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Movie fame is a whole new bag
Handbag designer Julia Sinclair, from Eynsham, is still on a high from her first taste of celebrity exposure. Julia's bags, which she sells through her firm Jules Sinclair, were spotted at a trade fair before Christmas by a Hollywood agent who organises
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Leading lights lecture on land
Public talks by leading international figures on human rights and land development are being held at the Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street. The 13th annual Oxford Amnesty Lectures will study the claims on land made by indigenous peoples, industrialists
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Double trouble
A coach company says new parking restrictions in north Oxford are being flouted by other drivers -- causing chaos every afternoon. Jeffs Coaches has been allocated bays in Belbroughton Road and Charlbury Road for up to eight coaches to use when dropping
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'I lost university job to a racist vendetta'
The bursar of an Oxford University college was accused of being racist by an accountant who is suing the institution for almost £100,000. Diamond Versi, former head accountant at Keble College, Oxford, claims Roger Boden pushed him out of his £47,000-
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Fee hikes 'unfair'
As the Government prepares to open the door to 24-hour drinking, trouble-free pubs in Oxford say they are being unfairly penalised with huge licence fee increases. Licence fees are to go up to fund increased protection against alcohol-fuelled crime and
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MP criticises rail hold-ups
Witney MP David Cameron is seeking assurances from railway managers that they are taking action to sort out a plague of problems on the Cotswold Line. Mr Cameron met Alison Forster, the managing director of First Great Western and sister company FGW Link
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Association ignores fears over hooligan
A hooligan who assaulted a referee and is banned from domestic and international football matches for three years is still running a team in Oxford's Sunday league. Keith Miles, 40, of Colemans Hill, Headington, manages Sunday league side Cowley Social
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Fears for future of MoD depots
Bicester could bear the brunt of Ministry of Defence jobs cuts, local MP Tony Baldry fears. Losses of 3,000 jobs by 2008 from Defence Logistics Organisation (DLO) depots around the country were announced last summer. It is not yet known which depots will
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Developer will help fund £300k refurbishment
A sports pavilion on Oxford's Barton estate is set to get a £300,000 refurbishment thanks to a cash injection. Developers building 49 flats in Barton will pay £140,000 for refurbishing the pavilion, on the recreation ground off Barton Village Road. Community
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Hopefuls line up for election challenge
The political challengers to Oxford East Labour MP Andrew Smith are now in place, ready for the General Election expected in May. They include the Independent Working Class Association's candidate, Maurice Leen, who will centre his campaign on the "forgotten
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The joke's on NHS website
NHS computer experts have closed down pages of an official health service website after a reader alerted the Oxford Mail that it was being used to download hundreds of jokes. News that health workers were using tax payer-funded Internet pages for entertainment
