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  • Cat shot by hooligans survives op

    A CAT shot with a gun by hooligans has survived a four-hour operation. Rosie, a 14-month-old black and white Persian cross, was shot in the neck with a metal pellet while in her owner’s garden. Vets spent hours painstakingly searching for the pellet

  • Farmer fined for dredging

    A FARMER has been ordered to pay more than £5,000 after he potentially increased the flood risk to homes by dredging a Sutton Courtenay brook without permission. Paul Caudwell, the owner of Caudwell and Sons, Gravel Lane, Drayton, was fined £2,600 by

  • Nation's going nuts because of silversmith

    A SILVERSMITH has been recruited by a national charity to cast 21 hazelnuts — in a bid to save the English dormouse. John Huddlestone, 57, of St James Road, Radley, took up silver work at a night class at Abingdon and Witney College in 1978. More than