parish council

British

noun

(in England and, formerly, Wales) the administrative body of a parish See parish

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Jayes is also on the parish council "for my sins", he says with a wry smile.

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According to parish council records, 100 people have died on The Broomway, with the last known death in 1919.

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Coats, who is chairman of Highnam Parish Council, said that while action was being taken over the Oxfordshire site, his council had "still not received anything other than a cursory acknowledgement" of its formal complaint to the EA, which, he said, was "continually and blatantly" ignoring the interests of the local community.

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Councillor David Merrett, chair of the Arlingham Parish Council and dairy farmer, said: "When we first had the email about it, I thought it was a joke."

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Charlie Coats, chairman of Highnam Parish Council, said the site was now a "significant blot on the landscape" and that the rubbish was leaking into the floodplain of the River Leadon, which flows into the River Severn.

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