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Residents are advised to plan ahead with the project set to take until the summer Work to widen traffic lanes on Cherwell Street and improve traffic signals to make bus journeys through Banbury town centre more reliable will begin in early January. Safer crossings for pedestrians at key junctions are also included as part of […]

A warm and dry place to sleep will be made available With temperatures set to fall to minus three overnight West Northamptonshire Council has activated its Severe Weather Emergency Protocol.   This will be in place until at least 9am tomorrow. It means rough sleepers in the council’s area, including Brackley and Middleton Cheney, will be […]

A previous visit noted “widespread systemic failings” “Effective action” has been taken to make improvements in services and support for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities in Oxfordshire. That’s according to Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission following a recent monitoring inspection. In July 2023 they found “widespread systemic failings” during […]

A sales of the business’ assets is possible but the deal doesn’t include staff An Adderbury based company which grew over forty years to having 30 showrooms across the country, has entered Administration with 133 people being made redundant. Fired Earth began selling terracotta floor tiles from a farm site home in 1983. Dane O’Hara […]

The group points to evidence from elsewhere of the positive benefits of the change A local active travel group has welcomed the decision to reduce the speed limit to 20mph on the main road through the centre of Banbury. Banbury Active Travel Supporters campaigns to make public thoroughfares safer and more accessible for cyclists, walkers […]

Both were hospitalised following the Saturday night collision Two men were seriously injured when a car and a minibus collided on the A422 at Farthinghoe on Saturday night. Witnesses to the collision, which happened at around 10.15pm, are being sought. Both drivers – a man in his 50s and another in his 40s – were […]

Two-thirds of local sewage treatment works were pumping sewage into our waterways at 2pm Storm Claudia has brought heavy rain to our area with a warning of flooding from rivers, full of sewage from local treatment works. The rain started falling late on Thursday with the Met Office issuing an amber alert advising of the […]

Oxfordshire’s Highways Chief explained how he came to his decision A 20 mile-per-hour speed limit through the centre of Banbury has been approved. The lower limit will be implemented on the Southam Road from Cooper’s Gate (north of St Mary’s School) as far as Old Parr Road, shortly before the Horton General Hospital. Labour County […]

The Toyota Rav4 was taken from the High Street Police are appealing for witnesses following the theft of a vehicle from Croughton at the weekend. The blue Toyota Rav4 was stolen from the High Street between 6pm last Friday evening and 10am the following morning. Anyone who saw suspicious people or vehicles in the area […]

The move has come to light as part of a countywide consultation on service changes The number of firefighters at Banbury Fire Station on Cope Road will fall from 28 to 24 if proposals by Oxfordshire County Council move forward. A consultation on a number of changes to the service across the county was launched […]