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'Circles' help ring changes
Children sat in a circle and held hands as part of a programme designed to cut aggression in schools. Pupils from Pegasus First School in Blackbird Leys, Oxford, showed how a nurturing programme run by the education charity Family Links works. They were
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Athletics: City girls impress
Oxford City girls produced a strong performance in the Eric Andrews Memorial cross country meeting at Draycott School, Banbury, on Sunday. Nicola Candelin won the U17 ladies' race in a time of 27 mins 26 secs, and Hannah England won the U15 girls' race
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Football: City washed out again
Oxford City's FA Umbro Trophy first round tie away to Folkestone Invicta, scheduled for last night, was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch for a third time. The game was called off after the Dr Martens League Premier Division club's New Pavilion ground
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Football: Brize in the clear
Brize Norton's bandwagon rolled on at the top of the Premier Division with a 4-2 win at Chadlington. Goals from Mike Haines and Paul Coles gave Brize a 2-1 lead at the break, and second-half strikes form Mark Hedges and Jonathan Curtis sealed victory.
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Rugby: Pub adopts ladies team
Teamwork is the key to a successful partnership between the Oxford Women's RFC and an Oxford pub. Sponsorship of the women's team by their adopted home, the Chester Arms on Chester Street, will ensure the team have a new strip and a venue to celebrate
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'Build your own Jag' on the Net
Jaguar car buyers can now see, build and accurately price the car of their dreams online. Allowing real-time configuration and pricing at the click of a mouse, for any Jaguar car currently under manufacture, the "Build your Jaguar" feature was designed
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Morse fans prepare for the worst
Inspector Morse fans will be in tears tonight (WED) as they say a final farewell to their favourite TV detective. Oxford's Randolph Hotel will host a special screening of The Remorseful Day, the last of 33 small screen investigations featuring John Thaw
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Prodrive engineers record bid
An Oxfordshire engineering firm helped Volvo's new S60 T5 sports saloon to smash18 British Land Speed Records, including the 24-hour record for highest average speed. This record, achieved in Production Car Class D (2000-3000cc) saw the car averaging
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The A4 legend continues
The most successful Audi ever will be replaced in the UK next March when the all new A4 saloon reaches Britain's showrooms, writes David Duffy. The model that attracted 1.5 million buyers across Europe has now been completely revised from the ground upwards
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Fading eyesight puts more drivers at risk
New research shows that one in ten drivers would fail a driving test if they re-took it today, because of poor eyesight. Nigel Charlesworth, spokesman for motoring organisation Green Flag, said: "Though simple eye tests are a standard procedure at the
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Magnificat Choir with City of Oxford Orchestra, Sheldonian, Oxford, November 16
Oxford's own professional orchestra accompanies popular choir Magnificat in a performance of Mozart's Requiem at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, tomorrow evening, writes Chris Gray. The Magnificat with the City of Oxford Orchestra programme also includes
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Football: Brackett on a roll
Goal machine Damien Brackett hit another hat-trick as Cowley Workers brushed aside Blackbird Leys 5-0 in the Premier Division. Mathew Hambridge fired home a 35-yard drive and Arron Smith lobbed the keeper from 45 yards to complete the rout. Old Headington
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Athletics: Liz runs in for double
Liz Stevens, the assistant office manager at Henmans in Oxford, flew back from New York last week a tired but very happy fund-raiser. Liz (pictured above running past her office) completed her 'Run for all our lives' by finishing the New York City Marathon
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Football: Terrific Trevor boosts Soulden
Trevor Reeve's strike was good enough to give Souldern a 1-0 win over Vodafone Retail in Section E of the Charlie Rawlings Cup, writes David Gregory. Finmere's hopes of progressing were dented as they went down 6-3 to Fritwell. Greg Auger bagged a brace
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MORSE: Things you didn't know you didn't know
Amaze your friends with these dinner table titbits about Oxford's favourite sleuth **Most people know Colin Dexter has cameo roles, Hitchcock-style, in the televised versions of his detective's adventures. But when he played a tramp in Happy Families,
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Don't become a 'fashion victim'
Britain's growing army of 'scooter commuters' run the risk of severe injury because riders are wearing inappropriate clothing, the Institute of Advanced Motorists has warned. Launching a new booklet, entitled Safer Scootering, at the NEC show, IAM Council
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Bike fever at Birmingham's big show
It was enough to bring on a migraine. Soldiers on patrol deep in the dense Far Eastern jungles used to suffer from the same malaise, I'm told, writes Simon Nix. It's all to do with being surrounded at close quarters by a myriad of various objects and
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Craft work on show
Scores of local people managed to make an early start on their Christmas gift shopping when they visited Chinnor's annual craft fair. Local crafts people were demonstrating and selling their products. All profits were shared between Helen House Hospice
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So long, year 2000
Villagers welcomed 2000 with a special gathering to see the sun rise. And they will see it out by watching the sun set on New Year's Eve. Chinnor Parish Council chairman Lyn Mumford said: "It seemed the right thing to do, and I hope many people will join
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Share dip puts ranking at risk
Internet network company Bookham Technology may be relegated from the FTSE 100, the London share index, after its shares tumbled amid concerns about its third-quarter results. Bookham, based at Milton Park, near Abingdon, said it could see no reason for
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Mobile pioneers lift the lid
A meeting to lift the lid on the technology behind connecting the Internet to mobile phones is being held later this month in Oxford. The event, looking at WAP, or Wireless Application Protocol, is being held by the Oxfordshire Media Network, at the Oxford
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Kuddlekits send baby to sleep
A lack of inspiring children's clothes and accessories and a baby who wouldn't sleep led Claire Kearney from Woodstock to start her own business. With a varied working background, including jobs as a tea taster and an oil buyer, Claire, 41, of Manor Road
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Choir can Handel some fundraising
The appeal to raise £4m to build a new hospice in Oxford has been given an extra boost. A total of £2,200 was raised by a group of singers who performed Handel's Messiah, at St Mary's Church, Kidlington. The choir of 80 singers, from all over the county
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Motorist's view was blocked, inquest told
A motorcyclist died because the driver of the car that hit him could not see through his windscreen clearly, a coroner said. Edward Green, 32, died after the collision on the B4100 Leamington-Banbury road near Gaydon in April. The driver of a Vauxhall
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Gene bank bid to cure asthma
Scientists have been invited to create the world's largest asthma database in a bid to discover which genes are responsible for the illness. With Great Ormond Street Hospital, in London, the researchers at Oxford University will collect genetic information
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Grudging welcome for tree-lopping decision
Neighbours have failed to win a 16-year fight to get a huge tree chopped down. But they have won a concession it is to be lopped by two thirds. Residents say the horse chestnut tree in Ferry Hinksey Road, west Oxford, has for years blighted their gardens
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Man, 26, appears in court
A man accused of unlawfully killing a father-of-four appeared in court for the second time. Timothy Deasy, 26, of Tangemere Close, Bicester, was charged following the death of Ernest Barry, of Longlands, Stratton Audley, on November 11. Mr Barry died
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Becks's top can be yours for a price
A signed training top that once belonged to England football captain, David Beckham, will be auctioned before Christmas to raise money for a cancer charity. Football ace Beckham gave his blue 'Nationwide' England top to Adrian O'Donnell, after a training
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Fury as HGVs ignore signs
Police, contractors and county council officials were furious when heavy goods lorry drivers ignored diversion signs after a sewer excavation collapsed. Two workmen who were in the hole on the A4130 Abingdon Road, Didcot, had a lucky escape as it suddenly
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Football: New owners set to take over Witney
Witney Town Football Club could be in new hands by Christmas. Chairman Brian Constable is to recommend to the club's shareholders that they accept a takeover offer for the football club at a meeting in the boardroom on Tuesday, November 28, writes Russell
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New probe at heart centre
Health minister John Denham is sending Government inspectors into the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, after a damning report on its heart unit He confirmed that an NHS Executive investigation into the Oxford Heart Centre had found serious management
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Civil War spotlight
An educational programme on the imprisonment of more than 300 Civil War soldiers in Burford church will be shown on BBC2 on Tuesday (November 21). The soldiers were known as the Levellers and three of them were executed in the churchyard in 1649. Every
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Aunt Sally: Prince derail Victory Trains
Prince of Wales remain top of Section 2 in the Blackbird Leys League with a 6-0 win over Victory Trains. Tom Hartnett led the way with 14 dolls, including a six, and was well supported by Dave Adams with 13. Another 13 man was Dave Goatley for Blackbird
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Junior Football: Golden boy Gary is Nuffield's hero
Gary Baiden hit a 35-yard screamer to give Nuffield Arms a dramatic golden goal winner at home to Alvescot in the second round. Baiden, best known as the greyhound racing manager at Oxford Stadium, was also on target in normal time before hammering home
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Athletics: Wonder Wilson triumphs again
White Horse Harriers' men maintained their excellent start to the cross country season, following last week's Oxford Mail League win, with an equally emphatic victory in Sunday's Wessex League meeting in Weymouth. Four of the Harriers' seven athletes
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Hackett settles it for poor Reserves
Oxford Utd Res 1, Peterborough Res 0 - match report Chris Hackett's goal after 26 minutes helped Oxford United Res to their fifth win in a row in a disappointing sub-standard Avon Insurance Football Combination game at the Manor last night. With the exception
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Billiards: No club wants to set the pace
After six weeks of fixtures in the Oxford and District Billiards League, a fourth new leader heads Division 1. CCC A, by beating Oracle 2-1, now join New Club at the top of Division 1, with Oracle slipping down two places. John Simpson, conceding 40 points
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Football: Keeper Geddes nets for Sutton
Billy Geddes, a striker-turned-keeper for the day, showed he still had an eye for goal by scoring with a monster drop kick in the first minute as Sutton Courtenay shocked Division 1 leaders Shrivenham 4-2, writes Andy Wells. Mark Kucylo added a second
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Have you seen our archive?
Yesterday's news doesn't always end up as fish and chip paper - at least not on the World Wide Web. This is Oxfordshire, has just launched its own archive, featuring all the news and sports stories published on the site since 1998. Easily accessible from
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School news flies worldwide
A maths teacher at an independent girls' school in Oxford is using the Web to spread good news around the world. A pupil at Oxford High School, in Belbroughton Road, has won a flying scholarship from the Royal Aeronautical Society. Charlotte Morley, 17
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Free fall for funds
A hospital finance manager swapped her calculator for a parachute to help add up the pennies for a children's charity. Saroj Patel, of the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust, jumped 10,000ft from an aeroplane to raise 2,000 for the Make-a-Wish Foundation
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Jonathan bows out
The curtain fell for one of the longest serving employees at the Oxford Playhouse this week, as Jonathan Nash and his dog, Tilly, pictured, took their final bow. Jonathan has been the senior front of house manager since the Oxford Playhouse reopened in
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'View on OAPs is changing'
A scheme, aimed at providing a range of inventive activities for pensioners, has been acclaimed by a county councillor who helped set it up. The continuing success of the two-year project, boosted by the Better Government for Older People initiative in
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'Build your own Jag' on the Net
Jaguar car buyers can now see, build and accurately price the car of their dreams online. Allowing real-time configuration and pricing at the click of a mouse, for any Jaguar car currently under manufacture, the "Build your Jaguar" feature was designed
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How to avoid danger of the '2pm slump'
Energy drinks can help cut driver sleepiness, which is considered to cause more road deaths than drink driving, according to new research, writes David Duffy. In the first study of its kind, the UK's leading sleep research centre at Loughborough University
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Preview: Dearest Heart at Bartholomew School, Eynsham until November 18
It will be Gilbert and Sullivan with a difference when the curtain goes up on the Bartholomew Community Theatre's latest production Dearest Heart, tomorrow. The cast have broken with convention to stage a new play written especially for them by Chris
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Boxing: Welsh's glory night!
Young Simon Welsh was the star of Berinsfield's BC's dinner-show at Cowley Conservative Club. Welsh produced the performance of the night to outpoint Alan Edmonds, from the Torfan Warriors club in Wales. Boxing in the 54 kilo class, the Oxfordshire youngster
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MORSE: How a special friend kept Morse alive
Colin Dexter has revealed how a special friendship with a barmaid at Oxford's Randolph Hotel saved Morse from being killed off earlier. Dexter said Ailish Hurley, 49, who works at Chapters Bar in the Randolph, had provided him with inspiration over the
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MORSE: Enough is enough, says Dexter
As Oxford braces itself for the death of its most famous cop, Katherine MacAlister looks behind the scenes of Inspector Morse Oxford is in mourning today for one of its favourite characters. Inspector Morse has not only put the city firmly on the television
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Bike sales are booming as more commuters take to two wheels
This year's motorcycle sales figures are all set to smash last year's total. Latest Motor Cycle Industry Association figures show that motorcycling for both leisure and commuting is booming as two wheels are increasingly accepted as a viable transport
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'View on OAPs is changing'
A scheme, aimed at providing a range of inventive activities for pensioners, has been acclaimed by a county councillor who helped set it up. The continuing success of the two-year project, boosted by the Better Government for Older People initiative in
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Choir can Handel some fundraising
The appeal to raise 4m to build a new hospice in Oxford has been given an extra boost, writes Zahra Akkerhuys. A total of 2,200 was raised by a group of singers who performed Handel's Messiah, at St Mary's Church, Kidlington. The choir of 80 singers,
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Rest for the weary
Weary shop and office workers in Oxford can now take a break at an experimental 'quiet room' in the city centre. New Road Baptist Church, opposite the Westgate Centre, is welcoming workers who want a rest and to make a coffee. Minister of the church Simon
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Biotech firm seeks 150m
Biotech company Oxford GlycoSciences has unveiled plans to raise £150m to develop new drugs. The company, which unravels the proteins linked to diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer's, will offer shares to existing and new investors at the same time as
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'Camera scheme will not help us'
Flower shop owners Jim and Rosa Ashby say Witney is becoming a "yob town" after one of their shop windows was smashed yet again. They claim a proposed closed circuit television system for the town centre will be of little help to them as the cameras will
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Promise paves the way
Roads in Oxfordshire will get a facelift with the Government promising more than £16m during the next two years. Spending on county roads £5.8m this year will be increased to £8m in each of the next two years. The most noticeable changes will be on secondary
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Shape of things to come for diabetics
Plans for Oxford's new £9m diabetes centre have been unveiled. The state-of-the-art building will be built at the Churchill Hospital, in Headington. Details were revealed yesterday to coincide with World Diabetes Day. The Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology
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Jonathan bows out
The curtain fell for one of the longest serving employees at the Oxford Playhouse this week, as Jonathan Nash and his dog, Tilly, pictured, took their final bow. Jonathan has been the senior front of house manager since the Oxford Playhouse reopened in
