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THE first results have been announced for Swindon s local elections. This article will be updated when the next round of results comes in - follow our live blog for more of the day s news. The Conservatives have held Coun Vijay Manro joins the ward after receiving 2,075 votes. This is more than double Labour candidate Keir Baynham s 867 votes. Andrew Day of the Green Party came third with 442 votes. Liberal Democrat Michael Heal followed with 137 votes. Independent candidate Tara Hurst received 126 votes. The results for
Mannington and Western are in: Coun Kevin Small from the Labour Party stays in his post after receiving 1,184 votes.
TRAFFIC chaos worries and fears for child safety have pushed back plans for 250 new homes by a busy Highworth road. It is feared that Gladman’s outline proposal for the development on Shrivenham Road would add an unmanageable amount of extra vehicles to a street which is regularly congested with cars, coaches and HGVs. Concerned neighbour Norman Jeffery said during the last Swindon Borough Council planning committee meeting that parked cars make the road one-way near the Fox roundabout, it is jammed at drop-off and pick-up times for the two schools there, and a three-foot-wide pavement leaves little space for hundreds of pupils.