WORK on Oxfordshire’s first incinerator is expected to start next year after it was announced building firm Clugston Construction had won the contract.

The firm said the £100m Oxfordshire scheme, at Ardley, near Bicester, was its third energy from waste project this year.

Equipment is expected to be moved on to the site in the next few weeks, but building work will not start until next year.

The firm could not say how many jobs would be created, or when building work would start.

Clugston said it was also currently working on energy from waste facilities in Staffordshire and Lincolnshire.