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The public can learn the essential skills in Spiceball Park this Saturday Free life-saving first aid training is available to people in Banbury this Saturday. The sessions are part of a national drive by volunteers from St John Ambulance to teach 50,000 people in England vital first aid skills during September. The Save a Life […]

Lynnie and Sally will be raising money for the Katharine House Hospice Longtime friends Lynnie Hanson and Sally Green will this weekend repeat a charity skydive challenge which they first completed two decades ago.   Back in 2001 Lynnie and Sally first jumped out of a plane at 13,000 feet to raise money for Katharine House […]

The council are exploring options to bring the site back into community use Its back-to-school week, but one local primary school won’t be reopening this academic year. Southfield Primary Academy in Brackley closed its doors for the final time at the end of July.   The school’s governors announced in October last year that falling numbers […]

The Council’s Executive will consider transferring the upgraded system to the force Cherwell District Council could be about to join the Thames Valley CCTV partnership, if councillors agree to spending a quarter of a million pounds on the project. Currently the Council owns and operates a network of 63 CCTV cameras across the district.   The […]

A number of buildings would be converted to residential homes but the pub would be retained The owner of the Cartwright Hotel in Aynho has applied for planning permission to convert parts of the hotel into residential homes, but they are planning to retain the front of the building as a pub. Oxfordshire Hotels Ltd […]

Police were called shortly after midnight on Sunday A man was found in Banbury town centre with stab wounds during the early hours of this morning (Sunday). Police officers were called to the junction of Butchers Row and High Street at 12.20am. The man, who’s in his twenties, was taken to hospital, where he remains […]

Lib Dems want to block government plans, but Banbury’s MP says it’s a tough choice, but necessary Oxfordshire’s Liberal Democrat MPs have all backed a motion in Parliament to block government plans to scrap Winter Fuel Payments for most pensioners. But Banbury’s Labour MP says the decision was a tough choice but a necessary one […]

The families were given a free slow cooker, recipe book and ingredients A grant from Cherwell District Council has enabled a local charity to run a ‘healthy eating for families on a budget’ scheme. Home-Start Banbury, Bicester and Chipping Norton received £1,400 which helped support twenty families in taking a healthier approach to meal times, […]

The costs arise when refused applicants take their case to the Planning Inspector The cost of defending planning decisions where the applicant has appealed to the Planning Inspector has reached £327,000 in the Cherwell District so far this financial year. The amount spent, which comes from Council Tax payers, is already over three times the […]

Most residential roads will become 20mph, but key routes will remain at 30mph New speed limits of 20mph look set to be introduced on the majority of roads in Banbury, but the case brought by local councillors to retain 30mph limits on key town centre routes has been accepted. Oxfordshire County Council’s Cabinet Member for […]