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Parents' anger over play area rejection

12:37pm Friday 3rd July 2009

PARENTS in Cholsey are furious after their local council refused to help them replace old equipment in the village’s only play area.

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Man arrested over baby's death

5:44pm Wednesday 1st July 2009

A FOUR-MONTH-old Oxfordshire boy died after being taken to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading with serious injuries.

Time team detectives are back in town

10:13am Wednesday 1st July 2009

ARCHAEOLOGISTS will be back in Wallingford this weekend to resume investigations by probing rubbish pits, the old town rampart and castle bailey.

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Slade End meeting

10:10am Wednesday 1st July 2009

ON Saturday,July 11, residents can air concerns and quiz housebuilders on plans for new homes west of Wallingford.

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Road jump threat

3:57pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

Police closed the Dorchester bypass after a man threatened to jump from a footbridge today.

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Council says sorry over waste fiasco

9:48am Tuesday 30th June 2009

Council leaders have apologised for the first time for problems caused by the roll out of south Oxfordshire’s new waste collection system.

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Residents celebrate second victory

3:28pm Tuesday 30th June 2009

FAMILIES are celebrating after plans to build 210 homes in their village were thrown out by planners for the second time.

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Recycling centre doubles capacity

3:36pm Monday 29th June 2009

A WASTE recycling centre near Wallingford in south Oxfordshire has been refurbished.

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Recycling stepped up at the double

10:45am Monday 29th June 2009

RECYCLING has resumed with redoubled efforts at Oakley Wood waste recyling centre near Wallingford after a £700,000 upgrade of the centre.

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French town revives the twinning affair

12:13pm Wednesday 24th June 2009

L’AMOUR is in the air again between Wallingford and its estranged French twin town.

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It's bin trouble, fume residents

3:29pm Tuesday 23rd June 2009

THE controversial shake-up of South Oxfordshire’s rubbish collection service has been hit by “teething problems”.

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MP Boris claimed for Diet Coke

6:29pm Monday 22nd June 2009

FORMER Conservative MP for Henley Boris Johnson claimed for an art book, some cans of Diet Coke and £16.50 for the cost of a Remembrance Sunday wreath on his Parliamentary expenses.

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Carnival fun takes to streets

11:26am Monday 22nd June 2009

BAGPIPERS and a chainsaw sculptor were part of a colourful carnival which helped make Wallingford’s 49th annual shindig another success.

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A round up of recent cases at Oxfordshire's Magistrates' CourtsOXFORDRaphael Ashley, 46, of Paradise Square, Oxford, admitted assault by beating in Oxford on October 20 last year. Given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £50 compensation and £50 costs.

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Food recycling scheme gets instant results

2:10pm Sunday 21st June 2009

EIGHTY-FIVE tonnes of food waste from kitchens in south Oxfordshire was diverted from landfill in the first week of the district's new waste collection scheme.

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People win crime-fighting awards

9:04am Sunday 21st June 2009

The South Oxfordshire Community Safety Partnership (CSP) will hold its first annual volunteer awards event tomorrow.

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Families pay tribute to air crash victims

6:14pm Tuesday 16th June 2009

MIKE Blee died doing what he loved. Tonight the family of the retired airman were taking some comfort that he was at least enjoying his passion when he and a 15-year-old boy lost their lives in a mid-air collision near Drayton on Sunday.

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