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American comic Garrison Keillor used to start his broadcasts with the refrain that it had been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, his hometown ‘out there on the edge of the prairie’.
The same, it strikes me as I write this on Sunday morning, could not be said for Oxford.
Wednesday saw the return of the sun to Oxford’s sodden streets.
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Less welcome, perhaps, it also brought the return of white paper-suited police officers, wheeled out after the launch of the city’s latest murder investigation.
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Police spent the second half of last week crawling over a bungalow in Crotch Crescent, Marston.
For those interested – the news desk included – Crotch Crescent was, in fact, named after musical prodigy William Crotch.
A child genius of the latter part of the 18th century, Crotch plied his tuneful trade on Christ Church cathedral’s magnificent organ before being appointed professor of music at the University of Oxford at the start of the 1800s.
The officers at the scene on Wednesday were being followed by a camera crew that I understand was from film company True Vision.
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