Oxford City Council chief executive Peter Sloman, pictured, found time to unwind last week.

The council boss took time out from running the affairs of one of the world’s most iconic cities to enjoy the affairs of another.

He joined other cinemagoers at the Phoenix Picture House, Jericho, for the final night of the Oxford Mail film festival.

This year’s Woody Allen-themed event climaxed with a sell-out screening of Manhattan.

Movie-goers were all issued with a pair of Woody Allen specs to enjoy the show.

And The Insider hears Mr Sloman was so taken with his he wore them all night. Maybe a new look beckons?

Oxford’s beloved fictional detective Lewis returned to our screens last week. In the opening episode, The Soul Of Genius, the body of an English Professor is discovered by a young botanist – cue the murder investigation.

But the real crime was committed by researchers.

The show contained references to Oxford’s Botanic Gardens – in the plural.

The culprit was obviously not of this city, sir.

Prince Charles got his geography a little muddled when handing the Royal Charter to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies last week.

He is a patron of the £60m centre, due to open next year, and has had a hand in designing aspects of the impressive garden.

But he described it as a “magnificent new building which has risen off the end of The High, behind Magdalen College”.

Which is not where most people would naturally place the building that sits in Marston Road.

But the Prince has been a supporter of the centre since its foundation in 1985.

He has twice delivered lectures at the centre and visited again when building work began back in 2002.

He gave the Royal Charter at a ceremony at Clarence House.

Prime Ministers are often accused of flogging the family silver, but when David Cameron sold his “most treasured possession”, a cricket bat autographed by Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar, it was for a very good cause.

The bat fetched £3,400 for the Rwanda Cricket Stadium Foundation.

It was auctioned at an event in memory of Christopher Shale, the former West Oxfordshire Conservative Association chairman who died of a heart attack at the Glastonbury Festival last year.

Mr Cameron is a patron of the foundation, which is aiming to construct and manage a not-for-profit international standard cricket and sports centre in Kigali, Rwanda.