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'We need new health centre' say residents

11:00am Monday 20th May 2013

RESIDENTS claim a health centre is needed in Littlemore as its population is set to increase with a series of housing developments.

Trainee doctor reports JR smokers to authorities

11:00am Monday 20th May 2013

A TRAINEE doctor is so fed up with smokers at the entrances to Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital he has reported it to the authorities.

Pervert jailed for affences against four underage girls

11:00am Monday 20th May 2013

A 65-year-old man from Sulgrave has been jailed for 12 years for sexual offences against four underage girls.

Housing appeal is set to be heard

Neighbours with Mike Badcock

10:40am Monday 20th May 2013

A CONTROVERSIAL bid to build 160 homes on a green field in Abingdon will be considered tomorrow by the Government’s Planning Inspectorate.

More Oxford people living in fuel poverty

Yvonne Ryman

10:20am Monday 20th May 2013

THE number of households in fuel poverty in Oxford is on the rise, figures have revealed.

Having a high old time on The Leys

Six-year-old Lewis Jansen scales the climbing wall

10:00am Monday 20th May 2013

HUNDREDS of people flocked to the centre of Greater Leys for a family event aimed at bringing the Oxford estate’s diverse community together.

Search continues for mother of tragic tot

9:30am Monday 20th May 2013

POLICE are continuing to search for the mother of a Bicester toddler after the child’s body was found at a house in the town.

£500,000 scheme to renew pipe

9:30am Monday 20th May 2013

HUNDREDS of metres of sewer pipe which have burst three times in the last four years are to be replaced in a £500,000 project.

"Important" John Ruskin portrait is acquired by the Ashmolean

9:10am Monday 20th May 2013

AN IMPORTANT Pre-Raphaelite painting has been acquired by Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum.

Surge in number of people attending church

Worshippers at St Aldate's Church in Oxford

9:00am Monday 20th May 2013

A GROWING number of worshippers are going to Anglican churches in the Diocese of Oxford, bucking a national trend for falling attendance.

Co-op urged to come clean over shops plan

Informed . . . Gary Walker of Botley Barbers

7:00am Monday 20th May 2013

RESIDENTS are urging a supermarket chain to break its silence over an alternative plan for West Way, Botley. The Co-op has admitted it will be countering Doric Properties’ plans to build a new cinema and shopping centre.

UPDATE: A34 near Didcot cleared following two vehicle smash

9:16am Monday 20th May 2013

TRAFFIC is returning to normal after a two-car crash blocked one lane of the A34 southbound near Didcot this morning.

Images of child abuse in 'Merry Christmas' folder

6:30pm Sunday 19th May 2013

A MAN who admitted making and distributing indecent images of children has been jailed for two years.

'For art's sake let's keep Didcot's iconic cooling towers

Marge Muil in front of Didcot's cooling towers

7:00am Sunday 19th May 2013

DIDCOT’S iconic cooling towers should live on as an adventure park and giant mural, according to a woman inspired by a redundant power plant in South Africa.

'Treated like a king on my D-Day return

Leslie Valentine on the beach at Arromanches

7:00pm Saturday 18th May 2013

NEARLY 70 years ago, Leslie Valentine flew a daring mission over Juno Beach to lay smoke to protect troops landing in Normandy on D-Day.

Eggs thrown during protest against award for Rwandan president Paul Kagame

7:15pm Saturday 18th May 2013

EGGS were thrown and two people arrested by police during the protest at the visit of Rwandan president Paul Kagame to Oxford today.

Scales of Justice

6:50pm Saturday 18th May 2013

People convicted of offences at Oxford Magistrates' Court recently:

No buyer yet for £6.75m row of student homes

5:50pm Saturday 18th May 2013

NINE Victorian student houses along Iffley Road are still on the market, it has been revealed.

Bid made to preserve county's ponds

Oxford East MP Andrew Smith and charity director Jeremy Biggs at the nature reserve at Pinkhill Meadow, Farmoor

3:00pm Saturday 18th May 2013

CARNIVOROUS plants in Oxfordshire’s ponds are one species set to snap up a huge funding boost.

Police continue search for mum of Bicester toddler

2:04pm Saturday 18th May 2013

A police search is continuing today for the mother of a Bicester toddler whose body was found at a house in the town.

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