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Cornmarket Street, Oxford city centre, on April 12, 2021 as shops were allowed to reopen. COSTA Coffee, Caffe Nero and Turtle Bay are among the high street names joining Oxford's local businesses in hopes of setting up alfresco dining as Covid restrictions ease. The chain restaurants and cafes join local names like Jericho Coffee Traders on the High Street, and Viny's Cafe on North Parade who have made applications for a pavement licence to Oxford City Council. A total of eight pavement licence applications are listed on the city council's website from the last month alone since March 2...

By Andrew Ffrench @OxMailAndyF Business reporter covering Didcot and Wallingford. Call me on 01865 425425 Edward Whinney who runs The White Rabbit in Oxford with kitchen manager Ida Corona One pub landlady said staff were ‘raring to go’ as Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his roadmap out of lockdown. Pubs and restaurants are being told they can open from April 12 but only for outdoor tables and beer gardens. Customers will have to be seated but there will be no need...

Here we look back at some of the hostelries Oxford has lost in recent years. Far From the Madding Crowd was a popular city centre pub in Friars Entry before it closed in 2015 while The Quarry Gate pub in Headington was shut in 2010. Far From the Madding Crowd in Friars Entry There have also been some success stories pre-lockdown. In 2019 two city highlights for beer drinkers were The Grapes in George Street and The Holly Bush on Osney Island. Both reopened following major revamps. West Berkshire Brewery bought the lease of the George Street hostelry from The City Pub Company.

Debenhams in December 2020 The whole process cost the couple ‘thousands’ and had been planned for two years. Mr Goldsmith added: “When people buy the beans they can see what blend of coffee they’re drinking, where it was grown and even who grew it.” One of the more bizarre incidents in the department store's history when the bomb squad was called after someone abandoned a pack of mince pies outside. A bomb alert outside Debenhams in Oxford in 1988 prompted by a pack of abandoned mince pies The Army bomb disposal experts blew up the bag of pies outside the store in December...