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Victim had been playing football by Hill Community Centre when two older youths approached him A young boy received cuts and bruising to his arm after an assault by two older boys in a Banbury park. The victim had been playing football in the park by the Hill Community Centre on Dover Avenue at around […]

Drug dealers trapped themselves by smashing car into a trolley bay after ramming a police car Drug dealers who rammed a police car and smashed into a Banbury supermarket trolley bay whilst trying to flee the police have been jailed. Asim Akram, aged 37, of Phillimore Road, Birmingham and Ibrar Hussain, aged 41, of Foxton […]

MP says it seems logical to create a new constituency to cover the Bicester area Banbury’s MP has given her support to the proposals to split the existing Banbury parliamentary constituency, creating a new Bicester constituency to the south and extending the northern area to include Chipping Norton with Banbury. The proposed changes were announced […]

New shopping centre base has been opened in anticipation of post pandemic demand Employment in Banbury, the Flexible Support Fund, and the Kickstart Scheme were all discussed when our MP Victoria Prentis visited the new temporary Job Centre in Castle Quay Shopping Centre last week. The town centre accommodation, opposite Boots in the shopping centre, […]

System will help with quicker entrance and exit to the car parks and better management of how people use them Visitors to the John Radcliffe and Churchill Hospitals in Oxford who plan to park at the hospitals will notice new Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras have been installed. The system photographs all vehicles entering and […]

A silver food caddy is on the way but it will cost at least £36 to have your brown garden waste bin emptied Details of the new arrangements for food and garden waste collections in the Cherwell District have been released.   They show that households are set to receive a new outdoor food waste caddy, […]

A pandemic boom in dog ownership hasn’t been matched by an increase in local licenced dealers If you’re thinking of getting a puppy make sure you avoid unscrupulous online dealers.   That’s the warning from Cherwell District Council after a rise in the number of animals being sold via social media. The council is warning pet […]

Police are looking for witnesses to the incident involving a lorry and a silver Audi A3 A heavy goods vehicle travelling north on the A43 last week was subjected to road rage by a car driver. The lorry was heading north from Silverstone between 5.20pm and 5.30pm last Friday (July 23).   The HGV driver spotted […]

Operators were found committing a string of offences in Middleton Cheney Scrap metal collectors who were operating illegally in Middleton Cheney were also found to have also broken other laws.   They were also found to have no driving licence and no insurance. The collector’s van was seized and they have been reported for the offences […]

The centre at Alkerton is one of seven in the county covered by a new consultation Are you a user of the household waste and recycling centre at Alkerton, or one of the other centres in Oxfordshire?   The County Council is seeking local people’s views on the service that is provided now and what they […]