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The Katharine House Hospice is hosting its annual Lights of Love celebration next month.

Charity to host annual ceremony to remember loved ones who have died

Kieron Galliard's amazing Lego replica model of St Mary's Church.

Win a cash prize by guessing how many Lego bricks in man’s amazing replica

Pupils from some of Banbury's schools showed their respect by laying wreathes at the cenotaph in People's Park.

Remembrance Day pictures from Banbury, Chipping Norton and Brackley

Pupils from the Frank Wise school with Cllr Jayne Strangwood at last year's festival.

Popular Christmas Tree Festival will return to Banbury next month

The arts team at St Mary's have planned another busy month of events for November.

Talks, mindfulness, and choral music will all feature at St Mary's Church

Chipping Norton Choral Society loosening up before their concert rehearsal.

Chipping Norton choir prepares for concert that focusses on the horrors of war

A photo from last year's Remembrance Day parade.

Remembrance Day to include parade, church service and wreath-laying ceremony

Steve Kilsby is pictured by a famous Banbury landmark, the Fine Lady on her White Horse

Town Mayor's Banbury history walk this weekend

24 on Beauty, Loss, and love

All you need is love, greater love: Banbury's newest chamber ensemble’s message ...

Horton Hospital's Power Choir is busy preparing for a special Christmas concert, which celebrates 75 years of the NHS.

Horton Hospital choir to celebrate 75 years of NHS with Christmas concert

Banbury's St Mary's Church has been preparing for a busy schedule of arts events set to take place over the next few weeks.

Banbury's St Mary's church host busy month of arts events

The Jigsaw Festival will run across three days from Thursday September 21 to Saturday 23 (10am-4 pm) at St Mary's Church

Jigsaw Festival is being held at a church in Banbury this week

The Calder Consort are set to perform their debut concert 'Ornament of the Earth' at St Mary's Church, Banbury on Friday 11th August at 7pm.

Calder Concert to perform debut concert 'Ornament of the Earth'

Critically acclaimed three-piece chamber ensemble Música d'Outrora will be performing their 'Across the Alps' concert.

Banbury's St Mary's Church invites visitors to enjoy day of Baroque music

The choir rehearsing for the Chipping Norton Music Festival last March

Chipping Norton Choral Society will be perform a lighter summer offering

Caroline Gillies (Dr Holt) who died, tragically, in a collision on the A361 at Bloxham last week

Woman who died in Bloxham car crash is named as a retired doctor

OWMVC singing a rousing sea shanty, complete with choreography!

Oxford Welsh Male Voice Choir comes to St Mary's church in Banbury

Former police officer Vertie Turner has taken over as the new head of environmental group Wild Banbury.

Ex-police officer swaps truncheon for trowel as new head of environmental group

Cllr Strangwood with the Frank Wise pupils with their tree.

Come along and see Christmas Tree Festival in Banbury

Amnesty International Write for Rights to take place at St Mary's Church this Saturday November 19.

Banbury church to host Amnesty International Write for Rights event

A procession of current service personnel, cadets, veterans, scouts, local organisations, and civic dignitaries marched through the town to St Mary’s Church.

Photos from Remembrance Day parades and services

Katharine House doctor Carrie Anderson and Inpatient Unit Ward Manager Abbie Hessey hold a candle for this year’s Lights of Love event

Hospice to host 'Lights of Love' ceremony to remember loved ones

Adderbury string quartet to perform at Chipping Norton's St Mary's Church.

Adderbury string quartet to perform in Chipping Norton

As part of the Great Big Green Week, a series of environmental events will be taking place in the village of Bloxham.

National green week celebration comes to village near Banbury

St Mary's Church, a cool refuge during the exceptionally hot days

Heatwave update - council tips closing early because of heatwave

Campaigners from Keep the Horton General are joined by other Horton supporters at a gathering to mark the hospital's 150th anniversary. Picture by Ian Gentles

Banbury wishes the Horton General Hospital a Happy 150th Birthday today (Sunday)...

Banbury Primary Schools' Festival of Voices concert set for next week at St Mary's Church

Banbury Primary Schools' Festival of Voices concert set for next week at St Mary...

Peter Smith, head of the metal recycling dynasty, Smiths of Bloxham, who has died aged 77

Peter Smith, founder of the well-known metal reclamation dynasty, Smiths of Blox...

Banbury area church holds ‘Wash Away your Sin with Gin’ evening to raise money t...

A multi-month arts festival is set to launch in the spring to celebrate the 200th anniversary for St Mary's Church in the town centre of Banbury

Banbury church marks 200th anniversary with launch of arts festival

Aled Jones, one of the classical world’s vocal powerhouses, has announced a very special tour for February and March

Classical singer and brodcaster Aled Jones to tour UK cathedral and churches - t...

The Christmas Tree Festival at Bloxham Church attracted 1,300 visitors

Christmas tree spectacle in Banburyshire village church draws in 1,300 visitors ...

A picture from the last Chrismas Tree Festival at St Mary's Church, Bloxham

Festive spectacle is promised at the Bloxham Christmas Tree Festival starting ea...

'Building Our Future' project Heating Team for St Mary's church, Bloxham holds regular site meetings in the fresh air. Pictured: Rev. Dale Gingrich, Martin Walsh, Paul Stone (Darnells), Jon Carlton and Joe Dennison (Ingleton Wood) (Submitted photo)

Banbury area church launches major development project

Photo shows a scene from the wreath-laying ceremony in Banbury from 2019. (Submitted photo from Banbury Town Council)

Banbury Remembrance Day to include street parade, church service and wreath-layi...

Church groundskeeper Trevor Shepherd gives locals a tour of the green spaces at St Marys churchyard as part of the Meadow to Mill walk during Bloxham's Great Big Green Week

Banbury area village residents unite for week of green events

Banbury Town Mayor Shaida Hussain is joined outside St Mary’s by town clerk Mark Recchia, macebearer Stuart Bennett and Royal Air Force cadets. (photo from Banbury Town Council)

Battle of Britain remembered at Banbury event

Banbury Choral Society at a pre-lockdown performance

Banbury Choral Society celebrates return of face to face singing after lockdown ...

Photo of MP Victoria Prentis with Reverend Jeff West at the front of St Mary's Church.

Banbury MP Victoria Prentis visits St Mary's Church to hear about bicentenary pl...

Three buglers from the Banbury Royal British Legion branch did not let the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions keep them from showing respect as part of Remembrance Sunday. (photo from Banbury RBL)

Three buglers from Banbury Royal British Legion play moving Remembrance tribute ...

Photo from Banbury BID in the town centre

Banbury BID working in partnership with Kärcher Center Banbury on 'Big Clean' pr...

Peter and Janet Dowers.

'I won the lottery when I met her' - Banbury couple still happy as ever after 60...

The concert returns next month

Banbury's Crocus Concert dates announced

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Cherwell District Council will increase brown bin subscriptions next year to £49.

'It's ludicrous' - pensioner outraged by increase in brown bin charges

Cllr Lidia Arciszewska, and Cllr Andrew Prosser, from West Oxfordshire District Council, stood at Deer Park’s orchard, Witney

West Oxfordshire residents invited to create over 50 orchards in district

There will be limited Chiltern Railway services this weekend, including no trains at all on Sunday.

Limited Chiltern trains through Banbury this weekend due to strike action