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Woman dies after van door crash (BBC News)

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:35:21 GMT

The 80-year-old woman, whose name has not been released, was walking in High Street, Goring, Oxfordshire, when the collision happened on Friday morning.

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Lord Tweedsmuir (The Herald )

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:25:03 GMT

Born in London in 1916, he grew up in Oxfordshire and attended Eton before lasting just two terms at New College, Oxford. At the time, his father's book The Thirty-Nine Steps was being made into a movie by Gaumont-British, with Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll in the leading roles. Thanks to his family connection, Buchan landed the job of assistant to the director, Alfred Hitchcock....

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GridClub: Online in-crowd with international appeal (The Telegraph)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:36:51 GMT

With most after-school clubs, members have to be in a particular place at a particular time. But not in the Telegraph's online GridClub. For at the same time as Stanley and Millie Thomas (ages seven and five) are logged on to the site at their home in Oxfordshire, so Emma and Kristin Berge (ages seven and four) are online in south-west Norway. As are twin sisters Sophie and Raphaelle Georges-Skelly,...

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My Secret Life: Martha Lane Fox, Entrepreneur, age 35 (The Independent)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:00:01 GMT

The home I grew up in... We moved around a lot, between Oxfordshire and London. I was happiest between the ages of 11 and 16, living in north Oxfordshire. I spent most of my time meeting boys and going to parties.

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Timmy swaps mallet for a palette (BBC News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:40:39 GMT

Former children's television presenter Timmy Mallett will see his paintings exhibited in Oxfordshire on Saturday.

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Killed youth forced to drink petrol (Daily Star)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:15:12 GMT

... his son, who was studying engineering, had a "heart of gold".The teenager was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, and grew up in Bishop Auckland, Durham. He and his father moved to Great Yarmouth four years ago.Police said he was last seen outside the James Paget Hospital at Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth.Mr Everitt set up a website - www.missingson.wetpaint.com - on which he appealed for information...

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Killed youth forced to drink petrol (Daily Express)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:48:11 GMT

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Former defence chief's shame at Iraqi's new Glasgow home (The Herald )

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:41:24 GMT

... first group of Iraqis to take part in the resettlement programme arrived at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire in April.

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Mark Ronson to be prosecuted for onstage cigarette? (In Case You Didn't Know)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:05:05 GMT

Mark Ronson is facing prosecution after he was caught smoking onstage at a gig last weekend. The Grammy-winner was performing at Britain’s Wakestock Festival in the grounds of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England on Saturday night but he broke the U.K.’s strict no smoking laws by sparking a cigarette up during the concert. And now West Oxfordshire District have confirmed they have...

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Cyclist killed in van collision (BBC News)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:31:00 GMT

A cyclist dies and a second is injured in a collision with a van in Oxfordshire.

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Fine English wine can be bubble-free (JancisRobinson.com)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:30:00 GMT

English fizz has been knocked off the top of the rostrum in this year's English and Welsh wine competiton. For the first time since 1999 a still white wine – Three Choirs Estate Reserve Siegerrebe 2006 – has won the Wine of the Year award.The results of this annual competition, organised by the United Kingdom Vineyards Association (UKVA) and held this year at Brightwell Vineyard in Oxfordshire,...

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Contact Music prejudges outcome (No Rock And Roll Fun)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:00 GMT

As if the 'Mark Ronson puffs on stage' story wasn't slight enough, Contact Music manage to bungle the reporting: West Oxfordshire District have confirmed they have launched an investigation into the allegations and will be examining photo evidence of the gig. A council spokeswoman tells British newspaper the Daily Mirror, "Our environmental health department will be investigating it and meeting...

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Ladies' Open test for Booth and Niven (Scotsman.com)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:20:05 GMT

CURTIS Cup player Carly Booth, who turned 16 last month, and Crieff's Roseanne Niven, a semi-finalist in the recent British Amateur Championship at North Berwick, have a chance to test their games against the professionals at today's Ladies' English Open at The Oxfordshire.

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Brewerton’s case for the defence (icWales)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

BECKY BREWERTON today starts navigating uncharted waters when she tees off in the Ladies English Open at The Oxfordshire.

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Golf: Brewerton’s case for the defence (icWales)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

BECKY BREWERTON today starts navigating uncharted waters when she tees off in the Ladies English Open at The Oxfordshire.

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... too many trees (Jock's Place - Comments)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:31:02 GMT

... to invest that in whatever assets they like, within reason, and in some lucky cases, as with West Oxfordshire, that could fund as much as half their current council tax requirement.Tax competition between municipalities seems to me to be something desirable. Each has different characteristics that might make the mix of things they decide to tax more or less useful. The choice of tax regime...

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David Coulthard Announces His Retirement (BlogF1)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:05:26 GMT

... Hill and competed in eight of the remaining twelve races. Coulthard only won one race with the Oxfordshire-based team before moving to McLaren in 1996. At the time the team was still in a slump and hadn’t achieved much success since the early nineties. However, the team were improving and in his nine years at Woking (longer than any other McLaren driver), David took a further twelve victories,...

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Apology for man hurt in shooting (BBC News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:44:37 GMT

An Oxfordshire man receives an apology from the French army after he was shot at during a military display.

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Report questions eco-town railway (BBC News)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:28:13 GMT

A report says £150m plans to reopen an eco-town railway between Oxford and Milton Keynes are "woefully under funded".

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In brief: Friends reunited for film? (The First Post)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:06:50 GMT

... Palace ceremony today… Alex James, the bass player with Blur who now produces cheese from his Oxfordshire farm, is about to expand his business with a little help from the . The Prince's Duchy of Cornwall estate has offered the pop star the milk from all of its Ayrshire cattle. Says James: "This could be the biggest, poshest cheese the world has ever seen"...

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