Early publicity: this photograph of three committee members provided some excellent advance publicity for Banbury's 1986 flag week. Alan Pennington, Banbury branch publicity secretary, seen here sandwiched between chairman David Gittins and committee member Hazel Bolton later wrote "We think acting the fool certainly achieved something. As well as a respectable total for one of our most 'inland' towns (£1,143), we were telephoned by two elderly ladies who noticed the photograph. They subsequently gave us a single donation of £20. Now we have the problem of dreaming up something equally daft for next year.".