Council aims to resolve Wylam land slip
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Meeting to held over Wylam riverbank subsidence
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THERE will be Labour representation in Northumberland County Council matters relating to Tynedale for the first time in four years. The party reclaimed its seat in Prudhoe North after an absence of one term, while also claiming the Bywell ward from the Tories. Ken Stow successfully removed Labour from Prudhoe North four years ago, but his successor Tracy Gilmore, the current town mayor, was unable to keep the seat blue. She went head to head with Labour s Angie Scott, who received just 67 more votes than Mrs Gilmore to return the seat to Labour. Coun. Scott received 862 votes to Mrs Gilmore s 795.
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Surprises? You can say that again, Jeff, but also a sense of déjà vu.
The surprises come in various guises. The occasional, unexpected Labour gain for instance (notwithstanding their five loses to the Conservative Party).
Bywell’s newly-elected 25-year-old Labour councillor Holly Waddell narrowly snatched her seat from incumbent Conservative councillor Stephen John Westgarth, 981 to 924.
Kelly Angus, Northumberland s returning officer announces one of the results.
The Greens secured not only their first seat but their second on the same night. Martin Swinbank, newly elected Green Party councillor for Alnwick, replaces former councillor, now Tory MP, Robbie Moore.
Then the déjà vu set in, but curiously we did not know it at first.