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Headington Headlines #47

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Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 23 – 29 January —

It looks as though Headington is getting another charity shop. Sue Ryder has submitted planning application 12/00126/ADV for Clovers.

A man from Toot Hill Butts, along with another man, was charged with a burglary at the Oxford Union.

There was a fire at The Bricklayers Arms in Old Marston on Friday: arson is suspected. The pub is empty and has been boarded up since it closed in 2010. Planning permission has been given to build houses on the site. The story made it onto the local BBC TV news.

Headington’s @RyeStAntony School senior netball team whopped Magdalen College School 13-4 in a match last week.

This map shows the location of some of the places mentioned in this report.

My favorite Headington-related tweet this week:

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

  • Shocking acknowledgement of the extent of the housing crisis in Oxford
  • Royal Mail customer services
  • Library
  • Headington Focus meeting on cycling is NOT today!
  • Church Bells in Ferry Rd, Marston

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 #44

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 2 – 8 January —

The Christmas tree outside Barclay’s Bank blew over in the strong winds overnight on Monday/Tuesday.

A planning application was submitted which could see a Sikh temple established on the London Road near the corner of Northfield Road.

A taxi driver was robbed on Hollow Way in the early hours of Monday morning, and a 22-year old man from Slade Close was convicted of robbery and sentenced to 40 months imprisonment. One of his offences taken into account was the theft of a puppy.

The locations of the possible Sikh temple and Slade Close are shown on this map.

Headington car park is to have handrails installed to improve disabled access from the car park to Waitrose. @OxfordCity and @WaitroseUK have jointly funded the cost.

The BBC televised the morning service at All Saints’ Church, Lime Walk on Sunday.

I made a map of all the sites in OX3 in the City Council’s Sites and Housing document which sets out approved forms of development. I think it’s easier to use than the original document. Consultation on the latest version starts soon.

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

  • Sikh temple in Cherwell Drive
  • Certifying documents
  • Headington & Barton bus service
  • Shocking acknowledgement of the extent of the housing crisis in Oxford

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 #36

TonyOX3

Here is my round-up of local news for the week 31 October – 6 November —

As world leaders at the G20 summit in Cannes struggled to keep the Eurozone intact, here in Headington we seem to be having a spate of burglaries. There was a series of them over the last two weeks of October and @TVP_Oxford has issued a request for information and set out advice to householders to help prevent their property being targeted.

Churches have also been hit. Burglars broke through a window into the United Reform Church in Collingwood Road, Risinghurst and damaged cupboards inside the church, stealing money and The Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal collection pot, totalling £11. Again, @TVP_Oxford are appealing for information.

Another church, St Nicholas the Wonderworker, the Russian Orthodox Church in Ferry Road, Marston was burgled on two consecutive nights. A brass-plated steel cross from the church’s roof was stolen on Saturday, October 22, and irreplaceable religious relics were taken the following night. Members of the congregation have started sleeping in the church to prevent further intrusions.

On a lighter note, members of St Nicholas’ are getting together for informal social evenings on the first Tuesday of each month in the Victoria Arms, Old Marston, and Headington Baptist Church celebrated the fifth anniversary of its new building on Saturday with coffee, cakes, games & fun.

Four men (from Wembley & High Wycombe) were charged with robbing a taxi driver in Headington early on Sunday morning and a woman had her handbag snatched in Gardiner Street in the early hours of Thursday morning.

In other news (as they say) the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre merged to become the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust.

Oxford Ink (@OxfordInk) opened a new tattoo studio on Roundway (by Headington Roundabout), but Caffé Toscano on the London Road closed.

The Masons Arms (@TheMasonsArmsHQ) launched their shiny new website and @BigBangMax (aka @BigBangPopup) re-emerged as a pop-up sausagery at @Oxford_Brookes‘ Gypsy Lane Restaurant, open from Thursdays to Saturdays.

The campaign to recognise the “Final Turn” into the JR Hospital was reported in the Oxford Mail.

The postponed Barton Bash, a mix of facepainting, bouncy castles, and a host of arts and crafts workshops, will be held in the refurbished Neighbourhood Centre, due to be completed in time for the event on Saturday, November 19.

And finally (as they also say) the Internet and twitter triumphed in identifying the location of ‘the stinky’ in Marston, which was mentioned in one of the police reports. It turns out to be the copse/nature reserve just off Copse Lane opposite the old Cavalier pub. It only remains to know why it earned that name, and whether the developers building flats on the Cavalier site will recognise this local tradition in the name of their development.

My favorite Headington-related tweet this week:

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

  • Disused Cricket Ground Barton Road.
  • Road works at Rock Edge
  • Bus Defiance Clogs Headington
  • Smoking at JR Hospital
  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
  • Headington & Barton bus service
  • Quarry Gate Pub
  • Thames Valley Police messages
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.