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MORE than 1,000 people attended the Remembrance Sunday service in Henley. The ceremony in Market Place was led by Rev Jeremy Tayler, the rector of Henley with R...

Top left clockwise: Al Robinson, Laetisia Carter, Matthew Barber, John Howson VOTES for the next Thames Valley Police and Crime Commissioner are so close that officials have been forced to start counting people's second choices. No candidate has secured 50 per cent of the first preference votes - meaning the results of the second preference votes of the top two candidates will be counted.  Here are the results:  Labour's candidate John Howson for the Liberal Democrats got 110,072 votes.  Alan Robinson - an independent candidate - secured 77,210.  The two candidates with the lowe...

Updated Monday, 10th May 2021, 7:22 pm Conservative Matthew Barber finished top of the pile of first preferences with 267,404 votes to the 175,123 garnered by Labour’s Laetisia Carter. As the winner needed to have at least 50 per cent of first preferences to win, the Lib Dems and an Independent were eliminated from the contest and second preference votes were added into the mix. After the second preferences were counted the final result was: Matthew Barber Carter: 233,446 votes. Oxfordshire resident Mr Barber had been the deputy to PCC Anthony Stansfeld since January 2017 and had already p...

In the second preference vote count 15,750 ballots were dismissed.  The majority, 15,388 of those, were rejected after the second box was unmarked.  Another 173 were discharged when more than one candidate was marked as a second preference and 189 were also void after uncertainty about who the second vote was for.  The role of the police and crime commssioner, which was created in November 2012,   is to set out the way crime is tackled by police.  They do this by making a 'police and crime plan' - a document that outlines how much money the police expect to have in the next thr...

ELECTION 2021 The biggest election in our are this year will be the Wokingham Borough elections. Credit: Ben Walker/ New Statesman (Ballot: File Photo) Voters up and down the country are going to the polls for the Local Elections this year. The biggest elections in our area are the Wokingham Borough elections, where voters throughout the borough will be selecting their ward councillors. There is a total of 18 seats up for grabs spread across the town itself, the Reading suburban areas of Earley, Woodley and Shinfield, and Wokingham’s satellite villages such as Twyford, Finchampstead and...