reveals she has received death threats following a controversial Facebook post. Last week, councillor Sabia Akram, deputy and cabinet member for governance, posted on her page that she was “shocked and saddened” to see the Batley Grammar School teacher and his family received death threats and went into hiding after he showed a picture of the Prophet Muhammed in a religious studies class. While not defending the teacher’s “disrespectful” actions, Cllr Akram, who is Muslim, said he should be forgiven for his mistake, not lynched or threatened to be killed. She also called for Muslim leaders to condone the actions of those sending the threats and protesting on the school grounds, disrupting pupils learning.
Cllr Madhuri Bedi at the Foxborough litter pick
“I JOINED the Labour party because I believed it stood ‘for the many, not the few’. Sadly, I do not see that being played out in current leadership.” That’s what councillor Madhuri Bedi (Foxborough) said at a full Slough Borough Council meeting on the budget – as she resigned as a Labour member to become an independent councillor. At the meeting on Monday, March 8, she also scolded her former colleagues for choosing to increase council tax to the maximum this year. She said the 4.99 per cent spike will “prove too much for too many” and this rise “could’ve been avoided” if the council’s reserves were more “robust” and if the finances were managed better.
Barnhill by-election recount result has stayed with Labour
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Two Conservatives have been ordered to pay £68,000 in costs to Brent Council after losing the Barnhill by-election recount.
Stefan Voloseniuc and Kanta Mistry narrowly lost the by-election to Labour candidates on January 23 last year.
Barnhill Conservatives Kanta Mistry and Stefan Voloseniuc.
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Mansoor Akram received 1,194 votes while Gaynor Lloyd won 1,152 against Ms Mistry s 1,082 and Mr Voloseniuc s 1,018.
The losing Conservatives believed that votes were incorrectly allocated and put in a petition to the High Court for a recount.
They claimed that on election night, they were not allowed a recount by the returning officer for Brent Council, Carolyn Downs, nor was their agent allowed to flick through bundles to check.
The complaint was brought over a by-election count in January 2020 (Inset: Google Maps) Calls for an investigation into a narrow Brent Council by-election victory by the defeated candidates were dismissed by the High Court. The court ruled the results for the Barnhill by-election, held in January 2020, were correct following a recount. The initial vote saw Labour candidates Gaynor Lloyd and Mansoor Akram narrowly elected in front of their Conservative counterparts Kanta Mistry and Stefan Voloseniuc. Ms Mistry and Mr Voloseniuc alleged 100 votes for them had been placed in the Labour pile and, had this been rectified, they would have been elected instead.
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