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’ ...

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 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 ...

The Oxford Oratory, as seen at Oxford Open Doors this weekend. Photo by Roger Close. At last – Botley Road is ready to reopen. Plus disappearing cats, an MP petting a cow, a story of bravery from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oxford has a new Mayor, Chewe Munkonge – the first black Lord Mayor of Oxford. Our photographer Roger Close attended last night's mayor making ceremony. Councillors and members of the public gather in ...

Pandas are the poster child for endangered species, with their picky diet of bamboo and their habitat being lost, but a species nearly as as exotic and threatened lives right here in Oxfordshire. It’s ...