Four Shires Magazine

Bloxham School celebrates 150 years with its own Hooky beer

A Shining Light, a beer brewed by Hook Norton Brewery to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Bloxham School in Bloxham near Banbury, Oxfordshire is now on sale.
The beer’s name is derived from the schoo... Read more...

What a porker!

What a porker! This Gloucester Old Spot from the Meat Joint farm out at Deddington is the proud mum to 10 piglets. The Meat Joint will be appaearing at The Four Shires Show on August 22nd in Banbury M... Read more...

All Stars join Cropredy Line Up

Tickets for Fairport's Cropredy Convention, billed as Britain's friendliest music festival, go on sale this month. The organisers also confirm that internationally acclaimed dub-reggae collective Easy... Read more...

Brethertons 200 year anniversary sees Martin Corry speak at meeting

Rugby world cup winner Martin Corry joined Brethertons and the breakfast clubs from the around the area at Rye Hill Golf Club last week. Martin was the guest speaker at the business breakfast that saw...

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The old Spiceball is demolished

The old Spiceball Park is a shadow of its former self as demolition is already well underway. The old sports centre opened in the 70s by Roger Bannister has now been superceded by a state of the art s... Read more...