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Oxford Climate Awards: Winners crowned at inaugural event
20 hours ago · An Oxford community group, set up to help people install renewable energy, picked up the top prize at the inaugural Oxford Climate Awards. Rose Hill and Iffley Low Carbon were judged to be the best of the best at the awards evening held at Oxford Town Hall on Thursday, October 17. Across multiple categories the awards wanted to discover those ...
Storm Ashley named as strong winds and rain set to batter UK
15 hours ago · The first storm of the season has been named as parts of the UK are set to be battered by strong winds and rain on Sunday and Monday (October 20 and 21). Met Éireann (the Irish Met service) revealed on Friday (October 19) that Storm Ashely, the first of the season, had been named. Storm Ashley will initially impact Ireland before reaching the ...
Oxford charities benefit as foundation marks £10m milestone
1 day ago · A charitable foundation is celebrating after donating more than £10 million to charities in Oxford and across the country. Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation, which made its first donation in 1999, has reached the milestone "thanks to the ongoing generosity of customers," it said. Since 2020, more than £11,296 has been shared ...
Oxford beaten by Cambridge in new train station data
17 hours ago · New figures have revealed a small amount of people in Oxford can walk less than 30 minutes to a train station compared to its historic university rival city. New analysis has highlighted that people in Oxford struggle to walk to a railway station in contrast to Cambridge. The figures which are released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS ...
Largest and brightest supermoon of the year over Oxford
1 day ago · Oxfordshire. Skygazerswere treated to the largest and brightest supermoon of the year yesterday evening. The full moon shone so brightly astronomers from Australia to parts of the UK were able to see its craters. This month's full moon, called the Hunter's Moon, is the third of four supermoons in 2024, all of which have appeared in the past few ...
Oxford teenager's international poetry prize win 'surreal'
1 day ago · A 17-year-old from Oxford has seen off competition from more than 6,000 young writers from around the world to win an international poetry prize. The Poetry Society announced the winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2024 at a special celebration at the British Library in London. The event honoured the "future stars of the poetry ...
The Great British Pub Crawl reveals best pubs in Oxford
Sep 19, 2024 · A viral couple who go on pub crawls across the country have revealed the best pubs in Oxford. Dale and Holly Harvey from Nottingham started their quest in March of 2022 as they had grown tired of seeing pubs closing down so decided to go out and support them. The intention is to eventually visit every pub in the United Kingdom with the couple ...
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Kate Middleton flies over Oxfordshire in royal helicopter
1 day ago · Kate Middleton has flown over Oxfordshire in a royal helicopter. The Duchess of Cambridge was meeting the families of the stabbing victims in South Port on Thursday, October 10. This was her first community visit since her cancer diagnosis marking an important outing for the royal. Last week the helicopter was seen flying over Banbury on the ...