Olivia Churchill
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Oxford student named champion of the British Society for Nanomedicine
University of Oxford student and Doctor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery Eeshani Bendale has become the first Ayurvedic physician to be named a Champion of the British Society for Nanomedicine.
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Oxford City Council confirms LSD Promotions as organiser of this year’s Christmas market
Oxford City Council has confirmed LSD Promotions will be the organiser for this year’s Christmas market on Broad Street after the previous organisers withdrew.
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Plans for hundreds of new homes agreed in redevelopment of Oxford’s Blackbird Leys
Plans to build hundreds of affordable homes, retail spaces and community facilities as part of the redevelopment of Oxford’s Blackbird Leys have been given the green light by Oxford City Council’s planning committee.
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Hedges announces latest round of hires including a Head of Summertown Office
Hedges has announced its latest round of new hires comprising family law specialists Alexandra Baggallay and Ian Davies, and Head of Summertown Office, Daniel Boyle.
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OLA Pupils achieve top grades in excellent 2023 GCSE performance
Our Lady’s Abingdon (OLA) is celebrating another strong year of GCSE results, with an outstanding 95% of results graded 9-4, 48% graded 9-7 and 46% achieving at least one grade 9 in 2023.
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Oxfordshire Council provides support to residents during cost of living crisis
Children, low-income pensionable households, carers and many others have benefited from Oxfordshire County Council’s cost of living crisis support schemes for residents over the winter of 2022/3 and afterwards.
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Almost half of A-level students at Our Lady’s Abingdon achieved one grade A or above
Almost half of all students achieved at least one A-Level at grade A or above, with 80% securing their first choice of university.
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Final homes by Persimmon Homes for sale at Windrush Place in Witney
Persimmon Homes has only nine homes left for sale at its Windrush Place site in Witney and is urging interested customers not to waste time.
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BBC Gospel Choir of the Year singing in Oxford this September
The EAGA Gospel Choir, BBC Songs of Praise Gospel Choir of the Year 2023, will be singing in Oxford in a concert in aid of The Unicorn School, Abingdon, which provides specialist educational support for neurodiverse children and young people with related learning challenges.
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The new Starbucks® store in Westgate Oxford is now open
The new Starbucks® store in Westgate Oxford is now open, and customers are invited to enjoy the new Chocolatey Wafflecone Coffee Frappuccino® blended beverage and Strawberry Wafflecone Crème Frappuccino®.
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Planning Consent for new office building at Harwell Campus
National property consultancy Carter Jonas has secured planning consent on behalf of Harwell Science and Innovation Campus for a new 53,000 sq ft office building.
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Linden Homes teams with Sage Homes to offer new shared ownership scheme in Didcot
The housebuilder has teamed up with the country’s largest provider of new-build affordable homes to launch Home Stepper – a new shared ownership scheme – which includes five new homes at its Didcot Grove location in Didcot.
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Community pulls together to save Be Free Young Carers’ stricken coach trips
In a perfect example of how companies and charities can work together, Pulhams Coaches have ridden to the rescue of Be Free Young Carers following the closure of a local coach firm.
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Banbury-based Amazing Lofts reaches lofty milestones in first year
Banbury-based loft storage specialists Amazing Lofts has reached lofty milestones in its first year of trading – breaking the £1m revenue ceiling and creating more than 30 jobs.
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New research suggests an Oxford bike hire scheme could cut over 70k car journeys
Estimates from the research show there could be as many as 193,000 journeys by bike hire scheme in Oxford if the take up was similar to intiatives in other cities such as London.
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Metro Bank’s colleague volunteers at Battle Proms and raises nearly 11k for SSAFA
Metro Bank’s Rebekah Burke recently volunteered at the Battle Proms held at Blenheim Palace to help raise nearly £11,000 for the Armed Forces charity, SSAFA.