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RUGBY UNION: The numbers' game
Wallingford were edged out by their determined visitors. Here is the numbers' game. See Tuesday’s paper for full report. Competition: South West 2 East Score: Wallingford 12, Olney 17 Wallingford player ratings: 15. Angus Brettell 6 (too often
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Dozens of 'stolen' items recovered in police raid
A 63-year-old man from Didcot has been arrested on suspicion of theft following a raid on a house in Didcot this morning. Officers carried out a warrant on a caravan in Roxburgh Drive at 8am. About 150 items were recovered. Pc Maria Morrisey, of
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Forest Green Rovers 3, Oxford Utd 3 (07/03)
Adam Murray scored with a brilliant 25-yard free-kick but Oxford United had to settle for a point in an action-packed Blue Square Premier game at the New Lawn. James Constable tucked away two first-half penalties to put Chris Wilder's team
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Sixty people protest BMW job cuts
Sixty people marched in protest against job cuts and the recession in Oxford today. Workers and union representatives waving banners and placards marched from Cowley to the centre of the city, reaching Bonn Square at 1.30pm. They chanted
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Constable is spot on - twice!
James Constable scored with two first-half penalties to put Oxford United in charge of their Blue Square Premier game at Forest Green. Both times he slotted the ball to the right of goalkeeper Terry Burton from the spot, to the delight of a massive U's
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Crews deal with spate of car fires
Arsonists set three cars on fire in Oxford overnight. Police are investigating whether they are linked. The cars were parked in Craufurd Road, off Horspath Road, the car park at Homebase in Horspath Driftway and Brasenose Drfitway in
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Temporary viaduct on A34 to open
TRAFFIC will travel over a new temporary bridge on the A34 from tomorrow as the next stage of the £44m scheme to replace Wolvercote Viaduct begins. Vehicles are currently using the existing north and southbound carriageways with narrow lanes
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Tower block evacuated after flat fire
Dozens of people were evacuated from Plowman Tower in Headington this morning following a flat fire inside the building. Fire crews were called at around 3.30am after fire broke out in a flat on the third floor. The blaze was put out before it could
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Sandwith set for U's start
Kevin Sandwith is set for his Oxford United full debut in today’s all-ticket Blue Square Premier game at Forest Green Rovers. Chris Wilder’s most recent signing, snapped up from Weymouth, is normally a left back, but comes in as the left-sided centre
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Owner Dizzy with success at Crufts
A DOG owner and his faithful hound are celebrating after scooping a best of breed prize at Crufts. Dizzy, a five-year-old Petit Basset Griffon Veedeen, and her owner Gavin Robertson, scooped the national dog show award on Thursday. They
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OAP joins top brass
PLUCKY Dorothy Hughes is to soon do something that for three centuries was almost unthinkable. And, aged 85, she is relishing the challenge. Mrs Hughes, from Kidlington, is to become one of the first women to join the ranks of the Chelsea
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Kidlington's Dorothy becomes the first woman Chelsea Pensioner
A WAR veteran from Kidlington will become the first woman to join the ranks of the world-famous Chelsea Pensioners. Dorothy Hughes, 85, of Mead Way, is busy packing her bags ready to move to London within a fortnight. Three hundred male pensioners live
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Wife-beating ex-vicar attacks his frail mother
WIFE-BEATING former vicar Christopher Walker has attacked his 87-year-old mother in a rant over the injustices in his life. Walker, previously convicted of perjury and assaulting his wife Rachel, turned on his frightened mum Daphne at her home
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467 pupils miss out on school of parents' choice
A MOTHER has branded a county council system “ridiculous” after her son was allocated a school when there were 36 closer to his home. Prospective secondary and primary school pupils were this week told the school they had been given for the next academic