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Rail industry documents passed to the Oxford Clarion show that the Government will need to overrule Network Rail if the Botley Road work is to finish before June 2026. The road was originally closed in April 2023, and was set to reopen in October 2024. But the discovery of a

Charles de Gaulle famously asked “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” Keir Starmer is asking how you can govern a country with 246 varieties of local council. France has 18 régions, which in turn are divided into départements, 101 in all. Add a few

This week's top stories Will the Government’s announcement of more special needs funding fix Oxfordshire’s SEND crisis? We took a detailed look this week. Spoiler: it’s rather more complex than the headlines might imply – pointing up the difference between revenue (ongoing) funding for support staff

In a city where every scrap of land is sought for much-needed housing, it scarcely seems believable that a 2,000m² site just outside the centre has been sitting derelict for 18 years. Even more so when that site has a history stretching back 180 years and is located in

What do you get when the world’s third richest man buys Tolkien’s local? Oxford is about to find out. The Eagle & Child is Oxford’s most storied inn. It was here that the Inklings met every Tuesday lunchtime – a writing group including J.R.R. Tolkien, C.

Ten years after the first funding was secured, the final* plans for the A40 from Witney to Eynsham have been released. One of Oxfordshire’s most congested roads is set to get even busier. The Salt Cross ‘garden village’, new houses in west Eynsham, and developments in east and north