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Clothes spark police hunt for body
A pile of clothes and a suicide note were found by a lock keeper at a popular beauty spot on the River Thames. Roger Steere made the discovery as he made a routine inspection of a weir between Abingdon Lock and Abbey Meadow at 10.15am on Saturday. Roger
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It's amazing nobody died
A police car answering an emergency call veered across incoming traffic after a collision with another car before smashing into a row of bicycles, hitting a tree, colliding with parked car and crashing into a shop. Onlookers said it was incredible that
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Lucky escape as fire starts
Two Abingdon men and a woman narrowly escaped from a fire started after a smoker fell asleep with a lit cigarette in their hand. One person woke up to the smell of smoke after their bedding and mattress was set on fire by a cigarette which was held in
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Cricket: Henley pay for dropped catches
CCS Home Counties League Division 1: Henley paid for dropped catches in their 55-run dedfeat away to Basingstoke and North Hants on Saturday. The defending Division 1 champions put down eight chances to let Basingstoke get away and reach 275-7 off their
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Cricket: Birthday boy Luke is the star
CCS Home Counties League Division 2 West: Seven days after his dad, Steve, turned in a match-winning bowling display for Thame Town, it was birthday boy Luke Merry's turn on Saturday. After Merry senior had taken 6-61 in the win over Burnham last week
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Cricket: Oxon through on a bowl-out
Craig Haupt was Oxfordshire's unlikely bowling hero as they won through to the quarter-finals of the Minor Counties KO Cup on a bowl-out yesterday. The big Banbury batsman was called into action after heavy rain had forced the abandonment of Oxon's second-round
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Cricket: Ton-up Woods and Jewell rout Rowant
CCS Home Counties League Division 2 West: Darryl Woods and Alex Jewell both scored centuries as Bicester and North Oxford routed hosts Aston Rowant by 140 runs in a one-sided contest on Sarturday. Bicester's combination of experience and youth paid dividends
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Cricket: Oxford owe it to ace Angove
CCS Home Counties League Division 1: The spin of Shami Mendis and the pace of Dave Angove gave Oxford a resounding 60-run victory over early pacesetters Slough at Roman Way on Saturday. Both Mendis and Angove, fully fit again after various spells out
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Cricket: Top clash peters out into boring draw
CCS Home Counties League Division 1: The top-of-the-table clash between Banbury and High Wycombe petered out into a tame draw at White Post Road on Saturday. With both teams potentially being up for the title, neither wanted to lose - and the tone was
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Cricket: Ton-up Prosper lifts caribbean
Dave Prosper hammered a brilliant undefeated 131 as Oxford Caribbean saw off Witney Swifts by four wickets in Division 1 on Saturday. Caribbean made a shaky start in reply to Swifts' 226-2, being reduced to 34-3, before Prosper saw his side to 227-6 with
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Results: The weekend's sporting round-up
MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP KNOCK-OUT 1st round: Cumberland 104-5 (28.1ovs) v Oxfordshire aband (Oxon won bowl-out 3-2). UCCE CHAMPIONSHIP Oxford UCCE 376 (J Knappett 102, O Anwar 71, L Parker 70), Cambridge UCCE 328-8 (Z Shaif 87, G James 74, G Park
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Boy, 16, killed as bike hits parked car
A teenage boy was killed after the motorbike he was riding collided with a parked car in Faringdon. The 16-year-old local boy, who has not yet been named, was riding the machine along Southampton Street at 11.25am on June 11 when he was seen to lose control
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Technicality costs squadron award
A squadron from RAF Brize Norton missed out on battle honours for serving in Iraq because of a technicality. 99 Squadron, which operates the massive C17 transport aircraft, has regularly flown personnel and equipment, including tanks and helicopters,
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Thousands join Cowley Road fun
Cowley Road was a sea of sounds, smells and colour as thousands took to the street to enjoy the carnival. Now in its fourth year, the carnival has grown into the biggest multi-cultural community event in Oxfordshire and with an estimated 20,000 partying
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Hundreds expected at funeral
A funeral service to rememember "a true gentleman with a Hollywood smile and wide circle of friends" who died in the Eastern Bypass tragedy will be held this week. Howard Hillsdon The family of 21-year-old Howard Hillsdon say they have been inundated
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No new centres to be built -- except Bicester
Centres for asylum seekers in Britain are to be scrapped by the Government -- except for the one planned in Oxfordshire. In a dramatic turn- around in Government policy, Immigration Minister Tony McNulty admitted on Friday that no more asylum centres
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Ideal guests
Tv personality Anna Ryder-Richardson entertained the crowds at Oxford's Ideal Home Show. Visitors flocked to the three-day event in Cutteslowe Park which finished on June 12. The show is becoming an annual event in the city-council run park in north Oxford
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A record run
New records were set at this year's Ox5Run in aid of the Oxford Children's Hospital Campaign. The event, organised and sponsored by The Oxford Times and the Oxford Mail, attracted its largest entry to date, with 720 people taking part, and entry fees
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Speedway: King tony eyes up mauger tally
Tony Rickardsson took a massive step towards equalling the legendary Ivan Mauger's record six world titles when he won an incident-packed British Grand Prix meeting in front of a 38,000 crowd at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium on Saturday. The Swedish star
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Expensive
phones I have a bee in my bonnet about the mobile phone company Orange. I have been an Orange customer for many years and always pay £5 insurance every month on my bill. On May 25, my mobile phone went wrong -- it started rebooting itself like a computer
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Court threat for councils
In the event of another accident on Oxford's Eastern Bypass, where Keith Brooks (Oxford Mail, June 4) was severely injured and the young people tragically died, Oxfordshire County Council would undoubtedly face serious charges. According to the Local
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Outfit swaps boost cancer fight
Women are invited to spring clean their wardrobes, while making money for charity -- and themselves too. The Witney and District fundraising team of the Harwell-based charity Against Breast Cancer is holding a 50/50 Ladies Fashion Exchange at Ceewood
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Cricket: Henley pay for dropped catches
CCS Home Counties League Division 1: Henley paid for dropped catches in their 55-run dedfeat away to Basingstoke and North Hants on Saturday. The defending Division 1 champions put down eight chances to let Basingstoke get away and reach 275-7 off their
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Cricket: Birthday boy Luke is the star
CCS Home Counties League Division 2 West: Seven days after his dad, Steve, turned in a match-winning bowling display for Thame Town, it was birthday boy Luke Merry's turn on Saturday. After Merry senior had taken 6-61 in the win over Burnham last week
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Hope for a spell with JK Rowling
A girl who has invented a new character for Harry Potter could win the chance to meet the boy wizard's creator, JK Rowling, in Edinburgh. Kelly Teall, 16, a pupil at Cooper School in Bicester, believes her fictional character Lucia di Borghes, an outspoken
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June 13: It's time to give it up
The Government's decision to perform a 180 degree U-turn on asylum centres is both welcome and baffling. Welcome because it is a tacit recognition that the policy was wrong from the start, both for people living near the centres and the asylum seekers
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Pupils win praise
The headteacher of a Didcot primary school has praised his pupils after a successful Ofsted report. John Hawkins, head of Manor School in Lydalls Close, said: "As we expected, the children emerged as the real stars. "The report praises pupils for achieving
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Zo's CD proves a chart blockbuster
Ten-year-old singer Zo Mace has reached number five in the official classical album charts just one week after releasing her album Songs for My Sister. The Cokethorpe School pupil, left, is also number two in the classical solo artist chart -- behind
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Jams force busy bus route to be split in two
One of Oxford's busiest bus routes is to be split in two to combat congestion. The number two service from Barton and Headington to the city centre and Kidlington has become increasingly unreliable, according to the Oxford Bus Company. "We have been forced
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Speedway: Oxford skipper suffers as feud
The love-hate relationship between top speedway riders Nicki Pedersen and Oxford Silver Machine skipper Greg Hancock reared its ugly head again at the British Grand Prix in Cardiff on Saturday. The incident in heat 16, when Hancock was sent crashing by
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Seeing red and green
I see that county council leader Keith Mitchell is confused about the difference between the Green and Labour groups (Oxford Mail, June 4). Perhaps an outline of a few of the distinctions would be useful to him. The Labour Party: Began and maintains a
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Doctors hunt reason for transplant problems
Doctors and surgeons at an Oxford hospital are taking part in a study to pinpoint why kidney transplants fail, forcing patients back on to time-consuming dialysis treatment. The Churchill Hospital renal unit is one of five centres across the UK investigating
