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• Compulsory job losses likely

  HIGH-TECH firm Oxford Instruments, which is to close its Eynsham plant, has admitted the closure process is likely to involve some compulsory job losses. read more

• Book characters take over classrooms

  SCHOOLCHILDREN turned over a new leaf and got their teeth into best-selling novels for World Book Day. read more

• Schools to offer own hot dinners

  SECONDARY schools in Oxfordshire will have to provide their own hot dinners from this April as the county council attempts to make its in-house catering service profitable. read more

• Shake-up around the corner?

  THE Government minister in charge of reorganising local authorities has dropped the biggest hint yet that Oxford City Council could be given unitary status in a Town Hall shake-up planned for later this year. read more

• Witney MP meets 999 staff

  WITNEY MP David Cameron has met paramedics and 999 operators to question them about plans to merge Oxfordshire Ambulance Trust with neighbouring services. read more

• Ex-Early's building on fire

  IT took more than 50 firefighters just under 90 minutes to bring the flames under control at the former Early's blanket building, in Witney Police closed off the surrounding roads, and crews from Oxford, Woodstock and Didcot were called to the warehouse at about 2.17pm on Wednesday, March1. read more

On this day: Headlines