Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for a very quiet week 2 – 8 April —

The @OxfordBusCo joined twitter.

The John Radcliffe Hospital became a Major Trauma Centre.

Plans for the expansion of Headington Prep School were approved.

Posh Fish has submitted an application 12/00809/ADV for advertisement consent for “the display of a fibreglass shark model”. It needs your support – see this post in the e-democracy forum and click the link on the reference above to go to the Council’s website to comment.

Waitrose applied to extend their licence to sell alcohol from 07:00 every day.

What used to be the flower shop on London Road opposite Gladstone Road is now Headington Barbers.

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

• City Council election on Thursday 3 May 2012
• Easter 2012
• Nasty looking Shark

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 12 – 18 March —

There was a spree of car window smashing overnight in the Wood Farm area on Monday/Tuesday. At least 11 cars were damaged. The @OxfordMail attributed the damage to “yobs”, but so far there are no reports of who might in fact have been responsible.

Thames Valley Police are appealing for witnesses after the theft of three motorcycles in the Oxford area recently, one from Nuffield Road, Wood Farm, where a black Senke was stolen between midnight on Tuesday and midnight on Wednesday the week before last.

Oxford Biomedical Reserach Centre held a public open day at the Churchill Hospital on Wednesday.

Merton College Choir performed a concert in St Andrew’s Church on Friday.

Highfield residents are campaigning to take control of local traffic calming measures.

The detailed route of the Olympic torch relay was published. It will arrive in Oxford on Monday 9 July, making its way from the BMC Mini plant down the Cowley Road to The Plain, back up St Clements and Morrell Avenue and into South Park. So it *might* just get into the OX3 postcode. On the Tuesday it starts from the Iffley Road stadium and disappears over Donnington Bridge on its way to Reading. Details: Monday | Tuesday.

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

• Costa Coffee
• Hosepipe ban from 5 April: details and exemptions
• Policing of bus lanes
• Electric car charging points in Headington
• The Friar Pub Marston and Tesco
• The Friar, Marston
• Antisocial behaviour in Headington

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 9 – 17 January —

Niki Peach and Karen Holliday, both from Headington, will spend a fortnight in February cycling from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam through the waterways of the Mekong Delta into Cambodia, finishing in the Royal Temples of Angkor Wat. They are raising money for breast cancer research.

@OxfordCity’s North-East Area Forum met on Wednesday. It gave residents a chance to meet their Councillors and to discuss the main topic: provision of youth services.

Planning permission was granted for a dance school to operate in Kirby House, the warehouse off Windmill Road behind the former Londis. It’s shaded yellow in this overhead view.

@OxPresTrust have acquired more land in Old Marston to add to their existing holding around the Victoria Arms.

A man from Bayswater Road, Barton was sentenced at Oxford Crown Court to 30 months imprisonment for dealing cocaine.

I wrote a blog article about the debate on the Barton Area Action Plan.

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

• Headington and Barton bus service
• Shocking acknowledgement of the extent of the housing crisis in Oxford