Oxford Clarion

Is the future of transport being hatched on a converted Bicester airfield? In this week's Clarion long read we take a look at how a site in “Motorsport Valley” has become home to flying taxis, advanced electric drive, and even electric go-karts. Read the full story. This week’

You might have thought a fundamental tenet of a National Cycle Network would be that you could ride a bike along it. In Bicester, that isn’t the case. The Varsity Way is the official signposted cycle route from Oxford to Cambridge. Blue signs with the number ‘51’ on them

A plan for 6,000 new homes on a former airfield has been submitted in what would be Oxfordshire’s biggest ever single development. Upper Heyford air base – used by both the RAF and the US Air Force – closed in 1993. It was speculatively acquired by housebuilder Dorchester in 2009.

This week’s top stories Overnight visitors to Oxford’s hotels could be charged a small “visitor levy” to help fund tourism facilities in Oxford. Such a scheme is already in operation in Manchester, but was rejected by Cambridge hoteliers. The City Council has now commissioned a feasibility study. This

If there's anyone who thinks housing in Oxfordshire has been planned optimally and sensibly in recent years, we have yet to meet them. "Planned" at all might be generous. Houses have been ladled onto Wantage and Grove, Witney and Carterton, each one in a rail desert

The Labour group on Oxfordshire County Council has launched a motion of no confidence in the council’s Liberal Democrat leadership. Oxfordshire’s county councillors – all 63 of them – meet seven times a year. The next “full council” meeting is this Tuesday. After the official business, the floor is open