Page 23 - Matthew Patrick News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

2020: The year of disgrace for these Lincolnshire councillors Councillors on the naughty list Several elected councillors across Lincolnshire have found themselves on the naughty list in 2020. Local authority members have a duty to behave themselves while in office, and if they breach the rules, then it is right they should be investigated. Sometimes this leads to a suspension, others purely an apology. Here are some of this year’s notable blunders. Giles McNeill – West Lindsey District Council Giles McNeill | Photo: Daniel Jaines for The Lincolnite Investigations are understood to still...

District deputy leader forced to apologise over planning slur Councillor in the naughty corner Councillor Paul Howitt-Cowan. The deputy leader of West Lindsey District Council who told residents to spy on a house builder because he “might try to be naughty” has been told to apologise and had access to council officers restricted. Conservative Councillor Paul Howitt-Cowan was investigated by senior officers and an independent person after he told Hemswell Parish Council that he feared Alan Morris might illegally demolish a former blacksmiths forge in the area as part of plans to build a ne...

Councillor David Brown (centre) stepped down from his cabinet role earlier today, but Councillors Neill John Hastie (left) and Peter Watson (right) say that did not go far enough. Opposition councillors at Boston Borough Council say the resignation of a cabinet member after he was driving while attending a virtual meeting “does not go far enough”. Bostonian Independent councillors Neill John Hastie and Peter Watson both believe Conservative Councillor David Brown should “bow out of the council altogether” after his actions were broadcast on a YouTube livestream of the authority’s ca...

Councillor driving during online meeting still under investigation Councillor Brown checks the video feed several times while his vehicle appears to still be moving. A Boston councillor caught driving while attending a virtual meeting has not been arrested, charged or summonsed to court more than two weeks later. The meeting was live-streamed and the video in full later appeared on the council’s YouTube channel. In the footage, the vehicle Councillor Brown is sat in is clearly moving. Councillor Brown has his hands on the wheel, however, on several occasions he fiddles with the device he i...

Chief executive of East Lindsey District Council, and now Boston Borough Council, Rob Barlow. The newly-shared chief executive of Boston Borough Council and East Lindsey District Council has apologised following complaints over “enormously sexist and misogynistic” posts he shared on social media. East Lindsey’s chief executive Rob Barlow took over from Boston’s former chief executive Phil Drury under a new alliance hoped to save millions. However, former Boston Borough Councillor Helen Staples complained to the leaders of both authorities after seeing posts from 2014 shared on Mr Barl...