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A CRIPPLING triple-bogey eight condemned Eddie Pepperell to his second successive missed cut on the European Tour.
PROPOSALS to turn Abingdon's empty Abbey Hall into a cinema face one final hurdle.
WOODSTOCK’S acclaimed independent bookshop is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special event.
POLICE have warned Faringdon residents to beware after tools were stolen from three vans within one night.
THE 'largest' fitness festival Oxford has seen will get under way today with exercise classes, food company stalls and talks by experts.
A REISSUE of a classic album has been named the best-selling record of the year in independent shops.
THE leader of an Oxfordshire council will stand down next month on him being given a bigger role as deputy police and crime commissioner for the Thames Valley.
AN EAST Oxford landlord who was letting out an unsafe house cluttered with furniture has been fined over £15,000.
BLACKWELL’S Bookshop at the Westgate is to host Oxford-based author Catherine Chanter and Costa Award-winning novelist Emma Healey in conversation.
IT is a case of ‘So long, and thanks for all the fish’ as Botley’s West Way Chippy serves its final fish supper on Saturday.
SUPERHEROES, wizards and Jedis will descend on Oxford tomorrow for the third instalment of the city's comic convention.
A QUINTESSENTIALLY British affair is heading to one of the country’s most iconic palaces for a Great British Garden Party.
A SUBWAY counter and noodle bar could follow the Post Office into the Summertown Co-op.
EXCEPTIONAL service looks set to be rewarded by the city council as part of a new scheme that will designate honorary aldermen and honorary alderwomen.
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AWARD-winning author Lionel Shriver returns to an Oxfordshire literature festival next week.
A MAN has been charged with one count of possessing of a prohibited firearm.
THE next generation of power station employees is being sought to help shape the energy industry of the future.
THE city's new leader has called for more Green Belt land to be built on as she warns Oxford has no more room for new homes.
WALLINGFORD'S next mayor has set out his vision for the town as he looks forward to a ‘flamboyant’ inauguration next month.
SPRING is here, the sun is out, and if you listen hard enough you might just be able to hear the distant sound of Morris bells, fiddles and banjos.The festival season gets underway tomorrow with the start of Oxford’s Folk Weekend – and it looks…
A TOWN council is still looking to pursue legal action against its under-fire Mayor for nearly £5,000, which councillors fear may have been ‘misappropriated’.
There’s a good reason Bob Harris is known to his fans as ‘Whispering Bob’. His voice is delightfully mellifluous – velvet coated, soothing and engaging.
PARKING restrictions on a crowded North Oxford road have been sidelined by council officers.
AN OXFORDSHIRE couple are boxing up their bludgers and waxing their broomsticks, ready to fly to Italy for the Quidditch world cup.
LEADERS from 80 businesses will speak at Oxford’s ‘Bio 2018’ event in Osney Mead on May 23 at the Kings Centre.
A NEW MG exhibition featuring donations from lead designer Don Hayter has opened at Abingdon County Hall Museum.
OXFORD, Norwich and Southend-on-Sea are backing a new enquiry into cultural resources for cites.
THE Chilterns Walking Festival will be held next month aiming to encourage people to get out and enjoy the Oxfordshire countryside.
A CYCLIST who rode around the world in 80 days, breaking a world record in the process, will speak in Abingdon.
John Hegley is one of comedy’s great survivors. Few of his Comedy Store contemporaries from the 80s are still around – and if they are, they are not very funny.
Music-lovers have Glastonbury and Reading festivals, football fans the World Cup – while computer gamers have Insomnia.
IT has produced nine Nobel Prize winners since 1900 and currently has a student population of some 130,000.
PUPILS at St Gregory the Great school have been graced with an improved canteen for the summer term.
AN OXFORD college has got planning permission to build a temporary three-storey kitchen while its own is reconfigured and refurbished.
A TALK encompassing all aspects of Tuberculosis will be held in Oxford next month.
AN author awarded the British Empire Medal for services to gender equality is to give a talk at the Sheldonian Theatre.
A FROMAGE-focused evening will look at a century of changes in cheese production.
VOLUNTEERS raising money for a campaign to support the Horton General Hospital will be offering to pack bags at Morrisons superstore in Banbury in Sunday.
TEMPORARY recycling banks will be placed around the city to add to the £100,000 raised for the British Heart Foundation last year from students clearing out their rooms.
COLLECTORS are looking forward to Oxford’s biggest book fair of the year.
TRUSTEES are needed to help oversee the work of a successful tourist attraction.
CHILDREN are being 'shaken out of their beds in the middle of the night' because of noise from freight trains running through north Oxford, according to a city MP.
AN Oxford Brookes University student has won an award for her socially engaged artwork which highlights her personal experiences of dyslexia.
THE future of our planet will be the topic of discussion at an Oxford University lecture.
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