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SCALES OF JUSTICE: Oxford Magistrates' Court round-up

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:00:00 +0000

OXFORD Christopher Berry, 56, of no fixed address, admitted using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour to cause harassment, alarm or distress in Oxford on November 16 and being drunk and disorderly in Oxford on November 18. Fined £80 and a £15 victims’ surcharge.

Residents in fight for land

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:00:00 +0000

residents who fenced off a grass verge have been told to get off the land by the end of the month.

Women's festival returns

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:00:00 +0000

THE breadth of women’s experience will be celebrated at this year’s Oxford International Women’s Festival.

Bus passengers left standing

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:30:00 +0000

Bus passengers travelling from Oxford to Wallingford are missing out on a regular seat home due to overcrowding on the last remaining service.

Drug dealer goes to jail

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:10:00 +0000

A personal trainer found with thousands of pounds worth of drugs was the cousin of a man murdered in Oxford.

House blaze in Cowley Road

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:32:01 +0000

A HOUSE in Cowley Road is currently on fire, sending smoke billowing into the road.

Landlord gets £4,900 court bill over gas safety case

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000

AN OXFORD landlord has been ordered to pay almost £5,000 in costs after a faulty gas boiler risked the lives of his student tenants.

No date yet for repatriation

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:10:00 +0000

OXFORDSHIRE: A date for the repatriation of a serviceman from the Royal Air Force Regiment killed in Afghanistan on Monday has not yet been set.

Cadet's fight to bail out of plane

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

BRAVE schoolboy Nicholas Rice tried desperately to bail out of a doomed aircraft after his tutor was killed in front of him in a mid-air collision, an inquest heard yesterday.

Pupils' fundraiser is a soaraway success

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:00:00 +0000

BALLOONS floated above an Oxford school as a charity day proved a soaraway success.