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Hotel idea for historic town building

The Oxford Times: Vale council leader Matthew Barber at the Old Abbey House in Abingdon, which is being sold by the district council. Picture: OX66716 Antony Moore

10:00am Thursday 24th April 2014

A HISTORIC building next to an Abingdon park should be turned into a hotel, according to councillors.

Woman abandoned as a baby issues appeal for help to trace her birth parents

The Oxford Times: Sarah as newborn baby

9:00am Thursday 24th April 2014

A WOMAN left as a newborn baby in a box on a doorstep in Headington one freezing night in 1980 is hoping Facebook will finally lead her to her parents.

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Clerk claims Russian mafia threatened him

The Oxford Times: Tai Hulbert-Thomas

8:30am Thursday 24th April 2014

A BANK clerk standing trial with two other men over an alleged £2m fraud had claimed he was in fear of the Russian mafia.

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‘It’s hell but we don’t feel any anger towards driver’

The Oxford Times: A stained glass window in memory of Freddie at Stephen Freeman Community Primary School, Didcot. His parents Lea and Judith Perry are pictured with Freddie’s sister Eloise, 11

8:30am Thursday 24th April 2014

THE family of a boy killed when he was hit by a car driven by a teacher say they bear no grudges as a coroner yesterday ruled the death was a complete accident.

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Joint inquest into how mum and daughter died

The Oxford Times: Inquest: Stoke Mandeville staff 'did not mistreat' pensioner

8:30am Thursday 24th April 2014

A joint inquest will be held into the deaths of reclusive Littlemore mother and daughter Pauline and Caroline Jessett by the autumn.

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Bullfinch on the agenda

The Oxford Times: Karen Bradley Minister for Modern Slavery and Organised Crime

8:30am Thursday 24th April 2014

A government minister will visit the city to discuss modern slavery and Operation Bullfinch next month.

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Breaking news Collision blocks one lane of the A34 at Weston-on-the-Green

The Oxford Times: A34 traffic alert

8:19am Thursday 24th April 2014

A COLLISION has blocked one lane of the A34 this morning.

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Work on huge solar farm set to start

The Oxford Times: Solar farm plans would benefit community

8:00am Thursday 24th April 2014

One of the largest solar farms in the UK is to be built over the next few months.

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