Oxford Clarion

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

This week’s top stories More than a month's rain fell across the county in 24 hours at the beginning of the week, causing school closures, road and public transport disruption. This continued intermittently through the week. A selection of local councillors on the case: Oxford Lord Mayor

No issue in Oxfordshire is more fiercely contested than Oxford’s traffic. Most people agree it’s a problem – but not how to fix it. Oxfordshire County Council, which is responsible for roads across city and county, is trying to reshape Oxford’s traffic through a series of interventions – Low