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Its being paid for through income from a temporary congestion charge Banbury people heading to Oxford will be able to take advantage of free park-and-ride journeys into the city very soon. The scheme is being paid for from income to a new temporary congestion charge scheme which is being brought in by Oxfordshire County Council. […]

So far 1,148 pieces of cake, 658 baked potatoes and 500 bowls of soup have been served It’s a year since a new Katharine House café opened at the Adderbury based hospice and the team there have been reflecting on its impact on patients, visitors and staff. The Garden Café opened in October 2024, following […]

The Museum needs to become a commercially successful operation Banbury Museum will receive another £590,104 of grant funding from Cherwell District Council over the next two years, but its less than the museum has received in the past and continues a downward trajectory. The Museum has operated as an independent trust since 2013 and maintains […]

Committee agrees to another 150 homes because the risks of not doing so were too great A local councillor has questioned the point of Cherwell’s planning committee, in the face of government rules which have left them no option but to wave through planning applications against the wishes of the local community. Speaking at the […]

The theme of Mayor Kieron Mallon’s year is Banbury’s history and traditions A Banbury councillor has saved a number of historic items which were abandoned in Bodicote House from being consigned to a skip. After Cherwell District Council vacated their home of 51 years, Councillor Kieron Mallon – who is the Town Mayor in Banbury […]

Sean Woodcock says the article is a misrepresentation of the town Banbury’s MP has hit back at a national newspaper article which described Banbury as a “crime ridden town”.   Sean Woodcock branded the piece “shameful”. Reporters from the Daily Mail spoke to a number of people in Banbury and wrote of “mounting concern” about the […]

It’s the second time the Daily Mail has written about the town A national newspaper has attacked Banbury describing it as a “Crime ridden town on the edge of the Cotswolds blighted by a migrant hotel where residents spend all day drinking in [a] park ‘where [a] woman was raped’ – just yards from a […]

Police have asked for witnesses to come forward A man lost his life on Saturday morning when a horsebox collided with a car on Iron Down between Hempton and the A361. The collision happened near Upper Grove Ash Farm at around 11.30am involving a Volkswagen T-Cross and an Iveco Horsebox. The 78-year-old driver of the […]

They even took the victim’s rain coat A mobility scooter has been stolen from a 90-year-old man in Banbury town centre. Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses to the incident which occurred between 1.30pm and 1.45pm last Thursday (October 1), outside Orinoco on the High Street. A group of three men took the dark […]

The opening of a new café means the store must again provide toilet facilities Banbury’s MP Sean Woodcock has welcomed the news that toilet facilities will reopen at the Sainsbury’s store on the Oxford Road in Banbury.   It comes as a new Costa Coffee outlet opens in the supermarket. Generally in the UK cafes with […]