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Inquiry into university security breach
Oxford University has ordered an investigation into how an animal rights group appears to have secured access to the addresses of staff and job applicants. The inquiry was launched as the group claimed it would write to the homes of several thousand university
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Nurse charged with murder
A former nurse has been charged with two counts of murder following the deaths of two patients at Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Benjamin David Geen,, of Orchard Way, Banbury, will appear at Banbury Magistrates Court this morning (May 20) charged
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Judge praises have-a-go heroes
Two women who fought off a thief and held him until police arrived have been praised by a judge at Oxford Crown Court. Judge Anthony King congratulated the pair for their "gallant behaviour" when they struggled with Nigel Paris in Osler Road, Oxford,
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Darth slays them
The waiting is over for Star Wars fans who can now see how Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side and became the evil Darth Vader. There were long queues outside the Odeon on George Street, Oxford, as fans waited to see reportedly the last ever movie
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Left in pain as county passes blame
A woman who was left needing a wheelchair after tripping on uneven paving still does not know who was responsible for her fall. Mary Greenham, 69, ruptured her achilles tendon in April, 2004, after she fell outside the now demolished Co-op in West St
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Stop this parking
Well done to the council for putting up wooden stakes by Our Lady's School at Cowley, Oxford, to prevent mothers picking up their children. Wouldn't it have been better to have put them up in nearby Garsington Road so that mothers can walk with their
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Antisocial drivers
When are Thames Valley Police and the new Tory-controlled Oxfordshire County Council going to tackle the problem of antisocial car drivers? I mean, of course, the dangerous speed merchants, the bus lane blockers and the selfish car drivers who merrily
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Banned 'neighbour from hell' jailed for 28 days
Nightmare neighbour Paul Coombes is behind bars after being caught in Oxford's Wood Farm estate just hours after being banned from the area. Paul Coombes Coombes, 40, returned to Wood Farm on Wednesday (May 18) night and abused residents before being
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Quiet surface is not enough
The campaign for noise-reduction measures on the A34 has resulted, at long last, in a programme which the Highways Agency is due to start in August to replace the worn-out and always faulty concrete surface with a quiet asphalt surface (Oxford Mail, May
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Jail is the best place
You would have thought that Paul Coombes was in enough trouble without asking for it. He was evicted from his flat in Foresters Tower at Wood Farm, Oxford, given a temporary Asbo and banned from the estate for making his neighbours' lives a misery. Yet
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'Wonder Mum' misses out
The Oxfordshire father who was in the running to be named Britain's best mum didn't scoop the title - but says he and his two children had a day they will never forget at the awards ceremony. As reported in the late edition of yesterday's Oxford Mail,
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'Don't reopen stabbing bar' plea
Transforming the former bar area of the Blackbird Leys Community Centre into a facility for the whole of the estate would help to heal the wounds of the past, residents said at a workshop meeting last night. In the second public consultation meeting held
