English village votes to ‘secede’ from U.K. over asylum centre plan

An English village of around 350 people announced on Wednesday (September 16, 2026) that a vast majority of residents had voted yes in an “independence referendum” staged to protest plans to house over 1,200 migrants in a nearby facility. Piddington in central England, 25 kilometres (15 miles) from the university city of Oxford, has grabbed […]