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  • High cost of education changeover

    The cost of re-organising Oxford's education system is set to cost £35m -- 16 per cent more than planned. Work to prepare the city's first and secondary schools for the changeover from a three- to two-tier education system is on schedule. But the cost

  • GP struck off

    A GP has been struck off after giving a patient a fatal dose of morphine more than four times the standard amount. Terminal lung cancer victim Aubrey Bennett, 72, died two hours after Dr Donald Langridge, of Radley Road, Abingdon, injected him with 45mg

  • Pubgoers celebrate

    Thousands of England fans were off work yesterday with football fever. I joined 200 of them at the Euro Bar, in George Street, Oxford, to watch England's nerve-racking 1-0 victory over Argentina. There were as many collared shirts and ties as England