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A Torridge District councillor has been censured after a report from the council's Standards Committee recommended official sanctions for ‘threatening’...

THE local government elections for county councillors and town or community councillors will take place on May 5.

A Broadland councillor found guilty of intimidating Bure Valley Railway workers has called the investigation into her conduct "a waste of taxpayers money".

It "slipped his mind" to tell police of his whereabouts

All incidents happened on Monday afternoon and evening

Two Bristol City Councillors are the subject of a formal complaint from the council’s ridiculous pair of senior Human Resources bosses Mark “Bashar” Williams and John “Bedwetter” Walsh. This is the result of the councillors standing up for the Council’s cleaning and security staff, which Cabinet agreed last month should be outsourced to Bristol Waste Company to help disguise a large hole in the company’s budget. The BRISTOLIAN hears that Tory councillor Richard “Bunter” Eddy a...

A FORMER Mayor should stand down as a councillor because of his breach of coronavirus restrictions a veteran colleague has said. Cllr Iftakhar Hussain resigned as Blackburn with Darwen borough’s ‘first citizen’ this week and suspended himself from the council’s ruling Labour group after being given a £200 fine. Now Darwen East Liberal Democrat Cllr Paul Browne said he should quit as a councillor when he is up for election in May. Bastwell and Daisyfield ward’s Cllr Hussain sa...

A MAYOR today quit his post after being given a £200 fine for flouting coronavirus restrictions. Cllr Iftakhar Hussain has resigned as Blackburn with Darwen Boroughs First Citizen and suspended himself from the councils ruling Labour group. His decision came as town hall conduct bosses launched an investigation after the incident on Saturday. Cllr Hussain apologised for an ‘error of judgement’ in attending an event, described as ‘a wedding’ with up to 30 people present. The ...

Councillor Iftakhar Hussain has today resigned from his post as Mayor of Blackburn with Darwen after apologising for an error in judgement.

A CONSERVATIVE councillor who was accused, and cleared, of sharing racist tweets has been reported over a further offensive post. Claims that Chalford councillor Debbie Young had shared racist tweets were found not to have breached Stroud District Councils code of conduct back in June 2020. But now Cllr Young has been reported again to SDCs monitoring officer over an offensive tweet posted on February 9. The complaint relates to a re-tweet by Cllr Young, which has now been deleted, but ...