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Police issue burglar alert
Householders in the Kidlington area are being warned to be on their guard following a night of burglaries. Three incidents, all at homes of elderly and vulnerable people, took place on Tuesday between 8.01pm and 9.43pm. A distraction burglary took place
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DRESSED TO IMPRESS
A satire on Henley's Royal Regatta called Hooray Henley! is the latest venture of the Drayton Players. Scarlett Nash and Elly Veness, both 15, are pictured rehearsing. Former biology teacher Richard Webber, who worked at two schools famous for rowing,
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Weigh to go
GREEN group Sustainable Wallingford had such a success with their first Swap Shop they decided to repeat the exercise and targeted unwanted Christmas presents. So at the Regal centre in Wallingford people came along with things they did not want and swapped
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Last link to open
People cycling between Oxford and Witney will soon have an uninterrupted route, thanks to the county council. Work to complete the last section of cycle track between Witney and Oxford starts on February 23, as part of the Witney Integrated Transport
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Hope for homeless ducks
Towersey's homeless ducks may soon have a new roof over their heads. Their previous home had to be removed after someone in the village complained to South Oxfordshire District Council that it was unsightly. The district council planners said a duck house
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Football: Primmer back in the fold
Midfielder Barry Primmer returns after injury as AFC Wallingford look to consolidate second place in the Seagrave Haulage League Premier Division at home to Farnham Town tomorrow. But fellow midfielder Paul Hannigan, who has missed the last two games
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Racing: Bleu signs off in style
Edredon Bleu, the trail-blazing star from Henrietta Knight's West Lockinge stables, near Wantage, signed off his campaign with an exhibition round at Wincanton yesterday. The 12-year-old made it five out of five for the season with a comfortable length
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Football: City are up for the cup
Oxfordshire Senior Cup holders Oxford City will be looking to reach the last four of this year's competition tomorrow when they travel to Hellenic League Division 1 West side Ardley United (2.30), managed by former City player Paul Spittle. City boss
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Rail link depends on £65m bid
Passenger trains linking Oxford and Bicester with Milton Keynes and Bedford could be running by 2007 if a £65m bid for Government for funding is successful. The money would pay for design work, the modernisation of track and signalling between Bicester
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FOOTBALL
NATIONWIDE LEAGUE Div 3: Yeovil v Oxford Utd. OXFORDSHIRE SENIOR CUP Quarter-final: Ardley Utd v Oxford City (2.30). RYMAN LEAGUE Div 1 North: Great Wakering v Thame Utd. Div 2: Abingdon Tn v Hertford Tn DR MARTENS LEAGUE Eastern Div: Banbury Utd v Hastings
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Review: Something's Gotta Give (12A)
Perennial bachelor Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) has never dated a woman his own age. In fact, if a woman is over 30, he's just not interested. Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson Harry much prefers the company and attention of younger women and is completely
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Promoting tolerance
College students in Banbury have been encouraged to be more tolerant towards people from ethnic minorities. The New Directions project is running at the Banbury campus of the Oxford and Cherwell College. Students aged 16-19 have been involved in lectures
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Great shakes
An Oxford bar has been named the second best cocktail bar in the UK. Raoul's in Jericho gained a prestigious national award from the industry's magazine, Flavour. Tim Fitz-Gibbon, pictured, Raoul's bar manager, was named the nation's second-best cocktail
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Dog attack girl 'will have few face scars'
A girl savaged by three bull mastiff terriers in Oxford will have only minimal scarring to her face, according to a family member. The relative, who did not want to be named, said the girl, six, was recovering at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, after
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We want to help charities
Charities in Oxfordshire are today invited to join the bidding for grants totalling almost $1m. The Gannett Foundation, run by The Oxford Mail's parent company, will hand out the cash to charities in the circulation areas of its UK newspapers. The money
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Review: Oracle Night by Paul Auster (Faber, £15.99)
This is another of Paul Auster's complex, compulsive books -- part detective story, part ghost story; a tale within a tale within a manuscript. Sidney Orr (appropriately named) is recovering from a serious illness. One day he wanders into a new small
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Fit for a president
Why is it that if you take someone else out to dinner, having raved about a place for months, it's never as good as you expect. For some reason this is exacerbated when parents are involved. You spend days racking your brains for somewhere appropriate
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Chef jailed for attack that left man paralysed
A chef convicted of the horrific attack that left a homeless man paralysed from the neck down is a convicted rapist wanted for manslaughter in France. Bruce Hill, 46, was on bail for allegedly killing his girlfriend by pouring boiling water over her when
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Adoptees in search of their lost mother
Joanna Trollope's new novel takes up where she left off at the end of her last novel, Girl From the South, which raised the question of how our personality is influenced by family, and where we come from. Brother and Sister takes that issue and explores
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Lecturers vote for 7-day strike on pay
Hundreds of university lecturers in Oxford have voted to go on strike after rejecting their latest pay offer in a national ballot. Members of the Association of University Teachers (AUT) voted to reject a pay offer of 6.44 per cent over two years the
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Badminton: Derby victory keeps Evenlode in touch
Evenlode stayed in the hunt for the title by edging out local rivals Abingdon B in the latest round of matches in Division 2 of the Five Disciplines League. In a real cliff-hanger, Evenlode won 129-127 thanks to the 20 points gained by Lee Ackrell and
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Football: Thame boss West rallies his warriors
Thame United player-manager Mark West has called on his players for a positive response after their 5-0 midweek drubbing by Ryman League Division 1 North form side Berkhamsted when they travel to struggling Great Wakering Rovers tomorrow. West, whose
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Rugby: Nnamdi set to return for Henley
Henley Hawks hope to have England sevens star Nnamdi Obi available again for their crunch National League 1 relegation clash with Coventry at Dry Leas tomorrow. Obi should return after representing his country at the New Zealand leg of the IRB Sevens.
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Football: Abingdon boss Slater eyes a happy return
Abingdon United manager Andy Slater is relishing the prospect of returning to his former club as they take on North Leigh in the Premier Division tomorrow. Slater spent the 2002/3 season as coach at Eynsham Park, before leaving to take up the Abingdon
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Flashing blades
Swordsmen are among the stars of the Redcoats and Romeos event which launches Blenheim Palace's 2004 season on February 14. The event at the Woodstock palace is the first in a series this year to mark the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Blenheim, when
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Deal time
Here's something that will give hope to all budding musicians -- and anyone who has ever dreamed of getting a band together and taking on the world. Just over three years ago a couple of lads from Eynsham, near Oxford, got some instruments and put together
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Review: Big Fish (PG)
"In telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate fact from the fiction, the man from the myth. The best that I can do is tell it the way he told me . . . it doesn't always make sense, but that's what kind of story this is." Ewan
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Review: Lost in Translation (15)
Famous American movie star Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is in Tokyo to shoot a lucrative commercial for a popular Japanese brand of whisky. Scarlett Johansson in Lost in Translation Despite constant attention from his host, the obsequious Ms Kawasaki (Akiko
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Football: Steele makes a point
Lee Steele's dramatic late match-winner against Scunthorpe may have done enough to win him a starting place in Oxford United's Division 3 promotion battle at Yeovil tomorrow. Manager Ian Atkins was impressed with the way Steele, who had come off the bench
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Rail link depends on £65m bid
Passenger trains linking Oxford and Bicester with Milton Keynes and Bedford could be running by 2007 if a £65m bid for Government for funding is successful. The money would pay for design work, the modernisation of track and signalling between Bicester
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Jobless total dips slightly
The county's jobless total has fallen slightly in line with national trends, but Oxford continues to harbour a higher pocket of unemployment in males. In January, 4,332 people in the county were claiming jobseekers' allowance, compared with 4,349 in December
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Making money from Brideshead image
Oxford has long been one of Europe's most recognisable movie locations. Thanks to the likes of Iris Murdoch, CS Lewis and -- of course -- Harry Potter, in recent years it has also become one of the busiest. Many of us have become almost blas about stumbling
