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Snow spreads as cold tightens grip
Severe weather warnings for almost all of the UK were issued tonight with heavy snow and widespread icy roads forecast. Warnings of sub-zero temperatures overnight came as the big chill brought parts of the country to a standstill after the earliest
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Widow criticises air authorities after pilot's heart disease goes undetected
The widow of a man killed in a plane crash has criticised air authorities for allowing a pilot’s severe heart disease to go undetected. As a pilot for Ryanair Tony Corr flew thousands of people around the world and helped to train young pilots for the
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Broadway Tower is picture perfect
STUNNING images of the Cotswolds will go on display in Oxford today – with an image by a camera enthusiast from the city’s Blackbird Leys estate taking pride of place. A Cotswold Scene, an exhibition of amateur photography, features 19 images selected
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Vicar of Dibley star joins festive fundraiser
VICAR of Dibley actor James Fleet is the latest star name to join the annual Spirit of Christmas concert at Christ Church Cathedral on December 7 to raise funds for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. Mr Fleet will read at the special Christmas
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UPDATE: M40 closure through to 9pm
THE M40 is still closed between four junctions southbound after a 40-tonne lorry jack-knifed and shed its cargo. The lorry, which hit the central reservation shortly before 1pm, is laid on its side across lanes two and three between between junction
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RACING: Cois Farraig surprises Webber
Cois Farraig surprised Banbury trainer Paul Webber by capturing the Grade 2 Fuller’s London Pride Novices’ Chase at Newbury on Friday. The Mollington handler felt his five-year-old may be up against it taking on top-notch hurdler Celestial Halo. But
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Badger culling move attacked
BADGERS should not be culled to combat the spread of TB, a leading Oxford zoologist has insisted. Former Government chief scientific adviser Lord May of Oxford questioned the merits of a proposed badger cull which is designed to protect cattle from bovine
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Pensioner attacks plans to cut number of care home beds
A PENSIONER who says his life was saved at a care home has attacked plans to cut beds. Oxfordshire joint health overview and scrutiny committee has launched a full consultation into whether it should stop funding 13 intermediate care beds at
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RUGBY UNION: Cokethorpe bid still on course
COKETHORPE School, Witney, are on course for a Oxfordshire Cup treble. The under 19 holders swept past St Birinus (Didcot) 50-0 in the quarter-finals. And they followed that up with an even more comprehensive win in the semi-finals this week. They
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ANGLING: Lobworm tempts top perch
LAST Saturday, eight members of the Perchfishers Club held a fish-in on the Alliance stretch of the Thames at Eynsham. Best perch of the day was caught by Phil Lowe, who float-fished a lobworm to tempt a specimen of 3.12.0. Local angler Colin Lurcook
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Blenheim launch for Oxfordshire Business Awards 2011
Scores of former winners, finalists and sponsors gathered at Blenheim Palace for a Champagne reception to mark the launch of the Oxfordshire Business Awards 2011. The event, held in the prestigious surroundings of the Palace’s Orangery, was
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Local share prices (PM)
AEA Technology 5.3 BMW 5029 Electrocomponents 268.4 Nationwide Accident Repair 95.5 Oxford Biomedica 9.6 Oxford Catalysts 61.5 Oxford Instruments 591 Reed Elsevier 526 RM 157.5 RPS Group 234.3 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley, Abingdon
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Burford Garden Company
Decorations for home & garden and life-like Christmas trees, also Christmas gift wrap & cards, crackers and Christmas scented candles For more information visit: www.burford.co.uk Burford Garden Company, Shilton Road, Burford OX18 4PA Tel: 01993
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Heaven 17: O2 Academy
IT is 30 years years since seminal 80s synthpop band Heaven 17 released masterpiece Penthouse and Pavement. And what a different world we lived in then. Or did we? We were hovering on the edge of recession, and living under a new Tory
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Dickensian Evening
Wantage Dickensian Evening & Late Night Shopping Friday 3 December 6.00pm - 9.00pm Entertainment, music & dance, Santa & reindeer, Victorian Fun Fair, Punch & Judy, Pig roast and Festive carols For more information visit: www.wantage.com/dickensian
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The Pillowman: New Theatre, Oxford
In an intriguing departure from conventional practice, which turns out to work very well, the audience join the actors on the stage of the New Theatre this week for a riveting production of Martin McDonagh’s black, bleak play The Pillowman.
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Crash closes M40
THE M40 is closed between three junctions after a 40-tonne lorry jacknifed and shed its cargo this afternoon. Southbound drivers are being diverted onto the A40 between junction 8a, south of Oxford, and junction six at Watlington. Traffic is queuing
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Skimming devices found on three cash machines in Oxford
Police warned people to be on their guard after skimming devices were recovered from three cash machines in Oxford. A member of the public observed two men fixing a device to a machine at the Co-op, in Old Marston Road, shortly before 9am yesterday
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WHEELING IN: Porsche Cayenne S
WITH Chinese communities considering the number eight as the most fortuitous number in the world, the new Porsche Cayenne S ought to be on to a winner in the Far East. With eight cylinders, eight gears and what looks like 888 buttons gushing
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Musician is named a Community Champion
IT’S not often that someone goes from festival rock star to local hero, but one Oxfordshire musician has proved it can be done. Joe Bennett, co-organiser of the county’s annual Truck Festival, has been named a Community Champion by the Vale of the White
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CAR'S THE STAR: 1964 Cadillac Deville
I’ve a confession to make; I like American Football. Die-hard fans of real football, the kind that’s played by Ronaldos and not Brads or Bucks, will be burning this article right now. And the rest of you will probably want me to start explaining myself
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LADY DRIVER: Age limits
I AM all for the environment. Reducing our carbon footprint, reusing, recycling and reclaiming are top of my agenda, along with finding greener ways to get around. As Oxford is the international epicentre of cycling culture (well, apart from Beijing
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MY WHEELS: VW Golf Cabriolet
Q. What vehicle do you drive? A. A 1997 Volkswagen Golf Mark 3 Convertible. However, currently I’m not driving it as it won’t start. Q. How long have you had it? A. Two years. Q. How much did it cost? A. £1,300.
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Shed load causes M40 closure
An overturned lorry and a shed load of insulation caused long delays on the M40 in Oxfordshire this afternoon. The southbound motorway was closed between junction 8A at Wheatley and junction six at Watlington. The lorry is on its side
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Santa's Here!
Santa's Grotto Until Sunday 19 December Saturday 10.00am - 5.30pm Sunday 11.00am - 4.00pm £5.99 per child with free festive gift Tea with Santa Pass the Parcel, a story & free festive gift on selected dates in December 4.30pm
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Citizens' Advice Bureau flooded by debt inquiries in PM's constituency
CITIZENS’ Advice Bureau advisers in Prime Minister David Cameron’s Witney constituency are having to deal with unprecedented levels of inquiries about debt. And they have seen one of the highest increases in such inquiries in the whole country. The
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‘Tourist tax would help upkeep city’
SERVICES in Oxford should be paid for by a tax on tourists. That is the bold claim by Tony Joyce, who after a decade as the head of Oxford Civic Society, is to stand down as its chairman. Mr Joyce, from Blenheim Drive, North Oxford,
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Woman seriously hurt in A420 crash
Police are appealing for witnesses after a serious injury collision in Shrivenham. At about 2.35pm yesterday, a silver Peugeot 207 and a dark blue Volkswagen Golf collided on the A420. The front seat passenger of the Volkswagen Golf, a 29-year-old
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Bicester Avenue Garden Centre
There is a wide range of real and artificial trees for sale... Real trees: choose between potted or cut trees Artificial trees: pre-lit, fibre optic or unlit trees There is also a range of Christmas plants (including poinsettias) and Christmas
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Waterperry Gardens
Pick up one of Waterperry's own grown Christmas Trees Smaller potted Norway and Serbian spruce varieties are already available to buy and these newly tagged ones will be cut over the next few weeks when people start buying trees to keep them as fresh
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Oxford Hospital staff top healthcare "Oscars"
MORE THAN 50 staff at an Oxford Hospital have been given a healthcare ‘Oscar’ by their bosses. Each year the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre (NOC) in Headington hands over the awards to staff they feel have gone above and beyond what is expected of them.
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Libraries and youth centres to close under cuts without community help
TWENTY libraries and 20 youth centres will close unless local communities can come to their rescue, under Oxfordshire County Council proposals to save £155 million by 2015. The council has announced plans to stop funding 20 of Oxfordshire
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Marriotts Walk, Witney
Thursday late night shopping until Christmas
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Salon’s skills help cancer patients
WHEN a regular customer at Bicester’s Gemini hair salon told staff she had cancer and would lose her hair, it got staff thinking how they could help. But it was only after senior stylist Lisa Higginson went to a talk by celebrity hairdresser
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House prices hit two-year high
House prices in Oxfordshire have risen to their highest level for more than two years. Latest figures from the Land Registry, the Government’s official measure of property values, show the average price of a property in the county last month was £242,199
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Work, Life, Pubs & Tractors
I count myself very lucky to be able to go on a pub crawl in my own village. I live in Sutton, the capital of Stanton Harcourt, and we have not one but two pubs – The Fox at the end of my lane and the Harcourt Arms in the middle of Stanton. Pretty
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BADMINTON: Cheney net Premier status
Oxford's Cheney School have been awarded ‘Premier School’ status by Badminton England. The Headington school have been recognised for promoting the sport and becomes the third in Oxfordshire to make the grade after Wallingford School and King Alfred’
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Engineer injured while fixing city bus
A MAN knocked down in St Aldate’s in Oxford as he fixed a broken down bus was yesterday thought to not to have suffered any serious injury. Police were called shortly after 6.15pm on Wednesday to reports of a broken down Stagecoach bus in St Aldate’s
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MURDER TRIAL: 'Accused boasted of stabbing'
A TEENAGER on trial for the murder of Blayne Ridgway had previously brandished a knife in an Oxford nightclub and had boasted of stabbing another youth in the buttocks, a witness told jurors yesterday. John Amadasun gave evidence at Oxford Crown Court
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Muggers attack F1 boss Ecclestone
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone suffered a head injury after muggers attacked him and escaped with jewellery worth £200,000. The 80-year-old F1 supremo was robbed outside the headquarters of his business empire Formula One Holdings in Knightsbridge
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AEA Technology 5.3 BMW 4954 Electrocomps 266.9 Nationwide Accident Repair 95.5 Oxford Biomedica 9.6 Oxford Catalyst 62.25 Oxford Instruments 590.25 Reed Elsevier 523.25 RM 156.75 RPS Group 234 Courtesy of Redmayne Bentley, Abingdon
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RUGBY UNION: Quins baby boom
IT is a tale of two babies for Oxford Harlequins as they host Barnstaple in National 3 South West tomorrow. Centre Martin Nutt returns after missing last week’s defeat at Redingensians after his wife gave birth to a son. Prop James Eckert, however,
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Lights failure causes city delays
Traffic lights failure led to long delays in Oxford today. The lights failed at roadworks being carried out in Walton Street, Oxford, leading to long hold-ups. The lights were repaired and delays cleared by 10.15am.
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Police evict student protesters
POLICE smashed their way into Oxford University’s Radcliffe Camera last night to haul out 37 student protesters. More than 100 students from Oxford’s universities, colleges and schools stormed the building on Wednesday during a march against
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FOOTBALL: Striker Odom sidelined by broken wrist
Clanfield striker Mark Odom misses Saturday's Bluefin Insurance Brokers Cup second round tie at home to Premier Division high-fliers Shortwood with a broken wrist. Odom suffered the injury last month, but it has only just been diagnosed as a fracture
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Jurors set to consider trafficking verdict
JURORS are today expected to begin deliberating in the trial of two men accused of trafficking women for prostitution. Anastassios Papas, 42, of Iffley Road, East Oxford, is charged with five counts of trafficking women within the UK for sexual
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RUGBY UNION: Chinnor in Stoop setback
Chinnor will be without centre Sam Stoop again for tomorrow’s National 3 South West trip to Exmouth. Stoop suffered a recurrence of a knee injury last week in his first game since September 25. Huw Morgan comes in. Chinnor head coach Jason Bowers said
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Fashion issue
I AM a lady of 70 years-plus, who has difficulty obtaining smart clothes in Oxford. The main big stores seem no longer to cater for the ‘oldies’. Many of my friends feel the same way. We want to look smart but not like mutton dressed as lamb. How
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Disturbed by article
We were disturbed to see your front page article on Monday – ‘Vanished – police hunt for 23 missing people including these asylum seekers’. Most of those pictured are not yet adults, or have only just passed the age of 18. People do go missing – because
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FOOTBALL: Abingdon parade trio
Abingdon United could give first starts to Shaun Wimble, Graham Lewis and JP Mills at Almondsbury in Division 1 South & West on Saturday. Wimble joins from Didcot Town, while Lewis and Mills come in from Thatcham and Witney United respectively
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Traders’ delight as plans delayed
ONE of Oxford’s best known restaurants and three fellow independent traders have been given a new lease of life after plans to renovate a landmark Victorian building were delayed. The Big Bang sausage restaurant in Walton Street, Jericho, had been expected
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COMMENT: Big Bang boost
BIG news for the Big Bang. One of Oxford’s best-known restaurants, as well as three other independent traders, has been given a new lease of life, after it emerged that plans to renovate a landmark Victorian building in Jericho have been shelved. Ensuring
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Snail mail
WOW – I posted a local letter to the City Works depot, in Marsh Road, Cowley, Oxford, on October 27. But, calm down, dears, it only took 23 days to arrive. Speechless – I certainly am. Thanks, Royal Mail. DAVID WINKFIELD Charles Street Oxford
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Waste of money
THE obscene amounts of money spent on anti-terrorist police propaganda might be acceptable but for one highly-disturbing statistic: more people have actually been killed by the police than have been killed by any terrorist of any description in Britain
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Helping hands
I NOTED with interest Tuesday’s The Issue, debating the funding of schools’ sports partnership facing the axe. Next to this article was a letter from Sian Renwick, of Oxford University, informing us of their support to the community of Oxford. Maybe
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Taxi fare facts
In response to John Wilson’s letter (Monday’s Oxford Mail ViewPoints) I think it only correct that I explain the facts where Oxford hackney carriage out-of-city fares are concerned. Due to the fact that once a hackney carriage leaves the outer boundary
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Meeting a travesty of planning process
A resident, canvassing opinions last weekend about the possible closure of St Clement’s car park. told councillors that about 90 per cent of the people he spoke with expressed cynical and negative views about Oxford City Council. He wrote that he encountered
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CABBAGES & KINGS: Tinny bins litter street
RUBBISH, or rather receptacles for the deposit of same, were under scrutiny in High Street. Not the stout, cast iron models that are so much a part of Oxford, but shiny new ones that resemble kitchen pedal bins. They have started to appear around the
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Setback for cancer campaigners
CANCER campaigners suffered a setback after another potentially life-extending treatment was deemed too expensive for NHS prescriptions. Today, kidney cancer patients will be told Everolimus, which could give an extra three months’ life, is not good
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TV detective Lewis considers retirement
LEWIS, the Oxford-based television detective series, may have survived cuts in ITV’s budget but the end could be in sight for the Inspector Morse spin-off. Kevin Whately, who is currently filming the fifth series of Lewis in the city, has admitted
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U's slash prices for Christmas clash
OXFORD United are giving their fans a Christmas treat – by slashing prices for the Bank Holiday fixture against Macclesfield. Ticket prices for the npower League Two game against the Silkmen on Tuesday, December 28 will be the cheapest ever seen for
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Tom Richardson: Former leader of Labour group and head of health service watchdog
CIVIC leaders have paid tribute to former Oxford politician and health campaigner Tom Richardson. Mr Richardson, former chief officer of Oxfordshire Community Health Council, Labour Party leader on Oxfordshire County Council and industrial
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Warning issued on icy roads
Drivers in Oxfordshire were today warned of icy roads after two cars crashed. The accident, which happened at about 6.30pm yesterday on the B4027 near Wootton, Woodstock, is thought to have been caused by a slippery surface. Nobody was
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Rider seriously injured in crash
A 23-year-old Bicester motorcyclist was taken to hospital with serious injuries after a crash on the A4095. The accident happened between the B430 junction and Kirtlington at about 5.20pm on Tuesday when a red Toyota MR2 and a white Yamaha motorbike
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COMMENT: Railwork is certainly on the right track
IT’S not crystal clear... but it certainly looks promising. The electrification of the rail service between Oxford, Didcot, Reading and London has at last been given the go-ahead. But – and it’s a significant ‘but’ – a question mark still hangs over
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FOOTBALL: Jeffrey on hunt for hitman
BANBURY United boss Billy Jeffrey has stepped up his search for a striker after Scott Cross was ruled out for several weeks with an ankle injury. With Nabil Sharif back at Rushden after his three-month loan ended, and Jason Taylor (knee injury
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UPDATE: Government backs electric railways
THE rail route between Oxford, Didcot and London will be electrified within six years, the Government announced yesterday. However, a question mark remained last night over whether the majority of commuters from Oxford to the capital will be able use
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Cars crash as drivers warned about icy roads
FIRE chiefs are urging drivers to be aware of icy roads after two cars crashed last night. The accident, which happened at about 6.30pm on the B4027 near Wootton, near Woodstock is thought to have been caused by a slippery surface. Nobody
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Mini the pride of Oxford was there to switch on the Xmas lights.
MINI, the pride of Oxford, was represented by this happy family, they drew the attention of scores of spectators as they matched down the crowded queen street. Being a Mini enthusiast, I was pleased to see how much joy and energy the well crafted Mini
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FOOTBALL: McEachran is Chelsea's Special One
THE scout who discovered teenage sensation Josh McEachran says that he was ‘something special’ from the moment he first saw him. Peter Harris worked for Chelsea from 1996-2002 and saw the starlet in action at a Garden City six-a-side tournament in 2000
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Night porter claims he was dismissed over 'grudge'
A night porter at an Oxford college was allegedly dismissed because a manager held a grudge against him, and not because he had reached retirement age, an employment tribunal heard. Terence Greenwood, from Ringwood Road, Risinghurst, Oxford
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Pupils meet Belsen survivor
A HOLOCAUST survivor has told Oxford pupils of his parents’ death in a Nazi concentration camp and how he kept his brother alive by smuggling him lumps of potato. Retired engineer Rudi Oppenheimer, 79, was visiting Matthew Arnold School, Cumnor, ahead
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Holocaust survivor tells pupils of concentration camp horrors
A HOLOCAUST survivor has told Oxford pupils of his parents’ death in a Nazi concentration camp and how he kept his brother alive by smuggling him lumps of potato. Retired engineer Rudi Oppenheimer, 79, was visiting Matthew Arnold School, Cumnor
