Sentences with phrase «such as councillor»

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The high court ruling simply clarified that local authorities have no power to hold prayers as part of their formal meetings or to summon councillors to such a meeting at which prayers are on the agenda.

It is quite probable that on some of those authorities, such as Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, and Surrey, Labour will be left without a single councillor.

Those applicants include Diane James — a fellow MEP and former high - profile byelection candidate — and Lisa Duffy, a previously unknown councillor who has been winning endorsements from modernisers such as suspended former deputy chairwoman, Suzanne Evans.

Mrs Thomas served on West Glamorgan County Council as Chair of the Social Services Committee - the first female councillor to chair such a major committee.

The comments come after Ukip councillor David Silvester blamed recent storms on same - sex marriage laws, saying he had warned the prime minister that the legislation would spark «disasters» such as «storms, disease, pestilence and war».

Such complicated arrangements incline me strongly to support adopting the practice of some countries, long backed by the Electoral Commission, the 2007 Councillors Commission and others, of a single four - yearly national or at least regional Local Elections Day for all councils — though not, as in Sweden, on the same day as parliamentary elections with different coloured ballot papers, and probably not in mid-November, like Denmark's.

Earlier this month, Ealing councillors voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion to stop the anti-abortion groups from protesting outside a Marie Stopes clinic in the borough, including potentially using a time - limited public space protection order (PSPO), normally used to prevent antisocial behaviour such as street drinking.

[Mayor] Mussatto said it was important for councillors not to focus on just the harm caused by fossil fuel, but also pragmatic solutions that an ordinary person could implement, such as taking transit or not idling unnecessarily, «I couldn't live without my vehicle, but I can certainly reduce the number of trips I do use it for,» he said.

The MCIA includes defences such as an error in judgment by a councillor, which was rejected by Hackland.