Jennie Bailey

A new campaign has started in Oxford - not on the gentrification by big name chains - but against a proposal to spend £150,000 on sprinkling CCTV cameras along the short length of the Cowley Road.

Coffee and Subway, this clone-town gentrification still hasn’t stopped accusations that Cowley Road is the most dangerous in Oxford. The police want to put eight CCTV cameras along the road in a bid to stop the - mostly drunken - street brawls. The ridiculously named ‘Operation Bratwurst’ currently has officers out in force; the idea is that CCTV would free up police time. Read more on our blog...