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Sick mother, 90, waits 31 hours
A 90-year-old retired nurse suffering severe pain and sickness waited 31 hours in casualty at an Oxford hospital. Edith Charles's daughter, Wendy Wells, has complained to NHS managers about her mother's treatment. Mrs Charles, a widow, arrived at the
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Maskens is on march
JONATHAN Maskens, from Quarry Road Headington, has reached the national finals of the Hertz No 1 Cup tennis tournament to be held at the Palace Hotel, Torquay on the weekend of March 10-11.
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Moody is all set
FORMER U's striker Paul Moody is expected to be fit to lead the Millwall attack at the Manor today, despite having to be substituted in the 3-3 draw at Northampton because of his intermittent back strain. Moody returned to training yesterday. Richard
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Dawn of new ticket era!
THERE'S a very familiar 'new' face at Oxford United's ticket office this week after former club accounts assistant Dawn Wyllie took over from Darren Bowler as ticket office supervisor. There is a lot to learn, admitted Dawn, who has worked at the club
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Sport
Sweet charity as Stars beat Gown THE first charity Town versus Gown ice hockey match raised around 1,200 for Helen House Hospice. Well over 500 people attended the evening, with facilities provided free by Oxford Ice Rink. The women's teams opened the
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Aussie Academy guru is given Oxon cricket post
JACK Potter, the man responsible for producing some of world cricket's top stars, has been appointed the first full-time coach of Oxfordshire's Minor Counties Championship side. As the inaugural head coach of the famous Australian Cricket Academy, Potter
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Pall Mall contenders ready to go on trial
NO sooner has the William Hill Trafalgar Cup been decided, and it's time to swing into action for Oxford's top gtreyhound race of the year, The Arthur Young on Course 7,500 Pall Mall Stakes. Tuesday sees no less than 42 dogs including last year's victor
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Double delight for Oxfordshire aces
TOM Penfold and Mathew Ashton made it a double delight for Oxfordshire by romping to victory in the South East Inter-Counties Schools' Cross Country Championships at Tunbridge Wells. Penfold (King Alfred's, Wantage), who was forced to miss the Oxfordshire
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Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz (Headline, 9.99)
Schwarz's haunting debut novel, a US bestseller, is set in North America in the early 1900s. Schwarz uses flashbacks togradually tease out the story of Amanda, Mathilda and Ruth, two adolescent sisters and a three-year-old child and how Mathilda died
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Losing Larry by Elizabeth Pewsey (Flame, 6.99)
Larry Dunne writes bad avant-garde poetry, works in a Bloomsbury bookshop and puts the world to rights in Joe's Club, named after Stalin. Then he moves to Hungary, an ideal state where he hopes to bask in universal fellowship and equality. He is already
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FSauctions 'BRITS' frenzy - chart topping bargains from just 1
One week until the BRIT awards (26th February 2001) hits your screens. But why wait for the high street rush and pay over the odds for the winning nominees when you can get it all at www.fsauctions.co.uk from 21st February. Whether you're rooting for
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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: 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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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: Bewilderness (Until Feb 24)
In a world where the computer-fuelled excesses of screen and multi-media put the humbler resources of live theatre in mortal danger, The Right Size remind us that you can't beat the simpler powers of human imagination and sheer bloody charisma. Sofa nightmares
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Classic treat
Music by Telemann, Faure and Poulenc will be among the works to be performed at the Ark-T Centre in Crowell Road, on March 3, in aid of The Porch Steppin' Stones centre for homeless people. Tickets for the concert, which starts at 7.30pm, are available
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Here come Radiohead
Radiohead - Oxford's most famous band are planning a big homecoming concert. Talks are under way between the group and Oxford City Council for a gig in South Park, where the Oomf! festival was held last year. More than 35,000 tickets are expected to go
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The Long Close Call by J. Wallis Martin (NEL, 5.99)
This classy thriller by Oxford writer J. Wallis Martin features Robbie McLaughlan, a Flying Squad officer with London's Metropolitan Police, who shoots and kills a robber during a bank raid. His life starts to fall apart when the robber's family discover
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Goodnight Vienna by Phil Andrews (Hodder, 6.99)
A tightly-written football thriller with rookie PI Steve Strong hired to protect England's soccer coach, under pressure to resign after the team's poor showing in The World Cup qualifiers, and evoking hostile press and hate mail from disgruntled fans.
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The Traitor of St Giles by Michael Jecks (Headline, 5.99)
This is nothing to do with the Oxford street, but a medieval whodunnit set in Tiverton in 1321, at the time of St Giles's feast. Philip Dyne has confessed to murder and claimed sanctuary in St Peter's Church. As Sir Baldwin Furnshill, Keeper of the King's
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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: 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 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: 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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Cinderella's children
Barton has never enjoyed a good Press. Burglaries, bust-ups, depressed and deprived, it's always been known as Headington's poor relation. Fine, so it isn't Cinderella at the ball. It might be a bit rough around the edges but, as chief feature writer
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Monkey Bike swings back in a neat blast from the past
Mini it was the buzz-word of the Swinging Sixties. It was the time of the revolutionary Austin Mini Seven, a motoring legend with a cute and cuddly name. Virtually every one of us has had a happy association with a Mini. Even now, 40 years on, its unique
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Why Kieron is just Magic
Miracle baby Kieron Luke Coxhead from Clanfield is known as Magic after his mother and grandmother's favourite radio station in Newcastle. Magic, now six months, is the son of Janice Hall, 28, and her partner Craig Coxhead, 30. Miracle: Magic, with mum
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Farm fears over foot and mouth
"No admittance" signs were appearing at farm gates across Oxfordshire today in a bid to curb an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. The disease has been traced to a farm at Great Horwood, about ten miles from the Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire border. Clear
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Matt wants a new deal
MATT Murphy, Oxford United's leading scorer last season, is still waiting on a new contract offer from the club. But the 29-year-old midfielder believes he is now off the transfer list after becoming one of the mainstays of the team since David Kemp took
