Please click on the link provided here to access a copy of an article in the recent Banbury Guardian regarding trauma services at the Horton Hospital: Banbury Guardian – Trauma care services 151211.

Following the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s announcement during the Autumn statement that the East-West rail link will go ahead, North Oxfordshire MP Tony Baldry asked Ministers about whether the Ministry of Defence has been involved in any discussions with the Department of Transport regarding the potential for greater use of the existing rail infrastructure in and around Bicester.

Recently, Tony Baldry MP, the Member of Parliament for Banbury, visited Thailand & Burma and set the following letter to the Chairman on his return.

Figures from the police obtained by the BBC show there were 263 thefts between May and October, compared with 99 during the same period in 2010.

The newly approved East-West Rail link will make Bicester an even more booming town for business, according to industry leaders.

New data shows that 770 apprenticeships were delivered in North Oxfordshire in the 2010/11 academic year, an increase of 30% on 2009/10.

There is an impression that petrol and diesel prices have been increasing as a consequence of tax increases.

Proposals for an alternative route for the planned £33bn High Speed Rail link (HS2) which would run closer to Oxfordshire towns have been attacked by MP Tony Baldry.

The English baccalaureate is having positive effects on many subjects chosen at GCSE and A-Level but increasingly so it seems, having devastating effects on subjects elsewhere. The future of Religious Education (R.E.) has been a hot topic of debate and concerns have been raised into the direction it is headed.

Over the years the benefits of the UK being part of the European Union far outweigh any costs incurred from membership and let us not kid ourselves that even if we left the EU we could never divorce ourselves from Europe and the Common Markets.