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High wire act
These high-flying workers employed by National Grid Transco give a new meaning to the phrase 'having a head for heights'. Powerful stuff They were photographed carrying out maintenance work on power lines near Sandford-on-Thames. Carried in metal cradles
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Banbury pay price
Home Counties Premier League: A poor batting performance by Banbury sent them crashing to defeat in Division 1 against an ordinary Hemel Hempstead side who were promoted from Division 2 last year. Opening the batting, skipper Craig Haupt seemed to be
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Nifty Nambiar hits maiden ton
Home Counties Premier: Johnny Nambiar hit a superb maiden league century as Oxford were held to a draw by Slough in a high-scoring Division 1 clash at St Catherine's College, Marston. Johnny NambiarThe 19-year-old Indian batsman, in just his fourth Home
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Cricket results
Results from the weekend of June 14-15, 2003 HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Division 1 Beaconsfield 194-8 (66ov, A Storie 98), Basingstoke & NH 195-6 (51.5ov, D Nurse 60). Beaconsfield 8pts, Basingstoke 25. Banbury 229 (52.2 ov, C Haupt 85, M Rorich
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Fundraisers line up for charity
A charity has already received 15 pledges from people ready and willing to turn £1 into £1,000 to fund breast cancer research. Against Breast Cancer (ABC), based at Harwell, kicked off The Power of One Big Bang with a reception, hosted by the Witney and
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Review: A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson (Doubleday, £20)
Bill Bryson's wide-eyed 'gee-whizz' style, which characterises his travelogues, is not to everyone's liking, writes Paul Stammers. While I am a (moderate) Bryson fan, the breathy enthusiasm of the first few pages made me wary of wading through nearly
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Rodgers haul is all in vain
OCA League round-up: Jeffrey Rodgers returned superb figures of 7-27, but still ended up on the losing side as Tetsworth lost their unbeaten record against Westbury in Division 1. Uffington's Howard Preene Richard Tredwell hit 82 as he took Westbury to
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Oxford ace storms to British title
Oxford Silver Machine's Nicki Pedersen came out on top of an incident-packed FIM Fiat Vans Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain in front of a lower than expected 36,676 crowd at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday. Pedersen leads heat 17 as Dryml tries
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Blenheim all set to bloom
Plans are under way for the Blenheim Palace Flower Show. The show, which opens on June 19 and runs until June 22, is expected to involve 250 exhibitors, show gardens, a floral pavilion, a lawn surgery, a plant piazza and a craft village. The Oxford Mail's
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Mail team scale new heights for campaign
Six members of staff from Newsquest Oxfordshire, the publisher of the Oxford Mail, completed the Three Peaks Challenge -- raising more than £2,000 for the Oxford Children's Hospital campaign in the process. The group was part of a 10-strong team, led
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Radiohead soar in charts
Oxfordshire rock group Radiohead went straight in at number one in the album charts with their new release Hail To The Thief as US band Evanescence made it two weeks at the top of the singles chart. Radiohead are all former pupils of Abingdon School.
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Raider sprays staff
A shop assistant's glasses may have saved her from being blinded during an attempted robbery in Oxford. A man in his 60s pulled an aerosol -- believed to contain Deep Heat muscle relaxant -- from a shopping bag in the CostCutters store in Iffley Road
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Don wins prize
An Oxford don, TJ Binyon, has been awarded the lucrative Samuel Johnson prize for his biography of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Dr Binyon, 63, was given the £30,000 award for his "gripping and intimate account" of the 19th-century writer, who was
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Child carers to get £3k pay rise
Care workers for children with learning disabilities are to be given a £3,000 pay rise as social services managers attempt to stem recruitment problems. The move comes after years of children's care workers being underpaid in the county. Salaries should
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Poetry review: Outliving by Bernard O'Donoghue (Chatto and Windus, £8.99)
The cover of Bernard O'Donoghue's new book is taken from a detail of a medieval manuscript showing hares hunting men -- illustrating the medieval notion of the "world upside down", writes Jenny Lewis. This is reflected in the title poem Outliving My Father
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Making castles tell history on air
Marc Morris's passion for castles began at an early age, writes Phillippa Boston. The author of Castle (PanMacmillan £18.95) and presenter of the accompanying Channel 4 series is completing his doctorate at Merton College, Oxford, but was born in Kent
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Pan man pans MP
A trader has called on Oxford East MP Andrew Smith to ditch his latest advertising campaign, claiming it labels him a benefit cheat. Russell Crawford is outraged by adverts being used by the Government's Department for Work and Pensions to highlight its
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Fare increase for taxis
People using taxis in the Vale of White Horse face a sharp increase in fares on longer journeys. Firms are blaming bigger insurance premiums and higher fuel costs for the rise. The first seven-tenths of a mile costs £2.70 rising to £3.75 after midnight
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Runners to race
Runners will compete in a 10km road race on June 29, at 9.30am as part of the Thame Festival of Sports Day. Last year, more than 500 people completed the event, which has been sponsored for the past decade by customer acquisition and management company
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Staff will continue winning ways
A centre which has been offering free advice to people in Wantage for 30 years will hold an open day to mark its pearl anniversary. The Independent Advice Centre in Market Place began life in the town as the community information centre. Trained staff
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OCA results check
All the results from the OCA for the weekend June 14-15, 2003 Division 1 Brill 186-7 (R Oberholzer 51, N Judd 32no, A Sirett 3-47), Gt Horwood 190-3 (N Taylor 61, McStraw 61no). Wit Swifts 177 (P Senior 75, A Williams 34, J Palmer 5-51, C Smith 4-15),
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'Hi' hope for carnival
Student Jade Scarott is preparing a big welcome for visitors to this year's Bicester Carnival. Jade Scarott says Hi About 60 students from Bicester Community College, Queens Avenue, are among those from several schools making costumes for next month's
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More controversy as Silver Machine go down
Coventry 47, Oxford 43: Controversy abounded at Coventry on Sunday night as the Silver Machine went down in their Elite League clash. The Bees, who complained loudly about the state of the Oxford circuit on Good Friday, produced their own dustbowl for
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Night time in LA
What is there to say about Radiohead that hasn't been said already, writes Tim Hughes. 'The best band in the world', 'spokesmen for their generation' ... the accolades have been heard so many times they have almost lost their meaning. Yet while the reams
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Review: Identity (15)
It seems almost obligatory these days to climax any thriller with an almighty twist designed to bring about much forehead slapping and jaw dropping from audience members. Next week's John Travolta in Basic is a film that will keep you guessing until the
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Review: Anger Management (15)
Adam Sandler must be a rich man but he's earnt his wages by serving up some of the most unholy drivel ever put on the big screen. That brutal truth is a real shame for someone who is undoubtedly talented and can act. He showed that with knobs on in the
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Bullying expert expands firm
A former victim of bullying in the workplace who became a world expert on the subject is to expand his consultancy business. Tim Field is so busy dealing with inquiries about the problem that he has quit an office at his home in Campion Hall Drive, Didcot
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Accused of threat to kill MP
A man has appeared before magistrates in Oxford charged with threatening to kill Oxford East MP and Cabinet minister Andrew Smith. Philip Ward, 45, of Bank Street, Blackpool, Lancashire, is accused of calling BBC Radio Oxford presenter Bill Heine and
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Cyclists ride to 'seaside'
Marlon May and fellow fitness fans rode their bikes all the way from London to Brighton and back for charity -- but did not have to leave their Oxford gym. The sponsored indoor cycle for the British Heart Foundation was held at LA Fitness, in St Ebbe's
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Families fly to London to see Queen
Families of aircrew at RAF Brize Norton were treated to the trip of a lifetime when they were part of this year's flypast at Buckingham Palace to mark the Queen's Birthday. As thousands watched the traditional Trooping the Colour ceremony in Horseguards
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Developers told to finish work
A developer has escaped legal action after pledging to finish landscaping work at a north Oxford site. Laing Homes has vowed that wetland and wildlife areas at its Canal Walk development, near Aristotle Lane, will be complete by November. The work, which
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Carnival draws crowds
Thousands of people turned out in the scorching sunshine for Oxford's third Cowley Road Carnival. Michael Mjunguna's face paint summed up the rainbow theme Traffic in Cowley Road and St Clements was brought to a standstill while traders and carnival-goers
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Reviews: Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-43 by James Holland (Orion, £20), and The Searc
Two books about the Second World War are highly recommended, writes Colin Gardiner. The Malta book is an exquisite overall view of the conflict: a deeply personal study of the islanders' endurance under constant aerial bombardment. The Searchers also
