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Awards will be presented at a ceremony during September Today is the last day for entries to be submitted for this year’s Cherwell Business Awards.   The awards aim to showcase and celebrate business excellence locally and are now in their eleventh year. Nominations in 12 categories offer an opportunity to reward those individuals and companies […]

A plant sale and swap and bat walk are amongst local opportunities to get involved Great Big Green Week begins this weekend.   The national campaign is run by The Climate Coalition and encourages nine days of action to raise awareness of climate change and demonstrate how community led action can make a difference. Around Oxfordshire […]

Ex-Blessed George Napier pupil Shaun Chaundy joined Norbar Torque in 1978 A Banbury man has been rewarded for 45 years of continuous service at a local company.   Shaun Chaundy first joined Norbar Torque on June 5, 1978 after completing a short period of work experience with them. Four-and-a-half decades later Shaun was this week presented […]

Over £15,000 has been donated since the lottery was founded Another £2,355 has been presented to the Keep The Horton General campaign by the Banbury United Community Lottery.   The latest donation takes the total donated since the lottery was founded to more than £15,000. The community lottery was the brainchild of Mark Allitt, who was […]

Keep Hanwell Village Rural Action Group is encouraging people from surrounding villages to get involved An action group which is fighting to stop development in the fields around the villages to the north of Banbury is looking for more people to come forward to help them.   In the face of a number of active planning […]

Mark Hall wowed the judges with his expertise, problem solving skills and commitment to customer satisfaction A Banbury plumber has been crowned the regional winner for the south-east in the 2023 National Heating Installer Awards.   Mark Hall is now up against other regional winners to find out if he will be named as the national […]

“There were a lot of tears shed, but unfortunately its just not viable” After 38 years of performing at military parades and events around the UK the Shires Band is closing.   The announcement was made on Tuesday evening. The marching band originally started in 1985 as the Bodicote Royal British Legion youth band.   They renamed […]

Energy pods, sleep tubes, wellbeing nooks and outdoor gym equipment is included Staff at the Horton General and other Oxford University Hospitals are benefiting from around £0.5m of investment in new wellbeing equipment, which has been installed to improve their working lives. Energy pods, sleep tubes and wellbeing nooks – two person seating areas for […]

The offences were committed against a UK female A United States airman has been charged with multiple counts of rape against a woman at RAF Croughton. 21-year-old Lee Bogstad is accused of three counts of raping the woman- who’s a UK citizen – at the airbase.   The offences happened between November 2020 and February 2021. […]

Four separate incidents are believed to be linked Two men posing as representatives for a water company are believed to have undertaken a number of distraction burglaries in West and North Oxfordshire in the past few days, including at a property in Bodicote yesterday (Monday). Three other offences were committed on Friday – two in […]



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