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Labour and Tory leaders Cllrs Miles Parkinson and Marlene Haworth at the Hyndburn count THE Conservatives made major gains in Hyndburn in Thursday’s elections to build on their general election triumph in December 2019. They won five wards and lost one with former party boss Peter Britcliffe taking over the seat of his daughter Sara in St Andrew’s ward Oswaldtwistle which she has vacated as she is now the MP. They took a second seat in the ward with a victory for Steven Smithson. They also gained councillors in neighbouring St Oswald’s ward, Altham, Rishton, and Church. But they lost the Barnfield ward in Accrington left vacant by the death of their former group leader Tony Dobson to Labour. ....
THIS year s Lancashire County Council election campaign has been strange as the giant authority s biggest political beast takes a back seat. And polling day on May 6 marks the end of an era as Burnley-born and Rossendale-raised Conservative group leader Geoff Driver bows out of the electoral fray. The controversial 76-year-old Turf Moor season ticket holder is standing down to spend time with his two - soon to be three -grandchildren. He has handed over the Tory torch to his deputy Keith Iddon who has carried on his campaign to portray Labour was wastefully poor managers and the Conservatives as a a safe set of financial hands. ....
Retiring Tory big beast hopes his party still has political teeth lancashiretelegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancashiretelegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.