The East Oxford Farmers & Community Market marked its 20 th anniversary over the weekend with a visit from the Lord Mayor of Oxford. Visitors were treated to a bumper market including all the basics ...

All the news from city and county in a week where the world’s media descended on an obscure Oxfordshire village – and our take on the controversy. Plus mobile reception in the city centre, moth ...

The city we live in, shop in, walk through, work in, is full of history, much of it hidden to many residents who glide through its beautiful streets. The Clarion is on a mission to uncover the ‘gown’ ...

The Oxford City Royal Regatta brought together town and gown for races along the Thames at the weekend. Photo by Roger Close. Oxford’s medieval Bartlemas Chapel celebrated its nonacentennial* on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Banbury MP Sean Woodcock weighs in to the debate on flags, and outlines his thoughts on national pride and Labour's progress in their change agenda. I am immensely proud to call England my home. Our ...

Sunday was the eve of the Feast of St Bartholomew. If you were on Cowley Road, perhaps grabbing a takeaway from Sunny’s, you would have spotted an extraordinary procession heading to the hidden hamlet ...

Henley Mayor's Civic Ceremony: Mark Lygo (Lab, Chair, Oxfordshire County Council), Freddie van Mierlo (LibDem, MP Henley & Thame), Tom Buckley (Henley Residents Group, Mayor of Henley), John May (High ...

The Headington Shark. Photo by Roger Close. We’ve always wanted to lead the newsletter with a photo of the Headington Shark, and this is its week. Plus political whippets, wild swimming, conspicuous ...

Saturday saw the culmination of Oxford’s Summer Eights, the annual college rowing races on the Thames (or rather, the ‘Isis’). Our photographer, Roger Close, was there to capture all the action and ...

A Mesolithic shaman roams the Ashmolean at last weekend’s Festival of Archaeology. Photo by Roger Close. Botley Road rail bridge’s reopening has been delayed by up to six weeks – pushing it back to ...