With council elections due to take place next week, we’re shining the spotlight on Sunderland’s candidates in the run-up to polling day. Voters will head to polling stations on Thursday, May 2, to either re-elect or replace holders of around a third of seats on Sunderland City Council. All candidates have been given the opportunity to tell readers why they’re standing and why you should vote for them. Here’s what candidates in the Barnes ward have to say: Candidates are listed in the order...
Many senior City Hall politicians are calling it a day while other hopefuls are on the comeback trail
Polling day in Coventry is on Thursday 2 May
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The Sheffield Palestine Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid is urging supporters to ask election candidates about their views on the current conflict in Gaza. Leaders of the four political groups on the city council issued a joint statement just ahead of the start of the March pre-election period in response to a 7,500-signature petition calling on the council to stand in “unity and solidarity” with Palestinians, as they did with Ukrainians. The petition also welcomed the work of the...
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The former Militant Labour MP Dave Nellist will be speaking at the Central United Reformed Church, Norfolk Street, Sheffield city centre tonight (May 1) at 7pm. Dave Nellist was a member of Militant and a left-wing Labour MP from 1983 to 1992. He refused to pay his poll tax and was expelled from the Labour Party for being in Militant. He was then elected as a Socialist Party councillor in Coventry for 13 years and now sits as the national chair of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition, who...
Neither Cllr Tom Hunt, the leader of the council, nor Cllr Shaffaq Mohammed, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, have to stand this year – but Cllr Douglas Johnson from the Green Party does. Cllr Johnson, the leader of his group, was able to win comfortably in 2021 and now he is aiming to do that again, keeping the City ward a Green ward. He told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS): “I’m a councillor for City ward, I was elected in 2016 and again in 2021. “I chair the council’s housing...
A Coventry store has been ordered to close its doors for three months after a Council investigation revealed the continuing sale of illegal tobacco products and vapes.