There’s nothing the Clarion likes more than new cycling routes, and this week Oxfordshire delivered. Plus new houses, political goings-on, brilliant Bicester kids, and the latest in the OUFC stadium ...

First off, what even is an eclipse, and why should you care? Chris explains: “An eclipse is a chance to see the clockwork of the Solar System in action – and to pay attention to something we normally ...

Oxford is the second least affordable place to live in the UK – after Kensington & Chelsea. In this, the first of a five part series of Clarion long reads, we examine why Oxford has such a housing ...

Oxford from South Park. James Hetherington, Flickr CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Opening the Clarion’s Housing Week yesterday, we noted that Oxford is the second most expensive place to live in Britain, after ...

Elections come but once a year… depending where you live. This time, it's the turn of Oxford City and the northern districts. Each council has a subtly different arrangement for electing its ...

The Oxford Cheese Company in Oxford's Covered Market (Photo by Roger Close) Looking for fresh food, affordable clothes, or simply fed up with trudging round supermarkets? Oxfordshire’s markets might ...

Oxford's brilliant “family singer and songwriter” Nick Cope, standing on a rock stage because the sand everywhere is too hot. (Photo by Roger Close.) While we are waiting to see if Oxfordshire’s two ...

This week we’ve examined the challenges in building within the Oxford Ring Road, building upwards, and building in the Green Belt. Where can you build? One answer remains: rural Oxfordshire.

A long-heralded report on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods was published by the Department for Transport yesterday (17 March). Trailed by warring briefings in the Guardian and the Times, it was long on ...

The Blues played a warm-up match in University Parks yesterday ahead of their Varsity match next week. We hope the warm-up wasn’t too warm. Photo by Roger Close. We have many fans. Not as in “happy ...

Let joy be unconfined! The trains are back. We have everything you need to know about county and city budgets, plus toilets, a furore over a Chinese university and a grave situation in Banbury. Happy ...

Among Oxfordshire Liberal Democrats’ signature policies has been rolling out 20mph limits. Photo by Ryan Cullen at flickr.com, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0. “And it was all… yellow.” Or orange. Or gold. We’ve ...