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[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] An appeal that will give the children of Banbury’s needy familes a merry Christmas is underway this week. The Toy Appeal was launched by town mayor Councillor John Colegrave. It will enable youngsters who wouldn’t normally receive presents to wake up on Christmas Day to find parcels at their bedsides. Councillor Colegrave is asking […]

Banbury’s youngest-ever Christmas Lights guests had a day to remember at an action-packed switch-on festival.

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Thames Valley Police is appealing for witnesses following an incident of assault which took place in Banbury last Saturday evening (9th November). Between 11pm and 11.30pm a 35-year-old man was assaulted in the toilets of The Dog and Gun public house, in North Bar. He was taken to hospital with head injuries and has […]

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] published 15/11/19 14:45 A number of areas of Banbury look set to be affected by today’s flooding over the coming days. The Mill Arts Centre has announced it will be closed for the next few days.   A message posted this morning says, “All shows and classes from Friday 15 to Monday 18 November inclusive have […]

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Two young winners of a design-a-Christmas card competition will be guests of honour at Banbury’s biggest yuletide party. Emily Barker-Fox, aged seven, and six-year-old Charlotte Atherton will join town mayor John Colegrave at the always-popular Christmas Lights Festival on Sunday November 24 to press the button that switches on the town’s seasonal decorations. The […]

[vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Banbury’s Remembrance Day on Sunday paid tribute to the service men and women who died in two world wars and later conflicts.  Onlookers applauded as a military and civic procession marched from Broad Street to St Mary’s Church for a memorial mass.   More than 350 men, women and children took part in the parade and […]