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We at the Clarion are clearly fans of animals – the at-home sorts, the farm sorts, and the outside don’t-touch-me sorts. We also know that we feature a lot of cats, because. Well, because. But in an effort to broaden animal representation and location (not just cats in colleges!), we

Last week we put out our first ever readers’ survey. We wanted to know what you thought of the Clarion and how to make it better. An astonishing 12.5% of subscribers filled it in. Thank you, everyone, for taking the time to make your views known. Here's

A monastic cafe, a 900-year old chapel, white storks, unexploded grenades, open-water swimming, community pubs, new bus routes and rural co-working. Where else but your midweek Clarion newsletter? This week’s long reads Oxford’s medieval Bartlemas Chapel celebrated its nonacentennial* on Sunday. We captured the event on camera and

Sunday was the eve of the Feast of St Bartholomew. If you were on Cowley Road, perhaps grabbing a takeaway from Sunny’s, you would have spotted an extraordinary procession heading to the hidden hamlet of Bartlemas. Our photographer Roger Close joined the procession. Bartlemas chapel and its associated hospital

It has rained. Let joy be unconfined. Here is some equally refreshing news, brought to you by the news-maxxin’, inbox-crushin’, mango-lovin’, free-wheelin’, cat-botherin’, council-watchin’, live-postin’, number-crunchin’, bus-ridin’, cool-fizzing err... volunteer team at the Clarion. Cheers to you all. (We spent far too long on this intro.) This week’s top

Two graphs, three puppies, but there’s only one Ozymandias. Plus our first ever readers’ survey. Read on… This week’s top stories The benefits to Oxfordshire from the proposed Puy du Fou theme park near Bicester have been “overstated by a large margin”, according to a take-no-prisoners independent report.