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Stories for 29 July 2006

Abingdon News

Man faces jail over taunting

A man could be jailed for taunting his neighbours by singing and laughing at them.  more...

Editorial Comment

Lebanon so close to home

We look at the terrible scenes in the Middle East on our television screens, and they look a million miles away.  more...

Letters

Lib Dem civil war

As a Conservative who has defended the Oxford Green Belt, I take exception to the sanctimonious Liberal Democrat attitude in the letter from Jerry Patterson, leader of the Vale of White Horse District Council (Oxford Mail, July 20).  more...

Oxford News

Grave theft 'is so cruel'

Tributes to a well-known member of the travelling community have been stolen from his grave.  more...

Resident hits out at 'ignored' leaks

As the hosepipe ban stretches into a fourth month, thousands of litres of water a day is still gushing out of a pipe - 18 months after it as claimed the leak was reported.  more...

Suicide of son baffles family

A distraught grave digger committed suicide next to the cemetery he worked in after a disagreement with his fiance.  more...

Council warns of gas dangers

Gas engineers have been ready to break into 15 Oxford council houses in the last two years to carry out potentially life-saving safety checks.  more...

Keeping cool

Stagecoach bus drivers in Oxfordshire have been keeping cool behind the wheel in shorts and open-neck shirts or blouses.  more...

Masked robber terrifies staff

A service station has been robbed for the second time in two weeks.  more...

Free-to-use cash machines for estates

Cash machines that take with one hand as they give with another could soon face competition from free-to-use machines in some of Oxford's most deprived estates.  more...

House of horrors cleaned up

Just five weeks ago this real life house of horrors was in such a festering state of decay it was thought it would take at least £25,000 to make it habitable.  more...

Chef's nightmare in war-torn Lebanon

Oxford chef Walid Makkari dodged falling bombs and body-strewn vehicles as he raced to drive his family to safety in war-torn Lebanon.  more...

Theatre

It’s merry hell

A dagger is drawn across the throat of a hooded man hung by his ankles from a scaffold, blood spilling from the wound; a witch smears her hands in his gore before brandishing the victim's heart aloft.  more...

  
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