I was encouraged to read that the Chancellor George Osborne wishes to start negotiations about the EU treaty with the aim of repatriating powers currently held in Brussels to nation states.

I read reports in the media yesterday about how the EU wants to increase its spending hugely over the next seven years - at a cost of more than £400 per family in Britain.

I am currently sitting in a meeting of all 74 Oxfordshire County Councillors, one of half a dozen such meetings that take place every year in the Council Chamber at County Hall in Oxford.

I was encouraged to read that the Chancellor George Osborne wishes to start negotiations about the EU treaty with the aim of repatriating powers currently held in Brussels to nation states.

I read reports in the media yesterday about how the EU wants to increase its spending hugely over the next seven years - at a cost of more than £400 per family in Britain.

I am currently sitting in a meeting of all 74 Oxfordshire County Councillors, one of half a dozen such meetings that take place every year in the Council Chamber at County Hall in Oxford.

Firefighters tackle a suspected arson attack at a pub in Oxford.

Volunteer groups in West Oxfordshire are trained to carry out thermal imaging to help reduce energy bills.

A prisoner who absconded from jail three years into his sentence for stealing antiques from country houses in Oxfordshire is arrested in a hotel.