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    Christmas Tractor run

    Staff at RC Baker Ltd Agricultural Contractors based in Barford St Michael are busy preparing to light up the local Banburyshire village streets with a festive Christmas Tractor Run to raise money for the Katharine House Hospice. At 17.00 on Wednesday the 21st December, a fleet of fairy-lit and...
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    Bryan Adams to headline Oxfordshire festival

    Cornbury Music Festival is on target to deliver the best ever line up for its final festival with the signing of international superstar Bryan Adams as headline act on Saturday 8 July 2017. Getting Adams to agree to play his only UK Festival in 2017 is quite a coup...
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    Julie Walters to support Midlands Air Ambulance

    Julie Walters CBE the six times BAFTA and Golden Globe award winning actress and star of stage and screen is the latest high profile celebrity from the world of television and film to become an ambassador to the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity to help raise awareness of the charities...
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    Oxfordshire Fire Chief to retire

    Oxfordshire’s Chief Fire Officer Dave Etheridge OBE has announced his retirement after a distinguished 32 year career in the County Council’s Fire and Rescue Service.  He is also President of The Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA).  Dave Etheridge OBE will retire from his role on 31 March 2017, to...
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    HOOK NORTON BREWERY EXPANDS PUB PORTFOLIO

    This weekend sees an important landmark in the history of Hook Norton Brewery with the opening of its first pub within the city of Oxford. The Castle Tavern on the corner of Castle Street and Pembroke Street will open on Friday 2nd December at 6pm. Since the start of...
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    Three countries, over 3000km on foot, on her own

    Next week Sophie Rooney will be back in Banbury, having run the length of Scandinavia; having lived up to her motto of “Dare Mighty Things”; oh, and having a life-saving blood transfusion along the way. The adventure started in Nordkapp in the very north of Norway.  Within a few...
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    Oxfordshire attraction hopes for sparkling 2016 Christmas display

    Fairytale Farm, the magical farm park just outside Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, has announced details of its 2016 Christmas Fairytale event, after its 2015 event was almost plunged into darkness after thieves stole most of the lights. Owner Nick Laister says: “Last year our Christmas event was almost cancelled...
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    A call for ward visitors

    Do you enjoy chatting to people and have an interest in music? If yes, and you have a couple of hours to spare on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday, then Radio Horton would love to hear from you. The radio station, which is celebrating 50 years, are looking to...
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    November issue is out now

    The November issue of the Four Shires Magazine is out now. Inside its glossy pages this month you will find a fabulous shopping feature, a retro garage and a blacksmith, who makes fantastic works of art from steel. All of this is coupled with our favourite regulars, including Out...
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    CRAFTY ALE BREWED TO RAISE FUNDS FOR SPECIAL CARE BABY UNIT

    Every beer needs a reason to be and this one has two – Harry and Jasper, twin boys born a bit too early to proud parents Mark and Claire Higgs, proprietors at The Castle at Edge Hill. The twins were cared for in the Special Care Baby Unit at...