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AN environmental campaigner has become the new chairman of South Oxfordshire District Council. Jo Robb was elected at the authority’s annual meeting on Th.
Wheatley County Councillor Tim Bearder. THE new highways chief at Oxfordshire County Council has been called again to resign from a seat he holds on another council in Hampshire. Conservatives in Hampshire, including the MP for Eastleigh, are renewing their calls for Mr Bearder to step down from his West End South ward in the borough, after he was named the cabinet member for highways maintenance at Oxfordshire County Council this week. Mr Bearder also won a by-election on May 6, gaining the Forest Hill and Holton seat on South Oxfordshire District Council. Eastleigh Conservatives chair Jerry Hall said: “Residents in West End are rightly feeling short-changed by Three-Timing Tim and many were unaware of his activities in Oxfordshire.
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Jo Robb has taken on the role with David Turner selected as vice chairman.
She was appointed at the annual meeting yesterday (20) at the council offices in Milton Park, Abingdon.
Councillor Robb, who represents Woodcote and Rotherfield for the Green Party, said: “It is a great honour to have been elected chair by my peers on South Oxfordshire District Council.
“I’d like to thank David Bretherton for his steadfast chairmanship over the past two years.
“He has steered the council through a very challenging period with professionalism, good humour and grace.
“I am looking forward to the next twelve months and to meeting as many residents and community groups as possible and celebrating the remarkable generosity and dedication of our communities and volunteers here in South Oxfordshire.”
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THE new chairman of trustees at the Kenton Theatre in Henley has pledged to operate with “integrity and transparency”.
Julie Huntington was responding to questions about the governance of the New Street venue at its annual meeting held virtually on Wednesday last week.
Mrs Huntington succeeded Chris Tapp as chairman in September following a turbulent two-year period for the theatre.
This included one of the largest losses in the Kenton’s history, several changes to the theatre’s management and a row with Henley’s Children’s Theatre, one of its longest-serving customers.