There hasn't been a full town council election in Oundle since 2007.

An election is desperately needed in order to rebuild our council so that Oundle can continue to progress as a town.

In order to trigger an election we would respectfully ask the few remaining town councillors to resign their posts (as eight others have already done at the time of writing).

This is by no means a personal attack on those councillors still in their posts and of course, they are more than welcome to stand for re-election.

However, in order to restore public faith in OTC and heal the serious wounds which have been opened recently, a full election for all 14 seats is essential.

We, the undersigned, ask all Oundle Town Councillors who haven't already done so, to resign their posts with immediate effect.