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Headington Headlines #177

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of a very quiet week for local news 18 – 24 August.

A traffic accident involving a car and a motorbike on Wednesday evening closed Headley Way for a while. Stagecoach and Oxford Bus buses diverted through Northway.

Another carved wooden statue has recently appeared in the Narnia-themed playground in Bury Knowle Park. Picture c/o @headingtonnews, identification as Reepicheep c/o @Howard_S. But Howard also points out that since installation, Reepicheep has lost his tail *and* his sword. How humiliating for this most fearless of knightly warriors!

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

  • Excessively bright light at Tesco ATM
  • Cherwell drive slip road
  • Barton to Kidlington bus
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 #144

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 30 December – 5 January.

There was a reported attempt to kidnap a sixteen year-old girl near the bus stop opposite Gladstone Road last Sunday (29 December). It appears she was also approached while waiting a a stop in St Clements earlier.

An advert appeared for a new pizza van trading outside Oxford Furniture 6.30 to 11.00 every evening except Tuesday and Sunday.

A “What’s On in OX3?” facebook page popped up. The area in the map extends out to Beckley and Noke. I assume it’s run by a bot, and there’s very little on it. Alternatively you could look here.

@TheOxonProject is holding its first business networking event of 2014 on Wednesday 8 January at The Oxford Golf Club, 1 Hilltop Road. The speaker is Clare Fielder from virtualnudge.com who will talk about business blogging.

Professor Peter J F Ratcliffe of the Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford became a Knight Bachelor in the New Year’s honours list for services to clinical medicine. Knights Bachelor do not add any letters indicating their honour after their names but are addressed as ‘Sir’.

Emergency services were called to a car fire & oil spill in Holyoake Road on Thursday. Stile Road and St Leonard’s Road were also closed temporarily.

A woman suffered minor injuries in a two-car collision at the Windmill Road/Old Road junction on Friday.

Starting today @Stagecoach_Ox are running an extra early-morning bus on the 700 route from Kidlington via Water Eaton and Headington/JR Hospital to the Churchill. There are some minor timetable changes too.

Rosemary Restaurant got its full name sign back. It’s RoseM’Tree again.

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

  • Barton – opinions
  • Its Headington powered its own future
  • Risinghurst firworks 2013 (very late post)
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 #97

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 28 January – 3 February.

An unpleasant aggravated burglary involving an attack with petrol took place on Monday morning at the Corner House pub on the corner of Hollow Way and Horspath Driftway. @TVP_Oxford appeals for information.

There was a multi-vehicle collision on the eastbound A40 between Marston and Headington on Thursday morning.

New shelters were installed over the ticket machines in Headington car park.

Oxford Scribes’ calligraphy exhibition opened in Bury Knowle Library. It’s on until 11 February.

Holy Trinity Church (Headington Quarry) issued a press release announcing a decision not to proceed with the proposed extension and agreeing in principle to interior changes subject to further design work.

Tesco put up some fencing on the old Friar pub site on Marston Road and started a local row because it encroached on public land. Cllr Roy Darke took up the case and the offending fencing will be moved back (see this message and earlier posts).

@Ruskin_college has applied to extend the validity of its planning permission for new student accommodation blocks. Permission was granted three years ago but shortage of funds means no work has started. The extension appeal will be heard at the East Area Planning Committee meeting on Tuesday.

Headington Went Strictly on Saturday in a fund-raiser for @CLIC_Sargent.

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

  • power fluctuations
  • Long-stay charging to begin at Park and Ride
  • Empty shops in Headington
  • 2 new shops in Marston?
  • The Friar, Marston Road
  • Can anyone suggest a good window cleaner?
  • Pullen’s Lane due to be closed today
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.