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Residents return after flood
There's no place like home for elderly residents back in their Oxford flats five months after being flooded out by a burst water main. Twenty-two homes were evacuated after thousands of gallons of water flooded Knights House, in Risinghurst, on April
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Locals piqued at water leak
A village has a new stream, courtesy of Thames Water. It started running eight weeks ago in Cat Lane, Ewelme, and despite dozens of calls to the water company, it is still pouring thousands of gallons of water down the road. It has turned the white lines
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Friday, September 23: Jam today and always
Anyone sitting in the day-long traffic disaster that is the Botley Road yesterday would have enjoyed the irony that it was European Car-Free Day. Oxford made a big effort to mark the occasion, with all park-and-rides free and a big publicity event in
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Monday, September 26: Small price for security
Tenants in Oxford's four tower blocks have had a rough time. For months, they have had to endure homeless people breaking in to sleep rough in the lobbies and families have had to pick their way through drug needles and other mess as they go about their
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Wednesday, September 28: Exercise is crucial
We all want to encourage our children to follow a healthy lifestyle. But Education Secretary Ruth Kelly's imminent announcement that chocolate and crisps are to be banned from school vending machines is not going to be met with universal approval. Claims
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Man gets Asbo for terrorising staff
A man who harassed and attacked Witney residents and terrorised supermarket staff is the third person to receive an antisocial behaviour order in west Oxfordshire. Stephen Sykes, 23, has followed in the footsteps of his cousin Anthony Gibbs -- who received
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Invisible roadworks
Can anyone explain why the roadworks that were due to start on September 19 on Oxford's Northern Bypass had not begun a week later? I travel this stretch every day during the school term, and remember being warned about these works almost as soon as asphalting
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Home provides excellent care
I was shocked to read the damning report on Cherwood House Care Centre at Bicester (Oxford Mail, September 16). My husband has been a patient there for nearly four years. He is quadriplegic and came from the spinal unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, near
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Trial work on bypass begins
Trial work is to begin next week on Oxford's Eastern Bypass where a £600,000 concrete crash barrier is due to be built in the new year. Oxfordshire County Council will start digging trial holes, to access high power underground electricity cables, water
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Thief jailed for assault on oap
A thief who followed an 87-year-old woman home and pushed her to the ground has been sentenced to four years in prison. Lisa Jones, 29, was high on heroin and crack cocaine when she saw Evelyn Roaf shopping in Summertown, on March 30 this year. She begged
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Celebrities support auction to aid fire-hit school
A music lesson with Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood and a trip in a Mini used in The Italian Job remake are among the promises being auctioned to raise money for a school devastated by fire. Parents at Marsh Baldon Primary School in Oxford are hoping
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Police hunt for graffiti vandal
A graffiti vandal has been plastering buildings and street fittings in Oxford with the word "vier" -- German for four -- in bubble-style letters. The tag, or signature, has appeared in Walton Street, Jericho, and on a derelict building on the St Thomas
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Asbo silences noisy neighbour
A noisy neighbour who repeatedly played loud music through the night has had her sound system seized and been handed an Antisocial Behaviour Order (Asbo), preventing her from holding late-night parties. Neighbours complained about Michelle Hamilton, 20
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Thursday, September 29: Power to the people
Three cheers to the campaigners who fought so hard to save their nursery. Parents and supporters were distraught when Christ Church announced plans to demolish the historic St Thomas School in Osney Lane, home to the Little Scholars Nursery. But instead
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Parents go their own way
Parents of children who were denied places on their school bus because it was too full have formed an association to take matters into their own hands. Children from Bicester have been travelling on Oxfordshire County Council buses to the Marlborough
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Boost for anti-knife campaign
The fight against knife-related crime in Banbury has received a boost after the results came in from an operation to see if retailers would sell restricted goods to underage customers. The findings revealed that only one of the 15 shops and market stalls
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Golf: NEWCOMERS LIFT FRILFORD
Phil Collier and Ben Patterson both made winning debuts as defending champions Frilford Heath closed the gap on Oxford City in Section 1. Frilford's 2-1 home victory over City took them above Burford to second in the table and gives them a realistic title
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Regulars fear pub will be shut
More than 230 regulars at a Didcot pub have signed a petition to reinstate the landlords. Customers at the Prince of Wales in Station Road also want assurances the pub will remain open. Brewery Greene King served notice on tenants Don Laight and Julie
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Missing girl found safe
Missing teenager April Vandore is back at her home in Appleton, near Abingdon, after being found in Birmingham. Her parents John and Janet made an appeal in the Oxford Mail this week for information about her whereabouts. They had not seen their 17-year-old
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University unveils library plan
Details of a £100m scheme to create a library for the 21st century have been revealed by Oxford University. The plan would see the Bodleian transformed in the biggest overhaul of a university library service ever undertaken. The New Bodleian, in Broad
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Health services may be cut
Services at Oxfordshire's largest hospitals, including plastic surgery, children's cardiac surgery and neurosurgery, may be axed in a shake-up to improve overall care. As part of a strategic review for the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, health
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Laptops taken as burglars target school
Burglars who broke into an Oxford school stole 20 laptop computers. The thieves forced their way into a temporary classroom at Rye St Antony School, in Pullens Lane, Headington, on Tuesday night or early yesterday (September 27). Staff contacted police
