A FOOT injury proved, quite literally, to be the Achilles’ heel of a sacked councillor.

Mike Green only had to attend one meeting in six months to keep his seat on Wantage Town Council.

But the Liberal Democrat snapped a tendon in his heel playing badminton – meaning he missed a crucial meeting.

He had an operation on November 22, the day of a planning meeting, and his last chance to stay on the council.

Web designer Mr Green, 46, said when he became a councillor in 2007 he was working from home but his work had recently moved to Oxford.

He said: “Work commitments have conflicted with my ability to go to the meetings, and unfortunately at the point where I had to go to a council meeting I snapped an Achilles tendon and had to go to hospital.”

Mayor Jim Sibbald said it was a ‘statutory’ rule and Mr Green had to go.

He said: “It is always a shame to lose a councillor and councillor Green, when he has attended council, has provided valuable support to the museum and the youth services.”