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Closure for swimming pools at Spiceball Leisure Centre
Swimming pools at Spiceball Leisure Centre will close for remedial and refurbishment works. As part of a planned programme of renovation work, the swimming pools at Spiceball Leisure Centre will close at the beginning of May until early August. During the period of closure, both the main pool and learner pool surrounds will be re-tiled… Continue Reading
Train as run leaders with Sport England and Cherwell District Council
Residents are encouraged to be more active with a free course. Sport England, Run Together Cherwell and Cherwell District Council are looking for volunteers to train as run leaders. Local people who love running and are friendly, inspiring, organised and positive will make perfect candidates to start up, or support, a Run Together group in […]
Give yourself a health boost and live a healthier life
We all know that we should take care of ourselves for a healthier life. As soon as January rolls around each year and the post Christmas slump hits, it seems like everywhere you look there’s a new fitness craze being touted as the new cure all miracle. Fitness centres across the country have an absolute […]
The NHS and me: People, patients, clients and choices
Are you on a waiting list to see a talking practitioner? The list is long within the NHS, yet there are other avenues to harness relief, a sense of happiness and emotional well-being. Other talking therapists are being called to advertise on and within the Banbury Medical Centres. I sense, with my fingers on the […]
Food Safety Week promotes good food hygiene at home
Follow the four Cs of food hygiene. With just under 200 infectious disease notifications potentially related to food poisoning in Cherwell during 2016/17, residents are being urged to consider the four Cs for food hygiene: chilling, cooking, cleaning and cross-contamination. Nationally there are an estimated one million cases of food poisoning each year and Cherwell […]
Bicester health route aims to increase physical activity
New Bicester health route offers residents a new place to exercise outdoors. A new five-kilometre route for walkers, joggers and runners has been marked out in blue to give Bicester residents a new means of staying active. The route around Langford Village in south-east Bicester is the first to be line-painted and highlights easy-access into […]
Precious time. Tick, tock…
Tick, tock… With the blossoms coming and going, I thought I would write about the cherry tree, currently in full bloom in gardens. I wonder if this year, unlike last year, it will produce something more than blossom. It’s that time of the year where our young people are (hopefully) revising for their formal GCSE […]
Walk to School Week for Bicester schoolchildren
Bicester schools lead walking week. Bicester’s schoolchildren will taking part in this year’s Walk to School Week, a national programme organised by Living Streets, the UK charity for everyday walking. As part of Cherwell District Council’s Healthy New Town Programme, the three secondary schools (The Bicester School, the Cooper School and the Bicester Technology Studio) […]
Be part of Healthy Bicester
A day of fun and games to celebrate Healthy Bicester A free open beach, music and dance performances and cookery demos are among the fun and healthy activities that will inaugurate Healthy Bicester. On Saturday 13 May Cherwell District Council, Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group, Oxford Academic Health Science Network and A2Dominion Housing Group are launching […]