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Hunt buys owl 'to bypass ban'
A hunt in Oxfordshire has bought a European Eagle Owl amid controversy that birds of prey are being used to get around the ban on full-scale fox hunting with dogs. A European Eagle Owl Up to 30 hunts across the country are understood to have bought birds
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Football: Defender Baker fires home winning goal
GLS Football Hellenic League - Purton 0, Headington Amateurs 1: Defender Chris Baker showed his teammates how to find the net as Headington returned to winning ways in a hard-fought Division 1 West clash. Tom and Ben Baldwin, who were a constant threat
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Football: TUCKER SHATTERS NORTH LEIGH RUN
GLS Football Hellenic League - Bishops Cleeve 3, North Leigh 1: North Leigh's 100 per cent record at the top of the Premier Division was ended in no uncertain fashion by Bishops Cleeve skipper Andy Tucker on Saturday. Tucker destroyed North Leigh's six-game
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Results: The weekend roundup
COCA-COLA LEAGUE TWO Darlington 1, Oxford Utd 2. SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Banbury Utd 0, Chesham Utd 1. Div 1 West: Stourport Swifts 1, Thame Utd 2. FA VASE 1st qual round: Harpenden Tn 1, AFC Wallingford 2; Farnham 1, Wantage Tn 2; Slimbridge 3,
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Monday, September 19: Tax relief all around
The Government's apparent decision to postpone the revaluation of homes will come as a welcome relief to thousands of people in Oxfordshire. It makes sense to delay any move until Sir Michael Lyons has announced the recommendations of his inquiry into
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Mum's run to aid her sick kids
A mother whose family suffers from a rare genetic condition leaving their skin covered in blisters has completed the Great North Run to raise money for research and support into the illness. Tricia Partlett with Charlie and Libby Tricia Partlett was born
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Church to host drop-in centre
Plans for a drop-in centre for elderly people have been given a cautious welcome by campaigners in west Oxford. Former city councillor John Power has praised Elim Church in Botley Road for opening its doors to pensioners, but claimed the city council
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Town rallies to save beds
Scores of people with whistles, rattles and placards protested at the weekend against plans to replace Bicester's community hospital with a primary care centre without inpatient beds. Councillor Les Sibley leads the protest against plans to replace Bicester
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Football: TALBOT PRAISES 'TEAAN' DAVIES
Oxford United boss Brian Talbot praised Wales international Craig Davies for his match-turning performance at Darlington on Saturday - and said the teenager is now starting to understand that he has to play for the team. The 19-year-old striker has been
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Crossing welcomed
As residents of New Osney in Oxford, we feel that the proposed public crossing at Osney Lock (Oxford Mail, September 15) is an excellent idea for a number of reasons. It will provide a different and much-needed alternative way into town for cyclists from
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Family escapes arson attack
A family whose home was set alight by arsonists escaped the blaze from an upstairs bedroom after neighbours came to their rescue with a ladder. Neighbours Pete Matthews and Stuart Warner, who put a ladder up to first-floor windows Angela and Roland Perry
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We are already cut to the bone
Even before the £34m financial crisis in the Thames Valley strategic health authority was announced and the equivalent cutbacks revealed (Oxford Mail, September 8), it was the fifth worst investing strategic health authority in the country for mental
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Football: Jones at the double
FA VASE - Farnham Town 1, Wantage Town 2: Two goals by Gavin Jones earned Wantage a narrow victory over their Combined Counties League opponents on Saturday. Jones put the visitors ahead in the 42nd minute, when given too much room inside the Farnham
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Football: Marriott treble in City spree
Padbury Utd 0, Oxford City 9: Oxford City enjoyed a goal feast in their Spartan South Midland League Challenge Trophy tie at Padbury on Saturday. None relished the spree more than defender Andy Marriott who scored a second-half hat-trick. It took just
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Football: THAME'S JOY AT FIRST VICTORY
Stourport Swifts 1, Thame Utd 2: There was joy at last for Thame on Saturday as they recorded their first victory of the campaign to move off the bottom of the Southern League Division 1 table. On the field, this season has been one of almost unrelieved
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Football: Sparkless Banbury suffer home defeat
Banbury Utd 0, Chesham Utd 1: Banbury United produced their worst performance of the season as they slumped to a home defeat in Saturday's lacklustre Southern League Premier Divison contest. Missing the suspended Paul Lamb, the Puritans lacked spark and
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Residents call for 20mph zone
A campaign has been launched to install traffic-calming measures in Rose Hill, Oxford. Ann Horrell, Ed and Lisa Dunn and Claudia Mohun Martin Cattermole, of Church Hill Road, is leading the Cowley Safer Streets campaign, which calls for action to tackle
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Oaps welcome u-turn on tax
The leader of Oxfordshire County Council Keith Mitchell has joined pensioners in welcoming reports that the Government has postponed its council tax review of property prices. It had been feared that the revaluation of millions of homes across England
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£700k cost of free parking
Oxfordshire County Council will lose nearly £700,000 a year by offering free parking to motorists in the evenings and on Sundays, it has been revealed. Later this year, a pilot scheme in the city will allow drivers free street parking after 6pm on Mondays
