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Support for small firms
PEOPLE running small businesses in Oxfordshire can find out more about the support available at an advice day being held next week at Oxford Town Hall. Anyone running a small business will be able to get free advice and information from agencies and Government
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Classroom crisis
The headteacher of an Oxford school today speaks out about the crisis facing her maths classes and her struggle to find a teacher, writes Mark Templeton. KAREN Magrath, of Marston Middle School, is helping out with maths lessons herself, along with a
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Detectives issue appeal after spate of robberies
Police have issued an E-fit of a man wanted for three robberies. All the robberies, one at knife-point, took place in north Oxford in the early hours of Tuesday. The first happened just after 1am when two men approached a 23-year-old man at the junction
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Flattened by the flatpacks
Shopper Nicholas Hardaker was left covered in blood when he went to buy two bookcases - and was buried under a pile of them, writes Richard Abbott. The former soldier was buying two flatpacked bookcases at Robert Dyas, in Shoe Lane, Oxford, when the bizarre
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Golf ball farmer is still tee-d off
Farmer Hubert East has won £1,000 compensation after being bombarded with stray golf balls writes Paul Warner. He has been fighting for four years to have the 14th and 15th greens at Kirtlington Golf Club moved because of balls landing on his fields and
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Technology pulls plug on studios
World-famous recording studios in Oxfordshire have closed due to lack of business, writes Nick Evans. Just yards from the tea shops and antique dealers, the Chipping Norton Recording Studios welcomed a host of rock and roll stars from the past 25 years
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FA offer to chair county's EGM
THE Football Association have offered to chair the Oxfordshire FA's extraordinary general meeting, called in the wake of Ron Leaver's sacking as their general secretary. The OFA Council agreed on January 13 to call an EGM after Leaver claimed he had been
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Americans or the Brits - who has the last laugh?
Tonight the Oxford Union debates whether British comedy is superior to American. George Frew (UK) and amanda Castleman (USA) slug it out first. We gave them Charlie Chaplin, Bob Hope, Cary Grant, writes George Frew. They gave us... Friends. Great Britain
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How Bullingdon is winning the war with drug dealers
Every lunchtime a cluster of women stands patiently outside Bullingdon Prison waiting to be ushered into the visitors hall to see their menfolk, writes Zahra Borno. The day I saw them they were blue from the freezing cold and their eyes were haunted with
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Davis return gives United a boost
Oxford Utd Res 1, Bristol Rov Res 1 STEVE Davis made a successful comeback for Oxford United Res, who had victory snatched from their grasp in a well-contested Avon Insurance Combination game at the Manor last night. The central defender, given his first
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Class of '96 say farewell to Aldo
By Jon Murray THE Class of '96 gathered together yesterday to pay their final respects to one of their own, Martin Aldridge. A great many of Oxford United's last promotion side joined with players and officials from Northampton Town, Blackpool and Rushden
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Parents' aid plan piloted
A new programme has sprung into action to help single parents Mark Templeton. The project will provide a package of support including training, access to childcare and work experience opportunities. Oxford is one of ten areas in the country running the
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Prisoner witness denies doing deal
A prison inmate denied he "shopped" a suspected murderer to police to get his sentence reduced, writes Phil Clee. Kevin Williams, who had been in and out of prison since 1983, told Oxford Crown Court he contacted the authorities after fellow prisoner
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Great Glenn lands national U25 title
OXFORD'S Glenn Allen stormed to the All-England Under 25s singles indoor bowls title at Nottingham on Sunday, then admitted: "I hate singles!" The 24-year-old from Islip, who plays indoors at the Isis club and outdoors at Summertown, powered to a 21-15
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Flood of support for little Joe
The fund to help little Joe Smith communicate with the outside world today stands at almost £3,000. An Oxford supermarket yesterday added to that total by offering to sponsor the disabled four-and-a-half-year-old over the next 12 months. The help came
