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A Labour councillor has avoided jail after she left her four-year-old son alone in a house that ‘reeked of urine and was smeared with faeces’ while she went to work. Shammi Akter, 38, was arrested at her home in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire after her four-year-old son was found alone on September 6, 2019, saying he did … Read more
Relations between the four staff at Barnard Castle Town Council in Durham cooled after it emerged Jane Woodward (pictured) had gone on holiday with then councillor Roger Peat A deputy town council clerk who was branded a ‘gold digger’ after she formed a personal relationship with an older, married councillor and was later sacked has … Read more
A fiery meeting! London councillor accidentally sets his notebook on FIRE during Zoom committee briefing… but no one seems to notice Tom Sleigh was using a USB lighter when his notepad accidentally caught fire He is seen on a Zoom meeting of 30 people panicking while putting out flames Mr Sleigh burnt his fingers badly … Read more
Heart-warming moment councillor, 66, finds out he has become grandfather for the first time – while trying to chair a meeting on Zoom John Cottee, 66, received a text while in a Nottinghamshire County Council call Text was from his daughter and said he had become a grandfather for first time The Conservative councillor was … Read more
A black parish councillor has dramatically quit after claiming her colleagues ‘vilified, intimidated and publicly chastised’ her because of her race. Judeline Nicholas, 61, resigned yesterday following an extraordinary meeting where she hit out at councillors ‘in positions of white privilege’ for targeting her. The Zoom call of Mundesley Parish Council, Norfolk, blew up into … Read more
A black parish councillor has dramatically quit after claiming her colleagues ‘vilified, intimidated and publicly chastised’ her because of her race. Judeline Nicholas, 61, resigned yesterday following an extraordinary meeting where she hit out at councillors ‘in positions of white privilege’ for targeting her. The Zoom call of Mundesley Parish Council, Norfolk, blew up into … Read more
A councillor who claims that Covid-19 is a ‘fake virus’ which does not exist has compared life under lockdown restrictions to ‘living in North Korea’. Irene Hewitson, an Independent member of Great Aycliffe Town Council in Co Durham, said she will believe that coronavirus exists ‘when my neighbours, relatives, friends and work people are dying around … Read more
Disabled councillor with blue badge for lung condition defends TikTok video showing him dancing and doing Michael Jackson-style moonwalk as ‘a bit of fun’ because ‘the air was good’ Lee Jeavons, former deputy leader of Walsall Council, was seen in TikTok videos Another showed him dancing to the Men In Black soundtrack in a car … Read more
Tory councillor, 40, who was one of the first in Britain to be arrested under new ‘upskirting’ laws over ‘taking illicit snap in TK Maxx’ denies voyeurism Lee Hawthorne pleaded not guilty during a brief hearing at Bristol Crown Court Charge relates to an alleged incident at TK Maxx in Gloucester in June last year … Read more
The perils of Zoom! Hilarious moment Labour councillor calls Allerdale mayor a ‘daft cow’ during video meeting before realising he wasn’t on mute Alan Smith branded Allerdale Mayor Hilary Harrington a ‘daft cow’ on Zoom chat The former Labour council leader didn’t realise that his mic was on at the time He later apologised for … Read more