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Anti-social behaviour concerns could mean changes to Adderbury’s Party In The Park
A number of changes are likely to be made to how Party In The Park is run this year as a result of incidents around the periphery of last year’s event. It is understood representatives from Cherwell District Council and Thames Valley Police have requested increased security measures be introduced.At February’s Parish Council meeting a discussion took place over a request from the Party In The Park organising committee to allow them to fence off the area where the event is held in the Lucy Pl...
08/03/2019
Tree causes Adderbury power outages
A large number of Adderbury homes suffered several power interruptions on Thursday (07/03/19) after a tree branch touching overhead cables caused supplies to fail. The area was suffering windy conditions at the time.A number of individuals told Adderbury News they had been affected. Nicola Simms reported problems “every few minutes” and Vicky Jones said, “Just as I go round the house resetting everything it happens again”.Western Power Distribution sent engineers to investigate the probl...
07/03/2019
Victoria Head Wins Parish Council By-Election
Victoria Head claimed victory in yesterday’s Parish Council by-election (21st February). The result, announced by Cherwell District Council earlier today, saw Miss Head achieve 329 votes whilst Iain Corcoran received the support of 266 electors. This by-election saw greater democratic engagement with 598 votes cast, giving a turnout of 25.1% of the electorate of 2,379. This is an improvement on the most recent by-election in January 2017 when 22.3% of the electorate cast a vote. In that poll C...
22/02/2019
Calls for Traffic Calming Action Throughout the Village
The West Adderbury Residents Association (WARA) has written to Banbury’s MP Victoria Prentice calling for action to address Adderbury’s traffic problems. The group completed a survey in West Adderbury during December 2018 and January 2019 and received 169 responses – 42% of the 403 households questioned.Of those replying 93% felt traffic speed in the village was a problem and the same number want action taken to combat this.Adderbury News asked its social media followers whether traffic sp...
20/02/2019
Parish Council By-Election: Candidate Q&A
This Thursday villagers will decide who to elect onto the Parish Council following the resignation of Chris Shallis in November. Two local people are standing: Iain Corcoran of Henge Close and Victoria Head of Partridge Court in Tanners Lane.Adderbury News sent a set of questions to both candidates so you could compare their answers when deciding how to vote. Both candidates answers are show below.Questions to both candidates:What was the driving factor in your decision to stand for parish counc...
20/02/2019
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