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Residents of Middle Barton are holding an open day this Saturday to raise money and awareness about buying the Fox Inn.

Residents of Middle Barton hold fundraising day to save their village pub

Villagers are concerned that if they lose the Kings Sutton Post Office, it will leave a big hole in the community.

‘It would be a tragic loss’ – Villagers fear they could lose loved post office

The historic bell tower at All Saints Church before and after the restoration work.

Villagers fundraise to restore historic church bell tower to its Victorian-style

Adderbury's annual garden party saw record attendance and an incredible amount raised for the local church.

Village raises incredible amount for church with annual summer garden party

Despite tourists bringing noise pollution and traffic chaos to the quaint nearby village of Alton, locals living near Alton Towers say it has major benefits.

Alton Towers: Why residents living next to theme park ‘love’ it

Residents of Cropredy and Great Bourton have rallied around to purchase a headstone for a Second World War veteran Len Gillett.

Villagers from rally around to buy headstone for Second World War veteran

A view of the motocross track submitted in the planning application.

Village residents 'breathe sigh of relief' after council rejects motocross track

Some Cropredy residents want the problems of the village surgery to be solved without a new housing development

Doctors in talks with landowners over a new surgery near Banbury

Campaigners from the Keep Hanwell Village Rural Action Group have sent in hundreds of letters of objection to the district council and are now recruiting new members as they step up their fight against developments in the area.

Over 470 letters of objection sent to council over village development

Scores of those killed in the Battle of Middleton Cheney were interred at All Saints Church, Middleton Cheney

Banburyshire village celebrates 380 years since Civil War battle

An artist's impression of the proposed homes off Station Road, Cropredy

Objections pour in over plans for nearly 200 more new homes near Banbury

Nobby Riley, who died of a heart attack last November. An Aunt Sally tournament is held on Saturday to raise money for charity

Banburyshire village celebrates life of much-loved resident with fundraiser

The crowds were out to celebrate the Coronation in Hook Norton. Picture by Melvin Green

Banbury area villages celebrate King Charles III's Coronation

Villagers in Hanwell are raising money for their fight against a new housing development with a quiz night on Friday (April 14).

Quiz night will raise money for Hanwell villagers’ fight against housing plans

The Diddly Squat farm shop sells local produce from the farm and neighbouring local producers in the Cotswolds (Picture: Clarkson's farm)

Workers at Jeremy Clarkson's Diddly Squat Farm must now wear body cams

Imber and Tyneham are two villages that were abandoned during World War Two

England’s ‘lost twin villages’ frozen in time since World War Two

The Sports and Social Club's Lorna Fyfe presenting a cheque to Jon Frost from the British Health Foundation.

Villagers near Banbury present Santa's float fundraiser money to charities

Fox hounds ran amok in a field of sheep at Moreton Pinkney on Saturday. A sheep died after trying to escape and drowned in a river

Police investigate hunt after sheep dies in south Northants fox hounds incident

The site of the development proposed by Obsidian to the north of Cropredy off the Claydon Road. Taken from the Obsidian website

Developers aim to build 60 new homes on fringe of historic Banburyshire village

A planning consortium is putting forward a speculative proposal to build 170 homes connecting Banbury with Hanwell

Campaigners organise fundraising event this weekend

A view over Warkworth Castle and the surrounding village which has topped the list of British villages which have risen in value for 20 years straight.

20 British villages with property value increases for last 20 years

Volunteers from Chipping Warden have been running regular donation trips to the Hope and Help Together centre in Banbury.

Villagers in Chipping Warden do their bit to help Ukraine

The wide valley where a development company wants to site a 195 acre solar farm. Picture by Google

Three Banburyshire villages up in arms over 'monstrous' solar farm plan on their...

Villagers in the Bourtons have raised an impressive amount of money to help people in Ukraine. They held a fundraising event on May 21 to raise money for the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal at the Dirt House pub in Little Bourton. The £10 per head lunch with a raffle raised £1,310.

Villagers near Banbury raise an impressive amount of money to help people in Ukr...

A photo of the flower tower consisting of more than 4,300 handmade flowers at All Saints Church in the village of Middleton Cheney. (photo by Georgina Campion)

Flower Tower craft art display at Banbury area church

Stagecoach buses on the 200 route will continue until the end of August

Villagers breathe sigh of relief as Stagecoach's 200 Banbury to Daventry bus is ...

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Villagers stranded if they lose Banbury bus service - freedoms for motorists - t...

Villagers in Greatworth have taken delivery of a 16-seater minibus through a lease funded by HS2 money

Bus funded by HS2 is proving a big hit with residents of a Banburyshire village

Motocross competitors line up at the start of a race at Wroxton

Banburyshire villages left 'reeling' over 'shocking' decision by councillors to ...

Villagers living near a Banbury area quarry face 12 further years of possible noise and disturbance after county councillors approved plans for a recycling facility for soil and aggregates.

Villagers living near a Banbury area quarry face 12 further years of possible no...

Andy and Jackie Moxon won the Christmas lighting display.

'The lights are so amazing you can see the villages from space!' - how the Bourt...

The current Certas fuel depot on Tramway Estate, Banbury. The company has lost its bid to get planning permission to move the depot to the former Hornton quarry. Picture by Google

Nimby accusations against Banbury Town Council and a Grimsbury councillor as fue...

The new owners of Perry Tree Farm say they just want to grow Christmas trees

'Pop-up' Christmas tree centre angers residents of a Banburyshire village but ne...

Ratley village (image courtesy of Cls14 via Wikipedia)

Villagers near Banbury told to keep a tally of lorries taking the 'wrong route' ...

Riders at the start of a motocross race. Hornton villagers say the Wroxton race track has been altered from its smaller, local nature and is now noisy and intrusive

Village threatens High Court action over development of a Banburyshire motocross...

Alison and Chris Bayliss. Photo by Barry Taylor.

Traditional gardening competition near Banbury has resurfaced, raising hundreds ...

Great and Little Bourton raised 1,100 for Macmillan Cancer Support. Pictured here are Maggie MacAngus, Julie Liddle, and Anna Hardy. Photo by Barry Taylor.

How villagers in Banburyshire have found ways around the Covid-19 restrictions t...

The final artist's impression of how the proposed home would look from the north side. The living accommodation would look down towards the south

Householders in a Banburyshire village oppose development of a underground house...

A field outside Adderbury which was the subject of a planning application for a caravan park - now withdrawn

Unpopular Adderbury trailer park plan for 73-caravans is withdrawn

Toby Stevens

Banburyshire villagers organise pop-up pub crawl to help mark 18-year-old's birt...

The shared access to the ten-acre field just outside the village boundary at west Adderbury

Banburyshire village up in arms over plan for a 73-berth caravan park

Rev Nick Leggett of All Saints Church, Middleton Cheney

Book on Middleton's church windows launched at the end of fundraising campaign

Jubilee Field, Upper Boddington. From the left, Jeanette Mills, Debbie Hanna, Anne Senior and Debbie Turner, Friends of Jubilee Field. NNL-180529-155621009

Upper Boddington celebrates summer in Jubilee Field

Brackley Town keeper Dan Crane saves Liam King's penalty but North Ferriby United still won 4-2 at St James Park

Stuttering Saints slip to another defeat

Water warning for Upper Boddington

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Pupils from Harriers Banbury Academy protesting about unsafe parking near to the school.

Banbury primary school pupils take to the streets over poor road parking

A woman from Cropredy has said that she fears for her health due to the excessive mould in her bungalow.

Woman near Banbury fears for her health due to mouldy home

The police have released an image of a man they wish to speak to regarding a robbery at Banbury Cash Converters.

Banbury pawnbroker shop robbed by man claiming to have knife