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Witness to quake calls for book aid
A teacher caught up in the chaos of the Indian earthquake has launched an appeal to rebuild the region's shattered education system. Greta Jackson, from Alfred Street, Wantage, was working with volunteers on an education project in the western state of
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Women's Football: Rangers are held
Carterton Rangers were held to a 1-1 draw by Wycombe Wanderers in a Southern Region Northern Division top-of-the-table clash. Leaders Carterton took the lead after 30 minutes with an Emma Hayes chip, but Wycombe took control in the second half and deservedly
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Football: Tower crack it!
Tower Hill Stars Under 14s notched their first win of the season with a 2-0 victory at Chipping Norton Swifts in the Giles Sports Witney Boys League. Simon Calley hit the first, and a later goal from Dean Spivey brought three welcome points. Carterton
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Football: Matthews scores five out of six
Karn Matthews scored another five goals, taking his total to 27 this season, as Oxford Blackbirds beat Bullingdon 6-0 in the Oxford Mail Boys League Under 10B league. Blackbird's other goal came directly from a wind-assisted goal-kick by Joshua Sherlock
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Bowls: Chippy carry the banner for Oxon
Chipping Norton, spearheaded by world indoor pairs champion Les Gillett, are flying the flag for Oxfordshire in the area EIBA Championships. Chippy are through to the semi-finals of the men's singles, pairs and triples, plus the mixed fours, with Gillett
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Preview: Bewilderness (Feb 21-24)
What happens when two men fall down the back of a sofa? Oxford audiences will find out when they enter the crazy upholstered world that Sean Foley and Hamish McColl create at the Playhouse from Wednesday. Sofa nightmares: Foley, Jones and McColl in Bewilderness
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Rescue drama on river
A man was plucked to safety from the River Thames after being dragged three miles in floodwater by his drifting boat. The 56-year-old, a non-swimmer, fell from his boat at Clifton Hampden just before 7pm last night. Both he and the boat were swept away
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Preview: The Bird Sings With Its Fingers (Feb 19)
Dancer and choreographer Mark Baldwin and composer Julian Anderson have created The Bird Sings With Its Fingers, a new orchestral dance work for the Mark Baldwin Dance Company and the 34 musicians of the chamber orchestra Sinfonia 21 who work with them
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Review: A Woman in Waiting
The nationwide tour of A Woman in Waiting, which stopped off last week at the Oxford Playhouse, begins with an array of impressive credentials. Its UK producers are Fifth Amendment (co-producers of Lorca's Yerma, currently at The Theatre, Chipping Norton
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Review: Rose Rage (until March 17)
You know how it is. You wait for decades, then five come along at once. Henry VI, I mean. First the Royal Shakespeare Company's three-parter, now Edward Hall and his Propeller company roar into the Watermill at Newbury. Instead of Stratford's Full Monty
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Review: Wuthering Heights (on tour)
The lights go up, though only dimly, on the gothic interior of an abandoned farmhouse. Long unused furniture draped in glistening white shrouds stands like a gathering of ghosts, while outside the moors rise so steeply that there is no horizon to be seen
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Review: The Duchess of Malfi (until Mar 3)
Entering the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, a surprise awaits. On stage, a great column of brightly coloured balloons stretches form floor to ceiling. Surely we're not actually being invited to enjoy the state visit of the Duchess's singularly unpleasant
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Review: Design into architecture (until April 13)
The astonishing collection of paintings and drawings left to Christ Church by General Guise forms, once again, the basis of an exhibition in the Picture Gallery until April 13. The theme, Design into Architecture, shows a careful selection by Caroline
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Martial Arts: Monaghans make grade
Brother and sister David and Siobhan Monaghan, 11 and nine respectively, from Abingdon, have achieved their karate black belts first dan, Shodan, at the Oxford Karate Academy in Glanville Road, Oxford. Both David and Siobhan have trained for five years
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Boxing: Guntert gets the verdict
Abingdon Town ABC's Jake Guntert battled his way to a majority points decision over Finchley's Peter Lydon at Biggleswade. Guntert opened up in good style in the 78k contest and kept up the pressure over the next two rounds to inflict only the second
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City roads approach breaking point
Sitting in a traffic jam must be the biggest waste of time imaginable. By the time you've resorted to phoning a friend on the mobile, making your face up, and checking out your diary for the day, there's not much more you can do. Traffic analysts say
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Jostle for the junction
Plans for a suitable statue for Oxford's Station Square have been flooding in. Last week, it was revealed that Oxfordshire County Council is linking up with the Said Business School for a £48,000 work of art for the square, sometimes known as Station
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Oxfordshire battles the credit fraudsters
Anyone with a credit card will be chilled by the news of a £50,000 fraud revealed at an Oxfordshire petrol station yesterday. Counterfeiters simply copied the details off their customers' cards using a special machine and sold the information on to fraudsters
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TV vet invites you to join trek
BBC Vets in Practice star Joe Inglis is inviting people to join him on an Italian trek to raise money for the Blue Cross animal welfare charity in September. Mr Inglis, who works part-time for the Jackson Veterinary Practice in Carterton, will be joined
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Dotcom's rock star
By Maggie Hartford Delon Dotson, one of the founders of the Internet portal Netscape and the music download site MP3, is to give a lecture entitled "The Net is dead. Long live the Net" on Wednesday, February 28, at 5pm at the Examination Schools, High
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Bookham losses double
By David Duffy Former stock-market darling Bookham Technology saw shares dive 11 per cent as it reported its full-year figures, which showed losses in the last quarter had almost doubled. The fibre-optic chip maker, based at Milton Park, near Abingdon
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Top jazz man in town
One of Britain's leading jazz pianist will be performing in Oxford on Thursday, February 15. Jonathan Gee will be playing at The Spin, over The Wheatsheaf pub, in High Street. Jonathan, from London, has worked with jazz performers including Joe Lovano
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Pool contractors stay a secret
The names of the contractors who will build Thame's swimming pool and the investment people who will look after the money are being kept under wraps. Both were appointed in a session of the town council behind closed doors. Town clerk Pat Kingsnorth said
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Martyrs' statue may be moving
Martyrs' Monument - the Oxford monument in need of urgent repair - could be on the move. Some city councillors say it should be transferred from St Giles to Broad Street. The Martyrs MonumentLast month, it was revealed that the landmark in St Giles is
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New lease of life for old rail station
Oxford's historic railway station, which was dismantled to make way for the new Said Business School and road changes, has a new lease of life. It has been rebuilt at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre at Quainton, between Bicester and Aylesbury, which
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Sex case lecturer a 'secret' bisexual
A lecturer accused of luring a 14-year-old boy into having sex through a teenage Internet chatroom told police he was secretly bisexual. Oxford graduate Dr Anthony Gray, 31, of Tamarisk Gardens, Bicester, made contact with the teenager through a gay chatroom
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Dog hides fireman's pager
FIREFIGHTER paul claydon was left scratching his head when his emergency pager mysteriously vanished. The retained firefighter searched in vain for the pager which beeps when he has a 999 call. Two days later his girlfriend Lynne Smith told him to come
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Ex-publican and darts fan mourned
The funeral of Bill Barnett, landlord of the former Chequers pub, Harwell, for more than 20 years, takes place at Oxford Crematorium on Saturday. Mr Barnett, 89, of Westfield, Harwell, was born and brought up in Littlemore, Oxford, and later lived at
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Cancer care gets £28m revamp
Oxford is to get a new £28m cancer centre, Health Secretary Alan Milburn announced this afternoon. The unit at the Churchill Hospital, Headington, will replace outdated premises which are unable to deliver the standard of treatment demanded by the Government's
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School opens new rooms
Language teaching has been given a boost following the opening of two new college classrooms. The 108,000 extension at King Alfred's Community and Sports College, Wantage, will replace a mobile classroom and is designed to improve teaching, learning and
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Schools must finance extra pay rise
Schools in Oxfordshire will have to foot the bill for bumper pay rises awarded to newly qualified teachers. The Government has given a pay rise of about six per cent to teachers who are in the first year of the job. Other teachers were awarded a 3.7 per
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Youth football: Keeper Banks stars on debut
After a long lay-off due to adverse weather conditions, Oxon Under 16s took a while to get into their stride during their 0-0 draw with Herefordshire in the East Midlands Combination. However, they could easily have gone in 6-3 ahead at half-time. But
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Bar Billiards: Withey boosts England
Oxfordshire players starred for England in the match away to Jersey. Tandem's Pauline Withey helped the ladies to a 5-0 victory, while Oxford's Keith Sheard won his match but couldn't prevent England men losing 6-5. *IN the Morrells League Premier Section
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Football: Garage suffer mighty crash
There was heartbreak for Standlake Garage, who suffered an astonishing collapse in the second round of the Autotype UTV League Ridgeway Cup. After leading 3-2 against Brewery Tap Res with four minutes left, thanks to Chris Panter (2) and Ian Baker, Garage
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Table Tennis: Vikings on the rampage with brace of victories
Vikings B are running riot in Division 1 of the Oxford and District League. They moved into second place after beating Vikings A 10-0, and then followed up with a 9-1 victory over Morris Motors B. Oxford University student Dave Smith was again to the
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Football: Gills' strike gets Six Bells ringing
Fraser Gills was the extra-time hero as Six Bells Kidlington tolled the end of AFC Vikings' participation in theMorrells Oxford Sunday League Cup with a 2-1 victory. After a goalless first half, Bells took the lead, only for Sean O'Sullivan to scramble
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Golf: New owner falls head over heels for Bicester
It was love at first sight! "As soon as I drove in, I knew this was the place for me," said Graham Payne, the new owner of what was then called Chesterton Golf Club. Payne has ambitious plans to turn Bicester Golf and Country Club, as it is now known,
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Brook floods pub
A village pub suffered about £8,000 damage when a brook burst its bank and flooded the premises. Costly damage: Darren Greenfield clears up Landlord Darren Greenfield said he was awaiting an insurance assessor's report following the floods on Monday,
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Preview: Hollow Opera - two new plays (Feb 22-24)
The Pegasus Theatre is presenting a double bill from February 22-24 with two tales of darkness written by three Oxford playwrights who will be seeing their work performed for the first time. Hollow Opera brings together The Croaking, by Kasra Hemmasi,
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Review: Little Shop of Horrors (until Feb 17)
It's a nifty piece of timing staging Little Shop of Horrors in St Valentine's week - for the little shop in question is a florists. However, one of the plants on sale is definitely not a romantic choice for a loved one. Well, hello: Seymour, the lovelorn
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Review: Hamlet at BMW, Cowley (until March 10)
"Excitement in Town" proclaimed the banner at the entrance when you'd found it after braving the ring road and the normally strictly-guarded BMW gates. It actually meant the glittering silver model of the new Mini, enticingly on show before going into
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Review: The Circle (until Feb 24)
Though The Circle is widely regarded as Somerset Maugham's finest work for the stage - "One of the 100 best plays of the 20th century," according to the posters outside the Royal Theatre, in Northampton - opportunities to see it are few and far between
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'I'll fight on,' says peaceful priest
A priest arrested during an anti-nuclear demonstration at the Faslane Trident submarine base on the Clyde says he will carry on demonstrating. The Rev David Platt says he is ready to be arrested again and adds: "It will only help to highlight our campaign
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Chance to comment
A public exhibition on proposed changes for a shopping area will begin on Monday. The exhibition, at Bicester Town Council's offices at The Garth, Launton Road, will show how part of Market Square could be pedestrian- ised. The exhibition ends on February
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Helpline for Asian women to launch
The county's first helpline for Asian women will be officially launched next week with the release of 100 balloons bearing its freephone number. The event will take place on February 20 on the steps of Oxford Town Hall, with Baroness Shreela Flather,
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Furnishing facelift
By David Duffy Soft furnishings specialist Rosebys is opening a new store at The Square, Cowley, tomorrow. The Cowley store has been refurbished after Rosebys bought the Harveys chain. Store manager Marie Smith said: "Rosebys store in Cowley is a one-stop
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A walk on the wild side
By Maggie Hartford Marketing company CPM, based in Thame is sponsoring a touring production of Wuthering Heights. It is giving 2,000 to the Oxfordshire Touring Theatre Company, whose production of the Bronte classic opened last week at the Pegasus Theatre
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US group buys DNA test firm
By Maggie Hartford A company which pioneered modern DNA testing has been bought by US company Orchid BioSciences. Cellmark Diagnostics, set up by ICI in 1987 to commercialise work by Sir Alec Jeffrey at Leicester University, was one of the world's first
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New local band makes people dance
The Frogmen in Pursuit, a relatively young band (being together for only a year and a half), are Oxford's latest offering to the world of music. Wanting very much to break new ground, the Frogmen are not the usual melancholy guitar-based indie kids regularly
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Irish legend returns to Oxford
It began with a chance meeting in Newport of all places at a Jerry Lee Lewis convention. He a friend of Lonnie Donegan, a fan of John Lee Hooker and perhaps Ulster's greatest living musician; she, a Hank Williams devotee from Tennessee, and sister of
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Lily's stolen teddy found
The treasured teddy bear stolen from pensioner Lily Currill, during a distraction burglary at her home, has been recovered. The bear, made by 93-year-old Mrs Currill's later sister, Rose, was handed in at Cowley police station by a member of the public
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Whistleblowers will be shielded
Whistleblowers who expose corruption or rule breaking are to get full protection in south Oxfordshire. The district council is expected to support a code of conduct which will protect them from victimisation. The code of conduct is a spin-off from the
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Hospital hygiene 'not good enough'
Inspectors visiting Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital have said its standards of cleanliness are still poor, despite £84,000 work to improve conditions. Managers were given a score of two out of a possible four by a special Patient Environment Assessment
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Helpline for Asian women to launch
The county's first helpline for Asian women will be officially launched next week with the release of 100 balloons bearing its freephone number. The event will take place on February 20 on the steps of Oxford Town Hall, with Baroness Shreela Flather,
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Patterson hopes to beat drop
Darren Patterson is hoping that his experience can help plug the gaps in Oxford United's leaky defence and help them pull off one of football's greatest escapes. As reported in later editions of yesterday's Sportsmail, Patterson has joined Oxford on a
