Janet Finch Saunders Janet Finch-Saunders called out “personal slurs” from opponents after she retained the Aberconwy Senedd seat with a crushing 3,336 majority. Last time out she beat Trystan Lewis by just 754 votes and this was a seat targeted by Plaid Cymru for victory. However, in the socially distanced setting of The Barn in Colwyn Bay Mrs Finch-Saunders had some strong words for her opponents during her victory speech. She said it was the third time the people of Aberconwy had returned her to Cardiff. She added: “I am humbled and proud to represent this seat. I have fought nine elections and I have fought them with courtesy, dignity and good manners.
One final clap: Debenhams bids emotional farewell to Lincoln
The end of an era
Historic high street retailer Debenhams has closed in Lincoln for the final time, and bowed out to emotional scenes with its staff.
The company had battled administration and bankruptcy for a number of years, before eventually being bought out by online retailers Boohoo for £55 million in January.
Debenhams reopened on April 12, in line with government guidelines which allowed non-essential retail to return, but only for a closing down sale in Lincoln.
Shutters are down and doors are locked, that’s it for Debenhams in Lincoln. | Photo: The Lincolnite
Two arrested after stolen lorry crashed on Lincoln street
One more culprit believed to be at large
The stolen lorry crashed into cars and fencing on Charlesworth Street in Lincoln on Sunday morning. The man pictured is a recovery worker. | Photo: The Lincolnite
Two men have been arrested following the theft of a lorry which crashed into parked cars and walls in Lincoln.
Residents were alerted by a loud crash on Charlesworth Street at around 4.33am on Sunday (May 9) morning, as a white lorry ploughed into parked vehicles and a wall on the street.
Armed police and other emergency services were called to the scene, but it is believed that those inside the lorry abandoned the vehicle and fled. Thankfully nobody was hurt.
Why and how Labour lost two seats in the Lincoln council elections
Labour haemorrhaging support in Lincoln
From left, Conservative Councillor Matthew Fido who won in Moorland, Labour leader Ric Metcalfe and Liberal Democrat Councillor Clare Smalley who took Abbey Ward. | Images: Matthew Fido Facebook page, James Mayer for LDRS and supplied.
Labour lost two of the seven seats it was defending in the local elections for the City of Lincoln Council on May 6, Abbey and Moorland, with one of those seeing the Liberal Democrat party getting its first foothold in the city in almost a decade.
Ric Metcalfe, the Labour leader of the council, was surprised by the Abbey ward loss, but said his party did well in the grand scheme.
Elation, dismay and easy wins - the story of the elections for West Midlands mayor and crime chief
Honours even? Conservative Andy Street was returned as mayor and Labour s Simon Foster steps into the hot seat as police and crime commissioner for the region
13:58, 10 MAY 2021
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It was a case of carry on as you were in the West Midlands as Tory mayor Andy Street easily secured a second term and there was a change of face but not party affiliation in the Police and Crime Commissioner s office as Simon Foster won by a big margin.