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Covid: Appeal to eligible people to get tested

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  • May 4th 2020

Newspaper article by reporter Erin Lyons dated 4th may 2020 urging KEY workers, NHS and social care staff to get tested for Covid-19. Testing was initially extended in England to all essential workers and members of their household if they have symptoms.

Janet Westman

Covid: Email from Vicar, Janice Collier, to parishioners

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  • May 4th 2020

Email dated 4th May 2020, From Rev. Canon Janice Collier, vicar of Bampton, Clanfield, Aston, Lew and Shifford to her parishioners .
During the pandemic, the parishioners gathered each Sunday at 10.30am to worship on Zoom, and she informed them that mischief makers had high-jacked the events.

Janet Westman

Covid: False negative fears at Oxford coronavirus testing site

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  • 1st May 2020

Article by reporter Erin Lyons dated 1st May 2020 about ‘False negative’ fears at Oxford's coronavirus testing site:- Thornhill Park and Ride. Oxford’s ‘shambolic’ coronavirus drive-through testing site could lead to false negatives for key workers.
Concerns have been raised over a lack of medical staff on site to administer throat and nasal swab tests at the Thornhill Park and Ride facility, which opened fully on Saturday. Serco, which ran the site for the Department of Health and Social Care and undertook
testing, defended the facility.

Janet Westman

Covid: District Council announces closure of Front Desks

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  • April 1st 2020

Newspaper cutting dated 1st April 2020 reporting the West Oxfordshire District Council's closure of all Front desks due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in keeping with the Government Instruction. The staff continued to support emergency cases remotely.

Janet Westman

Death notices of several Bampton people

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  • 2023

Death notices of several Bampton people
img215 - An article from the July 2012 issue of The Beam. An obituary for Jonathan Phillips. He was a Parish and District
councillor, a Major in the army in WWII and was vice president of the Royal British Legion.
img219 - Newspaper cutting August 23rd 1982 re the death of May Dunlop Morton who lived at The Deanery with friend Marjorie Pollard. She left £348,963 with £500 each to NSPCC, Dr Barnardo’s and the National Trust.
img220 - Newspaper cutting - the death of Robert (Bob) Allinson April 8th 1994 aged 74 husband of Kathleen. Bob
carried the cake for the Francis Shergold Morris team for many years.
img221 - Newspaper cutting - the death of Joseph Edward Bunce aged 91. Joe was landlord of the Swan Inn in
Buckland Road before Mr & Mrs Sollis. img222 - Newspaper cutting - the death of Oswald Bartlett of
Field Cottage (by Sandfords Field) aged 101. His 76 year old wife Doris was at his bedside. Rev. Derek Frost took the
service and described Joe as "a smashing old chap, a lifelong Christian and Church goer".
img223 - Newspaper cutting July 22nd 1983- the death of Mr Arthur Timms aged 66. Arthur started the timber business in
Brize Norton selling second hand timber from Brize Norton air force base when it was run by the Americans. He leaves a
wife Kathleen and two sons Phil and Jeffrey.
img227 and img227a - 2 Newspaper cuttings 16-3-1979 - the death of Frederick William Robinson 68 and his wife Hilda
from Buckland Road and one other person in the car with them in a collision in thick fog on the A40 near Burford.
img230 - Newspaper cutting April 4th 1958 - two sister and their companion who lived together, all died in one week.
Miss Margaret Oates was the eldest daughter of Dr and Mrs Oates. She was a founder member of the Bampton Women's
Institute, took a keen interest in folk dancing and was a pioneer of the Bampton Folk Dance Society. She was an
accomplished needlewoman and was still smocking up to the time of her death.
img232 - Newspaper cutting Witney Gazette April 4th 1958 - two sister and their companion who lived together, all died in
same week. Miss Dorothy Oates died aged 80 on March 24th the same day as Miss Brooks who had been companion to
Dorothy and her sister Margaret. Dorothy was a member of the Women's Institute. The funeral of Miss Oates and Miss
Brooks took place on the same day Thursday March 27th at St Mary's in Bampton, service conducted by Rev. G West.
img233 - Newspaper cutting Witney Gazette April 4th 1958 - two sister and their companion who lived together, all died in
same week. Miss Dorothy Oates died aged 80 on March 24th the same day as Miss Brooks age 96 who had been companion
to Dorothy and her sister Margaret. Dorothy was a member of the Women's Institute. The funeral of Miss Oates and Miss
Brooks took place on the same day Thursday March 27th at St Mary's service conducted by Rev. G West. Miss Brooks, aged
17, became nanny to Margaret and Dorothy and they stayed firm friends for life.

Nik Stanbridge

Covid: Tourism businesses losing millions because of Lockdown

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  • 2020

Newspaper Article by David Lynch about OXFORDSHIRE’s tourism businesses are losing hundreds of millions of pounds a month because of the coronavirus lockdown,Experience Oxfordshire, an organisation which promotes tourism in the county, warned of massive losses in a report into the economic shock of the pandemic and lockdown, which has forced most businesses to close.
It said the local tourism economy had already experienced ‘significant losses’ of between £112.5m and £137.5m per month.

Janet Westman

Covid: Desperate Oxfordshire housewives selling sex on Craigslist during Covid

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  • 2020

Exclusive article by Fran Way Reporter @OxMailFranW for Oxford Mail dated 1st May 2020 entitled Desperate housewives struggling to make ends meet in the coronavirus lockdown are selling sex online to survive. In the past two weeks, more than 60 explicit adverts have been posted on the buying and selling site Craigslist by women and men in Oxfordshire ‘looking to have some fun’ and ‘desperately trying to make some extra money’. An investigation by the Oxford Mail can now reveal the seedy ‘underworld’ of
the county still ticking during coronavirus lockdown.

Janet Westman

Covid: Oxfordshire cadets congratulate Tom Moore on 100th birthday

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  • 2020

Newspaper article by Trainee reporter Gergana Krasteva about Oxfordshire cadets congratulating Tom Moore on his 100th birthday
dated 30th April 2020. Captain Tom Moore raised £28 million for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden, He was later knighted.

Janet Westman

Covid: May Morning Magdalen College Tower Event Cancelled

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  • 2020

Oxford Mail article by Fran Way dated 30th April 2020 announcing May Morning festivities had been cancelled amid the coronavirus lockdown, but revellers could still take part in spirit by holding events at home and sharing them online.
The event has been going on for hundreds of years with celebrations kick-starting at 6am with the traditional singing of Hymnus Eucharisticus by choristers atop Magdalen College tower, followed by lively peels of bells. Strict rules ban mass gatherings and forbid people leaving their homes without a valid reason, such as going to work, food shopping or getting exercise.

Janet Westman

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