The town where Midsomer Murders is filmed has been embroiled in a council row over plans to commemorate the TV show as councillors say "it is not a real place."

Six red plaques were set to be displayed on listed buildings in the quaint Oxfordshire village which features as the fictional town of Causton in the ITV detective drama.

Oxfordshire's Thame Town Council were hopeful the plaques would help boost tourism by attracting more visitors to the buildings when tours were not in operation.

However South Oxfordshire District Council conservation officers lambasted the plans in a damning report.

It said: "Whilst the visitor may wish to 'Arrive in Midsomer', it is important to also recognise that Midsomer is not real.

"And that the market town of Thame is historically significant in its own right and not as the set of a television programme.