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Tiny village votes to quit UK in protest at asylum-seeker accommodation
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First seen16 Sept, 09:11Tiny village votes to quit UK in protest at asylum-seeker accommodation
Piddington's exercise has no legal authority, but shows scale of local opposition on a hot-button issue.
POLITICO Europe•Isabel Loubser
Follow-up16 Sept, 16:09English village votes to 'secede' from UK over asylum centre plan
Residents of Piddington, an Oxfordshire village, have voted for symbolic independence from the UK in protest against plans to house more than 1,000 migrants at a nearby former military base.
Euronews
Follow-up16 Sept, 17:41UK: Village votes to 'secede' in asylum center plan protest
Residents of Piddington, a tiny, remote village in Oxfordshire in England, have staged a "referendum" on leaving the UK. They are objecting to plans to open an asylum reception center at a disused military base nearby.
Deutsche Welle
Latest16 Sept, 18:14Village votes to leave U.K. in symbolic protest of plan to house asylum seekers
Residents of Piddington voted overwhelmingly to leave the United Kingdom in a symbolic referendum over plans to house asylum seekers nearby.
CBS News