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  • FOOD REVIEW: Revamped pub's Sunday lunch is worth the wait

    For years, I drove past a boarded up pub in West Hendred's Reading Road so often that it became part of the landscape, writes JAMES ROBERTS. So when I saw The Extraordinary Hare had reopened earlier this year, I knew I had to check it out. The

  • Right on Track: Steaming ahead in a very busy month

    OUR main season is over now and we welcomed lots of lovely visitors from all over the world. We know some of our visitors hadn’t visited the UK for a couple of years as they left old pound coins in our donation boxes, but luckily we can still exchange

  • WAG & Pen: What has Highways England ever done for us

    HIGHWAYS England (formerly the Highways Agency) is the government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving England's motorways and major A roads including the A34. They have been asked to explore the case for a fast, high-quality

  • Ex-Tory MP Ed Vaizey celebrates Oxford cancer scan deal

    As you may be aware there has been some controversy over the process of tendering PET CT Scanning services in our local area. Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) currently provides scanning service in the Cancer Centre at the