Jack Straw's Lane Association

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

 

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Gas leaks

If you smell gas and suspect a leak, call National Grid, gas and emergency services on Freephone, 0800 111 999Keep 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

  

 

 

 

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

 

 


 

 

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.