Cherwell District Council

Verification of votes at Cherwell District Council is now complete and it is confirmed the turnout was 32.92%.

Let the counting commence!

A study by an Oxfordshire council has suggested the authority cannot do much more to stop unauthorised traveller camps in the area.

A Cherwell District Council report shows the number of encampments have increased in three years from five in 2015 to 28 in 2018.

The report noted one large group which occupied various car parks around Oxford last year contained 35 caravans and 25 vehicles.

The total cost of eviction, repairing damage clearing up waste and defending the land against further incursion was more than £60,000

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The future of how Cherwell District Council will run its services will be discussed later.

For the last eight years Cherwell has been in partnership with neighbouring district South Northants.

That council is about to merge in to a unitary authority for the whole of Northamptonshire leaving Cherwell on its own.

The council's executive is being advised to continue with the same systems and contracts.

They will also look at the councils medium-term financial plan, which is warning of a £4.3m gap in its budget by the year 2024 if nothing changes.

A little boy who has been recovering from heart surgery has been given an early Christmas gift from his bin men during their round.

Billy loves waving out of the window at Cherwell District Council’s bin men every week so his parents contacted them and asked if they could deliver a present to him as a surprise.

Billy’s mum said: "It was priceless to see the look on his face when the crew presented him with the toy lorry, thank you so much."