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Stories for 17 January 2006

Oxfordshire Business

Keep divorce out of court

Couples in Oxfordshire are being offered new, lower cost, less painful divorces from the 'break-up capital of the world'.   more...

Oxfordshire News

Cuts concern over council tax promise

Oxfordshire County Council will today (January 17) endorse a budget ensuring a council tax increase in April of 4.375 per cent -- as predicted by its leader.   more...

Superb teacher

Following the conclusion of the court case involving David Byrne (Oxford Mail, January 4), I felt compelled to write to offer him my support. My son is autistic, has severe learning difficulties and is one of the most challenging children at the school.   more...

End of the pinta

For many years, people like postmen and milkmen have provided a valuable public service.   more...

Park-and-ride suffers blow

A sixth Oxford park-and-ride site to cater for staff at the hospitals in Headington looks unlikely to happen, despite support from health officials.   more...

Sex case judge gags the Mail

A judge yesterday banned the Oxford Mail from naming a paedophile who admitted sexually abusing a 12-year-old girl.   more...

Sounding out the suburbs

An Oxford estate could be twinned with regions in the French Alps, Beethoven's birthplace or the 'gateway to Siberia' -- instead of a planned link with a notorious New York suburb.   more...

Hero risks life in blaze rescue

Brave Michael Hurn has told how he risked his life to rescue a widow from a burning tower block flat in Oxford.   more...

42 weeks of road delays

Drivers are being warned they face more congestion from today as a series of roadworks start on the A40 -- which will not finish until the end of the year.   more...

Support group seeking new HQ

A charity for children with brain tumours is searching for a new office before it is made homeless when Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary closes.   more...

Killer was given razor blades in cell

A bricklayer who killed his wife and her sister was found dead in custody days later after being given razors by prison staff, an inquest heard yesterday.   more...

Tuesday, January 17: Dangers of slimming too young

Open any woman's magazine and the chances are there will be at least one article about losing weight.   more...

My vow to beat the flyposters

It's wonderful, while most students are in recess, to see our streets, lamp posts, telephone boxes, park fences, trees, pavements, footpaths and so on clear of the detritus of advertising fliers and posters that make them so tatty during term time.   more...

Inviting a visit from the PC thought police

Despite being a self-employed Englishman contributing to the coffers of government for the last 40 years, I still have to pay for dental treatment, glasses and prescriptions on top of income tax and VAT. As this is the way the system works, I accept it.   more...

School building work starts

A turf-cutting ceremony has marked the start of work on a new £6.3m primary school in Banbury.   more...

10,000ft fundraising skydive to thank hospice

When Tara Bell's mother died of cancer she knew she wanted to say thank you to the hospice which cared for her -- but she never thought she would do it by jumping 10,000ft from a plane.   more...

Use Lottery to ease NHS debts

YOUR report on Stephen Eeley whose operation was cancelled to save the 'great God' money (Oxford Mail, January 4), moves me to write to you.   more...

Worries over slimming kids

Girls as young as nine are waiting to join adult slimming classes in Oxfordshire, sparking concern from health experts.   more...

PTA treasurer who stole £15k

The treasurer of a primary's school's fundraising association plundered more than £15,000 from its coffers to pay off household bills.   more...

Oxfordshire Sport

Football: DAVIES REJECTS VERONA MOVE

Wales international striker Craig Davies has turned down the chance to play in Italy - and in doing so he has cost Oxford United a packet.   more...

Tennis: DEFEAT WAS NO SHOCK - HENMAN

Oxfordshire's Tim Henman insists he was not shocked by his Australian Open first-round defeat by Russian Dmitry Tursunov as he continues to recover from an injury-disrupted 2005.   more...

Rugby: Bicester are booted out

Powergen Junior Vase: Bicester 0, Devonport Services 9 Bicester were booted out of the Powergen Junior Vase despite a battling display at Oxford Road.   more...

Hockey: BANBURY HIT BACK IN DERBY

Rover Oxford experienced a classic game of two halves as they were beaten 3-1 at home by second-placed Banbury in the Regional League.   more...

Rugby: Hall sees red as Hawks crash

National League 2: Hooker Chris Hall saw red as Henley Hawks lost 40-6 at high-flying Esher.   more...

Darts: COUNTY EYE UP

PROMOTION BID Oxfordshire will be aiming to keep up their promotion bid when they face Kaliber Inter-Coun- ties League Division 3 leaders Derbyshire this weekend.   more...

Tennis: DEFEAT WAS NO SHOCK - HENMAN

Oxfordshire's Tim Henman insists he was not shocked by his Australian Open first-round defeat by Russian Dmitry Tursunov as he continues to recover from an injury-disrupted 2005.   more...

  
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