A model for the future
The team behind Cholsey’s new children and family centre believe it could be a model for how communities across Oxfordshire could keep their own running amid funding cuts. The Happy Hub is opening its...
View ArticleOpening night at pub proves hit with locals
Hundreds of customers have already paid a visit to Wallingford’s newest pub. Landlords of The Keep in Castle Street, Sam Smith and Rob McGregor, hailed a great opening night last Friday. The micropub...
View ArticleMuseum’s bid for funds
A Henley museum has launched a campaign to pay tribute to an artist with a new £22,000 exhibition. The River and Rowing Museum started crowdfunding for the John Piper Gallery last Thursday, and is...
View ArticlePupils enjoy putting hand-built boats to test
A group of 10 Abingdon schoolchildren went head to head last Saturday to test radio-controlled boats they had built themselves. The teens, aged 14 and 15, let loose their boats at Queenford Lakes, near...
View ArticleTop bun throwers sought for event
A competition to find those with the strongest arm power is being held on Monday to join town leaders at Abingdon’s latest traditional bun-throwing event. The World Bun Throwing Championships this Bank...
View ArticleGravel extraction extended
PLANS to allow sand and gravel extraction to continue at an Oxfordshire quarry have been approved. County councillors gave Hanson Quarry Products Europe Ltd the go-ahead to extract the final 380,000...
View ArticleBanbury man arrested after body found in a house
A 63-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was found dead in a house in Banbury. Police discovered the body after they were called to The Causeway at about 8.10am over...
View ArticleWest Oxfordshire and Cotswold merger abandoned
A proposal for West Oxfordshire to form a new council by merging with a neighbouring local authority has been abandoned due to a lack of support. The news comes as councils across Oxfordshire are...
View ArticleAbingdon shooting accused denies wielding shotgun
A 21-year-old man has said he was not seen in the Abingdon area with a shotgun the day before 26-year-old Kerry Reeves was shot last November. Billy Johnson is on trial for the murder of Miss Reeves in...
View ArticleMinister announces new Oxfordshire £15m apprentice building
The Government minister for universities and science was in Oxfordshire on Monday to announce funding for a new £15 million apprenticeship centre and to open two state-of-the-art buildings at Culham...
View ArticleReport outlines land for 12,000 homes on outskirts of Oxford
Green Belt land on the edge of Oxford could have more than 12,000 new homes built on it to try and combat the city’s housing crisis, a new report has revealed. The 30-page document says land north of...
View ArticleCat starts Wallingford fire with paw
A cat is believed to have sparked a kitchen fire in Wallingford after knocking a plastic bag onto a hob and pushing the touch control button with its paw. A dog sitter raised the alarm when they...
View ArticlePlaque opening for Bicester’s eco town
AN energy centre that will power the first houses at Bicester’s 6,000-home eco town has been fired up. Andrea Leadsom, the Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change, and Banbury MP Victoria...
View ArticleBan on ‘legal highs’ is welcomed by police
A new law criminalising the sale of psychoactive substances known as ‘legal highs’ has been welcomed by Oxfordshire’s police force. The Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 came into effect last Thursday,...
View ArticleFive precious 17th-century articles acquired by Bodleian
Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries has obtained five precious 17th-century pieces of work. All five articles were bought from the collection of the American bibliophile Robert Pirie, who died in 2015, and...
View ArticleDoctor’s trip of discovery
AN Oxford doctor who left the British shores six years ago to cycle around the world has spoken about how the challenge changed his life. Dr Stephen Fabes, 35, cycled through 75 countries across...
View ArticleStephen Nash – Chair of Ukip Witney and a Grassroots Out campaigner
Recently, Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the EU, said that government leaders “spend too much time listening to their voters”. Such contempt for democracy condemns the EU. It was French bureaucrat...
View ArticleThree weeks left in ‘once in a generation’ EU campaign
As we enter the final stretch of one of the biggest political debates in our lifetime, the European Union (EU) referendum may have left British voters disillusioned. Major figures on both sides have...
View ArticleAlan Johnson MP – chairman of Labour In for Britain group and former Home...
In less than a month’s time, people in Oxfordshire will make the biggest decision of my lifetime: deciding whether or not we should stay a part of the European Union. The last time our country took...
View ArticleCommission rates care home as ‘outstanding’
A specialist care home near Oxford has been hailed by independent inspectors. Vale House in Sandford-on-Thames was rated ‘outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in a report published last...
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