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Out & About: Flock the answer to having trim lawn
Journalist and part-time shepherd Tim Metcalfe tells of a novel idea for using sheep in cities. MOWING the lawn is a chore I expect many people could happily do without, so I was intrigued to discover an alternative way to cut the grass being pioneered
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Crispy beef salad didn't compare to the roast
The air was filled with that unmistakable earthy aroma created by decaying leaves and autumn fungi pushing its way through the ground, which is why I had planned a mushroom foray for Barnaby and I before enjoying lunch together at a south Oxfordshire
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Reunion with classmate changes lives forever
LIVES are changed forever after a daytime TV host appears on the programme This Is Your Life. Fading presenter Fay Finch finds herself unexpectedly reunited with an old face from her schooldays in Lesley Bruce’s comedy My Own Show. The play
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Importance of learning from past
“The importance of today is to tell the youngsters what happened so that we stop it ever happening again”. Those sentiments were articulated by Kathleen Clare, of Abingdon, but shared by the thousands of people who came out to pay their respects
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Please lobby
SIR, Self-builders and those wishing to enjoy other “unusual” forms of development, referred to by Mr Scharf in the Herald (October 30) commenting on the Drayton Neighbourhood Development Plan survey, should, according to the National Planning Policy
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Fair posters
SIR, Just over a month ago, the fair came to Wantage. They put up a number of large posters around the town. Today (November 4), these posters are still up; by now, they are sodden, falling to pieces and, in one case, causing a nuisance on the
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Unhealthy mix
SIR, I am amazed that Vale of White Horse District Council, or its contractors, are encouraging dog walkers to dispose of their ‘poo bags’ in the rubbish bins set around Wantage and possibly in other parts of the Vale as receptacles for more normal
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‘Good return’
Sir, Tim Oates’ timely reminder (Herald, October 30) that the Sustrans 5 cycle path is in a bad shape should be a trigger to review the cycling routes in and around Abingdon. A journey along the bone-shaking Sustrans 5 via Barton Fields can
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Do something
Sir, Like many residents in Wantage, I received an email update on the amended planning application for the proposed phase two (you know, those houses that weren’t mentioned at phase one) of houses at Stockham Farm in Wantage. I’m not daft (although
