By Richard Whitehouse and Stephanie Wareham
Bettina Harries who is a Reform UK candidate in local elections in Cornwall and Buckinghamshire (Image: Reform UK) A woman who has put herself forward for the upcoming Buckinghamshire Council election is also standing in Cornwall - where she has lived for five years. Bettina Harries is standing as a candidate for Reform UK in the Marlow ward at the Buckinghamshire Council elections on May 6. However she is also the Reform UK candidate for the Wadebridge East and St Minver division of Cornwall Council – almost 245 miles away. Reform UK is a national political party which was created from the Brexit Party which was originally launched by Nigel Farage, who is no longer involved.
Brecon and Radnorshire by-election count at the Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells..Picture by Phil Blagg..PB361-2019-11. The count for Powys Senedd elections will be held in shifts the day after the vote, it has been confirmed. Unlike previous years when vote counters burned the midnight oil, the votes will be counted on Friday, May 7, and instead of simultaneous counting, the teams in Powys will concentrate on one constituency before moving to the other. According to a Powys County Council spokesman, the “likely” way the counting will be done is: On Friday morning counting will begin in the Food Hall at the Showground.
Local elections: Candidates clash over getting people to ditch cars
Bristol Live hosted the transport and environment debate on Facebook Live
11:42, 23 APR 2021
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Seven local election candidates have clashed over how to get people out of cars and onto public transport, cycling and walking – and whether they even should.
The transport and environment debate, hosted by Bristol Live’s Facebook page, included Labour’s Kye Dudd, who is running to be reelected city councillor for Central ward and is cabinet member for transport, energy and New Green Deal, Ed Plowden, Green candidate for Windmill Hill, and Mark Weston, Conservative group leader who is standing to be re-elected for Henbury & Brentry.
Mrss Patel was at Holmes Mill in the town to support Lancashire PCC candidate Andrew Snowden. She met with local Conservative councillors and campaigners in what turned out to be a low-key affair with little interaction with members of the public, due mostly to Covid restrictions and social distancing rules. After speaking to reporters she later had lunch outside Bowland Food Hall. Mrss Patel said she was looked forward to working with a Conservative crime commissioner in the future to deliver on the government’s promises for more front-line officers. She said: “I am Conservative Home Secretary that wants more Conservative police and crime commissioners elected to deliver on our national agenda across regions and at local level.
THE battle for one of three places representing the city’s Cathedral ward on Worcester City Council always proves to be interesting with tightly fought contests and narrow victories happening here more than possibly anywhere else in the city. The city’s biggest ward, which covers the city centre all the way to Diglis, means it is an important seat for the council’s two biggest parties. Covering the city centre means the ward has a long list of issues which the coronavirus pandemic will have done nothing but intensified and how the city, and especially the city centre, recovers from lockdown will be of utmost importance here.