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Image: Tony Hisgett (CC BY SA 2.0) The Oxford City Council has announced that a new Oxford Living Wage will be set at £10.02 an hour, and will come into force from April 2019 onwards. To mark this announcement, the Oxford City Living Wage Campaign held an ‘Oxford Living Wage Rally’ on 5th November, which […]
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Image Credit: Basher Eyre (CC BY-SA 2.0) Oxford’s independent music venue The Cellar has launched an £80,000 crowdfunding campaign to avoid closure in early December. In June, Oxford County Council inspectors, had said that the venue’s 70cm fire escape was 30cm too narrow, and therefore the club was ordered to cut the number of people […]
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Image Credit: Fachdozent-Description-Pottery “Handmade in Britain” was established in 2007 to provide a creative platform to support and promote design and craft talent in the UK. Their commitment to promoting the work of talented makers, designers, and craftspeople has already led them to establish annual events in Kew, Edinburgh, and Chelsea. They also recently launched […]
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Image Credit: David Iliff (CC-BY-SA 3.0) Opening of St John’s new library and study centre delayed The planned opening of St. John’s new library and study centre is to be delayed until the spring. The new building, located in the heart of the College, containing four floors, will not only hold the College’s wealth of […]
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Image Credit: ceridwen (CC-BY-SA/2.0) In response to the crises of previous years Oxfordshire NHS Trust has announced it is appointing a Winter Director to oversee coordination of care and health services through the winter period. The Trust is one of the first in the UK to create such a position and it hopes this new […]
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Image Credit: TEDxSydney/Fe Lumsdaine/Lumsdaine Photography Benny Wenda, the leader of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua, is to be considered for the Freedom of Oxford award in a Council debate this week. Residing in Oxford since 2002 when he was granted asylum, Wenda has continuously campaigned for the independence of West Papua, a territory […]
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Image Credit: Jaggery (CC BY-SA 2.0) Oxford churchgoers have recently become embroiled in a parish controversy, following the publication of a job advert seeking male only applicants. The job advert, to fill the role of vicar for the St Barnabas and St Paul’s with St Thomas the Martyr Parish, patroned by Keble and Christ Church […]
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“Burning down the house”, a popular club night, will be moving from The Cellar to Cirkus, a new nightclub opened on George Street. This decision follows a recent fire risk assessment which has meant that the capacity of the club has had to be restricted severely, since the fire escape was not considered adequately safe […]
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Image Credit: Peter Trimming (CC BY-SA 2.0) Yesterday, August 17th, police released details of an assault that took place on George Street earlier this month. A gang of 10 young people, all male, are said to have chased a 17-year old boy down George Street before violently assaulting him and taking his debit card. The […]
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Image Credit: Spigoo (CC BY 2.0) Following an attack on a campaign stall at Carfax last Friday evening, a group of Oxford campaigns have come together to call a ‘We will not be silenced” protest. The stall was run by a local socialist group who were campaigning against the statements made by the Former Foreign […]
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Image Credit: Chris McAuley / The First Oxfam Shop / CC BY-SA 2.0 The multi-millionaire catering boss, Richard Cousins, has left £41m to the Oxford-based charity, Oxfam, after dying alongside his family in a plane crash. Mr Cousins was chief executive of Compass Group, and was only 58 years old, when he died alongside his fiancée, magazine editor Emma Bowden, […]
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Image Credit: Steve Daniels (CC BY-SA 2.0) Craig Simmons, Councillor for St. Mary’s ward and Green party member, has received “mis-directed” hate mail for the proposal to rename the extended St. Mary’s ward in memory of Sir Roger Bannister. The world-famous athlete, who was also a celebrated neurologist and a master of Pembroke College from […]
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Image Credit: Basher Eyre (CC BY-SA 2.0) A new souvenir shop has moved into Oxford in a location previously being looked at by Cellar as an alternative venue. It emerged in June that Cellar was at threat of closure due to not following fire regulations. This came following an inspection by county council inspectors, where […]
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Image Credit: Roger Davies (CC BY-SA 2.0) Planning proposals have been submitted to Oxford City Council which, if approved, could see a number of the city’s underground public toilets transformed into apartments for tourists and visitors to the city. The proposals as submitted look at the below-ground men’s public toilets on St. Giles, which were […]
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Image Credits: unclelkt (CC0) and Autopilot (CC BY-SA 3.0) A scheme called ‘Greater Change’, is trialling a new system in Oxford, to change the way we donate money to homeless people. They want to provide homeless people with QR codes, like the kind used for online tickets, so that members of the public can give […]
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Image Credit: Newprogressive, Mtcv, OpenStreetMap contributors The Local Government Boundary Commission for England has recently revealed its draft plans for changes to council wards in Oxfordshire. The plans come as part of a wider review of electoral boundaries across the country, which aim to ensure that all areas of the country are equally represented. The Head of […]
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Image Credit: Kevin Pluck (CC BY 2.0) A recent survey has revealed that 90 licenses for animals classified as dangerous have been issued across Oxfordshire. The survey, by charity Born Free, shows that wild animals from across the phylogenetic and geographic spectrum are living in Oxfordshire, including wolves, venomous snakes, and even a giraffe. Overall, […]
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Image Credit: Gabri Guerrero (CC BY 2.0) Oxford-based group, Glass Animals, have cancelled their upcoming tour after their drummer (pictured left) was injured in a crash while cycling. On the 2nd July, Joe Seaward broke his leg and fractured his skull following a collision in Dublin involving a lorry. The indie band had planned a series […]
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Image Credit: cyclonebill (CC-BY-SA-2.0) Gin Festival Ltd, a company which runs gin festivals across the UK, has cancelled what was to be Oxford’s 2nd annual Gin Festival. After a successful 1st year in 2017 the company had hoped to host their 2nd event in Oxford Town Hall from the 5th to 7th October. The company […]
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