Headington Headlines #166

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 2 – 8 June.

A cyclist was attacked in Barton Lane on Tuesday afternoon. A man knocked the cyclist off his bicycle and attacked him with a pair of scissors.

The three ladies of foodie blog @BittenOxford put @JacobsChopHouse to the test. Find out if it was a rare treat or if they gave it a roasting.

The Londis, run by @sundersandher, is being convertedinto a “One-Stop” shop. Sunder’s store in Leamington Spa became a One-Stop earlier this year and he has been enthusiastic about the change. One Stop is a franchise operation like Londis, and for those who get worked up about these things it is a subsidiary of Tesco, who are of course opening their own store on the other side of the road in July.

The Oxford Mail published an obituary of Marston parish councillor Roy Jones.

A U1 double-decker bus caught fire on the westbound A40 near Thornhill P&R on Friday afternoon. The A40 was closed for several hours and traffic was backed up to Junction 8 on the M40. None of the passengers was harmed. There’s no informtion yet on what caused the fire.

The opposite (eastbound) stretch of road was closed again on Sunday (yesterday) evening following a lorry collision and a diesel spillage.

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

  • Road closures in Headington, May/June 2014
  • One-Stop shop for Headington
I 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.

Headington Headlines #165

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 26 May – 1 June.

It was Headington Festival @HeadingtonFest yesterday and Saturday. The weather was fine, the events were well-attended, and everyone had a good time!

Osler Road is closed from today (Monday 2 June) for 3 weeks (not 6 as the road closure signs say) for resurfacing. Buses will divert via Headley Way. Full information here on the LibDem Councillors’ website.

@NeilHoldstock announced on the e-democracy forum that he plans to open a small business centre in the shop on the London Road that used to be the Family Mediation Centre (near the Coventry Building Society). It’s an excellent idea, and I hope it succeeds.

The former Ormerod School on Waynflete Road, Barton is being converted into an academy school for 11 – 19 year-olds with autism and associated learning difficulties. The school will be run by MacIntyre Academies @meetmacintyre and is due to open for the Autumn term. They are currently advertising for Teaching Assistants. (I note the location is given as Headington, not Barton.)

Headington’s very own Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame gained her degree in English Literature from Brown University, an Ivy League university in Rhode Island. She spent the 2011-12 academic year studying at Worcester College here in Oxford as part of her course.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Headington Festival 2014
  • Bury Knowle Park playpark
  • Road closures in Headington, May/June 2014
  • What is happening at 125 London Road
I 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.

Your new Euro MEPs

Unless you live in a isolation chamber you’ll already know that despite Oxford’s best efforts to support Labour the results of the European elections in the South-East region of which we are part are that we have

  • 4 UKIP
  • 3 Conservative
  • 1 Green
  • 1 Labour
  • 1 LibDem

MEPs.

The good news is they are all on twitter, so you can raise any issues you like with them in 140 characters or less. Here they are in alphabetical order. Hit those ‘Follow’ buttons now!

Name Party twitter
Richard Ashworth Con @RichardAshMEP
Janice Atkinson UKIP @JaniceUKIP
Catherine Bearder LibDem @catherineMEP
Nirj Deva Con @NirjDeva
Annaliese Dodds Lab @AnnelieseDodds
Nigel Farage UKIP @Nigel_Farage
Ray Finch UKIP @raymondfinch
Dan Hannan Con @DanHannanMEP
Diane James UKIP @DianeUKIP
Keith Taylor Green @GreenKeithMEP