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  • Man sought in spate of sex scares

    Another teenager has been indecently assaulted in the latest of a spate of incidents. Over the last few months there have been several reports of indecent assaults and men indecently exposing themselves in Witney, usually to girls or young women. In the

  • Rapist locked away for life

    David Barnes is beginning a life sentence after being found guilty of rape. The jury at Oxford Crown Court took almost eight-and-a-half hours to reach the majority verdict against Barnes, 44, who had denied raping and wounding a woman after a night of

  • Inquiry promised on road flooding

    Highways engineers are to carry out an investigation along a stretch of road which floods during heavy downpours. Colin Carritt, Oxfordshire County Council's area engineer, said he was "very concerned" about the drainage of rain water along Launton Road

  • Giant party is set to rock again

    A giant Millennium Party is still set to go ahead despite a last-minute planning hitch. The Vale Council's licensing sub-committee met to reconsider its original decision after councillors realised they had misunderstood the applic- ation. They thought

  • Meet model pupil Nina

    Model pupil Nina Bowden proves that beauty and brains do go together. The pretty teenager has become the new face of Rimmel cosmetics AND scooped a staggering nine A*s and an A in her GCSE exams. Nina, 16, a pupil at Oxford High School, will be catapulted

  • Saddle sore

    Life as a stable lad (or lass) in a racing yard is not as easy as it seems, as Rebecca Smith found out when she exercised horses for footballer turned trainer Mick Quinn My pride took as much of a tumble as I did when I did when I came a cropper riding