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A34 crash 'not a major incident'
A motoring organisation is calling for the A34 to be brought up to motorway standards as county planners admit there are no emergency procedures to deal with yesterday's gridlock on roads around Oxford. Police and emergency workers at the scene of yesterday's
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You're driving us out of city
SIR -- Parking in Oxford is forcing everyone to stay away. I am a keen supporter of our city's performing arts and for the last three years, have tried to attend performances at the Playhouse in Beaumont Street at least once a month. The Playhouse needs
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Shopkeepers' church memorial unveiled
A memorial sculpture dedicated to two shopkeepers has been unveiled in an Oxford churchyard. Canon Richard Lea, vicar of St Mary's Church in Church Lane, Iffley, dedicated the sculpture on Sunday. The stone memorial, entitled the Gibbs Memorial, was created
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Don waives fee to take part in movie
When Hollywood director Oliver Stone asked Robin Lane Fox to name his price for helping to bring Alexander the Great to the big screen, the Oxford historian had his answer ready. After a lifetime pursuing Alexander in ancient texts and military histories
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At their convenience
SIR -- County council leader Keith Mitchell tells us he would be "very tempted" to break the law to continue foxhunting (Oxford Mail, November 19). Tories, traditionally seen as a party of law and order, have a strange fixation in defying the law to suit
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North Oxford bucks house price trend
House prices in Oxford may have stopped rising -- and in some areas actually started falling -- but one area of the city is still a "hot spot." Competition is so fierce for luxury homes in parts of north Oxford that prospective buyers need to be 'in the
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Musician fights drink-drive sentence
A musician caught drink driving after a morris dancing festival failed to get his conviction quashed. David Simms, 39, of Blake Road, Bicester, blamed several factors for failing a breathalyser test in May 2002 -- including the paste he used to fit his
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Benji's starring role pulls in Chox cash
An opera starring a schoolboy who persuaded surgeons to let him leave hospital in time to audition for his part has raised £27,000 for the Oxford Children's Hospital Campaign. Benji CompstonThe professional production held at Summer Fields School, north
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Scooter trip studies hurdles for disabled
The chief executive of Oxford city centre management company OX1 took a trip on a motorised scooter to see how traders could improve access for disabled people. Bill McCardle borrowed an electric scooter from the city council-run Shopmobility scheme to
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Days of the gentry are over
SIR -- It appears that Peter Matthews (Oxford Mail, December 4), among others, is unhappy with the decision of the House of Commons to enact the Parliament Act to ensure the ban on foxhunting was introduced, as promised by the Labour Party. May I remind
