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RESULTS: April 5/6
BLUE SQUARE PREMIER Weymouth 0, Oxford Utd 1. BRITISH GAS BUSINESS SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Hitchin Tn 3, Banbury Utd 3. Div 1 South & West: Abingdon Utd 5, Taunton Tn 0; Newport IOW 0, Didcot Tn 4; Slough Tn 1, Oxford C 2. SPORT ITALIA HELLENIC
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FOOTBALL: Powell's double seals easy win
Paul Powell scored two late goals to cap a convincing victory for Didcot Town away to the bottom club in BGB Southern League Division 1 South & West on Saturday. Barring a catastrophe, the win should have secured Didcot's place in the play-offs, and
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FOOTBALL: Banbury draw in thriller
Three goals in the first four minutes set the tone for an extraordinary first half in Banbury's thrilling 3-3 draw in the BGB Southern League Premier Division match at Hitchin Town on Saturday. The hosts took the lead in the third minute when Banbury
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FOOTBALL: Golden Holden hammers four-timer
Absent fans in Abingdon United's lowest crowd for two years missed a goalscoring masterclass from Luke Holden, who scored a four-timer at Northcourt Road on Saturday. Holden's purple patch against in their 5-0 win over Taunton Town helped Abingdon
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Tributes to motorcyclist killed in crash
A motorcyclist who was killed in a crash south of Oxford on Saturday is believed to be a 22-year-old man from Berkshire. The man was killed after an accident on the A4074 northbound, near the Dorchester-on-Thames turn, at about 2.20pm. Police said
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FOOTBALL: City guarantee play-off spot
Oxford City guaranteed themselves at least a place in the BGB Southern League Division 1 South & West play-offs with a hard-earned 2-1 victory away to struggling Slough on Saturday. Desperate to earn points and avoid the drop, Slough began in determined
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FOOTBALL: Away-day kings North Leigh keep up the pressure
North Leigh's impressive 4-0 win at at Carterton on Saturday brought them their ninth successive away win and kept their Sport Italia Hellenic League Premier Division title hopes alive o Both sides had to contend with a biting cross-pitch wind, but
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FOOTBALL: Clanfield left holding on
Clanfield raced into a 3-0 lead in Saturday's Hellenic League Division 1 West game, before Purton made it a tense finish with two late strikes on Saturday With young debutant Gary Simmonds impressing, Clanfield took the lead when Ashley Johnson bulleted
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'Get tough on carbon'
Twenty environmental campaigners, including one wearing a Gordon Brown mask, demanded tougher action on carbon emissions at a demonstration on Saturday. Members of the Oxford branches of Friends of the Earth and the World Development Movement staged
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Miracle moggy saves the day
Residents in a block of flats owe their lives to a cat which raised the alarm after smelling a fire. The cat, whom firefighters have now christened Lucky, woke its owner after the blaze broke out in the ground-floor flat at Florence House in Bath Road
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Wealthy Scots
I have seen it stated that we are the fifth wealthiest country in the world. So why do we have a phenomenal national debt and why does the Chancellor seek to bankrupt ordinary people? Could it be that it is not England, but the UK that is seen as
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Three mistakes
Here are Gordon Brown's three stupid mistakes, which will result in political suicide and the loss of the next General Election: 1. Treating the British people like idiots 2. Denying the people the vote on Europe 3. Putting 4p on a pint of beer. DAVID
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Labour's next step
I wish people would stop putting ideas into the Government ministers' heads. Dave Bond's suggestion for a throat meter, so that Gordon Brown could tax us on how much air we breathe (Oxford Mail, March 28), has got to be the Labour gang's next step,
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Square is not a pretty sight
Letters have been written and there have been many demonstrations and protests about Bonn Square in Oxford and the felling of mature trees to make way for the execution of the new design. However, the one thing that appears to have escaped the thinking
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Stop warring and feed the world
The uniqueness of the war memorial at Little Wittenham must be the fact that it bears the name of just one fallen soldier - to my mind, that is still one too many. Why, in this so-called modern world full of starving people, do we waste trillions of
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A spring wonderland
Little Gracie May Wheeler was 'chillin' with the rest of us as Oxfordshire had its first proper snow falls of the year - in April. Just a week after relatively balmy temperatures for the start of spring, winter returned with a vengeance as people woke
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Unipart profits drop
OXFORD logistics company Unipart reported profits down from £19.4m to £19.2m on sales of £1.143bn. Chief executive John Neill said the results reflected strong performance in a difficult market. The company has taken on 65 new staff at its Cowley
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Experts bone up on grisly relics
Archaeologists now believe a dozen skeletons discovered in a mass grave in the centre of Oxford may have belonged to executed criminals from Saxon times. A team of three archaeologists have been digging in the quadrangle of St John's College in Blackhall
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Dance group appeals for new members
A swing dancing society has appealed for more members to join them in learning moves from the past. Members of the Oxford Swing Dance Society meet once a week in Barton Community Centre, in Underhill Circus, Oxford, to practise their moves. Beginners
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Homeless man ordered out
A homeless man who has lived at an Abingdon beauty spot for the past year, has been given his marching orders by the Vale of White Horse District Council. Last month, the Oxford Mail reported that the man was living in the field along the banks of the
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City election candidates named
The runners and riders in the fight to take control of Oxford City Council in May are drawing up battlelines. The council goes to the polls on Thursday, May 1, when half the authority's 48 seats will be contested. At stake is stewardship of the Town
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Cash is pumped into the clumps
A new wildlife space in the shadow of Wittenham Clumps is one of eight projects across the county to benefit from more than £250,000 in community funding. The Northmoor Trust, which looks after the clumps, near Didcot, is to get £39,325 from Waste Recycling
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Graduates sell business for millions
Two Oxford university graduates have become millionaires after selling their company just months after setting it up. Cousins Kulveer and Harjeet Taggar sold their online auction management company Auctomatic to American website specialist Live Current
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Father Fred is in charge
Brazilian and Portuguese families living in Oxford have been given the chance to worship in their own language following the arrival of a new priest. Father Frederico Ribeiro, from Taubate, Sao Paulo, in Brazil, has been recruited to serve Portuguese-speaking
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Snow thawing but more possible
Winter returned this morning when people in Oxfordshire woke up to find their gardens, roads and cars covered in several inches of snow. The Met Office said the the county had last experienced snow like this in April 19 years ago. Met Office spokesman
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Snow to thaw but more possible tonight
WINTER returned this morning when people in Oxfordshire woke up to find their gardens, roads and cars covered in several inches of snow. The Met Office said the the county had last experienced snow like this in April 19 years ago. Met Office spokesman
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Snow
It's been called off. The OX5 that is - I don't think there is anything else happening in the world this weekend. We had so much snow that it was treacherous underfoot and so it's. It shows you what and exercise saddo I have become that I felt a big welling
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Old masters display talents
SCORES of Oxfordshire's oldest authors, poets and artists took to the stage and exhibited their work at the first Festival of Talent Show. More than 100 pensioners from 17 homes for the elderly descended on the Kassam Stadium in Greater Leys, Oxford
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Snow hits charity run
Today's charity OX5 fun run around Blenheim Palace has been postponed after heavy snowfall overnight. Several inches is blanketing the county and the West Oxfordshire course and organisers said they regretted making the decision this morning. A
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OX5 race snowed off
Today's charity OX5 fun run around Blenheim Palace has been postponed after heavy snowfall overnight. Several inches is blanketing the county and the West Oxfordshire course and organisers said they regretted making the decision this morning. A spokesman
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Mother's dating woes inspire website
A SINGLE mother with an autistic son has launched what she believes is the UK's first Internet dating site for parents of children with special needs. Jane Stooks, 43, of Clifton, near Banbury, said potential partners were scared off when she revealed
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Win, 100, celebrates again
WIN Perriss had a second helping of celebrations for her 100th birthday, when fellow nursing home residents joined her for a tea party and anniversary cake. The centenarian was surrounded by 50 residents and some members of staff at the Cotswold Home
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Burger fans relish reopening
BURGER fans across the city and beyond have been relishing the reopening of one of Oxford's legendary eateries. Peppers Burgers, in Walton Street, Jericho, has thrown open its doors once again after mysteriously shutting up shop last summer
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Cheerleaders look for younger members
AN OXFORD cheerleading group is on the look-out for children as young as four to train as pom-pom shaking dancers. The Strawberry Fayre Majorettes want to create a new pee wee' squad called The Firecatsorr, which they hope will be good enough to compete
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Pupils send safety message to parents
CHILDREN hope a new banner they have designed to promote road safety outside their Oxford school will drive the message home to parents. Pupils at Windmill Primary School, in Margaret Road, Headington, were asked to take part in a competition to design
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Legends' bikes for auction
WITH some seven World Championships between them, Ulsterman Joey Dunlop and Londoner Barry Sheene are remembered as two of the greatest riders ever to have sat astride a motorcycle. Divided by temperament but united by talent, each was a legendary
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City buildings are shortlisted
TWO Oxford buildings have been shortlisted for the regional finals of the Royal Institute of Architects Awards. The glass-walled University College boathouse off Abingdon Road was designed by Belsize Architects after the original building burnt down
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Digging in to save history
HISTORY enthusiasts are needed to help dig up military treasures from the region's past. The Ridgeway Military and Aviation Research Group was formed 16 years ago, but new members are needed. The group, which has 71 members, said the area was a
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Saddling up for 1,200-mile mission
CYCLIST Iain Forbes is preparing for his retirement next month by gearing up for a mammoth cycle ride. He is leaving his job as a global accounts director for an international firm to pedal 1,200 miles in a month. And he is also thinking big in
