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On this day: Oxfordshire Archive

Oxfordshire Archive

• Schools defend charity status

  Independent schools facing new laws requiring them to justify their charitable status have defended their record on working in the community and widening access to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. read more

• Hockey results

  Results from the weekend, November 15-16 read more

• Rugby results

  Results from the weekend, November 15-16, 2003 read more

• Indecency admitted

  A supermarket manager kept indecent pictures of children because he was trying to come to terms with his own abused childhood, a court heard. read more

• Thame turn up heat on rivals

  Enfield 0, Thame United 5: Thame United moved up to ninth place in Ryman League Division 1 North with a scintillating first half performance against Enfield. read more

• Merry goes round

  A Bicester school has been presented with a sports award by a British Olympic medallist. read more

• Allotment land could be sold

  Plans to sell off more than six acres of allotments in Banbury are at an advanced stage. read more

• Painting stolen

  Police are appealing for information after a painting was stolen from an art shop in Banbury. read more

• Abingdon left in lurch

  Abingdon Town were left without a game on Saturday when Clapton postponed their Ryman League Division 2 fixture at Culham Road. read more

• Daughter 'too bright for state school'

  A father who claims that state schools cannot cope with his extremely bright daughter is taking Oxfordshire County Council to court in a bid to win private school funding. read more

• Housing 'U-turn' upsets residents

  Wantage residents have questioned why plans for a housing estate on a former school site have been opposed by some members of a council -- after a larger, denser development elsewhere in the town received approval. read more

• Trial aims to get pubs to go green

  Pubs, clubs and hotels have signed up for a trial to get more beer and soft drink bottles and broken glasses recycled. read more

• United buyer may get extra £ m billb

  Exact figures for bills which will face the new owner of Oxford United have been uncovered by the Oxford Mail. read more

• Protesters aim to topple Bush

  Hundreds of anti-war protesters are planning to march to the centre of Oxford and topple an effigy of US President George Bush. read more

• Village pays tribute to writer

  The Oxfordshire village where famous author George Orwell is buried is preparing to celebrate the centenary of his birth. read more

• Members decide -- officers advise

  I would like to comment on your editorial on Oxfordshire County Council executive's decision to put extra support into the county's health services for elderly people (Oxford Mail, November 10). read more

• Police need help to catch mugger

  Nine months of painstaking inquiries and the offer of a £10,000 reward have still failed to yield a breakthrough in the case of an elderly Abingdon woman who died after being mugged. read more

• Residents too afraid to go into dark park

  Vandalism and antisocial behaviour have turned a Wallingford park into a no-go area, according to people living in the town. read more

• November 15: Is this justice?

  Pea-brained Neanderthal Jamie Herbert is a lucky man. read more

• November 14: Refuseniks

  Judging by the number of people seen at the county's waste centres, recycling is growing more popular. read more

On this day: Oxfordshire Archive