Local news: Oxford
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Oxford residents can now apply for affordable homes in the Vale of White Horse district
An agreement between the two councils means 1,100 affordable homes in the Vale have been earmarked to help meet the city’s housing need in the next 10 years – in addition to the affordable homes specifically for Vale residents.
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Oxfordshire school children showcase hundreds of works of art for charity
Young Art Oxford’s annual competition returns this week to showcase more than 600 works of art created by local school children in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity and AT The Bus.
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Residents of an LTN street in Oxford react to findings of a damning report
We spoke to those living on Magdalen Road in Oxford this week to find out what it is like living on a street where traffic is prevented from taking shortcuts through a residential area.
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Planning inspectors announce dates Oxford’s Local Plan 2040 initial public hearings
Initial hearings have been scheduled for three days from Tuesday, 11 June, to Thursday, 13 June, at Rose Hill Community Centre from 9.30am daily.
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Share your views on proposed bus, cycling and walking improvements for Woodstock Road
Oxfordshire County Council is asking for people’s views on the Woodstock Road Sustainable Travel Improvements Scheme until Wednesday, 05 June.
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Cowley Post Office to close with politicians blaming low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs)
Templars Square in Cowley is set to lose its parcel-sending facility on Saturday, 25 May, as the Midcounties Co-op store, which hosts it, leaves the area. A new office will come to the closest viable Co-op location, in Rose Hill.
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St Catherine’s College gets a new temporary lecture theatre complex in just six weeks
St Catherine’s Colleges has installed a high-quality temporary solution to accommodate up to 250 people in just six weeks, while remediation work is carried out on its main lecture theatre due to the presence of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC).
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Open top bus company launches Black Oxford: Untold Stories
Oxford Bus Company has teamed up with the author of Black Oxford: Untold Stories and award-winning producer Pamela Roberts to offer people a unique trip back in time, unlocking the secret histories of Oxford’s black scholars.
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The Alchemist launches a new cocktail menu with levitating drinks and hidden cocktails
The Alchemist has created a brand-new cocktail menu for the spring and summer seasons, with the addition of a cocktail that levitates and another that has to be smashed to be drunk.
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Oxford High Prep School has been shortlisted for the Tes Awards 2024
Oxford High Prep School has been shortlisted in the Independent Prep School of the Year category of the Tes Schools Awards 2024
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Celebrated musical Jesus Christ Superstar set to take the stage at New Theatre Oxford
The UK tour of the Olivier Award-winning reimagined production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s celebrated musical Jesus Christ Superstar is set to take the stage at New Theatre Oxford.
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Rarely seen Roger Bannister items to go on display for 70th anniversary of four-minute mile
Many objects will be shown publicly for the very first time since joining the Bodleian’s collections, including photographs of the record-breaking run, an original programme from the day of the attempt, as well as congratulatory correspondence.