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RUGBY UNION: The numbers' game
Wallingford went up through the gears after half-time as Witney were left stranding. Here is the numbers' game. See Tuesday's paper for full report. Competition: Southern Counties North Score: Witney 10, Wallingford 41 Witney player ratings.
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Springing up early
SPRING has sprung early in Oxfordshire according to The Woodland Trust. The trust, which runs more than 20 sites in the county, has received thousands of sightings of frogspawn, tadpoles, butterflies, catkins and snowdrops. In Oxford, scores of nest-building
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Landlord calls for community backing
THE licensee of an Oxford pub has warned the local community that if they do not start using the pub more it will be turned into flats. Brian Minns, licensee of The Cavalier in Copse Lane, Northway, has become so frustrated with the decline in trade
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Oxford Utd 3, Histon 0 (09/02)
Goalkeeper Billy Turley saved two penalties and Matt Green hit a brace as Darren Patterson's team recorded their first win in six matches with an impressive performance at the Kassam Stadium. In truth, both Histon's penalties were weak efforts, but
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Guiding star
An Oxford teenager has been chosen ahead of hundreds of other girls to attend the International Guide Camp this summer. Danielle Ridge-Collins, 15, has become the first girl in the 40 year history of the 1st Barton Guides to be chosen to attend the
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Artist voted Open's champ
Almost 2,000 people cast their vote to choose their favourite piece of artwork in an innovative exhibition in Oxford. As part of the Oxford Open, an exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, Pembroke Street, more than 500 pieces of work were submitted by various
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Be a local's hero
The licensee of an Oxford pub has warned the local community that if they do not start using the pub more it will be turned into flats. Brian Minns, licensee of The Cavalier in Copse Lane, Northway, has become so frustrated with the decline in trade
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Springing up early
Spring has sprung early in Oxfordshire, leading to more speculation about the impact of climate change on the natural world. The Woodland Trust - which runs more than 20 sites in the county - has received thousands of sightings of frogspawn, tadpoles
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Fire breaks out at care home
FIREFIGHTERS were called after a fire broke out in an elderly people's care home last night. Two crews from Rewley Road and Abingdon attended the scene after an elderly man accidentally set fire to a chair in the ground floor lounge of the Mon Choisy
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Alert issued on bogus shopping scam
TRADING standards officers today warned elderly people in Oxfordshire to beware of a bogus shopping scam. The alert comes after incidents in Wantage and Henley involving telephone calls from someone claiming to work for South Oxfordshire District Council
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Fire breaks out at care home
Firefighters were called after a fire broke out in an elderly people's care home last night. Two crews from Rewley Road and Abingdon attended the scene after an elderly man accidentally set fire to a chair in the ground floor lounge of the Mon Choisy
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Rally Sweden: Solberg fifth after first day
BANBURY'S Subaru World Rally Team driver Petter Solberg and Phil Mills finished a treacherous first day of the Swedish Rally in a solid fifth overall. Team-mates Chris Atkinson and Stéphane Prévot were early victims to the challenging conditions when
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Cancer patient backs couple's fight
STEPHEN Dallison, of Iffley Road, Oxford, started using Sunitinib this week and hopes his condition will improve within the next three months. The 33-year-old physicist, who works at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Didcot, was given 12 months
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Cancer treatment refused
CANCER patient Martyn Sumner was left devastated after health officials turned down his latest pleas for a life-extending drug. Mr Sumner is suffering from terminal kidney cancer and wants Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust to prescribe him Sunitinib,
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Les get third nomination
A BICESTER councillor has won the nomination for the third time to become Labour's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for the Banbury constituency. Les Sibley was delighted to win the overwhelming backing of local party members, and will now fight
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'Convert home into garage'
A JUDGE has ordered an Oxford residents' association officer to gut an illegally-built bungalow and turn it into a garage - which it was meant to be in the first place. Old Marston Residents' Association secretary Nigel Cowell, of Mill Lane, Marston
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MP joins lakes debate
MP Dr Evan Harris will be at a public meeting today to support the campaign to save the Radley Lakes. The meeting, organised by group Save Radley Lakes, will be held at 2pm in the Guildhall in Abbey Close. The MP will be joined by representatives
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Pints all round for the champions
Let no-one dispute that the regulars at the Bullnose Morris pub at Blackbird Leys, Oxford, are champion fundraisers. They have organised money-spinning events and dipped their hands in their pockets, again and again, to raise a staggering £10,000 in
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'Save my post office'
BRENDA Horwood can still remember the first time she skipped up the street as a six-year-old to buy stamps at Grandpont Post Office in 1928. Now 86, the Marlborough Road resident lives in the same house she set off from 80 years ago, and has no intention
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Parking problems hitting traders
CARS blocking a service road alongside an Oxford shopping parade have left traders fearing for their businesses. Owners of the shops in Cherwell Drive, Marston, blame Oxfordshire County Council for not enforcing a three-hour waiting limit in the road
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Safety class for business
BUSINESSES can get subsidised health and safety training at a special course being run by South Oxfordshire District Council at its HQ in Crowmarsh on Thursday, February 14. The course covers risk assessment, manual handling, working at height and
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Warning
Nigel Cowell may have acted with the best of intentions when he built a bungalow for a sick friend. But he must have known he was heading for trouble because he had planning permission for only a garage. Rather than accept the inevitable, he insisted
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FOOTBALL: Patto: There's a lot to play for
Boss Darren Patterson has rejected any notion that Oxford United's remaining games this season are meaningless because they have little chance of going up or down. He says United's players are playing for their futures - and that's why he expects there
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School cash
YOUNGSTERS from Little Milton primary school have helped raise £470 to send to pupils in South Africa. Children and staff raised the cash to help their twin school in South Africa build a new sick bay, with a series of events including a pyjama day
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Youth club reunion to remember Plum
AN OXFORD man is calling on childhood friends to take a step down memory lane. Bob Light, 65, from Headington, has organised a reunion for former members of Plum Brown's Barton Youth Club, which closed in the mid-1960s. The club, which ran football
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Farm museum hosts sale
THE charity Against Breast Cancer is holding a Valentine sale of jewellery and crafts at the visitor centre of Cogges Manor Farm Museum, Witney, tomorrow, from 11am to 3pm.
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Petition gets new goalposts in park
A COMMUNITY is celebrating after scoring a victory to get back football goalposts in a park. Dozens of children were disappointed when Oxford City Council removed the posts from the park, in Valentia Road, Headington, in October, after an inspection
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Bullnose regulars save the day
Regulars at an Oxford pub have saved a charity for disabled workers with a year of fundraising. Drinkers at the Bullnose Morris pub in Cuddesdon Way, Blackbird Leys, have "tipped the balance" in favour of the Pathway Workshop so that it is no longer
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More pubs call for end to smoking ban
A LANDLADY has spoken out against the smoking ban, which she says is stubbing out her trade. Sandra Brown, 53, who manages The Plough, in High Street, Long Wittenham, said the future looked bleak for the village's only pub since the July 1 ban on smoking
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UPDATE: Cancer drug - I support Sumners
Stephen Dallison, of Iffley Road, Oxford, started using Sunitinib this week and hopes his condition will improve within the next three months. The 33-year-old physicist, who works at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, near Didcot, was given 12 months
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Cancer drug refused: But we'll keep fighting
Dying cancer patient Martyn Sumner was last night left devastated after health officials turned down his latest pleas for a life-extending drug. Mr Sumner is suffering from terminal kidney cancer and wants Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust to prescribe
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Hip to be square
THE cream of Oxfordshire's professional dancers are set to make an exhibition of themselves when they perform an unusual show. As part of the Oxford Open exhibition, at Modern Art Oxford, Pembroke Street, a troupe of dancers will be taking part in
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Vigil date
A VIGIL has been organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, in Cornmarket Street, Oxford, to protest against Israel's military and economic blockade of Gaza today from 11.30am to 12.30pm.
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Tributes paid to Lord Lieutenant
TRIBUTES have been paid to Hugo Brunner who is stepping down after 12 years as Oxfordshire's Lord Lieutenant. Since being appointed as the Queen's representative in Oxfordshire in 1996, Mr Brunner has been a central figure in practically every royal
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Help save pubs
A CAMPAIGN to highlight the number of pubs going out of business will begin later this month. Camra, the Campaign for Real Ale, says research has revealed up to 56 are closing every month across the UK - with more than 1,000 under threat of closure
