Oxford Clarion

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

In the end it wasn't even close. A Conservative majority of 14,000 in Henley became a Liberal Democrat majority of 6,270. Wantage went the same way, from 12,650 to 6,230. Witney and Bicester & Woodstock were similar. Banbury fell to Labour. These are areas

The ripples from the conviction of Sam Bankman-Fried, the fraudster whose FTX crypto empire collapsed into bankruptcy from a valuation of $32bn, continue to make waves a long way from the Bahamas HQ of the one-time wunderkind. Wytham Abbey, a 15th century manor house just outside Oxford, has gone up

Now the sun is finally making an appearance, why not get out on your bike with the kids this half-term? Cycling for leisure has been a Clarion tradition since 1895, so here’s our guide to the best places to cycle without traffic in (and near) Oxfordshire. These are fun