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Total crime in Oxford cut by four per cent
Car crime and robbery have been slashed in Oxford - but the number of break-ins to homes increased, despite a clampdown by police. Figures from Oxford police for the year to April 1 showed total crime fell by four per cent. The number of car thefts and
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Cricket: Dogged Airey keeps Notts at bay
Oxford UCCE's three-day match against Nottinghamshire was abandoned as a draw yesterday when heavy rain prevented any play in The Parks. Saturday's play was marked by a disastrous opening 45 minutes when Oxford, 15-1 overnight in reply to Notts' 396-4
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April 14: Far from the worst
Cowley Road is certainly not one of Oxford's most attractive streets. But we find it hard to believe that it should rank as Britain's shabbiest. We can think of many streets in other parts of Britain in a far worse state. The Radio Five Live survey should
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Football: Revenge is sweet for Wantage
Rayners Lane 1, Wantage Tn 4: Hellenic League Division 1 East champions-elect Wantage took their revenge with a comfortable win at Rayners Lane. The Middlesex side were the last team to beat Wantage in November, but there was never any chance of a repeat
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Market could move
Bicester's weekly market could be moved to Sheep Street by the end of the year if councillors give their approval. Public consultation ended on Friday and a report will be prepared for Cherwell District Council's executive over the next few months. The
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Results: All the weekend's sporting results
FOOTBALL NATIONWIDE LEAGUE Div 3: Darlington 2, Oxford Utd 0. RYMAN LEAGUE Div 1 North: Thame Utd 0, Cheshunt 0; Yeading 1, Oxford City 0. Div 2: Abingdon Tn 1, Ware 2. UMBRO ISOTONIC SOUTH CENTRAL CONFERENCE Under 19 Merit Div 2: Torquay Utd 2, Oxford
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Football: Terrific Thame defy massive points gap
Thame Utd 0, Cheshunt 0: Thirteen places and 34 points separated the teams at the start of this Ryman Division 1 North game, but a Thame United side missing a number of first-teamers held the title-chasing visitors to a goalless draw. To the casual observer
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Petition calls for action on danger road
Campaigning residents have called for a dangerous road to be widened as part of a proposed new housing development. Mawema Tshioni collected more than 60 signatures calling for Northway, on Oxford's Barton estate to be widened, if 150 new houses are built
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Italians win bid to build cancer centre
A consortium behind a major cancer centre in Italy has been signed up to build and manage an £80m project at an Oxford hospital. Managers at the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust announced on Monday, April 19, that it had struck a deal with Impregilo
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Bus helps entertain young villagers
A restored London double decker bus is the latest weapon in the battle against vandalism in five Oxfordshire villages. The 1968 former Fleetline bus is now in service with a youth project called Damascus and will be touring Drayton, Appleford, Milton,
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Squat turned into community centre
Squatters have taken over empty offices in east Oxford and opened a community social centre. Offices at 220 Cowley Road formerly rented by a youth charity, the Rap Yard, were taken over by a group taking it in turns to stay in the building to ensure they
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Memories of Morris
SIR - I was interested in your article, Museum maps Morris story (Oxford Mail, April 8). It's not clear exactly which building from the original Morris factory in Cowley has been rebuilt at the Long Hanborough site, but I shall go along to see it this
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Deadly silence
Government secrecy would put thousands of additional lives at risk in a biological terror attack, an Oxfordshire emergency expert has warned. A masked participant in a recent terror attack exercise County emergency planning officer John Kelly has helped
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Cornmarket fiasco: they should all go
SIR - I find it incredible that councillors can not only spend more than £5m on Cornmarket Street in Oxford but can also afford £240,000 on seats. All this while pleading poverty and claiming that it will need to sell £30m of city assets to pay for repairs
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Public get say on site
Public consultation is to go ahead on the future of Witney's prime town centre site at Marriotts Close. There will be a public exhibition in the town's Corn Exchange, a public meeting and a survey of opinions by a market research company. No firm dates
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Help to cement works' future
People in Chinnor have a chance to influence what happens at the cement works that have dominated the village for more than 100 years. All work stopped at the site in 1999 and since then its future has been in doubt. Now South Oxfordshire District Council
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Football: Wayne fails to blossom in Hastings
Hastings Utd 1, Banbury Utd 0: Missed chances saw Banbury United's automatic promotion hopes suffer a blow as their 12-match unbeaten Dr Martens League Eastern Division run ended in Sussex outfit on Saturday. The main culprit was the normally lethal Wayne
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Football: Leaders are made to sweat by gutsy City
Yeading 1, Oxford City 0: Oxford City came away from the Warren empty-handed having made Ryman Division 1 North leaders Yeading work hard for all three points. Sam ShepherdThere was little to enthuse over in the first half hour. Yeading's OJ Campbell
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Football: King sets up Didcot for crunch battle
Bicester Tn 0, Didcot Tn 1: A stunning goal from teenager Jack King - his first for the club - gave Didcot victory at Bicester on Saturday in the Hellenic League Premier Division. The vital win keeps them in with a chance of the Premier Division title
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Football: Town hat-trick bid falls short
Abingdon Tn 1 Ware 2: Abingdon failed to make it three wins in a row in Ryman Division 2, going down to lowly Ware. The game also saw manager Paul Berry, the former Oxford United player, sitting on the bench as an emergency substitute after some last-minute
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April 19: Toying with disaster
It is not the habit of the Oxford Mail to fan the flames of public panic. But we sympathise with John Kelly, Oxfordshire County Council's emergency planning officer, whose task it is to prepare us all for terrorist attacks. The Home Office insists councils
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Arts centre scheme revised
Plans for a modified arts centre scheme in Didcot will go before councillors next month. On May 6, South Oxfordshire District Council's cabinet will be asked to approve the latest design for the centre, with a smaller auditorium, along with a new business
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Treatment wait among shortest
Patients wait less time for hospital treatment in Oxfordshire than people referred for care in other areas of England. In the Thames Valley area, including Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, the average waiting time, between being referred and
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BMW pledge to continue smell probe
BMW is continuing to monitor the paint shop at its Cowley car factory in a bid to trace the source of a foul stench spreading across Oxford, after an extensive Easter cleaning programme failed to get rid of the smell. Managers said the programme was carried
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Football: Hanging by a thread
We won't give up - that was the defiant message from player-coach David Oldfield after Oxford United slipped to another away defeat at Darlington on Saturday. Defiant: David OldfieldThe U's have three games left, and are remarkably still in seventh place
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Wonderful occasion
SIR - It was a sheer delight to read about those 16 people who took the oath of allegiance to the Queen marking their British citizenship ceremony (Oxford Mail, April 16). The occasion, presided over by our splendid Lord Lieutenant, Hugo Brunner, was
