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Stories for 11 July 2006

Abingdon News

Ash protests: fight goes on

RWE npower has won its fight to dump thousands of tons of waste fuel ash into Thrupp lake at Radley, near Abingdon.  more...

Banbury News

Children badly injured in fire

Two children who had to be rescued from a burning home were this morning getting critical care in hospital.  more...

Bicester News

Friends receive aiders' awards

Two teenage girls have won national awards after raising the alarm when their friend fell off her horse and was crushed by the animal.  more...

Fence will keep vandals at bay

Pensioners from Bicester plagued by vandals are celebrating after their housing association built a six feet high steel fence between their gardens and a neighbouring alleyway.  more...

Business

Today's closing local share prices

AEA Technology 100 BMW 2670 Electrocomponents 228 Isoft Group 62.25 Oxford Bio 25.25 Oxford Instruments 210 Reed Elsevier 529 RM 163 RPS 220 Torex Retail 59.25   more...

Today's local share prices

AEA Technology 100 BMW 2681 Electrocomponents 228.25 Isoft Group 62.5 Oxford Bio 25.25 Oxford Instruments 210 Reed Elsevier 530.5 RM 164 RPS 219.25 Torex Retail 58.25   more...

Top of the shops

Thame is the best small town in Oxfordshire for shopping, a new report has revealed.  more...

Soaring bills spark surge of interest in ethical energy

Spiralling energy prices have helped a small Oxfordshire power supplier double customer numbers in the last year.  more...

Columns

On Yer Bike: July 11

Verily, we live in schizophrenic times. In the 1950s, smoking was de rigeur. Even doctors extolled its healthy virtues. Today, in the enlightened noughties, it cannot have escaped the notice of the dimmest smoker that the habit is a killer.  more...

Letters

What carers really want

I refer to your story about carers needing health checks (Oxford Mail, June 20). Carers don't need health checks, they need respite.  more...

Offhand manner

Here we have a man who clearly takes a real interest and a pride in his area (Oxford Mail, June 29). Surely we are in dire need of more people like Malcolm Everton?  more...

Opponents must have their say

We have lost count of the number of protests we have reported about mobile phone masts.  more...

News

Soaring prices spark surge of interest in ethical energy

Spiralling energy prices have helped a small Oxfordshire power supplier double customer numbers in the last year.  more...

Top of the shops

Thame is the best small town in Oxfordshire for shopping, a new report has revealed.  more...

Whole lotta festival

TO the average Oxfordshire middle-aged man, sex is something to do with four irritating New York women that the wife insists on watching rather than the repeat of Time Team you had been looking forward to. And drugs? Wasn't David Cameron saying something about them on Radio 4 on Sunday morning, you know, when you were looking for that bottle of Laphroaig that rolled under the sofa last night?  more...

Oxford News

Early warning call on masts

Vodafone, T-Mobile and other operators should be forced to notify residents in advance about where and when masts could be built in their area, Oxford city councillors have decided.  more...

City chief 'may back the burn'

Oxford City Council's new leader John Goddard has controversially not ruled out backing incineration to get rid of the city's waste in the future.  more...

City chief 'may back the burn'

Oxford City Council's new leader John Goddard has controversially not ruled out backing incineration to get rid of the city's waste in the future.  more...

Gangs must be broken up

Police are being called on to speed up plans for tackling antisocial behaviour as trouble persists on Oxford's Rose Hill estate.  more...

Traffic watch

Big Brother has been watching Oxford drivers at a notorious junction - with 18 CCTV cameras.  more...

Bad neighbour to be evicted

Nightmare neighbour Edwina Evans is to be evicted from her council flat in Headington, Oxford, more than a year after the first complaints were made about her noisy behaviour.  more...

Swimmer takes on Thames challenge

A swimming adventurer is to attempt to become the first person to swim the length of the River Thames.  more...

Cup thug given three-year ban

An Oxford United fan who disgraced his club and country at the World Cup was yesterday banned from all football games for three years.  more...

Stars showoff charity wristbands

Wristbands for Oxford football fans have caught on among celebrity cricketers too.  more...

Pub destroyed in blaze

More than 60 firefighters tackled a serious blaze in a former Oxford pub early this morning.  more...

Share Prices

Today's closing local share prices

AEA Technology 100 BMW 2670 Electrocomponents 228 Isoft Group 62.25 Oxford Bio 25.25 Oxford Instruments 210 Reed Elsevier 529 RM 163 RPS 220 Torex Retail 59.25   more...

Today's local share prices

AEA Technology 100 BMW 2681 Electrocomponents 228.25 Isoft Group 62.5 Oxford Bio 25.25 Oxford Instruments 210 Reed Elsevier 530.5 RM 164 RPS 219.25 Torex Retail 58.25   more...