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Armed gang swoops on store
Armed raiders targeted a village store in the latest attack on an Oxfordshire sub-post office. Three men wielding iron bars swooped on the shop at Nuneham Courtenay yesterday and grabbed cash from terrified staff. One of the gang guarded the entrance,
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Speedway: Sam's sudden exit
American Sam Ermolenko surprised everyone with his unique style of baling out at Oxford Stadium last Friday. He is not called Sudden Sam for nothing after laying his bike down mid-race and clearing the fence, Sally Gunnell-style, and then disappearing
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Football: Canada call-up likely for Mark
Mark Watson could miss up to five Oxford United games before Christmas if he decides to re-sign for the club. Canada have reached the semi-final round of CONCACAF qualifying for the 2002 World Cup finals after beating Cuba 1-0 on aggregate in a two-game
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Speedway: Tougher this time for champs
News in brief **Oxford take on last year's champions Peterborough at the Stadium on Saturday (7.30pm). Peterborough are struggling this year, just like Oxford, so it could prove a tight meeting all round. **Next Wednesday sees Oxford stage their big Sky
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Speedway: Steve out to be Over moon
Skipper Steve Johnston and Mark Lemon go for gold in the Overseas final at Poole on Sunday. They will be aiming to emulate last year's winner Todd Wiltshire to give Oxford and their own Grand Prix aspirations a boost at the south coast track. Wiltshire
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Golf: Hunt tops home team in Gold bid
Dave Hunt was Frilford Heath's highest-placed finisher at the club's prestigious Gold Medal, writes Richard Tilley. The two-round strokeplay event is one of the big dates on the south of England amateur circuit, with past winners including former European
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Speedway: What happened to Friday meetings?
Having just missed two weeks of action at Cowley because of a rain-off and the Grand Prix, Oxford speedway fans now face another three successive Fridays without action, writes John Gaisford. We all know the GP series takes a big chunk out of a normal
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Review: Moscow Nights by Ellen Cros- by (Piathus, 17.99)
Moscow Nights is an unsettling yet compelling mystery within expat life in Moscow. Ian, a journalist at a US network in Russia, has died in what might have been suspicious circumstances. His girlfriend Claire, sent to Moscow to cover for his absence,
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Review: Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (Faber, 9.99)
Mathematics may not be the star of many novels but Apostolos Doxiadis has done the subject a great service in Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (Faber, 9.99). In this unusual story, even the layman may grasp some of the exhilaration that pure mathematicians
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Reviews: Current paperbacks
Maggie Hartford reviews the latest crop . . . McNally's Dilemma Lawrence Sanders (Hodder & Stoughton, 5.99) Steering his private detective Archy McNally through a familiar cocktail of Florida sex, sleaze and murder, Sanders comes over as a hard-boiled
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Are hospital catering staff trained?
From D Allen, of Kallangur, Queensland, Australia Dear Sir I feel I must comment on the article about the catering staff at the John Radcliffe Hospital. In the first two weeks of May this year I spent a lot of time at the hospital as my father had been
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Patient patients
Dr Richard Davies' patients are prepared to wait - even thousands of miles away in the Falklands. Victoria Owen reports Patients from all over the country come to Oxford for expert treatment. And although many travel hundreds of miles from the furthest
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Celebrity porker enjoyrs retirement
She was central to the British pig farmers' campaign to raise awareness of an agricultural industry in decline. But now porker Winnie is taking life easy in the countryside near Chipping Norton. Katherine MacAlister reports . . . She's the politician
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All ready for fun day
Carnival organisers in Wallingford are looking forward to a bumper Millennium event. The fun-packed spectacle on Saturday will raise hundreds of pounds for charity. It features a colourful fancy dress procession through the town and a day of open-air
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Manufacturing firms find a voice
A NEW group is being launched to give a stronger voice to manufacturing companies in Oxfordshire, writes Sarah Parker. The Oxfordshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry is strengthening its specialist manufacturing group to help tackle the issues facing
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Profile: The Bluetones
Six years ago, Adam Devlin, Scott Morriss, Eds Chester and Mark Morriss - collectively known as The Bluetones - were taking their first steps in what has turned out to be a meteoric career, writes Templeton Blake. Sharing a house with another then fast-rising
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Traders demand cameras
Traders in Witney have renewed their call for closed circuit television cameras to be installed as soon as possible in the town centre. In recent weeks several shop windows have been smashed causing several thousand pounds worth of damage. Other shops
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Charles pops in for a Scotch
Retiring pub landlord Carl Wright received an unexpected visit from a royal well-wisher, who popped in for a quick Scotch. The Prince of Wales, who had been attending a church concert in Bloxham, near Banbury, was about to leave the village when Mr Wright
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Weightlifting: Martin's on Euro mission
Muscle-man Martin Green is ready to take on the rest of Europe after completing a hat-trick of British bench press titles. The 26-year-old, from Didcot, bettered his own British record by 5k with a lift of 200k to triumph in the 90k class at the British
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Bar billiards: Oxford see off Cambridge
Oxford A moved into the third round of the Inter-Area Cup after a 6-4 overall win against Cambridge. Oxford trailed 3-2 in their away leg after being 2-0 up through Ian Moquet (4,620-3,840) and Robin Godfrey (4,790-3,710). The home tie saw Moquet making
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Bowls: Oxon stay on course
Oxfordshire gave themselves a great chance of qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Middleton Cup by beating Bucks at Chesham on Saturday. They triumphed 121-115 to pick up 18 points and make it two wins in a row following the previous week's victory
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Review: Deep Blue Silence by Pamela Johnson (Sceptre, 10)
The narrator of Deep Blue Silence is a woman obsessed with discovering the truth. Maddie, an artist living in London, is working towards a major exhibition using family glass that was broken by her mother Faith many years earlier. Faith has never talked
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Review: My Week with Marilyn by Colin Clark (Harper Collins, 14.99)
Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier were screen legends and details of their one joint venture, the strife-torn and yet delightful The Prince and the Showgirl, always make good reading, writes Peter Unsworth. And what better than to have it written by
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Life, the universe - what's it all about?
Amanda Castleman talks to postman-turned-philosopher Stephen Law, who wants to help young people make up their minds about the big questions . . . If you have ever fobbed off your children's "Why, why why?" questions with a deft change of subject, you
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Homes backed at brewery site
Plans for Abingdon's historic Morland Brewery to be developed into houses and flats have been approved, writes Roseena Parveen. The Vale of White Horse District Council agreed to allow 181 homes to be developed on the site in Ock Street, subject to details
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Profile: Hundred Reasons
Fierce Panda Records, so the story goes, 'discovered' Hundred Reasons at a gig in north London back in March. By all accounts, it was only the five-piece outfit's third gig. Yet they blew the headliners, Kittie, off the stage, writes Metal Mickey. This
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Profile: The Kynd
Starting life somewhere between Aylesbury and High Wycombe, The Kynd have carved themselves one hell of a reputation as a live act - despite the fact that classic guitar music isn't at the height of fashion right now, writes Pookie Hudson. Their debut
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Seeking old mates from Cotteslowe or Cowley
From: Richard Barry, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (Oxfordrb@aol.com) I lived down the Friars until age nine, then moved to Cutteslowe Estate, until married at 21, then lived on Weldon Rd, Marston, until moving to Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A. Would like to hear from
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Sam's a water baby
Baby Samuel Wearing had an unusual birth in his own shower room, writes Andrew Ffrench. Mum Pippa Wearing, 26, had not been expecting her second child to be born for another two weeks when labour pains started on Saturday morning. Realising there would
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GPs push for privacy
Patients worried about being overheard could be given the wrong advice at their High Street pharmacy, according to a group of Oxford GPs, writes Victoria Owen. Although many people rely on local chemists for advice, they are often too embarrassed to share
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Sprint to get that cash in
Runners who took part in the Oxford Mail's Town and Gown fun run have donated thousands of pounds to the fight against the muscle-wasting disease Muscular Dystrophy. A record 1,682 people entered the 10km race and more than 60 youngsters took part in
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Lessons cut as teachers look for jobs
Schools are closing early so their teachers can go to job interviews, writes Madeleine Pennell. Teachers are having to get new jobs as part of the shake-up of schools in Oxford, which will see middle schools replaced by a two-tier system of secondaries
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Choking our roads and lungs
People in Oxfordshire are being urged to support the Don't Choke Britain campaign by leaving their car at home, writes Maggie Hartford. The organisers say traffic congestion costs the UK economy 15bn a year and that motorists can be exposed to up to three
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Hospital re-opens
The doors of Burford Hospital are open once again for the elderly - just weeks after being closed by a health trust to cut costs, writes Suzanne Huband. The Healthy Living Centre has already opened and is used by social services, through Age Concern,
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Fertility age ruling faces court battle
A rule banning Oxfordshire women over 38 from using fertility treatment on the National Health Service could be a breach of human rights, writes Victoria Owen. An Oxford solicitor said she would consider using new laws to take health managers to court
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Homes backed at brewery site
Plans for Abingdon's historic Morland Brewery to be developed into houses and flats have been approved, writes Roseena Parveen. The Vale of White Horse District Council agreed to allow 181 homes to be developed on the site in Ock Street, subject to details
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Joey sits on the fence
Joey Beauchamp has been unable to make up his mind whether to stay at Oxford United or join rivals Reading. But the 29-year-old midfielder could be in for a shock when he returns to the Manor Ground from his holiday in Cyprus - because he could find the
