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Speedster jailed for ruining film
A civilian police worker who was caught speeding on camera, used his position in a laboratory to destroy the film, writes Rebecca Smith. Steven Burton was jailed for six months after Oxford Crown Court heard that he used his job as a photographic technician
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Devils bid to roar on
OXFORD Devils bid for their 12th straight win in National League Division 1 when they take on lowly Birmingham Aces at Oxford Brookes tonight (7.30). Aces, who are coached by former Oxford University man Dave Lycett, started the season with great expectations
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Skipper Patterson's incentive
OXFORD United's latest recruit, Darren Patterson, has an extra incentive to get off to a winning start for his new club when he makes his debut against Bury at Gigg Lane today. Patterson, signed from York City on a free transfer on Wednesday and installed
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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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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: 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: 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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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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Shortage of teachers closes two schools
The crisis in teaching recruitment has forced at least two schools to close so far this term, writes Madeleine Pennell. Wood Farm First School and Windale First School in Oxford have closed for one day each. Both had too many staff off sick to cover classes
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Kibble rocked by Unique Hare tragedy
THERE was tragic news for the connections of top A1 dog Unique Hare on Tuesday when the Angie Kibble-trained brindle died after suffering a heart attack. He won 16 of his 69 races and was a finalist in last year's Trafalgar Cup. TONY Magnasco has a new
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Magdalen's big boost
SPORTSMEN and women in Oxford are set for a major boost with the construction of what promises to be the best sports hall in the city. Magdalen College School's 2m development is due to be completed in the summer. And while it is primarily for school
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Stars in charity clash
OXFORD City Stars take on Oxford University in the annual Town v Gown ice hockey contest tonight at Oxford Ice Rink. This year's event has been expanded and all proceeds will be donated to Helen House and Douglas House Hospices. The evening starts with
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Shipton, Tiddingtonon collision course
SHIPTON-under-Wychwood and Tiddington are on course to meet in the Oxfordshire final of this season's National Village Cricket Championship. The giants of the local village game clashed in last year's final, with Shipton winning by eight wickets. And
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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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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: 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: 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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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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Charity ball plans well under way
Reparations are well under way for this year's Oxford Charity Ball which will raise thousands of pounds to help local charities, writes Zahra Akkerhuys. The event, which has become one of the highlights of the city's social calendar, will take place on
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Judge orders mum to give birth in prison
A pregnant former heroin addict has been told she will have to have her baby in prison, writes Rebecca Smith. Judge Peter Crawford told Christina Hovanessian she would be behind bars when she gave birth so that she receives proper care and is kept away
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999 crews praised after boy is saved
Emergency services were today praised for saving five-year-old Luke Simmonds, who collapsed during a blaze at his home, writes Roseena Parveen Firefighters from Slade Park, Oxford, were the first to arrive at Cotton Grass Close, Greater Leys, after receiving
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'Put our chimney back'
Neighbours have staged a protest outside their homes after a new resident on the block demolished a 1930s chimney, writes Roseena Parveen. Geoffrey Wallace, new owner of number 2 Morrell Avenue, Oxford, said the chimney took up too much space. He wants
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Weatherstones are released by United
BROTHERS Simon and Ross Weatherstone's Oxford United careers are over following their move to Nationwide Conference outfit Boston United on free transfers. The pair have had limited first-team opportunities this season and with United's massive turnaround
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New lease of life for loco
The long haul is nearly over for a restored steam locomotive which was a rusting hulk in a scrapyard in South Wales until 16 years ago. Freight engine No 4247, built to haul coal trains from the Welsh mines to the docks, last saw regular service 36 years
