EGM fiasco: Cllr Ecclestone to file complaint with authorities Councillor Christopher Ecclestone said he would lodge an official complaint with the Monitoring Officer at Test Valley Borough Council and the Department of Communities and Local Government against the backdrop of EGM fiasco that saw four councillors being excluded from the meeting on Thursday. Cllr Ecclestone called the EGM “a new low in local democracy” and accused the Proper Officer and mayor of excluding him from confidential sessions. Cllr Ecclestone told the Advertiser: “A new low in local democracy was reached at ATC s Extraordinary General Meeting held on the 21st of January to discuss whether to contest a Judicial Review being brought by three councillors against ATC for its repeated illegalities and irregularities.
JULY IN JULY, the grieving mother of a woman who was murdered in her home by her estranged husband opened up about the heartache. She said her family was torn apart, one year on from her daughter’s death. Thirty-year-old Lucy-Anne Rushton was forced to swallow her wedding ring before she was violently killed by “jealous and controlling” Shaun Dyson, at her house in Suffolk Road on Sunday, June 23, 2019. Dyson, of Anna Valley, was sentenced to a minimum of 17 years in prison, with the judge condemning him for the “violent and brutal” attack on his former partner. Lucy’s mother Myra Simpson said: “We are the ones living the life sentence, not him.”