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  • Car flips onto its roof

    A car left the road on the A4074 and flipped onto its roof. Emergency services attended the accident on the road’s northbound carriageway, just before the Heyford Hill roundabout, at around 12.45pm today. Two women were injured. In another

  • Sir Richard Branson sells his Kidlington home

    Sir Richard Branson has sold his estate in Kidlington to his children, according to press reports. The entrepreneur has lived at the estate for 20 years, but has reportedly sold it to his two grown-up children for £1.35m. The Sunday Times says

  • MOTORSPORT: Grosjean has to settle for third in Japan

    The Enstone-based Lotus team had high hopes of victory when Romain Grosjean led for much of the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka today. But he had to settle for third place behind the Red Bull pair of Sebastian Vettel, who secured his fifth successive

  • Late night flat blaze sees firefighters swoop

    Firefighters were called at 1.20am this morning after a blaze in an unoccupied ground floor flat on Cowley Road. People living in the flat above were alerted by their smoke alarms, officials say. Investigators are working with Thames Valley

  • Oxford Half Marathon 2013: And they're off...

    More than 5,000 runners have left the Kassam Stadium this morning to take part in the third Oxford Half Marathon. The wet weather wasn't enough to put off the estimated 5,500 people who lined up ahead of a gruelling 13-mile race around Oxford city

  • Phone app shows women the safest way to get home

    A CHARITY trying to help young, female binge drinkers has launched a smartphone app to help girls get home safely after a night out. Witney-based Wash My Pink Jumper was founded by Kym-Marie Cleasby, 50, after her daughter Beth started binge drinking