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Police presence keeps swap shop peace
POLICE were called in to patrol an Oxford swap shop following concerns about gangs of aggressive traders muscling in on the free events to grab items of value. Concerns had been raised that the monthly meetings – which operate like a cash-free
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COMMENT: Real community policing
IT’S good to see police reacting to a genuine community concern and sending a constable (not a Police Community Support Officer) to attend an Oxford swap shop. Perhap unsurprisingly these days, people have been taking advantage of these events, with
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Council aims to be green powerhouse
OXFORD’S historic Town Hall could be transformed into a “green power plant”, generating clean electricity for the city and cash for council coffers. A task force of senior city council officers has been charged with developing the plans after the Government
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Village welcomes beat office
VILLAGERS have welcomed a new police office built into the refurbished community centre in Wootton near Abingdon. The office, opened by local MP Nicola Blackwood on Friday, will be a base for neighbourhood officers responsible for both Wootton and surrounding
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Lead stolen from buildings in Steventon
Police are warning residents in the Steventon area to be vigilant following a series of lead thefts in the village. Officers were called to the Steventon Allotments and Relief in Need charity building in Hanney Road, St Michael’s C of E School in The
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Four held in Bicester drugs raid
Three men and a woman were arrested in Bicester on Sunday afternoon on suspicion of possession of class-A drugs with intent to supply and affray. The three men, aged 23, 33 and 45, and the woman, aged 18, were arrested shortly after 1pm in Hamilton
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Copper stolen in Eynsham building site raid
Thieves forced their way into a building site in Eynsham and stole copper pipes. Some time between 1pm on Saturday and 7am on Monday, thieves entered the site in Merton Close and stripped all the copper from inside. Det Sgt Dick White said: “I
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Thieves disturbed in Cassington metal raid
Police are appealing for information following the attempted theft of lead and copper from a company in Cassington yesterday. Thieves entered a yard in Bell Lane at 3.20am and several rolls of roofing lead and copper were loaded into a stolen van.
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Boat set alight on Oxford Canal
Police are appealing for witnesses after a boat was set alight in Kidlington late last night. Police were called to Grovelands at about 10.30pm by Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue, following reports that a 10ft-long fibreglass boat had been set alight.
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Skating fans take skills to extreme at Extreme Wheels
SKATEBOARDERS and BMX bike fans showed off their skills and enjoyed live music at a free festival in Carterton. The annual Extreme Wheels event drew a crowd of up to 300 people, who enjoyed skateboarding, in-line skating and BMX demonstrations and competitions
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Busy road to close for resurfacing
Resurfacing work on the B044 between Eynsham and the Swinford toll bridge next month will see the road closed for a day, followed by overnight closures to complete the work. The road will be shut all day on Sunday, September 12, followed by overnight
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Soccer club kids have a ball
CHILDREN showed off their football skills to raise cash for their club. Parents and supporters watched as their children played in football tournaments as part of Oxford Blackbirds Football Club’s fun day. On Saturday, a barbecue, raffles and tombolas
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Prize pooches boost Blue Cross centre
POOCHES from near and far turned out to help raise vital funds for a West Oxfordshire animal rescue centre at the weekend. Pets competed in a dog show while their owners enjoyed a fun day on Sunday at the Burford branch of Blue Cross, in Shilton Road
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500th special Mini is off to OZ
THE last of 500 special edition Minis has rolled off the conveyor belt at the BMW plant in Cowley. After 11 months of production, the final Mini World Championship will make its way to its new home in Australia. The model proved so successful that the
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Cancer campaigner Clive faces surgery
CANCER drug campaigner and Oxford Mail columnist Clive Stone has been admitted to hospital with a brain tumour. Mr Stone, from Freeland, near Witney, was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2007. He has since fought successfully to make the kidney
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Police issue plea over M40 death crash
Police today appealed for witnesses to a fatal collision on the M40 yesterday afternoon. At about 4.40pm a collision occurred between a red MG sports car and a white Iveco panel van on the M40 between junctions 9 and 8 on the southbound carriageway
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RAF Benson faces cuts according to leaked report
RAF Benson has been hailed as a “huge asset to the community which must be protected” after suggestions that its helicopter fleet is at risk in defence cuts. Reports claimed the Puma helicopter fleet, which entered RAF service from 1971,
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COMMENT: Tough times ahead for the military
THE loss or downscaling of RAF Benson would affect its host village and Wallingford to the core. While the Ministry of Defence was batting away questions about RAF Benson’s future, a leaked report from the Government is considering ‘deleting’ Puma helicopters
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CRICKET: Tew steal a march
MP SPORTS CHERWELL LEAGUE - Divs 5-10 Division 5 leaders Great & Little Tew 2nd dismissed Brackley for only 71 and stole a march on their rivals for the title. With none of the other matches in the division finishing, Tew dodged the showers
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CRICKET: Nondescripts home in on title
MP SPORTS CHERWELL LEAGUE - Divs 1-2 Oxford & Bletchingdon Nondescripts all but wrapped up the Division 2 title by averting defeat at home to nearest rivals Leighton Buzzard Town. Town chose to bat and compiled a competitive total of 199-7.
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Time to end the muddle over May Morning
AFTER many years of May Morning stupidity, our civic leaders have admitted that they do not have the responsibility or power to do anything other than appoint a central organiser to sort out the problems associated with events on Magdalen Bridge. I’m
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We should all help keep city's streets clean
AFTER reading your report Street of Shame (Oxford Mail, August 9), I feel I must defend the street cleaners of Oxford. I would like to turn the table and say thank you to the city council cleaning crews, who work hard to keep our streets clean. Yes
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Post Office bosses should try queueing themselves
There are regular massive queues at Oxford’s main Post Office in St Aldate’s as a result of understaffing caused by management policy. In the past few weeks, I have visited the post office on six occasions on different days of the week and at different
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ON YER BIKE: British-built bikes are best by miles
Public spending cuts, choppy waters ahead and unemployment rising, it’s all doom and gloom on the financial front. So if we aren’t making any money, who is? Apparently Germany and China are and it’s all thanks to manufacturing. Being bike-mad, the first
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DARTS: Shoes stick boot into Workers
Section 2 leaders Cowley Workers had their title hopes severely dented when they went down 6-3 to Three Horseshoes. The shoes got off to a good start when wins from Fred Parsons, Steve Colling, Paul Bustin and John Smith gave them a 4-0 lead. Workers
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FOOTBALL: Bourne's hunting a repeat
Abingdon United’s new boss, Richie Bourne is looking for his players to keep up the good work when they host North Leigh in Tuesday's Division 1 South & West derby. Bourne marked his first game in charge with a 3-0 opening day win at Bridgwater
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Academy plans are 'called in'
PLANS to close one of the city’s largest secondary schools and turn it into an academy will be looked at again, it emerged last night. Last week Oxfordshire County Council’s cabinet agreed to publish a statutory notice for the closure of Oxford
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ASK THE VET: Pools can get dogs back in the swim
I have moved here from Dorset with my five-year-old Springer Spaniel. A year ago she injured her knee joint and had surgery and my vet suggested a course of hydrotherapy to help her recover. I would like her to carry on with this as she
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CRICKET: Hanborough secure safety
MP SPORTS CHERWELL LEAGUE - Divs 3-4 Hanborough can start planning for another season in Division 3 after they saw off local rivals Witney Mills, who are not yet safe from the drop. In one of only a couple of games to survive the weather
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CRICKET: Westbury beat rain to go back to top
Westbury took advantage of a severely disrupted programme, which saw the majority of matches abandoned due the weather, to go back to the top of OCA League Division 1 with a 41-run victory over Tetsworth. Batting first, Westbury posted 220-4, with Tom
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Were you on the 2003 anti-war march?
I am writing an oral history of the anti-war march in London on February 15, 2003 – the largest demonstration in British history about the biggest political question of this generation. I am keen to hear from people who went on the march. Whether you
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Petrol price claim fails to convince
As other readers have no doubt written in and mentioned, the price difference between petrol and diesel at the Sainsbury’s filling stations at the firm’s Heyford Hill and Kidlington supermarkets is regularly 2p a litre, something which isn’t particularly
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Whaling record should keep Iceland out of EU
Membership talks are currently under way following Iceland’s application to join the European Union. However, Iceland must not be allowed to join until it ends commercial whaling. Iceland continues to hunt whales, including the endangered fin whale,
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Rider dies in crash near Lambourn
Police are appealing for witnesses after a fatal collision near Lambourn yesterday. At 4.52pm a grey Yamaha R1 motorcycle, which was travelling towards Lambourn, and a black Mitsubishi L200, travelling in the opposite direction, collided on the B4000
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Fervent fan stands out from the crowd
A FOOTBALL-MAD mum who became the first winner of our new Face in the Crowd promotion wondered what she had done when a neighbour told her she was in the Oxford Mail. Sarah Simmonds, from Great Haseley, was picked out by our photographer among the 7,552
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Heidfeld to join Pirelli F1
Brackley's Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One team today confirmed that Nick Heidfeld had been released from his contract as the team's reserve driver to take up the position of official test driver for Pirelli. As Pirelli prepares for its
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CRICKET: Knightley and Rowe lift Oxon
Charlie Knightley and Daniel Rowe shared a century stand for the eighth wicket as Oxfordshire staged a fightback against Devon on day two of the Minor Counties Championship Western Division match at Sidmouth. Resuming their second innings
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Man who beat wife avoids prison
A MAN who attacked his wife of 42 years with a knife sharpener was told by a judge to keep a photograph of his bruised partner in his wallet to remind himself “what he’s capable of”. Dennis King, 62, was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court yesterday having
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Driver walks away with slight hand injury after horrific crash
A WOMAN walked away with barely a scratch from a horrific crash at the weekend. The driver escaped with a minor hand injury after her Ford Ka crashed off the A4074 north of Nuneham Courtenay and overturned into trees on Saturday. Paramedics were
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Woman raped as she walked dog
A WOMAN was raped while walking her dog through a village sports field. The 50-year-old woman told police she was attacked by a man in his twenties, near High Street, Eynsham, at about 9.40pm on Sunday. Her attacker told his victim he had a knife before
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Reservoir opponents make their case
THAMES Water has failed to properly investigate cheaper alternatives to a £1bn reservoir between Wantage and Abingdon, campaigners will tell a public inquiry today. A public inquiry into the water company’s plans for the next 25 years is expected to
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£16.8m swimming pool for Blackbird Leys, but Temple Cowley will go
A MULTI-MILLION pound swimming pool complex looks set to be built in Blackbird Leys, it emerged last night. The pool, costing £16.8m, will replace the complex at Temple Cowley, which would be demolished as part of the plans. But campaigners
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Harry happy to help out
Towering centre back Harry Worley says he doesn’t mind being pushed up into attack in the final few minutes if Oxford United are chasing the game. He did it for the U’s against Bury on Saturday, and although he wasn’t able to grab an equaliser, or help
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Fine time for all despite weather
SPECTATORS shelter from the rain while listening to music from all over the world at the fourth Livestock festival in Stratton Audley, near Bicester. On Friday and Saturday musicians from Sudan, Madagascar and Senegal played at the Red Lion
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Work is under way at winning school
WORK has started to build a new seating area and improved sensory garden for pupils at an Abingdon school, thanks to the Oxford Mail’s SoS Leadbitter competition. Kingfisher School, which teaches youngsters aged two to 19 with severe and multiple learning
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Army veteran's Dunkirk memories recorded for posterity
LES Collett’s memories of leaving Dunkirk with a bullet in his shoulder have been recorded for posterity by Second World War researchers. In May, Mr Collett, from Wolvercote, revealed how in 1940, aged just 20, he was one of the youngest men
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Making lots of fun
Hundreds of children in the Littlemore area of Oxford are making the most of a summer playscheme at John Henry Newman School. The three-week event, which finishes on August 27, features a range of activities for young people, including sports and arts
