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Spam fritters anyone? Standlake’s #lockdown VE celebrations involve socially distancing front garden parties and food from The Black Horse
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The Black Horse in Standlake had some major plans in place for the upcoming VE celebrations. The pub near Witney had booked three...
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VE Day #lockdown celebrations in Churchill’s Woodstock include social distancing garden parties, fancy dress and bunting
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World War Two evacuees will be amongst those celebrating the 75th anniversary of VE Day this Friday in Woodstock, as residents come up...
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Violet gin anyone? The Oxford Artisan Distillery – TOAD – adds a new addition to its gin stable
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The Oxford Artisan Distillery has added a new violet gin to its collection this month - Ver Viola.
TOAD has been concocting a gin...
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Heard the one about the Oxfordshire landscape artist who couldn’t paint? Elaine Kazimierczuk’s #paintmymeadow campaign
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What do you do if you are a landscape artist who can't get out to the landscape to paint?
That's the problem facing Oxfordshire...
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Vaughan Williams ‘On Wenlock Edge’ online film premiere stars Oxford’s Daniel Norman, Sholto Kynoch and the Brodsky Quartet
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Vaughan Williams’ On Wenlock Edge – his famous setting of A.E. Houseman’s poem from A Shropshire Lad - has been given a stunning new makeover.
The animated shadow-puppet...
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Horrid Henry joins Oxfordshire’s Kindness Wave delivering creative care packages to local vulnerable children and young people in lockdown
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A wave of kindness is sweeping Oxfordshire thanks to a collective of creatives who are working together to deliver care packages to children...
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It’s National Gardening Week and with Nicholsons now open for home deliveries and the RHS offering its Top Ten Tips, now’s the time to get out there!
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It's National Gardening Week, and during lockdown those of us lucky enough to have outside spaces have never been busier.
Organised by The Royal...
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Oxfordshire firm Thomas Franks provides 1,500 free NHS meals a day, and 6,000 a week for vulnerable children
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When a local nurse reached out to Frank Bothwell a few weeks ago, and asked the founder of the Hook Norton based global...
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“Oxfordshire Artweeks plays a key part in our artists livelihoods.” Kicking off virtually today, with a different theme each day, your support is needed more than ever.
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Oxfordshire Artweeks opens today, and organisers and artists alike hope the public will embrace and enjoy its new virtual format as enthusiastically as...
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“Let’s celebrate Oxfordshire.” The new Oxford Producers Box launches today to help support local food businesses
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A new Oxford Producers Box has been launched today, carefully curated with local goodies.
It includes Saltpig beer sticks from the curing company in...