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New interest in closing Lamb & Flag pub as CAMRA vows to protect its future and urges us to save our pubs!
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CAMRA is urging us to support our local pubs, following the shock news that one of Oxford’s oldest pubs is set...
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Classical music stars help beat lockdown blues with Oxford Philharmonic, Music at Oxford, The Sixteen and more
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Classical music always helps to uplift us. Here's our roundup of the best from Oxfordshire's erudite classical musical companies
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TAKEAWAY IDEAS: From movie nights to doughnuts, special occasions to drive thru, plus pies, pizza, steak, buns, roasts and more
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With so many takeaways to choose from here are some novel ideas to get your mouthwatering, all available right here in...
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Dantzig Gallery in Woodstock rewrites the rules with Marie Boyle and David Freud’s new lockdown pop up exhibitions
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"My work is always searching for harmony and balance in the colour and shapes I paint and how they talk to...
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Och Aye! As Burns Night approaches celebrate by having a proper Scottish dinner delivered or collected. Here are the options…
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The Lamb Inn Crawley, Monday January 25, is favouring tradition and holding their Scottish dinner on the night itself with a...
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Want to open your own vegan cafe? Now’s your chance as owners of Oxfordshire’s Ribizli embark on a new adventure
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The couple who created the hugely popular and successful Ribizli Café in Wallingford are keen to embark on a new adventure...
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The big reveal: Masterplan to regenerate Oxford’s Covered Market is announced to safeguard it for future generations!
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As Oxford city centre's 'jewel in the crown', a new masterplan has been revealed to transform the Covered Market and...
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ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS: Unlock your creative side and learn to paint at Sunningwell School of Art, near Abingdon, virtually
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Bored, need some inspiration, a new hobby, something to unlock your artistic potential? Well now is the time because Sunningwell School...
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TOP 12+: Our 2021 Sunday roast takeaway guide. Get ordering and support your local restaurants and pubs!
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Here are the wonderful souls in Oxfordshire still supplying our Sunday roasts!
The Feathers, Woodstock - has just...
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TOP 70+: OXFORDSHIRE’S DEFINITIVE 2021 TAKEAWAY GUIDE – eat like a God and support your local cafes, pubs and restaurants
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Oxfordshire's hospitality industry is rising to its feet once again with an incredible takeaway offering to tide it over until our...
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Need a laugh? Comedian Laura Lexx is here to save the day with her live, online gig ‘Knee Jerk’ via Oxford’s Old Fire Station
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I'm watching the infamous clip of comedian Laura Lexx finishing off a sexist haggler at a gig in Brighton, to get...
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The masters of reinvention: Fallow & Fields opens deli, hamper and takeaway service to survive lockdown
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When Tom Branch and Debbie Mole took the plunge and opened their own catering company Fallow & Fields early last year,...
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Why Big Scary Monsters Social Club’s beer and record shop on Oxford’s Cowley Road opened up despite lockdowns
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A love of craft beer and passion for music inspired three friends to take the plunge and open a new shop...
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BITTER BLOW: White Horse in Stonesfield campaigners devastated as alternative offer to buy pub accepted
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The community of Stonesfield is reeling today, following news that plans to save their village’s only remaining pub from developers, and...
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New bar and restaurant Five Little Pigs to open in Wallingford thanks to overwhelming success of community crowdfunder
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An exciting new bar and restaurant Five Little Pigs is set to open in leafy Wallingford this spring, just down the...
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Buckle up: There’s a new Drive Thru at The Jam Factory in Oxford as it adapts to lockdown
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The Jam Factory in Oxford has opened its own drive thru, to adapt to the current pandemic and stay afloat during...
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Why Mr Souvlaki is on a one man mission to share his family’s passion for Greek street food with Oxfordshire
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The opening of Mr Souvlaki in Oxfordshire is the realisation of a dream for Ilias Alexeas who is following in his...
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The Scenic Supper’s glasshouse Cotswolds dining experience reopens this spring. Here’s what to expect!
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The Scenic Supper is reopening its amazingly unique, Cotswolds dining experience on April 1 at Todenham Manor Farm near Chipping Norton.
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EXCLUSIVE: Despite devastating flood damage, The Horse and Groom at Caulcott is open for takeaway TONIGHT against all the odds
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Much-loved village pub The Horse and Groom in Caulcott, which survived lockdown only to be hit by devastating floods on Christmas...
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HELP! Oxford Mutual Aid needs you as demand for emergency food parcels and household waiting lists grow!
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Oxford Mutual Aid is appealing for help to continue its valuable work providing free meals and emergency food parcels to people...
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The Oxfordshire Yeoman fights back by feeding and entertaining us in lockdown while raising money for the local school!
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The Oxfordshire Yeoman in Freeland, near Witney, aims to deliver both food and entertainment this lockdown by bringing the pub experience...
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A star studded 2021 classical music round-up includes OSJ, Oxford Philharmonic, Garsington, SJE and Witney Music Society
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The concert calendar – normally buzzing in January – is looking decidedly thin, thanks to the national lockdown. But don’t despair...
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Oxford theatre company Three Chairs and a Hat takes new work to Edinburgh’s online winter fringe festival
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Oxford theatre company Three Chairs and a Hat is debuting two new pieces at Edinburgh Fringe's online...
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Veganuary kicks off at Oxford’s Coconut Tree with new 16 dish ‘Roots’ takeaway menu
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Pioneering Sri-Lankan bar and restaurant The Coconut Tree in St Clements aims to make it even easier for vegans to eat...
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Oxford artist Tom Croft ‘eternally grateful’ to share Honours List medal news with father who died days later
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Oxford's #PortraitsForNHSHeroes artist Tom Croft has been awarded a Medal of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) in this years...
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TOP WALKS: Baby it’s cold outside but you can still enjoy a stroll in Oxfordshire’s glorious countryside!
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Parties and big family lunches may not be an option this year, but Oxfordshire has an abundance of glorious walks to...
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TV’s STAGED is back on Monday with “ridiculous star names” as Series 2 of the Oxford produced comedy returns
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Should you glance at the front page of The Radio Times next week you'll come face to face with Michael Sheen...
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Competition entries pour in for Oxford Festival of the Arts ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’ challenge with trumpet virtuoso Brendan Ball
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OFA’s 60 Second Challenge to Budding Composers
If you’re looking for a diversion over the Christmas holidays, or...
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Illuminated Trail at Blenheim Palace is extended to January 10 due to popular demand and virtual sell out
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If you were worried you might miss out on this year’s Illuminated Trail at Blenheim Palace then fear not as new...
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Work starts today to pedestrianise Oxford’s North Parade to support local cafes, pubs and restaurants
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Cafes and restaurants in North Parade Avenue in north Oxford will be given outdoor seating areas following news that the area...
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Woodstock’s Duke of Marlborough to reopen in Feb as family pub while Kings Head is transformed into swanky wine bar 11 Park Lane
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Woodstock is in for a big surprise next year when two of its pubs reopen with a new look, exciting menu,...
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EXCLUSIVE: NEW STEAKHOUSE! Waggon & Horses in Southmoor taken on by brilliant team at Black Horse in Standlake
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This time next week The Waggon & Horses pub in Southmoor should have reopened its illustrious 18th century doors as a...
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ICE CREAM FRENZY: Alfonso Gelateria opens first shop in Woodstock in time for Christmas
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"I've always wanted to open up in Woodstock. I went to school here and it has a wonderful sense of community,...
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REVIEW: Need something to warm you up? Pierre Victoire in Oxford’s Alpine comfort food hits the spot!
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I could hardly walk after my meal at Pierre Victoire. Such was my gluttony I could scarcely move. I had to...
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ILLUMINATED TRAIL: THE BEST YET! Why Blenheim’s 2020 Christmas Lights are the ultimate festive treat, despite the complex conditions!
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I've got to take my hat off to Blenheim and expert light specialists Raymond Gubbay for coming up with such a...
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Big News! Cornbury Festival will go ahead in 2021 with Friday night headliner Bryan Adams
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Organisers of Oxfordshire’s much loved Cornbury Festival have this morning announced that the festival will go ahead in 2021 and Bryan Adams...
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CONFIRMED: Get ready to sparkle with over a million Christmas lights in 2020’s Illuminated Trail at Blenheim Palace. Here’s what to expect!
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The countdown to Christmas has started and Blenheim Palace is getting ready to welcome its popular Illuminated Trail back from tomorrow...
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LAST MINUTE EXTENSION given to raise £480,000 for White Horse in Stonesfield to save it from developers after global support
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A campaign to save the last remaining pub in Stonesfield has received international attention after the story appeared in the New...
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The MUST TRY 25 dishes we’ll be eating in Oxfordshire’s restaurants, cafes and pubs after lockdown
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There's little else to do but fantasise about food at the moment, so instead of slobbering over our desks we thought...
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Work, rest or play? Award-winning experts Inside Out Oxford, who created Ox In A Box HQ, on how to design the ultimate bolthole!
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With 24 million Brits now working from home because of COVID-19, the trend for buying, designing and building home offices has...
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Taste Tibet opens new cafe and takeaway, making Magdalen Road in East Oxford even more of a foodie mecca!
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It's been a lifetime in the making, as Julie Kleeman and husband Yeshi opened their new Tibetan cafe, takeaway and shop...
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Young couple give Freeland’s Oxfordshire Yeoman a new lease of life, pub shop, takeaway and delivery….all in lockdown
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Paul Hughes and Anna Munday took on The Oxfordshire Yeoman pub in Freeland, perfectly situated between Woodstock, Witney and Eynsham, on...
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Where to get your Sunday roast deliveries, takeaways, or roast in a box and support your local pubs and restaurants
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Here are the amazing pubs and restaurants offering a full Sunday roast takeaway or delivery or even a Sunday roast box. Fill your boots
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TOP 60+ The best takeaways and deliveries to help Oxfordshire’s hospitality industry stay afloat
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White Hart, Wytham commences its amazing takeaway and delivery service again on Wednesday and Friday evenings, and Sunday lunch. On Fridays only you...
When people ask about my favourite restaurants, it's always a trick question, because it depends what they're after.
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Oxford produced BBC TV hit Staged is back for a second series, with more lockdown fun and famous surprise stars promised
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The massive global lockdown TV hit Staged will be back on our screens before you know it, as the BBC announces...
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A tribute to the legendary Dave Davies of Dantzig Gallery in Woodstock by those who knew and loved him
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The legendary Dave Davies, who ran the vibrant and massively popular Dantzig Gallery in Woodstock, passed away last Saturday on October...
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REVIEW: Michelin worthy. The Black Horse in Standlake excels yet again and pays as much attention to the veggie/vegan food as the meat
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It was November when landlord Nick Evans decided to transform The Black Horse in Standlake, near Witney, into a viable and...
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REVIEW: To Beef or not to Beef: Why the roast at The Horseshoes in Witney is a must
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From the moment I heard about The Horseshoes' roast potato meetings, I was on a mission to get to Witney for...
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Even Scrooge can’t cancel Christmas! The show WILL go on at The Theatre Chipping Norton
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Tickets are on sale now for A Christmas Carol at The Theatre Chipping Norton, following the announcement that the much-loved theatre...
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New community pub The White House in Bladon opened and we were first in for lunch. Here’s what to expect
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It's been an 18th month epic journey, but today The White House in Bladon finally opened its doors as a community...
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Happerley – England’s first state-of-the-art national centre of food and drink provenance – opens in Banbury!
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This Saturday, Happerley England opens its doors for the first time boasting a brand new butchers, fishmongers, deli, farm shop, bakery,...
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TOP TEN: The amazing transformations carried out in these Oxfordshire pubs, cafes and restaurants in lockdown
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Every cloud has a silver lining...... Here are some shining examples of what can be done in the face of adversity...
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Simon Evans on directing, writing and starring in BBC lockdown drama Staged in Oxford
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'Who is Simon Evans?' has been the question on everyone's lips since the huge success of his BBC lockdown comedy Staged,...
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EXCLUSIVE REVIEW: Why you must hotfoot it down to The Hollybush in Witney to try out their new garden room dining pods!
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God it was nice to be out, so nice I wanted to scream hallelujah and do a little victory dance on...
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PIZZA PANIC: Don’t know where to go? Here’s our round up of Oxfordshire’s best 20 pizza delivery and takeaways
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If lockdown has left you desperate for pizza then look no further! We have rounded up the best places for takeaway...
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OVER 60 Oxfordshire Takeaways – the local restaurants, pubs and cafes fighting back. Support them and eat local!
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Here is Ox In A Box's new definitive alternative takeaway guide from gourmet to fish and chips or a bacon sarnie.