Banbury Labour candidate makes legal challenge after election result
A LABOUR Party candidate for an Oxfordshire County Council ward is making a legal challenge against a result which saw them lose their seat. Mark Cherry, the candidate for the Banbury Ruscote division in the election held on Thursday with the backing of the Labour Party, is to submit an election petition to the High Court to challenge the declaration of the result of the Banbury Ruscote division made at the election count on Sunday. Mr Cherry and his Labour Party advisers consider they have reasonable grounds to believe that an administrative error was made in the declaration of the ele...