Oxford Clarion

It's getting hot in here (Oxfordshire). And while your Clarion correspondents are loosening their cravats, donning their culottes and hydrating like Poseidon and Amphitrite themselves, we recalled that our councils had declared 'Climate Emergencies' a few years ago. It felt an appropriate time to check on

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

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

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

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

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