Charity & Fundraising
RECORD BREAKERS: Oxfordshire caterers Thomas Franks smash Guinness World Record by cooking 79,500 charity meals using surplus food, in under 24 hours
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Ten tonnes of tomatoes, three tonnes of cabbage and two tonnes of peppers were amongst the 30 tonnes of surplus food used during...
Musicals
REVIEW: West End’s ‘Heathers The Musical’ at Oxford Playhouse is hilarious, murderous and darkly delicious, deserving its standing ovation
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There is a caveat on the Oxford Playhouse website re Heathers The Musical advising: 'This production contains haze, loud noises including gunshots, flashing...
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REVIEW: ‘Exciting, unsettling, darkly humorous, satirical and life-affirming” OTG brings Gormenghast to OFS
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The 900 page Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake has been sitting defiantly unread on my bookshelf for a couple of years now.
Not having...
Eat
REVIEW: ‘A novel culinary adventure’ Curry Nights with Nandita’s six course Punjabi pop-up supper club at The Grain Store
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Did I want to go on a Punjabi culinary adventure where most of the dishes were total novelties? Yes. In this line of...
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Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft to headline Nocturne Live 2025 at Blenheim Palace with support acts Lightning Seeds and The Zutons!
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Notorious Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft is the first headliner to be announced for next summer’s Nocturne Live.
Supported by Lightning Seeds and The Zutons, he will perform...
Eat
EXCLUSIVE: ‘I’m not finished yet!’ Why Oxford restaurateur Clinton Pugh has bought back Kazbar on Cowley Road
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Clinton Pugh is in an expansive mood when we meet to discuss why he's bought back Kazbar on Cowley Road, despite a tumultuous...
Dance
REVIEW: ‘Reserve a ticket’ Rambert Dance’s ‘Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby’ at New Theatre Oxford
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Opening amid the horrors of Flanders, before sweeping in to post-war industrial Birmingham, Rambert Dance's adaption of Peaky Blinders was always going to...
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Saltburn fans – don’t miss ‘undiscovered gem’ Gormenghast at OFS as Oxford Theatre Guild adapts the thrilling Gothic fantasy!
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Considered impossible to adapt, Gormenghast is a series of novels by British author Mervyn Peake about the inhabitants of Castle Gormenghast, a sprawling, decaying, Gothic structure...
Bar & Drinks
EXCLUSIVE: Three Horseshoes in Witney team to open second pub The White Swan in Whitchurch, between Bicester and Aylesbury, on Nov 1!
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"It's exciting and scary at the same time," Mike Dove from The Three Horseshoes in Witney tells me as we discuss their new...
Entertainment News
EXCLUSIVE: Abigail Thaw on the Endeavour reunion, Ian Rankin’s new play ‘Rebus: A Game Called Malice’ at Oxford Playhouse and her father John Thaw
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"It will be so nice coming back to Oxford. I just hope I won't be a bit maudlin because of Endeavour," Abigail Thaw...













