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Pugh submits fresh Lemon Tree bid
Oxford entrepreneur Clinton Pugh is renewing his bid to build housing on the site of the former Lemon Tree restaurant in North Oxford. For the past two years, Mr Pugh has been applying for planning permission to demolish the well-known Woodstock
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Council fights incinerator bid
A council has pledged to back anti-incinerator campaigners and threatened to take its fight to the “highest authority” if the Ardley proposal goes ahead. Oxfordshire County Council is due to consider two sites to build incinerators in the county — one
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Special help
Katrina and Chris Randon faced every parent’s nightmare when their son Alan was born 14 months ago. Following his birth at Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital, doctors told the couple their son needed an operation on his stomach. At just four days old,
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Festival promotes science for all
A science festival is aiming to take the subject out of the classroom and into the realm of everyday life. The Oxfordshire Science Festival will feature more than 50 events, most of them free. They include 60 Minutes of Sex, a talk on
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City buses update
The Oxford Bus Company has restored a full service to Barton on its City 8 route. The company said it is operating a “good service” of most of its city and park-and-ride routes. There is also a full service on the espress coaches to London and the airline
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Snow: Bus services update
Most Stagecoach buses in the county are operating normally today, but a number of routes are still affected by icy and snow-blocked roads. RH Transport is operating a limited service due to the road conditions. The Stagecoach routes
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Graffiti vandals return to estate
A trail of graffiti is blighting an Oxford estate just yards from where teenagers volunteered to tidy up a vandalised bridge. Police and Oxford City Council have appealed for information after a spate of graffiti in Cutteslowe and Sunnymead, North Oxford
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Gunman raids city petrol station
Police are hunting a gunman who raided a petrol station in the city last night. At about 7.50pm, the man walked into the BP garage in Cherwell Drive, Marston, and threatened a member of staff with a handgun. He demanded cash and then
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Snow: Bus services battle weather
Oxford Bus Company has said it is running a “good service” on the majority of its routes this morning. However, the untreated roads in the city’s estates are still causing problems. A spokesman said: “We are running run a good service
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Clarkson waters down PM apology
Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has watered down his apology for calling Prime Minister Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot" - saying he was not sorry for "the idiot bit". Speaking to The Sun, in which the presenter who lives in Chipping
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Gang threaten man
Police today appealed for witnesses after an attempted gang robbery in Wheatley. At 7.30pm on Thursday, a man was walking along Waterperry Road, off London Road towards the Wheatley Campus, when he reached the bridge that the A40 runs over
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Snow: Houses suffer damage
Heavy snow is suspected of causing damage to two homes in Oxfordshire. A car port collapsed at a house in Hedgemead Avenue, off Radley Road, Abingdon, at about 10.20am yesterday. And 20 minutes later a chimney stack fell from the roof
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Hardly the right time
You have to wonder when schools decided to give up on common sense. We now live in an age where they are so paranoid that some stop parents taking photos at school events, while others ban snowball fights when we get deluges of snow, as we have had over
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Crime proves a gift for hospice
Children from an Oxford hospice benefited after thieves were collared during a shoplifting spree. Helen and Douglas House Hospice, in East Oxford, has been given two Nintendo DS computer games and a Scrabble board game by police in Witney. The items
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Cold war over coat policy
Children had a freezing walk home after a school confiscated their coats because they were not official uniform. Last night, John and Shirley Cooper said they were outraged King Alfred’s Sports and Community College, in Wantage, had not let their son
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Fans flag up stadium veto
Fans and bosses at Oxford United will work together to find a compromise after the club clamped down on flagpoles being used in the stands. Supporters have been bringing flags on collapsible sticks to games for almost two years, but in a recent home
