Leader of Oxfordshire County Council says it is "not all doom and gloom" following the approval of a drastic budget which could see more than £69m worth of savings.

Speaking to BBC Oxford this morning, Ian Hudspeth said councillors had put politics aside yesterday to tackle the difficult task of agreeing the budget.

He said: "Yesterday with the Labour party, the Liberal Democrats and the Indpendents, 60 out of 62 councillors all agreed an amount of funding for the council over the next four years.

"We are working together. We do not necessarily like what we are doing.

"We realise we have got a limited amount of money for the residents of Oxford and all party politics aside, we are all in it together and all 60 councillors recognised that yesterday."

After hours of negotiations between parties at yesterday's meeting, the deal reached saw the Conservatives unite with Labour and Liberal Democrats to pass a budget that temporarily held back £3m of cuts to elderly day services and £2m that would have been cut from early intervention.

Mr Hudspeth was unable to give specific details on the services which will be cut or kept.

He said: "Until you decide the money, you cannot decide what the services are going to be.

"We are not turning around and saying it is all doom and gloom, we are working with everyone to look at the budget."

The deal reached by parties meant the county council balanced its books for the 2016/17 financial year, but meant that next year the savings it will have to find have risen from £6.3m to £10.3m.