Register for your account and get started with our industry leading people contacts search engine. Get 5 free searches. Next to Basildon is the Thurrock district on the Thames estuary, which also has a Conservative majority currently 29 seats against 14 Labour, 3 independents and 3 Thurrock Independents. Redditch Labour were facing a par score of wipeout at the 2022 elections, but they held all the seats they were defending and gained three seats off the Conservatives for good measure. Best Song Ever: Oh I have loads depending on my mood. The defending Conservative candidate is Hilary Butler, who is also seeking re-election to Elmbridge council in Oatlands and Burwood Park ward. Overall the Conservatives, Labour and independent councillors are defending four seats each this year: a repeat of the most recent results in the wards up for election would give an 1818 tie between the Conservatives and Labour, with the two Greens and an ex-Labour independent holding the balance of power. An independent-Lib Dem coalition is running the show. This administration then generated controversy over an attempt by the council to raise money by selling and leasing back thousands of beach huts; after surviving a no-confidence vote of his own last year, the Conservative council leader then resigned in February 2023 in a disagreement over the budget and council tax rate. We might need to wait some time for this result to settle down, because the poll in Frimley Green ward has been postponed after one of the Conservative candidates died; Andrews Previews will be back here to throw some darts at a later date. To the west of that is Hart, the UKs least-deprived local government district and possibly too posh to vote Conservative; Hart council is currently a perfect three-way split with the Conservatives, the Lib Dems and other councillors all on 11 seats each. The personality cult of the Ashfield Independents leader Jason Zadrozny remains strong and this column hasnt seen any need to reassess that following his arrest last December on suspicion of fraud and money laundering. Neighbouring Teignbridge district, based on Newton Abbot and Teignmouth, actually returned a Lib Dem majority in 2019 with 26 Lib Dem councillors against 12 Conservatives and 9 independents. Awford was re-elected for his final term in 2021 with 66% of the vote, and a close three-way race for the runner-up spot was won by the Greens on 12%. This trick also reveals that there are a few councils where the Conservatives have a realistic chance of gaining seats against the national trend, mainly in areas where they put in a particularly poor performance in 2019 and improved on that in 2022. East Suffolk has a large Conservative majority. Well, the 2019 elections here were affected by the collapse of the large UKIP caucus elected in 2015; the Tories won 16 seats, independents 11, Labour 6, UKIP 5, Tendring First localists 4, Holland-on-Sea and Eastcliff Matters localists 3, 2 Lib Dems and one seat for the Foundation Party (no, me neither). According to Glassdoor, the employees make roughly between $47,863 to $141,155 per annum at NBC. The East Midlands Today reporter said she was "genuinely. Well, Sara is currently 49 years of age as of 2019. Her widower, former police officer and former Durham councillor Allan Bainbridge, is the defending Conservative candidate; Labour have selected Julie Scurfield, who was appointed BEM in 2020 for her work as a girls football coach, while the Greens have withdrawn to leave the Lib Dems Russell Haswell to complete the ballot paper. Also in Barrow is our first by-election to the new Cumbrian local government structure, for the ward of Old Barrow and Hindpool which is part of the new Westmorland and Furness council. Bennett was re-elected to the county council in 2021 with 54% of the vote, and a close four-way race for second place was won by independent candidate Norman Mockford on 13% ahead of the Lib Dems on 12%. Of the other two districts in East Sussex, Eastbourne is safe for the Lib Dems while the large Wealden district has a large Conservative majority despite some by-election reverses over this term. Currently Bradford Labour stand at 52 seats out of 90. We will continue to fulfil our advertised role of covering all the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order, by returning in less than two weeks time for the first by-election of the municipal year 202324, which will take place in Gloucestershire on Wednesday 17th May. Worcester has few marginal wards, but a repeat of 2022 would see the Conservatives lose two seats: the city-centre Cathedral ward to Labour, and the peripheral St Peters Parish to the Green Party. The Tory group has comprehensively split and has also lost a number of by-elections, and control of the council has seesawed between a succession of unstable coalitions. The Lib Dems Ashley Tilling is also an Elmbridge councillor; he is seeking re-election this year in Weybridge Riverside ward, which covers a very small corner of this division. This is the year of Redditchs electoral cycle in which Labours best wards do not poll, so the Conservatives are defending nine of the ten seats up for election. The 2019 elections here returned 19 Conservative councillors, 9 Lib Dems, 8 Greens, 5 Labour and 3 Whitnash Residents; the Conservatives and Whitnash Residents formed a coalition which controls half of the 44 seats. The most marginal Leicestershire district at present is Blaby which covers a number of Leicesters south-western suburbs, although this looks safe enough based on the 2019 results which gave 25 Conservative councillors against 6 each for Labour and the Lib Dems, a Green and an independent. National press, including the Independent and New Statesman, covered the story, which was also featured on Australian TV. Showreel for BBC East Midlands Today reporter/presenter Sarah Teale This former coalmining centre is increasingly turning into a favoured location for Sheffield commuters, and it returned a Conservative majority in 2019: 30 Conservatives, 18 Labour, 3 Lib Dems and 2 independents. She is a weather presenter for East Midlands Today, BBC's Midlands Today, and BBC North West Tonight. A coalition of the Lib Dems and independent councillors is currently running Sydney Opera House, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain. The Green candidate this time is Jonathan Bristow, and the Lib Dems will be putting out leaflets in the name of their candidate James Joyce; hopefully they will be more readable than most Joyce literature. Teale has an estimated net worth of between $1 million and $5 million. Like Derby, the Amber Valley district is moving off the thirds electoral cycle this year. Matt Teale was born and raised along with his parents in childhood in the United States. This council currently has a Conservative lead of 2013 after the Tories almost swept the board in 2021, and for the second year in a row more than half of the Labour group is up for election this year. People took to social media to comment on what happened, with many posting messages of support. We havent had any further local government reorganisation affecting this years polls, but there are some innovations for the 2023 English local elections following the passage of the Elections Act this year. West Oxfordshire went hung last year; there are now 19 Conservative councillors, 15 Lib Dems, 9 Labour, 3 independents and 2 Greens and a vacant Conservative seat in Ducklington ward, where a by-election will be held as part of this cycle. Teale is 46 years old as of 2021. The global reach and reputation of the BBC strengthen our work. However, Labour took a safe ward (Old Bracknell) off the Conservatives in a by-election in December 2021 and the Tories may suffer from there being a clear electoral pact against them: although new ward boundaries make comparison here difficult, Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens have organised so that in nearly all wards the Conservatives face only one major-party challenger. His parents names and siblings names are not known. There is a team behind the scenes who will, as usual, be working their socks off to bring you cold hard ward-by-ward results as they come in from the counts on Thursday night and all through Friday. Good morning, Burlington! Instead, this anti-incumbent mood was picked up by other groups contesting those local elections: principally localist parties, independent candidates and the Liberal Democrats. Two Conservative councillors are now independent, which wipes out a by-election gain the party made in Loxwood ward from the Lib Dems. A Lib Dem minority administration was initially formed, but this proved to be unstable and was replaced by a Conservative minority administration. Its a safe Conservative seat which had been represented since 2009 by the late Phil Awford, who had also previously sat on Tewkesbury council. Moving into Worcestershire, we can see a Labour recovery forming in the New Town of Redditch. Its Our County are now part of the councils main independent group, which runs Herefordshire in coalition with the Green Party. It wouldnt take much for this council to go hung, but the opposition is rather scattered between independent councillors, Labour and the Lib Dems. I've had a fantastic time here and no two days are the same. Sara Blizzard, a lady who helps individuals drive from one location to another and updates the primary areas of traffic. ", In the clip, Teale can be heard explaining: "An online study showed that a shocking 95% of people said they had been harassed, jeered at, or had obscenities shouted at them in the street and a large proportion said they'd also been groped or grabbed inappropriately in public. This is the only Gloucestershire county division to span the River Severn, taking in 20 rural parishes between Gloucester to the south, Cheltenham to the east and Tewkesbury to the north. UKIP gained the Labour seat at a by-election in 2016. As can be seen from the map above the Tories had a poor result here in 2019, so a repeat of 2022 would actually see them gain two wards: Southchurch from an independent and West Leigh from the Lib Dems. This year the whole council is up on new ward boundaries with three new councillors being added to the chamber, and that should sort out some of the messy political maps we have seen in Southampton over the last cycle. Some of the Lib Dem strength has also spilled over the other side of Watford into Bushey, which is part of Hertsmere district; but this has a safe Conservative majority, and Labour are in a clear second place on Hertsmere council thanks to their strength in Borehamwood. Next to Medway is Gravesham council, which is somewhere where the Conservative and Labour votes are so geographically polarised that Labour (thanks to differential turnout) can regularly win council majorities while polling fewer votes than the Conservatives. It is an old saying that knowledge means power; the better informed you are, the greater your chances of success. Hes still there today, lying in eternal rest in the village of Little Malvern at the southern end of the Malvern Chase division of Worcestershire county council. Next to Epsom and Ewell is the other remaining Surrey district with a Conservative majority, Reigate and Banstead. Well, the 49 years old news reporter is very personal about private issues as she has not yet openly talked about her romantic relationship to the media public. The council now stands at 15 Lib Dems, 13 Conservatives, 9 seats for the Tunbridge Wells Alliance, 7 Labour and 4 independents; the Lib Dems, Tunbridge Wells Alliance and Labour have a coalition administration, and the Conservatives will need to do far better than last year to have a hope of changing that. He was run close by the Conservatives for his final re-election in 2021, winning by just 4640. Similarly, she celebrates her birthday every year on 17th August. It was the key to creating an empowered and engaged team of people she loves working alongside and an abundant lifestyle she'd always imagined. I'm not keen on motor racing. I love writing and took up a trainee position on a local paper. Well, the latter might be an outdated stereotype, but Tunbridge Wells still has the rest of those attributes in abundance. The 2019 elections returned 21 Labour councillors, 14 Morecambe Bay Independents, 12 Conservatives, 10 Greens and 3 Lib Dems. Sarah Teale Biography Mini Bio (1) Sarah Teale is known for BBC East Midlands Today (1991). The current titles and graphics were introduced in July 2019. The 2021 polls were a clear win for the Conservatives, with the BBCs projected share at 36% for the Conservatives, 29% for Labour and 17% for the Lib Dems. The whole council was up for election in 2021 on new ward boundaries, and that election produced a curiously skewed set of retiring councillors: this year five of the independents/localists are up for re-election, against four Conservatives and just three Labour. The way Wokinghams wards come up for election makes a par score difficult to assess, but Labour will definitely fancy gaining the second seat in Norreys ward of Wokingham town which they won last year. This year Labour are only defending twelve seats plus by-election gains from the Greens (in Washington South) and from UKIP (in Redhill), and a repeat of last years results would see Labour gain the two other wards which voted UKIP in 2019, Ryhope (where the former UKIP councillor is now independent and is standing down) and St Annes (where the former UKIP councillor is now in the Conservatives and is seeking re-election as such). The 2022 elections here were good for Labour, who stand to gain three seats if they are repeated: those wards would be Denby Dale (from the Conservatives), Dewsbury East (from an independent) and Golcar (in western Huddersfield, from the Lib Dems). In 2019 the Tories won 15 seats in Rutland against 8 independents, 3 Lib Dems and a Green; four years later the Conservative group has fallen apart like a pack of cards and has lost by-elections left, right and centre. As usual, well commence with the city of Sunderland which takes pride in normally being the first district to declare its results. The city of Worcester was a surprise Conservative loss last year; the Conservatives still run the council, but their group of 15 is in a minority against 12 Labour councillors, 6 Greens and 2 Lib Dems. Control of North Lincolnshire council in 2003 was decided by a single vote giving the Conservatives a 2120 lead over Labour; the 2019 elections here returned a more comfortable Conservative majority of 2716 after the 2019 elections, and the Tories gained a safe Labour seat in Scunthorpes Ashby ward at a 2021 by-election. Further along the coastal strip, Worthing council now has a large Labour majority and Adur council is not up for election this year. As originally envisaged, this is the year of the cycle where all of the UKs second-tier districts which have whole-council elections go to the polls. Thats Stockport, which includes some strongly middle-class suburbs on the edge of Greater Manchester such as Cheadle, Bramhall and Marple the Conservative-held parliamentary seats of Cheadle and Hazel Grove cover this area. West Devon also had a Conservative majority of 1 after the 2019 elections, but the Tories have since picked up a by-election gain in Tavistock North ward. Ed Coleman has represented the town on the county council since 2017, when he gained his seat from UKIP; he was re-elected for a second term in 2021 with a 6917 lead over Labour. This is a marginal county division which voted Labour in 2005, Conservative in 2009, and split its two seats between Labour and UKIP in 2013. Teale made a debut as a relief presenter on 25 August 2009 and as a main co-presenter on September 7, 2009. Goodness knows what will happen here. New ward boundaries make comparisons difficult, but by-election results suggest that the Conservatives may be in some trouble here: they lost two seats to Labour last year, and Brighton and Hoves demographic makeup is really not a good fit for what the Conservative demographic has become. After her education, Louise went to appear in Andrew Lloyd Webbers production of Josephand His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat as well. Until its abolition last month Barrow council had had a Labour majority since 2011, and the late Ann Thomson who had been first elected in 1990 was that councils leader from 2019 until her death a couple of months before the councils abolition. Also in Havant we have a by-election to Hampshire county council, in the division of Purbrook and Stakes South. His fathers name and his mothers name are not known. The Labour majorities in the metropolitan boroughs I havent mentioned so far Rochdale, Tameside, Manchester, Trafford, Salford, Wigan, Knowsley and Sefton are impregnable. He was elected to the county council in 2021 with 51% of the vote against 23% for the Lib Dems and 18% for Labour. Margaret Atkinson, North Yorkshire CC and Harrogate Phil Awford, Gloucestershire CC Mohammed Azim, Birmingham Sheila Bailey, Stockport Beatrice Bainbridge, Durham Cameron Beart, Kent CC and Swale Andrew Belben, Crawley John Bell, Cumbria CC Judi Billing, Hertfordshire CC and North Hertfordshire Richard Billington, Guildford Brian Blakeley, Denbighshire Roger Blishen, Waverley Michael Brown, Newark and Sherwood Barry Burkhill, Cheshire East Tony Burnell, Rhondda Cynon Taf Stephen Carter, Cheshire East Malcolm Cavill, South Somerset Chad Chadwick, East Riding John Charles, West Sussex CC and Arun Melvin Cohen, Barnet John Collop, Kings Lynn and West Norfolk Eddie Cubley, Nottinghamshire CC and Broxtowe Malcolm Cunning, Glasgow Dan Daley, Kent CC Ann Davidson, West Lothian Ian Davis, West Lancashire Merv Evans, Lancaster Barbara Flack, Canterbury Christine Foley-McCormack, Redcar and Cleveland Isabel Ford, South Staffordshire Gordon Friel, Sefton John Galley, Chelmsford Alan Gardiner, Barnsley Nick Geary, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Andy Gibbons, Wandsworth Derek Giles, Cambridgeshire CC Fred Gleaves, Copeland Ratilal Govind, Leicester John Gray, Waverley John Greenhalgh, Mendip Bob Greenland, Monmouthshire Pauline Greenwood, East Riding Alan Griffiths, Derbyshire CC Janice Hanson, Lancaster Hag Harris, Ceredigion John Haste, Dover Brian Holden, Ribble Valley Patricia Holmes, North East Derbyshire Vaughan Hopewell, Mansfield John Horner, Warwickshire CC Graham Houston, Stirling David Hume, Braintree David Jenney, North Northamptonshire Pauline Kettle, Basildon Arthur Lamb, Cumbria CC Ian Lawson, Staffordshire CC and Staffordshire Moorlands Barry Lees, North Warwickshire Carlo Lionti, Pendle Brian Lohan, Mansfield John Loveluck, South Cambridgeshire Hilary Lucas, Darlington Hazel Lynskey, Scarborough John McAlpine, Argyll and Bute Avril Mackenzie, Aberdeen Olawale Martins, Barking and Dagenham Kenneth Matthews, Central Bedfordshire Stephen Moons, Bedford Les Morgan, Warrington Alun Mummery, Isle of Anglesey Leon Murray, Telford and Wrekin John Mutton, Coventry Graham Newman, Suffolk CC Angela Newton, Lincolnshire CC and South Holland Colin Organ, Gloucester Garry Peltzer Dunn, Brighton and Hove Mick Pendergast, Medway Gareth Prosser, Redditch Badsha Quadir, Croydon Val Ranger, East Devon Brian Rolfe, Epping Forest Ann Shackleton, Sandwell Nigel Shaw, Broadland Hilda Sheldon, Staffordshire Moorlands Judith Smith, South Kesteven Richard Smith-Ainsley, Spelthorne Patrick Solomon, Bedford Anthony Spencer, Hertsmere Melanie Steadman, Melton Terry Streets, Southampton Jean Stretton, Oldham Ron Sturrock, Angus Anthony Sykes, Wigan Ray Theodoulou, Cotswold Ann Thomson, Barrow-in-Furness, and Westmorland and Furness Valerie Thorpe, Amber Valley Kevin Thurland, North Northamptonshire Alison Todd, Surrey CC Anthony Trollope-Bellew, Somerset West and Taunton Seamus Walsh, Coventry Mary Webb, Wiltshire Tom Willis, Chelmsford Bernard Wing, Blackpool Leslie Winwood, Shropshire Nigel Woollcombe-Adams, Mendip. Replying to . When comes to Sara Blizzard's personal life, she kept her privacy in a very low key or under sleepers. If he is re-elected, Labours Sir Peter Soulsby will enter his sixth decade in elected Leicester politics: he was first elected to the city council all the way back in 1973 as a 24-year-old, and there are very few councillors left now from those first elections to the big-bang reform of local government introduced by the Heath administration. In 2019 the Conservatives won half of the seats here, 18 against 11 Lib Dems, 2 Greens, 2 Labour, 2 Local Alliance and an independent. In the Lancashire county council area, there is an all-out election this year in West Lancashire to introduce new ward boundaries. Of the four Lincolnshire councils with Conservative majorities at present, the most marginal is East Lindsey council (above) which is one of those rural councils which traditionally has lots of independents: in 2019 there were 29 Conservatives, 12 independents, 7 Labour, 6 Skegness localists and a Lib Dem. Back in 2014 the Clacton parliamentary seat was the first constituency to elect a UKIP MP, and Clacton has one of the oldest demographics in the country you might expect that to be a Conservative banker. You can also support future previews by donating to the Local Elections Archive Project (link). 2023 BBC. Kofi Annan, Former Secretary General of the United Nations. As Sheffield Labour found out a few years ago, tree felling by the council has the capacity to bring a serious electoral backlash; even before that, the Conservatives lost two seats in by-elections in January. Links given are to results from the Local Elections Archive Project; while the maps are from 2019 or (if different) the year when these seats were last contested, and as such might not reflect the lines on which the election will actually be drawn if there are new ward boundaries this year. Although there are a number of marginal wards here, the small Labour majority in Bury doesnt look in serious danger. Labour are only defending five seats this year and look well-placed to keep control, but the Conservatives performed well in two by-elections here during the Truss era and Rossendale is a council where small vote swings can translate into big seat changes. Bedford is one of the councils which uses the elected mayoral system. The Conservatives are still the largest group on Waverley council with 23 councillors as of 2019, but they are outvoted by 15 Farnham Residents, 14 Lib Dems, 2 Labour, 2 Green and an independent. The Conservatives have selected his predecessor Bill Hunt to hold the seat; he faces off against Connor Docwra for the Lib Dems, Simon Patenall for Labour and Pip Gardner for the Greens. at 6.30pm, dashed to the hospital and she arrived just after 11pm. She was later chosen to present the Two Guys and a Girl Breakfast Show on Leicester Sound, which included a segment that saw her interview different celebrities in a jacuzzi. Babergh, which covers the rural area south-west of Ipswich, is more or less permanently hung but did return a Conservative majority in 2015; that disappeared in the 2019 elections when the Conservatives won 15 seats, independents 8, the Greens 4, the Lib Dems 3 and Labour 2. Newman passed away in December. Is the accused innocent or guilty? As we have seen over the last 14 months and longer, democracy is a fragile thing. So, he is 47 years old as of 2022. Matt Teale got married to Sarah Teale. Matt Teale, known as Matthew James Teale, was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, United Kingdom. Results for these elections will trickle through on Thursday night and all through Friday, and I think there is one by-election covered here which wont declare until after the bank holiday weekend on Tuesday. Last year a Conservative-Independent administration was defeated and replaced with a traffic-light coalition, under a Lib Dem leader. In Yorkshire we have elections for seven of the nine metropolitan boroughs: the five in West Yorkshire plus Barnsley and Sheffield. Similarly, the Somerset council area doesnt cover the parts of the county that were included in the former county of Avon. Detailed contact information including email, phone number, social profiles, tweets and news articles written by Sarah Teale. A repeat of the 2022 election would see that Tory lead increase to 2310 with Conservative gains in Bush Fair, Harlow Common and Staple Tye wards. A traffic-light coalition is in place under a Lib Dem leader. I spoke to many neighbours - some very upset after seeing the rescue attempts. The actual. Sara Blizzard, a lady who helps individuals drive from one location to another and updates the primary areas of traffic. One of these is Malvern Hills, a long and thin district which stretches the length of the Herefordshire/Worcestershire boundary; Malvern Hills once included parts of Herefordshire, but those areas were transferred out of the district back in the 1990s. Last but not least in Essex we come to the New Town of Harlow, where Labour have crashed and burned over this electoral cycle. The city of Cambridge has a Labour majority which is in no danger, and the extremely rural and agricultural Fenland district is safely Conservative. Sarah Teale I started dreaming of becoming a journalist when I was 12. A repeat of last year would suggest that the Conservatives might well hold this council; in 2022 the Lib Dems won North ward where they messed up their nomination in 2019, but this would be cancelled out by a Conservative gain in Coxheath and Hunton ward. The 2019 elections here returned a hung council with 22 Labour councillors, 16 Conservatives, 3 Lib Dems and 2 Greens; last year the Conservatives gained a by-election from Labour in the Cote Heath ward of Buxton. There are new ward boundaries here. This has since disappeared following a split in the local party: the remaining Lib Dem group has 21 out of 47 seats, putting them in a minority. Other Hampshire local government districts are better for the Conservatives. Neighbouring Stevenage has a secure Labour majority. Sarah Teale worked as a reporter/presenter at ITV before working at BBC East Midlands Today for 13 years . Alan Briggs defends for the Conservatives, Dillon is back for another go, and for some reason this by-election has attracted a lot of candidates: also standing are Calum Watt for Labour, Tony Richardson for the Lib Dems, Sally Horscroft for the Greens, Charles Overton for the Lincolnshire Independents, Charles Shaw for the continuing Liberal Party, and Nicola Smith for Reform UK. Hence, Blizzard mustbe earning pretty good from her long decade's profession. Besides, Blizzard is also not involved on Instagram and Facebook as well. It will be much more satisfying for all of us if you send me a smug message afterwards than a whinging message now and youll give me material for future columns. Keep reading till the end to know more about Sarah Teale and Matt Teal in this article. The Conservative candidate is Terri Sargent, who previously served as a county councillor for this division from 2009 to 2013. The small town of Swaffham lies at a major crossroads in western Norfolk, with main roads going east to Norwich, south to Thetford, west to Kings Lynn and north to Cromer. A repeat of 2022 would give Labour gains in Priory Vale, Haydon Wick, Penhill and Upper Stratton, St Margaret and South Marston, Lydiard and Freshbrook, and Old Town wards offset by a Conservative gain in Central ward; that would leave the Conservatives and Labour tied on 28 seats each, with an ex-Conservative independent holding the balance of power. The vacant seat is a Conservative defence in South Weald ward which isnt normally up in this year of the electoral cycle: South Weald was very close between the Conservatives and Lib Dems when it was last contested in 2022. Completing our survey of that area we come to the Surrey Heath district, represented in Parliament by Michael Gove, which returned a Conservative majority of one in 2019: 18 seats against 10 Lib Dems, 4 independents, 2 Greens and 1 Labour. Hull council is completely surrounded on the landward side by the sprawling East Riding district, which returned a large Conservative majority in 2019: 49 seats against 8 independents, 8 Lib Dems and two seats for the Yorkshire Party. I was presenting the evening news when I started having labour pains. Three by-election losses since then (in Park Farm North, Downs North and Highfield wards) have wiped out that majority and left the council hung. Another councillor who has stepped down from Cambridgeshire county council halfway through their first term is Hilary Cox Condron, an artist and Labour councillor.
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