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Duffy the hero
ROBERT Duffy struck his fifth goal of the season, in his first match back after injury, to keep the Oxford United bandwagon rolling at the top of the Nationwide Conference. Duffy's goal, a curler from the edge of the box from Rufus Brevett's pass, gave
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Driver dies on deadly route
Another motorist has died on the same stretch of road in north Oxfordshire where a young doctor was killed by a reckless driver. The man, who has not been named, died when a car crashed into a tree alongside the A4260 south of Deddington at 3.45pm.
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Dad's home
When yachtsman Adrian Flanagan was swept overboard just days into a round-the-world voyage, he thought he might never make it home. But after 11 months battling fierce storms, monstrous waves and loneliness on an almost unimaginable scale, Mr Flanagan
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Flu trial volunteers wanted
A company is recruiting volunteers for a trial to test a new flu vaccine. PowderMed, based at Oxford Science Park, says that if the trial is successful, the new injection, using the genetic material DNA, could also be used to fight bird flu. PowderMed's
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Drive success
A hole in one at the Oxfordshire Golf Club has left more than just one golfer smiling. The shot played by football agent Colin Gibson at the Michael Lynagh Celebrity Golf Classic helped earn two children's charities more than £33,000 each. Mr Gibson
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Anger at £5 charge for rubbish
Newly-hired staff have been told to stop charging people £5 when they drop off garden waste at the Oxford recycling centre. Oxfordshire County Council has offered refunds for anyone who was wrongly charged at the Redbridge waste recycling centre, off
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Patients' cash taken by carer
A former Oxfordshire care home assistant who stole more than £7,600 from vulnerable elderly residents has been jailed for three months. Margaret Gegg, 49, of St Hilda's Close, Didcot, had admitted three charges of theft and four of false accounting.
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Stuck in a jam
A Wood Farm resident says heavy traffic made worse by the A40 work in Headington is trapping him in the Oxford estate. Peter Bonney, of Nuffield Road, Wood Farm, Oxford, says trying to get on to The Slade from Wood Farm Road at morning and evening rush
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Hearing aid wait is a year
Elderly patients in Oxfordshire are paying out hundreds of pounds for hearing aids to avoid waiting over a year for an NHS fitting. The average waiting time to get a hearing aid fitted at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford is 54 weeks - above the national
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Jobs at risk in Brookes cuts
Jobs could be lost at Oxford Brookes University as it faces funding cuts and dwindling student numbers in some subjects. The university yesterday announced it was planning to make savings in the technology school and the school of health and social
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David drops in
Tory Party leader and Witney MP David Cameron opened new chapters for two businesses, visiting new premises for printers and a firm of architects. Mr Cameron, pictured, opened a new printing plant for Alden Press in De Havilland Way, Witney. He was
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100,000 names put on DNA files
More than 100,000 DNA records have been placed on a national database by Thames Valley Police. Police chiefs held 106,051 different genetic profiles when a survey was carried out in July. The figure - which includes Oxfordshire - was revealed by Home
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Driven down
Oxford's motorists could be on the road to cleaner, greener living as on Friday many seemed to ditch their vehicles for Car Free Day. An investigation carried out by the Oxford Mail showed an eight-mile journey into the city, starting at 8.30am, took
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Water firm hits back
Thames Water has hit back at claims by the Liberal Democrats that the company is failing to manage its water supply effectively. The Oxford Mail reported on Thursday that delegates at the annual conference in Brighton had criticised the company for
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Yobs 'make streets hellish'
Drug dealing, underage drinking, violence and rowdiness are just a few of the problems facing residents who live near an Oxford community centre, they say. Residents said life near the East Oxford Community Centre, in Princes Street, has been made '
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County bucking national truancy trend
OXFORDSHIRE'S pupils are bucking the national trend when it comes to truancy, with figures falling for the third year running. Nationally, the number of pupils skipping school has risen with the unauthorised absence figure for all schools in England
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Long wait forces patients to pay for hearing aids
ELDERLY patients are being forced to pay hundreds of pounds for hearing aids because Oxfordshire's waiting lists are longer than a year. The average waiting time to get a hearing aid fitted at the Radcliffe Infirmary is 54 weeks - above the national
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SEAT out to topple Vauxhall's reign
Oxford-based SEAT driver Jason Plato hopes to end Vauxhall's five-year reign as the manufacturers' champions in the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch tomorrow. The Spanish manufacturers hold a 92-point lead over Vauxhall ahead
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Super Aguri promote staff
THE Leafield-based Super Aguri F1 team have promoted Mark Preston to technical director. He takes up his new job straight away and will continue to attend all race and test events while managing the design and research and development departments at
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Meet the world cocktail king
FORGET swanky cocktails - an Oxford barman has just beaten the world's best mixers with a drink which uses real ale, is heated with a red-hot poker and is served in a tea cup. Tim Fitz-Gibbon was back in work as general manager of Raoul's bar, in North
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Man, 20, suffered broken jaw in attack
POLICE in Berinsfield are appealing for information after a man was assaulted outside the community centre earlier this week. The victim, a 20-year-old man, was standing outside the centre's car park entrance in Greenfurlong at about 1.30am on Sunday
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Man charged with attacking police
A 38-year-old man has been charged with assaulting police officers and criminal damage, after a man attacked a patrolling police car with a piece of wood, smashing a side window. The incident happened in Marsh Lane, Marston, on Monday at about 12pm
