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Post by listener on Mar 25, 2021 23:53:47 GMT
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Foggy
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Post by Foggy on Mar 26, 2021 0:03:10 GMT
That sounds like a very strange way to pronounce 'Hood'.
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Post by samdwebber on Mar 26, 2021 13:45:35 GMT
3 more in Islington:
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timmullen1
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Post by timmullen1 on Mar 27, 2021 12:27:15 GMT
Nigel Todd, Labour Cooperative, Arthur’s Hill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has died.
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Post by middleenglander on Mar 27, 2021 14:18:00 GMT
Nigel Todd, Labour Cooperative, Arthur’s Hill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has died. I think this particular seat is due to be contested on 06 may 2021. |
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Post by heslingtonian on Mar 27, 2021 14:31:43 GMT
Nigel Todd, Labour Cooperative, Arthur’s Hill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has died. Labour's defeated candidate in Newcastle Central at the 1983 General Election. I believe I am correct in saying he is the only Labour candidate not to win that seat since 1935. |
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Post by ColinJ on Mar 27, 2021 14:51:59 GMT
Nigel Todd, Labour Cooperative, Arthur’s Hill, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has died. Labour's defeated candidate in Newcastle Central at the 1983 General Election. I believe I am correct in saying he is the only Labour candidate not to win that seat since 1935. Nigel Todd (born in September 1947) was undoubtedly hindered in the campaign by having a high-ish profile SDP candidate, John Horam MP for Gateshead West, also contesting the seat. The winner was Piers Merchant who resigned as MP for Beckenham in 1997 after a minor sex scandal. In 1983 Todd was serving as a Newcastle councillor, and the BBC story about his death confirms he was first elected in 1980. He will clearly be a huge loss to the council. |
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timmullen1
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Post by timmullen1 on Mar 27, 2021 15:01:13 GMT
Labour's defeated candidate in Newcastle Central at the 1983 General Election. I believe I am correct in saying he is the only Labour candidate not to win that seat since 1935. Nigel Todd (born in September 1947) was undoubtedly hindered in the campaign by having a high-ish profile SDP candidate, John Horam MP for Gateshead West, also contesting the seat. The winner was Piers Merchant who resigned as MP for Beckenham in 1997 after a minor sex scandal. In 1983 Todd was serving as a Newcastle councillor, and the BBC story about his death confirms he was first elected in 1980. He will clearly be a huge loss to the council. Nice tribute from Newcastle Labour leader Nick Forbes: |
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Post by heslingtonian on Mar 27, 2021 16:05:40 GMT
Labour's defeated candidate in Newcastle Central at the 1983 General Election. I believe I am correct in saying he is the only Labour candidate not to win that seat since 1935. Nigel Todd (born in September 1947) was undoubtedly hindered in the campaign by having a high-ish profile SDP candidate, John Horam MP for Gateshead West, also contesting the seat. The winner was Piers Merchant who resigned as MP for Beckenham in 1997 after a minor sex scandal. In 1983 Todd was serving as a Newcastle councillor, and the BBC story about his death confirms he was first elected in 1980. He will clearly be a huge loss to the council. Yes, RIP to Cllr Todd. John Horam has now outlived both Merchant and Todd who were both significantly younger than him. |
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Post by andrewteale on Mar 27, 2021 16:12:13 GMT
Labour's defeated candidate in Newcastle Central at the 1983 General Election. I believe I am correct in saying he is the only Labour candidate not to win that seat since 1935. Nigel Todd (born in September 1947) was undoubtedly hindered in the campaign by having a high-ish profile SDP candidate, John Horam MP for Gateshead West, also contesting the seat. The winner was Piers Merchant who resigned as MP for Beckenham in 1997 after a minor sex scandal. In 1983 Todd was serving as a Newcastle councillor, and the BBC story about his death confirms he was first elected in 1980. He will clearly be a huge loss to the council. The Newcastle Central seat Todd fought in 1983 was a completely new constituency mostly drawn from the predecessor Newcastle West and Newcastle North. It included only a few hundred electors from the previous Newcastle Central, most of which ended up in Tyne Bridge. |
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Post by andrewteale on Mar 28, 2021 9:14:32 GMT
As reported on the Trafford thread, two new vacancies there:
Claire Churchill has resigned as Conservative councillor for Bowdon ward - she is still listed on the council website, the clock's ticking to get this sorted as a double vacancy in May
Shirley Procter has resigned as Labour councillor for Flixton ward
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Mar 28, 2021 18:19:35 GMT
Hazel Smith (LD, Milton & Waterbeach) and Douglas de Lacey (independent, Girton) have stood down from South Cambridgeshire DC.
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Post by listener on Mar 29, 2021 12:54:16 GMT
Bury has published Notices of Vacancy for
Moorside - resignation of Sarah Southworth (Lab) - retires 2023
North Manor - resignation of James Daly (Con) - retires 2022
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Post by samdwebber on Mar 29, 2021 14:35:12 GMT
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peterl
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Post by peterl on Mar 29, 2021 15:32:36 GMT
Rosie Wibberley, who runs an organic farm in Tiverton, will stand in the by election for West Exe Ward Mid Devon for the Greens.
The Green candidate form Mid Devon Taw Ward will be Paul Edwards, a retired community development worker. Edwards will also be contested the Creedy, Taw and Mid Exe Division of Devon County Council.
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Post by carlton43 on Mar 29, 2021 15:42:54 GMT
Rosie Wibberley, who runs an organic farm in Tiverton, will stand in the by election for West Exe Ward Mid Devon for the Greens. The Green candidate form Mid Devon Taw Ward will be Paul Edwards, a retired community development worker. Edwards will also be contested the Creedy, Taw and Mid Exe Division of Devon County Council. An 'organic farm' eh? Try running an inorganic farm and see where one ends up! That would be the ultimate Green wet dream 'carbon free' agriculture but of course the opposite to organic! |
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peterl
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Post by peterl on Mar 29, 2021 15:44:39 GMT
Well organic farming is really just what people did for centuries. Could really be called "traditional farming".
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Post by spirit on Mar 29, 2021 16:03:49 GMT
The remaining two Welsh vacancies - Nantymoel and Aberavon will both be on May 6.
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Post by No Offence Alan on Mar 29, 2021 16:22:00 GMT
Well organic farming is really just what people did for centuries. Could really be called "traditional farming". IMHO, "organic" farming is a marketing scam. It is no more healthy for the consumer than "unorganic" farming, in fact the food just goes off more quickly , thus contributing to unnecessary waste. |
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Post by greenchristian on Mar 29, 2021 16:40:20 GMT
Well organic farming is really just what people did for centuries. Could really be called "traditional farming". IMHO, "organic" farming is a marketing scam. It is no more healthy for the consumer than "unorganic" farming, in fact the food just goes off more quickly , thus contributing to unnecessary waste. Even if your contention is that pesticide residues are not a health issue (I've not really looked into the science on that), that only applies to organic food which is marketed as being more healthy. There's a very clear case for it being more environmentally friendly, given the impacts of artificial pesticides and - in some cases - artificial fertilisers on the local ecology. The issue about it having a shorter shelf life is surely balanced out by the fact that the kind of person who is more likely to buy organic food is also the kind of person who is more likely to make an effort to ensure that everything they have is cooked and eaten in good time (and more likely to have food waste composted rather than chucked in the residual waste bin).
That said, the fact that food marketed as organic is consistently more expensive on the shelves is arguably something of a scam. There are documented examples of farmers who have switched to organic methods because it is cheaper for their particular produce and have not applied for certification in order to avoid being marketed as more of a luxury item.
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