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Timmy Mallett in multi-coloured shirt and trousers, sitting on a wooden bench in a workshop, holding a mallet

Timmy Mallett backs bench chat initiative

The former BBC presenter, famous for wielding his mallet, helped put together one of the benches.

A two-storey pub building in a poor state of repair as visible from a road, with grass at the front of it and a thatched roof on the right hand side of the building's roof. A roof on the left is tiled.

Listed pub conversion plan gets go-ahead

The Four Horseshoes pub in South Oxfordshire has been unused since 2013, councillors were told.

A dilapidated chapel build out of a World War Two-era Nissen hut, surrounded by trees.

Hidden chapel offers clue to refugee camp past

A history enthusiast says the site's World War Two history has largely been forgotten.

Valerie Wood and Jenny Bexx

Mystery power cuts frustrate villagers

Villagers in Checkendon have been left bewildered by the brief mostly evening interruptions to their power supply.

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