• We reported live from County Hall from 1pm as people gathered to protest against wiping £69m from the council's budget. 

CAMPAIGNERS took part in one of the biggest ever protests outside County Hall this afternoon to fight against £69m budget cuts.

Rain fell onto more than 150 protesters outside the council offices, where senior cabinet members voted in favour of making the cuts.

Chanting "no more cuts" and "enough is enough" at deafening levels, community groups united to ensure Oxfordshire County Council heard their message.

Families from children's centres, the homeless, bus users and adult social care users held up placards and banners as campaigners bellowed out their disgust with the funding proposals.

The £69m total of cuts includes £51m of savings already outlined by the council last year as a "worst case scenario", as well as a further £23m that it now says it also needs to find because of last-minute changes to its funding by the Government.

Mum Jill Huish, who uses the children’s centre in Britannia Road, Banbury, and has spearheaded the revived campaign to save the children’s centres said all of the campaigners were protesting "to seek solidarity together".

Former chef Ms Huish, 33, added: "The council might seek to divide us and put us against each other. They might ask us stupid questions like 'what would you cut instead'?

"Well it's not our job to set the budget, it's not our job to protect vulnerable people in Oxfordshire, it's their job.

"We want them to protect these vital services and there is no need to cut all this. It's ridiculous."

Cheers and applause echoed around after each megaphone speech, before the campaigners entered the offices and tuned into the meeting.

Our coverage of the meeting and protest as it happened: