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Boost for local museums after successful funding bid

May 18, 2012 / Local News

Museums in Oxfordshire will receive more support following a successful bid by the county council’s Museums Service and partners to the Museum Development Fund.
As part of a national funding initiative the Arts Council England has granted £1.4million to be used to provide professional advice and support to help more than 300 museums across the South East.
The Museum Development Fund will provide professional advice to all museums, but will concentrate on supporting smaller museums to enable them to be more innovative [...]

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Power restored to 3,000 Oxfordshire homes

April 30, 2012 / Local News

Power has been restored to all 3,000 homes in Oxfordshire affected during the weekend’s bad weather.
Southern Electric said homes in Chipping Norton, Wallingford and Henley now have power.
The faults occurred in Watlington at 7am and in Chipping Norton at about 8.30am on Sunday.

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Thames Valley Police Cut Station Opening Times

April 16, 2012 / Local News, Town Centre, Town Centre

Thames Valley Police have announced that opening hours at some police stations in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire will be cut to save money.
Smaller town stations are seeing cuts in both the hours and days they are open, as some are receiving fewer than 25 visits per week.
Oxford, Milton Keynes and Reading will remain as 24 hour stations, whilst forty other stations will have opening times ranging from 14 hours a day to 4 hours, three days a week.
Thames Valley Police [...]

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Oxfordshire man to cycle 4000 miles across USA

April 12, 2012 / Local News

Tom Von Kaenel, a retired American Serviceman living in Oxfordshire, is cycling across the USA to benefit UK and US servicemen.
The 77 day journey will start with a two day cycle ride from Britannia Gate at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to Heathrow airport, passing through Henley on Monday 16th April.
The challenge involves a cycle ride of over 4200 miles, including 4077 miles across the United States from the west to the east coast, ending at Washington, DC on 4th [...]

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Crime levels fall in Thames Valley

April 12, 2012 / Local News

According to latest figures released by the police yesterday, the overall level of crime in the Thames Valley has fallen by more than 13 per cent.
Between April 2011 and the end of March 2012 there were 22,566 fewer crimes compared with the same period the previous year.
Police said the largest reduction was seen in violent crime against the person, sexual offences and serious acquisitive crime.
The Thames Valley Police force serves more than two million people across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.
In [...]

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Queen to attend Jubilee Party in Henley

April 10, 2012 / Local News, Town Centre, Town Centre, What's On in...

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh are to meet residents from Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buckinghamshire at a garden party and river pageant to mark her Diamond Jubilee.
4000 guests will attend the party which will be held on 25th June near Henley, a significant proportion of whom will be selected by a public ballot in May.
Residents who are successful in the ballot will join representatives of voluntary organisations and charities, together with civic, community and business leaders.
More information about how [...]

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Man Charged With Criminal Damage

April 4, 2012 / Local News

A 34-year-old man has been charged in connection with a number of incidents of criminal damage across Oxfordshire.
Paul Hart, of no fixed abode, has been charged with five counts of criminal damage to vehicles and one count of dangerous driving.
The criminal damage offences relate to four vehicles, including one in Station Road, Henley on Friday 30th March, being vandalised with paint.
Hart was due to appear before High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

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Oxfordshire loses 35 pubs in 2011

January 17, 2012 / Local News

Thirty-five pubs closed in Oxfordshire last year, including 11 which will never reopen, the Campaign for Real Ale has said.
The British Beer and Pub Association said nationally 14 pubs closed every week, down from 52 a week in 2009.
But the chief executive, Brigid Simmonds, said beer taxation was still a “big problem” for the industry.
She said: “We pay 40% of all beer tax in the whole of Europe and that is killing pubs.”
The Lamb at Satwell just outside Nettlebed closed [...]

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Hampshire and Thames Valley Police forces to begin joint work

January 17, 2012 / Local News

Hampshire and Thames Valley Police are due to begin working together as part of cost-cutting measures that may see more than 100 posts close.
The two authorities have signed a legal agreement under the Police Act 1996 covering how they will share resources.
The Joint Roads Policing Unit is expected to become the first department to merge, at the end of January.
Joint operations and joint firearms units will follow. No jobs will be lost but vacant posts will not be filled.
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The property market in 2011

January 13, 2012 / Local News

This has been a year of extremes, when international buyers ruled the roost from London, and homebred London buyers declined to move to the country. It was a year when an anonymous Russian oligarch paid a reputed £140 million for the spectacularly refurbished Park Place with 200 acres near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, creating an all-time record for an English country estate. The previous record- also held by Park Place-was set in 2007, when developer Mike Spink paid £42m for the un-refurbished [...]

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Why are towns un-twinning?

January 13, 2012 / Local News

British towns are starting to scrap their twinning arrangements with continental counterparts. Why are they doing so, and do such links have any purpose in the 21st Century?
At first glance, there’s very little that Glasgow, Scotland, and Havana, Cuba, have in common.
Likewise, it’s not easy to spot similarities between the genteel Oxfordshire town of Henley-on-Thames and the Somali city of Borama, or indeed Sunderland and Washington DC.
And yet all three pairs of settlements are formally pledged to the closest bond [...]

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