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City threatens to pull events
Oxford City Council is considering stopping 'directly providing events' - such as policing May Day morning and organising the Lord Mayor's Parade - in a bid to save money. The authority is trying to cut more than £5m from next year's budget. Although
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RUGBY UNION: The numbers' game
Oxford Harlequins upset the odds to defeat local rivals Chinnor and knock them off top spot. Here is the numbers' game. See Tuesday's paper for full report. Competition: South West 1 Score: Oxford Harlequins 29, Chinnor 15 Oxford Harlequins player
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Festival off to a flying start
Ticket sales have started briskly for the Oxford Mail and Phoenix Cinema's Christmas film festival. The Golden Years Christmas Film Festival, which starts on Monday, December 17 and runs until the following Friday, is aimed specifically at people over
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Strikers who can score goals!
New loan strikers Matt Green and Ashley Barnes scored a goal in each half as Oxford United won 2-0 at Kidderminster on Saturday to make it three games unbeaten for Darren Patterson. In a tempestuous match, Harriers had Jason Constable sent off and U's
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Anti-fascists plan to target Oxford Union
MORE than 1,000 people are expected to descend on Oxford Union's Free Speech Forum on Monday, following its decision to invite a Holocaust denier and the BNP leader. Weyman Bennett, national secretary of pressure group Unite Against Fascism has compared
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Kidderminster 0, Oxford Utd 2 (24/11)
Loan strikers Matt Green and Ashley Barnes both scored on their debuts as Oxford United won an explosive Blue Square Premier game at Aggborough on Saturday. Both teams played the whole of the second half with ten men after having a man sent off, and
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Teen criminal is now a role model
A FORMER troublemaker has turned his life around to become a role model for young people in Oxford. Jamie Bourton spent four years hanging around Rose Hill with his friends, where they indulged in drink, drugs and petty vandalism. Mr Bourton was
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Anti-fascists threat to target Oxford Union
MORE than 1,000 people are expected to descend on Oxford Union's Free Speech Forum on Monday, following its decision to invite a Holocaust denier and the BNP leader. Weyman Bennett, national secretary of pressure group Unite Against Fascism has compared
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Union votes for free speech
OXFORD Union members have voted in favour of allowing BNP leader Nick Griffin and Holocaust denier David Irving to attend its Free Speech Forum. More than a thousand union members backed a motion to support invitations made to the controversial figures
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City cab plates sell for up to £70,000
TAXI licences are so scarce in Oxford they are changing hands for up to £70,000 a plate. But cabbies fear a city council plan to abolish the limit on taxi numbers would leave them bankrupt. Meanwhile, drivers in the north of the county are mulling
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Iraq veteran heads to Afghanistan
AFTER more than six months under fire in the heart of the Iraq conflict, Lance Corporal Chris Hutchinson could be forgiven for wanting to take it easy. The brave 25-year-old has seen his best friend shot and other close pals in 4 Rifles killed in bloody
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Day of celebration for lights switch-on
LORD Mayor John Tanner is set to switch on Oxford's Christmas lights in Broad Street today. A festive market and street performers have been booked for the showcase event, with the lights turned on at 6pm. Oxford City Council said it had not approached
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Man burned in gas blaze
A MAN needed hospital treatment for burns after two propane gas cylinders caught fire. Twenty-five firefighters were called to the blaze in Thame Road, Towersey, at 5pm yesterday. A spokesman for Oxfordshire Fire Service said: "The man suffered
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'Half of children have been bullied'
MORE than half of Oxfordshire's children and young people say they have been bullied. The figure was revealed in a survey released at a conference on bullying held at Oxford United's Kassam Stadium. Of the 6,539 young people who took part in the
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Home rescued from drugs squalor
CRACK pipes, heroin needles and drug paraphernalia litter the inside of a house at Bernwood Road, in Barton, Oxford. For up to ten years the neglected house has been a refuge for dealers and users and the cause of misery and intimidation for its neighbours
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Schools pool brains for science quiz
PUPILS from state and independent schools are uniting to take part in a University Challenge-style science quiz. Following the quiz at St Edward's School, in Woodstock Road, Oxford, today, the children will hear Oxford University academic Prof Richard
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Children take on grown-up roles
CHILDREN across the county took on the roles of adults as part of the 11 Million Takeover Day. Role reversals across Oxfordshire saw children becoming teachers, hospital workers and even police community support officers. The aim of the day, which
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Hand-held key to road safety
NEW technology developed by a butterfly enthusiast is being used by Oxford schoolchildren to cut road accidents. And WildKey, the company behind the program, hopes it will eventually allow pupils to get their lessons via mobile phones. Pupils at
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Artist shortlisted for book award
AN Oxford artist who fled Sri Lanka at the age of ten has been shortlisted for one of Britain's main book awards. Roma Tearne, of Jericho, this year published her first novel, Mosquito, based on her experiences during her homeland's civil war in the
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City bazaar
AUTHOR Colin Dexter, the creator of Inspector Morse, will be opening a bazaar in Headington today. Mr Dexter will open the All Saints Bazaar at Church House, in New High Street, Headington at 11am.
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New York inspires artist's work
AN ARTIST'S exhibition has been inspired by the urban surroundings of New York. The show, called City Limits, by Banbury artist Christine O'Sullivan at Oxford Castle's 03 gallery, features a collection of canvasses combining strong colours and lines
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Volunteers reopen village shop
LESS than three weeks after a village shop closed the doors have reopened after a "fantastic" community effort. A team of 40 volunteers has come forward to run the Village Stores at Wootton, near Woodstock. The village's 600 residents have also managed
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Football failure 'will cost £4m'
THE England football team's humiliating exit from the Euro 2008 Championships could cost the county's economy £4m. That is the view of Oxfordshire Chamber of Commerce board member Keith Slater after he surveyed the loss of income for sports shops,
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New-look nightclub scents success
THE city's biggest nightclub has given a preview of what it will look like - and smell like - following a £500,000 refurbishment. Park End, in Park End Street, will be relaunched as a Lava Ignite club on Friday, once building work has finished. The
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Gold plated cab licences
Lucrative black cab licences are so scarce in Oxford they are changing hands for up to £70,000 a plate. But cabbies fear a city council plan to abolish the limit on taxi numbers would leave them bankrupt. Meanwhile, drivers in the north of the county
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Fair deal for all in taxi war
The taxi business in Oxford is clearly a very lucrative one. So much so that black cab licences are said to be changing hands at up to £70,000 each. With such huge figures, it is hardly surprising that cabbies are reluctant to see any changes in the
