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Saddle up for town's festival of cycling
A FREE one-day cycling festival in Abingdon promises to get scores of new riders in the saddle. Visitors to the Spring Cycle Festival on Sunday April 21, can try out a range of bikes, go on bike rides, and visit a bike ‘doctor’. About 500 people
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Homes planned for cricket pitch
DEVELOPMENT on a long-abandoned cricket pitch could lead to a cash boost in facilities for the sport. Plans are under way to build 30 homes on the Barton Road cricket ground, once home to Headington United Cricket Club. The pitch has not been
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Police link two mobile phone robberies
POLICE have linked two street robberies in Bicester in which people had mobile phones taken. Both incidents took place in the town on Saturday night between 10pm and 10.30pm. In the first, a 20-year-old man, who was walking with his girlfriend
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Charlotte’s loving a chance to dance
FIVE-year-old Charlotte Nott is unable to play with normal games consoles because of her disability. But thanks to specialist computer equipment at Charlbury-based charity SpecialEffect, Charlotte, who lost her limbs to meningitis as a baby, and
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Highlights: Nu-jazz and steam punk to rock and 60s pop
Our weekly guide to Oxford's best gigs... Indie-pop SECRET RIVALS The Cellar, Oxford Tonight (Thursday) Tickets £4 from wegottickets.com OXFORD has produced no shortage of great bands over the years
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Soundbites: Secret Rivals launch album and Bully gets a refurb
New album by Secret Rivals should send them into the stratosphere SECRET Rivals are one of the most exciting young bands to have come out of Oxford. The good-looking four-piece of Clouds, Andy, Jay and Reece blend ’80s synth-pop with
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Beth Orton: Songbird's sweet dreams
Tim Hughes talks to singer, guitarist and mother Beth Orton, who is going back on the road with her new album When you have recorded as many records as Beth Orton, you can be forgiven for forgetting what they all sound like. After all, you can
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Development group to grill politicians
THE Wantage and Grove Campaign Group for sustainable development has arranged a new meeting with MP Ed Vaizey at Wantage Civic Hall on Friday, May 3, at 8pm. Mr Vaizey, MP for Wantage and Didcot, and Vale of White Horse District Council leader
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Earth Doesn't Move
OBLIVION (12A) Sci-Fi/Thriller/Action/ Romance. Tom Cruise, Olga Kurylenko, Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Freeman, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Melissa Leo. Director: Joseph Kosinski. If planet Earth was decimated by a series of earthquakes and tsunamis
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What's Hot, What's Tasty, What's New...
* A popular smartphone app for foodies has just become iPad accessible. The Good Pub Guide is a bestseller for the iPhone, and can now be purchased for bigger screens from the iTunes store at a cost of £4.99. In return for your digital fiver, enjoy
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Wild Woman
KATHERINE MACALISTER talks to popular TV presenter Michaela Strachan about her new stage show for kids Next time you are hurrying for a train or about to drive to work, spare a thought for Michaela Strachan. She lives in South Africa these days
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Atomic Fall-Out
Wacky surroundings and a fine array of pizzas don’t stop KATHERINE MACALISTER suffering from a touch of food envy Food envy is a terrible thing. It can ravage you, reducing you to a wingeing Pom in seconds, complete with teenage sulks and a quivering
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Spiers and Boden search for local folk
Tim Hughes talks to Jon Boden, of folk duo Spiers and Boden, ahead of a uniquely local village show AS the frontmen of bombastic folk collective Bellowhead, they have played to crowds of thousands at festivals from Glastonbury to Cropredy, packed-out
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Jumbo Talent
ELIZABETH BROWN is transported from Jericho to Jaipur thanks to artist Jethro Buck Jethro Buck’s Freefall at Art Jericho is an exhibition which compellingly winks at the Oxonian observer, belying the global origins of its sources. On an initial
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New era for Fossil Collective
TIM HUGHES talks to Dave Fendick of reluctant pop-rock success story Fossil Collective DAVE Fendick didn’t want to be in a band. In fact he was sick of the whole idea. Despite moderate success, when his first group broke up he and former bandmate
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Obituary: The Rev John Stanton, priest and teacher
A VICAR and former teacher has died at the age of 94. The Rev John Stanton was ordained in the early 1950s after studying chemistry at University College, Oxford. He combined his role as a priest with that of a teacher until being appointed
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Obituary: Jean Floud, author of key study of social class and education
A SOCIOLOGIST who demonstrated the power of class in shaping educational achievement has died aged 97. Jean Floud (nee McDonald) first came to Oxford when she became the city’s assistant education officer in 1940. This gave her an in-depth
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The Big Score
THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (15) Drama/Romance/Action. Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, Ben Mendelsohn, Eva Mendes, Ray Liotta, Rose Byrne, Mahershala Ali, Dane DeHaan, Emory Cohen. Director: Derek Cianfrance THE sins of fathers are revisited upon
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Best of Bonds
More than 50 years and six different Bonds, yet all with one thing in common – their licence to kill. And never have three numbers meant more than these... 007. In short they stand for ‘Action’ but in longhand they translate into Vodka martinis
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What's Hot, What's New, What's In, What's Hip...
*OXFORD has produced no shortage of great bands over the years, and the latest to start pricking up ears way beyond the city’s dreaming spires are synth-pop four-piece Secret Rivals, pictured. Long a hit on the local scene, they are now expected
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What's Hot, What Rocks, What's Cool...
* THE Mill Theatre in Banbury is tonight hosting an evening that pays tribute to the career of Neil Diamond. The Songs and Story of Neil Diamond is a chronological exploration of the music that made Neil Diamond an American icon. It’s led by Dominic
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Oxford United accounts show £1million loss
OXFORD United’s latest accounts have revealed a loss in excess of £1million. The figures show the U’s were in the red to the tune of £1,017,504 for the 12 months up to June 30 2012. Losses were expected, but the figure is still significantly
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Songbird Beth Orton's sweet dreams
When you have recorded as many records as Beth Orton, you can be forgiven for forgetting what they all sound like. After all, you can only fit so many songs into a show. So the singer-songwriter is enjoying the opportunity to go through her back
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Bellini, Botticelli, Titian... 500 Years of Italian art: Compton Verney
Bellini, Botticelli, Titian… 500 years of Italian Art runs the title of Compton Verney’s first exhibition this year. “All you ever wanted to know about Italian art and were afraid to ask,” quips Steven Parissien, the Warwickshire gallery’s director
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First person: James Styring - 'Let’s all be inspired by Boris'
As chairman of Cyclox, I’m often asked how Oxford compares with other cities, why cycling is so popular here at all, and what the future holds. The answer to the first question is easy, to the second tricky and to the last — until recently — underwhelming
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Consider festival punters
Sir – This year’s Oxford Literary Festival offered many treats and the novelty of using central landmark buildings. But the decision not to have the great food, drink, mini-lecture and bookshop marquee in the meadow was, by common consent, seen
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Vandalised skyline
Sir – I am astonished by John Tanner’s defence of the Port Meadow planning catastrophe (Letters, March 28). I don’t know which is worse: that the council did not have the information they needed to make an informed decision about the University
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Costly ‘disaster’
Sir – The new university buildings on Roger Dudman Way are ugly and obscure views of parts of the skyline of the city from parts of Port Meadow. Three thousand people signed a petition demanding that a retrospective Environmental Impact Assessment
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Peculiar priority
Sir – Can anyone explain who is responsible for the decision to enable buses to have priority at the traffic lights on the A40 at the western end of Eynsham. One has the bizarre situation at busy times when the lights change like a Belisha beacon,
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Cheaper option
Sir – Does everyone realise that Oxfordshire County Council is proposing to build a roundabout on the A40 Witney bypass at Downs Road because it is cheaper than a four-way slip road? There is another option: build just two slip roads going to
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Rebuild rail network
Sir – The number of people using the railway to commute between Bicester and Oxford has risen dramatically over the last few years. They now face the loss of this amenity for two and, perhaps, up to four, years. The alternatives all employ
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Parking is ‘cash cow’
Sir – I would be grateful if Oxford City Council could explain its decision to increase parking charges at the Seacourt park-and-ride by a whopping 25 per cent? There doesn’t seem to be any obvious justification for such a large rise and it feels
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Bridge repair latest
Sir – I am indebted to councillor Rodney Rose (deputy leader of Oxfordshire County Council) for responding to my letter of March 14 noting that the Highways Agency is responsible for the farcical state of affairs re the A34 bridge barrier. However,
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Schools deserve best
Sir – Very hard to know where to begin over the way the proposed Windmill School expansion has been handled/mishandled by Oxfordshire County Council (Report, March 21). Last year, during a public meeting at the school, Oxfordshire County Council
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Health debate call
Sir – “Sleepwalking into the market” was the title of the editorial in the latest British Medical Journal and I fear that it is very likely that few doctors and even fewer of the public realise just how radical are the changes to the NHS that ahave
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Ban on speaking
Sir – Thank you for giving West Papuan independence leader and Oxford resident Benny Wenda a voice in (Report, March 21) when the New Zealand Parliament has just slammed its door in his face. Since Benny was given a safe haven here 10 years ago
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'Space school' set to open next year
PUPILS are preparing to ‘boldly go’ when the country’s first ‘space school’ opens in Oxfordshire next year. The final frontier will be high on the syllabus for the 14- to 18-year-olds lucky enough to earn a place at the ground-breaking new education
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Police complaints
Sir – One of the gravest concerns that the public have regarding the performance and conduct of Thames Valley Police relates to the manner in which the multitude of complaints made annually against TVP are managed. The vast majority are simply
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Moronic attitude
Sir – I write to express the great frustration experienced by myself, many staff members and many members of the public on reading the ignorant, arrogant and silly words of city councillor Colin Cook on parking at the John Radcliffe Hospital.
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Free expression
Sir – Mr Taylor (Letters, March 28) refers to the fashion to ridicule matters of faith, but fails to quote an instance. He suggests it can be counted on to belittle Easter. Nobody has as far as I am aware. An atheist myself, I can’t say I can
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Unlikely situation
Sir – Your estimable correspondent John White (Letters, March 21) informs us that Oxford Humanists did not back the setting up of a Christian Free School in Oxford, which they would certainly have no reason to do, but claims that these Christians told
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All in it together
Sir – Perhaps David Cameron should listen to many of his own constituents who are striving to stop his local council, West Oxfordshire District Council (WODC), from making fools of themselves — and, by association, him — by building 700 homes opposite
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Ban the bonfire
Sir – It’s grand that Tim Hobden has not killed his composting worms this winter — though whether it was clear from his last Back to Earth article (Weekend, March 28) quite what he was describing I don’t know. I do like his take on being ‘behind
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Pink Land Rovers
Sir – Perhaps Dominic Utton’s concern about riding a pink Brompton (Off the Rails, March 21) might be alleviated by knowing that the SAS, a pretty macho group, used to drive around the desert in pink Land Rovers. Marc Thomas, Oxford
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Iron resolve
Friends and former foes have been generous and ungrudging in their praise of Lady Thatcher in a city that played an important part in her life from the darkest days of the Second World War. Many of her biographers detected in her memoirs a lack
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Success on tap for dancer Nicole
SHE has been tap dancing since she was two. Now Nicole Faux, 10, is tapping on the door of stardom. She has made the regional final of nationwide contest Britain Does Variety. In the last year she has also appeared in two short films, a
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Mum aiming to win a place on cover of Vogue
FASHION magazine Vogue’s next front cover could feature a mum-of-three from Oxford. That’s the dream of Botley resident Stella Moore, 22. She is up on the catwalk this weekend to represent England against models from all over the world after
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Oxford hotel unveils expansion plans
AN OXFORD hotel is planning a major expansion due to growing demand for rooms in the city. Bosses at the Oxford Spires Four Pillars Hotel, in Abingdon Road, have applied for planning permission for a new building in its grounds, which will provide
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Teenager killed by train in Bicester is named
A TEENAGER who was killed after he was struck by a train in Bicester has been named locally as Marcus Rawlings. The incident happened at about 1.20pm on Monday near the bridge carrying the line over the A4095 Howes Lane at the north-west edge of
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Farmers and villagers in Oxfordshire urged to tip off police about crime
VILLAGERS and farmers are being urged to become “the eyes and ears” of the police to help fight a rising tide of rural criminality. Thames Valley Police (TVP) yesterday launched Country Watch, a scheme to combat the theft of agricultural machinery
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RUGBY UNION: Chinnor 2nd are champions
CHINNOR 2nd have won the Zoo Sports Shield Division 2 North title with a 100 per cent record. Saturday’s 29-15 victory at Shelford 2nd was Chinnor’s 16th from 16 in the league. They have also won 24 out of 24 in all competitions – and will
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FOOTBALL: City forced to settle for a point
OXFORD City could not repeat Monday night’s victory over Bradford Park Avenue and had to settle for a point in last night’s Blue Square Bet North return fixture at Marsh Lane. A 1-1 draw was probably a fair result on a night of few chances, with
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BAR BILLIARDS: Title on the line
THE Johnsons Buildbase Oxford League Section 1 title will be decided in tonight’s final round of fixtures after both contenders won last week, writes PETE EWINS. One point separates the top two after leaders West Oxford Democrats Club beat Section
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AUNT SALLY: Chippy are top dogs
CHIPPING Norton took the honours in the Inter-League Competition with a 2-0 win over Oxford in the final at General Foods Sports & Social Club, Banbury. Steve Arthurs led the way with a brace of fives as Chipping Norton triumphed in a 25-20
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ATHLETICS: Jegou is Compton champion
PAUL Jegou was surprised to retain his Compton 20-mile title on his return from injury. The White Horse Harrier recorded a time of 2hrs 30mins 57secs for the off-road course, which he won in 2.16.48 last year. Jegou had only entered to test
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Cocaine found in man's home
A man has denied possessing almost £8,000 worth of cocaine with intent to supply. Ardan Shehu, 27, of London Road, Headington, was arrested at his home on November 3 last year where police discovered an 85g block of cocaine. In a wardrobe they
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World leaders in city
World leaders descended on Oxford yesterday as a social entrepreneurship forum began at the New Theatre. The George Street venue will play host to former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and pop star Annie Lennox among others. The Skoll World
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Raider 'guilty'
A 28-year-old who tried to steal cash from a shop before being tackled by a member of the public admitted robbery at Oxford Crown Court on Monday. Shane Bishop, of Norris Close, Abingdon, was accused of snatching cash from a heavily pregnant shop
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Website for new health watchdog now live
STEPS are finally being taken to launch Oxfordshire’s official new patients’ watchdog. Views are being sought on the board structure for Healthwatch Oxfordshire and recruitment of its five officers will start this month. It was meant to replace
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Is this the solution to student homes fight?
THE cost of lowering the controversial Castle Mill student buildings could be up to £20m, it has been suggested. But Oxford University has already ruled out spending the money because it would be an “inappropriate use of charitable funds”.
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RUGBY UNION: Pearson's England call
WALLINGFORD RFC’s Jamie Pearson earned a late call-up as England Under 16 North defeated Belgium 46-12 in the BMW Wellington International Festival. The 16-year-old Abingdon School pupil, who has played for Wallingford since the age of eight, praised
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ATHLETICS: Fernandez doubles up
PAUL Fernandez successfully defended his White Horse Half Marathon title with a dominant victory at Grove. The Abingdon Ambler completed the 13.1-mile course in 1hr 11mins 22secs to win the race, which doubled up as the Oxfordshire championships
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Vienna Festival Ballet bringing Sleeping Beauty to the Mill
Vienna Festival Ballet returns to Banbury on its 33rd anniversary tour of the UK with another of the world’s favourite classic ballets. This acclaimed company brings The Sleeping Beauty to The Mill for two shows this Sunday. This is a classic
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NINE BELOW ZERO: Re-formed band to play Mill
London blues-influenced band Nine Below Zero, fresh from another successful tour of Europe, play The Mill Arts Centre in Banbury next Saturday (April 20). Nine Below Zero built an almost obsessive following in the early 1980 with their take on
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Colleagues mourn ex-Abingdon councillor’s sudden death
SHE was a breath of fresh air who couldn’t do just one thing at a time. That was how colleagues yesterday described former Abingdon town councillor Penny McDougall, who died unexpectedly on Sundaynight. The 58-year-old, of Austin Place, attended
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RACING: Cocktail's the toast
Epsom Derby entry Another Cocktail opened his account for East Ilsley trainer Hughie Morrison with an easy success at Lingfield yesterday. Sent off the 1-2 favourite, Richard Hughes’s mount stormed home by three and a half lengths from Divergence
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ICE HOCKEY: Stars clinch title in stunning style
Oxford City Stars are celebrating being crowned English National League South Division 2 champions – and they did it in style with an emphatic 9-3 win at Basingstoke Buffalo. Stars stormed to the title on the back of an impressive 13-match winning
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RUGBY UNION: Town and Gown showdown
OXFORDSHIRE will take on Oxford University for a place in the National Under 20 Shield final at Twickenham. The pair set up a semi-final showdown at Iffley Road on Sunday, April 21 after coming through their respective last eight ties. Oxfordshire
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You’ve ignored us all
WHAT planet or universe does city councillor and executive member for city development, Colin Cook, come from? I am referring to the St Clement’s car park site article (Oxford Mail, April 10). He refers to the much-needed student accommodation required
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Comment on pools
CITY Councillor Van Coulter is determined to leave Temple Cowley without swimming and gym facilities, while residents of his Barton ward enjoy the benefits of a new hi-tech swimming pool and gymnasium. Would the councillor care to comment on this
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Not a hostile discussion
YOUR correspondent painted a lively picture of the public meeting on March 27 to discuss the design of the new Blavatnik School of Government building. Concerns were raised and we are keen to engage seriously with those, but readers could be forgiven
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THE INSIDER: Deciding the big stuff with paper, scissors, stone
OXFORD Mail reporters have been noting the movements of two of Thames Valley’s most senior police officers. Earlier this month, Deputy Chief Constable Francis Habgood was sent to face the media over plans to close police stations and offices in Oxfordshire
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Children revved up for fun at Didcot barracks' Armed Forces play day
SEVEN-year-old Bryhani Neal sped round a go-kart track at a free play day. The youngster motored around the circuit yesterday during the Armed Forces Play Day at Didcot’s Vauxhall Barracks in Foxhall Road, organised by the Oxfordshire Play Association
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ICE HOCKEY: Elliott proud of Oxford's success
Player-coach Darren Elliott felt having a home-bred line-up proved pivotal in Oxford City Stars’ English National League South Division 2 title triumph. Elliott pointed to recruiting players from the city – when the club relaunched itself this
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CRICKET: Oxford face Reading tie
Oxford have been drawn at home to Reading in the Home Counties Premier League Twenty20 first round on Bank Holiday Monday, May 6. Aston Rowant entertain Gerrards Cross, while Great & Little Tew visit Dinton. Banbury, who have a bye, will
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CRICKET: Oxon women enjoy booster
Oxfordshire women warmed up for their ECB County Championship Division 3 match against Gloucestershire this weekend with a four-wicket win over Bedfordshire at Freeland. Bedfordshire were bowled out for 139 after being put in to bat, with Caitie
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ATHLETICS: Clarke's focus is on Moscow
LAWRENCE Clarke is unlikely to defend his Oxfordshire 100m title as he focuses on his 110m hurdles bid at the World Championships. The 23-year-old, from Christmas Common, provided some star quality at last year’s Oxfordshire Track and Field Championships
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A note of cautions
WHILE recognising that the legitimate use of cautions may have its place in our criminal justice system, the blatant widespread abuse, sometimes following very serious crimes, by unscrupulous constabularies of such an option is self-evidently totally
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No persuading him
IN HIS letter (ViewPoints, April 9) Mr Gibson challenges the facts and asks why I am so convinced that the city council is correct in its decision to provide a new pools facility for Oxford. He adds that I should meet with his campaign group. But
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Committed to Marston
MANY Marston and Northway residents have asked me to stand in the county council elections for this area. I'm flattered by their faith in me but I can't stand as I am already fully committed to Marston and its issues. It will be strange not
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Stop whingeing that you’re hard done by
I AM fed up of reading in the newspapers and listening on the news about how hard done by people are on benefits as they are losing out, especially as they have brought in this so-called ‘bedroom tax’. Newspeople always interview the single mum
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Tribute acts to play the Mill
Two of the most authentic tribute acts in the UK arrive at Banbury’s Mill this weekend to present two entertaining evenings of music and nostalgia. The Modfathers – the UK’s Number 1 show dedicated to Paul Weller – take the stage on Saturday while
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The headache for pubs of being 'tied'
THERE has been precious little for Oxfordshire’s landlords to raise a glass to during the past few years. Customers have less money in their pockets and the smoking ban has put others off. Add in competition from supermarkets offering drink
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Singer awarded CBE by Queen
SINGER Kate Bush, who lives near Abingdon, was yesterday made a CBE by the Queen and dedicated the honour to her family and musical collaborators. The Wuthering Heights singer, 54, joked after receiving the honour at the Windsor Castle investiture
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Councils to open books of condolence
TWO councils will today open books of condolence for residents to remember former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Oxfordshire County Council and Cherwell District Council will have books at their offices until Lady Thatcher’s funeral next Wednesday
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Woman woke ‘to find man on top of her’
A WOMAN who claims she was raped has told a court she woke up and her alleged attacker was on top of her. Maximillian Hessel, of Peat Moors, Headington, Oxford, denies one count of rape which he is accused of committing in June last year. The
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Last known Keats poem sold by Oxfordshire collector nets £181k
AN Oxfordshire collector broke a world record selling the last known manuscript poem by John Keats for £181,250. The 33-line script was sold by manuscript collector Roy Davids, from Great Haseley, near Thame. The Keats manuscript is from the
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Nightclub to stay open
A BICESTER nightclub in the town will remain open after a council u-turn. G’s Wine Bar, in Dean’s Court, had its licence revoked last September after police reported problems at the nightspot. Following the decision by licensing authority Cherwell
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‘We’ve got the sewing revival all stitched up’
THREAD your needles, thimbles and fabric at the ready. A sewing revolution is taking over Oxfordshire. As shops report that fabric and threads are flying off the shelves, one craft school in Ardington can boast TV star and industry veteran
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COMMENT: Network frail
THE boom in passengers using Oxfordshire’s railway network is extraordinary. It is also a fitting riposte to the disastrous doctrine of Dr Beeching, whose report 50 years ago led to huge swathes of the rail network closing. We clearly have
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COMMENT: Work goes on and still no solution
THE multi-million pound potboiler that is the Port Meadow student flats saga has taken another twist. Having approved a flawed scheme which has blighted views over the ancient meadow, the city council placed the ball firmly back into the university
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RUGBY UNION: 'Welsh need to win all three remaining games'
LONDON Welsh head coach Lyn Jones accepts they will need to win all three of their remaining games if are to stay in the Aviva Premiership. The Exiles host Northampton at Oxford’s Kassam Stadium on Sunday (3pm) knowing they may need to win to have
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As passenger numbers double, commuters want work on new Oxford station sped up
CALLS were last night made for work to start earlier on a new Oxford railway station after figures showed a huge rise in rail passengers across the county. The number of passengers using Oxford Station has more than doubled since 1998. But
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C. S. Lewis by Alister McGrath
Alister McGrath’s fine new biography of C.S Lewis comes garlanded with an unnecessary and potentially misleading subtitle: “Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet”. Genius and prophet he clearly was, as Dr McGrath demonstrates. He was reluctant, too
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GOLF: Oxford United mascot drops in at drive-in
OXFORD United mascot Olly the Ox was a special guest for the new captain’s drive-in at Oxford City. It came as a shock to Alan Davey (pictured right, with Olly and his wife Theresa), who is a season ticket holder at the Kassam Stadium. He said
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GOLF: Club results
NORTH OXFORD Lombard Trophy: 1 R Jackson 70-7=63, 2 J Coleman 76-11=65 (cb), 3 T Reynolds 81-16=65. Pro Stableford (Easter Monday): 1 M Bodle 36pts, 2 J Henderson 34, 3 N Otwell 33. Club Matches – Men: Stowe 4, North Oxford 0. Seniors:
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SeeSaw volunteers become ambassadors
Volunteers help organisations in many ways. A support service for bereaved children and families, has found a very important new role for some of its long-term supporters. SeeSaw has formed a team of dedicated Ambassadors — volunteers who represent
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Parky at the Pictures (DVD 11/4/2013)
Films set during the Great Patriotic War were a staple of the Soviet film industry. However, the expense of mounting such lavish epics without state assistance and an understandable reluctance to hark back nostalgically to the Stalinist past has meant
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Parky at the Pictures (In Cinemas 11/4/2013)
Much is always made of the subversive nature of Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinema. There's no question that this gay, Marxist poet, intellectual and provocateur could only be matched in the 1960s by Luis Buñuel and Jean-Luc Godard for disconcerting audiences
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Work set to start on all-new youth centre
WORK could start next month on a new youth centre for Wallingford. Martin Thompson, a new youth worker, has now been appointed to help young people in the town. Last year it was revealed a new youth centre costing more than £200,000 would be
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Acts step in to save Oxfringe festival
IT wouldn’t be Oxfringe without so much drama. The city’s answer to the Edinburgh Fringe festival was cancelled but is now back on again, in a scaled down format. In true theatrical fashion the acts involved stepped in at the 11th hour to save
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Thatcher - a friend to Somerville if not to Oxford University
Margaret Thatcher told the Conservative party conference in 1989: “I went to Oxford University but I’ve never let it hold me back.” She was “only half-joking”, according to her biographer John Campbell. Others might conclude that she wasn’t joking
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Oklahoma!: Musical Youth Company of Oxford, Headington Theatre
FOUR STARS Cowboy Curly McLaine looks forward to the beautiful day ahead as he wanders into farm girl Laurey Williams's backyard and sings Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’. And that fresh-air number opens Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first collaboration
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Classical highlights April 11
Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir/Voice Box Choir CHARITY CONCERT St Mary’s Church, Witney n Saturday, 7.30pm Tickets: The Music Stand (01993 774890), St Andrew’s Bookshop (01993 709429) or on the door An evening of choral music to raise
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oN THE hORIZON: aPRIL 11
Drama THE SEAGULL Oxford Playhouse May 21-25, at 7.30pm (8pm Friday), Thursday and Saturday at 2.30pm. Box office: 01865 305305 or oxfordplayhouse.com Headlong returns to Oxford Playhouse with another innovative re-imagining of
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The Broadways, Didcot - 10% off
The Broadways, Didcot 10% off with your Oxford Mail Loyalty Card Located in in the centre of Didcot, near the Theatre & Art‘s Centre, Broadways Pub offers a warm and friendly welcome to all. Come and watch satellite sports while enjoying
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Trevor Pinnock on a concert mixing European cultures
St John the Evangelist, Oxford’s wonderful new concert venue, is nothing if not eclectic. Having just played host to 1970s prog rock legends Caravan, now it goes to the opposite end of the spectrum with an evening of music from 18th-century Europe,