Staycation in 18th Century Oxfordshire stately home so desirable Liz Taylor tried to buy it

Yours for £28,000-a-week – the ultimate staycation in 18th Century Oxfordshire stately home so desirable Liz Taylor tried to buy it on the spot For the first time in its history, Grade I listed Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire, can be rented out for £28k a week Allowing up to 16 guests, it boasts eight bedrooms, landscaped … Read more

Alexandra Tolstoy whose oligarch ex was known as ‘Putin’s banker’ shows off her Oxfordshire home

Countess Alexandra Tolstoy has offered a glimpse inside her cosy Oxfordshire cottage where she is spending lockdown – months after she was ‘evicted’ from the London home owned by her Russian billionaire ex.  The aristocratic beauty, who shares children Aliosha, Ivan and Maria with financier Sergei Pugachev, has swapped city life for quieter days filled … Read more

Leslie Mann debuts brunette locks as filming for new series The Power gets underway in Oxfordshire

Leslie Mann was seen on the set of Amazon’s upcoming TV series The Power for the first time in Oxfordshire on Monday morning. The actress, 48, swapped her blonde hair for brunette locks as she tapped into the role of her character Margot Cleary-Lopez – a budding politician. The 10-part adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s award-winning … Read more

Samantha Cameron screams in joy as she goes sledging with daughter Nancy in Oxfordshire

Much of the UK woke up on Sunday morning to find their gardens blanketed under layers of snow.  And Samantha Cameron, 49,  made the most of the wintery weather as she headed up a hill in Oxfordshire with her family for a spot on sledding.  Taking to Instagram, the wife of 54-year-old former prime minister David … Read more

Owners of ‘magical’ Oxfordshire mansion to sell off £2million eccentric art collection

Looking to stave off lockdown boredom with a little online shopping? This week sees one of the UK’s most eclectic art collections going on sale in a live virtual auction – and you could pick up a 65-million-year-old dinosaur skull, a floating giraffe named Gerard, or an antler chair that has housed the derriere of Liam … Read more

Romeo Beckham, 18, drives £45,000 Jeep as he heads to a sweet shop in Oxfordshire

PICTURE EXCLUSIVE: Romeo Beckham, 18, takes his £45k Jeep for a spin before heading to a Cotswolds sweet shop with girlfriend Mia Regan By Georgia Simcox For Mailonline Published: 12:25 GMT, 26 December 2020 | Updated: 12:25 GMT, 26 December 2020 Romeo Beckham, 18, drove a £45,000 Jeep as he headed out in Chipping Norton, … Read more

Hancock puts six million MORE people into Tier 4 as Oxfordshire and East Anglia join Home Counties

New areas entering Tier 4 from Boxing Day Surrey: Waverley West Sussex: All East Sussex: Eastbourne, Lewes and Wealden districts, plus Brighton and Hove Hampshire: Basingstoke and Deane, East Hampshire,  Eastleigh, Fareham, Hart, Rushmoor, Test Valley,  Winchester, Southampton Essex: All apart from Colchester, Uttlesford and Tendring, which are already in Tier 4 Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgeshire Oxfordshire  … Read more

Band of actors launch quest to buy J.R.R. Tolkien’s £4.5m former Oxfordshire home

Sir Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman and John Rhys-Davies are among The Lord of the Rings stars who have joined forces to purchase author J.R.R. Tolkien’s £4.5million famed home in Oxfordshire. The stars, including singer Annie Lennox and actor Sir Derek Jacobi, have joined the award-winning author Julia Golding to launch a crowdfunding campaign in a bid to … Read more

The Greyhound Inn in Oxfordshire reviewed by the Daily Mail’s Inspector

An Inspector calls… at The Greyhound Inn in Oxfordshire and loves the nooks and crannies, his ‘wonderfully comfortable’ bed and the ‘terrific’ food The Greyhound Inn, in the village of Letcombe Regis, has eight rooms that are all named after places nearby  It has a ‘mish-mash of tables and chairs’, ‘various nooks and crannies’ and … Read more

The Oxfordshire villages that fear Boris Johnson’s new planning laws

Among those enjoying an idyllic life in the Oxfordshire countryside, Boris Johnson‘s sweeping reforms to the planning system today will come as a major concern. For a four-year battle has been taking place over the proposed Chalgrove Airfield development for a new market town of 3,000 homes and four schools. But the new draft laws … Read more