Local news: Oxford
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Oxford to celebrate its communities with light & creativity in 2023 Christmas Light Festival
From 17 to 19 November, artists and local communities will come together to make a weekend of very special events. With workshops, exhibitions, light trails and interactive displays in the city centre and local neighbourhoods, everyone can get involved.
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Oxford Tube introduces several extra services for passengers
The Oxford Tube service has added extra services connecting parts of West Oxfordshire to London, and a new stop in High Wycombe.
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Oxford Half Marathon 2023 runners raise funds for Oxfordshire Mind
Last weekend, runners in the Oxford Half Marathon 2023 raised more than £25,000 for Oxfordshire Mind.
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Call for local artists to showcase work in Oxford’s biggest ever public art event
Local artists are being sought to sign up for Oxford’s OxTrail event to have their designs featured in the city’s biggest-ever public art event, which will take place in July 2024.
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Oxford Half Marathon is set to return to the city this Sunday
Thousands of runners are expected to take to the streets of Oxford for this year’s Oxford Half Marathon, which is set to return on Sunday, 15 October 2023.
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Homes in Horspath to benefit from £76m investment in full fibre broadband connectivity
Engineering work is getting underway to connect more than 1,600 homes in Horspath to full fibre broadband as part of an £76 million investment by Gigaclear to expand its full-fibre network to underserved market towns and communities in Oxfordshire.
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First schools sign up to be the creative teams behind oxen herds set to appear all over the city
Several Oxfordshire schools have signed up to be the first designers of some of the Oxen herds that will appear around Oxfordshire next year as part of the widely anticipated giant art sculpture event, OxTrail.
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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 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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Oxford named the UK’s highest-performing city in PwC’s annual Good Growth for Cities Index
Economic measures, such as income, employment rates and life expectancy, helped the city maintain first place, while other South East cities also ranked highly.
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Oxford welcomes new Lord Mayor, Councillor Lubna Arshad
Councillor Lubna Arshad is the first woman of colour, the first Muslim woman of intersectional background, and the youngest Lord Mayor representing the city.
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County council to consider update report on Oxford United’s stadium proposals on 18 April
The cabinet at Oxfordshire County Council cabinet will receive an update on proposals for Oxford United’s new stadium on council-owned land known as “the Triangle”.