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  • Drug dealer found guilty

    DAD Paul Belcher was found guilty of dealing in drugs which would "blow your head off". The 29-year-old, of St Nicholas Road, Wallingford, denied possessing 64g of amphetamine sulphate and 256g of cannabis with intent to supply after he was caught with

  • Lord Mayor beats Greens

    LORD Mayor of Oxford Bill Baker breathed a sigh of relief when he saw off a Green party challenge and kept his seat on the city council. The Greens had campaigned hard to win Mr Baker's South ward seat but last night he held on with a majority of 270.

  • Widow's tribunal battle

    A WIDOW is taking a wealthy landowner to an industrial tribunal claiming unfair dismissal on behalf of her late husband. The late Victor Hunt had worked for Edward Lane Fox - former owner of the up-market estate agents of the same name - for more than

  • Pocket money can buy heroin

    THE deadly drug heroin is being sold so cheaply in Oxfordshire that kids can afford a fix with their pocket money. Prices can be as low as £5 a bag, meaning that almost any teenager could afford the drug. Det Insp Ian Robinson, force drugs co-ordinator

  • Derek's wheely Delboy now!

    WOULD you Adam and Eve it? Derek "Delboy" Ward could not believe his eyes when he saw his 60th birthday present - his namesake's famous Robin Reliant. The unsightly three-wheeler made notorious by the BBC's Only Fools and Horses had been specially constructed

  • Ladbrook OFA role in doubt

    PETER Ladbrook's future as Oxfordshire representative on the FA Council, and his position as general secretary of the Oxfordshire FA, was in doubt today after he lost a crucial vote at an OFA Council meeting this week. Secretary of the county football

  • Work starts on new town centre

    CONSTRUCTION work started at last this week on the massive £30m Castle Quay shopping centre in Banbury, writes David Duffy. A new Debenhams store will be the mainstay of the long-awaited new centre, with Bhs and Woolworths joining Marks & Spencer,

  • Teen is cleared of gun murder

    ANGRY scenes erupted in a courtroom after an Oxford teenager was cleared of blasting a man to death with a shotgun and injuring another. Members of the jury were instructed to find John Purcell, 18, of Bertie Place, Oxford, not guilty following the eight-day

  • United back fair deal for kids

    OXFORD United's players put their names to an initiative aimed at taking some obvious penalties out of the game when they signed "fair trade" footballs supplied by the Rev Simon Carver, minister at New Road Baptist Church in Oxford. The footballs are

  • Pike sees Oxon home in thriller

    A SQUARE driven boundary by Adam Pike off the fourth ball of the last over steered Oxfordshire to a two-wickets win over Oxford University in the annual one-day match in The Parks yesterday. Chasing the Dark Blues 255-5 off 50 overs, the county lost two

  • Top curry house in food poisoning scare

    AN award-winning curry takeaway is being investigated after 200 guests at a wedding reception went down with suspected food poisoning. Of the 300 people who attended the wedding in Bicester, up to 70 per cent went down with suspected food poisoning shortly