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  • Angelic sounds aid charity

    Charlotte Church's voice is the stuff of dreams. Appropriately, she is singing for a charity that specialises in making fantasies and wishes come true. The Make-a-Wish foundation helps children with life-threatening diseases and a ball held at Blenheim

  • ELECTION 2000: Buoyant Tories urge MP to quit

    Tories in Witney have called for MP Shaun Woodward to resign in the wake of a landslide victory by the Conservatives in the local elections. The Tories won overall control of West Oxfordshire District Council, snapping up 11 of the 17 seats up for election

  • Cancer victim on a drive of her life

    A woman who has survived breast cancer has set out to motor round the world in 80 days. Phillippa McLachlan, 48, of Wallingford, left London's Tower Bridge on Monday along with co-driver Christine Jones. The pair, driving a rebuilt 1960 Rover 80, form

  • Rover doubles its share of car sales

    Crisis-hit Rover shattered its sales record by taking a huge 13.47 per cent share of the April new car market more than double its share the previous month. Only Ford made more than Rover Group's 22,665 sales last month and the Rover 25 was April's top-selling

  • Exposed: Hewitt's country hideaway

    Princess Diana's former lover James Hewitt has a secret country hideaway in Oxfordshire. The ex-soldier is using 400-year-old Walcot House, on the outskirts of Charlbury, as a weekend retreat. Hewitt, 41, has set tongues wagging by driving his distinctive

  • Degrees to honour Annan and Dench

    UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and actress Dame Judi Dench are both to be honoured by Oxford University. Congregation, the University's parliament, approved plans to award Mr Annan a Doctor of Civil Law degree. The degree is expected to be conferred

  • How to be a dot.com millionaire

    Budding tycoons are being invited to Oxford to get the lowdown on becoming an Internet millionaire. As the Government scooped a 22bn windfall from the next generation Internet-ready mobile phone licences, a special conference is being held to turn the

  • Town & Gown Fun Run

    It's time to dig out your singlet and trainers and get in shape as the Oxford Mail's annual Town & Gown Fun Run is fast approaching. More than 1,600 people from across the country are expected to take part in this year's event, which will raise vital

  • Traffic row sparks call for a warden

    Police have been accused of putting road safety at risk by axeing a town's traffic warden. Bicester resident Kay Grover, 61, plans to collect signatures for a petition calling for a new warden to replace the one who left a month ago. Police chiefs say

  • Witney ace gets the sack

    MIDFIELDER Simon Abercrombie, widely regarded as Witney Town's player of the year, has been sacked by the Dr Martens League club on the eve of today's final game of the season, writes RUSSELL SMITH. Chairman Brian Constable said that Abercrombie had been