It’s the European and County Elections tomorrow. You will get two ballot papers and have three votes: one for a party in the European and two for County candidates to represent the area comprising Headington, Marston and Northway. Your two County Councillors are presently part of the LibDem team and one of those, Altaf Khan, is standing for re-election. Alongside him, Barry Crossman who works on the University research site on Old Road, is standing hopefully to join Altaf. I am hoping that our team will remain at full strength as only that way can we best represent the people of Headington. I see that the Tories’ slogan is ‘Vote for Change’ — and considering the Conservatives have run the County for the past four years, introducing residents’ parking charges, cut budgets for traffic maintenance, messed up the buses in our area etc etc, I certainly hope that Headington will vote to send the County Conservatives a message that we need a change of Council!

Enough of the soap-box. Here is the public service announcement. Where to vote between 7am and 10pm:

• if you live between London Road and Old Road, between Windmill Rd and Brookside (and also including the Rock Edge area), you vote at the old Scout Hut on Perrin St in New Headington
• if you live in Old Headington, between Dunstan Rd and Larkins Lane, or between Osler Road and Old High Street (including North Place), you go to the Baptist Church (NOT, please note, the Viking Sports Centre — you go there if you live in the area bounded by Barton Lane and Barton Rd)
• if you live around the top half of Headley Way, from Franklin Rd over to Sandfield Rd, taking in Beech Rd too, you vote in St Antony of Padua Church Hall, just below the entrance to the JR

As the area covered by the County division extends beyond Headington, it might be useful to give the other polling stations as well:

• if you live around the bottom half of Headley Way, including the ‘Lakes’ area and Copse Lane, you vote at New Marston First School on Copse Lane
• if you live in Northway, you vote in the Community Centre, just next to the old school which Labour want to flog off and demolish
• if you live on the north side of Marston Road, including Crotch Crescent, Lynn Close and the Jack Straws Lane, Haberton Mead area (but excluding Moody, Pritchard, Peacock and William St), you vote at St Michael’s Church, at the bottom of Jack Straws Lane
• if you live on the south side of Marston Road, from Ferry Road over to Wadham Park, or in one of the streets north of Marston Road excluded from the Jack Straws Lane polling district, you vote at the Scout Hall, at the corner of William St and Marston Rd (note this new location)
• if you live in the Croft Road estate or Ouseley Close, you vote at URC on Marston Road, just opposite the entrance to Croft Road
• if you live in the Carter Estate or in Old Marston Village, you vote at Mortimer Hall

Got it?! If you have any questions of if you want a lift to the polls, give us a call on election day on 01865 798777.