Swindon election: Conservatives will stay in power with council majority after Labour losses THE Conservatives have won a majority in Swindon s Borough Council and will keep control of the local authority. Labour’s hopes of maintaining their seats in the Euclid Street chamber, bolstered by holds in Old Town, Mannington & Western and Gorsehill & Pinehurst were crushed in the third tranche of wards counted. Three ‘red wall’ seats all fell to the Conservatives. Rodbourne Cheney, Penhill and Upper Stratton and even Central Ward were taken by the Tories. With the Conservative hold in Covingham and Dorcan it means party held on to power in the chamber and started building a really big majority.
WORRIED Swindon patients received the wrong coronavirus vaccine after going for their second jab at the vaccination centre inside Steam Museum The effects of having mixed doses is still being trialled but health experts say it should not cause problems. Sandra Fitzpatrick gave the medic her card to show the first dose had been Pfizer but later learned the computer had recorded it as AstraZeneca, so she received that as her second dose instead. The 68-year-old from Cheney Manor said: “I was anxious enough about Covid anyway so this did make me feel scared. I overheard the nurse chatting to a colleague who said they had made the same mistake once.
67-69 Victoria Road Rodbourne Cheney: Rodbourne Cheney Primary School’s parent organisation, the White Horse Federation, will be allowed to knock down a lean-to canopy and two portable toilets next to the sports equipment store on its playing field, and in their place put a new prefabricated block of four lavatories, individual cubicles with handbasins, all plumbed into the mains drainage. The playing field is a few minutes’ walk from the main school building in The Broadway. Eldene: A plan to knock down a bungalow and its garage could be knocked down to make space for two semi-detached houses on the corner of Elmore and Eldene Drive has been approved.
LOCAL ELECTIONS
Clockwise from top left: Suresh Gattapur (Conservative), Kevin Small (Labour), Deborah Fine (Independent), Deborah King (Liberal Democrat) and Nicky Iddon (Green) are standing alongside Ian Baxter (The For Britain Movement) in Mannington and Western Traffic is an issue all over Swindon – but in few places does it provoke such passion as in Mannington and Western and, in particular, Rodbourne. The area includes the popular Designer Outlet – but the retail venue s success has come with a heavy price. Queues of cars trying to get into the centre at weekends, particularly during busy shopping times like November and December and for special events, cause very long tailbacks. Many neighbours describe how they have felt trapped in their own homes, or say they have had to restrict their activities to avoid trying to drive to or from their property on certain days.
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