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• Update on SNP meeting

  
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  Councillor McCuish was persuaded to stay in the SNP as a balancing agent. The requirement for SNP councilors to submit their intentions in advance to the local MSP and the Constituency Association Convener for signing off  allows an either/ or between Mr Russell or a National Executive Committee member, There is ...
  3 days ago

• Kidsgrove Mayor and Staffordshire SANDS

  
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  As you may know the Still Birth and Neonatal Death charity Staffordshire SANDS is something very close to the hearts of Gordon and Laura, the couple behind Cards And Candles For All Occasions as we have suffered the loss of our babies ourselves and know how much support is needed at what is a very traumatic time ...
  3 days ago

• SNP tightens party grip on local councillors in further chaos

  
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  A range of credible sources have it that: SNP party group leader, Councillor Roddy McCuish intends to stand down as party group leader today and will resign from the SNP. This would be a typically clean-cut, no-nonsense decision from a man who is universally respected for his honesty. New leader, novice councillor ...
  4 days ago

• Argyll and Bute: where now – experiences and choices?

  
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  In the unprincipled goings on of the last administration, led by the Alliance of Independent Councillors, we hoped that a party-led administration would bring a discipline and a set of principles that would be stabilising and restore trust to local government. The opposite has been the case. Nothing could have been ...
  1 week ago

• Withdrawals move numbers against proposed new coalition

  
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  [Updated below 17.30] The proposed new coalition administration for Argyll and Bute claimed a majority of 25-11 in its launch announcement. We showed last night [10th May] that this was incorrect – and that the three Argyll First had been wrongly assumed to be a part of it – without enquiry as to their ...
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• A million reasons for Oldhams young people to have hope in the future

  
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  Millionaire Norman Stoller says isn’t brilliant inventions that make money but the need for willing to accept both challenge and innovation
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• Late-night levy plan to make Greater Manchester bars pay for police

  
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  Crime commissioner Tony Lloyd has met police chiefs and council leaders to discuss a levy on venues that stay open after midnight.
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• Mystery Craft Frightens Quincy Residents

  
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  For the past ten days, a low flying aircraft has been buzzing the city of Quincy, Massachusetts – frightening residents as it flies in loops in the sky from dusk until dawn. As locals reach out to city officials for answers, none appear to be forthcoming.  Even the city council and the Mayor himself are [...]
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• New council administration appears not to be what it seemed

  
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  We understand, on good authority, that the proposed new administration for Argyll and Bute Council has not emerged from a sound or indeed, a proper, decision taking process. Two Conservative Councillors, Corry and Kinniburgh, appear not to have been consulted by their group leader, Councillor Mulvaney, before he did ...
  2 weeks ago

• New administration for Argyll and Bute Council

  
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  [Updated below 15.00] In transit yesterday from Western Ross to Argyll, we did not see until this morning Councillor James Robb, Leader of Argyll and Bute Council’s, email announcement of yesterday [9th May 2013]. This makes it clear that the Liberal Democrat and Conservative Groups have joined the Administration ...
  2 weeks ago

• Woman Councillor Dies after Delivering Conjoined Twins

  
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  By Emmanuel Okwii The Administration of Ngora Freda Carr Hospital in Ngora district has been blamed for the negligence that resulted in the death of the expectant district’s woman councilor shortly after labour. Faith Norah Atim, 38, a councilor who had been representing Ngora town Council reportedly went to the ...
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• An 11% fall in number of Council bureaucrats earning over £100,000

  
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  The Taxpayers Alliance annual Town Hall Rich List is out and it shows a quite significant fall in the number of council staff on six figure salaries (or rather "remuneration" as the TPA rightly includes the cost of pension contributions.) There were 2,525 council employees who received total remuneration in excess ...
  2 weeks ago

• Council decides to leave most capital library hours alone

  
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  ISLAND Bay residents are happy that the Wellington City Council has decided not to close their library earlier in the evenings. In its Draft Annual Plan for 2013/14, the council had proposed to close Brooklyn, Cummings Park (Ngaio), Wadestown and Island Bay libraries at 5pm on weekdays, because they were considered ...
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• Senior Tory Councillor: It is a shame that some voters have gone to UKIP over equal marriage

  
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  A senior Conservative county councillor has expressed disappointment at the fact that ballot papers in last week’s local elections were spoiled by voters who voiced their opposition to equal marriage. The Tory politician, who asked not to be named, told This Is Leicestershire that he saw that a number of voters had ...
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• Shame on you Collin Brewer

  
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  Shame on you Collin Brewer not shame on Cornwall. In summary: a Local Councillor in Cornwall said (in the heat of the moment, when knackered and after a stroke that appently affects his temper) that children with disabilities SHOULD BE PUT DOWN. I took a breath, raised my eyebrows and we all ...
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• Bulk Ward: Counting errors and swinging seats (updated & corrected)

  
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  Original story posted 6 May 2013 Updated 7 May 2013 with corrections and LCC comment: Counting errors at the Lancaster City Council by-election count on Friday came close to costing the Green Party a council seat for Bulk Ward, we can reveal. When the votes were counted in, the result was provisionally provided ( ...
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• Labour MSP Rhoda Grant’s response to Struan Lodge decision

  
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  At the meeting of Argyll and Bute Council today, a motion amendment by Dunoon councillor, Dick Walsh, moved to give the home more time – and to investigate possible expansion.This was agreed by councillors and has renewed hope for the troubled care home, Struan Lodge. Rhoda Grant MSP, Labour member for the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Three administration members vote against agreed budgetary position on Struan Lodge

  
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  Argyll and Bute Council has reopened the Struan Lodge issue at its meeting today, in an emergency motion tabled by Councillor Michael Breslin and seconded by Councillor Gordon Blair. A deal was done to allow administration members voting against their own administration’s agreed budget to vote, not for the ...
  4 weeks ago

• ‘A hero we should be proud of’ joins ranks of the elite

  
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  Army medic who saved colleague’s life is given the freedom of borough.
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• Labour MSP Rhoda Grant hits out at disarray in SNP in Argyll

  
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  Well regarded Highlands and Islands Labour MSP, Rhoda Grant, who submitted a motion to the Scottish Parliament on the future of Struan Lodge care home in Dunoon, has hit out at the disarray within the SNP in Argyll and Bute Council. This is the motion which, in a communication we published, local SNP MSP Michael ...
  4 weeks ago

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