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Nurse prepares to administer AstraZeneca vaccine. Picture: PA

Should I be worried about the Oxford Covid vaccine? Your questions answered

THE benefits of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine continue to outweigh any risks, according to the UK medicines regulator, though under-30s will be offered an alternative jab.
Truck Festival 2019. Picture by Ed Nix

Truck Festival WILL go ahead and reveals star-studded line-up

THE organisers of Oxfordshire’s biggest dedicated rock festival have vowed to carry on with this year’s event and have unveiled the headline acts.

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*** FREE FOR EDITORIAL USE ***.The Dakin family reunite this Easter at Stonor Park in Oxfordshire..Happy families as Stonor Park in Oxfordshire provides the backdrop for three generations to reunite for the first time since Christmas...Tumblestone Hollow

Amazing new £25k adventure playground opens at stately home

FAMILIES made the most of the relaxation of lockdown rules to explore a new £25,000 adventure playground in the grounds of an historic country house.

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Amir Steve Ali has made a flag celebrating racial harmony for all the people of East Oxford. Picture by Ed Nix

Restaurant man is flying the flag for peace & unity in East Oxford

AN EAST Oxford man has set out to celebrate the city’s rich cultural diversity and bring people together by creating a flag to promote racial unity.

Jean Darke

Obituary: Jean Darke - Popular Musician and jazz festival organiser

A DYNAMIC professional singer who set up a popular Oxford jazz festival has died.

Auctioneer Rupert Fogden with Nicholas Middleton’s copy of Velasquez’s Toilet of Venus. Picture: Marc West

Would you pay £7k for this 'vandalised' painting?

THE vandalism of a priceless work of art might be expected to land the offender in court and consign the picture to history.

Colin May skiing around University Parks for Comic Relief 19/03/2021 Picture by Ed Nix

Ski you later! Comic Relief fun is snow joke

No your eyes do not deceive you... that is a man on skis and he is in the centre of Oxford.

Sian O'Callaghan, 22, who was murdered by taxi driver Christopher Halliwell

Family of White Horse murder victim call for change in law

The family of a young woman whose body was found near White Horse Hill in Uffington 10 years ago, are supporting calls for tougher safety checks on taxi drivers.

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The Lord Mayor, Craig Simmons, and the Burgomaster, Henri Lenferink, lay a Remembrance Day wreath in Leiden Square in the Westgate Centre in 2019

FIRST PERSON: Town twinners celebrate 75 years of going Dutch

OXFORD’S oldest twin city link, with Leiden in the Netherlands, reaches another milestone in its history this year – its 75th anniversary. Celebrations will be muted because of coronavirus, but will still go ahead thanks to the wonders of new technology.

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Ralph Fiennes playing M in the Bond film No Time To Die. PA Photo.

Bond and Harry Potter star is coming to town

BAFTA award-winning actor Ralph Fiennes is to star at Oxford Playhouse when it reopens.