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House prices in Oxfordshire 2025

Who among us doesn’t sneak a quick look at house prices now and then – whether it’s to eye up your dream home or just to find out what’s happening where you currently live? Where to live, where to work, where to shop and where the kids go

The Oxford roads where most traffic is speeding

The Oxford roads where most traffic is speeding

Roads outside schools, residential streets, and city centre arteries are among the ten worst roads for speeding in Oxford, according to new data. Speed is the single biggest factor in road deaths, cited as a factor in 950 (59%) of Britain’s fatal collisions in 2024. Researchers at the University

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Space Solar – power from above

We’ve written about the emerging climate crisis and the 250 years of Oxford science as evidence. We’ve written about its impact on our gardens. We’ve written how renewable solar energy, one part of the remedy, is planned on a large scale in Oxfordshire but is facing challenges

Nium: a new chemical romance?

Nium: a new chemical romance?

Featured in Dickens and even Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, our familiarity with ammonia may be through the pungency of smelling salts wafted under a nose. But now we have roused you to alertness, we’ll tell you why it is one of the most important chemicals in the world, and

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Climate change and Oxford – a history and primer

On 26 January 1776, at just after ten past eleven in the evening, Dr Thomas Hornsby, Professor of Astronomy, walked back from his thermometers on the lawn of what is now Green Templeton College into his study. He recorded the temperature carefully in his book - ‘16 2/3’, the

The very model of a modern industrial strategy?

The very model of a modern industrial strategy?

You might think that an ‘Industrial Strategy’ has a lot to do with steelworks, ports and car plants – and not a lot to do with leafy Oxfordshire, BMW Cowley aside. But the Government’s new flagship document is The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy, and “modern industrial” is very much

Oxford Space Systems building at Harwell Campus

You can see them from space: Oxford Space Systems

Later this year, a rocket will blast off from Florida carrying a satellite made by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL). It’s a demonstration radar satellite, and on board, making an ambitious mission possible with a satellite the size of washing-machine, is the radar dish – or more accurately, the antenna