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KEVIN STENT/STUFF Hutt City Councillor Chris Milne in 2019 complained police should be spending their time on more important things than ticketing people not wearing seatbelts in carparks after his wife was tickteted. He has again found himself in hot water. A Hutt City councillor found in "material and serious" breach of standards has been sent a letter signed by nine others around the council table calling for his resignation. "We have completely lost confidence in you as a Hutt City councillor, and ask that you resign from your role as a Hutt City councillor immediately,” the letter, o...

Jenrick rules nothing out as reorganisation consultation is finally launched A consultation on local government reorganisation has been launched by the government on all eight proposals it received from districts and counties in North Yorkshire, Somerset and Cumbria. Communities secretary Robert Jenrick indicated that he has not yet formally assessed the merits of each of the options on the table. The consultation on the formation of new unitaries, which will run until 19 April, comes weeks later than expected. The councils involved submitted their bids to Whitehall in December. These compris...

Rangers-linked striker tunes into Europa League win with deal "90%" done 19th February 2021 Rangers-linked Colombian striker Juan Alegria reignited talk of those Ibrox reports after uploading a video of himself watching the club’s 4-3 win over Royal Antwerp. The South American forward is currently turning out in Finland for FC Honka and he even tagged countryman and Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos in the post on his official Instagram account. Morelos, 24, has already tread that path from Colombia to the Scandinavian country and then on to Ibrox having signed for the Gers in 2017 from HJK H...

Marcus Lush elected to Invercargill City Council 17 Feb, 2021 01:36 AM 2 minutes to read Newstalk ZB host Marcus Lush. Photo / Jason Oxenham NZ Herald Newstalk ZB's Marcus Lush has been elected to the Invercargill City Council. Voting for the by-election closed at midday on Wednesday and results released at 1.30pm show Lush won with 7003 total votes out of the 13,991 which had been counted. Lush said the public's spirits are low. "A lot of people in Bluff and Invercargill have spoken to me and they seem pretty disillusioned with the council. It did concern me with what they had to say." Adver...

Prominent national broadcaster Marcus Lush wants to try to help people get back on board with the Invercargill City Council in his new role as a councillor.