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My family have paid ‘heavy price’, says mercy killing daughter

Dr Lisa Davenport, 55, smothered Barrie Davenport, 88, with a pillow at his home in Banbury, Oxfordshire, in October 2022.

Evening Standard

“It pretty much half killed us. Whether the band would continue was very much in the balance”: The Radiohead album that almost broke up the band, turned the music industry on its head - and became their best record

“It’s our classic album - our Transformer, our Revolver, our Hunky Dory”

MusicRadar

Clarkson’s Farm Season 4: First look reveals Jeremy Clarkson’s biggest challenge yet as release date confirmed

The hit series follows the former Top Gear host, 64, as he swaps high-speed supercars for life on his Oxfordshire farm

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Prince William to appear on episode of Clarkson’s Farm

William revealed that Jeremy Clarkson’s show can count Prince George among its fans

The Independent UK

Prince of Wales to appear on episode of Clarkson’s Farm

William revealed that Jeremy Clarkson’s show, about his Oxfordshire Diddly Squat farm, can count Prince George among its fans.

Evening Standard

Two men found guilty over £4.8m Oxfordshire gold toilet heist

Michael Jones convicted of planning Blenheim Palace burglary and Frederick Doe of conspiracy to transfer criminal property

The Guardian - UK

Dear Suella: I was born in London and raised in Oxfordshire. What do you reckon – can I be English?

The former home secretary has joined a debate that serves the right – and leaves England’s minorities feeling they don’t belong here, says author and broadcaster Nels Abbey

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Otters return to the UK! Rare mammals spotted on trail camera in Oxfordshire

Between the 1950s and the 1970s, otters suffered a catastrophic decline, disappearing from English waterways - and a trail camera has now spotted them on the River Windrush

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Far-right links and Putin praise: fears over £600m UK history theme park plan

French family behind project visited Kremlin in 2014 to discuss building ‘Tsarland’ in annexed Crimea

The Guardian - UK

Thames Water restructure plans a ‘bridge to nowhere’, MP’s barristers tell court

Barristers for Charlie Maynard, MP for Witney in Oxfordshire, told the High Court that plans to restructure the utility were a ‘poor short-term fix’.

The Independent UK

Reeves rejects Heathrow expansion critics, saying answer ‘cannot always be no’

The Chancellor said the economy will stagnate if you ‘always give in’ to objections.

Evening Standard

Reeves looks to the skies in search of economic growth with support for Heathrow

Rachel Reeves put support for a third runway at the London hub airport at the heart of her plan to kickstart the UK economy.

Evening Standard

Puy du Fou launches public consultation on proposals for Oxfordshire theme park

The attraction is set to include four period villages and 13 live shows in which visitors can ‘immerse themselves in British history’.

Evening Standard

How we uncovered the UK’s biggest site of dinosaur tracks in a quarry in Oxfordshire

In 2024, researchers from the universities of Oxford and Birmingham excavated a huge expanse of a quarry floor in Oxfordshire filled with hundreds of dinosaur footprints.

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Thieves drive off with 13 portable toilets in overnight raid

CCTV captured the moment over a dozen portable loos were stolen from a business in Oxfordshire.

The Independent UK

Police launch search for missing girl, 14, last seen in Cotswolds

The teenager was last seen in Witney, Oxfordshire, on 6 January

The Independent UK

UK’s largest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed in Oxfordshire

Tracks are thought to have been created by a four-legged Cetiosaurus and the meat-eating Megalosaurus

The Guardian - UK

Biggest trackway of dinosaur footprints found in Oxfordshire quarry

Cetiosauruses and a megalosaurus are thought to have left prints at trackway dating to nearly 166m years ago

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Britain's biggest-ever dinosaur footprint tracks discovered in Oxfordshire

Experts believe the spectacular tracks could be over 166 million years old

The Independent UK

Britain’s ‘dinosaur highway’ discovered as hundreds of footprints found in quarry

Carnivore and herbivore tracks were found crossing over, prompting questions about how the two were interacting

Evening Standard

Hundreds of dinosaur footprints dating back 166 million years found in quarry

Five huge trackways, forming part of a ‘dinosaur highway’, were discovered during a dig at a quarry in Oxfordshire in the summer.

The Guardian - UK

Ex-pupil wins damages over face-down restraint at Oxfordshire special school

Boy was restrained face down by staff and others placed a towel around the door of his room to stop him leaving

The Independent UK

Teenage driver jailed for killing three friends after inhaling laughing gas

Thomas Johnson, 19, was driving at speeds of more than 100mph before crashing on the A415 in Oxfordshire and killing three of his friends.

Evening Standard

Country pub of the week: The Packhorse, Mapledurham

In southern Oxfordshire is a charming collection of pubs. One, The Packhorse, is of particular repute

Evening Standard

'It's got a warm feel to it': Oxfordshire manor once owned by Anne of Cleves for sale for £3.75m

Broughton Hall is said to have been given to Anne of Cleves as part of her divorce settlement from Henry VIII in 1540

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