Oxford Clarion

As Oxfordshire Artweeks bursts into life next week with a three-week festival of artists' open studios and pop-up exhibitions at 350 venues across the whole county - all of which are free to enter - we ask, ‘what’s it all about and why has it been so successful?

Social media is a fixture in many of our lives. Its use and its impact have been polarising. It can be used to find a lost cat or new skincare regime, or learn how to clean a dirty kitchen, or even, dare we say it, to find out about the

MPs with pandas, ‘Quarry Roubaix’, tiny bugs, a 10-hour choral marathon, more trains. We love writing about this city. And then there’s potholes… This week’s long reads We know, we don't write about potholes. But they’ve been front page news in almost every other news

Britain is getting both hotter and wetter. Cars are getting heavier. And so roads are getting more potholed. It’s that simple. But fixing them isn’t – especially when Government funding to Oxfordshire has dropped by 13% in ten years, yet social care and special educational needs are swallowing up

The pound signs are appearing all over Oxfordshire: Government handouts, a Singapore company buying Oxford’s other football club, venture capitalists and a solar farm share offer. Cheque-books at the ready for this week’s newsletter… This week’s long reads You can tell a lot about a person by

The headline-grabbing Botley West Solar Farm might lead you to think that solar power is all about big-money investors – but in a corner of Oxfordshire near Bicester, a community project is proving the opposite. Now, Oxfordshire residents are being invited to invest in Britain’s first community-owned solar energy battery,