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The Banbury Guardian is a weekly tabloid newspaper sold in and around the towns of Banbury in the Cherwell District of north-eastern Oxfordshire, Chipping Norton in West Oxfordshire, and Brackley in South Northamptonshire – the area informally known as Banburyshire.

It was founded in 1838 as The Guardian, or Monthly Poor Law Register. The purpose of its founder, William Potts, was to “disabuse the public mind when unfounded reports, likely to create alarm, and excite suspicion are circulated by those who, from the situations they occupy, may be supposed to possess better information than do the public generally”. Five years later it became a weekly publication; it adopted its present name in 1853. Potts, his son John, and his son William, edited the newspaper in succession until 1947. It switched from broadsheet to tabloid format in March 2010.

It’s published by Northamptonshire Newspapers, part of nationwide regional newspaper publishers Johnston Press’s Midland division. The editorial offices are in Banbury and are shared, along with the website, with the Guardian‘s freesheet companion, the Banbury Review.

It made history in March 1962, under its then owner Labour MP Woodrow Wyatt, when it became the first British newspaper to publish colour photographs in a normal edition, using the new web offset process.

It comes out on Thursdays.

  • Address:
  • Banbury Guardian
    7 North Bar Street
    BANBURY
    OX16 0TQ
  • Tel:
  • 01295 227777
  • Fax:
  • 01295 257689

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