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  • Widower couldn't bear loss

    A grief-stricken widower hanged himself because he could not cope with the approaching anniversary of his wife's death, an inquest heard. Oxford Coroner's Court was told Stanley Nash, 77, of Elms Drive, Marston, Oxford, was found hanged from his loft

  • Pressure builds on JR as accident rate soars

    Doctors are being forced to discharge the equivalent of four wards full of patients to make room for a daily influx of 60 to 80 emergency admissions at an Oxford hospital. And during the past month the crisis at the John Radcliffe has soared, with 80

  • Trust bids to guard historic prison site

    A move is under way to secure the ancient monuments at the Oxford prison site for the people of the city. Oxford Preservation Trust wants to become the guardian of the Norman and Saxon buildings after a controversial decision to turn the former prison

  • Benefit claimants stunner in survey

    One-in-six people in Oxford lives in a household claiming benefits for low income, a report has revealed. A University of Oxford study into poverty also found above-average levels of children aged under five living in one-parent households and a high

  • County highways grant tops £10m

    The Government has given Oxfordshire County Council £10.6m to spend on the region's roads. The annual grant is part of an £80m funding package announced by transport minister Lord MacDonald for local authorities in the South East. Last year, the county

  • Hospital on danger list may be revived

    Moves to salvage a future for one of Oxfordshire's axed community hospitals are under way. Campaigners who fought to save the 11-bed Burford Hospital from closure are now putting together a package to use the building for community care. A small group

  • Cheeky Tories play the red card

    Tories are ho-ho-hoping to promote some festive cheer this Christmas - with a tongue-in-cheek card about the Oxford Transport Strategy. The bright red card has been a talking point in county hall and has raised wry smiles from all parties. The front cover

  • The world is all ready to celebrate

    So you've bought the little black party frock, dusted down the DJ and buffed up the bow tie. Unless you've spent the past 12 months in hiding with Lord Lucan on a remote island somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, you will be aware that there is a bit of

  • There's lashings of sauce on show

    Isn't is strange, if we pick up a girlie magazine which has pictures of nudes on every page - it's considered "naughty", yet if we stand in front of Rembrandt's Bathsheba, or any other nude painted by a great master - we call it art. There seems to be

  • Family warned over truancy

    A couple are facing heavy fines for not sending their teenage daughter to school as education chiefs carry out their threat to get tough on truancy. Magistrates at Wantage told them that unless the 15-year-old girl's attendance rate rose above 85 per