Oxford Clarion

City centre mobile reception, wheeling to Cambridge, footy scran, £26.5m country estates, coffee horsebox, plus all Oxford’s finest events and some otter-ly brilliant nature news. If there’s a more varied news update anywhere in Britain, we’d like to see it. Step this way… This week’s

Relentlessly reporting on the local impact of the climate emergency even if everyone else ignores it... Plus OCC on the move, a new coffee shop, playgrounds, the Kidlington dump, and all your weekend reading. Long reads This seems like a good time to reshare our article, from Oxford horticulturist Amandine

It’s one of those weeks where almost everything qualifies as a top story. Read on for changes at the top of Oxfordshire’s councils, an imminent start date for direct trains to Bristol, Reform candidate controversy, a bung (money, not plug) for Abingdon Reservoir and much more… This week’

For Shakespeare, Oxford and St George! In today’s newsletter: an all-new college, car-free developments, and a bumper crop of events. Your weekend starts here… This week’s long reads The incredible festival of free art that is Oxfordshire Artweeks begins on 2 May. In this very special collaboration with

“It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.’ ” So Douglas Adams, writing in 1979, judged the opacity of English councils meeting the legal requirement to publish notice of planning applications.

Vintage books! New book festival! More police! (Or not?) Sing-along-Wicker Man! And the end in sight to the saga of the Didcot GP surgery? All this, and so much more for your weekend reading, in what has to be Oxfordshire's most eclectic newsletter. This week’s (short) long