Christmas
Bicester Virtual Christmas Fair snowballs with 1700 members and 90 small businesses taking part. #shoplocal and buy your presents there!
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When it became obvious that traditional Christmas markets would not go ahead this year, small makers, traders and businesses immediately worried about losing...
Art
Ayres House Studios’ two week winter festival of art boasts virtual and real exhibitions, shop, podcasts and workshops “to give fantastic artists an outlet”
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An art studio in Wallingford is celebrating its first birthday with a two week winter festival of art, showcasing the best of local...
Bar & Drinks
TOP 12: Shop-in is the new shopping! The Oxfordshire pubs, restaurants and cafes opening in-house shops during lockdown
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Oxfordshire's cafes, pubs and restaurants are opening in-house shops in their droves to help tide them over during lockdown, while keeping their customers...
Eat
REVIEW: Why we’ll be heading back to Banana Tree on George Street as soon as is humanly possible
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I've spent a lot of time this month, an unhealthy amount to be fair, ruminating about what and where I'll be eating once...
Christmas
Pull the other one! Harry Potter and Jericho Comedy’s Christmas Cracker are selling out fast!
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Jericho Comedy is absolutely determined to bring the people of Oxford some Christmas cheer, pandemic or no pandemic.
Which is why their family friendly...
Bar & Drinks
Social media sensation ‘The Gin To My Tonic’ opens its first ever bar in Oxfordshire
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The Gin To My Tonic Bar opened in Faringdon on October 30 to great fanfare, a long-held dream of lifelong friends and fellow...
Bar & Drinks
BIG NEWS: Oxfordshire Christmas Extravaganza Live – to help you shop local, eat local and drink local this festive season
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Ox In A Box and Independent Oxford are celebrating the best Oxfordshire has to offer, with a live afternoon of festive fun to...
Classical
The Sixteen’s online Choral Odyssey, filmed at historic locations around the UK, kicks off at Oxford’s Magdalen College
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Acclaimed vocal ensemble The Sixteen has announced a series of online choral programmes, each of which has been filmed at a special location...
Books
Wombles writer and Bicester author Philip Bowne wins Spotlight First Novel Prize and makes Longlist for Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize
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"I was in the cellar of the bar I was working in, when I found out that Cows Can't Jump had won the Spotlight First Novel...
Do
Work, rest or play? Award-winning experts Inside Out Oxford, who created Ox In A Box HQ, on how to design the ultimate bolthole!
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With 24 million Brits now working from home because of COVID-19, the trend for buying, designing and building home offices has rocketed, a...













