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• West End regeneration gathering pace

  THE people of Oxford are to have their say in the summer on a multi-million pound scheme to regenerate a quarter of the centre of the city. read more

• Butler wins claim against college

  A FORMER butler has received a substantial sum in compensation after he took an Oxford college to a tribunal. read more

• 'No cover-up over NHS job losses'

  NHS managers have denied they are keeping cost-saving jobs cuts across Oxfordshire secret until after next month's local elections. read more

• City comes to standstill

  ANIMAL rights campaigners brought Oxford to a standstill as they staged their biggest protest march through the city. read more

• 'No' to Brooklyn twinning with Blackbird Leys

  THE New York borough of Brooklyn has rejected the chance to twin with an Oxford estate. read more

• Cash machines in city hit by 'skimmers'

  CLONERS using skimming devices at an Oxford cash machine have stolen thousands of pounds from unsuspecting victims. read more

• 'Daughter's boyfriend cut my brakes'

  A MOTHER whose daughter's boyfriend was jailed this week for cutting the brakes on her car said she was not looking for revenge. read more

• City-wide drink ban will not be zero-tolerance

  POLICE say they will not adopt a zero-tolerance approach to enforcing Oxford's new city-wide alcohol ban. read more

• New heart statistics welcomed by surgeons

  NHS watchdogs will continue investigating heart surgery at an Oxford hospital despite publishing survival rates which show no cause for alarm. read more

• Call for crash driver to get sterner sentence

  PROSECUTORS want to appeal against the two-year jail sentence for Oxford Eastern Bypass driver Angela Dublin, because they think it is too lenient. read more

• Free parking in city likely to stay

  FREE on-street parking in Oxford is likely to stay after "doom and gloom" opponents were told they had been wrong about the scheme. read more

• Police out to stop May Morning mayhem

  MAGDALEN Bridge will be cordoned off to stop students jumping off and injuring themselves on May Day. read more

• Oxford is country's second hottest property zone

  OXFORD is the number one hotspot in the country for property investors outside London, according to TV experts. read more

• Unitary talk is 'destabilising'

  LOCAL government across Oxfordshire is being destabilised by renewed talk of the county council being scrapped. read more

• Oxford Inspires seeks new chief executive

  THE man in charge of Oxfordshire's millennium celebrations is standing down as chief executive of Oxford Inspires. read more

• City businessman is jailed

  A RESPECTED Oxford businessman ran an asylum benefits scam which netted him and his family more than half a million pounds, a court heard this week. read more

• Lord Mayor gets official bicycle

  FUTURE Lord Mayors of Oxford will have good cause to turn to pedal power when they accept the chain of office. For from now on they will have a mayoral bicycle at their disposal alongside the Lord Mayor's 'green' Toyota Prius. read more

• Local schools could abandon A-Levels

  SEVERAL top independent schools in Oxfordshire have revealed they may drop A-Levels within two years for a tough new continental-style diploma. read more

• City council disputes district auditor's findings

  THE Audit Commission, the public spending watchdog, appears to have told Oxford City Council it has so far failed to prove it got the highest price for land on which the Kassam Stadium was built. read more

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