Saturday

1. As part of the Christmas Light Festival a number of events will be held across the city. These include a lantern making workshop at Oxford Town Hall’s Museum of Oxford from 10am to 3.30pm and a Stardust and Snowflakes dance show on the lawn outside the Pitt Rivers Museum from 4.45pm.

2. Former Candyskins frontman Nick Cope will launch his fourth album of children’s music, The Pirate’s Breakfast, with two shows at the Story Museum in Pembroke Street, Oxford from 10.30am.

3. The Streetlight festival will be held this weekend in Magdalen Road. Volunteers from Helen and Douglas House hospice charity will be at Magdalen Road Church from 11am to 4pm. There will be an art display made by youngsters from the hospice, a puppeteer and storyteller and a chance for children to make butterflies for its Butterfly Tribute.

4. Sir Terry Wogan will visit The Bookstore in Bury Street, Abingdon, from noon to 1pm to sign copies of his new book, The Little Book of Common Sense.

Sunday

5. A Day of Song will be held in Oxford as part of the Christmas Light Festival. It will begin with a performance by the Oxford Harmony Club at the Clarendon Centre at 11am and finishes with performances at the Museum of Oxford, Oxford Castle and Westgate Centre from 4pm. To find out the full list visit oxfordschristmas.com.

6. An open training session will be held for the GB Amputee Football team at Oxford City FC Community Arena, Marsh Lane, between 11am and 1pm. The team is training in Oxford ahead of the Amputee Football World Cup in Mexico.

And on our radar for the rest of the week....

Monday

Minster Lovell will have the chance to talk to Stagecoach Oxfordshire managing director Martin Sutton about their bus service when he attends a parish council meeting at Minster Lovell Methodist Church at 7pm.

Tuesday

Oxfordshire County Council’s cabinet will meet at County Hall at 2pm. Items being discussed include creating a pelican crossing in Ock Street, Abingdon.

The final decision will be made on plans to redevelop the Westgate Centre when Oxford City Council’s west area planning committee meets at the Town Hall at 6.30pm.

Thursday

A formal acceptance ceremony will be held at RAF Brize Norton after the station received the first of 22 Airbus A400M Atlas aircraft, which will replace the Hercules fleet. Details are yet to be announced.

Friday

Morrisons in Headington is the casualty in the supermarket wars in the area, closing today. The M Local branch had only replaced Blockbusters in October last year.