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Post by middleenglander on Apr 20, 2014 22:41:19 GMT
There is currently 1 by-election called after 22nd May with another 5 known vacancies although Flintshire, Mostyn will not be called until the result of an appeal over the disqualification is known.
5th June - 1
South Lanarkshire UA, Clydesdale South - SNP resigned
Current known vacancies where by-election not yet called - 5
Colchester BC, Wivenhoe Quay - Labour died 4th April
Flintshire UA, Mostyn - Independent disqualification confirmed 5th September but result of appeal awaited
Neath Port Talbot UA, Sandsfield East - Labour died 12th March
North Kesteven DC, Sleaford Quarrington & Mareham - Independent resigned 3rd April
North Kesteven DC, Sleaford Westholme - Independent resigned 8th April
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Post by marksenior on Apr 21, 2014 6:26:02 GMT
Sarah Candy, Conservative councillor or Manningtree etc ward on Tebdring DC has sadly died .
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Post by maxque on Apr 21, 2014 8:27:11 GMT
Sarah Candy, Conservative councillor or Manningtree etc ward on Tebdring DC has sadly died . Manningtree, Mistley, Little Bentley and Tendring. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 9:08:54 GMT
Sarah Candy, Conservative councillor or Manningtree etc ward on Tebdring DC has sadly died . Manningtree, Mistley, Little Bentley and Tendring. Characters in a Poirot short story. I think Manningtree did it.... |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Apr 21, 2014 10:33:33 GMT
Manningtree and Mistley are almost the same settlement, both being based on the Stour estuary. Manningtree is famous for being one of the claimants to the title of Britain's smallest town, but that's only if you measure it on the (somewhat misleading) parish boundaries. It's also known for its association with Margaret Thatcher in her years as a research chemist. Little Bentley and Tendring are villages in the centre of the Tendring peninsula, neither of which particularly looks towards Manningtree. The comments on the last LGBCE review are interesting - essentially everybody suggested the ward boundaries were truly illogical, in response to which the LGBCE did it usual trick of agreeing but confirming its recommendations.
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Post by maxque on Apr 21, 2014 10:38:31 GMT
But why Tendring Peninsula is named after that small village?
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Apr 21, 2014 10:46:56 GMT
The peninsula is named after the Tendring Hundred, which was an Anglo-Saxon judicial unit. The reasons for the naming of hundreds are never particularly clear, but the best guess is probably that it was used as a meeting place because of its location in the centre of the peninsula.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 21, 2014 11:14:05 GMT
The Hundreds (or Lathes, or Rapes, or Wapentakes in some counties) still existed and had legal significance until the 19th century. The last thing which they were responsible for was paying for the costs of riots, which was removed from them in the 1880s and transferred to the police.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 12:32:35 GMT
The Hundreds (or Lathes, or Rapes, or Wapentakes in some counties) still existed and had legal significance until the 19th century. The last thing which they were responsible for was paying for the costs of riots, which was removed from them in the 1880s and transferred to the police. Rapes in Sussex are not the same as hundreds, they (hundreds) are the next level.down sent while on the move somewhere |
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Post by David Ashforth on Apr 21, 2014 14:56:08 GMT
The Hundreds (or Lathes, or Rapes, or Wapentakes in some counties) still existed and had legal significance until the 19th century. The last thing which they were responsible for was paying for the costs of riots, which was removed from them in the 1880s and transferred to the police. There used to be a bar in Sheffield called the Wapentake.  |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Apr 21, 2014 15:08:15 GMT
Call me old-fashioned, but I wouldn't want to drink in a bar whose name refers to the public brandishing of offensive weapons.
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 21, 2014 15:19:13 GMT
Call me old-fashioned, but I wouldn't want to drink in a bar whose name refers to the public brandishing of offensive weapons. Don't some people think this was linked to "voting"? The beer was terrible too, according to posts on the sheffield history website. |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Apr 21, 2014 15:24:34 GMT
Sheffield was in the Wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill (Upper division).
At the moment I'm in the Ossulstone Hundred, and probably not all that far from Oswald's Stone itself, assuming its likely fate after 1869.
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Post by finsobruce on Apr 21, 2014 15:41:59 GMT
Sheffield was in the Wapentake of Strafforth and Tickhill (Upper division). At the moment I'm in the Ossulstone Hundred, and probably not all that far from Oswald's Stone itself, assuming its likely fate after 1869. Who stole Oswald's Stone? |
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Apr 21, 2014 15:44:25 GMT
Call me old-fashioned, but I wouldn't want to drink in a bar whose name refers to the public brandishing of offensive weapons. Don't some people think this was linked to "voting"? The beer was terrible too, according to posts on the sheffield history website. Yes, if you interpret the wielding of offensive weapons with intent as 'voting'. |
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Post by sussexpsephology on Apr 21, 2014 18:59:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 19:01:56 GMT
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Post by marksenior on Apr 22, 2014 14:33:11 GMT
John Lee , Independent councillor for Bexhill Collington ward on Rother DC has resigned
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Post by middleenglander on Apr 26, 2014 23:44:13 GMT
There is currently 1 by-election called after 22nd May with another 9 known vacancies although Flintshire, Mostyn will not be called until the result of an appeal over the disqualification is known.
5th June - 1
South Lanarkshire UA, Clydesdale South - SNP resigned
Current known vacancies where by-election not yet called - 5
Colchester BC, Wivenhoe Quay - Labour died 4th April
East Cambridgeshire DC, Soham South - Independent died 17th April
Flintshire UA, Mostyn - Independent disqualification confirmed 5th September but result of appeal awaited
Merthyr Tydfil UA, Penydarren - UKIP died 12th April
Neath Port Talbot UA, Sandsfield East - Labour died 12th March
North Kesteven DC, Sleaford Quarrington & Mareham - Independent resigned 3rd April
North Kesteven DC, Sleaford Westholme - Independent resigned 8th April
Rother DC, Bexhill Collington - Independent resigned around 17th April
Tendring DC, Manningtree, Mistley, Little Bentley & Tendring - Conservative died 19th April
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Post by bungle on Apr 27, 2014 9:19:28 GMT
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