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DISGRACED Clydebank councillor Craig Edward is continuing to work in his public role after pleading guilty to hoarding indecent images of children…

Clydebank councillor Craig Edward can’t be forcefully removed from his role on West Dunbartonshire Council – despite being on the sex offenders…

TWO of the six Conservative town councillors in Trowbridge have voted against the council’s new code of conduct.

The ANC-led eThekwini Municipality wasted R500,000 in 40 minutes after ‘sabotaging’ a special council meeting it had called to elect a new deputy mayor on Thursday.

EThekwini Mayor Mxolisi Kaunda refused to answer simple questions on his ANC colleagues' failure to attend a special council meeting to elect a new deputy mayor.

AN IRVINE councillor has refused to apologise for calling out a Conservative colleague dubbed “the laziest councillor in Scotland”.

The IFP in KZN Legislature has joined calls for the Cogta MEC Sipho Hlomuka to take disciplinary action against an IFP councillor, who allegedly assaulted two ANC female councillors at the Inkosi Langalibalele Local Municipality earlier this week.

Douglas Ross has previously said he regrets saying he wanted to see tougher enforcement on Gypsy Travellers COMMENTS have been unearthed in which Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross expressed his frustration at supposedly having to “bend over backwards for [an] ethnic minority”. Ross made the comments while serving as a councillor in Moray in 2013, four years before he was elected to represent the constituency at Westminster. After his election in 2017, in which he beat the SNP’s Angu...

http://shet.news/6kciv Copied! ALLEGATIONS that a Shetland councillor had accused council officials of lying have been dismissed following an investigation by the Ethical Standards Commissioner. Shetland Central councillor Ian Scott was reported to the watchdog by council convener Malcolm Bell and leader Steven Coutts following a verbal clash in the council chamber on 9 September last year. 13 of 14Adverts Scott was also accused of shouting in the council chamber, continually talking ove...