Welsh Senedd candidate for Torfaen published map of the wrong area on his election leaflet
Ian Williams placed a map on his election leaflet to let the politicians in Cardiff Bay know where Torfaen is - but the map actually depicts the neighbouring county of Caerphilly
16:31, 30 APR 2021
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Bristol mayoral election: Liberal Democrat Caroline Gooch promises free pollution-absorbing paint for street artists
Manufacturers of the photocatalytic paints claim they can remove atmospheric pollutants
13:46, 30 APR 2021
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A Bristol mayoral candidate has pledged to give away ‘pollution-absorbing paints’ to street artists in a bid to tackle air pollution.
Liberal Democrat Caroline Gooch, a scientist, says the use of pollution-absorbing paints is a “very, very quick thing we can do” to start reducing the level of pollutants in the city’s air.
GREATER Manchester mayor candidate Andy Burnham has spoken about the need to break a ‘defensive, excuses culture’ among the region’s police force. Speaking on a visit to shops and the market in Westhoughton, six days before the mayoral election, Mr Burnham said the appointment of a new chief constable for Greater Manchester Police, Stephen Watson was intended to bring about a positive shift in the ‘culture and ethics’ of the force. Last year, GMP was placed in special measures after a damning inspection report found 80,000 crimes went unrecorded in a year. His Conservative opponent, Laura Evans said the force will be brought out of the measures under Tory leadership and wants the force to ‘get back to fighting crime’.
Quite apart from some serious implications for modern British politics, this also has to be one of the most bizarre contests of modern times. When it comes to by-elections, next Thursday’s battle for Hartlepool really is a collector’s item.
Here we have no fewer than 16 candidates, including three former Labour MPs, a convicted sex offender, a kinsman of the man who built the town and an ex-soldier driving round in a tank under the banner of the Social Democrats. All of a sudden, the Monster Raving Loony Party candidate (whose manifesto includes hiring the Hartlepool Arms’ darts team to speed up vaccinations) doesn’t look quite so loony after all.
Professor John Curtice has said that the current election polls suggest the SNP is likely to miss out on a majority in the Scottish election. A slew of surveys this week have had Ms Sturgeon s party balanced on a knife-edge of securing total control of Holyrood or just coming up short. Looking at the trend, Scotland s polling expert said there was one major headline - that support for the SNP is slipping. He also believes that Alex Salmond s Alba party is going nowhere , with polls consistently indicating it will fail to gain the 6% of the list vote needed to return an MSP.