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Stories for 10 July 2006

Banbury News

Biker dies in road sign collision

A motorcyclist has died after crashing into a road sign in Banbury.  more...

Business

Today's closing local share prices

AEA Technology 101 BMW 2695 Electrocomponents 229.75 Isoft Group 64.75 Oxford Bio 25.25 Oxford Instruments 208.5 Reed Elsevier 536 RM 162.25 RPS 220 Torex Retail 57.75   more...

Cricket

CRICKET: Leaders end Kidlington bid

KIDLINGTON huffed and puffed at leaders Farnham Royal on Saturday, but left well beaten despite having more than enough chances to clinch a game they had to win to mount a serious title challenge in Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West.  more...

CRICKET: Dave continues to Prosper

DAVE Prosper hit his second century in as many games as Oxford Caribbean thrashed an under-strength Minster Lovell by 179 runs in OCA Division 1 on Saturday.  more...

CRICKET: Dave continues to Prosper

DAVE Prosper hit his second century in as many games as Oxford Caribbean thrashed an under-strength Minster Lovell by 179 runs in OCA Division 1 on Saturday.  more...

CRICKET: Bicester crash to 53 all out

BICESTER & North Oxford's miserable season hit a new low on Saturday when they were bowled out for just 53 by Gerrards Cross at Akeman Street in Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West.  more...

CRICKET: Leaders end Kidlington bid

KIDLINGTON huffed and puffed at leaders Farnham Royal on Saturday, but left well beaten despite having more than enough chances to clinch a game they had to win to mount a serious title challenge in Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West.  more...

CRICKET: Heads! 44 sixes at Hanney

AFTER making the headlines for all the wrong reasons two weeks ago when Hanney suffered seven ducks in their match against Chalgrove, they rattled up a mammoth 348-5 against Chesterton in Division 5 on Saturday.  more...

CRICKET: Seven-up Luke is Thame's star

PACEMAN Luke Merry was the hero as Thame Town remained hard on the heels of Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West leaders Farnham Royal by beating Beaconsfield by five wickets at Church Meadow on Saturday.  more...

CRICKET: Oxford break their duck

OXFORD have done it at last!  more...

CRICKET: Leaders end Kidlington bid

KIDLINGTON huffed and puffed at leaders Farnham Royal on Saturday, but left well beaten despite having more than enough chances to clinch a game they had to win to mount a serious title challenge in Home Counties Premier League Division 2 West.  more...

CRICKET: Oxon frustrated by Rees century

OXFORDSHIRE were frustrated by a superb innings of 135 by Wales' Gareth Rees on the first day of their Minor Counties Championship Western Division clash at Banbury.  more...

CRICKET: Banbury edged out in nail-biter

BANBURY were unable to make up any ground on the leading pack in Home Counties Premier League Division 1 after going down by two wickets in a tight game at Falkland.  more...

CRICKET: Hayward rolls over Henley

HIGH Wycombe remain firm favourites to retain their hold on the Home Counties Premier League Division 1 title after rolling over one of the main rivals for the crown, Henley, by 177 runs on Saturday.  more...

Didcot News

Power station in 'beam' stunt

Cheeky Save Radley Lakes campaigners turned a cooling tower at Didcot Power Station into a 360ft protest ahead of today's crunch meeting of county councillors.  more...

Editorial Comment

Help us cut gruesome death toll

The death and injury toll on our roads is shockingly high.  more...

Letters

Don't ignore our protests

On june 21, 2002, you were kind enough to publish my letter protesting at the destruction of a large lake at Radley by Didcot Power Station for the disposal of pulverised fuel ash.  more...

Memory Lane

Scouts outing

We're off to the seaside - even if it is raining heavily and a day for overcoats.  more...

Rations were never enough

Joan Clifford had one complaint while she was training to be a Land Girl - hunger.  more...

Red band's successes left them in the pink

A brief mention of the Red Rhythmics harmonica band has prompted reader Derek West to send in these two pictures.  more...

Oxford News

Save others our pain

In 10 years 365 people who would have died in either road crashes or fires in Oxfordshire will hopefully still be alive.  more...

Mail staff threaten wildcat strike

Mail deliveries across Oxford could be hit as the city's postal workers consider staging a wildcat strike in support of colleagues in west Oxfordshire.  more...

United in every way

It was the day when Oxford proved it was still United behind its football team. They may have been relegated, but hundreds of fans, young and old, showed their support for the relegated side at a fun day in the Kassam Stadium on Saturday.  more...

United in every way

It was the day when Oxford proved it was still United behind its football team. They may have been relegated, but hundreds of fans, young and old, showed their support for the relegated side at a fun day in the Kassam Stadium on Saturday.  more...

United in every way

It was the day when Oxford proved it was still United behind its football team. They may have been relegated, but hundreds of fans, young and old, showed their support for the relegated side at a fun day in the Kassam Stadium on Saturday.  more...

Jailed conman ripped off £249k

A conman who ripped people off to the tune of almost a quarter of a million pounds using stolen credit cards and wallets across the UK has been jailed for six years and three months.  more...

Council to spend £40k on spaces

Almost £40,000 is to be spent on building 13 car parking spaces at council-owned bungalows in Iffley.  more...

Companies dig deep for pond

A new ornamental pond is to be installed at an Oxfordshire drug rehabilitation centre thanks to three Oxfordshire firms.  more...

Centre gets a bright future

Nearly £20,000 is to be spent on giving a children's centre on an Oxford estate a bright new look.  more...

Residents make noise over fence

Residents in Jericho, Oxford, will today make a racket to persuade city councillors to vote against allowing an 11ft razor wire fence around a boatyard to remain for three years.  more...

Residents make noise over fence

Residents in Jericho, Oxford, will today make a racket to persuade city councillors to vote against allowing an 11ft razor wire fence around a boatyard to remain for three years.  more...

Results And Fixtures

OCA Results Check

Division 1 Oxford Caribbean 333-8 (D Prosper 117, B Barrett 67, R Mills 39, R Matthews 30, M Green 4-51), Minster Lovell 154-9 (K Bushnell 47, D Brown 33, N Harris 30, B Barrett 3-36).  more...

OCA Results Check

f=Helvetica bi s=5.8Division 1 Oxford Caribbean 333-8 (D Prosper 117, B Barrett 67, R Mills 39, R Matthews 30, M Green 4-51), Minster Lovell 154-9 (K Bushnell 47, D Brown 33, N Harris 30, B Barrett 3-36).  more...

RESULTS: Scores from around the county

CRICKET MINOR COUNTIES CHAMPIONSHIP Western Division Wales 307-9 (G Rees 135, J Harris 34, L Ryan 3-72), Oxfordshire 31-0.  more...

Share Prices

Today's closing local share prices

AEA Technology 101 BMW 2695 Electrocomponents 229.75 Isoft Group 64.75 Oxford Bio 25.25 Oxford Instruments 208.5 Reed Elsevier 536 RM 162.25 RPS 220 Torex Retail 57.75   more...

Witney News

River yobs risk lives

Vandals are repeatedly breaking into a building site and throwing fences, plastic tubes, bricks and polythene into a picturesque stretch of the River Windrush in Witney.  more...

Record crowds put festival on map

The organiser of Oxfordshire's Cornbury Festival has hailed this weekend's event as the year it came of age.  more...

  
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