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Swift response to bird appeal
5:10pm Thursday 2nd September 2010
SWIFTS in Oxfordshire have been given a helping hand on to the property ladder after volunteers built them new homes.
Have you seen man wanted over Blewbury robbery?
1:00pm Thursday 2nd September 2010
Police are trying to trace this man after a taxi driver was robbed in Blewbury.
County below average in writing tests
9:30am Thursday 2nd September 2010
ONE IN five of the county’s seven-year-olds failed to meet the expected levels of writing this year.
Drivers flout 20mph limit
9:26am Thursday 2nd September 2010
Drivers are still ignoring Oxford’s controversial 20mph speed limits 12 months after they were introduced, a speed check has shown.
Drivers desert the city
8:00am Thursday 2nd September 2010
Stay-away motorists are adding to Oxford City Council’s mounting financial worries, with a big drop in car park use costing the council hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Oxford coffee drinkers wanted for Macmillan
7:40pm Wednesday 1st September 2010
A CANCER charity is busy brewing support in Oxfordshire for a fundraising coffee morning.
John Radcliffe Hospital praised for quality of stroke care
6:27pm Wednesday 1st September 2010
Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital has been ranked in the top 10 per cent of hospitals nationally for the quality of its care for stroke patients.
No charge for former Mayor over bunker explosion
12:42pm Wednesday 1st September 2010
A FORMER Mayor will not face charges over an explosion in a Second World War bunker, police said today.
GREAT NORTH RUN: Oxford fields fundraisers
12:10pm Wednesday 1st September 2010
VETERAN runner Sir Christopher Ball should have no problem completing the Great North Run half-marathon to raise funds for an autism charity.
How would you save £200m from council budget?
10:30am Wednesday 1st September 2010
Oxfordshire County Council wants you to tell it how to slash £200m over the next five years.
Man held over Didcot assault
10:18am Wednesday 1st September 2010
Police are appealing for witnesses following an assault in Didcot on Monday.
Police want your help to catch county's most wanted
9:00am Wednesday 1st September 2010
FOURTEEN people have been unveiled as Oxfordshire’s most hunted suspects who police want you to help find.
Car flips on A34
8:23am Wednesday 1st September 2010
A CAR overturned after the driver swerved to avoid a lorry on the A34 this morning.
CAB's race against time to find £50,000
7:00am Wednesday 1st September 2010
DIDCOT Citizens Advice Bureau faces a race against time to raise £50,000 to refurbish its new premises before being evicted from the Civic Hall.
Vale council's £4m from Old Gaol deal
7:00am Wednesday 1st September 2010
ABINGDON landmark the Old Gaol is expected to earn the Vale of White Horse District Council about £4m, the Herald has discovered.
Museum expansion bid faces new delay
7:00am Wednesday 1st September 2010
WALLINGFORD Museum’s extension may not be built until 2012, because of problems securing the funding.
Roadworks threat to town businesses
7:00am Wednesday 1st September 2010
SHOPKEEPERS fear a month-long road closure in Wantage town centre could kill off their businesses.
Diamond Light and Isis under threat
4:02pm Wednesday 1st September 2010
SCIENTISTS are warning the Government that it would be a “ridiculous waste of taxpayers’ money” to axe science projects at Harwell that have cost millions to build.
House price rises levelling off
7:00pm Tuesday 31st August 2010
House price inflation in Oxfordshire is running out of steam, according to the Land Registry.
Home burgled in Nuneham Courtenay
2:34pm Tuesday 31st August 2010
Police are appealing for witnesses after a burglary in Nuneham Courtenay.
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