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Blackbird Leys: 'Block this path off to druggies'
5:14pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
FAMILIES living near a path in Blackbird Leys want it blocked off to stop drug dealers and anti-social behaviour on their doorstep.
Hunt for Leys hit-and-run driver will not stop, say police
5:17pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
POLICE last night admitted they had come close to finding Oxfordshire’s most wanted man on several occasions as they appealed for the public’s help in their search.
Girls in step for St Patrick's Day
5:13pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
SCHOOLchildren donned bright costumes to mark St Patrick’s Day with a performance of traditional Irish dancing yesterday.
Abingdon's historic County Hall musem gets £1.7million grant
4:50pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
ABINGDON’S County Hall Museum has been given £1.7m to complete an ambitious restoration plan.
Bicester gets a spring-clean
4:42pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
BICESTER’S town centre is looking spick and span after a week-long spring clean.
Oxford church debates the smacking of children
4:37pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
IS it acceptable to punish a child by smacking?
Diamond wedding couple recall bumpy start to courtship
4:35pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
IT MAY not have been love at first sight, but Sidney and Joan Horne have been married for six decades.
UPDATE: Man arrested in connection with East Oxford rape
12:24pm Wednesday 17th March 2010
A 24-year-old man from East Oxford has been arrested on suspicion of rape in connection with an incident in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Firefighters tackle house blaze
8:47am Wednesday 17th March 2010
Twenty-five firefighters were called to a house in Wantage last night after a blaze broke out in the roof space.
Grounded pilot wants £15,000 back from Varsity Express
7:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010
A YOUNG pilot claims to have been left high and dry by the demise of Oxford airline Varsity Express after he invested £15,000 to be trained by the collapsed carrier.
HUNT FOR RAPIST: Woman dragged away and attacked in churchyard and East Oxford house
6:20am Wednesday 17th March 2010
WOMEN were last night warned to be on their guard after a foreign student was raped in East Oxford.
'I was paralysed, but I'll be doing the Sport Relief mile on Saturday'
8:00am Wednesday 17th March 2010
A MAN left temporarily paralysed by a rare medical condition has vowed to complete a mile-long walk for Sport Relief.
Greater Leys family escapes blaze in house
7:32pm Tuesday 16th March 2010
A MOTHER has told how her life flashed before her eyes as she escaped with her family from a house fire.
MUMPS: No more reported cases
7:35pm Tuesday 16th March 2010
There were no known further outbreaks of mumps among Oxford’s student population today.
Vandalism at Banbury cemetery
7:37pm Tuesday 16th March 2010
Floral displays which were laid to mark Mothering Sunday were wrecked at Southam Road Cemetery.
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