Stories circulating about current ban (9)
I believe the answer is:
ostracise
'ban' is the definition.
('ban'->'ostracize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')
'stories circulating about current' is the wordplay.
'circulating' is an anagram indicator.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'current' becomes 'ac' (alternating current).
'stories' is an anagram of 'ostrise'.
'ostrise' enclosing 'ac' is 'OSTRACISE'.
(Other definitions for ostracise that I've seen before include "Shun, exclude" , "I, Socrates may exclude from group" , "Exclude from a group or society" , "Banish from group" , "Banish, blackball" .)