Headington Headlines #57

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for a very quiet week 2 – 8 April —

The @OxfordBusCo joined twitter.

The John Radcliffe Hospital became a Major Trauma Centre.

Plans for the expansion of Headington Prep School were approved.

Posh Fish has submitted an application 12/00809/ADV for advertisement consent for “the display of a fibreglass shark model”. It needs your support – see this post in the e-democracy forum and click the link on the reference above to go to the Council’s website to comment.

Waitrose applied to extend their licence to sell alcohol from 07:00 every day.

What used to be the flower shop on London Road opposite Gladstone Road is now Headington Barbers.

Active topics on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:

City Council election on Thursday 3 May 2012
Easter 2012
Nasty looking Shark

I try to cover news from the OX3 postcode in Headington and out as far as Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst (see map). To feed into next week’s summary you can comment on this article, or tweet either with the hashtag #ox3 or @mentioning @TonyOX3.