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November 2011

Council welcomes ruling on Energy from Waste facility

Oxfordshire County Council has welcomed the refusal to allow a challenge to the planning permission for the Ardley Energy from Waste (EfW) facility to go to the Court of Appeal.

10 Nov 2011

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18 Nov 2011

Westminster hosts key East-West rail meeting

Proposes rail route

A senior Oxfordshire councillor will be one of several voices from across the region calling for a new railway line to built linking Oxford with the east of the country at a special meeting in Parliament on November 23.

18 Nov 2011

Work on waste facility to begin in coming weeks

Oxfordshire County Council has finalised arrangements that will enable Viridor Oxfordshire Limited to begin work on building an Energy from Waste facility in Ardley in coming weeks.

21 Nov 2011

Firefighters raise £26,000 for Children in Need

Firefighter Wayne Boyes with Pudsey collecting in Woodstock

Oxfordshire County Council’s Fire and Rescue Service has raised just over £26,000 in one day for this year’s Children in Need.

22 Nov 2011

Pupils' knowledge of literature put to the test

Teams of local schoolchildren have been stockpiling their literary knowledge so they can compete for a place in the final of a national quiz which was won two years ago by youngsters from Wheatley Park School.

22 Nov 2011

New bus timetables online

Couple looking at a bus timetable

Bus passengers in the Wantage, Faringdon and Didcot areas are being advised to check new timetables which will come in to operation from Sunday 12 December.

23 Nov 2011

New bereavement service launched

Tell Us Once, a new service which takes on the responsibility from loved ones of notifying relevant government departments and services of a family bereavement, is now in operation in Oxfordshire.

29 Nov 2011

Joy at East-West Rail breakthrough

Western Section of East West Rail map

Oxfordshire County Council has expressed its joy at news that the government has approved funding for a new railway line to be built linking Oxford with the east of the country.

29 Nov 2011
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