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Football: No upset for respectableTown
FA Cup: Abingdon Tn 1, Bognor Regis 3 Abingdon's hopes of causing an upset were effectively dashed in the first ten minutes as the Ryman Division 1 high-fliers struck twice. Abingdon Town's Jason Thomas is shadowed a Bognor defenderMatt Russell and Simon
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Minis recalled over fire risk
All Cowley-built Minis have been recalled amid fears that static electricity in the fuel tank could cause an explosion. The 500 cars that are already on the road have been recalled. Deliveries are on hold while new vehicles in showrooms and on the production
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New challenge for fast-living Carolyn
Four months after giving up international rowing Carolyn Jones has been chosen to represent Great Britain in adventure racing. Carolyn JonesShe left her home in St Lucian's Lane, Wallingford, last Thursday, to compete in the Discovery Channel World Championship
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Football: Banbury cruise it
FA Cup: Banbury United 4, Ware 0 After goalkeeper Simon Tricker was forced to make a fantastic save from a point blank header early on, Banbury cruised through. Ben Milner put them in front in the 41st minute, curling in a left-foot shot from the narrowest
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Cricket: Taylor stars as Banbury lift cup
A superb performance from David Taylor helped Banbury retain the Bernard Tollett Oxfordshire Cup with an 88-run victory over Shipton-under-Wychwood in the delayed final at Bletchingdon. He hit a quickfire 41, including a couple of magnificent sixes in
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Dancers grace the fayre
Morris dancers entertained crowds who flocked to the Wychwood Forest Fayre in Leafield on Sunday. They were just one of the many attractions at the fayre, which was organised by the Friends of the Wychwood Project. Other events included a craft fair,
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Former magistrate chair opposes closure
A former chairman of magistrates in Thame has "strongly opposed" any move to close the court in the town. On Friday, The Oxford Mail revealed Thames Valley Magistrates Courts Service was considering closing Thame, Didcot and Abingdon courts to save money
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Council goes in circles
Thame is still looking for something to celebrate the Millennium almost two years after the rest of the country marked the occasion. The town council has decided to re-examine all the ideas and designs submitted by the public two years ago for a structure
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Groups needing venues urged to attend summit
Community clubs and societies that are struggling to find venues for meetings are being urged to attend a meeting to discuss the problem. A number of organisations in Wantage have expressed concern at the difficulty of securing meeting places in the town
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Cricket:Beaten Bicester not quite safe yet
Bicester and North Oxford need five points from their final game next week to be absolutely sure of avoiding the drop from the Home Counties Premier League Division 1, following their hefty 83-run defeat at the hands of High Wycombe on Saturday. The result
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Cricket: Rupert's stunning seven is in vain
Skipper Rupert Evans returned superb figures of 7-42 to clock up a half-century of wickets for the season and set Oxford & Horspath on the way to a comfortable five-wicket win at bottom club Wolverton Town in the Home Counties Premier League - Division
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Cricket:Marsh Gibbon move into pole position
OCA League round-up: Sept 1-2 Marsh Gibbon's nine-wicket victory over East & West Hendred moved them into top spot in Division 3 as the season draws to a close. Hendred were dismissed for 125-9 with Carl Needham taking 4-17. Marsh Gibbon rattled off
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Football: Weekend results
Results of football matches involving Oxfordshire clubs over the weekend September1-2 NATIONWIDE LEAGUE Div 3: Oxford Utd 3, Rushden & Diamonds 2. FA CUP Prelim round: Abingdon Tn 1, Bognor Regis Tn 3; Abingdon Utd 2, Lancing 1; AFC Wallingford 1,
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Cricket: Results from the weekend
Results of matches involving Oxfordshire clubs, September 1-2 HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Div 1 Radlett 169-9 (66 overs), Banbury 172-1 (31.1 ov, C Haupt 116 no, Shahbaz Ali 40 no). Radlett 2 pts, Banbury 25. Finchampstead 117 (36.5 ov), Basingstoke
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Football: Slipshod City face a replay
FA Cup: Redhill 2, Oxford City 2 A below-par Oxford City twice took the lead only to allow the Sussex County League Division 1 side to force a replay tomorrow evening with some sloppy defending. Manager Paul Lee's major concern will be second half injuries
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Cricket: Rupert's stunning seven is in vain
Skipper Rupert Evans returned superb figures of 7-42 to clock up a half-century of wickets for the season and set Oxford & Horspath on the way to a comfortable five-wicket win at bottom club Wolverton Town in the Home Counties Premier League - Division
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Cricket:Beaten Bicester not quite safe yet
Bicester and North Oxford need five points from their final game next week to be absolutely sure of avoiding the drop from the Home Counties Premier League Division 1, following their hefty 83-run defeat at the hands of High Wycombe on Saturday. The result
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Football: Didcot go out of cup
FA Cup: Chessington & H ook 2, Didcot Tn 0 Didcot produced their worst performance of the season as they crashed out at Chessington & Hook. The Combined Counties side won the game with goals from Alun Wood after 27 miutes and Neil Wicks ten minutes
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Football: Thatcham catch 'em
FA Cup: Thatcham Town 3, North Leigh 1 Despite the best possible start when Justin Timms put them ahead in the first minute, North Leigh then sat back and let Thatcham dictate play and win with two goals from striker Sean Cook and a penalty by Stuart
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Football: Banbury cruise it
FA Cup: Banbury United 4, Ware 0 After goalkeeper Simon Tricker was forced to make a fantastic save from a point blank header early on, Banbury cruised through. Ben Milner put them in front in the 41st minute, curling in a left-foot shot from the narrowest
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Cricket:Marsh Gibbon move into pole position
OCA League round-up: Sept 1-2 Marsh Gibbon's nine-wicket victory over East & West Hendred moved them into top spot in Division 3 as the season draws to a close. Hendred were dismissed for 125-9 with Carl Needham taking 4-17. Marsh Gibbon rattled off
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Just a purr-fect day
More than 40 cats have taken part in the 46th Abingdon Cat Show, including Pussy Willow, pictured with her owner Jessica Jones. The annual event was held on Saturday at John Mason School, Abingdon, and will help boost the bank balances of a number of
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Crash injures two
Two people were airlifted to hospital following a traffic accident today on the A34 between Bletchingdon and Weston-on-the-Green. A milk tanker and a BMW car collided as they travelled northwards shortly before 8am. The car hit the central reservation
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Sporty nurse wins award for work
A nurse who treats patients by arranging for them to participate in challenging sports has been commended for his work. Colin GodfreyColin Godfrey, who works at the Littlemore Health Centre in Oxford, has won the Mental Health Nursing category of the
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Council goes in circles
Thame is still looking for something to celebrate the Millennium almost two years after the rest of the country marked the occasion. The town council has decided to re-examine all the ideas and designs submitted by the public two years ago for a structure
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Cash pours in for waterways
Waterways in Oxford are to benefit from a £2m Government scheme to upgrade locks, weirs and facilities along the River Thames. Work to improve facilities in Oxford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames, Windsor, Sunbury and Walton-on-Thames will start in November
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What's all the fuss, says 100-year-old?
One hundred years of life was celebrated by a woman born and bred in Oxford with a family party on Sunday, September 2. Agnes Bird held her centenary party at Glebe House residential home in Mill Street, Kidlington. Agnes Bird She thoroughly enjoyed the
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Success for 'sink or swim' campaigners
Oxford's Barton estate closer to getting a £3m swimming pool development after a campaign by residents. Outline planning permission for a 25m five-lane pool at Bayswater Middle School has been earmarked for approval by Oxford City Council planners. The
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Man hurt as boat explodes in flames
Firefighters said a boat owner was lucky to escape serious injury, after his cruiser burst into flames on the River Thames. Terry Adler, 66, suffered minor burns when his 22ft-long boat, Daydreams, caught fire at Osney Marina, Oxford, yesterday. Fifteen
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Football: Thatcham catch 'em
FA Cup: Thatcham Town 3, North Leigh 1 Despite the best possible start when Justin Timms put them ahead in the first minute, North Leigh then sat back and let Thatcham dictate play and win with two goals from striker Sean Cook and a penalty by Stuart
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Vicar forgives homeless man who stole from church
A vicar who took in a homeless man said she has forgiven him after he stole £2,000 of silver from a church in Botley. The Rev Rosemary Bates, the priest in charge at St Peter and St Paul Church, spoke of her sadness after Andrew Midwinter was jailed at
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Wright calls for video ref
Oxford United boss Mark Wright called for football to introduce "a third umpire" after seeing his side benefit from a debatable refereeing decision as they chalked up their first win at The Kassam Stadium. The U's 3-2 victory over Rushden & Diamonds
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Football: Thame's triumph marred by brawl
FA Cup: Thame Utd 3, Worthing 2 A thrilling preliminary round encounter boiled over in the 90th minute when a mass brawl resulted in the dismissal of Worthing's Marc Rice and Thame's Neil Greig after Rob Smith had been punched in the face. Thame took
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Dancers grace the fayre
Morris dancers entertained crowds who flocked to the Wychwood Forest Fayre in Leafield on Sunday. They were just one of the many attractions at the fayre, which was organised by the Friends of the Wychwood Project. Other events included a craft fair,
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Theatres oppose plan to axe board
The future of funding for arts projects across Oxfordshire could be left to London-based bureaucrats if Arts Council plans go ahead. It wants to scrap Southern Arts, the regional arts board that lobbies for Government funding for projects in the county
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Charity letter lets people know
The Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire will be taking to the streets to support an Oxford-based charity's campaign. Hugo Brunner will be helping Opportunity International UK delivering letters asking people who they would give credit to if they were a bank
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Pool of money helps causes
Swimmers in Oxfordshire have raised more than £16,000 for cancer charities. The money was raised during the BT Swimathon in March - Europe's largest swimming event - by participants at the Westminster Leisure centre in Harcourt Hill, Oxford, the Spiceball
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Cash pours in for waterways
Waterways in Oxford are to benefit from a £2m Government scheme to upgrade locks, weirs and facilities along the River Thames. Work to improve facilities in Oxford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames, Windsor, Sunbury and Walton-on-Thames will start in November
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Footbal: United through
FA Cup: Abingdon Utd 2, Lancing 1 A GOAL in each half from Carl Henry and Jason Maciak earned Abingdon United a home tie in the next round against Croydon Athletic. United held on to their 2-0 lead thanks to some good saves from Paul Tassell, before Griffin
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Just a purr-fect day
More than 40 cats have taken part in the 46th Abingdon Cat Show, including Pussy Willow, pictured with her owner Jessica Jones. The annual event was held on Saturday at John Mason School, Abingdon, and will help boost the bank balances of a number of
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Plans to develop sandpit opposed
A preservation group is objecting to plans to extend a sandpit in an Oxfordshire wood. Tubney Wood Preservation group is objecting to plans made by Hills Minerals and Waste Ltd to extend Tubney Wood Sandpit in Oaksmere, Appleton, by 40 per cent. Hills
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School on a roll with its exams
Magdalen College School is celebrating after its pupils were hailed as Oxfordshire's top performers in a survey. The Evening Standard newspaper's survey of the leading 200 independent schools in London and the south east has put the south Oxford school
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Football: Didcot go out of cup
FA Cup: Chessington & H ook 2, Didcot Tn 0 Didcot produced their worst performance of the season as they crashed out at Chessington & Hook. The Combined Counties side won the game with goals from Alun Wood after 27 miutes and Neil Wicks ten minutes
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Cricket: Haupt's spree seals runners-up spot
Craig Haupt's run feast at White Post Road continued as he took his tally to 333 in the last eight days - without being dismissed - in Banbury's convincing nine-wicket victory over lowly Home Counties Premier League Division 1 visitors Radlett on Saturday
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Parishes fight boundary changes
Parish councils are making a last-ditch stand to prevent being lumped together into a local election ward. The Local Government Commission for England wants a merger of seven west Oxfordshire villages spread out across a large swathe of Cotswold countryside
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Football: Thame's triumph marred by brawl
FA Cup: Thame Utd 3, Worthing 2 A thrilling preliminary round encounter boiled over in the 90th minute when a mass brawl resulted in the dismissal of Worthing's Marc Rice and Thame's Neil Greig after Rob Smith had been punched in the face. Thame took
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Football: Slipshod City face a replay
FA Cup: Redhill 2, Oxford City 2 A below-par Oxford City twice took the lead only to allow the Sussex County League Division 1 side to force a replay tomorrow evening with some sloppy defending. Manager Paul Lee's major concern will be second half injuries
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Cricket: Haupt's spree seals runners-up spot
Craig Haupt's run feast at White Post Road continued as he took his tally to 333 in the last eight days - without being dismissed - in Banbury's convincing nine-wicket victory over lowly Home Counties Premier League Division 1 visitors Radlett on Saturday
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Sppedway: Adams guides Cheetahs back to top
Eastbourne Eagles 41, Oxford Cheetahs 51 The JTC/FOX Cheetahs roared back to the top spot in the Sky Sports Elite League with an awesome display at Arlington on a baking hot Saturday afternoon. Oxford started quietly with Martin Dugard winning heat one
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Cricket: Taylor stars as Banbury lift cup
A superb performance from David Taylor helped Banbury retain the Bernard Tollett Oxfordshire Cup with an 88-run victory over Shipton-under-Wychwood in the delayed final at Bletchingdon. He hit a quickfire 41, including a couple of magnificent sixes in
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Crash injures two
Two people were airlifted to hospital following a traffic accident today on the A34 between Bletchingdon and Weston-on-the-Green. A milk tanker and a BMW car collided as they travelled northwards shortly before 8am. The car hit the central reservation
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'We need your land,' farmers told
Farming brothers Anthony and Lawrence Bonner have at last been officially informed that a council needs 40 acres of their land for a £4m sports complex. Only now that Cherwell District Council has applied for a change-of-use for the site, off Howes Lane
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Sppedway: Adams guides Cheetahs back to top
Eastbourne Eagles 41, Oxford Cheetahs 51 The JTC/FOX Cheetahs roared back to the top spot in the Sky Sports Elite League with an awesome display at Arlington on a baking hot Saturday afternoon. Oxford started quietly with Martin Dugard winning heat one
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Football: Misery for Wallingford
FA Cup: AFC Wallingford 1, Mildenhall Tn 2 Mildenhall substitute Chris Smith struck twice in the space of four minutes midway through the second half to send AFC Wallingford crashing out at the first hurdle. Paul Hannigan had earlier fired Wallingford
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Churches bid to boost attendance
Didcot churches are among 7,000 across the country stepping up promotion of Alpha courses in a bid to reverse falling attendances at church. On September 13, the Rev Mark Wickenden, of Didcot Baptist Church, and other Alpha co-ordinators in the area,
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Football: Misery for Wallingford
FA Cup: AFC Wallingford 1, Mildenhall Tn 2 Mildenhall substitute Chris Smith struck twice in the space of four minutes midway through the second half to send AFC Wallingford crashing out at the first hurdle. Paul Hannigan had earlier fired Wallingford
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Footbal: United through
FA Cup: Abingdon Utd 2, Lancing 1 A GOAL in each half from Carl Henry and Jason Maciak earned Abingdon United a home tie in the next round against Croydon Athletic. United held on to their 2-0 lead thanks to some good saves from Paul Tassell, before Griffin
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Football: Police too good for Carterton
FA Cup: Met Police 2, Carterton Tn 1 After a goalless first half, Carterton went behind in the 47th minute, but Adrian Holder equalised in the 76th minute following a fumble by the Police keeper. With six minutes left, Carterton keeper Craig Ewer gifted
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Football: No upset for respectableTown
FA Cup: Abingdon Tn 1, Bognor Regis 3 Abingdon's hopes of causing an upset were effectively dashed in the first ten minutes as the Ryman Division 1 high-fliers struck twice. Abingdon Town's Jason Thomas is shadowed a Bognor defenderMatt Russell and Simon
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Football: Weekend results
Results of football matches involving Oxfordshire clubs over the weekend September1-2 NATIONWIDE LEAGUE Div 3: Oxford Utd 3, Rushden & Diamonds 2. FA CUP Prelim round: Abingdon Tn 1, Bognor Regis Tn 3; Abingdon Utd 2, Lancing 1; AFC Wallingford 1,
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Cricket: Results from the weekend
Results of matches involving Oxfordshire clubs, September 1-2 HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Div 1 Radlett 169-9 (66 overs), Banbury 172-1 (31.1 ov, C Haupt 116 no, Shahbaz Ali 40 no). Radlett 2 pts, Banbury 25. Finchampstead 117 (36.5 ov), Basingstoke
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'We need your land,' farmers told
Farming brothers Anthony and Lawrence Bonner have at last been officially informed that a council needs 40 acres of their land for a £4m sports complex. Only now that Cherwell District Council has applied for a change-of-use for the site, off Howes Lane
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School on a roll with its exams
Magdalen College School is celebrating after its pupils were hailed as Oxfordshire's top performers in a survey. The Evening Standard newspaper's survey of the leading 200 independent schools in London and the south east has put the south Oxford school
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New challenge for fast-living Carolyn
Four months after giving up international rowing Carolyn Jones has been chosen to represent Great Britain in adventure racing. Carolyn JonesShe left her home in St Lucian's Lane, Wallingford, last Thursday, to compete in the Discovery Channel World Championship
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United boss on view
The life and business times of Oxford United owner Firoz Kassam will be scrutinised in a BBC Two documentary this week. Firoz Kassam The programme, Bindi Millionaires - Bigger Fish to Fry, will be screened tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7.30pm. From running a
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Theatres oppose plan to axe board
The future of funding for arts projects across Oxfordshire could be left to London-based bureaucrats if Arts Council plans go ahead. It wants to scrap Southern Arts, the regional arts board that lobbies for Government funding for projects in the county
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Sporty nurse wins award for work
A nurse who treats patients by arranging for them to participate in challenging sports has been commended for his work. Colin GodfreyColin Godfrey, who works at the Littlemore Health Centre in Oxford, has won the Mental Health Nursing category of the
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Dance aids appeal
Talented teenagers showed off their dance skills in a show to raise money to help terminally ill young adults. The talent show was held at Cutteslowe Community Centre to raise money for the appeal to build Douglas House, a hospice for young adults. Members
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What's all the fuss, says 100-year-old?
One hundred years of life was celebrated by a woman born and bred in Oxford with a family party on Sunday, September 2. Agnes Bird held her centenary party at Glebe House residential home in Mill Street, Kidlington. Agnes Bird She thoroughly enjoyed the
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Football: Police too good for Carterton
FA Cup: Met Police 2, Carterton Tn 1 After a goalless first half, Carterton went behind in the 47th minute, but Adrian Holder equalised in the 76th minute following a fumble by the Police keeper. With six minutes left, Carterton keeper Craig Ewer gifted
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Success for 'sink or swim' campaigners
Oxford's Barton estate closer to getting a £3m swimming pool development after a campaign by residents. Outline planning permission for a 25m five-lane pool at Bayswater Middle School has been earmarked for approval by Oxford City Council planners. The
