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Family-friendly festival prepares for fourth year
A FAMILY-FRIENDLY music festival, now in its fourth year, takes place on school playing fields next Saturday. Commotion — set up by parents at Kingham Primary School — will return with headliners Beverley Craven and Abba Gold. The event
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Vehicles go up in flames
Firefighters are at the scene of a fire in west Oxfordshire involving a motorcycle, four cars and a shed. An LPG-powered motorcycle caught fire at a property in Woodrush Gardens, Carterton, at about 11.20am, a fire service spokesman said. Fire crews
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Fears over missing man
Police are becoming increasingly concerned for the safety of a man who is missing without his medication. Ahmed Deria, 32, from Cowley, was last seen at a medical centre in Manzil Way, East Oxford, at about 2.55pm on Thursday. Mr Deria is between 5ft
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Overturned caravan slowing traffic
An overturned caravan has caused traffic delays on the A34. Emergency services closed a lane of the southbound carriageway at the Marcham interchange in Abingdon after the incident at about 8am. It re-opened at 10.45am but traffic remains
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Film makers hope budget comedy horror will bring in movie finance
OXFORDSHIRE provided the backdrop for a new comedy horror film which its creators hope will help secure them finance for future projects. Chop, a 20-minute short film with a budget of just £1,000, is now being edited after filming took place near the
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Hero's father completes forces ride
The father of an Oxfordshire marine killed in Afghanistan has completed a cycle ride raising money for injured service men through France. John Gostick joined 239 others on the 350-mile bike ride across France in a bid to raise £1m for the
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Pizza Hut fire
Rubbish outside Oxford’s Covered Market was set on fire this morning, causing slight damage to a restaurant. The incident, which is being treated as arson, took place in the High Street entrance to the market at about 3.45am. A fire service spokesman
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Firefighters called to bike blaze
A motorcycle caught fire near Witney last night. The incident happened on the sliproad of the A40 just outside the town at about 8.50pm. A fire crew from Burford attended the scene and extinguished the fire.
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Arsonist targets bins
Firefighters were called to four bin fires in Didcot within two hours this morning. Between 1am and 3am three incidents were tackled on the Ladygrove estate and one in Broadway. A fire service spokesman said all the fires were being treated as arson
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Unleaded petrol passes £1 a litre price again in Oxford
MOTORISTS are feeling the pinch again as the average price of unleaded petrol hit the £1-a-litre mark for the first time in seven months. Average prices of unleaded petrol and diesel at filling stations within a 10 mile radius of Oxford now stand at
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From Lark Rise to Candleford
LOCAL historian Martin Greenwood has just published a new book on Flora Thompson and the villages associated with her trilogy, Lark Rise to Candleford. Martin, who lives in Fringford, had been planning the book, In Flora's Footsteps, for some time but
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Mum stands as anti-sleaze candidate in Euro elections
A HOUSEWIFE became so sick of what she saw as sleazy politics that she is standing in Thursday’s European elections. Nonie Bouverat, a mother of four from Ditchley Road, Charlbury, has joined an umbrella group called the Jury Team –– a coalition
