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Stories for 15 February 2006

Oxfordshire Business

Top Gear track plan fails again

The brakes have again been put on plans for a car track in Enstone to film motoring show Top Gear -- because residents fear the noise would drive them round the bend.   more...

Oxfordshire News

Archaeologist describes nazi find

Shivers went down the spine of Mensun Bound as he saw the eagle from the stern of the infamous pocket battleship the Admiral Graf Spee.   more...

NHS needs help

How depressing to read that Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt is refusing even to consider the request from a delegation of county MPs that she help Oxfordshire's desperately cash-strapped NHS.   more...

Show will go on

My sympathy goes to the Oxford Gang Show after the fire which destroyed most of their sets (Oxford Mail, February 11).   more...

Club committee action 'wrong'

A battle for control of the troubled Morris Motors Athletic and Social Club took a new twist when a court decided its committee was wrongly suspended.   more...

50 couples renew vows for tv show

There wasn't a dry eye in Blenheim Palace as four Oxfordshire couples renewed their wedding vows in front of six million television viewers yesterday.   more...

Broke car led to warden fine

An Oxford man is battling parking officials over a penalty ticket when his car broke down outside his house.   more...

Tory leader is dad again

Conservative Party leader and Witney MP David Cameron was today celebrating the arrival of a son after his wife Samantha gave birth to the couple's third child.   more...

Crime cut by holiday fun weeks

A free summer holiday scheme is to be extended to hundreds of young people across Oxford.   more...

Club committee action 'wrong'

A battle for control of the troubled Morris Motors Athletic and Social Club took a new twist when a court decided its committee was wrongly suspended.   more...

Mother sues Horton over baby death

A 15-stone mum who claims she was told her son suffered brain damage because she was too fat and too old is suing an Oxfordshire hospital.   more...

Wednesday, February 15: Kid glove treatment for thief

Sally Dodman-Edwards is a lucky woman.   more...

Makeshift car park may stay

A temporary car park opened in Witney because of the loss of other spaces could stay.   more...

Anger over homes plan

Government plans to boost housing will lead to an uncontrollable boom and make a mockery of the planning system, claim Vale of White Horse District councillors.   more...

NHS needs support, not Labour spin

Shame on Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt for turning her back on the plight of the NHS in Oxfordshire (Oxford Mail, February 9).   more...

Nurse drugged his patients so he could revive them

A casualty nurse who deliberately drugged patients to enjoy the excitement of reviving them was carrying a used syringe when he was arrested, a jury heard.   more...

Charity thief spared prison

A woman who stole more than £15,000 from a school charity was given a suspended sentence after magistrates were told she had paid the cash back.   more...

Oxfordshire Sport

Cricket: Banbury seal double coup

BANBURY have pulled off a double coup by recruiting South African Benji Hector as their new captain and Oxfordshire skipper Ian Hawtin from Bicester & North Oxford.   more...

Football: Ashton hands Talbot dilemma

JON Ashton has recovered from his dead leg for Oxford United's League Two game at home to Macclesfield Town tonight.   more...

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Rugby: Bulls bidding to honour Ali

BANBURY Bulls are planning a series of tributes to lock forward Ali Burbidge, who died in a car crash last month.   more...

Athletics: Terrific Triggs roars to national final

CLAIRE Triggs twice shattered her personal best on the way to reaching the 200m final at the Norwich Union Trials and AAA Indoor Championships at the EIS Arena, Sheffield.   more...

Football: Leaders Ardington go down to Jones strike

DARREN Jones scored the only goal as Lambourn Sports gained a deserved 1-0 home win over Northg Berks League Division 1 leaders Ardington & Lockinge.   more...

Athletics: Douglas lands last-gasp gold

OXFORD City triple jumper Nathan Douglas (Oxford City) saved his best to last to snatch a thrilling victory at the Norwich Union Trials and AAA Indoor Championships at Sheffield.   more...

Athletics: Lawrence off to flying start

JESS Lawrence made a spectacular start to his Oxfordshire Sportshall League career by striking gold in the fourth round.   more...

Athletics: Depleted City rally for minor honours

DESPITE some notable absentees, Oxford City produced their best team performance of the season to finish third in the final Chiltern Cross Country League Division 1 men's race of the campaign.   more...