How To Use Councillor In A Sentence
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A few days after, they brought the intelligence that Barbarina had returned; and the councillor dwelt with her in her new house; and the servants were commanded to call the signora Madame Cocceji. as she was his well-beloved and trusted wife.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
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Council officials say bust-ups are not good for democracy and the behaviour of some councillors has ‘left a good deal to be desired’.
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He continued he'd no doubt she would make an excellent councillor for the Ward 3 area and he had great pleasure in proposing her for the seat.
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The council officers and the planning councillors are to be congratulated on it.
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The councillors put the problem of downtown parking before the mayor.
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After a two-hour meeting, a number of Kilkenny county councillors present undertook to raise the matter at their next Council meeting.
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Secondly, research looked at the relationship between these councillors and the local government officers employed to implement their decisions.
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Maybe a councillor could take up my challenge with one of your intrepid reporters too.
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It's been well noted at how the Lib Dems would do just about anything to win a vote but choosing a stripogram/kissogram to stand as councillor to rein in the votes is quite something!
Stripping Lib Dems
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But councillors on the environment committee decided against imposing the changes.
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Meal fees: Wear Valley district councillors are being asked to approve increased charges for meals on wheels and luncheon clubs.
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Local district councillors are furious that they are being forced by the Government to introduce fees for commercial waste collection.
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The trust obtained planning permission for the pay and display equipment despite fierce objections to the scheme by councillors.
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The emphasis on councillors, officers and pressure groups proved to be a great limitation.
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So, Sue asked the DUP councillor, could Katrina have been a divine judgement on born-again Christians?
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He spent 33 years as a parish councillor, 24 of them as parish council chairman.
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Scarborough councillors are being recommended to grant approval on Wednesday.
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She received messages of support from high-ranking council officials and councillors.
The Sun
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The auditor says that the report does not suggest that any officer or councillor acted dishonestly.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the end, councillors awarded the film a 15 certificate.
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But Labour councillors rebutted the Conservative group's allegation by accusing them of not wanting to face the truth.
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For seven years until 1991 he served as a district councillor in Solihull.
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The developers told councillors they would pay ￡3.5m to create an infrastructure for the settlement, between Hurworth and Neasham.
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As an Independent councillor he will be able to express frankly what Walcot people say they need
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Yes, councillors get paid a mileage allowance per mile while travelling on council business which according to the article amounts to about £40,000 a year.
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Councillors warned staff in the department that absenteeism had become unacceptable and the work may be contracted out to private agencies.
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Councillors are desperate to attract the supermarket chain to a site in Grange Road occupied by the Caldaire bus company.
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Councillors agreed to sell the land to Duncan Graham Partnership for 1,151 million for the purpose of erecting retail warehousing with employment potential for 50 jobs.
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The campaigning couple are also angry that no town, district or county councillors have come to visit the site.
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Voters also punished the big parties where councillors had introduced fortnightly rubbish collections.
The Sun
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The country goes to the polls on May 7th to elect local councillors.
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Caledon town councillor Gord McClure is under fire for using a term deemed to be an anti-Semitic.
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If those accusations were levelled at the other councillor it would be understandable.
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Meal fees: Wear Valley district councillors are being asked to approve increased charges for meals on wheels and luncheon clubs.
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But in their report council officers recommended that councillors agree in principle to underwrite the loan for Fulford Cemetery, and revise the existing agreement to increase then annual fee.
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District council deputy leader Chris Humphries from Aldbourne is one of the few councillors who sits as a member of all three local authorities at parish, district and county level.
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Conservative councillors, who have been campaigning for a weekly clean, said they were dismayed by the decision and felt residents had been let down.
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In a sample of 12 foreign visits, boozy councillors and officers drank their way through £1,060 of alcohol and spent £430 on phone calls.
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Cllr Flynn says while Westport Town Councillors won't be zoning this particular piece of land they will be making their opinions felt.
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MPs, councillors and all their cronies are nothing more than scroungers, spongers, parasites.
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Councillors are as much at fault for the failings of particular services in the borough as the officers who run them.
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In the last few weeks all over Ireland, county councillors have been electing mayors and chairpersons onto town, city and county councils in party-pacts the length and breath of this country.
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He indicated councillors could be personally liable to pay back any loan themselves if they ignored legal advice.
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‘I apologise for this misjudgement and the lapse in my usually high standards,’ said Councillor Reid.
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The councillors concluded by adopting the report and agreed to promote the idea that every house in the town should have smoke alarms installed.
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And health provision is controlled by Swindon's primary care trust an unelected quango with councillors confined to an advisory role.
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She told the Evening Press the ‘arrogant attitude of a small group of councillors’ during ill-tempered meetings effectively forced her out, amid complaints about the way minutes were presented.
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One of the joys of being a rural county councillor is online access to the 1880 and 1905 OS maps which can be overlaid on the current OS map; thus arguments over should it be ‘the Strand’ or ‘Strand’ have been resolved for a parish council, and old street names have been resurrected and given to new developments on the site where they ran.
Satnav, democracy and dumbing down
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The councillor found the pupils quite uninterested at first as they didn't seem to realise that the work of the council affects them.
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The gubernatorial election would be determined by the city's 83 councillors.
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Therefore councillors get paid what government decrees and have no say in the matter.
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Labour's councillors across the country would be left "high and dry" because their elections are on May 6, and the party machine would not be able to remobilise so quickly after an April election.
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Mr Deering assured councillors that the county manager had given a commitment that a decision would be made on the matter shortly.
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He said that he had already been in touch with some councillors and local members who had offered him their support.
Times, Sunday Times
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Now the borough council has invited town councillors to a meeting to discuss issues connected with the town centre and its regeneration.
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But councillors have warned the building would fall into a worse state of disrepair if talks with the current developer fell through.
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Meanwhile, Fine Gael councillor John Browne said he was encouraged by the broad support he received at the recent meeting of Carlow County Council when he raised the matter.
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3.7.12 prevents a Councillor from voting on any question relating to an Ombudsman's Report in which he has been named and criticised.
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Councillor Currie said the seed of his idea grew out of envy of the grand infrastructure in the Western Isles ‘where they've had causeways and bridges and they are all linked up’.
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Security services and intelligence agencies should be accountable to a committee of senior Privy Councillors.
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Warminster town councillor Les Rose said the closures would hit the elderly hardest.
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Each councillor was asked to bring five specific questions to the next meeting in November.
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He has forwarded copies of the letter to his local councillors and his MP.
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Payment for councillors might also persuade more working-class representatives to come forward.
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According to the Killarney councillor, a practice has emerged in recent years of using handsaws axes and even chainsaws to cut holly branches.
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Councillor Douglas said civilians would have been slaughtered had the device gone off.
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The decision to axe the brainwave was nodded through by both Conservative and Labour councillors without debate or comment.
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It is a crying shame there are not more people like him people who stand up for what they believe in and shame the councillors who sit on the fence and do not fight for their voters.
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Scarborough councillors had been recommended to rule on the scheme before local elections intervened.
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The councillor warned that building costs for the project were already rising at triple the rate of inflation.
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In his many years as a councillor he has witnessed many intrigues, backstabbings and bunfights at Hull's Guildhall - and his reaction to the latest particularly vicious spat is a weary shrug.
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Ward councillors are also sharing in the triumph.
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Jack Womersley, a former Bradford councillor, saw the motorbike overtake two cars and disappear over the brow of a hill moments before the collision.
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Mr Elliott said councillors were ‘upset’ that the youngsters seemed so intent on wreaking havoc.
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He was also a local councillor.
Times, Sunday Times
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He has now stepped down from the role of mayor after just over a month in office, but will continue as a Conservative councillor.
Times, Sunday Times
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Councillors were last night in closed session considering quotes from different firms for the general repair work.
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But opposition councillors found a number of unexplained additions in the report.
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He said that councillors were being asked to vote without full information when a material contravention came before them.
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Councillors must ensure that the same old incompetence wastefulness and inefficiencies are not allowed to continue.
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In the light of recent rezoning decisions, the IPI said some councillors seemed unworried by the prospect of public shame or the threat of legal action.
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Councillor Ryan said the council was powerless to prevent the trees from being chopped down as it does not own the land.
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Councillors even want to bung a barrister a few grand to state their case at the public inquiry.
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Security services and intelligence agencies should be accountable to a committee of senior Privy Councillors.
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We the undersigned wish to appeal to the sensibilities and careful deliberations of other County Councillors throughout County Sligo when considering this issue at a later date.
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He also allegedly hit a Conservative councillor and two young researchers who tried to intervene.
Times, Sunday Times
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Summons twist: A county councillor facing assault charges is taking out a private summons against the man he allegedly assaulted.
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Fred had already dug seven metres of a mineshaft at his Grade II listed home when councillors refused him retrospective planning permission after complaints from neighbours.
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Individual councillors sought advice and formed their own judgement about whether or not they could take part.
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In trying to save his administration from a carpeting, the Councillor was writing today to name the culprits responsible.
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Add to this the fact that many of their marginal seats are electing councillors, and this is a big test.
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Speculation is growing over why the councillor gave up his planning portfolio, with fellow councillors claiming he was punished for his part in the failed motion.
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Anger erupted at a public meeting last night when councillors heard Canvey Way might not be dualled as part of a major road improvements programme.
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He also called on the relief food distributing agency in the district to coordinate operations with community leaders, such as indunas and councillors.
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Last month, a group of councillors who do not love parking pads launched a strike that may lead to a moratorium on approvals.
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Councillors decided the broken down buildings, smashed fences and forgotten scrubland were giving passengers a bad impression of the town.
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Too many local motorists run red lights and endanger the public, Councillor Banman said.
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It is no secret that some district councillors had little or no time for the new town council.
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In reviewing the performance of councillors, there is also need for a second look at the qualifications for aspirants to local government office.
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This is a plea to all bar owners and councillors to help make Bolton a place to be proud of and to prevent these tragic accidents happening.
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I do not think it is the role of councillors to indulge in pomp and circumstance: we have been elected to do, not to show.
On becoming dignified
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The problem has been ongoing in Kew with councillors and the police pledging to get tough on the crime.
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Two councillors in Birmingham have been summoned to court over their unpaid council tax.
Times, Sunday Times
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Councillors gave their unanimous support to the bill, although some were concerned the wording was not tight enough.
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Phil Hughes, a district councillor and parish councillor, who lives in Bowes parish.
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Angry councillors abandoned a meeting in protest after it emerged the Mayor had snubbed them.
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A broadway parish councillor is urging his fellow members to rethink a controversial new rule, which he feels limits a villager's opportunity to be heard.
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But councillors claim absentee and obstructive landlords and residents could block the scheme in some streets.
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Councillors are entitled to basic allowances to recompense them for the hours they put in sitting on committees and reading reports and agendas.
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Several left wing Labour councillors refused to stand again for election.
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Incidentally, now that we are paying all these corporations to run the city, when are we to see redundancies among our councillors?
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However, the issue reignited when the meeting moved onto councillors' motions.
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An investigation report has now accused you of breaching the code of conduct for councillors.
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Forty-one UK councillors, three London Assembly members and two MEPs belong to the Green Party
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The Liberal Democrat is the only councillor to represent Osbaldwick ward.
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Now, almost five decades on, Down District's longest serving Councillor has lived up to his early promise, and is marking 30 years of dedicated service to his community.
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The councillors met with the developer and were shown the grounds and the proposals for the site.
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Linda, the daughter of Pembrokeshire county councillor, Norman Parry, rode side-saddle in her navy blue riding habit.
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Councillors, health bosses and smoking campaigners are holding a conference in Bolton to discuss new ways of cleaning up the city's air and helping more smokers quit.
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Emily Lau, Former Chairperson of Hong Kong Journalists Association, Legislative Councillor, Convenor of the Frontier, Vice-chairperson of China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group, Hong Kong.
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In fact, it is being shut down by populist Labour councillors who have whipped up fear among the local residents.
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Protesters, anxious over the spending cuts, urged councillors to think again before wielding the axe.
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Both motions were proposed and seconded and all Councillors present voted in favour of both contraventions.
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If councillors approve the measure, non-residents will be charged £2 a visit.
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Councillors agreed to restrict the use of the car park to daylight hours, with the gates being locked at 8pm each evening.
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When this information about double-dealing finally became public in May, it made no difference to most councillors.
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A councillor has been found guilty of bringing Bolton Council into disrepute by making a racist remark.
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Maybe it is time that invitation was again extended to the town councillors.
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The proposal springs from complaints to MPs and councillors from people judged ineligible for the concession.
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If councillors approve the latest proposals to the district plan it could be adopted by the end of May.
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An as yet unidentified Norwich Green councillor has been banned from being a national member for 5 years for actions which seem to amount what the Greens tribunal is interpretting as breaching the Data Protection Act. Yet because of their bizare system this individual can continue to be a Norwich Green councillor.
The not so clean Green Party
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Mr. Leahy, who is Kilmeaden's local county councillor, pointed out that there were no less than 40 different species of aquatic life growing in and around the lagoons, with about 10 to 12 main species such as thyfa, iris and phragmites.
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Defending the council's street cleaning provision, environment spokesman Councillor Colin Hall said roads were inspected on a weekly basis and the council aimed to clean all streets fortnightly.
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Compared to members of other unitary authorities, Swindon councillors get a bad deal.
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But community councillors representing the string of villages along the shores of Loch Ness have already submitted objections.
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ANC members in Stellenbosch this morning laid charges of arson and attempted murder after shots were fired at the home of a councillor and two other members´ shacks were set alight.
SHOTS FIRED AT ANC COUNCILLOR�s HOME, SHACKS SET ALIGHT
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At the full council meeting on October 20, a packed public gallery heckled Labour councillors and cheered opposition members throughout the two-hour debate on the future of the pool and school.
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Plans to close community beat offices in the townships have been heavily criticised by Pennine councillors.
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Does she not have the same right as the other councillors to offer fresh ideas, without fear of needless, unconstructive and childish bullying?
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Tenants will sit side by side with councillors and independent members on the boards.
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We have just witnessed the anniversary of the D-Day landings where British troops lost there lives fighting for freedom of speech, and some councillors say you won't listen to other people's opinions.
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Ballina and Castlebar Town Councils are due to hold further meetings in the coming weeks after initial discussions failed to break the deadlock between management and councillors.
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It is a shame that our parish councillors are so unaware of the development of the communities they represent.
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If councillors agree, the structure - including a toilet and changing rooms - will be built next to the organisation's bowling green.
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Yet somehow, because of the baleful influence of these few councillors, the place is toxic.
Times, Sunday Times
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As for the stuff about living aborad, I take great umbrage at someone who admits to spending two weeks a year in this country and paying no taxes here lecturing me on how localy elected councillors should spend money.
What really undermines politics are false front organisations
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The councillors put the problem of downtown parking before the mayor.
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Then, at a time like this our councillors have the mindless effrontery to propose a 16 per cent tax increase.
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Parish councillors had already decided the lime tree would have to go after two separate professional surveys concluded that it posed a significant risk, with its trunk essentially hollow and large areas of deadwood within its crown.
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He was at the preview, and it's reported that he had a bit of a set-to with Councillor Steel, so that's why I ran him through the computer.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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Takeaway patrols to crack down on violence outside night-time eateries have been welcomed by councillors.
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Now, it seems, in order to cease being politically led nonentities, councillors aspire to become politically led somebodies by virtue of paying themselves more and more.
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They only come before councillors in exceptional circumstances and the criteria for rejecting them are narrower than in other planning matters.
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Plans to build a house on an uninhabited islet off the south of Sanday were turned down by islands' councillors on Thursday morning.
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I called on councillors outside the room to return because the hearing would otherwise be inquorate.
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Two Marlborough town councillors fear cracks in the front wall of the town hall could threaten the building, even though an architect has said there was no evidence the building is subsiding.
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I encourage all councillors and our reeve to open the books widely, to solicit public input and challenge the status quo.
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In my view a councillor would not be undertaking activities in an official capacity if he attended a meeting solely in his private capacity.
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A leading councillor has called for a major purge on problem youths after a gang of masked thugs carrying baseball bats went on the rampage.
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There will be public consultation after councillors have discussed the changes.
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Ward councillors have reacted with dismay, saying it will mean the end of historical links.
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Yes councillor, it is not beyond the realms of possibility for councillors, highways, and bus company management to sort out some solution.
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The wide array of central controls has necessarily created tension between central government and local councillors.
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Long gave up his job as a shopfitter to devote himself to his work as a councillor.
Times, Sunday Times
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Independent councillor Derek McVickers sparked controversy when he said he understood Albert Dryden's frustration at planning decisions.
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The only way to know if councillor John Dixon was saying in jest would be to ask him.
Councillor cleared over 'stupid' scientology tweet
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Last week Lawlor failed to get elected as a councillor in a Clondalkin ward of the new Dublin mid-west constituency where he hopes to stand at the next general election.
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The House of Councillors voted 210 to 23 to endorse the bill to revise the Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Control Law.
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Tributes were paid to Councillors Jimmy Moloney and Damian Ryan for refusing to kowtow to the Heavy Hand Brigade and for walking out of the meeting in protest.
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‘It's disgusting and as a town councillor it really grieves me that this is happening in Chippenham,’ she said.
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Sources say that he got a verbal lashing from other councillors.
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Councillors gained invaluable tips on how best they should approach radio and television interviews and build up good relationships with journalists.
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Yesterday controversial councillor donned his robes of office and was sworn in as Hull's Lord Mayor.
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And yet two of its four members were FA councillors.
The Sun
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I have been in touch with fellow councillors in Poole about introducing pedalos on the lake, which would be better than boats.
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My own view is that 'backbench' councillors are well paid, but Board Members earn every penny.
Jockeying for Position.
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Both parties are also fielding local councillors.
Times, Sunday Times
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They organised a petition, lobbied councillors and attended a site visit.
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Under the Local Government Act, a councillor who incurs an expense in their duty is entitled to be reimbursed.
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The auditor says that the report does not suggest that any officer or councillor acted dishonestly.
Times, Sunday Times
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County councillors also receive a mileage allowance and overnight subsistence if they attend conferences or go on other council business.
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According to the Killarney councillor, a practice has emerged in recent years of using handsaws axes and even chainsaws to cut holly branches.
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As councillors Ryan and Roche got used to their new positions with the broad support of their Council colleagues yesterday, tensions were running somewhat high elsewhere.
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The councillors were unanimous in their agreement that new hospital facilities were long overdue in the town.
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Perhaps the first attendees could be those councillors responsible for ruining our city with their parking policies.
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In 18 months, 284 Labour councillors were appointed to health authorities, compared with 36 Liberal Democrats and 23 Tories.
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If the auditor finds against officers and councillors involved in the failed theme park deal, he could surcharge them for wasting tax-payers' money.
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Several dozen councillors walked out of the meeting in protest.
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Parish, borough and county councillor Alan Whittaker is a fierce opponent of a regional assembly.
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The demand to reopen the ballot box was sparked by a statement made by three councillors who witnessed the ballot counting.
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Payment for councillors might also persuade more working-class representatives to come forward.
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Despite being labelled as weak Havering councillors were putting on a brave face and pointing out they were at least moving in the right direction.
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Not that there are many other attractions in Ramsgate, which is administered by councillors more sleepy than sage.
Without Prejudice
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The terms under which a student councillor can be removed from the council, because of absenteeism, were clarified.
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Originally the local county councillors wanted to sell the land to build a new church on it.
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I was disappointed that our elected representative was so antagonistic to councillors who were working hard to resolve the dispute.
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A councillor is supporting calls for a memorial to be placed on the site of a former factory in Westhoughton where two steeplejacks were killed.
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This year the ingenious Councillor has thought up a cunning plan that will see the town's streets swept clean of dog dirt.
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Over the last few months, councillors and residents say some local youngsters have been on the warpath, terrorising the people of Sutton.
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Councillors agreed to approve the proposals, so care home residents would not be disturbed by construction work.
