Oxford Clarion

What do you get when the world’s third richest man buys Tolkien’s local? Oxford is about to find out. The Eagle & Child is Oxford’s most storied inn. It was here that the Inklings met every Tuesday lunchtime – a writing group including J.R.R. Tolkien, C.

Ten years after the first funding was secured, the final* plans for the A40 from Witney to Eynsham have been released. One of Oxfordshire’s most congested roads is set to get even busier. The Salt Cross ‘garden village’, new houses in west Eynsham, and developments in east and north

In a world containing the freeways of Los Angeles, the parking sprawl of London’s Westfield Centre, and the 1970s ring road of Coventry, it might seem strange to question Oxford’s walkability. The historic centre is a grid of wide avenues and small connecting streets, several of which have

A war of words has erupted over a seemingly innocuous item in Thursday's county council meeting. “Dark Skies: Street Lighting Illumination Proposals” is a title that at first glance suggests nothing more than a sensitive approach to light pollution across the county. But what’s proposed is radical:

Woodstock Road has a traffic problem. Your Clarion writer experienced this first-hand recently. It was 3.15pm, school run time, and traffic was moving desperately slowly – we would estimate an average of 5mph. It was stop-start all the way from First Turn to Squitchey Lane, where Team Clarion decided to

Rachel Reeves (PPE, New College) has delivered a budget which, at first sight, has much more for Cambridge than Oxford. The Other Place™ gets new housing, support for the “wider Cambridge life sciences cluster”, £10m for the Cambridge Growth Company, a consultation on a new railway, and a shout-out as