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On this day: Oxfordshire Archive

Oxfordshire Archive

• Firm wins certification

  A manufacturer in Wantage has been awarded an international certificate in recognition of its high business standards. read more

• Fun in store for adults

  Lapdancers made an appearance at Abingdon Town Football Club on Saturday, September 27, to promote the adult entertainment which is set to start this week. read more

• Teacher wins award for 'walking bus' idea

  Teacher and parent governor Mark Sutherland has collected a top national award for helping to pioneer 'waking buses' and other ways of getting children to walk or cycle to school. read more

• Precinct takes on flavour of France

  Garlic seller Phillippe Monnier did a roaring trade in Bicester when a French market took over Sheep Street for the second time. read more

• Pensions black hole may mean rise in council tax

  Council taxpayers might have to help fill a £27m black hole in Cherwell District Council's pension fund caused by a "stealth tax" by Gordon Brown, a Tory councillor claimed. read more

• Royal visitor

  A new day centre for adults with learning difficulties was opened in Banbury on Monday, September 29, by the Princess Royal. read more

• Market aims to increase trade

  A farmers' market will be held in Didcot to try to boost town centre trade while the Orchard Centre shopping complex is built. read more

• Ex-pupil makes the news

  FORMER newscaster Julia Somerville returned to her Oxford school for the official opening of its new boarding house. read more

• 'Do a Des' urges pub drink-drive campaign

  Volunteer drivers are being encouraged to make themselves more desirable by choosing from a range of non-alcoholic fruit cocktails soon to be on offer in pubs and bars across Oxfordshire. read more

• Offences plummet at city car parks

  Car crime at the three city council park- and-rides has been reduced to just 12 offences in the last six months. read more

• A bag for every occasion

  Ivor Gibson, of Rush Matters, with some of his mat and bag wares read more

• NOC to get £1.5m state-of-art scanner

  The Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre will soon have a second MRI scanner to keep it in the forefront of patient care. read more

• U's miss out on Alsop appeal

  Any hopes Ian Atkins had of appealing against Julian Alsop's sending-off at Doncaster have been dashed - because Oxford United missed the deadline for sending in the appeal. read more

• Autopsy draws a blank

  Pathologists have so far been unable to determine how a 26-year-old man died after being arrested by police in Oxford. read more

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