Oxford Clarion

This week’s top stories The Oxford–Cambridge Arc is back – but this time it’s a ‘growth corridor’. Oxford is to get a Government-led Growth Commission to “review how best to tackle the barriers that are constraining development of new housing and infrastructure”. Bringing together councils, universities and local

Botley Road to reopen in August 2026 The Botley Road rail bridge will remain closed for another 18 months. Network Rail announced an August 2026 completion date this morning (Friday) at a meeting with rail minister Lord Peter Hendy and Oxford West & Abingdon MP Layla Moran. But there’s

Welcome! Now we’ve cleared the Christmas backlog, this is shaping up to be a big year for Oxfordshire news: OUFC’s new stadium, county council elections, thousands of new houses, two theme parks planned for the Bicester area… the list goes on. But one thing we’re not betting

This week’s top stories Happy New Year! We’re refreshed and recovered after the Christmas break, where (after respective Clarion kids had gone to bed) we started work on researching and writing a clutch of features for the coming months. In the first long read of 2025, we took

Urban Oxford has a surprising number of farms. Wood Farm is a 1950s/60s development south of Headington. Court Place Farm is the home of Oxford City FC. Oxford City Farm is the kid-friendly food and animals space by Florence Park. And Cheney Farm, at the top of South Park,

This week’s top stories In a brace of Clarion long reads this week, we first looked at the Tiny Forest in Headington that is causing big trouble. Will a new housing development mean it’s bulldozed just a few years after it was planted? Oxfordshire’s councils could be