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Cameron lights protest appeal

11:00am Saturday 25th May 2013

A PROTESTER found guilty of a public order offence as the Prime Minister switched on Witney’s Christmas lights will appeal against her conviction.

Man wanted over theft of wallet in pub

The man police want to talk to about the wallet's theft

9:40am Saturday 25th May 2013

POLICE in Witney want to speak to this man after a wallet was stolen from a table in a pub.

Man jailed for attacking teenager in street

Sam Moscrop

9:30am Saturday 25th May 2013

A SINGLE punch which rendered his victim “unconscious before he hit the ground” has left a man with a three-year prison sentence.

Police took DNA swab from a two-year-old

DISAPPOINTED: Frances Crook

6:00pm Friday 24th May 2013

POLICE officers in Oxfordshire have been criticised for taking DNA samples from children as young as two.

Super slimmers have bags to offer cancer charity

SUCCESSFUL: Slimmers

6:00pm Friday 24th May 2013

SLIMMERS have been so successful at losing weight that they have filled 108 bags full of clothes that no longer fit.

Larger than life landlord calls time

Gerry Stonhill in 2008

12:00pm Friday 24th May 2013

HE fought the smoking ban and reputedly fell out with Michael Winner, but now legendary landlord Gerry Stonhill has retired.

Cycle tribute to firefighter Joe

10:30am Friday 24th May 2013

The family and friends of an Eynsham firefighter killed cycling will mark the first anniversary of his death today with a tribute ride.

Long wait to set up new NHS watchdog

10:00am Friday 24th May 2013

HEALTH bosses are working without scrutiny due to delays setting up what will eventually become Oxfordshire’s main watchdog.

Falcons drop in to do a bit of decorating

The RAF Falcons get painting. Picture: OX59229 Ric Mellis

7:00am Friday 24th May 2013

THEIR day job is to jump out of planes but this week the RAF Falcons painted a cricket pavilion to help out their community.

The brilliant world of loving literature

RIVETING: Christina Le Galloudec of Waterstones in Oxford reads the new Junior Book Club choice

7:00am Friday 24th May 2013

YOUNG readers are guaranteed a giggle in this month’s Junior Book Club choice.

Soldier murdered in Woolwich named + Video

Drummer Lee Rigby

5:03pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

THE soldier killed in Woolwich yesterday has been identified as Drummer Lee Rigby.

Last chance to vote for the Oxfordshire Cotswolds Tourism Superstar

Oxfordshire Cotswolds' Tourism Superstar 2013

12:00pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

THERE are just two days left to help choose the first ever Oxfordshire Cotswolds Superstar.

Fund falls short of target but is still working

Jayne Woodley, chief executive of the Oxfordshire Community Foundation

5:00pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

CREATED to provide a lasting legacy for the county’s charities, Oxfordshire Community Foundation’s Jubilee Fund has raised just a tenth of the £4m that it hoped to collect.

Wacky racers ready for action

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was among the wheeled creations which took to the streets of Bampton in last year’s Great Shirt Race. Picture: Janet Rouse

4:30pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

COME rain or shine, the residents of Bampton will not be short of entertainment on Saturday as the village stages its 61st Great Shirt Race.

Cotswold Line passengers hit out over poor train punctuality

A Class 180 Adelante train calls at Charlbury station on Wednesday

1:30pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

POOR punctuality affecting trains on the Cotswold Line through West Oxfordshire Oxford and London came in for criticism at the annual meeting of the route’s passenger group.

MPs split over same-sex vote

9:40am Thursday 23rd May 2013

Oxford East MP Andrew Smith voted in favour of same-sex marriages in the House of Commons vote.

Hospitals chief apologises for rising A&E waiting times

Dr James Price, left, clinical director of emergency medicine, and Dr Stephen Richards, chief operating officer of the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, at the John Radcliffe Hospital’s A&E department

9:00am Thursday 23rd May 2013

THE man in charge of the John Radcliffe Hospital’s accident and emergency department has apologised for long waiting times and promised they will improve.

A&E WAITING TIMES: The factors to consider

From left, Jade Lacey, Katharine Mansfield, 111 response team leader Ben Huffey and Tim Cowell answer the phones

9:00am Thursday 23rd May 2013

These are some of the factors in the rise in A&E wating times:

UPDATE: MoD tight lipped on whether security increased at Oxfordshire barracks

8:41am Thursday 23rd May 2013

The Ministry of Defence has refused to say whether security has been increased at Oxfordshire barracks in response to the killing of a man in Woolwich.

Muslims in Oxfordshire condemn Woolwich killing

8:20am Thursday 23rd May 2013

MUSLIMS in Oxfordshire have condemned the killing of a serving soldier in Woolwich yesterday.

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