Small business owners risk everything and work insane hours without sick/holiday pay, often for little money. Most fail; when they do, they often lose a lot…sometimes everything. However, those who succeed create jobs and economic growth and provide alternative options for

Received two emails today - one from France saying that electric bills are going down "to follow the global trend of falling energy prices". I received another from my UK supplier telling me that prices are going up "due to the global cost of energy". We're being taken for mugs

A pub isn't just about having a pint. In the UK 3.6 million people suffer from chronic loneliness. Pubs are at the heart of our communities. A place for friends and family to come together. Strangers to become friends. We must do all we can to protect them.

A thought, listening to Steven Kinnock MP on BBC Radio 4 Today. Could we not simply replace politician interviews with Evan Davis reading out a few pages of randomly-generated cliches like ‘we need to fix the plumbing before turning on the tap’ for three minutes?

"...focusing efforts on prevention over sickness." Can we all say 'huge increase in overreach and pointless State stickybeaking', children?

And most of your local councillors and politicians have been trying to return to those glory days ever since.

'Public consultation'. Time to get those blank sheets of A4 paper ready, people. thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/24581297.…

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Anyone on here, ideally within spitting distance of West Oxon, got an automatic estate they fancy parting with? Or even just a decent sized auto. saloon/hatch.

Councils the world over.

Marvellous response:

Nothing to discuss, really. Can't really get excited about Top Dishwasher.

🤯 | My brother banned from running his local business effectively in Scotland. 💥 Cant take his public transport coach he saved up to buy into Glasgow and Edinburgh because of the emissions laws the clown politicians introduced. 🤡 Vote left - vote poverty.

Oxfordshire is a used car desert. Unless you want nasty, Prescottian flying wardrobes, Jazzes, beige Fabias or £500k Range Rovers.

It’s no wonder that Littlemore often feels like the “home” of the IOA given the hostility shown by Oxfordshire County Council . Their status as an area of deprivation was used to justify traffic measures they didn’t want….deprived areas really want buses! Access to services was made harder

"...as officialdom chokes it to death.' Yep.

Oh Lordy - the car dealers have found ChatGPT.

Well, that’s a rare spot. Brings back memories of my old 1.2.