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but so far, it looks like the conservatives are having a rough time. they ve lost around half of the council seats they were defending that s similar to how they performed in 1995, two years before they were crushed at a general election. labour, the greens and the liberal democrats all made gains. and labour are celebrating a victory in the blackpool south by election, with a huge swing from the conservatives. with the story of the night, here s our political correspondent damian grammaticas. ..commonly known as chris, labour party 10,825. cheering. blackpool south, a little before 5am, and a decisive labour victory. they were confident of emerging winners in the by election, but this was emphatic. they have said to rishi sunak and to the conservatives they ve had enough. they ve had enough for m years of the conservatives being in power. they have lost trust of the british people and blackpool has had enough of this failed government. the conservatives, who had held the s ....
the full picture. so far it looks like the conservatives are having a tough time. they have lost half the councils they were defending, similar to how they performed in 1995, and two years after that, they were crushed at the general election. labour, the greens and the liberal democrats all made gains. and labour are celebrating a victory in the blackpool south by election, with a huge swing from the conservatives. with the story of the night, here s our political correspondent damian grammaticas. ..commonly known as chris, labour party 10,825. cheering blackpool south, a little before 5am, and a decisive labour victory. they were confident of emerging winners in the by election, but this was emphatic. they have said to rishi sunak and to the conservatives they ve had enough. they ve had enough for 1h years of the conservatives being in power. they have lost trust of the british people and blackpool has had enough of this failed government. the conservatives, who had held th ....
be finding out more. a nightmare night for aston villa. they now have a mountain to climb to keep their european dream alive, after a big defeat at home, to olympiacos. stormzy and the beautiful game. the rapper on home ground, as he opens his own youth centre in south london. good morning. we will see some sunshine for scotland and later southern england. very cloudy with patchy rain elsewhere. all the bank holiday details coming up. it s friday, the 3rd of may. our main story. labour has won the blackpool south by election with a convincing majority. the conservatives came second, they previously held the seat until their mp resigned after a lobbying scandal. the reform party came a close third. the first wave of results for the local elections in parts of england has also started to come through overnight so far, the conservatives have lost council seats, while labour s made some key gains. our political correspondent, damian grammaticus, has the latest. commonly known a ....
was the only president to be inaugurated in the city of houston, which he hated for the name alone. sam houston was the only president to be inaugurated in austin, a city he fought against. only political rivals, but personal enemies who hated each other. between the first rumblings of independence in 1835 and the spring of 1837, the seats of government of the republic of texas shifted several times. they started incidentally be with a convention in 1835. in 1830 six they signed the declaration of independence in the town of washington. subsequently, the alamo fell. everybody fled east, including the government. the government ended up in a town called harrisburg and what is now the city of houston. they do not stay there long before being forced to leave by santa ana and the mexican army as well. they escaped down to galveston island, which is where they were when sam houston won the battle of san vicente. it took five days to find enough wood to fire up the steam ship ....
he has also had the joy to experience today. i think he is eager to go back south of the james. emmanuel grew up in did what he county. dinwiddie county, so petersburg was home for him. volunteering at the petersburg national battlefield where he became a seasonal, worked there for a number of years and became a permanent historian. he has beenm there 14 years sharing this story which has largely been forgotten. the stories of the people affected by the presence of those armies has gone untold. fortunately, emmanuel has brought that story to the forefront and is here to talk about one of the other enduring legacies of the war, the freedmen s bureau. the question, what is going to happen with all these emancipated slaves? the freedmen s bureau was an attempt to deal with that. it was a very complicated answer. emmanuel dabney, ladies and gentlemen. [applause] emmanuel: i am not sure how people deal with this traffic on the north side of richmond. it seems like whenev ....