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Creatively Clever was created by Wolvercote YPC and Leys CDI. It is a young person led inititive helping Oxford residents aged 13 to 18 to overcome the difficulties of lockdown with group activities available online.

Shipton Hub started with the beginning of lockdown. Previous to the coronavirus pandemic, volunteers had been distributing free Pret A Manger food once a week through the food waste app Olio. However with the onset of lock down and an increase in…

"At first I enjoyed the peace and quiet, and the cleaner air with hardly any traffic. Once I was the only person on High Street; on another occasion I seemed to have Christ Church Meadow all to myself. In spring the city would be thronged with the…

A video of the empty streets of Oxford during the Coronavirus lockdown.

"Been out for a walk on my own as have barely left the house in 3 weeks and needed the exercise . Although it was nice to see that people are isolating it was also so weird seeing Oxford city so empty, I have never in my whole life seen it like…

Covid-19: Oxford researchers developing rapidly-deployable ventilator, Oxford Mail Article, 24th March 2020. An article on the work done at Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences to engineer ways of making life-saving ventilators…

Applause at Derwent Avenue, Headington, Oxford on the 27th of March 2020.

We live in a small community of students and their spouses. I only learnt one of our neighbours' partner is a Doctor because the virus meant we were making sure everyone was looked after and could get in touch if they needed anything.

At 8pm we…

An article which was published in the Oxford Mail on Thursday 19 March about the reaction of children in Year 4 & 5 from Rose Hill Primary School towards the spread of the coronvirus. The following is a link to the Oxford Mail article on school…