Oxford Clarion

Who's standing and who's bowing out? With elections for every seat on Oxfordshire County Council coming up on 1 May, we take a look at the battlegrounds. Cast your mind back to 2021. It was the height of Boris Johnson’s pomp, with the Conservatives enjoying

This week’s top stories The £75m Blavatnik School of Government on Walton Street, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, has been closed after an unexpected air strike by a hostile seagull. Events including a Heat Pump Summit were rescheduled so that repairs can take place. A spokesperson

This week’s top stories It’s election season! This week, we published our run-down of ten questions to ask canvassers seeking your vote for the County Council. All the big issues, from special educational needs and adult social care to (this is the Clarion, after all) cycling infrastructure. Dive

💡This is your sign to register to vote, and how to do it. Elections for Oxfordshire County Council are on Thursday 1 May – so you can vote immediately after the city’s May Day celebrations. The last date to register to vote is midnight on Friday 11 April. The last

It’s a mark of the investment going into solar power right now that, just a fortnight after we ran a long read on one Oxfordshire solar farm, we’re back with a round-up of the latest projects in the county. For once, the word ‘boom’ isn’t hyperbolic. Below

25 developers in Oxford – including several colleges, the company behind the flagship Oxpens project, and stadium owner Firoka – have written to the Government saying sewage issues are causing “a complete hiatus of development”. Upgrade works to Oxford Sewage Treatment Works were due to be completed this month. Instead, as the