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Get a grip, MPs tell postal service
Three Oxfordshire MPs have waded into the chaos over Oxford's postal services, calling for extremists to be sacked and bosses to "get a grip." They have spoken out as the Oxford Mail today tried to get answers about the state of the service from Stephen
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Fight prompts appeal
Bicester police are appealing for information after a fight in the town centre involving up to 30 people. The incident happened at about 4am on March 28, in Market Square. Police officers brought the disturbance under control and three men were arrested
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Special meeting with legendary sportsman
A running track legend, who put his stamp on sporting history, put his signature on his autobiography on April 3. Sir Roger Bannister, who is at the centre of 50th anniversary celebrations this year to mark his record-breaking four-minute mile in May
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Driver's car attacked
A woman motorist sitting in lunchtime traffic in Oxford narrowly missed being showered with glass when her car window was smashed by a stranger. Pippa Munsey had stopped at traffic lights in Botley Road, west Oxford, in her Mercedes SLK sports hardtop
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Thousands object ot county's future plan
Almost 2,700 objections have been lodged with Oxfordshire County Council against its proposed Structure Plan. The complaints have come from individuals and organisations unhappy with the council's plans for the county's long-term future. Most of the outcry
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Cyclist injured
A cyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a collision with a lorry. The accident happened outside Mick's Cafe in Botley Road near Oxford Railway Station at 12.20pm on April 5. The woman's bicycle was in collision with a Palfinger low-loader
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Cable faults cuts off electric supplies
Sunday lunch was delayed at homes in the Cowley area of Oxford when a fault in an electricity cable cut off power to hundreds of properties for nearly two hours. The Templars Square shopping centre was plunged into darkness on April 4. Power to nearly
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Open day at cancer think tank
Researchers studying new ways to combat cancer are opening their laboratories for an open day. Leading scientists, doctors and nurses will be at the event, called Cancer Research In Action From Bench to Bedside, at the Churchill Hospital in Headington
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Councils will help key staff buy property
Key workers in Oxford will soon be given the chance to buy their own homes with council loans. Teachers and social workers -- plus other council employees in jobs where recruitment is difficult -- will be offered loans of up to £45,000 towards mortgages
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College is cashing in
Charles Young, senior bursar at Magdalen College, Oxford, believes that land south of Grenoble Road will be developed for housing (Oxford Mail, March 26). No doubt he is looking forward to 'prestigious homes' standing empty like the 'prestigious' offices
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Shopkeeper robbed by intruder with knife
A trader was threatened with a nine-inch knife and robbed on April 5. Father-of-three David Griffin had just opened up at Martin the Newsagents in Blackbird Leys Road, Oxford, at around 5.15am, and was picking up newspapers from the front of the shop
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Rough ride in a wheelchair
I spent a day at Cowley, Oxford, and thought it was ideal weather to push my disabled mother around the shops and park in Blackbird Leys. Has no-one heard of dropped kerbs? In a circular route of Pegasus Road, the leisure centre, the bowls club and the
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Retired, but he keeps his seat
After 51 years' service to local government in Oxfordshire, David Buckle is taking a back seat -- on a bench provided by villagers in recognition of his work for the community. Mr Buckle with his wife Beryl on one of the new benches Nearly £1,000 was
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Musician will play baroque at church
One of the foremost exponents of baroque music in the United Kingdom has been booked to play in Wallingford. Violinist Andrew Manze will be joined by harpsichordist Richard Egarr for a concert of music by Biber, Bach and Pandolfi at St Peter's Church
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Waste scheme begins
A new recycling scheme for rubbish across west Oxfordshire has been launched by the district council. District council leader Barry Norton, is pictured contributing to the scheme with the council's cabinet minister for the environment, George Kellow,
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Epilepsy charity expands
A national epilepsy charity set up by bereaved families and run out of a Wantage home since 1997 is expanding its work locally and nationally. The charity is moving into its first official headquarters at the town's Old Tramway offices thanks to fundraising
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Gang rob walker in park
A gang of five robbers ambushed a man in a Banbury park and rifled through his pockets, stealing £200 cash. The man was walking through People's Park towards Bath Road, Banbury, at about 11.20am on March 31, when he heard people running behind him as
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Vanishing beggars
There was a time when you could not walk 100 yards in Oxford city centre without someone asking you for money. But since police started targeting persistent beggars six months ago, the streets have been transformed. Oxford has a wealth of support services
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Man charged with murder
A man has been charged with murder after a young man was stabbed. Police sealed off 33 Roebuck Court in Didcot over the weekend as a team of detectives and forensic experts were called in. The man who died was 22 and was named as Ashley Ward, of nearby
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Five escape harm as car flips
Five people escaped with cuts and bruises when a car left the road in Oxford on April 5. The driver of the Peugeot lost control in Abingdon Road shortly before 2.30am and the car ended up on its roof in a field opposite Hinksey Park. Five people who were
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Knife threat to medics
Paramedics were threatened at knifepoint in Didcot, when an ambulance was sent to Station Road. The crew went to the scene at 1.40am on April 3 after a woman called to report a man had been injured in the street during a fight. But when the crew arrived
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A man of integrity
Michael Hugh-Jones calls for the resignation of Councillor Don Seale (Oxford Mail, April 1). His is the latest in a series of ill-informed letters on social and health care spending and the so-called "missing million". Mr Seale is neither insensitive
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Why has university closed our haven?
Wellington Square Gardens in Oxford have long been a mid-city haven for students, shopkeepers, residents, business people and university employees. Since the city centre ban on drinking has driven street alcoholics from the main shopping streets, a small
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Volunteers rally to save canal festival
Volunteers who live or work on the river in Oxfordshire have come forward to save an annual waterborne event from going under this summer. Festival-goers enjoy last year's event A meeting is being held on April 5 to see what can be done to keep the popular
