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Crime does pay for clubs

Youth worker Garry Kingett, centre, and the Sweatbox Union celebrate their gift

8:00pm Saturday 11th October 2008

Nine youth organisations are celebrating after being chosen to receive much-needed cash handed out to mark Thames Valley Police’s birthday.

Get lectures on your iPod

Carolyne Culver with the new lecture notes page

11:40am Saturday 11th October 2008

Oxford University has gone digital by publishing more than 100 hours of lectures, videos and documentaries for people to download as podcasts.

Update: Blackbird Leys car attack

9:43am Saturday 11th October 2008

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder after an incident where a man was hit by a car following a row in a Blackbird Leys street.

Schoolboy jailed for rape

Police at the scene of the attack in Cowley

7:00am Saturday 11th October 2008

A schoolboy who raped a woman in an Oxford park was yesterday jailed for six years as a judge refused to let him be named.

Hurst hat-trick shirt goes home

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6:50am Saturday 11th October 2008

The football shirt worn by Sir Geoff Hurst in the 1966 World Cup Final will return to Wembley today thanks to an Oxfordshire businessman.

Twins born as Pc mum dies

Pc Sarah Underhill

8:30pm Friday 10th October 2008

A pregnant policewoman collapsed and died but doctors were able to deliver her twin babies.

Sparrows fly in for Dragons visit

Some of the South African performers

8:22pm Friday 10th October 2008

A group of teenagers from South Africa gave a colourful musical performance today for pupils from Oxford's Dragon School.

Passing on Poppies post

Poppy Appeal organiser Frank Hall

8:13pm Friday 10th October 2008

Army veteran Frank Hall has been collecting for the Poppy Appeal for 40 years.

UPDATE: Car attack 'attempted murder'

A collison investigator in Cuddesdon Way last night

8:05pm Friday 10th October 2008

A man is tonight seriously ill in hospital after being rammed by a car after a row in an Oxford street.

Killer's daughter jailed

Tammey Crain

7:47pm Friday 10th October 2008

The daughter of a man who killed a Banbury boatman was today jailed for six months.

Biker hurt in crash

7:30pm Friday 10th October 2008

A motorcyclist was taken to hospital tonight after a rush-hour crash north of Kidlington.

Historic move

John Jones at the church

6:44pm Friday 10th October 2008

St Cross — one of Oxford's oldest churches — is set to be taken over by Balliol to house the college's historic collections.

A tough act

Artists, from left, Amira Ibraham, Shannon Steepe and Antonia Oluwatuyi

6:24pm Friday 10th October 2008

Children have been learning about the perils of drugs, drink and domestic violence by taking part in a hard-hitting play.

River rivalry

From left, Jamie Drummond, Lucy Briggs, Sam Long and Millie Herbert, with house flags

6:31pm Friday 10th October 2008

Four rivers running through Oxfordshire are uniting pup- ils at a secondary school.


National News

Blairs 'sell fraudster-link flat'

The apartment development in Bristol where Tony and Cherie Blair bought two flats

Updated 6:26pm Saturday 11th October 2008

Tony and Cherie Blair are selling one of two flats they bought with the help of a convicted fraudster, it has been reported.


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