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Supermarket planning decision put back

Updated 2:20pm Friday 27th January 2012

A decision on controversial plans to build a Sainsbury’s supermarket in Chipping Norton has been postponed.

Corn Exchange fire exits were dangerous, report reveals

Updated 10:10am Friday 27th January 2012

THE fire exits at Witney’s Corn Exchange did not provide a safe means of escape, it has emerged.

Scales of Justice

Updated 1:10pm Friday 27th January 2012

People convicted of offences at Magistrates' Courts around the county recently OXFORD Adam Bennett, 28, of Harrowby Road, Banbury, admitted shoplifting alcohol worth £12.24 from Tesco in Oxford on November 10 and failing to surrender to court bail. Also admitted shoplifting food and alcohol from the Co-op in Banbury on October 10 and criminally damaging a display item and food valued at £112.68 in McDonald’s in Banbury on December 3. Jailed for two weeks.