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Oxford public toilets could close

John Tanner

8:45am Thursday 2nd July 2009

A NUMBER of Oxford’s public toilets are facing closure this winter as part of plans to save £50,000 a year.

£44m hospital cuts now biting

8:48am Thursday 2nd July 2009

STAFF and patients at Oxfordshire’s main hospitals are beginning to feel the impact of a £44m cost saving drive.

JOBS LOSSES: Union hits out at council

8:07pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

FIVE hundred jobs are being axed by Oxfordshire County Council.

Police to pay legal bill over car written off

7:58pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

THAMES Valley Police have agreed to pay thousands of pounds in legal costs to a motorist after his stolen car was so badly damaged at a secure storage compound that it had to be written off.

Judges back pre-nuptial decision

7:11pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

Three senior judges upheld a pre-nuptial agreement in a case involving one of Germany’s richest women and her £30,000-a-year former husband, a biotechnology researcher at Oxford University.

'OX4 soldier' Jake gets youth award

Jake with Aaron Scott

7:09pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

A DYING teenager from Oxford who has been battling terminal cancer for the past six years has been honoured for his courage, bravery and charity work.

'Peers School dumped special needs pupils on me'

7:08pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

A TEACHER at Peers School in Littlemore, Oxford, said she was given an “unreasonable” number of special needs children — and told to “get on with it”, a hearing was told.

Cool for kats

The fruit blocks have disappeared fast

7:02pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

AS temperatures across Oxfordshire rocketed, Meerkats at the Cotswold Wildlife Park got some ice-cold treats today courtesy of their keepers.

Benefit cheat told to pay up

7:06pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

An ex-soldier has been fined and ordered to pay back £1,750 after falsely claiming benefit.

'I will take subway battle to Downing Street'

Mick Haines

6:59pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

A COMMUNITY leader has vowed to take his battle to save an Oxford subway to the very top.

500 jobs to go at county council

6:25pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

FIVE hundred jobs are being axed from Oxfordshire County Council.

Anger as council votes for £442,000 demolition of Northway Centre

Betty Fletcher and other residents outside the centre

6:17pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

COMMUNITY leaders and residents tonight condemned plans to spend £442,000 demolishing an Oxford office block and sell off the site for housing.

Olympian brings along an old flame

Denise Lewis and children at the sports day

6:15pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

MORE than 350 Oxford schoolchildren had a flaming good time as Olympic gold medallist Denise Lewis hosted an inter-schools sports day.

Have you seen this missing man?

John Doran

4:08pm Thursday 2nd July 2009

Police are looking for a man who has not been seen since he left a friend’s house four days ago in Carterton, west Oxfordshire.


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