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A flood defence group is calling for a more coordinated response from the council and other agencies to flooding problems. After heavy rainfall recently hit the county, some towns and villages in north Oxfordshire such as Kidlington, Yarnton and Begbroke have been battling against floods. Residents in Yarnton feel the the village s flooding problem has been ignored and that there needs to be a collaborative approach to tackling the issue from the county and district councils, Highways, the Environment Agency and Thames Water. Colin Rhodes, of Yarnton Flood Defence Group, said: “The flooding issues in Yarnton are multi-faceted. Significant surface water run-off is flooding homes, cutting off vital roads and overwhelming the foul waste system to the extent that raw sewage is entering residents’ properties.
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PROPOSALS to roll out a more localised test and trace system in north Oxfordshire were shut down by Conservatives at a full council meeting. Liberal Democrat councillor Katherine Tyson put forward the motion in solidarity with both Oxford city and Ian Hudspeth, leader of Oxfordshire County Council, to call for the Government to enable local schemes to be built on. The motion, seconded by Green councillor Ian Middleton, asked the leader of Cherwell council to communicate support for a more local system to the director of public health and the leader of the county council, and to write to MPs asking to support a more localised system across the county.
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A motion to ban trail-hunting on land owned by a council that may not actually own any land on which hunting takes place has been both roundly defeated, and described as “bonkers”.
Green councillor Ian Middleton put forward the motion, which was discussed at a full meeting of Cherwell District Council on Monday (14 December). It stated that hunts would “not be permitted to cross public or council-controlled land or cause a nuisance on public highways within Cherwell, and that we will expect any such encroachments to be prosecuted”.
Cllr Middleton said: “This is not intended to be a debate on the rights or wrongs of fox-hunting,” citing the ban, but then went on to claim that the “vast majority” of people do not support hunting, and that “trail-hunting has long been viewed with suspicion” by saboteurs and some animal welfare organisations.