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Get Your Garden Ready for Spring and Summer

This month is all about emotion. Joy because the sky reaches crystal blue to outer space, frustration because the frost, snow and rain keep us indoors, anger because the wind has ripped up some precious plant or other and hope because along with the spring flowers that draw a smile, any number of seedlings are bursting into new life. Easter is not far away!

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The Fleece - a lively place to dine

Food & Wine editor Sandra Fraser enjoys a hearty meal on a winter’s night at the sassy hotel, The Fleece in Witney.
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A house of secrets

When Caroline Dunstall moved into her Oxfordshire farmhouse she didn’t expect to uncover hidden rooms. After months of renovation work the Grade II listed house now elegantly showcases its period features and has been sensitively decorated to create a warm, family home says Victoria Jenkins.
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Didcot - full steam ahead

Didcot has never pretended to be beautiful. Yet even this unpretentious town has its moments, and its reasons to visit, and it has just been given a shopping facelift. Words and photography Mark Child.
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Oxfordshire's musical starlet

Moles are inhabiting Claire Moore’s front lawn, there’s a dent in her people carrier and she can’t find her keys. Welcome to the down-to-earth Oxfordshire life of one of the West End’s best-loved (and most unassuming) stars says Sandra Fraser…
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