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Trophies triumph for Oxfordshire dancers

Trophies trium for Oxfordshire dancers

1:17pm Thursday 18th March 2010

YOUNG dancers won so many trophies at their first international competition that they could not fit them all on the plane home.

Burglary in Carterton

12:45pm Thursday 18th March 2010

BURGLARS stole hundreds of packets of cigarettes and a television from a house in Carterton.

Cars torched on industrial estate

8:44am Thursday 18th March 2010

FIVE cars and a van were set alight on an industrial estate in Banbury last night.

Square shape set to change

What was the western end of Park End Street in 1998, after the former Rewley Road railway station building was removed

7:00am Thursday 18th March 2010

A £2M redesign of one of the Oxford’s worst traffic bottlenecks is being drawn up by transport planners.

Jar of honey secures eco-park deal

Darcey Snape, who lives in nearby Whitehouse Road, pictured at the ground with the token rent payment

6:30am Thursday 18th March 2010

A JAR of honey a year has secured an ecological site in Oxford – thanks to a deal between a community group and a university college.

Feeding birds 'puts lives of RAF Benson pilots at risk'

Flt Lt Steve Bishop with a Puma helicopter at RAF Benson

6:10am Thursday 18th March 2010

BIRD lovers could be putting pilots’ lives at risk by feeding red kites near RAF Benson.

Oxford gears up for elections

Lilian Sherwood and Lynn Carter say electoral registration forms were wrongly delivered

7:50pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

OXFORD City Council is due to begin sending out polling cards to voters this weekend ahead of May’s local elections.

Actor's poetry reading helps Oxford Oratory appeal

Robert Hardy with Elizabeth Barlow, of the Vox Angelica choral group, which also performed

7:30pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

ACTOR Robert Hardy proved he can speak to audiences great and small when he gave an evening of poetry readings to help raise money towards the £5m needed to restore the Oxford Oratory to its former glory.

MP catches out Premier over Forces spending

6:42pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

PRIME Minister Gordon Brown is to clarify his evidence to the Iraq Inquiry after a House of Commons question from Banbury MP Tony Baldry yesterday.

Whisky sale ban shocks soldier

Sgt Keith Cotton and Krystal Mitchell outside Carterton Co-op, where he was told he could not buy a bottle of Scotch because staff thought he might give the spirit to his step-daughter

6:20pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

A SOLDIER who had just arrived home from a tour of duty in Afghanistan was not allowed to buy a bottle of whisky in a supermarket because his step-daughter was with him.

County jobseeker claim count falls

6:06pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

THE number of people signing on the dole in Oxfordshire has fallen.

Carer to compete in OX5 in full armour

Steve Couchman in full armour which he will wear to take part in the OX5Run

5:59pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

CARER Steve Couchman is planning to be a knight in shining armour for sick children across Oxfordshire.

Teens to get McGCSEs for work experience

Manager Mike Heapy, with staff Olivia Fisher, left, and Marifa Heapy in McDonald’s at Milton Interchange in Didcot

5:44pm Wednesday 17th March 2010

TEENAGERS completing work experience at branches of McDonald’s across the county are to be awarded a qualification equivalent to a good GCSE.





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