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Cacophonous coughs echoing from mattress shanty towns; hands pining for offerings of food and change. Not Dickens though – this is the ever effervescent city of dreaming spires. From travel journals to television shows, Oxford is hailed as a vibrant, beautiful city. What one cannot fail to notice though, especially as it gets colder, is […]
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Image Description: A photo mock up of the new public square on Broad Street. The Oxford City Council are planning on creating a temporary public square in Broad Street this summer, and have submitted an application to close part of Broad Street to traffic. The project will create a new city centre destination for Oxford […]
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Image Description: A yellow road sign that reads “COVID Testing Centre”. Oxford City Council has announced that workers and volunteers in public-facing roles will be able to get a free rapid COVID-19 test as part of the symptom-free testing program. The council announced that those who do not already have access to testing through their […]
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Image Description: a misty Port Meadow, with a silhouette of a man in the foreground. Oxford City Council has outlined how it aims to achieve its goal of becoming a zero carbon council by 2030. Although it is only responsible for 1% of Oxford’s carbon emissions, in April 2019 the City Council set out a […]
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With the Home Office having announced a new policy of deporting rough sleepers who are non-UK nationals, Oxford City Council is stating its intention not to cooperate with the Home Office’s new policy. The new policy will allow the Home Office to deport any non-UK national who is found to be sleeping on the street […]
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The city council has revealed that 80% of Oxford’s emissions comes from buildings, with the University being the biggest contributor. The findings came from the council’s Climate Emergency Strategy Support report, released in September 2019. Among the buildings sector, the institutional buildings sub-sector is responsible for over 25% of the city’s total emissions. This is […]
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Oxford City Council cancelled a talk by self-proclaimed ‘rebel priest’ Jules Gomes, which was due to take place in the Town Hall on 13th June, on the grounds that it breached their diversity policy. The Council stepped in after outrage was sparked at the subject of the free talk, entitled ‘Feminism was women’s greatest enemy – […]
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A 34-year-old Polish man was admitted to John Radcliffe Hospital last Sunday and died the following day of Sepsis according to Oxford City Council. This follows a spike in deaths this winter, where as many as five people died while homeless in Oxford, between November and February. No more information other than age and nationality […]
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The latest gender pay gap report for the year ending 31st March 2018 confirms that the Council does not have a median gender pay gap for basic pay. The report provides three key measures of equality: basic pay, bonuses and the proportion of males and females receiving a bonus While the median gender pay gap for […]
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Oxford City Council will fly the European Union flag on the day the UK formally leaves the institution the vast majority of Oxford residents voted to remain a member of. The plan was approved by the City Council’s executive board at a meeting on Wednesday, in a move that will be seen as a statement […]
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Following the growing homelessness crisis in Oxford, the City Council have announced their intentions to increase its spending on rough sleepers to more than £2 million in the coming year. Persistently high numbers of people sleeping rough, changes to funding for housing support services in Oxfordshire and plans to expand winter emergency accommodation mean that […]
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Image description: The Mayors of Oxford and Ramallah sign the Twinning Agreement at Oxford Town Hall. (Elena Casale) Yesterday, the Lord Mayor of Oxford and the Mayor of Ramallah signed the Twinning Agreement between Oxford and Ramallah, Palestine. The signing is the culmination of a 15 year friendship between the two cities, lead by the […]
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Image Credit: David Hawgood Oxford City council has admitted that it needs to attract more people from ethnic minority groups to work within the council. Only 9 per cent of the council’s workforce is from a Black, Asian or ethnic minority background, whereas 19% of the city’s inhabitants are. Nigel Chapman, the council’s board member […]
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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: 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: 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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Oxford City Council have announced that they will start efforts to ban all non-zero emissions vehicles from the roads of Oxford, making the city the world’s first emissions-free urban area. The plan involves a gradual ban on petrol and diesel cars and vans from roads in the city centre, starting with Cornmarket and Queen Street […]
Continue ReadingA few hours ago, a church in East Oxford offered temporary accommodation to the 21 residents of the Osney Open House. The squatters were asked to leave the premises of the Old Power Station in Osney by 4pm today, after an interim possession order was granted to Oxford University by a local court last week […]
Continue ReadingOxford is often thought to be a bastion of privilege, but in truth what is more distinctive of Oxford is inequality. As well as being the home to one of the world’s most prestigious universities, it is also home to both some of the most affluent areas of the country and some of the most […]
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