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Stories for 2 January 2006

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Job advert targeted as a waste of money

A High-paid post at Oxfordshire County Council has been named one of the Top 10 money-wasting 'non-jobs' in a report by the Taxpayers' Alliance (TPA).   more...

Wrong direction

I note with concern a recently erected road sign at the junction of Staunton Road/Jack Straw's Lane and Headley Way which points uphill on the downhill dual carriageway and is marked 'Summertown and Marston'.   more...

Comment retracted

I refer to your article, Doctors resign at Helen House (Oxford Mail, December 22).   more...

Church's goal to help Africa

Church leaders have handed over hundreds of items of donated sports equipment to schools in a war-ravaged African country.   more...

Nappy New Year

Michelle Martin welcomed in the New Year with a new addition to her family -- her ninth child.   more...

Christmas in New Guinea for Rob

Marathon cyclist Rob Lilwall, who was robbed at gun point by a gang of youths in Siberia, has celebrated Christmas and the new year in New Guinea, where he raised a glass to toast the completion of 16 months on the road raising money for disadvantaged children.   more...

Cash machine taken in new year raid

Thieves ramraided a Co-op store and drove off with a cash machine in a picturesque village near Wantage just hours into the New Year.   more...

Maxwell makes former pub home

A former Oxford pub is the new £1.5m home of Kevin Maxwell, the son of disgraced newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell.   more...

Free' parking costs driver

A driver is warning other motorists that they still need a ticket -- even if they are parking in a free on-street space in Oxford city centre.   more...

Burst pipe brings New Year woe

Hundreds of households in west Oxfordshire woke up on New Year's Day without a water supply thanks to a burst underground pipe.   more...

To Didcot, via the Philippines

When pensioner Fred Johns did not receive a letter posted by his brother in Hampshire, he assumed it was stuck in the Christmas post.   more...

January 2, 2006: It's time to put wheels in motion

This festive period has seen a disgusting build-up of rubbish sacks and rotting food left out on some of the city's streets for bin men who were never going to turn up.   more...

Town's eyesore set to get boot

It could be a case of `new year, new look' for Wantage town centre, after town councillors backed plans for a derelict building and yard to be transformed into new homes.   more...

Road humps a foolish move

So Oxfordshire County Council is going to waste more of our money replacing the speed humps in Kennington and elsewhere with "speed cushions" (Oxford Mail, December 21).   more...

Anger as food left rotting in road

Mounds of rotting food and household waste left by the kerbs in an Oxford estate have been uncollected for two weeks because of changes to the Christmas refuse collection times.   more...

Police target cars for crime

Police are to use new powers to seize vehicles from criminals who share illegal, unregistered cars to commit crimes in Oxfordshire.   more...