Up to 100 new homes planned for village on edge of Cotswolds
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Up to 100 new homes planned for village on edge of Cotswolds
• Up to 100 new homes could be built in a village on the edge of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
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 | Oxford Mail · today Police efforts praised as drug dealer jailed, weeks after coming to the UK in boat• Police have said that the supply of drugs 'causes significant harm across Oxfordshire' after a man was jailed, just weeks after arriving to the UK in a boat. |
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