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Cameron now favourite say bookies
Witney MP David Cameron is now odds-on favourite to win the Conservative Party leadership race. Mr Cameron, who is 39 on October 9, has seen his odds slashed from 12-1 to 4/5 in the space of a week thanks to an enormously successful party conference in
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Mental health cuts warning
Cuts in Oxfordshire's mental health services could lead to an increase in suicides across the country, according to one of the UK's top psychiatric experts. Prof Keith Hawton, director of Oxford University's centre for suicide research, has warned that
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Anglers land human skull
Fishermen near Faringdon have landed a gruesome catch -- a human skull. The men were fishing near The Trout Inn, in Lechlade Road, on Thursday afternoon, when one of them caught the skull on his line. Yesterday police divers searched the Thames for human
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Pc: I saw colleague hit driver
A police officer told a court she saw a colleague punch Robin Goodenough's head before he died. Pc Julia Tuhill was part of a group of officers in a van patrolling Oxford when they came across Mr Goodenough, 26, driving his sister Susan Williams's Vauxhall
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Gang slash man's face
A teenager was attacked in Oxford by three masked men who robbed him at knifepoint and cut his face. The 18-year-old victim was sitting on a bench with a friend, in a park off Aristotle Lane, when they were threatened by three men with a knife who demanded
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Inquest accuses club of 'conspiracy'
A coroner has criticised "a conspiracy" at an Oxford University rowing club that withheld information following the death of student rower Leo Blockley. South Manchester coroner John Pollard said senior members of the Oxford University Lightweight Rowing
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Solo sailor learns DIY surgery
Casualty staff are giving a yachtsman a crash course in surgery in preparation for his solo voyage around the world. Father-of-two Adrian Flanagan, 44, of Lugershall, near Bicester, has been given medical supplies from the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford
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'school bid to grow is greed'
Headteachers have accused a secondary school of greed for pressing ahead with expansion plans that could force Oxfordshire County Council to hand over £1m from its overstretched budget. Matthew Arnold School, in Cumnor, Oxford, wants to increase its school
