Real time info for next hour
for
13 and X13
bus departures towards the city from JSL stop
Useful links Newspapers,
TV, travel, maps, free telephone directory enquiries,
post code finder and a lot more.
Refuse and
Recycling page
Opting out of deliveries of paper copies of phone directories
- see right-hand column
THURSDAY, 16
February 2012
Green wheelie
FOOD
WASTE collection
(no other recycling
collection)
THURSDAY, 23
February 2012
Blue
wheelie
+ blue box +
green box - all can be used for
all dry recyclable materials
Brown wheelie
What happens to the items collected
for recycling? Click
here
Opting out of deliveries of Yellow Pages,
Thompson & BT directories
BT will be delivering their latest phone directory in February.
If you'd like to opt out of receiving the paper copy, as well as
copies of Yellow Pages and the Thomson Local Directory click
here (then scroll down to below the red box for contact
details). For online versions of all 3 of these directories,
go to Useful Links.
For other City Council and County
Council information, click
here
Met Office weather forecast for
Oxford
Oxford Airwatch
- information on current air
pollution in the city
All UK sunrise / sunset times
Marston Cycle Path - during very wet weather
information is posted by users on whether the
track is passable
Police, Lost & Found animals, internet fraud
Gas leaks
If you smell gas and
suspect a leak, call National Grid, gas and emergency
services on Freephone, 0800 111 999.
Keep a note of this
number where you can easily find it. You are
advised to use a telephone outside your home, if the
leak is inside your house.
Please do call this number if you suspect a leak.
Electricity
- emergency or power cut
Call Freephone 0800
072 7282
Thames
Water
To report leaks:
24-hour freephone 0800 714 614
Surface water
drains in Jack Straw's Lane Updated 1 February
2012
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Tesco and The
Friar
A public meeting, kindly hosted by the Marston branch of the
British Legion, was held on Friday evening, 27 January, to
discuss Tesco's redevelopment of the site of the former
public house on Marston Road. Mr Andrew Smith MP was
in the Chair. For notes on the meeting click
here.
New
not-for-profit enterprise
to sell local, organically-grown, food
to Oxford and surrounding area
'Cultivate' will sell produce
grown in its five-acre market garden and by other small
farms in the vicinity via its 'roaming veg-van', which will
be set up wherever communities want it. See Oxford
Times article,
19 January 2012
Headington
Farmers' Market
Oxford
Castle Farmers' Market
City Council
imposes restrictions on universities
Oxford City Council's monitoring
report shows that from 2010 to 2011 the number of students
not living in university accommodation rose substantially.
The Council will prevent Oxford
University and Oxford Brookes moving
into new teaching buildings until the number of their
students living in private rented accommodation does not
exceed the set limit of 3,000 for either university. See
Oxford Times
article,
26 January 2012
Hands-only CPR
For those people who received First Aid training a while
ago... things have changed. No more breathing
into the mouth - just use pressure on chest.
Click on the photo above to see a surprisingly entertaining
short video starring Vinnie Jones, made by the
British Heart Foundation,
which illustrates the right technique for CPR
(cardiopulmonary resuscitation).
Apart from learning something that could save a life, you'll
certainly enjoy it!
Oxford
Brookes
School of Health and Social Care
Milham Ford Campus
Application
11/01430/PREM
Premises
Licence
granted
for various events including the sale of alcohol
'Notification of determination'
(pdf)
-
click
here
To see letter sent on behalf
of JSLA
and the photographs that accompanied it
(pdf doc), click
here
To see letter sent on behalf of Harberton Heights
Residents' Association
(pdf doc),
click
here
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Last updated 9 February 2012
Thousands of trees to be planted in grounds of
Oxford's hospitals
For £10 you can sponsor a tree
For further details go to:
nhsforest.org
See
Oxford Mail
article,
3 Feb 2012
Wildlife
Milham Ford Nature Park
New Marston Wildlife Group
Chimps,
Orangutans
and computers
Photo from the
charity Orangutan Outreach
A chimp born and
raised in Japan's Kyoto University can complete a
computer memory test faster than it takes the average
person to blink, and much faster than any human rival.
See BBC Nature article
8 Feb
2012
and
BBC 1's
Super-smart Animals
Results of surveys carried out on
28 or 29 January for the
Big Garden Birdwatch
can be sent to RSPB until
17 February 2012 by going to
https://www.rspb.org.uk/
Please do NOT post your results
The RSPB say
that they are unable to process results sent by
post. (Their downloadable record sheet was just
for use when counting the birds.)
Are there fewer birds in your garden
than usual?
The RSPB gives an explanation: see BBC News Magazine
article,
28 January
2012
New Marston Pastoral Centre
Information on
hire of hall and also leasing/hire of
office space on first floor
History of JSL
Stephanie Jenkins has a page on the history of the Lane
on her excellent Headington website - click
here.
There is
also a page for
Pullens Lane that tells you all about 'Jo Pullen's
Tree'. The Rev Josiah ('Jo') Pullen initiated the
building of the
raised footpath up Headington Hill.
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