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Take byte at awards
Talented computing students at Oxford Brookes University are being invited to compete for awards worth up to £1,000. The Big Oxford Computer Company (BOCC) has donated £5,000 to sponsor two new competitions for students in the department of computing
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Green Belt housing policy suffers blow
The controversial Oxford City Council strategy of extending Oxford on to Green Belt land has suffered a setback. The extension of the city is one of the council's key strategies to tackle Oxford's housing shortage, with Green Belt land south of Grenoble
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Pedestrians and cyclists using a new path between Mill Street and West End in Witney have been baffl
The asphalt path crosses a wooden bridge over the River Windrush, and leads over the water meadow to a spot just short of West End, bypassing busy Bridge Street. But Oxfordshire County Council has since discovered the short section of track which connects
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Catholic schools out of step over holiday
Catholic state schools in north Oxfordshire decided to defy the county council over the dates of the Easter holiday. The schools were due to open this week, along with other state schools in the county. But Catholic headteachers said it would demean the
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Motorists braced for colour traffic control
A radical solution to Oxford's traffic congestion - which permits entry to vehicles according to their colour and the time of day - looks likely to be in force within three months. Under the system, the morning and evening rush hours would be divided
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County bids to cut care costs
A major overhaul of children's care in Oxfordshire is planned, to slash the spiralling cost of looking after vulnerable youngsters. A wide-ranging review is seeking big reductions in the county's dependence on costly private homes and agencies charging
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Grave concern prompts tests
Unstable gravestones in cemeteries across Oxford are to be secured with wooden stakes as fears grow that a falling memorial could kill someone. Caption goes here Oxford City Council is about to begin work to test about 13,000 headstones at 14 burial grounds
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Parents shun move to greener nappies
A pioneering scheme rewarding Oxfordshire parents whose babies wear reusable rather than disposable nappies has been axed because of poor take-up. Gina Peliti, who runs a nappy laundering service in south Oxfordshire The Real Nappy Voucher Scheme, introduced
