Cllr Sharp News Today

A community ‘chat room’ has been set up in a rural Cumbrian town in a bid to curb loneliness.

A Pembrokeshire museum, and the local school community, is set to benefit from a £5,000 grant from a California-based author.

Amid the crisis in Ukraine following the recent Russian invasion, many people from around the world have felt an emotional connection to the…

Milford Haven Town Council has agreed to send a total sum of £3,000 to a Ukrainian town, following the Russian invasion of the country.

Milford Haven Town Council has agreed to send a total sum of £3,000 to a Ukrainian town, following the Russian invasion of the country.

Peterborough City Council apologises for hour-long that saw people unable to vote Peterboroughs lowest voter turn-out was in a ward where there was only one polling booth for over 5,000 voters Sign up to FREE email alerts from CambridgeLive - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice As the d...

Submitting... This comes after complaints from many residents about the inadequacies of the voting process. The ward was served by a single mobile polling station with only one booth. The one in one out policy slowed down the process considerably and meant that large queues formed towards the end of the day and some were even left queuing past 11pm, when voting was scheduled to end at 10pm. This is likely to have contributed to why the verification of the votes was delayed and the city’s co...

“Excuse me, what was that?” she replied. “Somebody just called you thick,” another councillor chimed in, “perhaps because they had forgotten to mute themselves”. The chair of the meeting said he was not aware of who made the remark, but that it was “obviously not appropriate”.   It was suggested that whoever it was should apologise, which drew no response from Cllr Sharp, who was safely back on mute.  In April, Lib Dem county councillor Ian Manning apologised after beginning ...

6 of the biggest things to have happened in Cambs in 2020 Our local democracy reporter takes a look back at some of the stand-out moments of 2020 The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Sign up to our newsletter for daily updates and breaking newsInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign up here! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or servic...