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TWO Londoners who dumped a suitcase, cardboard boxes, and other items at an Oxfordshire bottle bank have been fined.

Updated Wednesday, 26th May 2021, 10:28 pm Park and Charge hub at Cattle Market car park in Bicester (Image from Oxfordshire County Council) The £5.2 million Park and Charge Oxfordshire programme is among the first of its kind in the UK and is being delivered by a consortium of local partners including Oxfordshire County Council and Cherwell District Council. The Bicester site is the first of 24 council-owned car parks to have an EV charging hub installed this year under the scheme. Cllr Pete...

Motorists can start using a new electric vehicle (EV) charging hub in the heart of Bicester from tomorrow.

The proposed 3,350sqm building in Graven Hill has been called Bicester Health and Wellbeing Hub. Under the scheme, Langford Medical Practice and Victoria House Surgery – both run by Alchester Medical Group – will move into the new site with Montgomery House Surgery and Ambrosden Surgery. Each one will work individually from the same site. Along with a pharmacy, it will provide primary care and serve 50,000 patients in the Bicester area with room to expand. The three-storey hub will ...

A SET of new flats could sit on top of a shop floor which used to be home to a high street retailer in Bicester town centre. Plans to transform the rear storage space above the former Peacocks store in Pioneer Square have been submitted to Cherwell District Council and consist of a one-bedroom and two two-bedroom flats. Proposals also include some external alterations such as the installation of eight new first floor windows and three conservation rooflights. Applicant LCP Properties Li...

A WITNEY primary school has won a competition which offers rewards for exercise. Street Tag, a free smartphone app, was launched in Oxfordshire in October, with the county having the highest sign-up rate in the country. In total, 95 schools signed up to join the Oxfordshire schools leaderboard, which had 4,340 players. Those players walked 285,700 miles, covering 318,453,192 steps. The Oxfordshire league was won by The Batt CE Primary School, as the Corn Street school racked up 14,698...

BICESTER residents are being urged to give feedback on a major new cycle scheme to help make the town a safer place to ride and walk, cutting vehicle journeys and creating cleaner air. Proposals for the Bicester Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan will be made possible thanks to the governments active travel fund as well as an investment by the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP), with a focus on increasing cycle journeys. Under the plan, it is hoped people will be ...

BICESTER residents are being urged to give feedback on a major new cycle scheme to help make the town a safer place to ride and walk, cutting vehicle journeys and creating cleaner air. Proposals for the Bicester Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan will be made possible thanks to the governments active travel fund as well as an investment by the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP), with a focus on increasing cycle journeys. Under the plan, it is hoped people will be ab...

BICESTER residents are being urged to give feedback on a major new cycle scheme to help make the town a safer place to ride and walk, cutting vehicle journeys and creating cleaner air. Proposals for the Bicester Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan will be made possible thanks to the governments active travel fund as well as an investment by the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership (OxLEP), with a focus on increasing cycle journeys. Under the plan, it is hoped people will be ab...

A BELOVED plane in a village near Bicester has been saved from an ignoble end thanks to pressure from local councillors, residents and an MP. Arncotts Tornado GR1 Plan, which has sat outside MOD Bicester in the village since 2002, was due to be scrapped by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) in July 2019, but was put on hold after it received opposition to the removal. The gate-guardian plane was one of the first to come off the production line in 1979 and locals are so used to seeing it guard ...