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• Bands battle for Pullman film slot

  LOCAL bands are set to battle it out for the chance to appear on screen in a new film based on Philip Pullman's novel The Butterfly Tattoo. read more

• Missing woman leads to urgent appeal

  POLICE are appealing for help in tracing a woman who has gone missing from her home in West Oxfordshire. read more

• Pigs on run after lorry crash

  PIGS were left running loose near Kingston Bagpuize when a lorry transporting the animals overturned today. read more

• 'Chance of a lifetime'

  FORMER Oxford High schoolgirl Harriet Brown, pictured, has had 'the chance of a lifetime' to study theatre across Europe. read more

• Elected 100 years after grandfather

  A SHOP designer has been chosen as Woodstock's new mock mayor, 100 years after his grandfather, Walter Bishop, held the post in 1907. read more

• GPs ‘filling in for dentists’

  PATIENTS suffering potentially life-threatening mouth abscesses are turning to their GPs for help, due to a shortage of NHS dentists. read more

• Police employ shock tactics

  A MAJOR crackdown on speeding motorists was launched today - and those who get caught face shock tactics to get them to change their ways. read more

• Walkers foot bill for blue plaque

  THREE men are doing just what the doctor ordered and going out for a two-mile stroll every morning. read more

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