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Archaeologists not throwing the trowel in yet

7:00am Thursday 20th June 2013

VOLUNTEER archaeologists are hoping garden digs this weekend will unearth more about Littlemore’s medieval past.

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Student homes plan ‘farcical’

7:00am Thursday 20th June 2013

A CONCERNED resident has claimed it would be ‘a farce’ if more student housing is built on the former Travis Perkins site in East Oxford.

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Flats favourite to win ‘hideous design’ gong

7:00pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

OXFORD residents have already labelled the controversial development at Port Meadow “ugly”.

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Former staff ‘excited’ to rejoin supermarket

6:00pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

THERE will be some familiar faces at a new Sainsbury’s store as the company prepares to open in Cowley after a 13-year break from the area.

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Hey! That's a great story

1:00pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

TODDLERS gathered round for a special poetry session at Oxford’s Story Museum yesterday.

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Folk tale with not Aladdin sight...

12:00pm Wednesday 19th June 2013

MIDDLE Eastern folk tales are to be told in Oxford at a school drama production starting tonight.

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Oxford man said haul of child abuse images were to help catch paedophiles

11:00am Wednesday 19th June 2013

A MAN who told police he was viewing indecent images to try to “catch” paedophiles has avoided jail.

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New 'Boris Bikes' could be rolled out across city and county

9:00am Wednesday 19th June 2013

OXFORD’S own ‘Boris Bike’ scheme was unveiled yesterday.

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Masonic lodge housing development moving ahead

7:20am Wednesday 19th June 2013

THE redevelopment of Oxford’s former masonic lodge has come a step closer.

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A new website for niggly jobs you need done

7:00am Wednesday 19th June 2013

A PENSIONER from Headington has inspired a new website that helps people find odd job men.

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Blue plaque marks Civil War surrender

7:00am Wednesday 19th June 2013

SURRENDERS and defeats aren’t usually celebrated, but Oxford’s most crucial military loss has been marked with a blue plaque.

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Hoping to be quids in with an Oxford pound

7:00pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

OXFORD could get its own currency by next year if an idea from local traders comes to fruition.

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Victim hits out at 'joke' jail sentence for serial burglar

6:00pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

THE jail sentence of a “thoroughly dishonest” serial burglar has been branded “a joke” by one of his victims.

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Cyclists on a roll through Cotswolds to help hospice

5:50pm Tuesday 18th June 2013

FIVE-HUNDRED cyclists braved a 70- or 102-mile ride through the Cotswolds on Sunday to raise money for Oxford children and young adults hospice Helen & Douglas House.

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