The Corner House in Hollow Way, Headington, was built in the mid-1930s and remains a trading pub in the present day, despite rumours a decade ago it would be turned into a convenience store.

In 2015, New River Retail applied to change the use of the pub so it could be turned into a convenience store.

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However in that same year local people successfully nominated it as an Asset of Community Value and the change of use did not occur.

Currently, it is reported that the New River Retail lease the pub to Marston’s PLC, which operates more than 1,300 pubs and inns across Great Britain.

The Corner House pub in Headington (Image: Savills)

However, this week it was put up for a £707,500 sale by Savills UK.

Its listing stated: “The property comprises the basement, ground and first floors of a two-storey detached building, together with a single-storey extension, with painted elevations beneath a pitched roof.

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“The property has an approximate site area of 0.124 of an acre.”

Its business rates value is £15,000 and its let to Marston’s Plc does not expire until November 2031 with a passing rent of £43,473 per annum.

The Corner House has a 4.2-star rating based on over 200 Google reviews and hosts regular karaoke and live music evenings.

Lombard Road in Abingdon, between East St Helen Street and West St Helen Street, will be shut from July 3 to July 7 to allow Oxfordshire County Council to carry out footway slurry works.

The closure is being put in place in the interests of ‘public safety’.

In a social media post, Abingdon-on-Thames Town Council said: “A Temporary Traffic Regulation Notice is being made to implement the temporary closure and restriction and will operate on the days shown above.”

Access will be maintained for emergency service vehicles and for those frontages within the closure area, subject to the progress of the works and liaison with the works supervisor.

For more information about the works, contact Tim Belton at Oxfordshire County Council on 07812 237621.

Phoebe Jones, 16, from Bicester, fell ill in August 2022 while in Year 8 at Whitelands Academy.

She suffers from Functional Neurological Disorder, Myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue, rumination and dysmotility. As a result she has lost weight and gets tired easily.

As a result of her multiple ailments, she has not been well enough to regularly attend school, where she should be sitting her GCSE’s this year.

Her mother, Emma Jones, 45, also recently underwent a single mastectomy and breast reconstruction after being diagnosed with cancer. She now faces chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

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Claire Barker, 43, who launched the fundraise and whose son, Leo is in the same year as Phoebe, met Emma at a baby group 15 years ago.

She hopes to raise £11,000 for an electric wheelchair and stairlift, as Phoebe has been unable to access her home for over a year while not receiving treatment at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Mrs Barker said Phoebe used to have a wheelchair, but it has been broken and unusable for several month and NHS and charity waiting lists for a new one closed because they are too long.

She said: “Phoebe has lost an awful lot of her ability to manually push herself around without feeling really unwell and with Emma undergoing therapy she also doesn’t have the strength to push her around.

“I think Emma’s diagnosis changed everyone’s view and they came to the realisation that they needed help, so we set up a Go Fund Me, raising more than half in 48 hours.

“It would be lovely to give Phoebe a bit more of that freedom back. The money could make such a huge difference to their quality of life and take a massive weight of the families minds and shoulders.”

A quiz night and raffle held at The Nightingale raise almost £1,500. Around £1,000 of tickets were sold and £470 was made on entries.

She said: “We managed to sell out the venue to the point that we were heaving to bring tables and chares in from the garden to fit everybody inside.”

She was encouraged by her 12-year-old daughter Rosie to start exploring more fundraising options.

She added: “Rosie kept saying we needed to do something to help because I think it’s been really difficult for everybody to witness a family suffer and not being able to do anything.”