PLANS to build 3,000 new homes at Chalgrove Airfield could be removed from South Oxfordshire District Council’s local plan. Liberal Democrats on the counc.
More than 150 flood alerts have been issued across the country as the Met Office warned of heavy rain and ice. Schools closed across the South West and Cumbria and flooding caused disruption to motorists and rail passengers on Monday. The Environment Agency has so far issued 56 flood warnings, which mean flooding is ‘expected’ in that area, and 171 flood alerts, which consider flooding ‘possible’.
SIR – In his article (“The unbreakable Tory alliance between Court and Country is finally shattering”, Comment, November 18) Robert Tombs writes: “What is fatal to a party is not failure, but a sense of betrayal.”