Green Party parliamentary candidate Kate Prendergast, pictured, has announced she will stand for Oxford City Council at the 2016 elections.

Dr Prendergast has lived in the St Thomas area of the city for 10 years, and said she will stand for the council’s city-centre Carfax ward.

The freelance archaeologist, who is also parliamentary candidate for Wantage, said she wanted to help make the Greens the main opposition to the council’s Labour leaders.