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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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Image Credit: Matt Buck (CC-BY-SA-2.0) Since July 6, all rail services, passenger and freight, have been stopped from passing through Oxford Station as controversial construction plans get underway. The works are part of Network Rail’s plan to expand the rail capacity in the Oxford Corridor. Network Rail have outlined the project detailing as follows: “We […]
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A cyclist was taken to hospital after a collision with a large van on The Plain roundabout this morning. The roundabout, a stone’s throw from Magdalen Bridge, is a main entry point into the centre of the city and sees Iffley Road, Cowley Road, and St Clement’s meet the High Street. The cyclist is thought […]
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Blue plaques were unveiled in Oxford on Tuesday to commemorate locations around the city that were of great importance to the development of penicillin. Sir Alexander Fleming is most associated with penicillin, discovering it in 1928 and identifying it as having antibiotic properties at St Mary’s Hospital in London. However, it was thanks to the […]
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A decision which would have meant that Sohaila Banyani and her son, 23 year-old Muslem, would be deported back to Afghanistan has been overturned after large numbers of Iffley residents came out in support of them. Members of the East Oxford community wrote letters to local MP Anneliese Dodds and the family’s lawyers, and raised […]
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It has been confirmed that on Thursday 24th May an Oxford Tube bus caught fire on the M40. The bus, which was bound for London, had to be stopped just off the M40’s junction 4. A spokesperson for Stagecoach, which operates the Oxford Tube, explained: “One of our drivers detected a problem with […]
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On Sunday 13TH of May, Project SOUP (Support Oxford’s Upcoming Projects) collaborated with ISOC and Oxford Hub, to host their termly micro-funding dinner, in aid of refugee charities. The event, held in Turl Street Kitchen, attracted over a hundred people, and raised £370 for the three charities of the evening: Jacari, KAMA Oxford […]
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The government has announced a new draft clear Air Strategy, which intends by 2025 to halve the number of people living in areas where particulate matter is above safe levels set by the World Health Organisation. Councillor Tom Hayes, Executive Board Member for a Safer and Greener Environment, Oxford City Council, said that “urgent action” is […]
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Organisers have begun preparations for this weekend’s Common People festival in South Park. The festival, whose headlining acts are Ride, James and The Jacksons, is returning to Oxford on 26th-27th May for its second year. A second Common People festival will be taking place at the same time in Southampton. Indie rock band Ride, who […]
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A nineteenth-century professor of Chinese has been honoured with the unveiling of a blue plaque on the wall of his former residence in North Oxford. James Legge, a prominent Scottish sinologist and missionary, lived at 3 Keble Road from 1875 until his death in 1897. In 1876, a year after his arrival in Oxford, Legge […]
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