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After the storm: Monday updates
25/11/2024
These are the latest details on how our area us managing after Storm Bert
UPDATED: 9am
TRAINS:
- Due to heavy rain flooding the railway between Banbury and Bicester North trains have to run at reduced speed on all lines.
BUSES:
- Stagecoach S4 – will only be able to serve main road Adderbury.
- The 200 service is Cancelled due to flooding on the A361 between Wardington and Chipping Warden.
- The bus station is still flooded and this means that all bus services will be running from Bridge Street.
POWER:
- A power cut is affecting parts of Hardwick in Banbury. The incident was reported at 5.15am and 155 properties are without electricity close to Hardwick primary school. National Grid estimate supplies will be restored by 3pm.
- 368 homes are also without power around the Kings Sutton area. Supplies were reported as down at 5.23am and it was hoped they would be restored by 9am.
ROADS:
- On the A361 people are being sent back towards Banbury or back towards Wardington due to a flood at the bottom of the hill.
- A422 flooded at Middleton Cheney.
- Between Twyford and Kings Sutton the road is flooded closes to Cherwell Valley Silos.
RIVERS:
- Property flooding is expected at places along the River Cherwell from north of Edgecott and Cropredy to above Banbury and from just south of Banbury to Lower Heyford. A red flood warning is in place here (with properties on Wales Street at Kings Sutton are most at risk). The flood defences are holding much of the water away from Banbury itself.
- A red flood alert is in place for the River Great Ouse at Brackley. The areas most at risk are Mill Road in Whitfield, Turweston Mill, and in Brackley – Mill Lane, Buckingham Road, Boundary Road, Willow Road and Shires Road.
- Another red alert is in force for the Sor and Bloxham Brooks with property flooding closeby along the route of the river expected.
SCHOOLS CLOSED:
- Bloxham Primary
- Cropredy Church of England Primary School
- The Wykham Park Academy site is closed for all students. The Futures Institute is open as usual.
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Published: by Banbury FM Newsteam