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  • Man, 55, tried to derail train

    A MAN who tried to derail a packed passenger train in West Oxfordshire walked free from court, despite a judge being told he had 'a dreadful record'. David Harris, 55, piled up concrete slabs on the tracks, and watched as a London-bound First Great

  • Hopes rise on lost pensions

    FORMER staff from the Early's blanket factory, who were left without a pension when the company collapsed, have welcomed a landmark legal victory by campaigners in the High Court. In test cases, affecting about 75,000 people, a judge quashed the Government's

  • Hospital beds could be axed - UPDATE

    THE top manager in charge of Oxfordshire's community hospitals claims it is 'business as usual' for all nine sites. Although Penny Astrop, of Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust, has written a report stating that almost two thirds of the units' beds should

  • Ex-cancer patient flies high again

    TWO years ago, Jason Hopkins had his bladder removed to combat an aggressive cancer. Now he is flying high in more ways than one. Not only has he been given a second chance after being diagnosed with the disease, but he has bought a paramotor to celebrate

  • 'One of the best' to go?

    THE BATTLE to create three unitary councils in Oxfordshire took a new twist after Oxfordshire County Council was ranked as one of the best local authorities in England. The county council would disappear if the Government backs Oxford City Council's