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Oxfordshire County Council has managed to place 90% of youngsters in the parent’s first choice of secondary school Nine out of ten youngsters starting secondary education this coming September in Oxfordshire will be heading to their parent’s first choice school. Figures out today reveal that 89.99% of the 6,371 applications received by the County Council […]

Visitors need to allow enough time so they can park safely A Banbury surgery is asking some of their visitors to take more care parking when attending appointments.    The Banbury Cross Health Centre on South Bar has taken to social media after a number of recent problems. Last week the surgery said it had seen […]

A 40-year-old motorcyclist loses his life after a collision with a car Witnesses are being sought following a fatal collision in Aynho last night (Sunday February 28).   A 40-year-old male motorcyclist sadly died at the scene. The accident happened at around 9.15pm on the B4100 through the village.   A red Yamaha FJR motorbike was travelling […]

Popular chippy doing all it can to warn customers about fake Facebook account pretending to be them A Banbury Chip Shop owner is appealing for people to beware of scammers after a fake Facebook account pretending to be his business started contacting people asking for their bank details. George Xiourouas has run the Grimsbury Fish […]

The store behind the Cherwell Centre on George Street will not reopen after lockdown Banbury’s Matalan store will not be reopening after lockdown restrictions are lifted.   A spokesperson for the company has confirmed to Banbury FM that the store behind the Cherwell Centre on George Street is closing down. The company says that the Banbury […]

Warwick Road shop swooped on by trading standards A Banbury shop owner has been ordered to pay back £75,000 following a raid where counterfeit cigarettes were seized.  Trading Standards visited the Banbury Express Food and Wine Limited at 179 Warwick Road in June 2019.   Oxfordshire County Council’s trading standards team brought a prosecution of Narinder […]

Residents loose their supplies for the second morning this week, but steps are taken to resolve the problem A number of properties on Cherwell Heights were without power this morning, for the second time this week.   64 properties in the High Acres and Coppice Close area lost their supplies just after 9.30am today. Supplies were […]

The Cherwell District was the only part of Oxfordshire to have increases in cases last week Six weeks of falling COVID infection rates in the Banbury FM area have been halted after figures for last week showed small increases once again.   The latest data comes in the same week as Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed […]

Neil Wild joins Meanwhile in Oxfordshire which seeks to transform our High Streets A Banbury property expert is joining a project to launch a £1.9 million revitalisation of vacant property across Oxfordshire.   Neil Wild of Wild Property Consultancy has been appointed to Meanwhile in Oxfordshire. The project is being administered by Oxford City Council and […]

“We’ve found that keeping with a regular routine and remaining in daily contact with others, has been so important spiritually and mentally when so much seems out of your control.” Banbury Mosque, on Merton Street, have joined forces with Oxfordshire County Council to back Public Health England’s Every Mind Matters campaign. With local places of […]