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Improving parks and open spaces, providing more support for young families and helping people with their mental wellbeing as we emerge from Covid-19 restrictions are the top priorities for the Swindon’s newest borough councillor. Kate Tomlinson the Conservative candidate won the by-election in the Priory Vale ward triggered by the resignation in May of Emma Faramarzi While a Conservative win in a safe ward was not unexpected, Coun Tomlinson’s performance was the best ever seen by the party in the area – albeit on a very low turn out of 1882 or 22 per cent of eligible voters. Her...

Local politics is full of highs and lows, so I was incredibly grateful local residents saw fit to deliver the former in the shape of a huge vote of…

LOCAL ELECTIONS Clockwise from top left: Pam Adams (Labour), Geoffrey King (Lib Dem), Rod Hebden (Green) and Sudha Nukana (Conservative) One of Swindon’s best-known buildings sits towards the margins of Rodbourne Cheney ward – but will be at the heart of the campaign running up to the May 6 elections.  The famous Oasis dome is prominent in the south part of the ward but arguments about how the leisure centre – leased by Swindon Borough Council to Seven Capital – came to be closed, how soon it can be reopened or whether it is better to rebuild a new centre will continue all the wa...

Swindon Local Elections 2018. Pictured Andy Spry.03/05/18 Thomas Kelsey. The death of two sitting councillors, the resignation of another, and a year’s delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic have transformed what would have been routine local elections into something quite unusual. The 57 borough councillors in 20 wards are elected in thirds and 19 seats are up for grabs every year for three years, with no elections every fourth year. The successful candidates serve a four-year term. But this year’s elections, delayed for a year will see major changes. Councillors who are standing...

Labour group leader Jim Grant is hoping to end the Conservatives’ stranglehold and wants Swindonians to learn the lessons of 2020 The leader of Swindon’s Labour opposition hopes the lessons of 2020 will be remembered by people in Swindon – and says the past 12 months have shown the importance of community. Looking forward to the 2021 local elections scheduled for May, councillor Jim Grant first looked back over the last year. He said: “2020 was a year unlike any other I can remember. Yet in the midst of the Covid crisis so many people in Swindon and across the cou...