Updates on Tuesday 16 February 2016
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Bethan Phillips
Political reporter, BBC Radio Oxford
This alternative budget will now mean the council has £15m of extra savings to find over the next four years - previously it was £11m.
So they've saved some services for now, but may have just pushed difficult decisions down the road.
Bethan Phillips at Oxfordshire County Council says:
Quote MessageI understand the amendments put forward for the budget remove some of the most controversial planned cuts - including a cut of more than £2m to day centres for elderly people and a cut of £2m to the budget for children's centres and early intervention hubs. However, £300,000 extra will be taken from reserves and next year there will be a 'full review of all day services for older people' that looks to save £1m.
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Another beautiful winter scene from Oxfordshire, this time of Wolvercote Common from Faringdon councillor Ian Bell. Send us your pictures here.
Image source, Ian BellBethan Phillips
Political reporter, BBC Radio Oxford
Councillors are heading back into the council chamber now. It could be that we're going to hear more about what's been decided behind closed doors.
An Oxfordshire charity set up by a five-year-old boy from Abingdon who had a brain tumour has been targeted by fraudsters.
Image source, blueskyethinging.orgSkye Hall came up with the idea to create the world's longest loom band
Skye Hall, who died after developing a brain tumour, came up with the idea to create the world's longest loom band.
His mother Sally says they've discovered money had been stolen after going through the accounts.
This image of a beautiful winter morning in Britwell Salome, South Oxfordshire, has been tweeted to us by William Perrin, external.
Image source, William PerrinClear and cold in Britwell Salome, South Oxfordshire
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Bethan Phillips
Political reporter, BBC Radio Oxford
Behind-the-scenes negotiations are taking place between Labour and the Conservative leadership, following an adjournment in the council's debate over whether to approve its budget.
Green Party leader on the council David Williams told me: "Labour have put forward a budget with some cuts in it and tries to save some of the services. The Conservatives know they can't get their budget through. As a consequence there are negotiations going on.
"What probably is going to happen will be a consensus budget between Labour and Conservative."
South Today
On South Today this lunchtime:
Emily Wood
BBC Weather
It is going to be a fine afternoon with plenty of sunshine, and a south-westerly breeze will develop.
Highs of 6C (43F).
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As Oxfordshire County Council votes on proposals to cut £69m from its budget over the next four years, join in the debate on the BBC Oxford Facebook, external page.
Allan Jordan posted: "... and I now lose my weekly visits from my supported housing warden, and am also threatened with losing my only access out of the village, the bus. Yep we are all in it together.... "
Paul Parlett wrote: "What has happened to the millions of pounds that the county councils had squirreled away in foreign bank accounts??"
Thirteen-year-old Dylan got a standing ovation when he spoke at the Oxfordshire County Council meeting about how the county's children's services, earmaked for budget cuts, had helped him.
Quote MessageBasically I spoke the truth about how the children's centres have helped, not just me but loads of other people. This is just rubbish - look at the statistics and just keep them.
Dylan, 13
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Bethan Phillips
Political reporter, BBC Radio Oxford
Party leaders are now locked in talks following an unexpected adjournment during a debate over whether to approve cuts of £69m over four years to Oxfordshire County Council's budget.
I suspect this because the Conservatives are concerned they won't get a budget through as they need the votes of three independent councillors, one of whom has already agreed to vote against the Tory budget.
So they are in negotiations to try and get a budget that Labour can agree with here.
Police have warned elderly and vulnerable people in the Abingdon area to be aware of so-called courier scammers who are thought to have have stolen up to £150,000 in the area.
The fraudsters phone and trick victims into handing large sums of cash to a courier that arrives at their home - some have pretended to be police, banks or even television personality and Money Saving Expert founder Martin Lewis.
A warning checklist, external has been produced by police to remind people how to spot the signs of a scam.
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Network Rail and Chiltern Railways, external have announced that the rail line between Leamington Spa, Banbury and Bicester North will be closed for nine days this summer as part of a £76m upgrade.
Image source, GoogleThe companies said the new track layout and signalling would "improve reliability and punctuality" of trains through the Banbury area.
Bethan Phillips
Political reporter, BBC Radio Oxford
There's been an unscheduled adjournment of the budget meeting in order to find "common ground" between the parties, according to the council leader Ian Hudspeth.