BIG news for the Big Bang.

One of Oxford’s best-known restaurants, as well as three other independent traders, has been given a new lease of life, after it emerged that plans to renovate a landmark Victorian building in Jericho have been shelved.

Ensuring, at least for the moment, that one small part of Oxford will remain immune from the scourge of overdevelopment. If only that could be said for the rest of the county...