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FOOTBALL: Mark on top of the world
Oxford City teenager Mark Bell admitted that clinching promotion to the Premier Division was his "happiest moment in football". The 18-year-old bagged his 20th goal of the season - quite a contrast to how the season began for the winger. " I was dropped
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FOOTBALL: City celebrate as Bell strikes
Oxford City 1 Uxbridge 0 Mark Bell scored the winner as Oxford City won promotion to the Premier Division with a hard-fought play-off final victory against Uxbridge at Court Place Farm on Saturday. Bell struck in the 35th minute, latching onto James
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CRICKET: Hubbert is Minster hero
Fifteen-year-old Ashley Hubbert was the hero for Minster Lovell as they started their Division 1 campaign with a six-wicket victory at Westbury on Saturday. Needing 16 to win from the final over, the youngster smashed two sixes as Minster snuck home
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CRICKET: Redknap hits maiden century
Ben Redknap scored a maiden league ton as Stonesfield eased to a nine-wicket victory at home to Uffington in Division 3. Batting first, Uffington posted 156-9, Steve Willis scoring a half century. But the total never looked like being enough as Redknap
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CRICKET: OCA RESULTS
Division 1 Charlbury 184 (R Garrett 85, S Thomas 5-28), Oxford Caribbean 98 (D Prosper 32, C McCallum 4-34, P Bartlett 3-37). Great Horwood 194 (Sam Willett 35, Steve Willett 34, M Barratt 32, R Taylor 4-39), Letcombe 195-9 (R Taylor 95no, S Ridgway
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Oxford City v Uxbridge
Mark Bell goes for goal
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Oxford City v Uxbridge
The team and fans
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The winning team
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Mark Bell
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The team celebrate as a dejected Uxbridge player walks away
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Oxford City v Uxbridge
Attacking full back Leon Woodruffe
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City keeper Steve Smith
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Mike Lyon beats the full back
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Tense moments on the bench
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Oxford City v Uxbridge
In the last few minutes captain James Saulsbury clears the ball off city's line
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Oxford City celebrate after the game
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Mark Bell on the ball
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Paedo verdict shocks sister
The sister of a paedophile victim has hit out at judges who allowed the molester to walk free from court for a second time. She said she had lost faith in the criminal justice system after a failed appeal court bid to impose a stricter sentence on 18
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£2,500 down the drain
An elderly couple who have spent £2,500 of their life savings on pumping raw sewage out of their east Oxford home say a faulty drain is making their lives hell. Ken and Catherine Walsh, of Iffley Road, have had their floors and furniture ruined three
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Camera cash 'could pay for repairs'
TRADERS are calling for fines generated by bus gates in the High Street, Oxford, to be used to help pay for repairs to the road. Each end of the street has now been resurfaced but the central section still needs to be repaired. In the 12 months
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Use busgate money for high street
Traders are calling for fines generated by bus gates in Oxford High Street to be used to help pay for repairs to the road. Each end of the street has now been resurfaced but the central section still needs to be repaired. In the 12 months since March
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Musical messages from the moon
PRIMARY schoolchildren from Oxford have been working on messages that will be sent into space and bounced off the surface of the moon. Students at Windale Community Primary School in Blackbird Leys visited Modern Art Oxford on Thursday where they worked
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Bright future from chequered past
AN 18TH-CENTURY Oxford pub that residents had feared would be turned into flats is once again open for business. The Chequers Inn, in Headington Quarry, was put up for sale by brewery Scottish and Newcastle last November after standing vacant for most
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Lunar tricks
Primary schoolchildren from Oxford have been working on messages that will be sent into space and bounced off the surface of the moon. Students at Windale Community Primary School in Blackbird Leys visited Modern Art Oxford on Thursday where they worked
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Chequered past
An 18TH century Oxford pub that residents had feared would be turned into flats is once again open for business. The Chequers Inn, in Headington Quarry, was put up for sale by brewery Scottish and Newcastle last November after standing vacant for most
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Numbers are adding up for OX5 team
Staff at accountants Grant Thornton have added new members to their team for the rescheduled OX5 Run in aid of Oxford Children's Hospital. The OX5 Run at Blenheim Palace, in Woodstock, was due to go ahead on Sunday, April 6, but heavy snowfall overnight
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Boris 'to quit as Henley MP'
BORIS Johnson is to stand down as MP for Henley "as soon as possible", his team said today. Following his election as Mayor of London, Mr Johnson will talk soon with Conservative officials to arrange for his departure from the House of Commons.
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Boris to quit as MP
Boris Johnson is to stand down as MP for Henley "as soon as possible", his team said at the weekend. Following his election as Mayor of London, Mr Johnson will talk soon with Conservative officials to arrange for his departure from the House of Commons
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Irish aim to keep language alive
A NEW community group is being formed, aimed at keeping the Irish Gaelic language alive and well in Oxford. Posters have been pinned up in pubs and supermarkets and organisers are keen to get the group established as soon as possible. Dublin-born
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Police honour brave grandfather
A GRANDFATHER who thwarted a robbery and a police officer who helped jail a rapist have been praised. Jim Crocker, 61, won a Chief Constable's Commendation for detaining the robber until police arrived. The grandfather-of-two, of Chatsworth Drive
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Dancer sweeps board
DANCING queen Nicole Faux dazzled judges at a national dance competition to win four first-place prizes. The five-year-old from Kidlington strutted her stuff in front of crowds at the British Theatre Dance Association's novice festival in Tamworth,
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Warning issued on pan pedlar
TRADING standards managers are warning people across Oxfordshire about a bogus kitchenware salesman who claims to be working for the "council". The doorstep trader has been peddling knives and saucepans, which he claims are made by the brand Kaiserbach
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See beds of watercress
PEOPLE have the chance to tour the 6.5 acres of the Ewelme watercress beds nature reserve today, between 2-5pm. Experts will be on hand to explain about the reserve and the creatures which live there and there will also be a DVD about the old watercress
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Church wins grant to restore organ
PARISHIONERS from a West Oxford church are celebrating after winning a £50,000 grant to restore its Victorian organ. They learned that their bid for National Lottery funding to restore the 130-year-old organ at St Frideswide's Church, in Botley Road
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Sailing club hosts open day
WEST Oxfordshire Sailing Club is due to stage its annual open day tomorrow. From 1pm until 5pm there will be a wide range of sports on offer and demonstrations of activities such as sailing, rowing, diving and canoeing. The open day will be held at
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Officers will mark cycles
CYCLE owners can help in preventing theft during a bring and buy sale at Watlington fire station today. Police officers will inscribe the owners' postcode on cycles between 11am and 1pm.
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Free compost bins on offer
FREE garden composting bins are up for grabs by West Oxfordshire residents this week in a special promotion to coincide with national Compost Awareness Week which runs from today to Saturday. The first 150 residents to complete an online application
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Open garden
A 1.5-acre garden at Boars Hill is opening to the public for charity. Wood Croft, designed and planted by the late Prof G Blackman, features rhododendrons, camellias, azaleas and varieties of primula within woodland. The garden is open from 2pm
