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Pretty Lech gets a new lift
The views from so many cable cars, gondolas and chair lifts are spectacular enough when you go skiing or snowboarding.But the one coming up over the edge of the Schindler Spitze really did have its own wow factor.Suffering a little from vertigo, I was
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Oxford Living Wage meeting next week
THE director of Citizens Advice Oxford will give advice about how the Oxford Living Wage could be paid more widely across the city next week. Oxford City Council wants employers to pay the voluntary £9.26 an hour rate. Al Bell will be at the council'
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Review: Margaret Atwood @ Sheldonian, Oxford - 'Tempestuous night with dystopian author'
“THE wastepaper basket is your friend” – Profound words from Margaret Atwood when she visited Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre.To a packed audience, made up of academics with notebooks in hand to avid readers of her myriad of novels, the Canadian author spoke
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Review: Awful Auntie @ New Theatre, Oxford - 'Horrid aunt is perfectly brilliant'
The latest stage adaption from the David Walliams’s stable of children’s books, Awful Auntie paraded into Oxford with great relish. Obviously influenced by the Roald Dahl school of story-telling, as such The Birmingham Stage Company doesn’t hold back
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Perfect Wedding @ Mill at Sonning - 'Perfect blissful escapist fun'
THE ever-reliable comic touch applied to productions at the Mill at Sonning guarantees blissful escapist fun for audiences as its sparkling revival of Robin Hawdon’s Perfect Wedding.Though updated by the company to the present day, the play dates back
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Oxford Parkway train line celebrates second birthday - and more than 4 million journeys
TWO years, four million journeys at more than 1.5m passengers.This week, Oxford's newest rail service celebrated its second birthday and looked forward to many more.Chiltern Railways first started running services from Oxford Parkway and Bicester
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Ritual Union brings festival of shoegaze and indie-rock to Oxford
Tim Hughes talks to Simon Bailey about his Ritual Union festival, which brings the cream of national and local acts to Oxford’s Cowley RoadSummer is well and truly over, but lovers of music-lovers have one more chance to enjoy the cream of new music,
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The Young’Uns @ The North Wall, Oxford - 'Sweet vocal harmonies with hard political bite'
Tim Hughes is alternately calmed, energised and spurred into political action by Teesside's folksters with conscience, The Young'UnsThe Young’UnsThe North Wall, OxfordOctober 8IT takes something special for a folk act to stand out from the mass
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The Young’Uns @ The North Wall, Oxford - 'Sweet vocal harmonies with hard political bite'
Tim Hughes is alternately calmed, energised and spurred into political action by Teesside's folksters with conscience, The Young'Uns The Young’Uns The North Wall, Oxford October 8 IT takes something special for a folk act to stand out
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Review: Son of a Preacher Man @ New Theatre Oxford - 'Dusty musical fails to win all the hearts'
I confess to not being the greatest fan of musicals.People reel in disbelief when I admit I have never bothered to watch The Sound of Music, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang nor The Wizard of Oz.There are exceptions, however, and I had high hopes that Son of a
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Zero Emission Zone
HUNDREDS of people have responded to proposals for an Oxford Zero Emissions Zone.Oxford City Council said it received a total of 276 responses in the first week of its public consultation which opened on October 16.Residents have until November 26 to
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Growth at science park gets government backing
THE government has pledged to support growth at a key Oxfordshire science park, which is one of the biggest in Europe.Northern Powerhouse and Local Growth minister Jake Berry and the chief executive of the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP
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Retraining mums in tech skills wins entrepreneur top award
TEACHING mums tech skills and helping them back into work has won an Oxford business woman a national award. TechPixies founder Joy Foster was named Female Start-up of the Year at the Enterprise Nation Festival of Female Entrepreneurs on Friday
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Layla Moran asks Eddie Izzard to ditch Labour and join Lib Dems
Oxford West and Abingdon MP Layla Moran has urged comedian Eddie Izzard to join the Liberal Democrats, following his announcement that he wants to join the Labour National Executive Committee.In an article for the Independent published on Tuesday Ms
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Show reveals history of Oxfordshire's 'Idle Women'
A NEW show featuring theatre, poetry and music will whisk audiences back to the days of World War II when a shortage of crews to keep the working boats going brought a new breed to the canal. Young women, later nicknamed ‘Idle Women’, took on the challenge
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CCTV - Police are looking for this group of boys after burglary at six properties
CCTV images of four boys have been released in connection with a burglary in Banbury. Police have said offenders gained entry to a property in Spring Terrace, Woodgreen Avenue, between 2pm on September 14 and 2pm on September 20. Once in the
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Cancer support group invites residents to session
A CANCER support group will be holding a session at the Churchill Hospital.Next month on Thursday, November 30 Oxford Leukaemia CARE Support Group will be gathering at Maggie’s Centre, which is located in the Headington hospital.Residents who are affected
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Former RAF site sees new parishes created
TWO new parishes have been created due to thousands of homes being built on a former RAF site.People living in Upper Heyford will now have a 'greater opportunity' for community involvement with after the area was split into two parishes, Cherwell
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Ofsted: Nursery children 'delight in splashing in muddy puddles'
A NURSERY in the grounds of Oxford Airport is successfully supporting youngsters’ development.Ofsted has rated The Early Years Nursery in Kidlington ‘good’, following an inspection earlier this month.It is the first time the nursery has been inspected
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Baggy trousers: hundreds of former pupils look around their old school one last time
GENERATIONS of pupils swapped stories about lining up outside the head's office to be caned, revisited their childhood youth club and argued over where exactly home economics had been based at a school reunion with a difference.Nearly 800 former students
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Bogeyman comes to the Story Museum to share slime making secrets
THE BOGEYMAN is coming to the Story Museum, teaching youngsters how to make their own slime.Today from 11am to 12noon Science Oxford will be heading to the museum on Pembroke Street to host a workshop on making all things slimey and sticky.Youngsters
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'The oldest school in the country' inspected twice in two weeks
INSPECTION day is most schoolteachers' least favourite part of the year. So imagine the stress at Ewelme CofE Primary School near Wallingford when its latest inspection last month was followed seven days later by – another inspection. The primary
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Marathon man gets ready to take on New York
A FORMER Wantage schoolboy is training to run the New York City Marathon.In a gruelling six-month training schedule, Ryan Liquorish has already run half marathons in Swansea, Bristol and Cardiff and full marathons in Guernsey and Birmingham.And, on Saturday
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Children invent imaginary worlds at school book day
SCORES of Oxford students invented stories in a candlelit library. Cheney School in Headington challenged 30 of its Year 7 students to design a fictional fantasy story, set in an imaginary world.The Imagined Worlds Book Slam took place on Friday, with
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Adventurer wants to tell the story of her round the world journey... but she needs £40k
ADVENTURER Sarah Outen is seeking to bring her four-year global odyssey to the screen.The Chilton resident cycled, kayaked and rowed 25,000 miles across the planet, completing the journey by kayaking underneath London’s Tower Bridge in November 2015.The
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Surgery swaps stereoscopes for spatulas to compete in charity bake off
A TEAM of GPs and surgery staff proved there is more to them than medicine as they turned their hands to baking.Staff at St Bartholemew's Medical Centre, in East Oxford, replaced their stethoscopes with spatulas for the 'Great Bart's Cake
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Jackknifed trailer blocks A34
THE A34 is partially blocked due to a 'jackknifed' trailer. Police have said the accident happened on the northbound carriageway just south of the Marcham Interchange near Abingdon. Queues are now being reported trailing back to Milton Interchange
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Florence Park in the running to be 'best in the UK'
A MUCH-loved Oxford park is in the running to be crowned best in the UK. Florence Park has been nominated by members of the public for the accolade in a competition run by Fields in Trust, formerly known as the National Playing Fields Association
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Bake off contestants unite to bring flavours of autumn to food festival
A WINNING recipe of star chefs, TV cookery contestants and some of Oxfordshire's best food producers will come together to create an autumnal food festival in Didcot.Being held at Didcot Civic Hall this Saturday, the fair will feature more than 40
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Ashmolean to celebrate founder with 17th century bash
A FESTIVAL to celebrate Ashmolean founder Elias Ashmole’s 400th birthday kicks off on Friday with an evening of stargazing, mask making and dancing.Visitors will be transported back to the 17th century during the weekend, with period theatre, talks, quizzes
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House ransacked in Oxford
A HOUSE was ransacked during a burglary in Oxford.Thames Valley Police released an appeal for witnesses yesterday after a break-in happened at a home in Beechey Avenue, Marston, Oxford sometimes between Friday last week and Tuesday.A ground floor window
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Still want more Westgate? Here's what shops are coming NEXT...
SOME of us are still recovering from retail overload at the opening of Oxford's long-awaited Westgate Centre yesterday. Others are now eagerly awaiting the other 26 shops still due to open before Christmas. So what treats still await us?
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Oxford Academy needs tools for community garden
A SCHOOL is in 'desperate need' of tools to help keep its community garden going.Oxford Academy has appealed for compost, garden forks, spades and herb plants for the pupil's edible garden. To help or donate email rosie.butler@theoxfordacademy.org.uk
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Oxford University tops the table for psychiatry grads
OXFORD University produces the highest percentage of medical graduates that go onto work in psychiatrym a new league table has revealed. Of all British universities, Oxford came joint top with the University of Keele according to the table released by
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Bodleian Library hosts first self-publish Saturday event
PEOPLE have the chance to find out how to print and self-publish their own guides and pamphlets.The Bodleian Library is holding an inaugural self-publish Saturday event this weekend. Visitors will work on publishing an alternative exhibition guide using
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Cowley Road store sells local art
AN art sale has started at a new deli on Cowley Road.People can buy original works of art created by local artists at Beetroot Deli every day this week until Monday. The store closes at 8pm. Entry to see the artwork is free
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Poppy Appeal for Royal British Legion will soon be under way
POPPY Appeal sellers will be out in force across Oxfordshire from tomorrow as the Royal British Legion’s 2017 campaign gets under way.The national launch for the Poppy Appeal is tomorrow and it will run until November 11, Armistice Day, with Remembrance
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Colourful Colombian verse makes Aisha a winner again
AN Oxford teenager has been named a national poetry prize winner after joining a school group encouraging her to write verse.Aisha Mango Borja, 15, from Rose Hill, has been listed by The Poetry Society as one of the top 15 winners of the Foyle Young Poets
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Cars in Abingdon damaged by vandals
CARS have damaged by vandals in a street in Abingdon.Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses following the incidents in Northcourt Road.Between Monday night and yesterday morning four vehicles were damaged whilst they were parked in the street
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Volunteers battle the elements to keep Abingdon Marathon on track
HARDWORKING volunteers did not let a fallen tree or debris caused by storms ruin the high spirits at Abingdon Marathon, working tirelessly to make sure the path was clear for runners.Almost 800 people took to the streets for the town’s marathon on Sunday
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You could effectively be working for free until New Year - how much overtime do you work?
FROM today, Wednesday October 25, the average UK worker will have earned their annual salary for 2017 and in effect be working for free for the rest of the year. That is according to the annual Overtime Survey carried out by TotallyMoney, which
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New-look police team hits the streets in Headington, Marston and Barton
PROTECTING vulnerable people and maintaining Headington, Marston and Barton as safe places to live are the top priorities for the city's north east neighbourhood police. The new-look team, headed up by Sergeant Andrew Poole, has pounded the pavements
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Oxford is second largest UK city by total economic output
OXFORD’s technology sector helped it into second place behind London in a ranking of UK cities by total ecomomic output, according to a new study. The city is also the fourth fastest-growing – behind Milton Keynes, Cambridge and Reading, according
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'Houses of Parliament' will be burned to the ground for Bonfire Night display
A GIANT model of the Houses of Parliament will take centre stage as southern Oxfordshire gears up to mark Guy Fawkes night with spectacular fireworks displays. The 24-foot model has been built by the set designer of Wallingford's Corn Exchange,
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Business awards now open for entries
THE 2018 Cherwell Business Awards officially opens for entries on November 16.The launch event will be held at Norbar Torque Tools’ head office in WildmereRoad, Banbury from 8.30am to 11am.Businesses will hear more about how to sponsor, nominate or apply
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Pupils help help dig up remnants of the past
CHILDREN from a school near Abingdon learned about the past at a site wherearchaeological works are being carried out.Pupils from St Blaise CoE primary in Milton watched experts from the Museum ofLondon Archaeology working at Blaise Park.MOLA project
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Oxford law firm wins award for customer service
LAW firm Blake Morgan has won a national award for customer service.The firm’s victory was announced at the ESTAS Conveyancer awards in London lastThursday, hosted by TV property expert Phil Spencer.Tanya Warner, head of the conveyancing team at the company
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Bill Bailey: walking the Ridgeway helps me sort my 'snowstorm of ideas'
COMEDIAN Bill Bailey revealed that he walks along Oxfordshire's ancient Ridgeway trail to help sort out the 'snowstorm of ideas' in his head.The TV regular was speaking at the annual forum of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural
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Men jailed for pub brawl in which bouncer's head 'stamped on'
TWO men who set upon a pair of bouncers during a pub brawl, stamping on one victim's face, have been jailed.Kerwin Tinto, of Reedmace Road, Bicester, and Robert Sestanovich, of Purslane Drive, Bicester, had both admitted two counts of assault occasioning
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First Person: Co-op sustainability guru on how he has cut energy use and increased recycling
Mike Pickering, community and sustainability manager at The Midcounties Co-operative, talks about how his firm is championing sustainable practice in Oxfordshire. FOR many businesses, minimising their environmental footprint has become an integral part
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40 years of Restore: Celebrations as charity marks big birthday
A MENTAL health charity blew up the balloons and blew out the candles as it celebrated its 40th birthday. Dreamt up on a long car journey by Dr Peter Agulnik and Lord Michael Young, who also co-founded the Open University, Restore has come a long
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Rogue Trooper returns to games consoles thanks to an Oxford developer
THE latest instalment of a long-running sci-fi story has been released by Oxford's most successful video game developer. Rebellion, based in Osney Mead, West Oxford, gave fans of Rogue Trooper a kick of nostalgia with the release of a new video game
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Pizza and Prosecco helps pull in funds for Abingdon charity
AN EVENING of pizza and Prosecco helped raise almost £700 for an Abingdon charity that helps vulnerable young people.The 'Autumn Soiree’, which included a raffle, was organised by Giancarlo Ungaro, general manager of Abingdon’s The Crown and Thistle
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UPDATE: Two cyclists taken to hospital after collision with car on Botley Road
TWO cyclists have been taken to hospital after an accident with a car on Botley Road this morning. Witnesses have said it looks like the riders, both men, collided with the car when it was trying to turn into Waitrose car park. Commuters who
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ICE HOCKEY: Superb Oxford City Stars blow away rivals in another 14-goal storm
STORM Brian may have been raging outside, but Basingstoke Buffalo were blown away by a devastating display from Oxford City Stars.For their second successive match in English National League South Division 2, Stars gave a rampaging performance to score
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ATHLETICS: Gemma Bridge and Nathan Douglas react to Commonwealth Games selection
GEMMA Bridge could not hide her delight at being selected for next year’s Commonwealth Games. The Oxford City AC race walker has been named in England’s 75-strong athletics squad for April’s championships on the Gold Coast, Australia. She is
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Council 'sleepwalking into a crisis' as overspend on children soars
OXFORDSHIRE County Council is urging the government to give it more money for its children’s services department as it slides further into the red. It has said it expects its multi-million pound overspend to reach £8.4m by the end of this financial
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Overturned van blocks one lane of A34
AN OVERTURNED van blocked one lane of the A34 this morning. The vehicle ended up on its roof on the northbound carriageway at East Ilsley, just south of Didcot. One lane was closed and traffic queued with delays of about 40 minutes reported
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Community centre embraces Halloween with spooky biscuits and scary crafts
BISCUITS will get a spooky makeover at a Halloween-themed event in Oxford.Rose Hill Community Centre will hold a biscuit decorating class today, from midday until 2pm.The drop-in session is suitable for children as long as they are accompanied by an adult.People
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Fit-again Jon Obika ready to step up and deliver for Oxford United
JON Obika feels ready to find his fitness rhythm after niggling injuries have held the striker back for Oxford United this season. The 27-year-old’s maiden campaign with the U’s has been disrupted by a succession of minor issues. It means he
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FOOTBALL: Witney & District FA round-up
SAM Wright hit a hat-trick as Minster Lovell saw off Hailey 4-0 to move out of the Premier Division relegation zone, writes ANTHONY BARLOW.Nick Rose added No 4 as Minster leapfrogged their visitors in the Witney & District FA.Kirtlington saw off visitors
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Too old for a Young Person's Railcard? Good news, you might qualify for the new one
A NEW rail card for people aged 26 to 30 is set to be trialed in December ahead of a possible national roll-out, it has been revealed. The card, which is expected to give passengers aged 26 to 30 a third off most tickets, is due to be tested in
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FOOTBALL: Hanborough book spot in third round of Oxfordshire Charity Cup
HANBOROUGH cruised into the third round of the Oxfordshire Charity Cup with a 5-1 win over Yarnton. Craig Johnson and Joey Burgess both bagged braces, with Dan Haggie also on target. Horspath booked their spot after beating fellow Oxfordshire
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FOOTBALL: Round-up of the Oxford City FA
BEN Curtis hit a hat-trick as Original Swan maintained their unbeaten Oxford City FA Premier Division record, when beating leaders East Oxford 7-1 at home. The hosts opened the scoring in fine style, Curtis breaking the deadlock from 30 yards,
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FOOTBALL: All the action from the Oxfordshire Senior League and Banbury District & Lord Jersey FA
MARK Scanes netted a treble as Launton Sports Res claimed their first Oxfordshire Senior League win of the season with a 4-0 triumph at Heyford Athletics Res. Nick Neal was also on target in the Division 2 fixture. DAN Hobbs scored the only
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WESTGATE OPENING: Shoppers praise new centre's opening day
THOUSANDS of shoppers packed out the Westgate Centre to splash some cash on the first day of opening. The £440m centre soon got busy, with queues forming outside Japanese clothing chain Uniqlo. Its central operating officer, Satoshi Naito,
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Professor who donated funds to Oxford Children's Hospital killed by cows after trying to save dog
A RETIRED Oxford professor who has a ward named after him at Oxford Children's Hospital was trampled to death by a herd of cows as he tried to save his dog from a stampede. Professor Brian Bellhouse had been walking his pet dog Baldrick with a
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Westgate opens despite last-minute rush
DESPITE a last minute rush to finish the Westgate, the 'missing piece of Oxford's jigsaw' was completed yesterday as thousands of shoppers explored the long-awaited centre. Hordes of curious visitors flooded into the new £440m centre when it opened
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Traffic chaos avoided on smooth opening day for Westgate
LONG-FEARED traffic chaos failed to materialise yesterday as the city’s roads and transport network coped well to get shoppers to the Westgate.The centre’s 1,000-space car park opened at 10am and spaces remained available throughout the day.Its opening