A man who is fighting to save a pub has been told he can no longer have a drink there.

Richard Dossett-Davies has been leading a campaign to stop the House of Windsor, in Witney's West End, being converted into a house.

He was delighted when west Oxfordshire district councillors voted to throw out the application.

But the enjoyment was short-lived as, after weeks of drinking elsewhere, he returned to find he would not be served in his former "local."

"I have been drinking in the House of Windsor for 25 years. It's just sad that you find yourself barred from your local pub because you love it and want to try to save it," he said.

More than 250 people signed a protest petition organised by Mr Dossett-Davies, his partner Jill Jones, and Paul Creighton, another West End resident.

Mr Dossett-Davies, a community psychiatric nurse, returned to the pub before Christmas when the Ducklington Mummers came to put on a show in the bar.

Owner David Thomas, who claimed the pub was not financially viable, has yet to decide whether to go to appeal against the council's refusal of planning permission.

He said: "Mr Dossett-Davies never came to talk to me about our plans and the business. How can he want to save this pub when he has not been in here for weeks?

"He turned up walking in behind the Mummers, as if sneaking in. We have not banned him, but I don't particularly want to serve him."