It is nicknamed the ‘City of Dreaming Spires’ for its picturesque Anglo-Saxon architecture, but for those trying to rid Oxford of its traffic congestion, things on the ground resembled more of a nightmare when they found themselves at the centre of a global conspiracy theory.
It all started in October last year, with a relatively simple idea - the local council wanted to split the city into six different districts and introduce rules on how often motorists could drive outside their area.
