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• Increased activity for training exercise warns RAF

  05-03-2026 07:32 via bbc.com
  Exercise Agile Warrior 26 begins this week and is unrelated to events in the Middle East says RAF
  
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• More 'highly likely' to lose water after burst main

  05-03-2026 11:00 via bbc.com
  The water main burst is disrupting supplies in the OX7, OX18, OX28, OX29, GL7 postcodes.
  
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• Neighbours angry at parking ban to speed up buses

  05-03-2026 07:33 via bbc.com
  The restrictions to parking have been made to help speed up bus journeys along the road.
  
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• What makes the Spitfire so iconic after 90 years?

  05-03-2026 07:28 via bbc.com
  Enthusiast Paul Fowler, from Enstone, says the Spitfire was "totally gorgeous", but also a "symbol".
  
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• Campaigners fundraise for stadium legal challenge

  05-03-2026 07:27 via bbc.com
  Friends of Stratfield Brake have persistently opposed the plans for Oxford United's new ground.
  
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• Former PC sentenced over relationship with victim

  04-03-2026 16:30 via bbc.com
  Ian Dring had previously been honoured for being an "extremely dedicated" police constable.
  
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• 'Drive to Survive got me into F1 - now I work at Williams'

  04-03-2026 15:48 via bbc.com
  Williams wind tunnel systems engineer Christina Sullivan tells BBC Sport about her unlikely route in to F1.
  
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• Police force waits to be reimbursed for Trump visit

  04-03-2026 15:12 via bbc.com
  Thames Valley Police spent £900,000 on policing Donald Trump's state visit to Windsor.
  
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• Bogus professor jailed over £880k investment scam

  04-03-2026 13:03 via bbc.com
  Neil Stafford is jailed for nine years after luring investors with a series of false claims.
  
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• UK Iranians 'worried sick' amid 'heartbreaking' war

  04-03-2026 12:50 via bbc.com
  Hosnieh Djafari-Marbini came to the UK as a refugee from Iran aged 13, and now lives in Oxford.
  
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• First all-female fire crew in 20 years on-call

  04-03-2026 07:12 via bbc.com
  The five women are Oxfordshire's first all-female fire crew for 20 years.
  
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• Boy with limited mobility stranded in classrooms

  04-03-2026 07:11 via bbc.com
  Parents complain the health part of an EHCP plan for schools cant be challenged in court.
  
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• More work, no funding - paediatrics under pressure

  04-03-2026 07:06 via bbc.com
  A team that transports seriously ill children says its workload is increasing with no additional funds.
  
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• Travel agent's 'added stress' as wife stuck in Dubai

  03-03-2026 15:20 via bbc.com
  Matt Callaway, from Henley-on-Thames, says he has customers stuck in the Gulf - including his wife.
  
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• Road markings mistake is 'recipe for disaster'

  03-03-2026 13:12 via bbc.com
  Motorists following markings for the A34 southbound at the Milton Interchange will instead end up in Didcot.
  
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• Man charged with nine rapes of women he met online

  02-03-2026 21:38 via bbc.com
  Andrew Dent met with the victims in a hotel in West Berkshire and at an address in Henley-on-Thames.
  
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• Mentions of AI in BBC 500 Word stories increases

  02-03-2026 17:55 via bbc.com
  Analysis by Oxford University Press of stories entered finds mentions of AI increase by 50%.
  
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• Fears new town will 'ruin view' of historical gardens

  02-03-2026 17:37 via bbc.com
  Dorchester Living wants to build one of Oxfordshire's largest housing developments at Heyford Park.
  
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• U's striker Lankshear relieved to end goal drought

  02-03-2026 15:45 via bbc.com
  The Tottenham Hotspur loanee says he was "really pleased" to score for Oxford United in their 2-1 win over West Bromwich Albion.
  
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• What future for Donnington Bridge?

  02-03-2026 14:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Built in 1962 it's one of Oxford's major Thames crossing points.
  
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• Fire station under threat of closure has 'busy couple of weeks'

  02-03-2026 14:24
  
  A fire station threatened with closure by Oxfordshire County Council has had a "busy couple of weeks" in and around Woodstock.
  
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• Changes to bulky waste collection in Oxford starting today

  02-03-2026 14:16
  
  Changes to bulky waste collections have now started for households in Oxford city.
  
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• Residential road to get new parking restrictions

  02-03-2026 14:00
  
  New parking restrictions on West End in Witney have been approved by Oxfordshire County Council.
  
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• Inside Christian Horner and Geri Halliwell's £9.2m countryside mansion

  02-03-2026 14:00
  
  New photos show inside Formula 1 star Christian Horner and Spice Girl Geri Halliwell's £9.2m countryside mansion.
  
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• Man jailed for manslaughter over fatal punch

  02-03-2026 13:54 via bbc.com
  Leszek Kaminski died after being punched in the face by Stanley Saxon in central Oxford.
  
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• DJ runs pop-up record shop at arts centre

  02-03-2026 13:40
  
  DJ Richard Strange is continuing to keep vinyl record collectors in south Oxfordshire well supplied with their favourite tunes
  
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• Town's band scoops £1.3k first prize and host of awards in Wales

  02-03-2026 13:30
  
  The band in the Oxfordshire town won a £1.3K first prize and a host of individual awards in the prestigious Wales contest.
  
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• Grade II* listed Cotswold country house on the market at £3.25m

  02-03-2026 13:30
  
  Finstock Manor in the Cotswolds links the literary world of TS Eliot with the eccentric ingenuity of the inventor of the pneumatic tyre.
  
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• Date set for retrial in Oxford Brookes University rape trial

  02-03-2026 13:30
  
  A date has been set for the retrial of a man accused of raping a fellow student at Oxford Brookes University.
  
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• Bake Off star Dame Mary Berry opens up on tragic death of son

  02-03-2026 13:30
  
  Great British Bake Off star and Henley resident Dame Mary Berry has opened up on the tragic death of her son.
  
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