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Postal strike at end after vote
The Oxford postal strike is over - but staff have pledged to fight for every penny of pay and overtime they have lost over the last 16 days. Mail is taken to be stored at Steventon Storage Facility on Thursday, April 15, while the strike was coming to
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County's finances worse than feared
Councillors have reacted with horror after learning the extent of the financial chaos at County Hall. Head of finance Chris Gray, who has since applied for early retirement, admitted at a best value committee meeting the scale of the problem was "huge
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Cornmarket - all we get are lame excuses
The leaders of the city and county councils tell us that they are preparing the ground for an inquiry into the Cornmarket Street fiasco (Oxford Mail, April 8). After being forced into it, they now say this is the right thing to do. After all this time
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Review: Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection by John Man (Bantam, £20)
As horsemen they were highly skilled, a golden horde flowing out of the East. The weapons they carried were formidable - arrows that could penetrate armour and siege engines that could storm cities. Their messengers, changing from pony to pony, could
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New Brits take oath of loyalty
Sixteen oaths of allegiance to the Queen marked a historic moment as Oxford hosted its first British citizenship ceremony. Dr Amanda Ingham Adler, above, and Qing Ying Huang, right, with daughter Suki, show their pleasure at becoming British The 30-minute
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New Brits take oath of loyalty
Sixteen oaths of allegiance to the Queen marked a historic moment as Oxford hosted its first British citizenship ceremony. Dr Amanda Ingham Adler shows her pleasure at becoming British The 30-minute ceremony on Thursday, April 15, featured music, pledges
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Scenic site to undergo restoration
A hilltop near Oxford once known for its scenic views of the city's famed 'dreaming spires' has been earmarked for restoration. John Hanson and Roy Darnell, of the Cumnor Conservation Group, at Cumnor Hurst Cumnor Hurst, which lies to the south of Cumnor
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Bins shake-up causes a stink
A householder in Kidlington claims new arrangements for collecting waste have left bags of rubbish littering the streets. Under the new system, weekly collections of rubbish have been replaced by fortnightly collections of household waste, with items
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Cycling security
The shortage of cycle parking in Oxford, if it exists, could be solved by converting part of the underused ground floor of the Westgate car park into secure cycle parking. A small charge could be made to cover security, ensuring that one's sometimes valuable
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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 blasZ about stumbling
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Review: The Finishing School by Muriel Spark (Viking, £12.99)
From the Marcia Blaine Academy of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie to the May of Teck Club beloved of The Girls of Slender Means; from the Maud Long Medical Ward, the home to a cantankerous group of elderly inmates in Memento Mori, to the surprisingly worldly
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Review: Stalin and his Hangmen by Donald Rayfield (Viking, £20)
Rayfield charts Joseph Stalin's progression from provincial seminary student to power-hungry tyrant - cunning, cynical, highly intelligent, totally lacking in conscience, prepared to countenance almost any atrocity in the search for power, determined
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Review: The Way of the World (Oxford Playhouse)
William Congreve's The Way of the World, first performed in 1700, is regarded by some as the height of Restoration Comedy, despite its convoluted, and ultimately pointless plot, and long stretches of dialogue which, though littered with bons mots, are
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Bring forward town expansion'
Planning officers want the expansion of west Witney to take place earlier than planned so a new junction with the A40 can be built. The move follows a year of talks to ensure that the delivery of new housing in the town has a road structure to support
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Sign petition, plead asylum protesters
People objecting to Government plans for an asylum seekers' accommodation centre are being asked to put their names to a campaign to send opposition direct to the Prime Minister Tony Blair. Dionne Arrowsmith, who is spearheading the campaign Members of
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Back to the bad old days
There's an old hippy saying, that goes 'if you can remember the Sixties, you weren't really there'. The insinuation is that if you didn't spend the 'decade of love' out of your mind on illicit chemicals, then you somehow missed the point. Alvin Lee is
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Review: You're Only Young Twice (The Mill at Sonning)
'You'd think there was nothing in life but pleasure . . . have you seen the state of his room lately?" Richard (Darren Machin) is warming up for a row with his wife Sue (Sarah Payne). The subject? The behaviour of their teenage son, perhaps? Actually
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Injured teenager foils mugger
A teenager being driven to hospital with a broken arm leapt out of the car to chase a mugger. Abdullah Khan, 18, was being taken to the casualty department by his brother Mahmood, 27, when they spotted a distressed pensioner who had just been mugged,
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Super Sue tests talents
Sue Stockdale's North Pole adventures made her stand out in the Oxfordshire business community. Sue Stockdale But on Channel 4 on Saturday, April 17, Ms Stockdale will be seen really putting herself to the test, as she comes close to drowning in pursuit
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Tags' mar entire road
A graffiti vandal has spray-painted a signature on nearly every building in a city centre street. The mystery 'signature' The name - or 'tag' - which is often dated '2004', or '04', has been blighting houses and offices in St Thomas Street, Oxford. It
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Bridge saves mums running car gauntlet
Mothers and their children will no longer have to run the gauntlet of a busy road in Blackbird Leys thanks to a new £25,000 footbridge. Cllr Gill Sanders cut the tape to officially open the bridge, accompanied by Cllr Barbara Gatehouse and local residents
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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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Author interview: Joanne Harris
Never judge a book by its cover applies as much to best-selling author Joanne Harris as her novels. She is as enigmatic as they come, at odds with the fluidity and warmth of her writing. Joanne Harris While her written tone is engaging, her vocabulary
