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CRICKET: Penalty 'too harsh' says Kingston skipper
Kingston Bagpuize captain Dave Pearce says his club have been harshly punished following The Oxford Times Cherwell League's disciplinary hearing on Tuesday into a clash between Rob Keates and Wolverton’s Hakim Khan. The final Division 3
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MOTORSPORT: Alonso races off to Ferrari
Fernando Alonso has admitted to joining Ferrari from the Enstone-based Renault team a year earlier than initially agreed. Alonso has signed a three-year deal from next season reputed to be worth £55m. That’s still £20m shy of the pay Kimi Raikkonen
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Police search for missing Stonesfield woman
Police tonight appealed for help to trace a 60-year-woman missing from Stonesfield. Chris Harper was last seen leaving her home address in the village at about1.30pm today. She is white, 5ft 3in tall, with close cropped brown hair and
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Truck finds itself in a tight spot
THE driver of this Oxford City Council rubbish lorry got his wheels in a spin while on his rounds in North Oxford. The vehicle was collecting rubbish in Rogers Street, Summertown, on Tuesday when the mishap occurred. Tim Nicholson, 42, who lives in
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House sales rocket again
ESTATE agents across Oxfordshire say a spiralling increase in sales has sparked a reversal in fortune after many closed branches earlier in the year. Mark Charter, of Carter Jonas, said last night: “September has been our busiest month ever in terms
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GOLF: Duo win trip of lifetime
Abingdon duo Bryan Claringbold and David Pimm will represent Great Britain in the Audi World Final in Australia after winning the UK title. Claringbold, 63, and Pimm, 19, clinched the Audi Quattro UK Cup crown at Bowood, Wiltshire by a single stableford
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GOLF: Chippy turn-around
Chipping Norton maintained their 100 per cent record in Section 2 of the Shaw Gibbs Oxfordshire Foursomes League by edging out North Oxford. The leaders won 2½-½, but were down in one and level in two matches at the turn. However, Danny Hicks and Matt
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GOLF: Results round-up
FRILFORD HEATH Ladies’ Cancer Relief September Stableford – Div 1: 1 J Binning 41pts, 2 L McPhail 36, 3 R Binning 35 (cb). Div 2: 1 D Phipps 38, 2 K Bartlett 36, 3 J Benson 34. OXFORD CITY Medal No 8 – Div 1: 1 I Bound 67-2=65, 2 K Henley 76-10=66
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BOWLS: Come and have a go
Budding bowlers are being invited to try out the game at Oxford & District Indoor BC’s taster day on Sunday (10am-4pm). The free trial session will take place at the Sandy Lane West venue as part of the club’s drive to recruit new members. It is to
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BAR BILLIARDS: Keenan sends Witney into final
Witney A ran out 3-2 winners at home to Oxford A to secure a 6-4 victory on aggregate in the Inter Area Cup semi-final, writes PETE EWINS. John Bamsey lost a score of 15,000 for Witney in the opening leg, which let in Kevin Godfrey, whose 2,000 was enough
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RUGBY UNION: Blues buoyant after win
Oxford University returned from their pre-season tour in good spirits after solid displays against two of the strongest opponents they will face this autumn. Having lost narrowly to Gael Force last week, Monday’s 15-10 victory over Newcastle Falcons
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RUGBY UNION: Thompson turned down Chinnor approach
Ben Thompson has revealed he turned down an offer from Chinnor after taking time out from full-time rugby. The 28-year-old former Oxfordshire utility back left Championship side Nottingham this summer after spending almost a decade playing at that level
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RUGBY UNION: Battlers please Heywood
Banbury Bulls forwards coach Ian Heywood gave a cautious thumbs up to his side’s 17-13 victory at Aylestone St James in Midlands 2 East South. The win gives Banbury three points from two matches as they seek to achieve their top-two target. Heywood
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RUGBY UNION: Girls get open day
Wallingford are hosting a girls open day from 9.30am-2.30pm on Friday for local school pupils. Year seven, eight and nine girls from Wallingford, Icknield, Gillotts, Langtree, Chiltern Edge and Didcot Girls are all taking part in the event. There will
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RUGBY UNION: McBride to speak at dinner
Former British Lions and Ireland captain Willie John McBride will be the guest speaker at Wallingford’s Sportsman’s Dinner on Friday, October 30. The legendary lock, who played in five Lions tours, earned 17 Test caps and was arguably the team’s most
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I could easily grow accustomed to the high life
I had the good fortune – putting it mildly – to stay last Friday night at the Dorchester Hotel as a prelude to a one-hour preview the following morning, in advance of the crowds, at the ‘must see’ exhibition of the moment – astonishing sculptures by Anish
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The Kingswell, Harwell
I see from our files at Newspaper House that more than ten years have passed since I last reviewed The Kingswell, a justly popular restaurant – actually, a hotel – on the outskirts of Harwell, where the Reading Road prepares to cross above the A34. Returning
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Pan fried rack of lamb with spinach puree and aubergine caviar - recipe
This is the recipe that Vicky Newitt came up with when asked for her signature dish. She says she uses local British lamb to achieve the mouth-watering flavour that her customers come to expect from her cooking. YOU WILL NEED Four 200g lamb
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Head chef Vicky is so happy at work
Head chef Vicky Newitt will never forget the day she made her way up the tree-lined pathway leading to the Weston Manor Hotel, in Weston-on-the-Green, for her interview as commis chef. This enterprising young woman says that the sight of that imposing
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First Impressions: O3 Gallery, Oxford Castle
Have you ever wondered why black- and-white photography seems to highlight images in a way that colour never can? Joe Bowes’s First Impressions is a solo exhibition of black-and-white prints that convey the full drama of their subjects in a way that colour
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Anish Kapoor: The Royal Academy
Something strange is moving slowly through the august rooms of London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Something strange and slow and red and leaving a sticky wax trail behind it. Elsewhere, great gobbets of the same stuff are being fired from a cannon, shooting
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Driving Aphrodite and The Invention of Lying
Romantic comedy Driving Aphrodite marks the long awaited return of Nia Vardalos to the big screen, seven years after her self-penned, Oscar-nominated smash My Big Fat Greek Wedding. In the interim, she wrote and starred in the ill-fated, spin-off
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Diversions: The Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
In June this year the contemporary company Diversions, founded in 1983, changed its name to National Dance Company of Wales, to underline both its connection with Wales and the level of prestige it has achieved. The company began this triple bill with
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Marcus Brigstocke: Oxford Playhouse
Now Show, guesting on panel games and creator of a genuinely brilliant character, Giles Wemmbley Hogg. He captains a team on Argumental on the Dave channel, looks like an overgrown Dragon School boy and is a vocal campaigner on ecological issues. He
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Deep Cut: The Oxford Playhouse
Suicide or what? Interestingly – and I think entirely correctly – the ‘or what?’ question is never addressed in Philip Ralph’s powerful 75-minute play about the puzzling deaths from gunshot wounds between 1995 and 2002 of four young soldiers at the Deepcut
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Never Forget: New Theatre, Oxford
Mamma Mia! has a lot to answer for. Never Forget is the latest audience-pleasing, and critic-riling, addition to that increasingly popular genre of the ‘Jukebox’ musical, in which the story is usually contrived around the hits of a certain popular group
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Mother Courage and Her Children: The National Theatre
Bertold Brecht’s Mother Courage and her Children is a play about war – perhaps the play about war – and in Deborah Warner’s in-your-face new production for the National Theatre it’s certainly one that takes no prisoners. Through the bloody to-ing and
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ATHLETICS: City crowned kings of road
OXFORD City clinched the vet 60 title in the Southern Road Relays at Aldershot for a fifth year running. City were in third place going into the fourth and final leg, but Roy Treadwell ran the fastest time in his age group to seal victory by more than
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|Random Dance: Oxford Playhouse
Wayne McGregor has been passionate about science for a long time now. In particular he has been fascinated by the links between what is going on in the brain when the body dances. Could human movement be scientifically meaningful? Could science, via a
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ATHLETICS: Jackson lands club accolade
UNDER 17 starlet Jackson Curtis was awarded the Bicester’s athlete of the year award at their annual presentation night. Curtis had a fantastic year, winning bronze in the English Schools AA championships in the javelin and moving up to ninth in the
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ATHLETICS: Egerton lands repeat Finstock glory
ABINGDON Ambler Phil Egerton won the Finstock 10K for the second year running with a time of 35mins 54secs. Simon Fisher was second, clocking 36.30. THE annual meeting of the Oxfordshire AA will be held on Monday, October 12, at Exeter Hall, Kidlington
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ICE HOCKEY: Stars sent packing by rampant Dynamos
Oxford City Stars were crashed to an 11-2 defeat against Invicta Dynamos in Sunday’s Division 1 clash. Without captain Darren Elliott and forward Nick Oliver, stand-in captain Grant Bailey netted both Stars goals. Having lost to the same opponents in
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Schoolchildren lift site’s image
PRIMARY school pupils picked up a paintbrush to help make a building site more pleasing to the eye. More than 100 children from Burford Primary School visited the site of a Cottsway Housing development, off Frethern Close, Burford. Builders
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Cervical cancer jabs continue in county
OXFORDSHIRE Primary Care Trust is continuing with its programme to vaccinate against cervical cancer — despite the death of a teenager this week. Natalie Morton, 14, died shortly after being given a cervical cancer vaccine, but it has emerged
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Man charged over power station trespass plan
A 44-year-old Oxford man been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire. Martin Shaw, of Campbell Road, is one of six people who will appear at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court on October
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Man faces power station conspiracy charge
A 44-year-old Oxford man been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in Nottinghamshire. Martin Shaw, of Campbell Road, is one of six people who will appear at Nottingham Magistrates’ Court
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Water back on by 1pm, says Thames Water
Water is set to be restored to hundreds of Oxfordshire homes after a main burst in a field near the A40 this morning. Hundreds of homes in Thame and Garsington were cut off at about 6.30am. Thames Water engineers say people should have
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Local share prices
AEA Technology 28 BMW 3038 Electrocomponents 155.5 Gladstone 27 Nationwide Accident Repair 83 Oxford Biomedica 11 Oxford Catalyst 63 Oxford Instruments 202.5 Reed Elsevier 469.3 RM 158 RPS Group 227.75 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley, Abingdon
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Police appeal after sex attack
A teenager was sexually assaulted in a late night attack in Headington. Police said the 18-year-old was at the corner of Old Road and Roosevelt Drive, near Gipsy Lane, at around 3am yesterday when she was approached by a man and assaulted. Det Sgt
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Burst main leaves homes without water
A burst water main has left homes cut off and two schools closed in south Oxfordshire. Great Milton C of E Primary School and Garsington C of E Primary School have closed after their water supply was cut off this morning. Residents in
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Abingdon Youth 1 - 3 Kidlington Youth. Under 9s Red League
Rolfe Harries Abingdon to Defeat Kidlington kept up with the pacesetters in the Red League with a 3-1 away victory over a very resilient Abingdon team. The home team took the lead early on through Alex Woodham, who reacted quickest following
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Crash causes A40 delays
Paramedics were called to the A40 near Eynsham today following a collision between two vehicles. The accident happened on the eastbound carriageway of the A40 close to the Eynsham roundabout at 6.20am. One lane was blocked following the accident
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Accident causes A40 delays
Paramedics were called to the A40 outside Oxford this morning following a collision between two vehicles. The accident happened on the eastbound carriageway of the A40 close to the Eynsham roundabout at 6.20am. One lane was blocked following the accident
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Woman sexually assaulted in Headington
Police are appealing for witnesses after an alleged sexual assault in Headington. At about 3am yesterday, an 18-year-old woman was at the corner of Old Road and Roosevelt Drive, near to Gypsy Lane, when the alleged assault took place. Det Sgt John
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Wilder heaps praise on Oxford United
Chris Wilder says he has nothing but praise for the way his Oxford United side have bounced back from their first defeat at Mansfield last week. The U’s made it two straight wins in the Blue Square Premier with a 3-1 victory over Crawley at the Kassam
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Victims' families say thank you
Families and colleagues of servicemen killed in Afghanistan said thank you to the mourners who have now paid tribute to 100 personnel being taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital. Members of the Royal British Legion, other service associations
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REPATRIATION: Victims' families say thank-you
FAMILIES and colleagues of servicemen killed in Afghanistan yesterday said thank-you to the mourners who have now paid tribute to 100 personnel being taken to the John Radcliffe Hospital. Members of the Royal British Legion, other service associations
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Grenoble Road: Both sides claim victory in housing clash
CAMPAIGNERS for and against building houses in Oxford’s green belt were both last night trying to claim a victory as the Government admitted its South East Plan was flawed. The Oxfordshire branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England had launched
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District to use Midsomer Murders link to attract tourists
THOUSANDS of visitors could soon be drawn to south Oxfordshire to see spots linked with ITV detective drama Midsomer Murders. The long-running TV show, which stars John Nettles as super sleuth Det Chief Insp Tom Barnaby, has millions of fans worldwide
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Tavinor: Docs pleased with footballer's progress after op
DOCTORS are “delighted” with the progress of former Oxford United footballer Steve Tavinor, his father said last night. The 35-year-old, below, whose left leg was crushed in a collision with a car, underwent a nine-hour operation at Oxford’
