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Rich and poor gap widening

I wholeheartedly agree with Jacob Sanders, of the Green Party (Oxford Mail, December 14) -- David Cameron does, indeed, seem to be cast in the same mould as Tony Blair. Compassionate Conservatism is nonsense. How can such a party be compassionate when

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Thursday, December 22: When cuts aren't cuts

County council leader Keith Mitchell says he is looking forward to the day in April when we at the Oxford Mail are forced to eat humble pie. For his information, we don't like humble pie, and we have no intention of eating it either. We will be as delighted

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Friday December 23: Good and bad side of Christmas

We know our mums are wonderful. Christine Peck didn't hesitate when her daughter Loretta started giving birth in the back of a taxi on the way to the John Radcliffe Hospital. She turned midwife and delivered the baby herself. Taxi driver Takmayer Rizvi

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Don't merge us force demands

Oxfordshire would be best policed if Thames Valley is not forced to merge with Hampshire, the force's new stand-in chief said yesterday. Thames Valley has joined the rebellion against Government plans to merge the current 43 police forces into 12 'super-forces

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Hoax callers 'face arrest'

Thames Valley Police has issued a stern warning to anyone thinking of making hoax emergency calls this Christmas: "Call us and you face prosecution." While the force has one of lowest hoax call rates in the country, it still receives malicious calls from

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New bridge is open at last

THE landlord of a west Oxford pub was looking forward to a boost in trade today following the long-delayed reopening of a nearby footbridge. Henry Dean, of The Waterman's Arms, on Osney Island, said his trade had almost been killed off by the Environment

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Too much red tape

In 1992, exactly two months after seeing my GP, I had a hernia operation in the Churchill Hospital at Headington, Oxford. In December 2005, six months after being on the waiting list for an identical operation, I was informed that all hernia operations

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Christmas Day on the wards

THE only thing teenager Dwyfiene Evans wants this Christmas Day is a game of pool with his dad. Instead, the 13-year-old Wheatley Park School pupil will be one of only two children spending another 24 hours at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Headington

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The best gift ever

For more than 60 years, Ukrainian refugee Theodore Majkut thought his family was dead, killed by the Nazis during the Second World War. But this Christmas the 80-year-old is celebrating the best present ever after hearing that his three long-lost brothers

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Woman airlifted to hospital after fall

A woman suffering from hypothermia was airlifted to hospital after falling and fracturing her ankle on an Oxfordshire woodland trail yesterday (December 18). The woman, 60, whose condition was not thought to be life-threatening, had been lying on the

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Saturday December 24: A worthy cause to support

The next 12 months are a crucial time for the Oxford Children's Hospital Appeal. This ambitious public fundraising project aims to secure £15m towards the cost of building the new hospital, which is due to open early in 2007. Of that total, £2.5m has

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Westgate Primark to open in February

THE long-awaited Primark store will open its doors in Oxford's Westgate Centre in February. Primark bought the prime site in July and shoppers hoped the space, occupied by the Allders department store until March, would be ready for the festive season

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Retirement present 'is an insult'

Forklift driver Christopher Stallard officially retires tomorrow -- but what should have been a memorable milestone is one he now wants to forget. Mr Stallard has been left hurt and insulted after the Didcot company he gave 15 years loyal service to handed

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Derogatory letters

I have noticed that since David Cameron has been elected leader of the Tory party, a number of derogatory letters about the Tory Party and its followers have appeared, the latest from Bob Vincent (Oxford Mail, December 19). I will not comment about his