Sentences with phrase «working local councillor»

Liz lives in Ryton and is a dedicated hard working local Councillor... Read more

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When I had my son I was a local councillor in Glasgow and took the view that I could not take the time off work for maternity leave, so I combined my role with being a mum.

There are other opportunities to draw in the expertise and local knowledge of local non-executive councillors across all authorities to work with their communities in community planning to feed into the development of the Mayor's spatial plan.

Why can't there be prisons with a prison board with local employers, councillors, police, probation on the board, advising the governor what works best?

We need to appeal to people, and I would note that in these results, while I'm sorry that Conservative councillors who've worked hard lost their seats, in places like Amber Valley in Derbyshire, the heart of England, a part that's actually been Labour for decades, we still have a Conservative council, a place where I launched our local election campaign.»

This reputation is well deserved, but it depends on active local parties and enthusiastic Liberal Democrat councillors who do the hard work for the party on the ground.

It's clear from feedback on the ground that our local candidate is well respected as a hard - working councillor.

«At a recent Antisocial Behaviour Summit many local organisations and indeed Independent Councillors praised the work of Alison and acknowledged how supportive she has been of the town.

He has always been fascinated by politics and debating and after reading physics at university (now there is a rarity) gained experience as a local councillor in Croydon, where he was born and lived, then at CCHQ in research and campaigning and working with the young George Osborne as well as Lynton Crosby and Michael Ashcroft.

The Guardian found that 43 councillors work for communications consultancies specialising in planning, which are appointed by developers to communicate with local residents, pressure groups and councillors before planning hearings.

I still believe we will be hammered in the forthcoming local elections, which makes me sorry for the hard working diligent councillor being affected not by local issues but by a simmering hatred the press and Labour have been keenly espousing since the coalition deal, and a hatred for the Lib Dems for being the face of the cuts.

Former Labour MP who worked for two decades for his local area and was known as the «people's councillor»

In this first three research appointments and his PhD studies local government issues were the dominant interest, a theme which covered work on issues as diverse as the executive and scrutiny reforms; member allowances; the role (s) of local councillors; local elections; departmentalism; community appraisals; consultations; ward boundary changes; and history and structure.

And individual politicians and public representatives at all levels - from the Prime Minister to an opposition backbencher and from a school governor or local councillor - have an important role in working with us and with people with diabetes to make diabetes a priority.

I want to see the door left open for those councillors who have resigned the party whip to return so that whoever is elected can be sure that there is a strong Labour group that will work with the Mayor to ensure the needs of Tower Hamlets comes first and we reunite the local party once the dust has settled.»

Local councillors are the backbone of British democracy, working tirelessly within communities to hold local government to accLocal councillors are the backbone of British democracy, working tirelessly within communities to hold local government to acclocal government to account.

I was a trauma and emergency doctor in London with a number of years overseas doing humanitarian aid work and I'd only become a local Labour councillor in May of 2014.

Asked for his highlights, Towler suggested it was a toss - up between the Margate beach incident, the Ukip councillor who blamed flooding on gay marriage and the revelation that a Ukip local government candidate had worked as a porn star for 40 years.

The meeting held today was attended by 177 councillors, 177 ward chairmen, 16 Local Government party chairmen, 16 Local Council Chairmen, Chairmen and members of Boards and Parastatals, State Executive Council, Ekiti State House of Assembly members, serving and former members of the PDP State Working Committee, former Deputy Governor, among others.

The allowances councillors receive vary between local authorities, but for most, do not adequately reflect the number of hours they work.

He's a parliamentary candidate too but we won the day by working together with local people and councillors against plans for the incinerator.

It saddens me that the public perception of politicians is so low at the moment, especially when I am out with my councillors and council candidates, who all work so hard for their local communities.

Presumably if the local labour party had worked the ward in the council elections, there would now be no Lib Dem councillors in this constituency.

Sure, local councillors from all parties do important work and personal votes can be gained — yet on the big picture Labour were lying.

Commenting on the report, councillor David Simmonds of the Local Government Association, said: «Many early years providers, including nurseries, childminders, and school - based settings, opt to work with their local councils, and mums and dads are seeing the results with more high quality provision becoming availLocal Government Association, said: «Many early years providers, including nurseries, childminders, and school - based settings, opt to work with their local councils, and mums and dads are seeing the results with more high quality provision becoming availlocal councils, and mums and dads are seeing the results with more high quality provision becoming available.

What we've done is try to shine a bright light on the industry here in Hamilton and we've worked with our local city council as well as councillor Matthew Green to bring in the provinces first municipal licensing of payday loan outlets in Hamilton.

Nevertheless, by the late 1930s and early 1940s John was regularly featured in international shows of Surrealist and Dada art and in 1938 his works were banned from an exhibition in Birmingham by local councillors as being «detrimental to public sensibility».

The Councillors and candidates for election to local councils below have signed a Statement of Support for working towards a Climate Emergency Declaration at the local government level.