Sheffield City Council elections: big battle ahead in Graves Park
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www.thestar.co.uk— Graves Park ward has been a strong basis for the Liberal Democrats but as Cllr Ian Auckland is retiring the seat is up for grabs. The Lib Dems are trying to keep the ward as an all-orange one – they’ve got all three councillors at the moment – but it will not be easy, as we already mentioned in our Sheffield battlegrounds article. The Liberal Democrats will try to win with Tariq Zaman. He said: “I grew up and have lived locally for the past 46 years, and my children attended local schools. I...
www.thestar.co.uk—Sheffield City Council elections: Two main parties battling for Mosborough. Mosborough ward is at the south-east edge of the city, part of the Sheffield Townships on the borders of North East Derbyshire. The ward, home to Crystal Peaks shopping centre, also encompasses the suburbs of Mosborough, Halfway, Westfield, Waterthorpe and Holbrook. The council’s two main parties, Labour and the LibDems, are battling it out in the south-east of Sheffield and currently, the ward has two Labour councillors and one LibDem. Labour candidate Tony Downing said: “I’ve been honoured to...
www.thestar.co.uk—Sheffield City Council elections: Green scores big win over LibDems in Ecclesall. Peter unseated veteran LibDem councillor Roger Davison in a ward that was previously all-LibDem, winning by a margin of 396 votes. Ecclesall is also the ward of LibDem group leader Coun Shaffaq Mohammed. The Greens still have 14 seats on the council as they lost Walkley ward to Labour, where long-standing Green councillor Bernard Little had stepped down. They held City, where group leader Douglas Johnson was re-elected, Nether Edge and Sharrow, Hillsborough, Gleadless Valley and Broomhill and...
www.thestar.co.uk—Sheffield City Council elections: Labour aiming to take back Park and Arbourthorne. Whoever wins in the ward of Park and Arbourthorne will be a new councillor, as the city’s only current Independent socialist member, Sophie Wilson, has decided to stand down. Labour will hope to make it three out of three in the ward. A council ward profile shows that 28% of children aged up to 19 live in relative poverty, the crime rate is well above the England average and almost a quarter (23.8%) have a limiting long-term illness. Labour’s Mia Drazaic said: “I’m a mother, ex-teacher and union...