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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

A traffic jam at the Westgate car park in Oxford where the sign reads 'car park full' and a large off-vehicle waits to enter.

Citizens’ Assembly votes for “a car-free city centre”

An assembly of Oxfordshire citizens has overwhelmingly supported making the city centre car-free and turning some existing roads over to buses, cyclists and Blue Badge holders. Together with housing being built close to key facilities, rural greenways, and using funds from a Workplace Parking Levy to improve city transport, these

A big yellow new Mini a blue classic mini, on holiday together in the Mediterranean.

Electric Avenue

BMW’s Oxford plant looked to have an assured future, building electric Minis for the Net Zero age. Then, this week, all this was thrown into doubt as the German firm paused a planned £600m investment. What went wrong? Years of blowing hot and cold on the future of Plant