Cllr Anna Railton 🌹
@annarailton.bsky.social
🌹 Labour city councillor for Hinksey Park, deputy leader & cabinet member for zero carbon Oxford Unofficial bridge champion
Saw the excellent @janrosenow.bsky.social being dragged for this but like many things he is 100% bang on on this one. We do need air-con in UK People need to be able to work, kids need to be able to learn in school, public transport can't be unusable etc www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2627183...
Oxford University professor under fire after claiming UK needs air-con
An Oxford University professor has come "under fire" for saying that the UK needs air con as temperatures rise.
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On BBC Breakfast talking about the heatwave & how we need to get real about aircon in the UK This is coldest summer of rest of our lives now, people need to be able to work, kids need to learn & we need to move around in this heat Hospitals, schools, public transport, homes... make it work
Really useful summary of the local government reorganisation decisions this week: diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/03/loca...
New robo-postbox Useful but slightly ruined the timeless aesthetic of the old ones
Does anyone know how on earth you snap a bike frame like this as I've just done that 853 steel frame, 8 years old, never crashed it or even ridden it in the rain. What on earth 😭😭
Assume drivers have to get out and push too right 🤔
Something very delightfully Oxford about someone taking the time to hand-paint a temporary Queens Lane sign when scaffolding covers the original
What losing 10% of your body weight does to you, as told by trips to Wells Cathedral
A fatberg the size of a blue whale has been removed from Oxford’s sewers. It took two weeks to remove the 120-tonne lump of congealed fat, oil, grease and wipes, while maintaining Oxford’s wastewater flow and guarding against high gas levels elevated by the fatberg.
Unofficial bridge champion position CONFIRMED with 2x bits about 2x different bridges in the press today 🌉✨ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2535010...
Oxford footbridge history depicted in new information boards
Oxford City Council has installed two information boards on the history of Gasworks Pipe Bridge in St Ebbe's.
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Do love some tufted vetch 🥰
Friends of Lye Valley@friendlyevalley.bsky.social · last yr.Some of our earlier flowering plants have already set seed. Here, one of our volunteers doing a first sweep for ripe Ragged Robin, Yellow Rattle, and Tufted Vetch seed to spread in new areas once the fen has been scythed off at the end of the season. #OxfordshireFens #FenPlants #FenRestoration 🌍
On the radio this morning talking about the impact of congestion charge on the ice rink 🏒 lots of kit ⏲️ weird times of day 🗺️ travelling huge distances 📅 multiple times a week 👩👦 lots of juniors Could be absolutely disastrous for clubs & rink without an exemption www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Other cities may have better vistas and landmarks, or more impressive colonnades and sprawling public spaces, but few cities do better *glimpses* than Oxford. Nobody can touch us when it comes to half-seen things that stick in the memory.
This is one of my favourite views in Oxford As you pass under the Bridge of Sighs, the gothic spire of Essex College chapel flashes into view for a moment before being lost behind the Sheldonian again. Sublime.
An Oxford landlord will have to pay over £11,000 after poor conditions were uncovered in one of his rental properties. Faults included an inadequate fire alarm, lacking ventilation, missing stair guards, and badly maintained fire doors. www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article...
Wantage 🤝 Winchester Proper good statues of Alfred the Great 🫶
Just did a task that I've been putting off for 13 months It took 20 mins 🥲
a close up of a cartoon character with smiley faces on it 's face .
ALT: a close up of a cartoon character with smiley faces on it 's face .
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Found a couple of nice Oxfordshire mosaics this week 1) Witney mosaic sheep 2) Kidlington mosaic... flamingos??
Cracking new bakery just opened on the High Street, love to see it 🤩
Cracking set of desire lines at Oxford Parkway 👌
Today I learnt that bumblebees will use globe thistles to shelter from the rain 🥹
Big thumbs up to whoever planted these sunflowers on Abingdon Road 🫶
2000 years ago: the Romans would let an aqueduct destroy the Gardon Valley. We need clean water, but at what cost?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.Ed Miliband would let a turbine farm destroy Brontë country. We need net zero, but at what cost? | Simon Jenkins
