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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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Oxfordshire businesses back city’s huge OxTrail 2024 event
Oxford Bus Company, Oxford City Football Club, Blenheim Palace, Darcica and Bidwells are among the businesses supporting the ‘ox-traordinary’ sculpture trail by Sobell House Hospice.
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Best-selling author Shrabani Basu to give talk on WW2 ‘Spy Princess’ at Ditchley Park
Best-selling author Shrabani Basu will give a talk on the story of Noor Inayat Khan, the first woman radio operator to be infiltrated into occupied France in 1943 based on interviews with her family, colleagues and secret service records.
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New Starbucks® store is set to open in Westgate Oxford
A new Starbucks® store, operated by The Magic Bean Company, is set to open in Westgate Oxford on Friday, 11 August.
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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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Adrenaline-fuelled gravity-defying performance CODE reveals growing issue of ‘County Lines’
Dancin’ Oxford, in conjunction with Justice in Motion, has announced the world premiere performance of CODE at its Summer Dance Festival in Oxford on 19 and 20 August 2023.
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Holy Grail tapestries loaned to Kelmscott Manor to help with fundraising activity
The hope is that this exceptional loan will encourage more visitors to Kelmscott Manor and support fundraising efforts to start the conservation of the Kelmscott Manor Samson tapestries and the reinstatement of the Tapestry Room.
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Cornbury House Horse Trials and The Pelican to partner on new ‘feasting’ style experience
Cornbury House Horse Trials, taking from 06 to 10 September, is partnering with The Pelican to launch a new hospitality experience called ‘The Pelican in the Field’ at the international horse trials on the Saturday and Sunday.
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The Oxford Wine Group to open a brand new city centre venue later this year
Oxford’s newest venue will open on the corner of the High Street and King Edward Street, just a stone’s throw away from the group’s other city venue, Sandy’s Piano Bar.
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Great Taste 2023 reveals top-tasting food and drink products from Oxfordshire-based producers
Artisan food and drink producers from around Oxfordshire are discovering if any of their products have achieved a distinguished 1-, 2- or 3-star from Great Taste Awards
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National Trust plans to fatten up Bronze Age White Horse chalk figure
Investigations by archaeologists from the National Trust and Oxford Archaeology discovered that the important chalk figure at Uffington, Oxfordshire, has shrunk over time.
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‘Outstanding’ Oxfordshire care home Cleeve Lodge sold to a new operator
Specialist business property adviser Christie & Co has completed the freehold sale of Cleeve Lodge residential home in Goring-on-Thames to a new operator
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Best Garden at Chastleton lives up to its name after restoration
Now officially opened, the four-year project returns the Best Garden at Chastleton to its original Jacobean format of concentric circles of beds radiating from a central sundial.
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Oxford Christmas Market as we know it has been cancelled indefinitely
The organiser of the Oxford Christmas Market for the last 14 years has announced that the market as we know it is has been cancelled indefinitely.