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Homes sold
All houses built as part of the first phase of Abingdon's new marina have been sold. When completed, the marina will have 22 houses and a 100 boat berths.
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Teenager charged with raping girl, 13
A teenager has been charged with raping a 13-year-old girl in Abingdon. The 16-year-old youth, from Abingdon, was bailed to appear before Didcot Youth Court on Friday, January 11. The alleged victim was visiting friends in Abingdon on Friday. The offence
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A 'third way' for the hunt
As Oxfordshire's hunts swung into action for the new year, Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris has proposed a "third way" over the hunting debate. He declined to back calls to end the hunting of foxes with hounds completely but wants tough new regulations
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School awards
The annual presentation of awards and certificates for sixth formers who left Lord Williams's Upper School, Thame, at the end of the summer term will be on Monday, starting at 7.30pm.
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Developers forge ahead despite hotel objections
Protesters opposing a new hotel scheme in Abingdon are gearing up for a new year battle after the developers vowed to fight on. Undeterred by objections from the Environment Agency, Discovery Properties has said it will continue with its plans to build
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Testing time for Mensa recruits
Some of the world's most intelligent people are based in Oxfordshire -- and they are queueing up to join Mensa, the society for people with a high IQ. Their chance will come when Mensa visits Abingdon in February to conduct supervised tests for prospective
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Holiday fun at the Castle
Children in Wallingford packed in some fun during a holiday activities course at the town's Castle Leisure Centre. Laura Higgins, of the leisure centre, said it had been a resounding success. "CampSOLL has proved so popular that we are planning to hold
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Event brewing
A coffee morning will be held at Four Acres, Stonesfield, on Saturday, January 19, from 10am.
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Poppy funds
Chinnor's annual Poppy appeal raised almost £3,400 -- an increase of £300 on last year.
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Play support
West Oxfordshire District Council's cabinet has approved a grant of £6,500 towards the cost of new children's playground equipment for Woodstock.
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On the beat
Pc Aiden Lacey has become Chinnor's new police officer. He takes over from Alvin Head, who retired last year.
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Cash for CAB
Witney's Citizens Advice Bureau has received a helping hand from the RAF Benevolent Fund to help establish an outreach project. The project will allow the CAB to hold surgeries at two locations at RAF Brize Norton. A cheque for £700 was presented to CAB
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Call for action on 'blackspot' road
Villagers are pressing for action on a "danger" road after five accidents in six months. The latest, on Christmas Day, was the last straw for residents in Lew who are campaigning for a speed limit on the A4095 Witney to Bampton road as it passes through
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Three children get meningitis
Three children from the same family are recovering after being struck down with meningitis. Scott Harrop, 32, and his wife, Michelle, 35, had a devastating Christmas after two of their children contracted strain B of the disease. Charlotte, two, spent
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School awards
The annual presentation of awards and certificates for sixth formers who left Lord Williams's Upper School, Thame, at the end of the summer term will be on Monday, starting at 7.30pm.
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Advice session
Advice on jobs, benefits and council tax will be available in Thame town hall on Tuesday January 8. Aylesbury Jobcentre staff will be there from 9.30am to 12.30pm and district council staff from 2pm to 4pm.
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Putting spark into industry
A call has gone out to would-be electricians living in Oxfordshire aged between 18 and 21: "The construction industry needs you." Between 2001 and 2005, contractors and builders in the south east of England must recruit 950 plant mechanics and fitters
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Panto flies in
The panto season arrives in Wantage with a production of Mother Goose. The show will be staged at Wantage Civic Hall from January 17. Tickets are available from the Tourist Office at Wantage Museum and Bretts Community pharmacy in Grove.
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Pilots' licences 'should be same'
Wantage MP Robert Jackson is calling on the Government to lobby Europe to bring the policy on licensing professional pilots into line with the rest of the world. This follows representations from a constituent who has one perfect eye and one requiring
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Miklman's double trouble
Milkman Ian Sears crashed into a woman's car with his float - and later did the same to her mother's car. Hairdresser Jeanette Leafesaid: "It was an incredible coincidence." She said the Unigate Dairy Crest milkman reversed his 15mph electric float into
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Fears for future of Duke's award
Oxfordshire's cash-strapped Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme is being stifled by health and safety restrictions, a leading organiser has warned. Expeditions officer Dick Brown, of Wantage, believes the key risk element is being removed from expeditions
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Hotel proposal wins support
The mayor of Wantage has backed a suggestion that a hotel could be built on a former primary school site. Grove 2000, the company which runs Grove Technology Park, claims the local economy has suffered because of a shortage of places for business people
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House fire is bad start to year
A manor house owner said he is in "catastrophe mode" after a fire badly damaged his home. About 70 firefighters were called in to tackle the blaze at Hill House on the Souldern Road, between Souldern and Somerton, near Bicester. Cyril Levicki, of Hill
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Sunday fixtures: Football
Sam Waters Sunday Cup 4th round: Banbury Cross v Highfield, Blackbird Leys v Ashton Villa, Six Bells Kidlington v Real Armas, Middle Barton v The Dolphin, Mansfield Road v Easington, Henley v Star Wands, Angel Witney v Chinnor Exiles, Kidmore End v Star
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Football: Thame suffering bleak midwinter, plus other news
Thame United boss Andy Sinnott says his side needs to start winning soon, or face the prospect of a bleak second half of the season. Thame haven't won in the league since October 27 - a run stretching back eight games, but they host Uxbridge tomorrow
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Greyhounds: Tomorrow's Oxford Card
7.35 450m A9 Greenfield Toast 3...(Terry Atkins) Incognito...(Paddy Curtin) WILL GEMMA...(Ron Bicknell) Aha Bluey...(Jim Morgan) Quick Notice (W)...(Ian Wills) Broadacres Bruno (W)...(Maurice Massey) 7.50 450m A8 Jacks Chief...(David Egan) Gossip Granny
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Hospice funds
A craft day raised £1,000 for Helen House and Douglas House hospices in Oxford and the national group researching multiple sclerosis. An extra £900 was raised from the sale of Christmas cards for the three charities.
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Estate valued
The estate of Prof John Christian, the former professor of physical metallurgy at Oxford University, who died last February, has been valued at £578,014. Prof Christian was a Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, between 1963 and 1993.
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Farmers stage inquiry protest
A group of Young Farmers staged a protest outside a farming conference yesterday by posing alongside a cardboard cut-out of Margaret Beckett. 'Cardboard Marge' was dressed up in a campaign publicity T-shirt, picturing a combative-looking pig wielding
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Water off as pipe bursts
A burst main left up to 1,000 villagers near Banbury without water for almost 12 hours overnight. A pipe broke in two places in Southam Road, Banbury, at about 4pm yesterday. Although supplies to the town were unaffected, the fault cut supplies to Great
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A 'third way' for the hunt
As Oxfordshire's hunts swung into action for the new year, Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris has proposed a "third way" over the hunting debate. He declined to back calls to end the hunting of foxes with hounds completely but wants tough new regulations
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Fatal bus crash: driver named
A bus driver who died in a mystery road accident near Chipping Norton has been named as Donald Leaver, aged 65, of Radnage in Buckinghamshire. Mr Leaver, who worked for the Stagecoach company, was at the wheel of the empty bus and about to start a run
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Police renew e-fit appeal
Police are continuing to search for a scarred man three weeks after a possible attempted abduction of a ten-year-old girl in Oxford. Officers followed up a list of leads given by members of the public following release of an e-fit image of a man who jumped
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Residents urged to air views
Banbury residents are being asked to play a bigger part in council decision-making. Two town councillors have called for more grassroots involvement on matters of public concern. Banbury mayor Cllr Jim Vine has asked residents to take an active interest
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Football: Red faces as OFA issue wrong draw!
Confusion reigned for a time when the Oxfordshire FA sent out the wrong draw for the fourth round of the Sam Waters Cup to be played this Sunday. The 16 leading Sunday clubs left in this prestigious competiton, whose secretary is Peter Begley, were bemused
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Football: Didcot to make it sixth time lucky
Cherry Red Records Hellenic League For the sixth time in just over four months, North Leigh and Didcot Town lock horns tomorrow as the pair fight for Premier Division points at the Loop Meadow Stadium. The two sides were paired in both the Floodlight
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Sunday fixtures: Football
Sam Waters Sunday Cup 4th round: Banbury Cross v Highfield, Blackbird Leys v Ashton Villa, Six Bells Kidlington v Real Armas, Middle Barton v The Dolphin, Mansfield Road v Easington, Henley v Star Wands, Angel Witney v Chinnor Exiles, Kidmore End v Star
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Women meet
The Oxfordshire Women's Network Vinculum is holding a New Year lunch at the Randolph Hotel in Beaumont Street on January 16. To reserve a place, contact Sue Staunton at Grant Thornton, 1 Westminster Way, Oxford, OX2 OPZ.
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Factoring move
David Rawlinson, 40, has been appointed managing director at Bibby Factors International. He moves from Bedford, where he was operations director. He said: "A growing number of businesses, particularly small and medium-size enterprises, are using export
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Feedback on skills wanted
People across Oxfordshire have until January 11 to feed back their views and ideas on plans by the Learning and Skills Council to raise skill levels to world-class standards. Two consultation events in Oxford were attended by 220 people from schools,
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Putting spark into industry
A call has gone out to would-be electricians living in Oxfordshire aged between 18 and 21: "The construction industry needs you." Between 2001 and 2005, contractors and builders in the south east of England must recruit 950 plant mechanics and fitters
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Refugees get help with hi-tech skills
Refugees and asylum seekers in Oxford and Banbury will be able to learn computer skills, thanks to new European funding. The Ethnic Minority Business Service (EMBS) has won public finance from the European Social Fund to allow it to run courses for unemployed
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Man jailed for attack on JR security guard
A homeless man slashed a security guard with a broken peanut butter jar at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, a court was told. Two security guards were escorting Nigel Fletcher, 33, from the hospital on October 25 last year when he smashed a jar of peanut
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Ice suspected over M40 crash
Ice may have been the cause of a dramatic accident on the M40 near Banbury last night in which a lorry crashed through the central reservation barriers. The driver of the 38-tonne Iveco lorry, which was travelling north, lost control of his vehicle. It
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Trust begins battle to evict social club
Warring parties in a dispute over the future of a social club are raising funds in preparation for a costly court battle. Kidlington Recreational Trust has begun legal proceedings to evict the trust's social club from its Yarnton Road base. The cash-strapped
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Treat for city's skaters
Skaters flocked to Oxford's Port Meadow to make the most of a natural three-mile long ice rink. A combination of still nights and freezing temperatures have transformed the Thames flood plain into a thick sheet of ice, offering perfect skating conditions
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150 evacuated in rail station bomb scare
About 150 people had to be evacuated from Oxford Railway Station yesterday afternoon following a bomb scare. Rail travellers, retailers and station staff had to leave the building just before 4pm after staff discovered a suspect bag on platform one. An
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150 evacuated in rail station bomb scare
About 150 people had to be evacuated from Oxford Railway Station yesterday afternoon following a bomb scare. Rail travellers, retailers and station staff had to leave the building just before 4pm after staff discovered a suspect bag on platform one. An
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MP demands poll on mayor
Campaigners for an elected mayor of Oxford have been praised by Oxford East MP Andrew Smith. Mr Smith, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said the level of support for a referendum meant voters must now be allowed to decide on whether the city should have
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Disabled struggle to take the train
Many of Oxfordshire's railway stations have little or no provision for disabled people -- and the situation is unlikely to change, according to Thames Trains. The company says the problem is unlikely to be tackled because Railtrack is in administration
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Centre faces closure
A centre to help women find work could face closure in the latest round of Oxford City Council cuts. The council has a deficit of £2.6m, but is aiming to be £2m in credit by April. To achieve this, 75 redundancies are being sought over the next two years
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Football: United's fingers crossed
Oxford United's prospective opponents have taken note of their sudden burst of goalscoring form under new boss Ian Atkins - and are now reluctant to take them on! Tomorrow's Division 3 game at Shrewsbury is in doubt, with a pitch inspection planned for
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Football: Thame suffering bleak midwinter, plus other news
Thame United boss Andy Sinnott says his side needs to start winning soon, or face the prospect of a bleak second half of the season. Thame haven't won in the league since October 27 - a run stretching back eight games, but they host Uxbridge tomorrow
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Afghanistan talk
Abbas Faiz, an expert on Afghanistan, will give a talk on the challenges to the war-torn country's development of human rights at a seminar on forced migration at the Refugee Studies Centre in Queen Elizabeth House, St Giles, on January 16.
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Panto flies in
The panto season arrives in Wantage with a production of Mother Goose. The show will be staged at Wantage Civic Hall from January 17. Tickets are available from the Tourist Office at Wantage Museum and Bretts Community pharmacy in Grove.
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Walk date
A six-mile Discovering the Countryside walk will be held on Sunday, starting at 10am at the King's Arms in Stokenchurch and finishing at the Lions of Bledlow. All are welcome but dogs must be on leads. Call Peter Hetherington on 01844 353296 for more
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Brewery's lucky award 13
Thirteen is unlucky for some, but not for Henley brewery Brakspear. After winning 12 other beer trophies -- nine of them gold -- the company finished the year winning the Beer and Brewing Award for 2001. It was presented by the British Guild of Beer Writers
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Meet a blood brother
BIG Brother contestant Stuart Hoskins will welcome people to Oxford's latest venue for blood donors -- at the town hall. Mr Hoskins, of Murcott, near Bicester, was one of the contestants in last year's fly-on-the-wall reality TV show, and he will cut
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Guide to community ventures
A new directory can provide details of all co-operative organisations. Compiled by Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op and Co-operative Futures, the directory lists 35 co-operatives and community enterprises in Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire
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Guide to community ventures
A new directory can provide details of all co-operative organisations. Compiled by Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op and Co-operative Futures, the directory lists 35 co-operatives and community enterprises in Oxfordshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire
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Stay safe near icy waters
If you were drowning in a river the last thing you would want to see was a lifebelt from the Titanic hurtling towards you. However, if you were to fall into the River Thames at Osney Island in Oxford, this might be what saves your life. The Environment
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Maternity unit one of UK's busiest
More than one baby is born in every delivery bed each day at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital - making it one of the busiest maternity units in Britain. An average of 14 mothers give birth at the Headington-based hospital every day of the year, according
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Disabled struggle to take the train
Many of Oxfordshire's railway stations have little or no provision for disabled people -- and the situation is unlikely to change, according to Thames Trains. The company says the problem is unlikely to be tackled because Railtrack is in administration
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Football: Thame suffering bleak midwinter, plus other news
Thame United boss Andy Sinnott says his side needs to start winning soon, or face the prospect of a bleak second half of the season. Thame haven't won in the league since October 27 - a run stretching back eight games, but they host Uxbridge tomorrow
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Three children get meningitis
Three children from the same family are recovering after being struck down with meningitis. Scott Harrop, 32, and his wife, Michelle, 35, had a devastating Christmas after two of their children contracted strain B of the disease. Charlotte, two, spent
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Testing time for Mensa recruits
Some of the world's most intelligent people are based in Oxfordshire -- and they are queueing up to join Mensa, the society for people with a high IQ. Their chance will come when Mensa visits Abingdon in February to conduct supervised tests for prospective
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Player bound over for punch
A footballer who broke an opponent's cheekbone after coming on as a substitute has been bound over to keep the peace. Christopher Bedford, 27, of Trinity Close, Abingdon, and 33-year-old Ian Carnell, of Queens Park, Aylesbury, were involved in a tackle
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Cancer forces Les, 84, to hang up his skates
Cancer has forced Oxfordshire's oldest ice dancer to hang up his skates more than 60 years after he fell in love with the sport. Les Elliott, 84, has been a familiar sight at the Oxford Ice Rink in Oxpens since it was built. But he has regretfully abandoned
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Pupils' new crossings
A new crossing over a Bicester busy road should be ready when children return to school on Monday. Finishing touches are being made to the first of two pedestrian crossings in Southwold Lane, which that runs between the Southwold housing estate and Caversfield
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Japanese art
Japanese art will be the topic when the West Oxon Decorative and Fine Arts Society meets in the Langdale Hall, Witney, on Thursday, January 10, starting at 7.30pm.
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Cash for CAB
Backing for the work of Thame's Citizens Advice Bureau has come with an £800 grant from Chinnor parish council.
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Rugby:Troubled Banbury barred from the bar
Banbury Rugby Club members, attending tomorrow's game against Luctonians, will be locked out of their own clubhouse bar, following the collapse of the holding company, which ran their Bodicote Park ground. Bodicote Park Ltd (BPL) have been declared insolvent
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New member
David Cannon, of Lower Icknield Way, Chinnor, has been co-opted on to the parish council to replace John Robertson, who has resigned.
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Football: Thame suffering bleak midwinter, plus other news
Thame United boss Andy Sinnott says his side needs to start winning soon, or face the prospect of a bleak second half of the season. Thame haven't won in the league since October 27 - a run stretching back eight games, but they host Uxbridge tomorrow
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Market date
Thame's next farmers' market will be held on Tuesday, January 8, between 8.30am and 1pm. The market will be held in conjunction with the weekly street market.
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Advice sessio
Advice on jobs, benefits and council tax will be available in Thame town hall on Tuesday January 8. Aylesbury Jobcentre staff will be there from 9.30am to 12.30pm and district council staff from 2pm to 4pm.
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Store upgrade
Thame's High Street Co-op supermarket is to close on Saturday, January 12, for modernisation work, which will take over a month. Oxford, Swindon & Gloucester Co-op is offering customers a free home shopping service and £5 savings vouchers for people
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Teenager in court
Nicholas Hazell "provided an object lesson in ruining Christmas Day," Didcot Magistrates were told. Police saw the drunken teenager climb King Alfred's statue in Market Place, Wantage, where he was warned because of his shouting and swearing. Helen Waite
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Saturday fixtures: Rugby
English National League Div 1: London Welsh v Henley. English Clubs Championship Midlands Div 1: Banbury v Luctonians. South West Div 1: Chinnor v Dings Crusaders. Southern Counties North: Grove v Chipping Norton. Club Matches Henley 2nd v Rosslyn Park
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Tennis: Henman tops in battle of the Brits
Oxfordshire tennis star Tim Henman came through his 'Battle of Britain' with Greg Rusedski and then backed his Davis Cup teammate to help him keep their country among the world's best. Henman triumphed 6-4, 6-4 to reach the semi-finals of the Australian
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Match angling: Spencer's bream comes to the top
The fourth leg of the Kidlington AS Green Road Social Club Winter League was held on a cold, gin-clear Cherwell and all the teams had to fish hard to put a weight together. In first place, fishing worm, was John Spencer (Kidlington B) who had one bream
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Meet a blood brother
BIG Brother contestant Stuart Hoskins will welcome people to Oxford's latest venue for blood donors -- at the town hall. Mr Hoskins, of Murcott, near Bicester, was one of the contestants in last year's fly-on-the-wall reality TV show, and he will cut
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Angling: 2001 - year of the big fish
It was a pretty good year for fishing in the Oxford area. Looking back over the past 12 months, our large fisheries certainly produced, with very big fish coming out of Orchid at Dorchester, and Linear and Linch Hill at Stanton Harcourt. On local rivers
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Meet a blood brother
Big Brother contestant Stuart Hoskins will welcome people to Oxford's latest venue for blood donors -- at the town hall. Mr Hoskins, of Murcott, near Bicester, was one of the contestants in last year's fly-on-the-wall reality TV show, and he will cut
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Saturday Fixtures: Football
Nationwide League Div 3: Shrewsbury Tn v Oxford Utd. Ryman League Div 1: Oxford C v Whyteleafe, Thame Utd v Uxbridge. Div 3: Abingdon Tn v Bracknell Tn. Dr Martens League Eastern Div: Banbury Utd v Burnham. CHERRY RED RECORDS HELLENIC LEAGUE RPM Records
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Football: United's fingers crossed
Oxford United's prospective opponents have taken note of their sudden burst of goalscoring form under new boss Ian Atkins - and are now reluctant to take them on! Tomorrow's Division 3 game at Shrewsbury is in doubt, with a pitch inspection planned for
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Gift appeal
Marie Curie Cancer Care has appealed for unwanted Christmas gifts to be taken to its Oxford High Street shop. Elaine Bryan, of the charity, said: "It costs £15 to provide one hour of nursing care so all donations are very welcome."
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Afghanistan talk
Abbas Faiz, an expert on Afghanistan, will give a talk on the challenges to the war-torn country's development of human rights at a seminar on forced migration at the Refugee Studies Centre in Queen Elizabeth House, St Giles, on January 16.
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On the path of true love
A shared love of cycling led to sixty years of marriage for an Oxford couple. Anthony 'Tom' Sawyer, now 81, met Kathleen Hunt, now 79, while working in a bike shop in Headington and their romance flourished on countryside cycle rides. The couple, of Lambourn
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Scouts' plea for Uganda mission
Donations are being sought to help fund a team of volunteers who are heading to Uganda to train Scout leaders. The country's adult population has been decimated by civil war and Aids. The Uganda Scout Association tries to make up for the consequent shortage
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Driver's lucky escape from crash
A driver had a lucky escape when his car careered off the road in bad weather and his windscreen was impaled by a fence post at head height. Police received a call from a man at 8.30am yesterday to say his car had left the A4074 Oxford-to-Wallingford
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Cash in currency to help charity
An Oxford-based charity plans to turn redundant European currencies into funds to help people overseas. Oxfam has launched its Don't Save It campaign to encourage people to hand in any coins and notes left over from holiday to their nearest Oxfam shop
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Concert cash
Carol singers in Deddington raised £370 for the Multiple Sclerosis Society on Christmas Eve.
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Bike blaze
Firefighters were called to put out a blazing motorcycle in Prescott Avenue off the Fairway, Banbury, shortly before midnight on Wednesday.
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Stay safe near icy waters
If you were drowning in a river the last thing you would want to see was a lifebelt from the Titanic hurtling towards you. However, if you were to fall into the River Thames at Osney Island in Oxford, this might be what saves your life. The Environment
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Ice suspected over M40 crash
Ice may have been the cause of a dramatic accident on the M40 near Banbury last night in which a lorry crashed through the central reservation barriers. The driver of the 38-tonne Iveco lorry, which was travelling north, lost control of his vehicle. It
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Parliament plan 'tosh'
Veteran Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry has launched a fierce attack on the Government's plan to modernise Parliament, branding it "tosh". The Banbury backbencher, who has been at Westminster for 18 years, has written to Leader of the Commons Robin Cook demanding
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Event brewing
A coffee morning will be held at Four Acres, Stonesfield, on Saturday, January 19, from 10am.
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Market date
Thame's next farmers' market will be held on Tuesday, January 8, between 8.30am and 1pm. The market will be held in conjunction with the weekly street market.
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Japanese art
Japanese art will be the topic when the West Oxon Decorative and Fine Arts Society meets in the Langdale Hall, Witney, on Thursday, January 10, starting at 7.30pm.
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Saturday fixtures: Rugby
English National League Div 1: London Welsh v Henley. English Clubs Championship Midlands Div 1: Banbury v Luctonians. South West Div 1: Chinnor v Dings Crusaders. Southern Counties North: Grove v Chipping Norton. Club Matches Henley 2nd v Rosslyn Park
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Saturday Fixtures: Football
Nationwide League Div 3: Shrewsbury Tn v Oxford Utd. Ryman League Div 1: Oxford C v Whyteleafe, Thame Utd v Uxbridge. Div 3: Abingdon Tn v Bracknell Tn. Dr Martens League Eastern Div: Banbury Utd v Burnham. CHERRY RED RECORDS HELLENIC LEAGUE RPM Records
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Partner post
Peter Sewell has been made a partner in law firm Morgan Cole's specialist professional indemnity division, Fishburn Morgan Cole, which acts for major insurers, including several Lloyd's syndicates. Mr Sewell, who qualified in 1995, specialises in professional
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Bus man shows drive
Less than four years ago Trevor Bayliss was at the wheel of a bus. Today he is the new assistant operations manager at the Oxford depot of Stagecoach. Mr Bayliss, 36, was working in the retail sector when he answered an advertisement for bus drivers in
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Publishers fear photocopy ruling
Academic publishers in Oxford fear that textbook sales could decline after a tribunal ruling which means university lecturers can photocopy more material for their students. Philip Shaw, managing director of Butterworth-Heinemann, in Jordan Hill, north
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Family die in gas leak
Relatives from Oxfordshire are mourning the death of a family of four killed by a gas leak in a hotel. Muslim convert Samir Algar, 30, his wife Freeya Ali, 26, and sons Ibrahim, three, and eight-month-old Moussa were poisoned by carbon monoxide from a
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Driver's lucky escape from crash
A driver had a lucky escape when his car careered off the road in bad weather and his windscreen was impaled by a fence post at head height. Police received a call from a man at 8.30am yesterday to say his car had left the A4074 Oxford-to-Wallingford
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Cash in currency to help charity
An Oxford-based charity plans to turn redundant European currencies into funds to help people overseas. Oxfam has launched its Don't Save It campaign to encourage people to hand in any coins and notes left over from holiday to their nearest Oxfam shop
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Man jailed for attack on JR security guard
A homeless man slashed a security guard with a broken peanut butter jar at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, a court was told. Two security guards were escorting Nigel Fletcher, 33, from the hospital on October 25 last year when he smashed a jar of peanut
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Treat for city's skaters
Skaters flocked to Oxford's Port Meadow to make the most of a natural three-mile long ice rink. A combination of still nights and freezing temperatures have transformed the Thames flood plain into a thick sheet of ice, offering perfect skating conditions
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City school given top report
A government inspector has welcomed "massive improvements" at a multi-racial east Oxford school. The inspector from the education watchdog Ofsted said Larkrise First School, in Boundary Brook Road, had seen huge improvements in quality of teaching and
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Fears for future of Duke's award
Oxfordshire's cash-strapped Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme is being stifled by health and safety restrictions, a leading organiser has warned. Expeditions officer Dick Brown, of Wantage, believes the key risk element is being removed from expeditions
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City gears up for euro
Businesses in Oxford are gearing up for the euro in anticipation of thousands of tourists visiting the city with the new currency. Although Britain opted out of joining the single currency, the euro became legal tender here on January 1 and many hotels
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Cancer forces Les, 84, to hang up his skates
Cancer has forced Oxfordshire's oldest ice dancer to hang up his skates more than 60 years after he fell in love with the sport. Les Elliott, 84, has been a familiar sight at the Oxford Ice Rink in Oxpens since it was built. But he has regretfully abandoned
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Three children get meningitis
Three children from the same family are recovering after being struck down with meningitis. Scott Harrop, 32, and his wife, Michelle, 35, had a devastating Christmas after two of their children contracted strain B of the disease. Charlotte, two, spent
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Swifts discussed
Haddenham Horticultural Society and the Village Society are holding a joint meeting in the county first school, on January 9, to hear birdwatcher Peter Gulland give a talk on his view of swifts.
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Panto goose flies in
Priscilla the Goose visited youngsters from a Kidlington playgroup to invite them to a free performance of this year's pantomime at the Oxford Playhouse. Children from across the county, including those from the Robin Playgroup are being invited to the
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Fitness is stepped up
A project to get people walking to improve their fitness and health has won an £18,000 grant from South Oxfordshire District Council. The money, £6,000 a year for three years, will help pay a part-time co-ordinator of walks for South West Oxfordshire
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Treat for city's skaters
Skaters flocked to Oxford's Port Meadow to make the most of a natural three-mile long ice rink. A combination of still nights and freezing temperatures have transformed the Thames flood plain into a thick sheet of ice, offering perfect skating conditions
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Fitness is stepped up
A project to get people walking to improve their fitness and health has won an £18,000 grant from South Oxfordshire District Council. The money, £6,000 a year for three years, will help pay a part-time co-ordinator of walks for South West Oxfordshire
