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RESULTS: February 28-March 1
FOOTBALL BLUE SQUARE PREMIER Oxford Utd 0, Torquay Utd 2. BRITISH GAS BUSINESS SOUTHERN LEAGUE Premier Div: Farnborough 1, Banbury Utd 0; Rugby Tn 1, Oxford City 1. Div 1 South & West: Didcot Tn 3, Paulton Rov 0; North Leigh 2, Gosport Borough
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GREYHOUNDS: Oxford results
SATURDAY’S RESULTS 7.35: 1 FRAGRANT ROSE 4-1, 2 Fane Cracker 7-4 fav. Trio: (3x6x2). Trainer: A Kibble. Time: 27.67. 7.51: 1 NORTHEVEN BLUE 6-1, 2 Penn Razle 6-4 fav. Trio: (1x5x2). Trainer: T Kibble. Time: 27.31. 8.07: 1 LISKEE DIRECT 11-4, 2 Broad-acres
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FOOTBALL: North Leigh face United
Holders North Leigh have been drawn against Oxford United in the Oxfordshire Senior Cup semi-finals. Banbury United face Oxford City in the other semi-final. Dates and venues are to be arranged.
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Curtain goes up on Pegasus Theatre designs
A vision of what the refurbished Pegasus Theatre in East Oxford will look like has been presented at a special event at the theatre. The first phase of a multi-million-pound revamp of the Magdalen Road theatre has now been completed, with the major construction
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Recession 'won't halt £150m Didcot extension plan'
Community leaders have welcomed news that a £150m extension of Didcot town centre could be complete as early as 2013. Council bosses said they are on target to complete the redevelopment, which will double the size of the existing town centre to the
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Win a diamond necklace in art contest
The gauntlet has been thrown down for one budding young artist to win his or her mother a diamond necklace. Children are being invited to draw or paint a picture of their mum as part of a Mother’s Day competition organised by jewellery store Biagio.
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Restaurateur wins Bangladeshi book honour
A Bicester restauranteur has made it on to the pages of a 'who’s who' of British Bangladeshis. Shukur Ali, who owns and runs Jaflong in the Market Square, was delighted to get an entry in the book. The book is compiled to honour prominent and successful
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Hundreds sign petition for hospital
Hundreds of people showed their desire to keep a hospital in Bicester after campaigners launched a fresh petition. Health officials want to replace the town’s 12-bed hospital in Oxford Road with a primary care centre without inpatient beds.
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Nightclub told to improve after violence on premises
An Oxford nightspot has been told to clean up its act following outbreaks of violence. Police ordered Kukui, in Park End Street, to attend a licence review just six months after it opened following 22 reports of crime including two “glassing
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FOOTBALL: McMahon sees red as Witney promotion bid hits the buffers
Almondsbury Tn 4 (Andrews 10, 73 Kabba 70, Chenoweth 80) Witney Utd 2 (JP Mills 44, Thompson 90) Witney United’s outside title hopes appear to be over after they crashed to defeat against nine-man Almondsbury in the Premier Division
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FOOTBALL: Unlucky Headington denied at the death
Headington Amateurs 0 Tytherington Rocks 1 (Greenland 90) An injury time winner from Mark Greenland condemned Headington to defeat in Division 1 West. Luke Cuff should have put Headington ahead in the first half, but shot wide after clever interplay
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FOOTBALL: Quickfire blitz boosts Didcot
Didcot Tn 3 (Roach 33, Brown 35, King 44) Paulton Rovers 0 DIDCOT’S play-off push gained momentum with this victory against fellow hopefuls Paulton in Division 1 South & West. There was not much between the two sides, except for an 11-minute spell
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FOOTBALL: McCabe and Hope seal it
North Leigh 2 (Hope 79, McCabe 90) Gosport Boro 1 (O’Neill 57) LATE goals from Liam Hope and Andy McCabe secured North Leigh all three points in Division 1 South & West. After undeservedly falling behind, superb strikes from Hope and McCabe, in stoppage
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FOOTBALL: Pond makes a point for City
Rugby Tn 1 (Musgrove pen 32) Oxford City 1 (Pond 37) Darren Pond was the hero and villain as Oxford City extended their unbeaten run with a draw at Rugby in the Premier Division on Saturday. Pond was harshly adjudged to have fouled Matthew Gearing
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East Oxford drugs crackdown gets results
One suspected drug dealer every two days has been arrested on the streets of East Oxford since a New Year police crackdown started. Police walking the beat in East Oxford, which includes Iffley Road, St Clements, Cowley Road and surrounding residential
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FOOTBALL: Banbury remain winless on road
Farnborough 1 (Charles 32) Banbury Utd 0 Banbury United made Premier Division leaders Farnborough fight all the way on Saturday, but Kieran Sullivan’s men are still without an away league victory this season after this narrow defeat. The opening exchanges
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Oxford United fans flock to toast stadium deal
Drinks at the Kassam Stadium tasted a little bit sweeter for Oxford United fans this weekend. On Friday, club chairman Kelvin Thomas announced he had struck a deal with former chairman Firoz Kassam to share profits from the sale of matchday
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FOOTBALL:Abingdon crash to title chasers
Truro City 4 (Watkins 2, Walker 47, Ash 88, Rice pen 90) Abingdon Utd 0 Abingdon's 220-mile trip to Cornwall proved fruitless as they fell to a heavy defeat against Division 1 South & West title hopefuls Truro. They fell behind when Andy Watkins
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Nearly 150 drivers stopped in police operation
Almost 150 drivers were stopped during a six-hour crackdown on illegal motorists in Oxford, police said. Police caught 105 motorists not wearing seatbelts, 22 using mobile phones and 12 for illegal levels of window tint in Sunderland Avenue, Cutteslowe
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Colourful parade launches city festival
A colourful parade with samba dancers, giant puppets and drummers kicked off a festival celebrating inspirational and pioneering women. Up to 10,000 people are expected to attend Oxford International Women’s Festival, which began yesterday
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Teenage flytipper fined
A teenager who admitted dumping builders’ waste in an area of outstanding natural beauty has been fined. James Johnston, 19, of Bluebell Way, Carterton, admitted flytipping cardboard boxes and other waste at the side of a country lane near Asthall in
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University Challenge team faces BBC inquiry
The BBC has refused to say whether Corpus Christi College in Oxford could be stripped of its University Challenge title after allegations one of its team was no longer a student. A BBC spokesman confirmed an investigation had been launched into claims
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Tests are vital
Mother-of-two Jane Matthews was just 40, fit and healthy when cervical cancer struck. She discovered she was suffering from the disease after a routine smear test in November 2005. She was lucky. Her cancer was discovered and treated early, unlike the
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Peers sports centre closes for last time
Staff at a popular Oxford sports centre left the facility for the final time this weekend. Managers at the Peers Sports Centre and swimming pool locked up for good on yesterday evening after Oxford City Council decided the move would help fill
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Children prepare for Oxford Gang Show
Hundreds of performers have begun the frantic countdown to the Oxfordshire Gang Show extravaganza. Cubs, Beavers, Brownies, Guides, Scouts and Rangers met at Cheney School in Headington yesterday to fine-tune their performances before the curtain goes
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Learning lessons from Jade's cancer fight
About 1,100 women die from cervical cancer – the so-called ‘secret cancer’ – each year, and cases of the disease are rising in women aged 15-24. ‘Secret’ because it often strikes without symptoms or pain, cervical cancer has hit the headlines
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Voting with their feet
I was surprised to see so few people attending the Job Club at Blackbird Leys last week. However, as many of those who lost their jobs at BMW were Eastern European, could it be they have decided to return to somewhere less bleak than Oxford in winter
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Stick up for BMW
BMW has been criticised over the recent job cuts. But, remember, when Honda’s link with Rover was severed, it was BMW which realised that the Mini brand was a winner – and decided to make the new car where it was originally conceived– at Cowley. Honda
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Job cuts were not a surprise
Following your article Shops fight for survival (Oxford Mail, Januuary 27) you printed my letter (February 4), in which I said that in such serious times one ought to be able to look for some guidance and assistance from our civic leaders.
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Chuffer trains to be a pedestrian.........
As regular readers will know I seldom whinge(!), but as I paid my TV licence fee this week the thought did cross my mind as to what I was paying it for. I don’t watch soaps, I have little interest in watching football, I don’t like reality
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Race for Life: Dannielle runs for her grandad
Schoolgirl Dannielle Storr is in training for her second Race for Life in June and aims to be one of the highest “earners” in honour of her beloved grandad. Dannielle, 16, from Chalgrove, promised Kenneth Storr, who was suffering from cancer
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Before the magistrates
OXFORD: Colby Benjamene, 27, of no fixed address, admitted drink-driving on February 21 in Worcester Street, Oxford. He had 49 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. Given £200 fine and ordered to pay £50 costs and a £15 victim surcharge
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Pupils travel to Nazi death camp
Teenagers from schools in Oxfordshire are among 200 students preparing to visit Auschwitz — the infamous concentration camp in Poland. The Holocaust Educational Trust, which is funded by the Government, is flying pupils from schools across the South
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Eco-town inquiry extended
The Government has given Oxfordshire residents more time to have their say over plans to create a 15,000 home eco-town on their doorstep. Public consultation over the proposal has been extended until April 30 when the housing minister will decide which
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Didcot scientists hope to unlock secrets of Egyptians
Scientists in Oxfordshire hope to unlock the secrets of the Egyptians using a light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. The team behind Didcot’s Diamond Light Source plans to use a super-powered X-Ray to learn more about the time of pyramids, Pharoahs
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Oxfordshire hospices to benefit from new campaign
Patients at three Oxfordshire hospices are set to benefit from a new charity initiative. Helen and Douglas House Hospice, in East Oxford, Sir Michael Sobell House, in Headington, and Katharine House Hospice, in Banbury, will all receive funds from a
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University Challenge probe
The BBC has refused to say whether Corpus Christi College could be stripped of its University Challenge title after allegations one of its team was no longer a student. A spokesman confirmed an investigation had been launched into claims team member
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Tribute to Greater Leys heart victim, 20
Friends and family of a nightclub-loving man who died from a congenital heart defect just days after his 21st birthday are organising a charity night out in his honour. Kiam Fraser, from Greater Leys, Oxford celebrated his birthday on December 12, but
