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  • Cat kicked to death

    CHILDREN watched as a cat was kicked to death. The blood-stained body of the young tabby was left lying on the pavement in a Witney street. Now police are appealing for witnesses to track down the thug who just walked away. Pc Steve Thompson described

  • Oxford road chaos looms

    A SECOND summer of gridlock beckons for drivers on Oxford's Botley Road. Major roadworks will begin at either end of one of the main routes into and out of Oxford on May 26. Mike Rant, Oxfordshire's county engineer, said it would be necessary to close

  • Station squat 'will go on'

    ECO-protesters occupying the LMS building by Oxford railway station have no plans to move out - despite claims they are the biggest obstacle to the city's transport strategy. Government inspector Geoff Brown produced his report on the Oxford Transport

  • Brookes beats the old guard

    ACADEMICS at Oxford Brookes University are celebrating after beating the stranglehold of the old guard among Britain's universities. The university has become the first former polytechnic to finish above any of Britain's traditional universities in 'The

  • My mum in a million

    MUM-in-a-million Valerie Dennis went to hell and back when her son Lee was seriously injured in an accident - but winning a makeover made her smile once again. The mum of three was nominated in our Mother's Day competition by her 11-year-old daughter

  • Why eco-warriors defend old station

    IT MUST have seemed so simple at the start. Move a few lanes of traffic, shift a tatty tyre depot, and let Oxford's Transport Strategy roll. That was before the eco-warriors arrived to spoil the party. The environmental activists presently resident in

  • Wheelie wasteful: Green effort rubbished by big bins

    WHEELIE bins are pushing people into creating waste mountains, it has been claimed. While most parts of Britain are desperate to cut back on rubbish going into the ground, Oxfordshire's wheelie bins seem to be literally encouraging more waste. Experts

  • Comrades end a tradition born on world's warfields

    OLD war comrades stood side by side for perhaps the last time when they turned out for a farewell service to commemorate the end of a sixty-year association. Ex-Territorial Army members of the 252/80th (City of Oxford) Heavy Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery

  • Young players do lap of honour

    SCHOOLBOY soccer stars were given a hero's welcome when they made a victorious tour of their home village yesterday evening. In the evening sunshine, Bampton Boys U-15s team boarded an open-topped bus and lapped up the praise when they did a lap of honour

  • Groom guilty of attack

    RACEHORSE groom Barry Brown faces jail after being convicted of hitting an 11-year-old girl with a walking stick. Brown, head groom at Ridgeway stud farm, Chilton, near Didcot, gave the girl a three-inch bruise on her arm after she asked for a ride on

  • Hundreds to join G8 protest

    HUNDREDS of people from Oxford were due to travel to the G8 world leaders' meeting in Birmingham today. They will join a vast human chain of tens of thousands of people, asking world leaders like Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin to cancel the

  • Doorstep conman jailed

    A CONMAN who tricked his way into pensioners' homes and stole their cash and valuables was jailed for three years yesterday. Richard Clay, 24, posed as workmen or officials to conned frail and elderly people across Oxfordshire out of thousands of pounds

  • I tested condoms in a mental hospital

    WHEN Maureen Green's mother sent her to a mental hospital at the age of 16, it was not because Maureen was crazy, but to protect her chastity. At 15, Maureen had found herself a job in a pub and struck up a friendship with a black man. Her mother reacted

  • Fume-free city of the future - or a fortress?

    OXFORD city centre will be pedestrianised within 12 months now the city's transport strategy has been given the green light. The often-controversial Oxford Transport Strategy has been in the pipeline for seven years and was the subject of a 17-day, £200,000

  • Sunstruck: Melanoma victim Marsha tells her story

    MARSHA Stoneley is 49. She lives in Acremead Road, Wheatley with her husband Brian. The couple's three children have all grown up. Marsha was happily working as a phychiatric nurse in Enstone when her husband first noticed a change in a mole on her back

  • Lib Dems blast new Lord Mayor

    OXFORD'S next Lord Mayor is abusive, threatening, and unworthy of the honour, her political opponents claim. In an unprecedented personal snub, Lib Dems on Oxford City Council plan not to vote for Labour's Carole Roberts, pictured, as Oxford's next Lord