Report by David Lynch about Back to School dates. Parents were urged to send their children back to primary schools in Oxfordshire next week, as the county council dishes out masses of protective equipment. Across the county, 94 per cent of schools have remained open to vulnerable children and the children of key workers during the lockdown. But as of Monday, June 1, the government has said primary school-aged children in Years 1 and 6, as well as nursery and reception classes, should return to school. To prepare for this, Oxfordshire County Council has given out masses of masks, visors, gloves and other Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) which teachers can use in case a child in their class is ill. Government advice says children returning to school should not be made to wear PPE automatically.

Newspaper article about Professors Martin Landray and Peter Horley , they had identified the first treatment known to saves lives from Covid 19 . The Oxford University professors had discovered that the drug dexamethasone had reduced deaths by a third among Covid 19 patients ill enough to be ventilated.

Newspaper article reporting that the Covid-19 vaccine being developed at the University of Oxford was safe
The trial took place between April 23 and May 21 and the findings were published by medical journal the Lancet,

Newspaper report about refurbishment of the Old Grammar School.
Community groups in Bampton had spent years fundraising to upgrade the Building, used as the Cottage Hospital in the hit TV series Downton Abbey. The 17th Century building already housed the village library and archive, plus a small shop, renovation work was to start December 2020. and it was scheduled to open in Spring 2021. West Oxfordshire District Council’s approved a £48,750 grant for Bampton Community Archive (BCA), owned by the Bampton Exhibition Foundation, who themselves made a ‘substantial contribution’ to the project. But the BCA has raised more than £50,000 plus grants, including almost £38,000 in £1 donations through the Bampton Mile appeal. This aim to collect one mile of £1 coins, which laid flat around the Downton Abbey Location Tour would raise £71,527.

Newspaper article reporting on the number of deaths and reported cases in May 2021

Memorials of the Williams family of Cote in the Parish of Bampton. It includes genealogical tables, together with a fascinating history of the Williams family.

Mrs Bliss, widow of Colonel Bliss, spent her remaing days at Bampton House. Percy Bowerman was her chauffeur and would drive her around the village in her green Morris Minor. When she died, Percy inherited the Morris Minor.

This was cottage was advertised for sale in June 2024.

A modern 4 bedroom house in The Pieces. The house in the The Pieces was built in 1973 and sold for £13,000.