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Daily Information [1] (or Daily Info for short) is a printed information sheet in Oxford, England, displayed especially around the University colleges and departments, but also in local businesses. It has been in continuous existence since 28 September 1964, mostly as a brightly coloured A2 sheet, with premises originally in Warnborough Road ...
The Sharper Image was founded by Richard Thalheimer. The company started in 1977 as a catalog business to sell jogging watches. [4] Later, through their catalog, [5] The Sharper Image expanded its product assortment to include high-end futuristic gadgets, electronics, massage chairs, and air purifiers. The Sharper Image eventually expanded to ...
There are two tiers of local government covering Oxford, at district and county level: Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council. From 1889 to 1974 the city of Oxford was a county borough, independent from the county council. [25] Oxford City Council meets at the Town Hall on the street called St Aldate's in the city centre.
In 2004 the paper was renamed Courier Journal as part of a merger with the Courier to produce one paper covering Oxfordshire, but this did not last and in 2005 the paper was relaunched in Oxford as the Oxford City Journal; however, in September 2006, the original title was reinstated after Milestone Group sold the Courier group to its managing director. [1]
Front entrance of the Randolph Hotel View of the hotel from the east, with the Martyrs' Memorial on the left and Beaumont Street on the right.. The Randolph Hotel, also known as The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels, is a 5 star hotel in Oxford, England, on the south side of Beaumont Street, at the corner with Magdalen Street, opposite the Ashmolean Museum and close to the Oxford Playhouse.
Cherwell (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr w ɛ l / CHAR-wel) is a weekly student newspaper published entirely by students of Oxford University.Founded in 1920 and named after a local river, Cherwell is a subsidiary of independent student publishing house Oxford Student Publications Ltd.
After Oxford (162,100), the largest settlements are Banbury (54,355) and Abingdon-on-Thames (37,931). For local government purposes Oxfordshire is a non-metropolitan county with five districts. The part of the county south of the River Thames , largely corresponding to the Vale of White Horse district, was historically part of Berkshire .
The Museum of Oxford focuses solely on the history and culture of the City of Oxford, with a focus on the people of the city who are residents rather than the University of Oxford. Such themes included within the displays include football, women's rights, policing, entertainment, engineering, social history, Jewish and Christian history ...