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We present a new, complete sample of 95 radio sources selected from the B2 Catolog of Radio Sources and the Third Cambridge Revised Catalog (3CR), with z<0.1. Since no selection effect on the core radio power, jet velocity, or source orientation is present, this sample is well suited for statistical studies. In this first paper we present the observational status of all sources on the parsec (milliarcsecond) and kiloparsec (arcsecond) scale; we give new parsec-scale data for 28 sources and discuss their parsec-scale properties. By combining these data with those in the literature, information on the parsec-scale morphology is available for a total of 53 radio sources with different radio power and kiloparsec-scale morphologies. We investigate their properties. We find a dramatically higher fraction of two-sided sources in comparison with that of previous flux-limited VLBI surveys.