed as part of a £1.15m cost-cutting scheme in the county. The final closure was to take place
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Malt closure may produce new jobs
The closure of Oxfordshire's last maltings could lead to the creation of new jobs. Pauls Malt shocked Wallingford by announcing that its works in the town would close in the New Year, with the loss of 21 jobs. The announcement comes weeks after the company
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Traders fume over blackouts
Furious traders claim they have lost thousands of pounds because of power cuts. Many businesses in Wallingford town centre were blacked-out for two hours on Wednesday afternoon, following a fault in an underground cable. The power cut - which hit shops
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Every drink you take, we'll be watching you
Police officers received nothing but praise when they pulled over dozens of motorists in a pre-Christmas drink-driving crackdown. And traffic officers were delighted that not one of the drivers they stopped on Abingdon's Marcham Road tested positive during
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Gadgets to ease the festive stress
The mounds of Christmas shopping, cleaning, grocery shopping, present-wrap- ping, cooking and tidying that many of you labour over during the festive period, will probably leave you exhausted. But to make sure the stress doesn't continue into the New
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The true picture of the British 'bloke'
When his New Year resolutions are crashing around him like chandeliers in an earthquake, the last thing a man needs or wants is someone preaching at him. If, foolishly, he has boasted to the world that he has intended to start the new Millennium with
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Pals sleep rough for homeless
Teenagers James Newman and Damian Dodds are showing the true spirit of Christmas - by sleeping rough to support the homeless. They were sparked into action after seeing down-and-outs camped in doorways as they did their Christmas shopping. Tonight, they
