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Metal treble
Metal fans will be in their element on June 21, with a raw-edged triple bill of hardcore. If getting down to some serious noise is your thing, then the Zodiac is where to be on June 21. Top of the bill are US hardcore band Nora, followed, in morbid style
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Group courts sponsors
With Wimbledon just around the corner, Oxfordshire Lawn Tennis Association is staging a social evening. The event, at the White Horse Leisure and Tennis Centre in Abingdon on June 20, will give sponsors the chance to meet and knock up with players supported
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Vicar gets historical
The vicar of one of Oxfordshire's newest towns is stepping back in time on June 21, to conduct his first wedding at the medieval parish church in Brize Norton. The Rev Roger Billings is used to conducting marriages at the modern church of St John -- built
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Tales from Uganda
Jack Sserunkuma has been telling stories since he learned to talk and performing since he took his first steps, writes Monica Sloan. Growing up in tribal Uganda, he took on the role of family storyteller from his grandmother. In Ugandan culture, folk
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Dancing out of the dark
A light-footed graceful dancer is a joy to himself and to others, reads a tattered piece of paper on the bombed and looted former dance school floor in Grozny, Chechnya, writes Katherine MacAlister. A dancer from the Daimohk ensemble Even the floorboards
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Cricket: Pace duo are missing for Banbury
Home Counties Premier League Banbury will be without both their main strike bowlers for tomorrow's Division 1 match at home to bottom club Henley. Former England seamer Paul Taylor misses his second successive game because of a back complaint, while Simon
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Tennis: North Oxford turn up heat at top of table
North Oxford made their title intentions clear with a 7-2 win over Oxford City in Ladies' Division 1 of the Wilson OLTA Inter-Club 3-Pair League. Victory maintains North's 100 per cent record at the top of the table, but City's second defeat in four matches
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Fixtures: All the week's sporting fixtures
SATURDAY CRICKET HOME COUNTIES PREMIER LEAGUE Div 1: Banbury v Henley, Radlett v Oxford & H. Div 2 West:. Bicester & N Oxford v Burnham, Thame Tn v Farnham Royal. INTER UCCE CUP Cardiff UCCE v Oxford UCCE (1st day of 2). THE OXFORD TIMES CHERWELL
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Speedway: Champion Pedersen back down to earth!
THE Oxford Silver Machine fans will be out in force tonight when they welcome home British Grand Prix winner Nicki Pedersen at the Stadium. But as soon as he has paraded his British GP Trophy - plans to drop him by heleicopter were abandoned - it will
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Solicitor gets fined £20,000
A Banbury solicitor who misled clients during property deals has been fined £20,000. Richard Carr, 49, broke strict legal rules when he failed to carry out full land registry checks on property purchases on new estates, a solicitors' disciplinary tribunal
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St Barnabas goes Rio
An Oxford church will on June 21 become a little corner of Rio de Janeiro, when its chancel resounds not to the sound of evensong, but the laid-back grooves of bossa nova, writes Tim Hughes. The show, at St Barnabas Church, in Cardigan Street, Jericho
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Newsquest staff take two awards
Two journalists on the Oxford Mail's sister paper,The Oxford Times, scooped top places in the Newsquest Media Group annual awards. Sports editor of The Oxford Times, Richard Tilley, was runner-up for sports writer of the year and David Hall, a former
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Record-breaking show
It's a world record! Head gardener Trevor Wood and the Marquess of Blandford measure the world's longest flower bed at the Blenheim Palace Flower Show. Mr Wood, who has overseen the estate's beautiful grounds for the past 23 years, became the official
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Fire brings rail chaos
Rail services across Oxfordshire descended into chaos after a trackside fire forced a string of cancellations. On June 20, rail operators warned travellers to check before setting off. All trains between Paddington and Reading were stopped after propane
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Gay row bishop calls for tolerance
The new Bishop of Reading tried to alleviate the "dismay" over his homosexuality today as the row threatened to spark a worldwide schism in the Church of England. Canon Jeffrey John issued a lengthy written statement describing his 27-year, now-celibate
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Children prepare for Olympics
About 100 children with special needs are taking part in their own special Olympics in Oxford. The games, organised by the charity Kids Enjoy Exercise Now, will take place at New College sports ground in St Cross Street from 2pm to 5pm on June 21. The
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Printer moves out of city centre
One of Oxford's oldest businesses is leaving George Street to make way for Nuffield College's plans for a restaurant. Oliver and Son, the printers and stationers, is moving to West Way, Botley, after trading in George Street for more than a century. The
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Residents criticise delay over roads
Residents have criticised delays in work to improve parking, pavements and grass verges in Headington. Residents of Lime Walk, in Old Headington and Risinghurst, have told Oxford City Council's north east area committee they wanted to see action. But
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Park drunks intimidate mothers
Street-drinking bans in east Oxford have had mixed success, with groups of drunks still intimidating passers-by, councillors heard. Sophia Bartleet told fellow members of Oxford City Council's east area committee that she witnessed a distressing incident
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Woman 'hurled' out of pub doorway
A woman died when she was hit by a car after being ejected from an Oxford pub following a Christmas shopping trip. Sarah Parker, 51, had been refused another drink and escorted to the door by staff at The Jolly Farmers, in Paradise Street, because of
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Fans snap up Arrows mementoes
Worn brake discs and helmets were among the curios bought by Formula 1 fans as the contents of the former Arrows factory went under the auctioneer's hammer. More than 500 people travelled to the windswept site on the edge of Cotswolds to bid for nearly
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'Take fake notes or we burn shop'
An Oxford shopkeeper was told his business would be burned down after he refused to accept counterfeit cash from a fraudster. When he was handed two fake £20 notes the shopkeeper said he would call the police but the man who tried to pay with them said
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Into Africa
The city turns distinctly exotic from June 23, to celebrate Oxford Africa Week. The well-established arts event brings together a taste of the huge variety of musical styles and influences, from Tangiers to Capetown. And while you are unlikely to see
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Sale of medals helps church building
Sale of medals aids church project Medals commemorating the Queen's Golden Jubilee are on sale in Wallingford to help transform the town's Old Free Library into a church building. Dee Cripps, of the Wallingford Business Partnership, is selling the medals
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Pedal your way to picnic
A Pedalling Picnic along the Phoenix Trail, which runs from Thame to Princes Risborough, is being organised on June 23, by the Thame Better Ways To School group, starting at 11.30am from Windmill Road.
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Capital bike ride
Thame schoolboy Chris Wilcox is planning to visit five capital cities in two days to raise £5,000 for children living on the streets of Latin America. Chris, 12, a pupil at Lord Williams's School, Thame, will spend next weekend travelling with his dad
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Twins invited to party
Representatives from Grove have been invited to help celebrate the twinning of French and German towns. Wantage's French twin town Mably, near Roanne, will be twinned with the German town of Wannweil in September. Grove Parish Council chairman Frank Parnell
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Safe walk backed
An application for funding to mark out a safe walking route for children when a split-site school opens in Oxford should be considered urgently, a councillor says. Richard Tarver called for the city council's east area committee to prioritise consideration
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Cricket: Dimbylow brothers get call
BROTHERS Owen and Ollie Dimbylow line up for Challow as they face reigning Division 1 champions Shipton-under- Wychwood tomorrow, writes PETER FENN. Shipton must do without opening bowler Paul Snell and opening batsman Steve Bates, so Shane Duff and Chris
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Cricket: Shipton boosted by Gillett return
National Village Championship Defending champions Shipton-under-Wychwood welcome back Stewart Gillett for his first game of the season as they take on Warborough in the Oxfordshire final on Sunday. Wicketkeeper-batsman Shane Duff will also be back in
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Jobs in peril
Up to 90 jobs could be axed if an Oxfordshire electronics company follows the national trend by moving manufacturing to a cheaper base abroad. Huber and Suhner, of Telford Road, Bicester, which employs about 170 people, has told 90 staff that their jobs
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Drive to save pub
Villagers are renewing their campaign to get a pub re-opened to save it from becoming a house. They want the Dashwood Arms -- known to drinkers as The Old Dashy -- to become the centre of community life in Kirtlington, near Bicester, where traditional
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HELEN PEACOCKE talks to Oxford don Bryan Magee about his memories of growing up in the poverty-strik
Philosopher's view of his childhood Vanished world. . . Bryan Magee The title of Bryan Magee's memoir, Clouds of Glory -- A Hoxton Childhood, suggests that it could be the self-indulgent ramblings of a 73-year-old clutching at half-remembered childhood
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At the Copacabana
Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl, and she steps out of Barry Manilow's hit song and into a musical at the Oxford Apollo from June 24. Barry Manilow's Copacabana the musical, was inspired by his 1978 Grammy Award-winning song. The exotic tale of love
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Fire brings rail chaos
Rail services across Oxfordshire descended into chaos after a trackside fire forced a string of cancellations, including a ceremony in Didcot. On June 20, rail operators warned travellers to check before setting off. All trains between Paddington and
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Ceremony's sour note
Parents attending the Oxford Mail Boys' League annual presentations in the Roman Way social club, Cowley, on June 19, found many of their cars had been ticketed by traffic wardens. Hundreds of young footballers and their families were attending the event
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Welsh choir plan six concerts for charity
Members of the Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir are planning to return to the valleys -- and will perform along the way to raise money for two children's hospices. The choir plan to mark their 75th anniversary with a week-long walk from Oxford to Risca in
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Solicitor gets fined £20,000
A solicitor who misled clients during property deals has been fined £20,000. Richard Carr, 49, broke strict legal rules when he failed to carry out full land registry checks on property purchases on new estates, a solicitors' disciplinary tribunal was
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Green Belt earmarked for 1,000 houses
Green Belt land near Oxford United's Kassam Stadium is being lined up for more than 1,000 homes. A proposal to build on land south of Grenoble Road won the backing of Oxfordshire county councillors, who say it will greatly ease pressure for major housing
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Cricket: Arnie is back as Oxon bid to kick-start season
Skipper Keith Arnold is back from injury to lead Oxfordshire in their three-day Minor Counties Championship game with Cornwall at Challow & Childrey, starting on Sunday. Arnold missed the agonising bowl-out defeat to Dorset in the MCCA Cup second
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Review: Off the chart by James Hall (Harper Collins, £10.99)
A James Bond-type techno-thriller reminiscent of the old Humphrey Bogart hero in Key Largo, this has aspirations to be a modern Francis Drake adventure, with pillage and treasure spilling off the page, writes Jan Lee. The FBI contrives to set two friends
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Harry's special delivery
Postlady Tracy Atkinson is ready to make sure Harry Potter fans get the weighty new book chronicling their hero's adventures. In the real world, Tracy, from Witney, will have to do without the help of magic to transport copies of Harry Potter and the
