Right-to-buy fear over city housing

IN RECENT weeks Oxford City Council has been seeking to borrow £200m – a huge sum in the current climate of austerity.

But the Town Hall must saddle itself with the extra debt to gain control of its own council houses.

Explaining the borrowing to me recently, the city council seemed remarkably relaxed. For it all came down to a shake-up in council house funding.

This one-off payment means in future the council could keep the money it collects from council house rents, instead of having to hand over a chunk of its rental income to Central Government each year.

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Down Memory Lane: Fashion goes full circle

1. And the saddle oxford-clad Suzy meets him with a portable record player, books from the local library and a cat. Their interactions in the woods make up the majority of the film. And those interactions are as awkward and funny as you might expect in an
2. The dress when I was in high school in the 1940s was bobby socks, saddle oxfords or penny loafers on our feet, and dresses, skirts and blouse, or a two-piece sweater set. A few times, we got to wear jeans with the cuff rolled up.
3. When I got to high school, I picked summertime berries to earn the tan and brown saddle oxfords that were a style requirement. Then I spent the last week of August getting them in shape for school: buffing them with fine sandpaper and rubbing dust into
4. For the male members of the Class of 1972 (now you know), red, white and blue saddle oxfords were cool. So were Sero or Manhattan shirts with red, white and blue stripes. Plaid madras trousers were cool (but not if worn with red, white and blue shirts)
5. On July 9, a team of six Bicester soldiers, calling themselves Ollie's Rough Riders, will leave the town and cycle 20 miles to Oxford, where they will swap saddles for a kayak and paddle 30 miles to Wallingford. After an overnight stay the group will