Headington Headlines #10

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Here is my weekly round-up of news for the week 25 April – 1 May.

Work started on a new £2m sports development at the Oxford City football ground in Marston.It consists of a full-size artificial grass pitch, six floodlit netball courts, a pavilion and a new car park.

Plowman’s Tower on Westlands Drive, Northway was evacuated during the night of Saturday/Sunday when a fire broke out in a second-floor flat. A woman was rescued and taken to hospital.

A Headington man was jailed for 5 years for robbing the BetFred bookies in February. He didn’t make a very good job of it, as the story explains.

The emergency services turned out to a fire in a fish & chip shop in Marston on Tuesday. The owner vows to re-open once the damage is repaired.

A 7-foot boa constrictor was found in Magdalen Wood, off Atkyns Road, Wood Farm. Sadly it was in a critical condition and had to be put down by the RSPCA.

Police hunting the Headington ‘For Sale’ board arsonist released a (very poor) image of two people caught on CCTV burning a kebab box behind Waitrose. Whether the two things are related remains unclear.

Rosemary’s (Chinese) Restaurant opened this week. @alisonhogarth went for lunch on Sunday was one of the first to report.

@spoonerstudios had a ‘model shoot’ on Monday with Frances Agoncillo around Oxford City and Headington Hill. I think they were taking photographs, not indulging in some lethal challenge event. In case you’re wondering, here’s a picture.

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

  • Where does Headington’s water come from?
  • Road Works in Headington
  • Emergency closure of Dunstan Road
  • Unemptied bins: complain!
  • Re build of Barton pavillion gets go ahead
  • Abolition of Area Commitees
  • Street Litter
  • Abandoned bicycles

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.

Headington Headlines #9

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Here is my weekly round-up of news for the week 18 – 24 April.

Strictly speaking it was last week, but the Save Headington Library campaign organised an Easter Bonnet competition and Palm Sunday parade. Shauna Wood won first prize. There is talk of making it an annual event.

Four saplings planted by Windmill Primary School and members of the Low Carbon Headington group at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre were badly damaged by vandals.

It was confirmed that work is set to start on the new Barton Pavilion over the next few weeks. The £350k building will be ready for the new football season.

Oxford City Council’s North-east Area Committee approved plans to build 35 student flats and a ‘retail unit’ on the site of the old Cavalier pub on Copse Lane, Marston. The pub closed in 2008.

The Headington Farmers’ Market on Friday gave people normally at work a chance to see it for themselves and buy local produce.

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

  • Where does Headington’s water come from?
  • Road Works in Headington
  • Emergency closure of Dunstan Road
  • Unemptied bins: complain!
  • Re build of Barton pavillion gets go ahead
  • Abolition of Area Commitees

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.

Headington Headlines #8

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I thought last week was a quiet one for Headington news, but this week I’ve found even less. Ignoring a report of a fat squirrel resting after eating too many nuts from someone’s bird table, here is my weekly round-up of news for the week 11 – 17 April.

Potentially the most controversial, and bound to feature many more times, Ruskin College’s ideas for developing Ruskin Fields, part of the Old Headington Conservation Area, emerged this week. The Oxford Mail carried the story.

Thisisoxfordshire reported that children ‘from Barton’ had been doing the rounds in Headington asking for phoney sponsorship money. According to the police the problem has now been sorted.

In other police-related news @RuthWilk reported that Inspector Marc Tarbit is now neighbourhood inspector for Headington and Zoe Eeles has replaced Chris Miles as Neighbourhood PC for the Headington area. More police news for the Headington area on Ruth and David Rundle’s joint website.

It was even quiet on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum. There were only two active topics this week:

  • 1,000 new houses for Barton?
  • Where does Headington’s tap water come from?

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.