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Holly gets GB call-up after victory
Oxford athlete Holly Cooper has made an enviable start to her season. At her first race of the year the punishing Ashbourne Duathlon in the Peak District the 22-year-old student qualified for the Great Britain team for the World Age Group Duathlon
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Plan to illuminate city buildings goes ahead
The oldest building in Oxford will be the first historic landmark to be lit up under a bright new scheme that promises to transform the city centre by night. The 11th-century Saxon tower of the City Church of St Michael at the Northgate in Cornmarket
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County centre of FA talks to find new England manager
Interviews for a new England football manager have been staged at a 16th century Oxfordshire manor house. Privately-owned Chippinghurst Manor, near Cuddesdon, south of Oxford, has been named as the location for the Football Association's bid to find
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Council gets tough on personal telephone calls
A diktat warning staff about the misuse of work mobile phones is to be issued to 750 staff at Oxford City Council. The memo, which will explain to staff they can make personal calls as long as they are declared and paid for, will be issued to all staff
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Butchers look down under
It is not just lambs we want from New Zealand it is their butchers too. Faced with a shortage of skilled workers in England, M Newitt & Sons of Thame decided to go for the chop and place an advertisement in a New Zealand newspaper. The family-run
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Hi-tech drive to cut bike thefts
Hi-tech tracking devices and alarms are being fitted to cycles by police in a bid to halt the rising number of bikes being stolen in Oxford. The city's dedicated cycle crime team, based at St Aldate's police station, is also being expanded from one
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Action demanded over drug dealing
Police have come under fire from Oxford's Lord Mayor for not doing enough to combat an increasing problem of drug dealing in Grandpont, Oxford. The area has been dogged by drug dealing recently and Lord Mayor of Oxford Bob Price, ward councillor for
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Almost half of motorists checked found speeding
An Oxford Mail investigation with a speed gun found almost half of motorists were putting lives in danger by speeding in and around the city. We found 47 per cent of drivers who passed us were exceeding the speed limit, with one going at 57mph in Bayswater
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Aston Martin return to US fray
Banbury's Aston Martin Racing team will be returning to the United States to contest the second and third rounds of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) at Houston and Mid-Ohio, following their double podium finish in the opening round at Sebring in March
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Hodge scores top place
BAMPTON rally driver Dominic Hodge scored his best result since returning to the sport last year, at Sunday's Oak Leaf Stages Rally at Wilbarston airfield in Northamptonshire. Driving his Telserve and Redstone Telecom-backed Peugeot 205 GTi, Hodge and
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Circuit seeks supercar owners
Castle Combe's savesometax.co.uk Special GT Championship is undergoing a new lease of life in 2006, with a buoyant registration list and an impressive level of entries to date. One class where there is an opportunity for competitors to bring out cars
