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Sex shop will open sundays
A sex shop in Cowley Road, Oxford, has become one of the first in the country to be allowed to trade on Sundays in the run-up to Christmas. The city council's licensing committee has given The Private Shop permission to open seven days a week until December
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Commendations for police
Police officers working in Abingdon have been praised by their Chief Constable, Peter Neyroud. Sgt David Horsburgh, Pc Tracy Frazer and Pc Javid Haq were commended for successfully disarming a woman who confronted them with a knife and made threats to
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Green festive dreams
Residents in south Oxfordshire are being urged to have a green Christmas. South Oxfordshire District Council will be giving residents a free recycling sack over the festive season to help minimise waste. The bag can be used for tins, cans, paper, cardboard
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Saturday, November 26: Park and ride blues
Are our councils losing their enthusiasm for park-and-ride? The system which Oxford pioneered in the 1970s and has been copied in towns and cities the world over, is slowly being dismantled. The root of the problem is Oxfordshire County Council's decision
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Plea to redesign proposed complex
Campaigners are calling for a redesign of Marriotts Close, the Witney town centre development due to start going up in early 2007. Action to Improve Marriotts Close (Aim) believes the shopping, restaurant, cinema and housing complex should contain at
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Drive to save cinema takes off
Campaigners determined to reopen Wantage's Regent Cinema have launched their own plan to get it back in action. Following a public meeting attended by more than 400 people last week, a 'Friends of Wantage Cinema' group has stepped forward to try to revive
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Hockey: TUTHILL KEEPS ROVER SECOND
South League: Rover Oxford finished the first half of their 2005-6 Division 1 campaign with a 3-1 win at home against Eastcote. For the second time in two weeks, Rover took an early lead with Ruth Tuthill deflecting home a free hit from just outside the
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Benefit claims calls unanswered
Thousands of calls from jobless Oxfordshire people seeking their first benefit payments went unanswered because of computer failures, a leaked report has revealed. Jobseekers had to wait up to six weeks to get their money because of the problems with
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'Toilet brush' mast row goes to planning inquiry
A public inquiry next year will decide whether telecoms firm 02 has to dismantle a controversial 'cypress tree' mobile phone mast and move it six metres because it was built in the wrong place. Oxford City Council is locked in a legal dispute with the
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Workers axed for Christmas
Three family men who have worked together at the same industrial site for 35 years face a bleak Christmas after being laid off. Jim Barrett, 57, of Witney, Michael Hicks, 54, also of Witney and Stuart Poole, 57, of Standlake have worked together, making
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City permits are 'not fair'
A plan to charge Oxford's car-owning householders to park outside their homes has been described as a poll tax on motorists which discriminates against city residents. Car owners who live in 16 city centre zones -- including Summertown, Headington, Jericho
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Demo planned as lab builders work incognito
Animal rights protesters taunted contractors for wearing balaclavas in the latest demonstration outside Oxford Univer- sity's new £18m research laboratory. A masked contractor starts work on the lab site And they pledged there would be a mass demo outside
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Mounties ride in to get their point across
The mounted officers at the Peachcroft shopping parade Mounted police rode into Abingdon to spread a Christmas message -- hide the presents and lock up your homes. Police horses Troy, ridden by Pc Lou Watson, and Iceni, ridden by Pc Dave James, trotted
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November 29: Parking policy in disarray
What a muddle parking has become in Oxford. It is bad enough having two councils in charge. What makes it worse is that the two councils involved, Oxfordshire County Council and Oxford City Council, cannot agree on policy. While the city council tries
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Cogges Museum faces closure
Witney's top tourist attraction faces closure unless Oxfordshire County Council, which has pledged to slash council tax rises, finds tens of thousands of pounds to support it. Cogges Manor Farm Museum has been in trouble since West Oxfordshire District
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Fatal crash: man charged
A man has been arrested following a crash involving an Aston Martin sports car on the Berkshire Downs, near Wantage, in which a female passenger died. The 24-year-old front seat passenger, who was from the Wantage area, died after the DB7 Vantage left
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Mystery buyer snaps up F1 collection
A private collector has snapped up 20 Formula One cars and 150 items of Grand Prix memorabilia before they went under the hammer. The buyer, who has not been identified and is believed to be from overseas, bought the entire catalogue of Williams F1 cars
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'Prove merger worth grief'
The commander of Oxfordshire's police has said they need to be sure of the benefits before merging the force with Hampshire. Merging the two forces is one of the options being considered under a major Government restructuring of the country's police.
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NHS hit squads 'will not help'
A financial hit squad being brought in to Oxfordshire's largest hospital trust will find it impossible to make savings without hitting patient services, an MP has warned. NHS chief executive Sir Nigel Crisp announced plans to bring in specialists on Thursday
