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  • School thugs torch pets

    Sick thugs burned to death a primary school's pet rabbit and guinea pig before dumping their charred bodies in a children's sandpit. The "mindless" vandals torched the hutch the animals lived in at St Swithun's Primary School in Grundy Crescent, Kennington

  • Clue to end of post strike

    The latest postal strike was called off when Royal Mail managers agreed to reinstate a sacked postman Kevin Tunstall with full benefits, the Oxford Mail understands. About 100 staff based at the Abingdon delivery office in Ock Street walked out on Tuesday

  • Letting agency boss gets boardroom ban

    Businessman Bill McLachlan, who left students, landlords and private tenants stranded when his letting agency closed down, has been banned from being a company director for six years. McLachlan, director of CityComm, received the ban because of the way

  • Heart op at last

    An elderly heart patient who threatened a sit-in at an Oxford hospital in protest at delays in surgery is now recovering after finally having his opgoing under the surgeon's knife. Douglas Peverill threatened a sit-in at the prestigious Oxford's John

  • Shoppers in tears over closure plan

    Customers broke down in tears after being told the only specialist greengrocers' shop in Abingdon town centre is to close. Supa-Fruits, in the town's Bury Street shopping precinct, will trade for the last time this Saturday (Sept 19) - because the family

  • 'Net closing' on CD bootleggers

    Trading standards officers have warned bootleggers peddling pirated CDs that they are on their trail, following the conviction of music crook Mark Jenkins. At Oxford Crown Court yesterday, Jenkins, 34, admitted conspiring with others to distribute thousands

  • Tempone pays for mistake

    Oxford Utd Res 0, Brighton Res 1 A CHRONIC lack of punch near goal cost United dearly against Brighton in last night's Avon Insurance Combination game at the Manor. United included four triallists - Argentinians German Tempone and Christian Otero and

  • So what's in a (maiden) name?

    Women's Editor FIONA TARRANT reports on why women are keeping them... Anthea Turner may have tried to change her man and failed, but there's one thing she won't have to change if and when she and estranged husband Peter Powell finally hit the divorce

  • The secret diary of Bill Clinton

    Columnist Michael Davies imagines how it might have been... Everyone knows Bill Clinton was a student at Oxford University in his youth. The beleaguered President of the United States came to this side of the Pond as a Rhodes Scholar in the late 1960s

  • You too can be a queen of clubs

    What do Zoe Ball, Ulrika Jonsson and Celine Dion have in common with Chris Evans, Robbie Williams, Sean Connery, Henry Cooper and Glenn Hoddle? Fame, yes, but there's more. They're all into golf. The game that was once the exclusive male domain has become

  • Radio star found hanged

    Popular Thames Valley radio star Sue McGarry was found hanged when her DJ partner got home from presenting his show with rival station Fox FM. Tributes poured in today for the popular broadcaster after it emerged she was found dead yesterday at the home

  • Drive to help thirsty truckers

    DRIED-UP drivers and thirsty truckers have relief at hand from Britain's first in-car mini drinks vending machine. The £99 Diwwy drinks device sits on the dashboard of the car and serves up fresh tea, coffee, chocolate and soup at the touch of button.

  • Camera to snap dirty dog culprits

    Dog owners who let their pets foul in public will be secretly photographed and then prosecuted in a town-wide crackdown. Snap-happy Wallingford town councillor John Beeton will snoop about focusing on owners whose pooches do their dirty deeds. His evidence

  • £7.8m leisure centre looks almost certain

    A new £7.8m leisure centre looks almost certain to be built, after the English Sports Council gave its support for the scheme in principle. Despite an attempt by the Lottery Sports Fund to keep its decision secret, The Oxford Mail can reveal that supporters

  • Lord Mayor helps city's homeless

    The Lord Mayor of Oxford launched a bid to raise £20,000 for the city's homeless as new figures revealed more people are finding themselves on the streets. Cllr Carole Roberts - herself once homeless in the 1960s - praised the work of volunteer groups

  • Card-carrying cattle

    Cow passports may sound daft but they could rescue farming. REG LITTLE reports... The idea of passports for cattle might seem to bear the stamp of a Beaujolais-swilling Brussels bureaucrat. But desperate livestock farmers in Oxfordshire are this week

  • Gerry's got a FAB house - no strings attached!

    Puppet king Gerry Anderson's ground-breaking ideas revolutionised children's television. Here, courtesy of next month's House Beautiful magazine, we discover whether his ideas on design extend behind the doors of his Oxfordshire home. FIONA TARRANT reports

  • Roaring Cheetahs keep play-off hopes alive

    Poole Pirates 40, Oxford Cheetahs 50 GRESHAM Oxford Cheetahs pulled off a superb win at Poole last night to keep alive their hopes of a place in the Elite Speedway League play-offs, writes LEON HILL. Once again they were led from the front by No 1 Jason

  • 50 years of the WI college

    Denman College, in Marcham, is the bustling centre of the Women's Institute and on Sunday it celebrates its golden anniversary. So what's the secret of it's success? KATHERINE MacALISTER went to find out... With everything from car maintenance to advan