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RUGBY UNION: The numbers game

Chinnor were surprisingly comfortable winners of this Oxfordshire derby. Here is the numbers' game. See Tuesday’s paper for full report. Competition: National 3 South West Score: Oxford Harlequins 12, Chinnor 32 Oxford Harlequins

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Talents unite in aid of children's hospital

SEVENTY youngsters pooled their musical talents to record a charity single in aid of Oxford Children’s Hospital. More than 500 school pupils aged five to 18 took part in schools’ talent contest Talent Oxford auditions in May, with 70 chosen

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Who was Oxford United's Man of the Match against Stockport?

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United lose 1-0 to Stockport

Oxford United slipped to their second home defeat of the season when Stockport County managed a smash-and-grab 1-0 win at the Kassam Stadium. George Donnelly headed County's winner four minutes before half-time. James Constable hit the post in the second

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Oxford Utd 0, Stockport County 1 (18/09)

STOCKPORT County produced a smash-and-grab act at the Kassam Stadium as United's good run came to an end. Chris Wilder's team, hoping for a third straight win, dominated much of the match, but were sunk by a breakaway goal from George Donnelly

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Stockport lead United at half-time

George Donnelly headed Stockport in front just before half-time against Oxford United at the Kassam Stadium. It came very much against the run of play, with the U's unable to stick the ball in the net despite having much more of the play, and

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Union says'we need primary care trust'

OXFORDSHIRE union leaders have claimed a radical overhaul of the county’s health system will waste public money and lead to the privatisation of the NHS. In July, new health secretary Andrew Lansley revealed plans to reform the NHS to parliament in a

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BASEBALL: Kings are national champions

Oxford Kings are the national champions. A 13-3 victory over Liverpool Trojans in the final ensures their position as the best team in British Baseball Federation’s AAA Division. The club, which is affiliated with Oxford University Baseball Club, but

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MOTORSPORT: Turner, Bell end on a high

Chacombe racing driver Darren Turner and his JMW Motorsport teammate, Rob Bell, rounded off a good season in the Le Mans series with a podium finish at Silverstone. The British duo came away with their best result of the season, despite a late race penalty

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SWIMMING: Master Ripley in medals

DESPITE being the youngest competitor, Oliver Ripley, 12, of Didcot Barramundi SC, won two medals in the ASA South East Regional Open Water Championships at Southsea. Competing in the 1.5km race in the choppy sea, Ripley came second in the junior

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KORFBALL: Dragons on the look-out

Didcot Dragons’ second annual tournament was won by Cambridge City, who beat Basingstoke in the final. Eight teams from around the country took part in the event. The fast-paced sport is played by a mixed team of four men and four women. Goals are

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CRICKET: Downs youngsters on the up

Oxford Downs celebrated a successful junior season at their presentation evening. Awards were given to the most improved players from under nine to under 17, while special medals were awarded to the under nine and 11 boys’ squads, who went unbeaten through

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ANGLING: Jeacock stings his rivals

Kevin Jeacock blitzed the field as Beehive AC fished the last match in their Summer League series at Lower Court. Conditions were perfect, and the carp responded with more than 450 pounds hitting the scales from the 14 matchmen. Jeacock led the way

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ICE HOCKEY: Oxford out to stay on top

Oxford City Stars bid to stay top of the English National League South Division 1 table when they embark on a double-header this weekend. Victory over Wightlink Raiders last week sent Ken Forshee’s side to the top of the table. And victory at Bristol

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Well done to Oxford in Bloom winners

OXFORD’S gardeners once again proved their skills at this year’s Oxford Mail-backed In Bloom competition. The results of the 22nd annual contest were announced at Roman Way Sports and Social Club on Thursday. More than 180 people attended

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EQUESTRIAN: Winner Hughes salutes Duvie

Banbury's Gareth Hughes won the feature class of the day at the Dressage Deluxe National Championships at Stone-leigh Park, Warwickshire. Riding Duvie, the horse he co-owns with Ann Newton, Hughes scored an exceptional 75 per cent to win the Bates Saddles

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CRICKET: Brooks comes back to his roots

Northants seamer Jack Brooks will be back on familiar territory when he plays for the President’s XI against newly-crowned MP Sports Cherwell League champions Hors-path at the Recreation Ground in the annual Feast match on Monday (11am). The former

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RACING: Somersby on parade

Rising star Somersby is set to be the leading attraction at Henrietta Knight’s open day at her West Lockinge Farm stables, near Wantage, tomorrow. The yard will be open from 10.30am until 2.30pm with a parade of racehorses at 11.30am. Entry is £10 for

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Divers search for stabbing evidence

POLICE divers yesterday combed the Thames as part of an investigation into an attempted murder in West Oxford. The specialist team were sent to the stretch of river behind Oxford Ice Rink, in Oxpens Road, hunting for evidence in connection to the stabbing

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Pals’ fitting tribute to young footballer

MORE than 500 people paid a fitting football tribute to car crash victim Callum MacKinnon. The 18-year-old’s friends and family watched as the footballer’s two teams – Witney United under-18s and Oxford and Cherwell Valley College (OCVC) – took to the

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GREYHOUNDS: Oxford sign up trainer Baker

Racing manager Gary Baiden has been forced to appoint a new professional trainer. Richard Baker, whose kennels are near Marston, will take up the post next month because seven of the current trainers are failing to supply the contracted number of 20

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Critical report 'buried' on jams, says author

OXFORD City Council has been accused of covering up a traffic report because it did not like what it was being told. The authority paid transport expert Peter Headicar £2,500 to give a commentary on how the city’s housing and jobs plans would affect

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COMMENT: Questions to answer

OXFORD City Council too finds itself with questions to answer, over its handling of Peter Headicar’s report into how its housing and job plans would affect our roads. Mr Headicar says building north of the city would be detrimental to the roads and,

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ATHLETICS: Yamauchi fresh to lead GB bid

MARA Yamauchi will lead the British challenge in tomorrow’s 30th Great North Run following a rather less hectic build-up than she one she endured to her last race. The 37-year-old former Headington Roadrunner saw a six-day travel nightmare scupper her

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Witness appeal after driver, 21, dies in crash

A 21-YEAR-OLD man was killed when his car rolled over after crashing on a road in Ewelme, near Wallingford. The victim, from Benson, was pronounced dead at the scene following the accident on an unnamed road near Warren Bottom at about 1.10am yesterday

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MOTORSPORT: Quads at Culham

The best of British and European Quad racers travel to Culham Motocross Park this weekend as the NORA MX Club host a double-header of British Championship adult and youth racing at the fast and furious circuit on the banks of the Thames. The action kicks

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Catering van destroyed in suspected arson

A mobile catering van was destroyed by fire in Oxford this morning in a suspected arson attack. The Giles Services van, in Ashville Way, off Watlington Road, Cowley, was torched at about 1.30am. Police and firefighters from The Slade, Rewley Road

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GREYHOUNDS: Rely on Pewseys

Angie Kibble’s Pawseys Pride goes for his third win in four outings and again carries the nap in the Zoe Lowden 30th Birthday Stakes tonight. TONIGHT’S RUNNERS 7.35: Wychwood Boy, ABSINTHE, Sierra Lobo 3, Homestead Form, Royal Rumble, Blue Natalie.

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ANGLING: Brothers land monster carp

Brothers Sean and Michael Trafford had a trip to remember when they fished Etang Le Fays, which is a specialist carp lake in the picturesque Champagne-Ardennes region of France, writes Andy Webber. The pair went on the trip with their father, Mick, and

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Paedophile jailed for grooming girl

A PAEDOPHILE has been jailed after assuming the identity of a young boy and trying to trap a girl. Simon Clarke, of Abingdon Road, Oxford, admitted grooming a girl under the age of 16 for sexual purposes, breaching a sexual offences prevention order

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MOTORSPORT: Positive Powell will not give up

Chipping Norton’s Alice Powell believes she is still in with a shout in the Formula Renault BARC Championship, despite some mixed results in the penultimate round at Rockingham. Powell remains second in the championship, but will need to haul back 14

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One family - five Minis: It's a real Oxford obsession

TURIN watch out! One Oxfordshire family have become so besotted with the classic Mini they have enough horsepower to pull off their own Italian Job-style heist. The Webb family are so in love with the Cowley-built car that dad Steve, mum Michele, son

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Driver's 'remarkable' escape in crash with lorry

THE man who escaped this crash virtually unscathed was so lucky he “should be giving us all his Lottery numbers”, according to a paramedic. The victim, believed to be in his 20s, had to be cut from his car after his Honda collided with a lorry

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COMMENT: An expensive fiasco

HOW lonely Stuart Crawford must be on a Saturday. There he goes, trotting out at the grand market place in Kidlington — constructed at a cost of £265,000 of taxpayers’ money — to sell his wares. But instead of pitching up in a bustling, thriving marketplace

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Market's short of traders

IT is a quarter-of-a-million-pound market place that has no market! Two-and-a-half years since Kidlington’s Watts Way had a £265,000 taxpayer-funded makeover as a modern piazza, just one trader sets up his stall there on Saturday mornings. During the

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Constable focused on Oxford United

OXFORD United’s in-form goalscorer James Constable insists he’s got nothing to prove to Stockport boss Paul Simpson at the Kassam Stadium today. When he was manager of Shrewsbury, Simpson let Constable leave, to join Oxford, and the talismanic striker

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No bones about it, Bridget's retiring

THERE are not many people who can say they owe a 42-year spotless work attendance record to a daily glass of red wine. But Bridget Mackey, who lives in Grove, can do just that. Miss Mackey has been working for the NHS in Oxford since 1968, and in more

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Littlemore Harvest Festival becomes a showcase for arts

A CHURCH is to give up its space to local artists to mark this year’s harvest festival. The walls of SS Mary and Nicholas, in Littlemore, will be covered in paintings and there will be visual arts and music concerts between October 9 and 17. Vicar the

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No bones about it - Bridget's retiring from Oxford hospital

THERE are not many people who can say they owe a 42-year spotless work attendance record to a daily glass of red wine. But Bridget Mackey, who lives in Grove, can do just that. Miss Mackey has been working for the NHS in Oxford since 1968, and in more