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• Travellers: £800,000 in five years

  ACCOMMODATING travellers in Oxfordshire has cost local taxpayers' more than £800,000 in five years. read more

• Witney goes pink to help cancer research

  WITNEY will be conspicuously in the pink on Saturday as charity supporters raise funds for breast cancer research. read more

• Carterton Community College celebrates new maths block

  TEACHERS and pupils at Carterton Community College are celebrating after being handed the keys to their new maths block a month early. read more

• Weekly recycling collections to go on

  WEST Oxfordshire District Council wants to reassure residents that weekly household recycling collections will continue. read more

• Man accused over crash

  A 51-YEAR-OLD man appeared at Oxford Crown Court accused of causing death by dangerous driving after a collision which left a Witney motorcyclist dead. read more

• Accommodation cost goes up

  THE cost of moving into sheltered accommodation for elderly people in West Oxfordshire could increase by almost £3,000 a year from next April. read more

• New weapon to fight town centre crime

  A NEW DVD is the latest weapon in the battle against the drink and drug-related violence and criminal damage, which makes up 40 per cent of West Oxfordshire's crime. read more

• Safe place to play

  THE future of a village playgroup has been secured thanks to the hard fundraising work of parents and Government grants. read more

• A415 scheme to be dropped

  A £50m scheme to improve the A415 Abingdon-to-Witney route is set to be dropped by Oxfordshire County Council. read more

• Secret of 60 happy years

  GRACE Wheeler, 85, and her husband John, 87, celebrated six decades together with their family at their home in Curbridge. read more

• '100’ wish comes true

  A FORMER pub landlady who was unable to walk seven months ago battled back to stroll proudly into her 100th birthday party on the arms of her two grandsons. read more

• Developer will reopen footpath

  CHIPPING Norton residents are declaring a victory for people power after they managed to persuade a housing developer to reconsider its decision to close a footpath. read more

• New Indian restaurant opens

  THE Oxford Times food critic, Christopher Gray, right, and his partner, Rosemarie Perry, were among the many guests invited to celebrate the official opening of Eynsham's latest Indian restaurant, Spiceorama. read more

• Man 'decided to take his own life'

  A MAN bled to death after cutting himself with a Swiss Army knife, a coroner heard last week. read more

• Airmen back from 2,000-mile cycle ride

  A TEAM of RAF officers have just returned to Brize Norton air base after completing a 2,000-mile cycle ride to raise money for Cancer Research UK. read more

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