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THE SCALES OF JUSTICE
OXFORD l Piotr Koslowski, 28, of Sherwood Place, Headington, admitted drink driving in Windmill Road, Headington, on June 17. Found to have 100 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath. Banned from driving for 30 months, fined £500, ordered
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Daredevil mum goes abseiling to thank hospital
ALL that seven-year-old Annabel Lally wants to do is go to school. According to her mother Lorrain, the seven-year-old has always loved going to lessons and playing and learning with her friends. But Annabel has been diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic
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Woman pilot killed in glider crash
A 25-YEAR-OLD woman died after the glider she was piloting crashed in a field on the edge of Bicester. Witnesses tonight told how they heard a ‘crack’ and saw a glider spiral out of the sky at the Bicester airfield yesterday afternoon.
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Brookes funds two Pcsos
TWO Pcsos funded by Oxford Brookes University will hit the streets from next month. The university in Gipsy Lane has forked out £124,000 to pay for the officers for two years from September 1. They will patrol the Headington campuses and surrounding
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'Please return our crutches' say community hospitals
COMMUNITY hospitals across the county are appealing for the return of hundreds of pairs of missing crutches. Community Health Oxfordshire, which runs the hospitals, said about 500 pairs a year went missing, at a cost to the NHS of £5,900 a year. It
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Thieves steal Pakistan flood appeal charity box
A CHARITY box containing about £80 donated by shoppers for flood victims in Pakistan has been stolen from a Witney newsagents. Officers were called to Newslink, in Corn Street, at about 7.50pm on Saturday after three men stole the clear plastic collecting
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Scheme for 20mph limit in Abingdon stalls
PLANS to introduce a 20mph speed limit in Abingdon town centre have been put on hold as part of the county council’s spending review. The scheme was placed under review at the last meeting of the full council and will not come into force this year as
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£400,000 project to get leisure centre into shape
WORK is under way on a £400,000 project to improve Oxford’s Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre. The sports centre in Pegasus Road will have a new cycling spin studio, improved changing facilities and reception area when builders pack up their tools in October
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Minister's son gets US qualification at school
THE son of a Health Minister is the first English pupil at a West Oxfordshire independent school to graduate with an American high school diploma. Bobby Burns – son of West Chelmsford MP Simon Burns – is one of four to leave Kingham Hill School
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Local shares (PM)
AEA Technology 17.5 BMW 3670 Electrocomponents 221.2 Nationwide Accident Repair 82.5 Oxford Biomedica 9.9 Oxford Catalysts 73 Oxford Instruments 334 Reed Elsevier 551.75 RM 134.25 RPS Group 191.75 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley, Abingdon
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Thieves steal charity box in Witney
Police are appealing for information after a charity box containing about £80 was stolen from a newsagents in Witney. Officers were called to Newslink, in Corn Street, at about 7.50pm on Saturday, after three men entered the shop and took a
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Horse jumps designer gets creative
BLENHEIM Palace’s famous duck has gone. As for the teddy bear, we will all have to wait and see, because David Evans is a man who likes to keep a surprise up his sleeve. Among the treats for the thousands who head to the Blenheim International Horse
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Woman dies after glider crash
A 25-year-old woman died after her glider crashed in Bicester yesterday. Police were called at 3.15pm to reports a glider had come down in a field at a gliding club on Buckingham Road, Bicester. The woman, from Lancashire, was the only
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Former spy spills beans in new book
A FORMER spy, who made his name as a journalist by exposing the memos about 'dodgy' intelligence on Iraq, is making fresh waves with his new book describing the murky history of British secret agents. Michael Smith is a former member of the Army Intelligence
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Ceremony marks return of truncheon
A 108-year-old ceremonial truncheon will be welcomed back to Oxford with a civic reception. The wooden truncheon, which once belonged to a Mayor of Oxford, is being returned to the city by new owner Andy Durbridge. Tomorrow, his sister, Lesley Josey,
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Skate rink gets one step closer
A CHURCH extension, a skate park and gents’ lavatories are among Oxfordshire projects to share in more than £400,000 of grant funding. Twelve groups have been awarded cash by the environmental body Wren – generated by the Landfill Communities Fund –
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United player released without charge
Oxford United player Alfie Potter was arrested in connection with a stabbing in a London nightclub, but released without charge, according to the club. The arrest meant the 21-year-old striker was not considered for the club’s opening npower
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Knights do battle at the Palace
FAMILIES cheered on the county’s bravest knights in a mighty jousting tournament at Blenheim Palace at the weekend. The gallant Knights of Royal England competed in a skills tournament, galloping to pick up Saracens’ heads from the ground and fighting
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UNITED: Potter arrested then released after stabbing
Oxford United player Alfie Potter was arrested in connection with a stabbing in a London nightclub, but released without charge, according to the club. The arrest meant the 21-year-old striker was not considered for the club’s opening npower
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RESULTS: August 7 & 8
FOOTBALL NPOWER LEAGUE TWO Burton Albion 0, Oxford Utd 0. FRIENDLIES Wantage Tn 0, Didcot Tn 3; Horsham 2, Oxford City 0; Witney Utd 3, Cirencester Tn XI 1; AFC Wallingford 2, Henley Town 4; Abingdon Utd 3, Swindon Supermarine
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Bungling pizza thieves jailed
THEY thought they could get away without paying for their pizza, but ended up in prison. Bungling robbers Karl Axtell and Carl Hemmings, both 22, were drunk when they thought up their plan to get free pizza from Domino’s by robbing a delivery boy on
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Local share prices (AM)
AEA Technology 17.5 BMW 3692 Electrocomponents 219 Nationwide Accident Repair 82.5 Oxford Biomedica 9.9 Oxford Catalyst 73 Oxford Instruments 337.25 Reed Elsevier 562.5 RM 133.5 RPS Group 191 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley
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Council and traders must share blame for filthy state of Cowley Road precinct
TRADERS say the streets of Cowley Road are paved with grease, vomit and litter and have called on the city council to clean up Oxford’s most colourful street. Fed-up business owners say the state of the pavement on East Oxford’s busiest shopping district
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Petrol prices set to soar again
Petrol prices could soar by 8% by the beginning of next year, it has been predicted. And the cost of filling up at the pumps could rise by 3% by this August Bank Holiday weekend. The warning to motorists came from the Retail Motor Industry
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CRICKET: Oxford's title bid fading fast
Oxford's Division 1 title hopes suffered a perhaps mortal blow when they lost by six wickets at home to lowly Potters Bar on Saturday in the Serious Cricket Home Counties Premier League. Jason Harrison’s men now trail 40 points behind leaders Welwyn
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CRICKET: Hawkes hammering sets up massive win
A brutal innings by Nathan Hawkes made skipper Ian Hawtin’s decision to bat first pay dividends as Banbury secured a convincing 142-run success in their rain-affected Division 1 match at Tring Park. The visitors’ margin of victory was slightly exaggerated
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CRICKET: Rowant back to drop zone
Aston Rowant slipped back into the Division 1 relegation when they went down by six wickets away to leaders Welwyn Garden City in a rain-shortened match. Asked to bat first Rowant were doing well against the swinging ball and overcast conditions.
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We want a say
AMID all the budget cuts, the age of people entitled to a free bus pass will almost certainly be speedily raised. But hasn’t the Con-Dem coalition suggested that they wait to see what the public say they want, and don’t want, to be cut before making
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Man About Town: Helping yobs to 'buzz' off
THE controversy over the use of a Big Brother-style device installed at a Blackbird Leys shop to deter teenagers from loitering outside made me want to plunge my hand into an industrial mincer this week. Gangs of more than 20 youths have apparently been
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Burton Albion 0, Oxford Utd 0 (07/08)
Oxford United earned a well deserved point in their first match back in the Football League for four years. In a game of few goalscoring chances at Burton's Pirelli Stadium, they looked marginally the stronger side. With defences on
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Adventure for all at Wolvercote Lakes
CHILDREN were often in danger when they played in and around Wolvercote Lakes, known as the Gullet. The water brought risks at the best of times, but was probably more hazardous when it froze in winter. Val Faulkner, who grew up in the village on the
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Boys learned Civil Defence lessons
The Oxford Civil Defence centre at Oxford Airport, in Kidlington, had a short existence – from 1960 to 1968 – but it was a busy place. Regular training courses were held for Civil Defence members as well as visitors. These pictures were taken in 1964
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CRICKET: Battling Thame halt run of losses
Thame Town halted their run of three defeats – but only just – after an improved display in their Division 2 West match at at Slough. Put in to bat on a good pitch, Slough struggled, with Tha-me’s returning skipper, Sam Lachlan, removing both openers
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Services in danger
Readers may be interested to know that four peers have given up their seats in the House of Lords in order to keep their tax-avoiding non-domiciled status. Lords Bagri, McAlpine & Laidlaw, all Conservatives, and crossbencher Baroness Dunn all prefer
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Police need to be out on streets
HAVING read the article on the begging teams coming to Oxford (Oxford Mail, August 6) and their skill in avoiding cameras, I would like to make a suggestion. In the past I have been a bit critical of Thames Valley Police – and I know it is easier to
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Use CCTV cameras to fine fly-tippers
I WRITE regarding the article and comments in last Wednesday’s Oxford Mail, concerning fly-tipping at the Oxford Retail Park in Cowley. I was there last week recycling newspapers – in the correct bin, of course, which wasn’t full, although there were
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Time to scrap Trident missiles
AT 8.15am on August 6, 1945, the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb on a city. It fell on Hiroshima in Japan and killed 140,000 men, women and children; the equivalent of the total population of Oxford. Today Britain has its own nuclear weapons
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Help police catch graffiti vandals
THANK you for drawing attention to the problem of graffiti in Oxford (Oxford Mail, August 3). I’d like to add a request to your readers to phone 999, if they see someone in the act of spraying or writing graffiti. It is a crime in progress, so it’s
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The changing face of Witney
TWO new members joined the Half-Century Club at Witney in 1967 – Mr SV Bridgman, on the left in the first picture, and Mr FG Morris. They were blanket workers who had completed 50 years’ unbroken service with Charles Early and Marriott. The club at that
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Children head home after cruising the Med
AT FIRST glance, these look like a group of foreign visitors who have invaded Oxford. In fact, they are city schoolchildren arriving home from a Mediterranean cruise. They were all pupils at Cutteslowe County Junior Mixed School in Oxford. They were
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Warship fund collected £1.25m in one week
AN APPEAL for money to help the war effort brought a magnificent response from the people of Oxford. Organisers set a target for Warship Week in February 1942 of £1,250,000 and that was easily reached. Young and old organised concerts, collections,
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No time to make hospital as Kelly gives birth by roundabout
WHEN mums-to-be prepare for the birth of their baby, they want everything to be perfect. A crisp white hospital bed, perhaps, some soothing music and the reassuring touch of a midwife. They probably don’t imagine giving birth in the
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MPs back new expenses list rules
DETAILS of every meal, taxi fare and rent payment claimed by MPs will be published online from September as part of an overhaul of the parliamentary exp- enses system. Every claim, including those that are refused, will be listed by the newly
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Wright - Brewers show it'll be hard
Centre back Jake Wright believes Saturday’s match at Burton was a good pointer to how difficult League Two will be for Oxford United this season, and especially for the strikers. It is a significant step-up, especially for any forward coming up against
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United are up and running
Manager Chris Wilder declared his delight as his promoted Oxford United side got off the mark on their return to League football at Burton on Saturday. “We're off and running,” he said after the 0-0 draw. United, who came up from
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Military author appeals for information on pilot's life
HE was one of thousands of young men whose heroism and selfless sacrifice saved Britain in the Second World War. Now one European soldier wants to celebrate the life of Oxford-born pilot Thomas Ivor Hicks – and is trying to find out more about him.
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Gravestones to be inspected in Oxford's cemeteries
HUNDREDS of gravestones will be inspected as part of the city’s annual cemeteries health check. Memorials at six churchyards and cemeteries will be examined and tested to make sure the heavy stones do not pose a danger to visitors. The checks are part
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Clean-up will require our joint efforts
TRADERS in Oxford’s Cowley Road have spoken out against the state of the street, describing it as paved with “grease, vomit and litter”. They want more to be done to clean it up. Oxford City Council — amid its citywide clean-up Cleaner
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Express delivery
THERE seems to be something in the air at the moment. Oxfordshire’s mums-to-be are giving birth by football stadiums, at home, and now by the side of the road. Kelly Malliagh, from Wheatley, gave birth to her second boy just minutes after her first
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Legion condemns memorial repair delay
The Royal British Legion has condemned as “disgraceful” a delay to efforts to shore up Abingdon’s tilting war memorial. The town council’s £60,000 plan to repair the memorial could be at risk because of a halt to work on resurfacing the High Street,
