Newspaper article by reporter Erin Lyons dated 4th may 2020 urging KEY workers, NHS and social care staff to get tested for Covid-19. Testing was initially extended in England to all essential workers and members of their household if they have symptoms.

Email dated 4th May 2020, From Rev. Canon Janice Collier, vicar of Bampton, Clanfield, Aston, Lew and Shifford to her parishioners .
During the pandemic, the parishioners gathered each Sunday at 10.30am to worship on Zoom, and she informed them that mischief makers had high-jacked the events.

Article by reporter Erin Lyons dated 1st May 2020 about ‘False negative’ fears at Oxford's coronavirus testing site:- Thornhill Park and Ride. Oxford’s ‘shambolic’ coronavirus drive-through testing site could lead to false negatives for key workers.
Concerns have been raised over a lack of medical staff on site to administer throat and nasal swab tests at the Thornhill Park and Ride facility, which opened fully on Saturday. Serco, which ran the site for the Department of Health and Social Care and undertook
testing, defended the facility.

Newspaper cutting dated 1st April 2020 reporting the West Oxfordshire District Council's closure of all Front desks due to the Coronavirus Pandemic in keeping with the Government Instruction. The staff continued to support emergency cases remotely.

Newspaper Article by David Lynch about OXFORDSHIRE’s tourism businesses are losing hundreds of millions of pounds a month because of the coronavirus lockdown,Experience Oxfordshire, an organisation which promotes tourism in the county, warned of massive losses in a report into the economic shock of the pandemic and lockdown, which has forced most businesses to close.
It said the local tourism economy had already experienced ‘significant losses’ of between £112.5m and £137.5m per month.

Exclusive article by Fran Way Reporter @OxMailFranW for Oxford Mail dated 1st May 2020 entitled Desperate housewives struggling to make ends meet in the coronavirus lockdown are selling sex online to survive. In the past two weeks, more than 60 explicit adverts have been posted on the buying and selling site Craigslist by women and men in Oxfordshire ‘looking to have some fun’ and ‘desperately trying to make some extra money’. An investigation by the Oxford Mail can now reveal the seedy ‘underworld’ of
the county still ticking during coronavirus lockdown.

Newspaper article by Trainee reporter Gergana Krasteva about Oxfordshire cadets congratulating Tom Moore on his 100th birthday
dated 30th April 2020. Captain Tom Moore raised £28 million for the NHS by walking 100 laps of his garden, He was later knighted.

Oxford Mail article by Fran Way dated 30th April 2020 announcing May Morning festivities had been cancelled amid the coronavirus lockdown, but revellers could still take part in spirit by holding events at home and sharing them online.
The event has been going on for hundreds of years with celebrations kick-starting at 6am with the traditional singing of Hymnus Eucharisticus by choristers atop Magdalen College tower, followed by lively peels of bells. Strict rules ban mass gatherings and forbid people leaving their homes without a valid reason, such as going to work, food shopping or getting exercise.

Article By Fran Way @OxMailFranW Reporter dated 30th April 2020
Britain is 'past the peak' of coronavirus - but we can't come out of lockdown until we're sure it wouldn't risk a second spike, the PM said.
A total of 674 more deaths have been recorded since yesterday in all settings.
But the peak has been passed, Boris Johnson said.
Speaking in this afternoon's press conference, he likened the coronavirus crisis to a 'tunnel' we've passed through and we can now see 'the sunshine.'
He says he will set out next week a plan for how we get back to work and school. But five key tests must be met before we come out of lockdown.