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Enhanced government support to help bring down Oxford COVID cases
Oxford is to receive increased testing and help to maximise vaccine uptake, and people are advised to be cautious about non-essential travel in and out of the city.
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Countdown begins for the re-opening of Woodstock Pool
The pool has been closed since 2019 due to COVID-19 but is now being cleaned and restored for the first swimmers to take the plunge on 22 July.
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City Council launches consultation on redeveloping Blackbird Leys
The plans envisage revitalising the district centre with improvements to public spaces and new shops and community facilities, with both in-person and virtual events scheduled for this month.
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Oxford professor Samson Kambalu wins Fourth Plinth commission
The powerful sculpture depicting pan-Africanist Malawian preacher, John Chilembwe will be displayed on the ‘fourth plinth’ in London’s Trafalgar Square from 2022.
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VSL & Partners top industry rankings for commercial property deals
Powered by data from the 200+ agents, the rankings enable anyone interested in the property market to see the performance of companies, cities and sectors.
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Beard starts work on St John’s College historic library refurbishment
The final phase of work is expected to be finished by early 2023 and includes a remodelling of an area under the Old Library known as the Paddy Room.
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Immunotherapy company Etcembly joins AI firms at The Oxford Science Park
The machine learning immunotherapy discovery company joins a group of thriving companies which use artificial intelligence techniques in their research.
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Planning Approval Granted for Britishvolt’s world-class Gigaplant
Manufacturer Britishvolt has received a huge boost by obtaining planning permission to regenerate the 92.2 hectare disused coal stocking yard in Northumberland
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Hardide Coatings’ new facility in Bicester receives approval from Airbus
This approval follows the relocation of the company and its equipment from Wedgwood Road to newly built premises at Longlands Road in Bicester last year.
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OQC delivers the UK’s first Quantum Computing as-a-Service
The start-up that unveiled the UK’s most advanced superconducting quantum computer in 2018 has launched the nation’s first commercially available QCaaS built using its proprietary technology.
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COVID-19 cases in Oxford is highest in south-east
At 629 per 100,000 population, the case rates in the city is over two and a half times the national average and at a similar level to what it was in the previous peak in January.
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Grant saves 12 rural bus services from axe until April 2022
Oxfordshire County Council will use £275k of its existing Local Authority Bus Subsidy Grant (LABSG) to support the services which would otherwise have faced withdrawal in August 2021.
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Oxfordshire engineering company Saietta to float on London Stock Exchange’s AIM
Saietta’s admission to AIM on 07 July is expected to raise gross proceeds of £37.5m with an approximate market capitalisation of £102.1m at the issue price.
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Funding agreement signed to deliver M40 roundabout improvements
Oxfordshire County Council has allocated £18.8m of its Oxfordshire Housing and Growth Deal funding to improve the existing roundabouts at the Upper Heyford development site.
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Vale of White Horse go-ahead for data centres at Didcot A power station site
This follows the recent approval of the plans by councillors at South Oxfordshire District Council as the redevelopment site stradles the two district councils.
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High Sheriff of Oxfordshire opens new R&D labs at Wood Centre for Innovation
The class II labs answer the significant demand from science and tech start-ups and SMEs for lab space in Oxford’s world-leading life sciences cluster in Headington.