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Headington Headlines #301

TonyOX3

Your weekly round-up of local news for 16 – 22 January.

@HistoricEngland‘s campaign to list all England’s WW1 war memorials continues, with both Old Marston and New Marston memorials being given grade II listed status.

Twitchers have been excited by sightings of waxwings in and around Headington & Marston.

Headington cemetery appeared very briefly as a location in Sunday’s episode of Endeavour.

Headington Hill bridge joined in the “Bridges not Walls” day of action on Friday.

The Very Reverend Bob Jeffery, Vicar of St Andrew’s in Old Headington from 1971 to 1978, has died aged 81.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week – chainsaw artist Matt Cave has created Aslan from a tree stump in Bury Knowle Park:

There’s another pictureof Aslan, this time by @rossmackenzie here on instagram.

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

  • Hedge vandalism

Headington Headlines #239

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 2 – 8 November.

Catalin Horhota, of no fixed abode, was sentenced to life imprisonment for a series of rapes, sexual assaults and burglary. The rape and sexual assaults happened in Roosevelt Drive in September last year.

The application to build student housing on the site of the old Friar pub in Marston (see HH236) was agreed in principle by the East Area Planning Committee on Wednesday. Final permission will be granted after a legal agreement on conditions has been reached.

A resident of Derwent Avenue had to call the Fire & Rescue services when his electric shower caught fire while he was using it.

There’s only one of the new houses at The Willows (the old Barton Road cricket ground) still unsold. Carpe diem!

The heat transfer scheme between the JR and the Churchill was discussed at the Ward Focus meeting two weeks ago. I wasn’t at the meeting but have gathered some information about it. There will be more in the public domain for local discussion soon, I’m told.

The Head of @WindmillOxford criticised the government’s proposals for more stringent tests for 7-yr olds.

Streets in the @BartonPark_ development will be named after people with strong connections with Barton, as well as plants and animals (“flora and fauna”), says @OxfordCity. One of the people mentioned, Vashti de Montfort Wellborne, appears in a stained glass window in St Andrew’s church, Old Headington. Read about her here on Headington News’ website.

My favourite Headington-related tweet of the week:

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

  • Builders’ vans
  • Car sharing
  • Gearing up to support your cherished Oxford Headington and Marston forum
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 #237

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 19 – 25 October.

The Friends of Lye Valley @friendlyevalley are running a campaign and petition to stop a planning application (Ref: 13/01555/CT3) to build houses on Warren Meadow (behind Warren Crescent). They say run-off and pollution from the development would have a serious adverse impact on the rare plants and habitats of the Lye Valley, which is an SSSI.

Oxfordshire CC has served a “Direction to Leave” on the travellers parked on the Marston Ferry cycle path. If they refuse to move the matter will go to court, which could take a further two to three weeks.

In Thursday’s by-election in Northfield Brook ward, OX3 resident Jennifer Pegg (Lab) was elected to the City Council with 78% of the votes cast (turnout 15%).

You may remember back in April a series of police raids in Cowley followed a man being found stabbed in a car in Barton and who later died in hospital (see HH211). The man accused in connection with the killing was found not guilty of manslaughter at Oxford Crown Court on Wednesday.

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

  • Get Creative Social Club
  • £12.m transport improvements for Headington: exhibitions and consultation
  • Somerset pub on Marston Road
  • Harcourt House
  • How will new Oxford to London train service affect your trips to London?
  • New recycling Promotion
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.