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AN RAF policeman celebrated completing a oncein-a-lifetime cycling trip from Cyprus to Oxfordshire on Sunday, May 15.

Flt Lt Mike Rankine, 36, undertook the marathon ride in support of the military charity SSAFA, formerly the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and

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A PROPOSAL for West Oxfordshire to form a new council by merging with a neighbouring local authority has been abandoned due to a lack of support. The news comes as councils across Oxfordshire are jockeying for position as local government in the county is expected to go through a major restructuring in the coming years. Among the proposals put forward, one would have seen West Oxfordshire District Council merge with Cotswold District Council, but the latter announced last Thursday that it

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By Alex Ballinger had stepped back from the idea. The county’s four district councils, Oxford City Council, and Cotswold and South Northamptonshire district councils commissioned a £105,000 study to fi nd the most effective new council system. But Cotswold announced last week that fi nance giants PwC, who were carrying out the study, said the plans would not be possible due to major law changes. The new WODC leader James Mills, who was elected to the

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