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Green light for thieves
Thieves smashed their way into 40 cars in an Oxford city centre car park - after a council bungle meant there was no money to pay security staff. The vehicles were hit in just one month at the Westgate Centre car park. Security staff working on short-term
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Basketball: Deadly Devils reach last eight
Oxford Devils reached the quarter-finals of the National Trophy when they captured the scalp of Sutton Pumas in London on Saturday night. Playing at full strength for the first time for a month, the Devils got the sort of hard-fought match they expected
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Hockey: Tim's double earns a point for Hawks
Tim Newton's brace of goals failed to hide Oxford Hawks' disappointment as they only came away with a 2-2 draw from their English League Division 2 game against Bromley. In a tight first half, Hawks had the best of the play and should have gone ahead,
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MP backs embryo research
Oxford MP Evan Harris was today introducing a special Private Member's Bill in the House of Commons to allow research on embryos to combat adult diseases, writes Evan Harris. The city-trained doctor believes that such experiments within the first 14 days
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Rugby: Windsor 27 Chipping Norton 0
Southern Counties North match report Six players were sin-binned as Chipping Norton went down 27-0 away to unbeaten Windsor. Chippy, who received two of the yellow cards, were slow to start, conceding 15 points in as many minutes. Dogged defence stopped
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Hockey: Hawks Ladies fall to So'ton
Oxford Hawks Ladies gave Southampton a fright before going down 2-1 in their Women's Cup second round tie on the south coast. The home team, who play two divisions higher than Hawks, scored from open play to lead at half-time . Hawks came out strongly
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Hockey: It's great Scott!
West Witney won through to the third round of the EHA Under 15 Cup by beating Newlands School, Maidenhead 3-2 at Cressex. The Witney girls got off to a perfect start when Carly Scott converted their first short corner after five minutes. Witney looked
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42nd Street at the Apollo Theatre until Saturday, November 4
A new production of 42nd Street, one of the most famous backstage musicals of all time, will be staged at the Apollo Theatre this week. This is the story of the young unknown dancer Peggy Sawyer, who becomes an overnight star when leading lady Dorothy
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Review: Sylvia's Wedding - The Mill at Sonning until December 2
Tears of laughter are not unusual at the Mill at Sonning, where well-chosen rib-ticklers (and the occasional thriller) are impeccably acted for audiences whose eagerness to enjoy themselves has already been bolstered by good food and wine served at the
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Bosses buy printing firm
Bosses at Nuffield Press in Abingdon have bought the 75-year-old firm in a management buyout led by managing director Peter Kennerley and finance director Paul Wilson, writes David Duffy. John Brandon, managing director of HSBC Ventures, which provided
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Dinah makes fitness pay off
Looking after people's bodies is a lucrative business for Pilates instructor Dinah Siman from Witney. Pilates, the latest exercise craze, is a form of exercise which concentrates on the body's core strength. By locating and isolating individual muscle
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First village PO launches online
A village post office is one of the first in the country to go online, writes David Duffy Yarnton Post Office will feature on a new website www.UKVillages.co.uk which is a central source of community information. Yarnton postmaster Dave Tarling said he
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Oxford-based Icelanders swap fishing for a micro-chip future
Asked to name an Icelandic industry, most people in Britain would plump for fish. But two young entrepreneurs are hoping to help develop the windblown volcanic outcrop into a centre for 21st-century computer-led business, writes Maggie Hartford. Their
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Man stabbed in unprovoked attack
A 21-year-old man was stabbed in the chest with a knife in an unprovoked attack by a gang, writes Rebecca Smith. The man and his friend were walking along Bath Street, Abingdon, when four men and a woman launched the attack. A passer-by tried to intervene
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Workers move back to stadium
Work is to continue for another three weeks at Minchery Farm to make Oxford United's new stadium safe before Birse Stadia's full workforce can begin the task of rebuilding, writes Jon Murray. Les McGill, project manager for Birse, said his company now
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Residents' video gift
Patients at a community hospital have two new video recorders, thanks to people living nearby. Residents of Orchard Way and Saxon Way, Witney, raised money for a Millennium street party and were left with some to spare. With the help of Delnevo's TV shop
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CJD families meet to decide on cash offer
Terry Bishop, whose wife died of CJD, was meeting other victims' relatives today to decide whether to accept the Government's compensation package. Mr Bishop's wife, Jayne, 53, a former nurse, who died at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, in January
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23m plan to make roads safer
A multi-million pound package of improvements will make Oxfordshire's roads safer next year. The money, totalling 23m, comes as a result of a bid by the county council for Government cash. Funding the first year of the authority's five-year local transport
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Ghost train leads the spooky fun
Clouds of mist swallowed up children and their parents as a spooky ghost train puffed through Oxfordshire, write Nigel Hanson and Rebecca Smith. The Hallowe'en Special was laid on at the weekend by the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway Preservation Society
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Police drive home the winter safety message
With winter fast approaching and driving conditions deteriorating fast, Thames Valley Police are stressing the message that common sense saves lives, writes Emma Henry. The wet and windy conditions which caused mayhem yesterday and the cold, icy snap
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Firoz and Joe in late talks
Adviser Joe Kinnear and Oxford United chairman Firoz Kassam are still in discussions about the best way forward for both parties. Kassam met with the ex-Wimbledon manager, who has been acting as a consultant for the club for the past six days, yesterday
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Rugby: Luke seals it for Varsity
Loughborough Univ 7, Oxford Universty 13 Oxford's sixth successive victory at a wet and windy Loughborough proved good Varsity Match preparation for Jamie Weston's side as they were made to compete in every department to secure a win. Loughborough tackled
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Rugby: Chinnor go top
South West Division 2 East - Witney 3 Chinnor 22 Chinnor powered to the top of the table with a 22-3 victory over a vailiant Witney side at a wet and windy Hailey Road on Saturday. With the rain hammering down, Witney elected to face the elements in the
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Hockey: Late hat-trick blow for Oxford
Oxford University were stunned by a hat-trick inside the last 15 minutes from Noseley as Nottingham beat the students 4-2. Gisborne scored Nottingham's other goal, while Smith and Woodhead were on the mark for the Blues.
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Hockey: Nine men triumph
Hawks 2nd, down to nine men for much of the game after Tom Gillman and Terry Welthman were sent off with yellow cards, hit back from a goal down to win 4-3 at East Grinstead 2nd. Two goals from man-of-the-match Ali McShane, plus two more from Robin Parker
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Rugby: Beaconsfield 36 Oxford Harlequins 0
Southern Counties North match report Oxford Harlequins lost three players due to injury as they went down 36-0 away to new leaders Beaconsfield. Centre Matt Hardy (neck) and lock forward Doug Griffin (knee) departed before half-time when Quins trailed
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Rugby: Bicester 18 Bletchley 3
Southern Counties North match report An impressive performance by the pack, with Mark Malins dominant in the line-outs, ensured an 18-3 victory for Bicester at home to Bletchley. Neil Smith, whose tactical kicking prowess was a key factor in the conditions
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Rugby: Phoenix 41 Grove 9
Southern Counties North match report Newly-promoted Grove gave further evidence that they plan to make their presence felt at this level with this convincing victory. Grove came from 6-0 down to lead 19-9 at the interval thanks to tries from scrum half
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Hockey: Trysports 3 Counties League Div 1
Round-up of City of Oxford, West Witney 2, Rover Oxford 2, Abingdon 2, City of Oxford were always in front in their Trysports 3 Counties League Division 1 game at home to Sonning - but had to settle for a 3-3 draw when the visitors equalised from a short
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Banbury hit by penalty try
Midland Division 1 - Banbury Bulls 6 Leicester Lions 12 A Controversial penalty try awarded to Leicester Lions in the tenth minute left Banbury Bulls with an uphill task, and they ended up losing 12-6 at home to the promotion contenders. Lions were still
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Rugby: Henley pay heavy price
Moseley 16 Henley 12 English League Division 1 Despite looking the better all-round side, Henley slipped to a 16-12 defeat against Moseley on an excellent pitch in Birmingham. In monsoon-like conditions, the game was always going to turn on an error and
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Former PoW's fight for justice goes on
For three and a half years, Arthur Titherington was beaten, starved, worked like a slave and lived in the shadow of death as a prisoner of war of the Japanese, writes George Frew. For the past 54 years, as the most high-profile member of the Japanese
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Something spooky this way comes . . .
Author Joe Robinson did not believe in ghosts and thought the stories were just the result of an overactive imagination. But then he decided to satisfy his own curiosity and spent several years researching for his book Oxfordshire Ghosts. Joe talks to
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Driving on
Transport firm Cherwell Logistics, which employs 24 staff in Enstone, is to invest 300,000 in a new base more than four times the size of its current site, writes David Duffy. Its site in Bicester Road, Enstone, will be finished at the end of this year
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Help me find work to return home
From: Peter Day, of USA Hello, I'm an Oxford-born lad who moved to the USA with his parents 23 yrs ago. It is my deepest desire to move back to Oxford, as the last four generations of my family have lived and died there. Due to the difficult task of planning
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Scooter law questioned
Youngsters using micro-scooters have been worrying pedestrians in Oxford's main shopping street Cornmarket. Now city councillors are calling for clarification on the law regarding the non-motorised version of the scooters. City councillors at yesterday's
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Stand-in Santa is needed
A garden centre is searching for a volunteer to bring festive cheer to its Christmas grotto. Notcutts Garden Centre in Nuneham Courtenay is on the look-out for a stand-in Santa to help with a yuletide charity event. The grotto will raise money for the
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Couple tell of hell on storm-hit ferry
Publicans Keith and Tanya Dunne were glad to be back home today after surviving a terrifying 14-hour ordeal on a cross-Channel ferry during a Force 11 storm, writes Phil Clee. The couple, who have run the Six Bells pub in Kidlington for four years, were
