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Jeremy Clarkson has applied for a licence to sell locally-sourced booze from the shop on his £4million Cotswolds farm. The Grand Tour host, 60, opened the non-organic store on his sprawling Diddly Squat Farm in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, last February. He has now applied to West Oxfordshire District Council for permission to sell alcohol on and off the premises at the 1,000-acre farm. Clarkson, who lives on the £4.25million farm with his parter Lisa Hogan, has closed Diddly Squat Farm Shop amid the pandemic but hopes to reopen in March. The story of how he launched the store - named so because of the poor crop yields on the surrounding land - will feature in a forthcoming Amazon Prime show, which has the working title I Bought The Farm. ....
A new coronavirus vaccination centre has opened in Aylesbury, and the Bucks Free Press were given access to have a look inside. Located at the town’s Buckinghamshire New University campus on Walton Street, the new centre officially opened on Monday, February 8, and will administrate vaccines to those who have been invited through either a GP or via the Government. The centre is the first to be organised in Aylesbury by Oxford Health, which is the lead provider for mass vaccination outlets across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and West Berkshire. The centre is at Aylesury s BNU campus on Walton Street Their first centre which was launched was at the Kassam Stadium - the home of Oxford United Football Club. ....
ARE we really being consulted on the Local Plan? The proposed housing numbers, including for the North Dorchester development, reflected in the Dorset Council Local Plan are determined by a central government algorithm not by local need and are not negotiable. In the absence of a Local Plan, landowners and developers, and not residents, will have the final say in any new housing. At the same time, if a Local Plan is rejected then central government will simply step in. You only have to look to the case of South Oxfordshire to see what lies ahead for us in Dorchester and the county. Despite little compelling evidence of need for 30,000 house to be built across green belt areas of Oxfordshire and overwhelming local opposition, the Secretary of State for Housing and Local Development, Robert Jenrick told the South Oxfordshire Council that if it didn t adopt their Local Plan it risked its powers to decide planning applications being taken out of its hands (Oxford Mail, December 11 ....
Nine councillors abstained, including all but one of the Green Party group. Former Green councillor Sue Roberts resigned from the party to sit as an independent councillor after voting against the Plan. Sarah Gray, formerly a Lib Dem, also resigned from her party after she voted against the Plan. The two have now joined former Conservative councillor Elizabeth Gillespie in a new group on the council called the South Oxfordshire Residents Team, or SORT. SORT describe themselves as ‘working co-operatively across South Oxfordshire Council, to protect and restore our unique and ancient heritage and our natural world, to reduce carbon emissions, and to stand up for the people of South Oxfordshire’. ....