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Moving ceremony to salute a ‘lost’ airman

Bugler Ben Horsman, standard-bearer John Grout, Mike Lowe and Don Deaney at the cemetery

2:30pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

MEMBERS of Carterton Lions Club were among a delegation from Oxfordshire who combined an annual trip to mark the Netherlands’ Remembrance Day with a ceremony to honour a “lost” RAF airman who was buried in a Dutch graveyard in 1941.

Residents' joy over U-turn on play area

Lesley Senter with daughter Evangeline, six, and friend Lillie Gamage, six. Picture: OX59280 Ric Mellis

12:00pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

COUNCILLORS thought again on plans to convert a children’s play area into allotments after a campaign by residents.

Teen wins vote to become Miss Witney

Jessie Warner being crowned by Miss Oxfordshire Lydia Williamson. Picture: OX59274 Antony Moore

12:00pm Wednesday 22nd May 2013

A TEENAGER who won a national vote was crowned Miss Witney on Monday.

Acclaimed pub up for sale for £895,000

Gerry Stonhill at The Mason Arms

8:30am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

HE FOUGHT the smoking ban and reputedly fell out with Michael Winner, but now infamous landlord Gerry Stonhill has retired.

Hugh Bonneville spotted in Bampton filming Downton Abbey

7:10am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

DOWNTON Abbey stars have been in Bampton filming the fourth series of the popular period drama.

Witney food festival sizzles with comic flavour

Alexander Armstrong opens the Witney Food Festival

12:50pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

COMEDIAN Alexander Armstrong joined thousands of Witney food lovers for the inaugural Witney Food Festival.

Civil War heroes are remembered

Members of the Cry Havoc morris dancing team in Burford

12:00pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

A PROCESSION of about 500 people marched through Burford to mark the 39th Levellers Day and the death of three men in a churchyard.

Witney man in hospital after severing fingers

9:30am Tuesday 21st May 2013

WITNEY: A man was airlifted to hospital after severing a number of his fingers yesterday.

UPDATE: Signalling problems affecting rail services between Oxford and Moreton-in-Marsh resolved

7:00pm Monday 20th May 2013

Signalling problems affecting rail services between Oxford and Moreton-in-Marsh resolved.

Seat unveiled in memory of pre-school assistant Anna Jones

Anna's family remember her

2:40pm Monday 20th May 2013

“SIT awhile and think of Anna”.

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