Local election 2021: Coventry Conservatives aim to âbuild back betterâ with election pledges
Voters will go to the polls on May 6
09:39, 15 APR 2021
Coventry Conservatives, taken before the coronavirus pandemic (Image: Supplied)
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The Local Democracy Reporting Service spoke to the group as part of a series of party profiles ahead of the local elections in Coventry on May 6â¦
THE demolition of a group of buildings on a ‘mixed use agricultural site’ in favour of two new homes has been permitted – despite claims it will ‘harm the surrounding area’. Mr and Mrs Norris and St John Homes (Thames Valley) Ltd won full planning permission to bulldoze and remove the existing buildings and hardstanding on a plot of land near Chalkshire Road, in Butler’s Cross.
PICTURED: The Chalkshire Road plot In their place they will erect two detached homes with access and parking. Another application suggesting a pair of semi-detached properties was refused. One property will have three bedrooms, the other two. Each will have two dormers in the front and a single-storey flat roof section to the rear.
Volumes two and three of
On Our Own Ground: County Wexford Parish by Parish were officially launched during a live video-conference call hosted by County Librarian Eileen Morrissey last week.
The books follow on from the first volume, which was released in 2013, and detail the natural heritage of County Wexford through the centuries with photography, drawings and maps to compliment the detailed text .
All 3,000 townlands in the county are featured and, according to Dr Culleton, the aim was to present as much information as possible in a relatively straightforward fashion. My aim was to publish material on the archaeology of Wexford in a manner which ordinary people can understand, he said at the launch. Some of the jargon of archaeology can be very difficult to understand, so I simplified some of it.
Who is Wendy Simon? The woman stepping in to run Liverpool as interim leader after Joe Anderson stands aside
Deputy Mayor will become interim city leader as Joe Anderson stands aside following his arrest last week
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Councillor Wendy Simon
Joe Anderson has today announced that he will step aside from his role of Mayor of Liverpool as a police investigation into him continues.
The city leader was arrested on Friday, along with four other men, on suspicion of conspiracy to commit bribery and witness intimidation as part of a Merseyside Police probe into building contracts in Liverpool.
He has been administratively suspended by the Labour Party and remains on police bail.