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Key row after houseboat blaze
A man died in a narrowboat fire on the Oxford Canal while neighbours fought the flames with their own extinguishers because canalside firefighting equipment had been left padlocked. The burnt-out boat The 37-year-old, who has not been formally identified
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New church will blend with old
At Headington Baptist Church in Oxford, we want to be good neighbours. Could I therefore correct a subtle misquotation in your report (Oxford Mail, June 2) about our proposed new building? I am quoted as saying: "If we had known that the design had to
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Teenagers win praise for skate site proposal
Skateboarders in Abingdon are rolling closer towards their goal of getting their own skate park. Members of the Vale of White Horse District Council praised the initiative taken by skaters, but said the young people will have to wait at least a year.
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June 6: Don't hold your breath
There is no dispute that Robert Tyrrell was reckless when he drove a JCB into his pub and wrecked it. But there was no point in prosecuting him twice for the same offence. The Vale of White Horse district council wanted its pound of flesh by mounting
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Centre promotes health
Chipping Norton Leisure Centre, in association with the British Heart Foundation, will be holding a free health promotion day on Saturday, June 28. Activities on offer will include yoga, pilates, salsa, aerobics, karate and aqua bingo. Sports training
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Give us power, school chiefs urge ministers
The school funding crisis in Oxfordshire could have been avoided if councils had more power over their budgets, according to education managers. The blame for teacher redundancies and funding cuts at schools throughout the county has been laid at the
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Council faces £5,000 'mindless damage' bill
Vandals caused up to £5,000 of damage at a Bicester sports pavilion. The group broke in through the roof of the changing room in Sunderland Drive, wrecked the interior, and wrote on the walls with mud on Wednesday night. Anne Wilson, town clerk at Bicester
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June 9: Danger on the water
We have seen before how devastating a boat fire on a river or canal can be. A mother and two children died on the canal in Oxford in 1996. Today, we are reporting the death of another victim. People who tackled the latest blaze complained that canal-side
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Church takes lead to fight vandalism
A church has taken a lead in a campaign to curb vandalism and anti-social behaviour by offering to donate land and £20,000 towards a new youth club. The Rev Bernard Schunemann, vicar of St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Littlemore, made the offer in a bid
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Fans hail new CD by Radiohead
Radiohead fans took advantage of Oxford's HMV's special midnight opening on June 8 to get their hands on the first copies of the band's latest album. Music-lovers fought their way past roadworks to reach the Cornmarket Street store and were among the
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Hospital work is on schedule
Construction work on a £22m Oxford hospital is on schedule. Last month, the Nuffield Hospitals Group reversed its decision to name the 83-bed private development in London Road, Headington, the Nuffield Hospital Oxford, after complaints it would create
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Oxon crash in bowl-out
Oxfordshire crashed out of the Minor Counties Cricket Association Trophy at the second-round stage yesterday when they lost in a bowl-out to Dorset. Richard Kaufman The home side cruelly went down in cricket's equivalent of the penalty shoot-out after
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Young ignore warnings
The Labour Party is considering requiring patients who smoke or who are obese to pledge to follow their GPs' advice. Apart from the obvious objections, how many people are overweight or hooked on tobacco as an indirect consequence of having once foolishly
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Swans are bullies
Your front-page story about the troublesome swans at Kidlington (Oxford Mail, May 29) is an example of what can happen when the population of an animal with no natural predators gets out of control. The Queen is the nominal owner of swans. She should
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New centre is open for business
Oxford's new Tourist Information Centre was opened by Sankha Guha, a presenter on BBC TV's Holiday programme. Sankha Guha with Maureen Christian Mr Guha said: "I'm sure the new information centre is going to be a great success." The centre's move from
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Experts help trace family facts
Family tree experts will be giving people in Oxfordshire a helping hand to trace their roots at an event on Wednesday. The county council's Centre for Oxfordshire Studies at Oxford's central library, is hosting the event between noon and 5pm on June 11
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Oxford foil leaders
Home Counties Premier League: Oxford produced a fighting display to hold leaders Reading to a draw in a fluctuating Division 1 encounter at St Catherine's College, Marston on Saturday. Having been put in to bat, Oxford made a lively start only to find
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OCA results check
Results from the weekend of June 7-8, 2003 Division 1 Tetsworth 191 (R Cyrus 92, P Miller 38, M McStraw 5-46), Great Horwood 57 (T Edwards 6-25, R Rock 3-12). Oxford Caribbean 234-8 (E Howard 56, R Mills 46, D Prosper 39, R Burton 33), Hook Norton 188
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Cricket results
Results from the weekend, June 7-8, 2003 MINOR COUNTIES KO TROPHY 2nd round Oxfordshire 260-4 (50ov, C Knightley 109no, R Williams 96) v Dorset - abandoned. (Dorset bt Oxon 5-3 in bowl-out). HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Division 1 Basingstoke & NH
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June 7: Shopping battle
Cornmarket Street, Oxford, looks more like a battlefield than a shopping centre. Our picture on the front page today shows graphically the problems shoppers and traders are facing. Given the troubled history of attempts to pave the street, it will surprise
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Distraction thieves target bank users
Cash machine customers are being warned to be on their guard, after a series of distraction thefts at banks in the county. Fraudsters, working in pairs or in a small group, distract people using cashpoint machines, taking their card and 'skimming' the
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Ace Cyrus on song as leaders cruise home
OCA League round-up: Tetsworth maintained their unbeaten record in Division 1 as they cruised to a 134-run victory against Great Horwood on Saturday, writes BRIAN STANDISH. Del Cyrus (92) and Phil Miller (38) led the Tetsworth charge, although a fine
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Support for young mothers
Help is at hand for young, single mothers in Banbury. Rachel House, in Dashwood Road, will provide temporary accommodation and support for up to 11 single young women and their babies. Resident Emma, 18, with, from left, house manager Ruth Clacy, the
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Bishop expresses fears over assisted suicide call
The Bishop of Oxford has warned that plans to legalise assisted suicides sent a message to terminally ill people that their life had no value. The Rt Rev Richard Harries spoke out in the House of Lords during a second reading debate on the legislation
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Carnival will fill streets with colours of rainbow
The east Oxford community is making final preparations to welcome thousands of visitors to the third Cowley Road Carnival on Sunday, June 15. The live band line-up has been finalised and a spectrum of multi-cultural performers, from Polish gypsies to
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Police too soft on hooligans
Yobs who throw stones at vehicles do so because they know they can get away with it (Oxford Mail, May 14). They were clearly influenced by a TV police documentary last year, when the police caught a gang throwing stones off a motorway bridge. When they
