| Pensioners who have to dodge dual-carriage way traffic to catch a bus are dicing with death, a county councillor has claimed. |
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| But it had, in community councillor Roy Surplice, a man with an eye for the main chance. |
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| All it takes is a telephone call, either to the council or local councillor, either way it will be removed. |
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| A heated verbal exchange between a Fianna Fail councillor and a Fine Gael rival spilled into the council tearoom at elevenses last week. |
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| The councillor faced the prospect of racing across the city from the Guildhall to York Hospital's maternity ward. |
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| A councillor has been found guilty of bringing Bolton Council into disrepute by making a racist remark. |
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| As a councillor, I witness at first hand the needless hardship and distress caused to, mainly young, families waiting years to be housed. |
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| Firstly, all these villages have a Conservative district councillor and county councillor. |
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| Roy Smith, Tendring district and Essex county councillor, has taken up the residents' complaints. |
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| The Conservative councillor for Bradshaw said the Labour controlled council had turned Council Tax into a stealth tax. |
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| The councillor also took a swipe at the police service following raids in nationalist areas of Belfast yesterday morning. |
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| In the years since she has kept away from local politics, save appearances as a Leven parish councillor. |
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| Ryther parish councillor Malcolm Fisher said the village badly needed a pumping station on the floodbank. |
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| Roy has been actively involved in the community for a long time, having been a parish councillor for 53 years. |
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| The councillor said the drop in crime figures was down to the fact that some people had been taken out of circulation for the past six months. |
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| A city councillor has called for a citywide ban on smoking in public places, provoking anger from city pubs and students. |
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| A field on the borders of Southend and Rochford has become a dangerous rubbish tip and should be cleared up immediately, a councillor said. |
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| A councillor is supporting calls for a memorial to be placed on the site of a former factory in Westhoughton where two steeplejacks were killed. |
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| Her briefcase contained personal possessions, including a personal organiser, and papers relating to her work as a councillor. |
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| Now Edna, with the help of local councillor Bernard Selby, plans to collate records, press cuttings and artefacts detailing his wartime actions. |
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| Suppose they want to meet with you about an issue that is not coming up at council because their councillor doesn't want that to happen? |
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| In the end, no councillor voted in favour of the application and the plans were refused. |
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| Under election rules, candidates are ineligible to become mayor or a councillor if they owe the municipality money. |
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| A York councillor who has been caring for her son as he battles with bone cancer is set to be given compassionate leave from her official duties. |
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| She suggested that the councillor should step down as his remarks were clearly inflammatory. |
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| At a meeting of the council's planning committee last week, Kelsey and Eden Park councillor Peter Dean raised safety concerns. |
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| To top it all off, the disgraced former councillor accused his inquisitors of dragging his family into the process. |
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| Those were fighting words for councillor Stu Kennedy, who refused to compromise the bypass road. |
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| But one local councillor believes Government proposals for 24 hour drinking in pubs and clubs might halt any improvement. |
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| They are entitled to expect the intervention and, if necessary, intercession of their local councillor to vindicate their rights. |
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| A councillor has accused a brewery of playing Bexley Council for a mug over a pub's opening hours. |
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| A councillor from Trowbridge has promised to adopt a Dunkirk spirit to help rid the town of its pigeon menace. |
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| The Six Nations councillor representing a B.C. First Nation raised his hands and remained in his chair. |
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| Maybe a councillor could take up my challenge with one of your intrepid reporters too. |
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| Mr Reid's disqualification as a councillor led to three candidates being nominated for co-option onto the council last week. |
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| However, district councillor Bob White believes that the tree should be pollarded, reduced in height and given a second chance. |
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| It said the councillor was not seeking to mislead other members or act in a devious manner. |
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| Could it be that they have a councillor or senior council officer in their midst? |
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| A councillor frustrated at not being able to give a pot of cash away to people in Bolton is overjoyed after 14 groups applied for the money. |
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| The councillor said she understood there needed to be money in the pot for works but the fees charged in rural areas were too high for people. |
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| What concerns me was they contained a cowardly attack on a local councillor. |
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| Verina Weaver, executive councillor for social care, revealed how a number of people were caring for children fostered out by Essex. |
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| While he served as a councillor, he was also on the hospital board, serving as chair for one year. |
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| According to the Killarney councillor, a practice has emerged in recent years of using handsaws axes and even chainsaws to cut holly branches. |
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| He was once a Labour councillor in the city, but crossed the floor to join the Tories. |
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| Trinity councillor Tony Lambert has been to inspect the hole and is furious at the lack of action. |
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| The mayor said he had no intentions of gagging any councillor or preventing them from expressing their own views. |
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| There were far fewer votes cast in the referendum than in the arts regular councillor race even though arts regular is a subset of arts. |
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| The councillor said he felt let down by the council as the officers should have got back to him sooner. |
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| Malmesbury town councillor Judy Jones's book about escaping the rat race has been so successful her publishers are printing another edition. |
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| In my view a councillor would not be undertaking activities in an official capacity if he attended a meeting solely in his private capacity. |
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| He continued he'd no doubt she would make an excellent councillor for the Ward 3 area and he had great pleasure in proposing her for the seat. |
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| Warminster town councillor Les Rose said the closures would hit the elderly hardest. |
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| Your best choice would be a teacher, a camp councillor, a den mother or a girl scout troop leader, for example. |
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| There were suffragists and socialists, a trade union organizer, and a London city councillor in her heritage. |
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| A councillor has quit a carnival committee after a foul-mouthed tirade against a children's motorcycle display team was accidentally broadcast over a public address system. |
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| By keeping quiet for so long they have made every other councillor who used the Internet come under suspicion in the public's mind with guilt by association. |
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| One county councillor believes a more imaginative approach could be used. |
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| As a green party councillor totally opposed to multi-national companies and conglomerates, how can l condemn someone for doing something l do myself? |
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| Craven district councillor Richard Welch, speaking as a local resident, said there had been no objections from consultees other than the national park authority. |
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| Parish councillor David Sweet is urging residents to report anyone spotted allowing their dog to illegally foul restricted areas such as the High Street. |
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| Following the declaration by the returning officer, I am greatly honoured and privileged to be elected as the Kennet councillor for the Ogbourne ward. |
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| The town councillor said although civic leaders would have rather seen the former cinema turned into a leisure facility, she was not against demolishing the building. |
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| Speculation is growing over why the councillor gave up his planning portfolio, with fellow councillors claiming he was punished for his part in the failed motion. |
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| Hear from the man who chaired the public meeting in Linton as well as the councillor who could well have Victoria's newest toxic waste dump in his shire. |
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| For a start, I would suggest that instead of having 52 or so councillors, that the number is cut down by half, with one councillor representing two wards. |
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| The Liberal Democrat is the only councillor to represent Osbaldwick ward. |
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| But that does not explain why the BNP went on to take six more seats at last week's elections in Burnley, where most wards were electing just one councillor. |
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| His successor, Ieuan Wyn Jones, struggled to impose his authority, particularly over controversial remarks made by a councillor, Seimon Glyn. |
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| His father, James Johnstone Hyde, was a linen merchant and Unionist councillor for Cromac. |
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| Every administrative county was divided into electoral divisions, each returning a single councillor. |
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| In June 2011 Liskeard North councillor Jan Powell defected from the Conservatives to join the Liberal Democrats. |
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| Graham Walker, councillor for St Austell Bethel, defected in protest over the coalition government's education policies. |
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| In September 2012 another Liberal Democrat councillor resigned from the party. |
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| As a result, 45 Conservatives, 17 Liberal Democrats, 10 UKIP, four Labour and one Community Campaign councillor sit on the County Council. |
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| At one point a county councillor even threatened to withdraw promised funds if the dockyard site became more than an interim solution. |
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| There are 46 Conservative councillors, 10 UK Independence Party, 8 Liberal Democrats, 6 Labour Party councillors and 1 Independent councillor. |
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| Previously there had been two distinct yet overlapping categories of royal councillor. |
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| Because of this, this second type of councillor, usually of the nobility, was only allowed to attend the council of Castile as an observer. |
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| Like Salt he was a councillor, JP and Bradford MP who was deeply concerned to improve working class housing conditions. |
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| The town is in the Ribblesdale division of North Yorkshire, where it is represented by a Conservative councillor. |
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| In 2009, Totnes Rural was the only county division in Devon to elect a Green councillor. |
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| Dave Batten did a lot of good work when he was a councillor for this ward and always attended our Neighbourhood Watch meeting. |
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| But councillor Cyril Annal said the real reason for looking abroad was poor staff working conditions. |
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| A LEADING Labour councillor has accused Conservatives of hi-jacking his plans to crackdown on fly-posting in Coventry. |
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| A POINT of order was called by Labour over the inaudibility of fast-talking Liberal Democrat councillor Greg Stone at Newcastle City Council. |
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| The timing of the election cycle is usually linked to that of the election of a district councillor for the ward containing the parish. |
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| Elections are conducted under the FPTP system with all 53 wards returning 1 councillor. |
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| The campaign was led by Save Huddersfield NHS which elected a councillor, Dr Jackie Grunsell in the Crosland Moor ward. |
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| Neil McEvoy was suspended by the Plaid Cymru group after tribunal found his guilty of bullying in his other role as a councillor for Cardiff. |
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| In August 2009 a councillor resigned from the Liberal Democrats and became an independent. |
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| Two types of councillor are elected in local elections held every five years in Turkey. |
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| The party's candidate, Mike Thornton, had been a local councillor for the party, and held the seat. |
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| In November Parliament formally recognised Margaret as the chief councillor to the King. |
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| On 1 February 1587, Elizabeth signed the death warrant, and entrusted it to William Davison, a privy councillor. |
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| In 1979, Rhondda councillor Annie Powell became Wales' only communist mayor. |
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| The six wards comprising Milford Haven community each elect one councillor to Pembrokeshire County Council. |
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| The four wards comprising Pembroke community each elect one councillor to Pembrokeshire County Council. |
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| The term of office of a parish councillor is four years, and council seats are elected en bloc through multiple non transferable vote, by secret ballot. |
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| However, she is also a councillor at Wokingham Borough Council, and this week faced calls to stand down from her role as Lead Member for Children's Services. |
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| In September 2016 Paul White, the Conservative councillor for Camborne Roskear, left the Conservative group and designated himself as a standalone independent. |
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| Later in December 2016 Jon Stoneman, the Conservative councillor for Camborne Trelowarren, left the Conservative group and designated himself as a standalone independent. |
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| The second category of traditional councillor had a less formal role. |
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| Guest speakers included Conservative MP Sheryll Murray, Liberal Democrat MP Steve Gilbert, and Mebyon Kernow councillor and deputy leader Andrew Long. |
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| By Henri III he was successively appointed governor of the chancelry of Burgundy, councillor of the provincial Parliament, and subsequently president. |
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| After the 2007 election, the Independent Group, led by Nairn ward councillor Sandy Park, effectively acted like a party, complete with a party whip. |
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| In March 2009, the leader of Cornwall County Council David Whalley announced he would be standing down as a councillor, complaining of personal attacks against him. |
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| Independent councillor, Bert Biscoe, organised a fact finding mission to Guernsey in 2011 to see if the island's system of government could be adapted to work in Cornwall. |
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| Each councillor was to remain in office for a period of four years. |
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| The Inverness committee represented 23 out of the 80 Highland Council wards, with each ward electing one councillor by the first past the post system of election. |
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| He was a councillor on Oxford City Council for several years. |
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| It consists of ten indirectly elected members, each a directly elected councillor from one of the ten metropolitan boroughs that comprise Greater Manchester. |
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| The Lochaber management area then consisted of eight out of the 72 wards of the council area, each electing one councillor by the first past the post system of election. |
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| However the party lost its sole councillor on Midlothian Council. |
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| The driving figure behind the formation of the Bank was James Lumsden, a stationer by business, a councillor, police commissioner and, later, Lord Provost of Glasgow. |
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