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'What a shower'
A couple who stayed up all night listening to their kitchen flooding after a pipe burst are angry Thames Water did not help them turn their water off. Anthony and Susan Lee, of Farm Close Road in Wheatley, were woken up at 11.30pm last Saturday when
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Cash machines are safe, says Tesco
Tesco has insisted its cash machines are safe after customers said they had their cards cloned at the Cowley store as long as three months ago. Like many of the other victims, Elly Pittick from Barton believes it was a skimming device on an ATM outside
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A year on, without Liam
Next month will mark the first anniversary of the Eastern Bypass car crash, which claimed the lives of four young people and ripped apart their communities. For the family of 13-year-old victim Liam Hastings, of Rose Hill, Oxford, time has been no healer
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Tory goes to ground
Charles Steel, the Tory candidate at the centre of an Oxford City Council election fraud inquiry, was missing yesterdaySat, April 29, his party having given up campaigning and his political agent un-aware of his whereabouts. Mr Steel, a Merton College
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20 inches of water
Barriers, bouncers and a police cordon will not stop some May Day revellers jumping from Oxford's Magdalen Bridge, fears one witness to last year's chaos. But a student who has jumped in the past has urged people not to risk it. The bridge will be
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Job losses confirmed
A cookware company hs confirmed it is to close its Bicester operation with the loss of 20 jobs. Microwise Cookware, which makes plastic containers and utensils for use in microwaves at its site in Murdock Road, is to relocate to Burnley, Lancashire.
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Father upset by 'CS spray' arrest
A father is furious that police used what he believed to be CS spray near children at a busy Oxford shopping centre. Tim Lawrence, of Blewbury, was at the Westgate Centre yesterday (Fri) with his one-year-old daughter Alice when he saw plain-clothed
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Fatal crash: man charged
A man has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving in connection with a crash in which a woman died last Saturday (Apr 22). Lee Bayliss, 28, of Banbury Road, Oxford, will appear before Oxford Magistrates' Court today (Sat). The crash happened
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25 U's fans get World Cup ban
Twenty-five Oxford United fans have been banned from travelling to Germany for the World Cup after causing trouble at domestic matches. The hooligans are all subject to football banning orders and will be required to report to police stations and surrender
