Oxford Clarion
News for Oxfordshire. Est. 2022.
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- The Punter pub in Osney which has been vegetarian for five years, is to introduce fish to its menu, to target a wider clientele, citing the closure of the Botley Road and "financial pressures imposed on pubs by the Labour government". Their new menu will start on 9th February.
- The owner of Yew Tree Cottage in Adderbury has been fined £7,200 for chopping down seven (*checks notes*) yew trees. Graham Evans was seeking to create two new dwellings and three car parking spaces. The trees were on council land, in a conservation area, and large enough for legal protection.
- A new machine that treats tumours using an ultrasound to heat and destroy targeted cells has been installed in the Churchill Hospital. This non invasive treatment has potential not just for tumours but other uses such as treating fibroids and improved diagnostics. www.ouh.nhs.uk/news/article...
- Oxford City Council has announced it has awarded over £200,000 in grants to local organisations supporting homeless people and rough sleepers. Recipient organisations included The Porch, St. Mungo’s and Asylum Welcome. www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article...
- The race is on to re-home 120 ex-commercial laying hens in Didcot before February 8th. The British Hen Welfare Trust is appealing for would-be kind hearted chicken keepers to come forward by 4pm Friday and give the hens a chance at a free range retirement.
- Thames Valley Police's Community Fund, which uses proceeds from items seized from criminals to fund community projects, is open for applications. Community organisations can apply for up to £10,000 for projects around one of TVP's policing priorities; protecting communities, people or property.
- Messages have appeared on lamp posts on St. Aldate's which also bear the St. George's Cross flag. The installation of these flags is claimed by a group calling themselves 'Raise the Colours Oxford'.
- Local residents removed 8 flags hung around Oxford last night in response to an organised campaign from a group calling themselves the ’Raise the Colours Oxford’, who brought activists from the Midlands and Sheffield to ‘make Oxford look patriotic’
- Former Cherwell columnist, failed candidate for Oxford University Chancellor, ‘Prince of Darkness’, St. Catherine’s alumnus and architect of ‘New Labour’ Peter Mandelson has resigned as a member of the Labour Party over links to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
