A councillor who labelled his elderly next door neighbours ‘The Tart’ and ‘The Peeping Tom’ during a 13-year war of words on their leafy suburban street was facing jail today. Brendan Murphy, 79, hounded Christopher Boyd and his wife Margaret with barbed comments after they fell out over a dispute about local gossip. Whenever Mr … Read more
Police probe claims Tory councillor racially abused mother-of-two in row over parking as she collected her daughter from £33,000-a-year private school Councillor Stuart Tranter confronted driver outside King’s School in Rochester Mother claims she was verbal abused after pulling up in her BMW X7 on Tuesday Police confirmed they are investigating incident reported as ‘racially motivated’ By … Read more
Police probe claims Tory councillor racially abused mother-of-two in row over parking as she collected her daughter from £33,000-a-year private school Councillor Stuart Tranter confronted driver outside King’s School in Rochester Mother claims she was verbal abused after pulling up in her BMW X7 on Tuesday Police confirmed they are investigating incident reported as ‘racially motivated’ By … Read more
Married Tory councillor is suspended for dressing up as a woman in protest at proposals for a 6pm curfew for all men after Sarah Everard’s murder Mark Deacon, Conservative councillor for Plymouth, posted image on Facebook Said he would wear a floral pink dress and long black wig if curfew was imposed He has been … Read more
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 won a claim for unfair dismissal. Relations between the four staff at Barnard Castle Town Council in County Durham cooled after it emerged employee Jane Woodward had gone … 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
A fiery meeting! London councillor accidentally sets notebook ABLAZE during live-streamed Zoom committee briefing 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 and ‘plunged them into a cold sink’ … 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 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
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