Cherwell District Council has opened a consultation on a Modified Mid Cherwell Neighbourhood Plan. The plan, developed for 2024 – 2042, covers the parishes of Ardley with Fewcott, Duns Tew, Fritwell, ...

An Oxfordshire river "has not been polluted" by an illegal waste dump, according to the Environment Agency. Specialist officers carried out extensive testing of both the River Cherwell and the waste ...

Second homes in the north of a county will be charged extra council tax from next April. Properties in the Cherwell district which are furnished but not occupied will be charged in a bid to address ...

Woodstock would be among the towns where owners of second homes would be charged extra council tax Second homes in the north of a county will be charged extra council tax from next April. Properties ...

A man has been arrested as part of the investigation into illegal tipping of waste at a site near the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, the Environment Agency (EA) said. The dumping of a 150-metre long ...

A critical incident has been declared over a 40ft-high mountain of waste after it was branded "utterly appalling" by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. The vast fly tip stretches for 150 metres in a ...

The Prime Minister has said he is appalled by the "disgusting" mountain of waste illegally dumped by the River Cherwell - and he wants to see it cleaned up as quickly as possible. Sir Keir Starmer ...

The Environment Agency (EA) launched the probe into the illegal waste dump, which stands at 150 metres long and up to 6 metres high, in a field next to the River Cherwell outside Kidlington in ...

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One campaigner told ITV News Meridian's Ciaran Fitzpatrick that the illegal dump was like a "biodiversity nuclear bomb". Campaigners say an ''environmental catastrophe'' is unfolding near the River ...

Drone footage has shown hundreds of tonnes of "revolting" illegal waste, fly-tipped in a field next to the River Cherwell near Kidlington in Oxfordshire. The Sky News video shows the mass of rubbish, ...