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Safety Net gets £7.5m
A SCHEME designed to safeguard customers who do business over the Internet has been backed with funding of up to £7.5m, writes Maggie Hartford. Clicksure, based at the Oxford Innovation Centre at Mill Street, Osney, runs a quality standards scheme for
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FOUL calls for brewery boycott
OXFORD United supporters pressure group FOUL (Fighting for Oxford United's Life) are calling on all football supporters to boycott outlets owned by Morrells Brewery of Oxford. The brewery are threatening to take out an injunction to prevent the club from
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Teeth grind as Top Gear reviews OTS
TV SHOW Top Gear was under fire again today after a second programme was slammed for being unfair. The motoring show was ordered back to Oxford by BBC bosses after complaints by the Chamber of Trade and the Oxford Bus Company that a broadcast last November
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Museum in line for new wing
THE Ashmolean Museum is planning to construct a new wing as part of an ambitious £25m building scheme. Museum director Dr Christopher Brown said he had already been promised £10m from an anonymous benefactor to extend the 300-year-old Oxford museum. The
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Cash to improve danger roads
DANGEROUS roads are likely to be improved as part of a £760,000 programme to bring highways up to scratch. Oxfordshire County councillors backed schemes for 17 hot spots. This will involve improved signs and lines and repairs to road surfaces. The earmarked
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Scout leader jailed for attacking wife
FORMER scout leader Stuart Pearson attacked his estranged wife with a rounders bat because he suspected she was seeing another man, a court heard. He sneaked into his wife's one-bedroomed flat at night hoping to catch his wife Linda with her new sweetheart
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SPEEDWAY: Czech-mate for happy Cheetahs
OXFORD Cheetahs have almost completed their team building after the signing of the Dryml brothers, writes John Gaisford. It was probably the worst kept secret in speedway, but Ales, 21, and Lukas, 18 in April, finally put pen to paper with a delighted
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Death threats to top city bosses
DEATH threats sent to two high-profile Oxford bosses are being investigated by police. Dr Christopher Brown, director of the Ashmolean Museum, has had threatening calls and hate mail since the theft of a £3m Cezanne painting on New Year's Day. The other
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No return for Crosby
UNITED boss Denis Smith has ruled out a return to the Manor Ground for former No 2 Malcolm Crosby. Crosby left Derby by mutual consent earlier this week, but Smith, who has worked with Crosby throughout his career, including four seasons at the Manor,
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Joey 'best of decade'
JOEY Beauchamp has won the Rage Online award for Player of the Decade - beating Matt Elliott by just one vote - and will be presented with a trophy before tomorrow's game at the Manor. The decade, incidentally, refers to the 1990s, not the current one
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Den looking for home comforts!
By Jon Murray OXFORD United are looking for some home help in their crunch relegation clash against bottom club Chesterfield tomorrow. With the U's heading for a worse home than away record for the first time in their history, the Manor Ground has been
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Bus depot victory for protesters
RESIDENTS have won a victory against plans for a 24-hour Stagecoach bus depot after a unanimous vote by councillors last night (Thursday, February 17). But far from celebrating, they are bracing themselves for the company to lodge an appeal. Cherwell
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Hospitals face balancing act
BALANCING the books in the money maze of healthcare is a major headache for the managers of Oxfordshire's acute hospital services. As reported exclusively on This Is Oxfordshire and in yesterday's Oxford Mail, the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust
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Top Gear under fire again over OTS
TV show Top Gear was under fire again today after a second programme was slammed for being unfair. The motoring show was ordered back to Oxford by BBC bosses after complaints by the Chamber of Trade and the Oxford Bus Company that a broadcast last November
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FOOTBALL: Thame sign striker Cort
THAME United are set to sign Harlow Town striker Wayne Cort - the brother of Wimbledon star Carl - on a month's loan in a bid to boost their promotion challenge from Ryman League Division 1. Thame have beaten off fierce competition from promotion rivals
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Den looking for home comforts
OXFORD United are looking for some home help in their crunch relegation clash against bottom club Chesterfield tomorrow, writes Jon Murray. With the U's heading for a worse home than away record for the first time in their history, the Manor Ground has
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Behind social services
MARY Robertson is ready to lay her cards on the table. The Oxfordshire social services boss pulls no punches as she says: "My staff are exhausted and demoralised. They're reaching a point where they have had enough and feel they can't take any more -
