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Headington Headlines #144

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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 #139

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 25 November – 1 December.

Brambles closed its doors for the last time. Well-wishers, souvenir hunters and opportunists were buying stock and fittings up to the last minute.

@Oxonbike going into liquidation means their twitter account is no more.

Talking of twitter accounts, I wrote a short article about some local schools’ failure at ‘doing twitter’.

Is this a new toilet facility or the latest incarnation of the Tardis behind @JacobsandField? No, they’re building an extension apparently.


Picture c/o Jacobs & Field

A story surfaced about a suggestion that land next to C S Lewis’ house ‘Narnia’ in Kiln Lane, Risinghurst might be used to build sheltered housing. As far as I know there’s no planning application as yet, so nothing to comment on other than the story and the editorial comment in Thhe Oxford Times.

The @OxfordBusCo released pictures of its new and bigger coaches for the X90 London service. They say the livery is ‘dual-branded’ so they can use them on the airport services too. The larger coaches will initially be used to provide extra capacity at peak times starting in early December.

A firm of plumbers from Manchester was fined for fly-tipping in a field north of Barton off Bayswater Road.

A care home at Slade House on Horspath Driftway has been closed to new admissions by the Care Quality Commission, who found serious failings in the treatment of patients and the state of the facilities. Slade House is owned and run by Southern Health NHS Trust, who bought it from the Oxfordshire Learning Disability NHS Trust, also known as the Ridgeway Partnership, a year ago.

The new grit bin (originally reported here in October) has been installed on the corner of Ethelred Court and Dunstan Road. Headington Ward’s LibDem councillors and the Friends of Old Headington provided the funds.

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

  • Has anyone got a large Santa suit they could loan for a day?
  • Letting Rooms to Overseas Students
  • Police and Crime Commissioner Public meeting
  • Inclusive Neighbours Online Workshop Sat Nov 30 – Kingston, Dec 2 Event on New Voices too
  • London Road proposed cycle lane consultation
  • NHS Public Meeting
  • Sound Insulation & Noisy Neighbours
  • Events in Headington
  • Badgers in Headington
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 #130

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 16 – 22 September.

A VW campervan parked at the Shotover car park was broken into on Sunday last week (15 Sept). A handbag, purse and iPhone were stolen.

The concession by which hospital workers have been able to park free at Thornhill and Water Eaton P&Rs is ending. They will have to pay £2 a day (up to 11 hours) or £4 for a longer stay. The changes were agreed by Oxfordshire County Council who operate these two sites and will start in mid-November.

The new bus services connecting the Headington hospitals and campuses with Thornhill and Water Eaton P&Rs and Kidlington start today (Monday 23 Sept). Oxfordshire CC announcement | Blog article.

A car parked on a driveway in The Ridings was broken into early last Sunday morning (15 Sept). An iPod and golf clubs were stolen. Later that morning a thief smashed the window of a car in Old Road and took a handbag, sunglasses, and a mobile phone.

A lorry hit some scaffolding in Bateman Street on Thursday. The scaffolding collapsed and blocked the road.

The C S Lewis festival @CSLewisJubilee commemorating the 50th anniversary of the writer’s death took place over the weekend. Here’s a sample.

A man from Barton has appeared in court charged with two burglaries in Headington (Windmill Road and Girdlestone Road) earlier this month. He was remanded in custody until 1 Novemeber.

From today (Monday) Headington Co-op is offering a 10% discount to NUS members.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Proposed Changes to Green Road Roundabout
  • Thornhill Park and Ride Expansion Plans
  • Some Concerns about Headington
  • Quarry Gate pub
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.