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  • Mast battle is resumed

    MOBILE phone company T-Mobile has refused to give up on plans to build a new mast on an industrial estate at Abingdon - but objectors will fight on. Two years ago, O2(UK) wanted to put up a 15m transmitter at Allens Carparts, in Radley Road, but was

  • Drug relapse fatal

    A VERDICT of accidental death was recorded into the death of a woman found with more than twice enough heroin to kill her in her bloodstream. Wendy Taylor, 32, of Oxford Crescent, Didcot, was found dead by a housemate on August 25 last year. Tests

  • Coroner: Training was 'insufficient'

    A HELICOPTER pilot from RAF Benson who died in a crash in Iraq had "insufficient training", a coroner said. Flt Lt Kristian Gover died in a Puma helicopter at Basra airport on July 19, 2004, an inquest at Oxford coroner's court heard last week. Recording

  • Hopes for Wantage Road breakthrough

    WALLINGFORD town councillors hope to solve the long-standing problems of parking and traffic congestion in Wantage Road by the back door. Oxfordshire County Council has refused to put in parking restrictions of its own accord, despite local pressure

  • Newcomer hits out at 'own goal'

    JAMES McGee, who, at 20, is one of the youngest councillors in the country, has had his first council appointment. Vale of White Horse district councillor Mr McGee will sit on the Grove Development Forum, which is charged with ensuring that housing