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No loading outside Costa Coffee on the London Road from Friday 28 February to Monday 3 March 2025 inclusive while water works take place. (No mention of car parking, of course, because this is allegedly a bus stop….)

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If you are looking up your Headington house in the 1921 census, beware of the street numbering. You may not be surprised that London Road and Old Road were subsequently renumbered, but you may be surprised to find an old numbering system in e.g. St Anne’s Road and Stile Road

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A new Stagecoach 600 bus service also starts tomorrow (Sun 23 Feb 2025) linking Headington to the Kassam Stadium, the Oxford Science Park, and the Redbridge Park and Ride www.stagecoachbus.com/promos-and-o...

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The Oxford Bus Company is making changes to services from tomorrow (Sun 23 February 2025). The 280 service is to be replaced by an improved timetable on services 400 and N400. Note that the 400 will now stop in St Aldate’s rather than at Turl Street www.oxfordbus.co.uk/service-chan...

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This planning application for a three-storey-building of eight flats behind 60 Old Road (with access on to Coolidge Close) has been approved: public.oxford.gov.uk/online-appli...

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More details in today’s Oxford Mail about why Headington’s solicitor was struck off on 24 January 2025, resulting in the closure of the Ferguson Bricknell office: www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2494910...

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Headington Festival in Bury Knowle Park will be held on Sunday 1 June 2025. You can book a stall here: www.headingtonaction.org/headington-f...

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It looks as though the Homebase in Horspath Driftway will reopen as The Range on 28 February 2025: www.therange.co.uk/stores/oxfor...

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The agenda for the Planning Committee meeting on Tuesday 25 February 2025 includes two Headington applications: (1) the Clinical Biomanufacturing Building at the Churchill Hospital and (2) the block of nine flats at 253 & 255–257 London Road mycouncil.oxford.gov.uk/ieListDocume...

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All five Blanchford building supplies sites closed down permanently on Friday (14 Feb 2025), including the one in Windmill Road

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Six planning appeals have been launched in the Headington area in the first six weeks of 2025, with five of them relating to retrospective applications where the work has already taken place: www.headington.org.uk/news/

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Impressive iron oxide deposition in Lye Valley fen yesterday, with mirror image layer at the surface. A spring from the iron sulphide rich Beckley Sands nearby. Iron can be quite toxic to some fen plants, explaining the lower plant diversity in these iron rich areas. @friendlyevalley.bsky.social

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Notice on the door of Ferguson Bricknell giving details of the firm to contact if you have any enquiries

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This really is news: a car parked in the bus stop outside Greggs about to get a parking ticket. Two other customers rushed out and managed to escape

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Yesterday (Wed 12 February 2025) a man with a child on the back of his bike was hit by a car when cycling across the toucan crossing at Barton Park. Dr Arian Beqiri of the Barton Park Community Group believes that the lights change before people can finish crossing: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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According to this report in today’s Oxford Mail, Ferguson Bricknell solicitors at 122B London Road (above Finders Keepers) was forced to close on 3 January 2025: www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2492785...

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Tomorrow (13 February 2025) and every other Thursday from 2 to 4pm there are board and card games and dominoes at the Courtside café in Bury Knowle Park

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A "Hospices of Hope" charity shop will open soon in the former Headington Fair Trade shop on the London Road. They are well stocked already and advertising in the window for staff hospicesofhope.co.uk

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Crash on The Slade in Headington apparently causing "traffic chaos" at 9.52am (Mon 10 Feb) www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2492211...

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The Imaginatal Ultrasound Scanning Clinic is moving into the former Audio-T shop in Old High Street. It will probably open next Saturday (15 February 2025) www.imaginatal.co.uk/post/a-journ...

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The short-lived Bluefin Fishmongers on the London Road is turning into “Master Butchers” (Halal)

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The Warneford Park Hospital Engagement Report relating to the second consultation on the plans for a new hospital, research centre, and graduate college is now available here: ehq-production-europe.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/0281a4648705...

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The railings have been removed from the felled Storybook Tree in Bury Knowle Park and it is now available for children to climb on. Maybe it is time that Art UK amended its entry? artuk.org/discover/art...

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County council elections to go ahead on 1 May 2025: news.oxfordshire.gov.uk/elections-go...

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Thames Valley Police are appealing for witnesses to a collision involving a motorcycle and car at the junction of London Road and Headley Way on Tuesday 28 January 2025 at about 8.16pm: www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-...

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Old Road Campus: Outline planning application was granted in 2013 for five new buildings covering 48,000 square metres: three are up and running, one is being built, and the fifth is the subject of a current planning application. More details here: www.headington.org.uk/news/items/2...

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Time Out puts Headington’s Bhoomi Kitchen in second place in its list of the best restaurants in the city of Oxford: www.timeout.com/oxford/resta...

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Phase 1 (90 homes) of the new development of key-worker accommodation at the John Radcliffe Hospital (Ivy Lane) was officially opened on 29 January 2025: www.ouh.nhs.uk/news/article...

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First UK patients given dementia blood tests in NHS trial at Headington’s Warneford Hospital: archive.ph/heeAK

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I took this photograph today of the house in Franklin Road that caught fire on 19 April 2024. It’s a sad sight

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This report in the Daily Telegraph of 17 December 1936 states that the residents of Pullens Lane wanted to prevent the use of the lane by all pedestrians except those visiting houses in it

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The Headington Hill Café opened for business yesterday (27 January 2025) on the ground floor of the Teaching building on Brookes’s Headington Hill Hall campus. Members of the public are welcome to use it: check opening times here: www.brookes.ac.uk/catering

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The Gym Group has opened a 24-hour gym at the former Carpetright in Headington Retail Park, Horspath Driftway: www.thegymgroup.com/find-a-gym/o...

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The University of West London has applied for a variation of Condition 2 of its approved planning application for two new buildings on the Ruskin College site so that it can include vehicle barriers, posts, and rail fencing (25/00128/VAR): public.oxford.gov.uk/online-appli...

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Four of the nine nominations to be considered this year for Oxford’s Heritage Asset Register are in the Headington area: The Kilns in Lewis Close, St Andrew’s Primary School, St Mary’s Church in Barton, and Slade Camp: www.oxford.gov.uk/directory/18...

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This large poster from 1878 advertising the auction sale of two Headington houses has been framed and apparently hangs in the gents’ loo at the Grapes in George Street. “Ellerslie” was later Dorset House and was demolished in 2009, and Highfield Cottage is now numbered 61 Old Road

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