Local News

We’re being encouraged to keep up the activity levels through the spring Keeping fit and active was a high priority for lots of us as 2023 started.   Local people flocked through the doors of Spiceball Leisure Centre, giving the sports facility its fourth busiest month on record in January.   Swimming classes also saw record attendances. […]

The cold snap is set to be with us until Friday Snow and ice could affect the Banbury FM area as we head into Tuesday.   The Met office has issued a yellow weather warning covering the period from 9pm tonight (Monday) through to 10am on Tuesday morning. Temperatures are predicted to fall below freezing after […]

“Residents … are getting fed up raising this issue and would like to see the road resurfaced” Three local councillors are urging Oxfordshire County Council to lobby central government for more funding to cover the costs of resurfacing places like the pot-hole ridden Warwick Road in Banbury.  Labour County Councillor Mark Cherry, together with District […]

Dylan McCaig has just started work in the role St Mary’s Church in Banbury has a new Director of Music.   Dylan McCaig has taken on the role.   He will be known to some people as a Music Teacher and Organ Tutor at The Warriner School in Bloxham. Mr McCaig began his musical training at the […]

Councillors will present their reports and hear the views of local people The councillors who are elected to oversee the work of Banbury Town Council will this evening present their reports on what they have achieved for the town during the last twelve months.   Banbury residents are allowed to take part in the meeting, giving […]

People across the area reported hearing a loud bang at the start of Saturday lunchtime People across the Banbury FM area reported their houses shaking with the sound of a large explosion at around 12.15pm on Saturday lunchtime. The noise – which is thought to have been a sonic boom created by fighter jets flying […]

Genuinely affordable homes, a tenant’s charter and creating dynamic town centres are included in the proposals Ahead of the local elections at the start of May the Labour party has announced its manifesto for the Cherwell District. Their seven priority areas include delivering more genuinely affordable homes for local people to rent or buy and […]

The service has been developed in partnership with local autistic young people Autistic children and young people with an eating disorder can now take advantage of tailored support from a programme called PEACE – the Pathway for Eating disorders and Autism developed from Clinical Experience.   Its running in Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. PEACE aims to […]

The male had been giving officers the slip but was finally stopped in Brackley Police have caught up with a disqualified driver who’s been back behind the wheel.   The male had been evading officers for a while, but was finally caught yesterday on the approaches to Brackley driving a Skoda Octavia.. Three teams from both […]

Some are operating close to normally, others are closed to most year groups Members of the National Education Union are taking industrial action again today.   Locally schools are affected in different ways with some operating normally for all but one or two year groups, whilst others are closed to most young people. In Banbury only […]