Stars fans to net shirts in city thanks to bus firm deal
Fans of Oxford City Stars will soon be able to buy merchandise when the club sells its stock in the city centre for the first time. After striking an agreement with sponsors Oxford Bus Company, the...
View ArticleA sweet taste of success
A Long Hanborough honey producer is enjoying the sweet taste of success after securing a momentous contract with a supermarket to sell its new range of spirits. The Honey Company will supply rums, gins...
View ArticleAward for transformation of former pub
A project that turned a former Victorian pub in Oxford city centre into luxury apartments has won a major award. The building at 46 Hythe Bridge Street picked up a plaque for the best Small Project at...
View ArticlePensions should ‘not be invested in fossil fuels’
Livid climate change campaigners have urged the county council to sever its ties with the fossil fuel industry after a report revealed the authority has invested nearly £133million in oil, coal and gas...
View ArticleTo the bat cave for this pair
Having your children ‘flee the nest’ has been redefined after a keeper at Cotswold Wildlife Park took on the parental duties of two abandoned baby Egyptian Fruit Bats. The bats – named Bruce and Wayne...
View ArticleBusinesses broken into in one-night burglary spree
POLICE have released CCTV images of two men after a spate of burglaries in Bicester town centre. Officers said thieves broke into four businesses and attempted to break into a further seven shops...
View ArticleBanker’s role in £107m tax fraud
A former Oxford banker and music industry executive has been jailed for his role in a group of fraudsters’ ‘audacious and cynical’ tax fraud. Evdoros Chrysanthos Demetriou, 78, of Woodstock Road, was...
View ArticlePassing remembrance on to future generation
Crowds lined the streets of Oxfordshire over the weekend to mark Remembrance Day and pay tribute to those who lost their lives in conflict. On Friday, RAF Brize Norton’s personnel stopped all...
View ArticleNew energy system cuts hospital costs by £200k
TWO hospitals in Oxford have slashed more than £200,000 off their monthly energy bill thanks to a new £14.8m power system. The figures were revealed as the John Radcliffe Hospital’s new combined heat...
View ArticleDisappointment at further 502 homes approved for town
Controversial plans to build 502 homes in Wallingford were approved despite numerous objections from residents. The decision to give the go ahead to the plans for land at Winterbrook, off Reading Road,...
View ArticleDo chefs have recipe to win parliament award?
Not one but two west Oxfordshire pub chefs have been nominated by Witney MP Robert Courts for a parliamentary prize. Tony Warburton of the Crown Inn at Church Enstone and Ian Neale of the Red Lion in...
View ArticleGive people their say on final terms of Brexit
More than 100 people attended an anti-Brexit rally in Oxford. Speakers from the city council and the Oxford European Association spoke up against Article 50 at the event in Bonn Square organised by...
View ArticleShare your views on the future of our GP services
PEOPLE are being urged to have their say over how GP services will be run in the county in the future. Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group has been working with GP practices and patients’...
View ArticleReady to do battle over 85 homes plan for cul-de-sac
CONTROVERSIAL plans to build dozens of new homes next to a quiet cul-de-sac have been submitted. Residents are furious over Persimmon Homes’ proposal to build up to 85 homes on agricultural land at the...
View Article£6.8m school to open next year
A new £6.8million primary school that has been lying empty for months is gearing up to open its doors to pupils next September. Gagle Brook Primary School, which has been built at Bicester’s eco town,...
View ArticleDear Chancellor: Tax diesel vehicles and stop pollution
The Oxford City Council leader has sent a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging him to tackle air pollution in Oxford. Bob Price wants Philip Hammond to get tough on polluting vehicles and...
View ArticleVolunteers needed to save town festival from closure
It could be game over for Wantage summer festival after a search to find new directors failed. The month-long celebration of art, music, comedy, drama and science has been taking place each summer for...
View ArticlePolice preparing file for CPS over Didcot Power Station collapse
Police investigating the collapse of Didcot Power Station last year intend to send a file to prosecutors before the end of the year, it has been reported. Four men – Ken Cresswell, 57, John Shaw, 61,...
View ArticleHospital should be ‘health hub’ for patients in future
Witney Hospital should be at the forefront of health service decisions in the town. The chairman of Witney Town Council’s planning and development committee has suggested the hospital became a ‘health...
View ArticleAfter 135 homes are rejected – plans are submitted for 1,050
‘Disappointed’ residents in Didcot are preparing to fight against more housing as a plan for 1,050 new homes was unveiled last week. Developer Taylor Wimpey is working on outline plans to build on land...
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