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Council issues warning of queues Anyone planning to visit the Farthinghoe Waste Recycling Centre over the Easter weekend is being warned is it expected to be very busy. West Northamptonshire Council predict queues for visitors and acknowledge these can be frustrating, but ask that people be patient whilst their staff work hard to keep things […]

Three fire engines were called late on Thursday morning Emergency services have been dealing with a shed and garage fire at a property opposite the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Oxfordshire County Council’s Fire and Rescue Service were called at 11.28am.   They sent three fire engines to the blaze in the Oxford Road, from Banbury, […]

The equipment will help diagnose urinary retention and other bladder issues A friendship society, which organises social events and wellbeing support for people, has donated funding to purchase a £12,000 bladder scanner for the Horton General Hospital. Two members of the North Gloucestershire Oddfellows recently visited the hospital to see the equipment, which is now […]

Trading Standards found that the public were losing out with over half of the drinks purchased Over half of the drinks purchased by undercover trading standards officers at 10 Oxfordshire pubs were found to be short measured. Officers from Oxfordshire County Council’s trading standards team posed as members of the public and ordered wine, beer, […]

National Offer Day brings the news they wanted for over 94 percent of parents Parents of children who will be starting primary education this September woke this morning to the news of which school their child has been allocated. Today is National Offer Day for primary school places. In Oxfordshire 94.04 percent of children were […]

It’s a tool to address aggressive begging, nuisance, street drinking and actions that cause alarm or distress A public spaces protection order has been put in place in Banbury town centre and People’s Park. This gives the police and council additional powers to impose fines for a number of types of antisocial behaviour.   These include […]

Banbury’s MP joined Cropredy Women’s Institute to tour the facility By 2029 the Banbury Sewage Treatment Works will be able to process 490 litres of wastewater per second – an increase of 84 percent over the 266 litres per second it can currently deal with. Thames Water is carrying out a £14.7 million upgrade at […]

Thefts occurred in both Greatworth and Kings Sutton Police are investigating two separate incidents of thefts from garden sheds in local villages.   In both cases garden machinery was taken, including a chain saw. In Greatworth a break-in occurred in South Close between Thursday April 10 at 4.30pm and 7.30am the following morning.   A number of […]

Officers had recommended approving the Higham Way plans An application to build commercial units on land which had been allocated for new housing in Grimsbury has been refused. But the decision may be questioned by the land owners as the emerging Local Plan for the Cherwell District was set to change the site from residential […]

Banbury councillor Mark Cherry was one of two who attended every meeting by Esme Kenney, Local Democracy Reporter The Oxfordshire County councillors with the best and worst meeting attendance across the full council term have been revealed. The data shows the meetings that councillors were expected to attend between May 18 2021 when the first […]