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Swindon election: Conservatives will stay in power with council majority after Labour losses THE Conservatives have won a majority in Swindon's Borough Council and will keep control of the local authority. Labour’s hopes of maintaining their seats in the Euclid Street chamber, bolstered by holds in Old Town, Mannington & Western and Gorsehill & Pinehurst were crushed in the third tranche of wards counted.  Three ‘red wall’ seats all fell to the Conservatives. Rodbourne Cheney, Penhill and Upper Stratton and even Central Ward were taken by the Tories.  With the Conservative ho...

Conservative When you were growing up in Watford or when you moved here, did you imagine you would find yourself in just another over-developed suburb of London? A new wave of high-rises leading to a ‘mini-Manhattan’ in the heart of our town? The tired one-party rule of Lib Dems in Watford and Three Rivers is coming to an end, with mistake after mistake leading to this overdevelopment crisis. The proper response to housing targets should be to have an up-to-date and well-drafted local plan to meet local needs - not panicky endorsements of 28-storey tower blocks. Binita Mehta-Parma...

Here's who you're voting for, what powers they have and how to vote. Who am I voting for? Gloucestershire County Council, which has been Conservative-led since the last election. At present the council consists of Conservatives, 28, Liberal Democrats, 13, Labour & Co-operative Group, four, independents, three, Greens, two, Labour, one, and People Against Bureaucracy Group, one. Stroud District Council, which is presently led by a cooperative alliance of the Labour, Green and Liberal Democrat parties. Voters elect 51 councillors for the district council every four years. In the last el...

ANOTHER Westhoughton councillor has quit the Lib-Dem to join the Conservatives. Town councillor, Carol Kirkman who represents Central Ward, is the latest Lib-Dem councillor to defect to the Tory Party. She said: "Today I've decided to join Westhoughton Conservatives for positive reasons, they are hard working and friendly bunch of people who are genuinely trying to do the best for Westhoughton. "I'm really looking forward to working Cllrs Martyn Cox and Clle Bernadette Eckersley-Fallon on their plan to stop more house building in Westhoughton and on their strategy to invest nearly £8...

Newark Makerhoods opens applications April 14, 2021 8:19 am Newark-based Makerhoods announced April 13 it opened the application process for its Live/Work Program–a holistic approach to helping small business owners grow their business by lowering their overhead to housing and commercial space. The program will award 16 applicants with an apartment and a separate commercial space zoned for light manufacturing starting at $1,800/month. The application window is from April 12-May 14, 2021. Kreuger Scott Mansion, Newark. – PRESERVATION NEW JERSEY Located at 601 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....