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Ball gun yobs vandalise club
Hooligans went on the rampage with ball bearing guns at an Oxfordshire rugby club -- shooting out windows and causing at least £2,000 damage. Jim Homer, 68, a founder member of Grove Rugby Club, in Cane Lane, Grove, near Wantage, discovered the damage
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All alone am I
It will be an eerily quiet New Year's Eve for round-the-world yachtsman Adrian Flanagan as he sails towards the treacherous Cape Horn. Mr Flanagan, who is making good progress in his bid to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe via the polar
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Series of seven arsons 'linked'
Detectives believe seven fires which left a £150,000 trail of destruction could be the work of one gang of arsonists. Eight cars and a van were torched in less than 48 hours between Boxing Day and Wednesday, spreading to neighbouring vehicles and buildings
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Leader plans eco-home conversion
Witney MP David Cameron is planning to give his new London house a green make-over - and hopes to do the same to his Oxfordshire home. The Conservative Party leader is moving to a new property in west London to provide more space for his disabled son,
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John's giants games trials
When it comes to New Year's resolutions, John McClure has a list longer than most. The 30-year-old economist, from Long Lane in Littlemore, Oxford, wants to try all 128 sports on the Olympic programme before the Beijing Games in 2008 to raise money for
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Stepford wives
I couldn't agree more with Paul Wilson or disagree more with John Tanner (Oxford Mail, December 21) on the European budget, especially when this country's debt is in excess of £480bn, or 40 per cent of gross domestic product, something which the Office
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Sterling service rewarded
A district nurse who has served her patients "beyond the call of duty" for 30 years is among the county residents to be recognised for their work in the New Year's Honours list, published today. Jane Phillips, 52, of Foxfield, Chipping Norton, has been
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More money is to be wasted
Has the county council got shares in the traffic light company? What a shambles it has made of the Tesco roundabout at Cowley, Oxford. Why have these councillors been let out so soon after the Cornmarket fiasco? I would never have thought it possible
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Sacked worker gets big payoff
An engineer has been awarded £46,000 after he was unfairly sacked by Oxford Instruments. Chaim Morgan, 59, from Wallingford, was awarded the settlement after a tribunal at Reading found he had been victimised by the company. In January 2004, Mr Morgan
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Those who speak in favour of animal experiments erroneously assume that success in this research is
Regrettably this is not so. It is specifically forbidden. No benefit in this research benefits other animals. As one research paper I read said, animal experiments are all very well, but the real test is to test these new cures on humans. Tests on animals
