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Exhibition charts changes in Bampton's Market Square

4:20pm Thursday 14th March 2013

An exhibition running at Bampton Library puts the community’s focal point in the spotlight.

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Agricultural engineer remains at cutting edge

12:00pm Wednesday 30th January 2013

An agricultural engineering firm founded 30 years ago, when its boss was a teenager, is still going from strength to strength, discovers Jane Marriott

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Fiddle girls take a bow for female folk

3:25pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013

Four folk musicians were united by their love of fiddling and songs. Tim Hughes talks to Bella Hardy about coming home

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On trail of Chastleton House's links to Gunpowder Plot

3:00pm Wednesday 31st October 2012

This weekend bonfires will be lit to celebrate the foiling in 1605 of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament and assassinate King James I and many leading members of his Government. We explore West Oxfordshire’s connections to the conspiracy and the leading plotter Robert Catesby

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Philip Selway goes off the beaten track

10:00am Thursday 11th October 2012

As one of the world’s greatest bands, Radiohead don’t do things by half. Their current world tour has seen them sell out gigs at some of the biggest arenas on the planet. Tonight and tomorrow that includes the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy – a 17,000-seat show for which every last ticket has been snapped up.

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Enjoy food and walk with your dog

2:35pm Tuesday 9th June 2009

WHEN writer Helen Peacocke retired from the office last August, she vowed that her pub visits, which she wrote for the Witney Gazette, would continue in the form of a book.

Circus is in town!

11:56am Wednesday 20th May 2009

JUGGLERS, clowns and acrobats — the spring term break would not be complete without a circus to keep fidgeting children still for an hour or so.

Wildlife park: New arrivals every day

8:12am Wednesday 13th May 2009

ZOO keepers are busier than ever at Burford’s Cotswold Wildlife Park with new arrivals coming every day.

Wildlife park: It’s time for counting

2:55pm Tuesday 3rd March 2009

NOAH had it easy.

Christmas lights are on!

11:25am Monday 1st December 2008

WITNEY has an extra sparkle in the run-up to Christmas after the turning on of the Christmas lights at a festive fair in the town centre.