Reports: Benitez in the frame to become new Everton manager Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
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Rafael Benitez has re-emerged as a candidate for the Everton manager s job amid suggestions that the club s talks with Nuno Espirito Santo have stalled.
The Blues hierarchy are reported to have held advanced talks with Espirito Santo last week but there are suggestions that the demands around the size of his backroom staff that Nuno made, which supposedly scuppered his appointment at Crystal Palace, could also be the cause of the Everton s hesitancy to confirm him as the next incumbent in the Goodison Park hot-seat.
Claims that emerged on Wednesday, beginning with TalkSport presenter, Jim White, who has close ties to Farhad Moshiri, have it that Benitez is in talks with Everton and is the likely man to succeed Carlo Ancelotti. That was followed by a report from Sky Sports that the Spaniard has held talks with Moshiri but has yet to be offered the job although, a
Local Lib-Dems call for urgent government action on moorland fires Date published: 25 May 2021
Councillor Howard Sykes
The Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group on Oldham Council, councillor Howard Sykes MBE, has written to the Conservative Government calling for a national ban on the sale of disposable barbecues.
They are often the cause of moorland fires.
Cllr Sykes has called for greater court punishments for those found guilty of negligently or wilfully setting fire to our moors.
He has written to the Secretary of State for the Environment, George Eustice MP, calling for action.
Cllr Sykes said: “Action is long overdue.
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Oldham Lib-Dem team pledge to be the real opposition to Labour Date published: 10 May 2021
Oldham Liberal Democrat Leader, Councillor Howard Sykes MBE
At a Group meeting held on Saturday (May 8), the Oldham Borough Liberal Democrats appointed, unanimously and un-opposed, councillor Howard Sykes MBE as their Leader and councillor Chris Gloster as their Deputy Leader.
Councillor Sykes said: “I am grateful once more to my colleagues for their unanimous support for my work as Group Leader and delighted that Chris will continue to serve as my Deputy. It was great to welcome newly-elected councillor Mark Kenyon from Saddleworth West and Lees to the team, and to welcome Diane Williamson back for Crompton.