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RUGBY: Haydon is new Dark Blues skipper
AUSTRALIAN scrum half Nick Haydon has been elected as Oxford University captain for the 2010 Varsity Match. The 26-year-old scored one try and had another ruled out by the video referee in Oxford’s 31-27 defeat to Cambridge University at Twickenham back
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Oxford United striker James Constable says players let themselves down
Centre forward James Constable said the Oxford United players didn’t blame goalkeeper Ryan Clarke for the defeat against Tamworth on Saturday. Clarke, who made a blunder when Iyseden Christie chipped him in the 28th minute, which handed greatly to Tamworth
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Tamworth boss says they deserved to win
Tamworth manager Gary Mills felt his team fully merited their victory at the Kassam Stadium, and paid tribute to the much-travelled Iyseden Christie, who hit the match winner. There was nothing meek about The Lambs, and they complemented
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Goose gets Michelin star
THE Goose at Britwell Salome has received a Michelin star in the 2010 guide. Ryan Simpson has become the restaurant’s third head chef in the past decade to earn the coveted culinary award, following Mike North and Matthew Tompkinson. The 26-year-old
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Crowds urged to pay tribute to soldier
THE Royal British Legion is urging people to line the road to Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital on Tuesday as the body of an Oxfordshire soldier is brought back from Afghanistan. Bomb disposal expert Capt Daniel Read was killed by a bomb in northern Helmand
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Tribute paid to air crash pilot
TWO men killed in a plane crash near Woodstock have been named. Friends and business colleagues Richard Leonard, from Oxfordshire, and Anthony Corr, from Warwickshire, died when their aircraft crashed in a field near the A4095 close to Bladon on Friday
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Plane crash victims named
Two men killed in a plane crash near Bladon have been named. Friends and business colleagues Richard Leonard, from Oxfordshire, and Anthony Corr, from Warwickshire, died when their aircraft crashed in a field near the A4095 close to Bladon
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Floella won't be opening new Rose Hill library
CHILDREN'S television presenter Floella Benjamin will not be opening the new Rose Hill Read/Swap library tomorrow, it was revealed tonight. Instead, Oxford illustrator Korky Paul will do the honours at Rose Hill Community Centre from 2pm.
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Woman used her friend’s identity
A woman who assumed the identity of a friend to avoid punishment for an assault has been spared jail. Mauleza Mocopoto, 32, of Sherwood Place, Barton, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court on Friday after earlier admitting perverting the course of justice
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Melting snow sparks alert on rivers
MANY rivers in Oxfordshire were on flood watch tonight as melting snow and rain caused rivers to rise. The River Thames through Abingdon was the latest stretch to be put on flood watch by the Environment Agency this afternoon. Since yesterday, people
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Village's flood heroes honoured
VILLAGERS who cleared a weed-filled brook to prevent flooding have been declared flood heroes. The Hanneys Flood Group was presented with the award for ‘best example of community action to reduce flood risk’ at a ceremony organised by the Environment
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Pool's fate will go to the polls
THE fight to save the crumbling Temple Cowley swimming pool in East Oxford will become a key election battleground, voters have been promised. Oxford City Council wants to close the pool to help fund a new facility in Blackbird Leys, which would open
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Police swoop in estate drug raids
POLICE swooped on two homes on an Oxford estate in a bid to catch drug dealers. The simultaneous raids took place at about 8.15pm in Underhill Circus and Sturges Close in Barton on Saturday. No drugs were found at either address and no arrests were
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Confident police extend crackdown
A CRACKDOWN on antisocial behaviour in Oxfordshire is being extended after the scheme produced a cut in nuisance crimes. Police launched Operation Confidence in October last year to tackle trouble linked to Bonfire Night and Halloween. It was due to
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Carbon campaign generates £100k bonus
A COMMUNITY group is driving ahead with plans to power part of Oxford by wind, sun and water after generating almost £1m in funding in two years. Low Carbon West Oxford’s latest windfall of £100,000 means the residents’ group has amassed £930,000 from
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County residents win chance to work for charity
A HOST of people from Oxfordshire have been given a chance to “make a world of difference” by taking two months off work for charity. The Vodafone Foundation’s World of Difference UK Programme is giving 500 people from across the country the
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Pupils quick to offer quake aid
PUPILS at Oxfordshire’s only Muslim school have launched an appeal for victims of the Haiti earthquake. Tens of thousands of people are feared dead following the tremor, which struck last Tuesday and is thought to have affected as many as three
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MP calls for action to bridge skills gap
NORTH Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry has called on the Government to train unemployed young people for major construction projects. The move came after Mr Baldry was told that the migration advisory committee was considering relaxing immigration laws to
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City leader calls for cycling strategy to attract cash
CYCLE schemes are failing to attract cash from developers because Oxford does not have a proper Cycling strategy, the leader of the city council said. This year Oxford City Council has £1.6m of planning gain cash – money given to it by big
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Leys Zone helps jobless leap 'digital divide'
JOBLESS people on Oxford’s largest estate are being offered free IT training to help them get back into work. The Blackbird Leys IT Zone (Blitz) at the Leys Linx Centre, in Blackbird Leys Road, is a voluntary organisation offering residents access to
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Scales of Justice
A list of people convicted of offences at magistrates' courts in Oxfordshire recently. Simon White, 30, of Oliver Road, Oxford, admitted shoplifting a women’s North Face jacket valued at £199.99 from Blacks Outdoor Store in Oxford on October
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Focus on crime
CCTV discussion has reached a stalemate. Both sides have convinced themselves of the cameras’ effectiveness, or not. I suggest a non-political third way. If each household owned its own recordable CCTV system protecting its own property – especially
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Transport policies still rooted in past
WEST Oxfordshire district councillor David Harvey is in the wrong century if he wants to encourage car journeys into the centre of Witney (The Issue, Oxford Mail, January 13). Delays from congestion harm Witney’s economy. Emissions from slow-moving traffic
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Four-wheeled relief
HATS off to Oxford city councillor Nuala Young and her daft comments about snow (Oxford Mail, January 8). Or perhaps not. If we had not used our cars during the recent bad weather, we would have been stuck. We would have loved to have been able to hop
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Ambulance SOS
T IS with heavy heart that I write this letter about the ambulance service and the limited vehicles that we rely on in an emergency. My comments concern the use of ambulances which have had to be rescued by people with four-wheel-drive vehicles. If one
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I LOVE a winter wonderland
For the record, can I just say how fed up to the back teeth I am with the miserable, whinging, gloomy, down-in-the-mouth, unhappy, despondent, downcast, dejected, long-faced, mournful, cheerless, doleful, glum, heavy-hearted, sombre and pitiful kill-joys
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Royal recognition for sporting story
THE husband of a Paralympian who wrote a book about his wife’s sporting success has received the Royal seal of approval. Mal Morgan sent The Queen a signed copy of the biography, Lawn Green and Gold, three weeks ago. Much to his surprise
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Ardington A v Summertown Galaxy Results: 6-3
Goal Scorers: Ardington A: Jack Badger-1, Jack Buchanan-1, Owen Norton-1 and Matheo Charrier-3 Summertown Galaxy: Jamie Curtis-1 and Milo Murgatroyd-2.
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Three crashes on icy road
Three separate car crashes happened on the same stretch of road this morning. One man had to be cut from his car after it left the A415 by Cokethorpe School in Ducklington, near Witney, at about 6.15am. He was taken to hospital with
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River Thames in Abingdon placed on Flood Watch
A FLOOD Watch alert was issued for the stretch of the River Thames through Abingdon today. The River Ock through the town to its confluence with the Thames was placed on Flood Watch yesterday, along with other parts of the Thames. A number
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Drivers face icy roads
Drivers faced icy roads across Oxfordshire today. Difficult driving condtions were reported on roads across the county including the A4183 Oxford Road Lodge Hill, Abingdon; B4022 Charlbury; A361 Burford Both ways between B4437 (Shipton-under-Wychwood
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Call for bike scrappage scheme
The motorcycle industry is to press the Government for a bike-scrappage scheme following a dip in sales in 2009. The "cash for bangers" car-scrappage scheme has had a very positive effect on car sales since it was introduced in May last year
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Thames flood watch extended
A flood watch alert on the River Thames in Oxfordshire was extended today. Oxford had already been placed on flood watch after melting snow and showers caused river levels to rise. Today, the alert was extended downstream to cover the
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The refuse collection is rubbish.......
What an awful week. It started on Monday-there’s a surprise-when one of my sons was taken into the John Radcliffe with a grumbling appendix which they removed Monday night to find an abscess on it. Nasty. The rest of the week we all endured the appalling
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PLANE CRASH: Victims named
The two men killed in a plane crash near Oxford on Friday have been named. Anthony Corr, 54, from Stratford upon Avon and Richard Leonard, 44, from Chipping Norton, both died in the crash. They are understood to have been business partners.
