Oxford Clarion

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

Oxfordshire’s on-going Special Educational Needs (SEND) crisis continues. The Government has pledged additional funding – but will it be enough? Following the recent Budget, the Labour Government announced on December 4 a “£740m capital investment to create more specialist places in mainstream schools”. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson promised “tangible change