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Councillor Penny Channer became leader of the Tories last Thursday at a meeting of the group. She said: "As with any other post I have held at Maldon District Council I consider it both an honour and humbling and I will carry out the role to the best of my abilities. "The Conservative Group may now be in opposition however it is committed to serving the residents of the District with their best interests at the heart of what it does. "With the news that Maldon, along with other District...

Salisbury Guildhall. Inset: Cllr John Lindley. Main picture by Spencer Mulholland. A CITY councillor resigned from two committees with immediate effect during Tuesday nights extraordinary city council meeting. Councillor John Lindley, who represents St Pauls, stepped down from both the Planning Committee and the Salisbury Neighbourhood Development Plan Working Group in protest at what he "strongly considers" to be Cllr John Farquhars "dishonest and dishonourable actions". Councillor Lindley...

Stepping up: Ian Edwards will succeed Sir Ray Puddifoot as leader of Hillingdon Council IAN Edwards has been elected the new leader of Hillingdon Conservative Group of councillors. The 43-strong group held an extraordinary meeting on Monday to elect a successor to Sir Ray Puddifoot, who announced last month he was standing down.  As Hillingdon is under Conservative administration, it means Cllr Edwards will become the new council leader at a meeting of the full council in Janua...

Derbyshire Tory suspended from party over fake meeting Cllr Mike Wallis said his actions were an error of judgement 05:00, 14 DEC 2020 Cllr Mike Wallis, an Erewash borough councillor, was stripped of his executive leadership role. Pictured with the borough council HQ in Long Eaton (Image: Erewash Borough Council/Eddie Bisknell) Never miss another Derbyshire story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we wil...

QUESTIONS have been raised over whether council taxpayers are to pay towards a statue for former Blackburn MP and Labour Cabinet minister Barbara Castle. Blackburn with Darwen Council bosses have always maintained it would be paid for by private fundraising with no public money involved. Now the borough Conservative Group leader Cllr John Slater has discovered three invoices to Castle Fine Arts Foundry Ltd for £4,900.25 for technical fees from the authority’s growth and development bud...

The gates in Oxhey Lane (Photo: Google Maps) Six-foot-high gates outside a home in Harrow could be removed after the council refused retrospective planning permission for their installation. Harrow Council’s planning committee voted in favour of officers’ recommendation to deny permission for the 1.9-metre (6ft 2in) gates at Ayman Lodge, in Oxhey Lane, Pinner. A presentation to the committee described the gates, which were put up without approval, as “incongruous” and “unsympath...

Plymouth woman smashes goal to feed 10,000 people at Christmas Nat Tallents set out with a goal of £25,000 and her dream will come true on December 25 The video will auto-play soon8Cancel Play now Never miss a big story in Plymouth again with our daily newslettersInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign me up! 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...

Two, in the example you gave today, journalism by omission. the story that you are talking about right this minute, is when i checked a few minutes ago, not on the front page of the "washington post." it was on the front page of the "wall street journal" and the p "new york times" had it well down under other news. this is what they do. what is important, they hit on this, when they said the public is on to this thing and its backfiring. last night i gave a speech in allentown, pennsylvania cons...

Enslaved and free african people. and then you go to roger, who wrote the infamous dred scott. one of the things that he said was that he didnt think that black people had rights that white people could respect, in part, because he thought that if you extended those rights, that they would have the rights to carry and own guns. the ku klux klan, the terrorist group, conservative group. >> tucker: democratic party. im sane, they were democrats. >> at the same time, they were advocates of gun cont...

February 19th greenberg was studying at the uc berkeley library when he came across conservative activist williams was at a recruiting table for the conservative group turning point usa. the table had trump logos that said hate crime hoaxes hurt real victims as this was at the height of the alleged hate crime hoaxes by jussie smollett. he accused williams of promoting violence and then got violent. heres the attack followed by williamss attorney. >> what is there to say? it is sickening to watch...