Thursday, April 05, 2007
In today's Citizen: Trio of councillors to stand down.
Trio of councillors to stand down in May
LIBERAL Democrats deny two councillors quitting ahead of the May polls are running scared of the Tories.
Alan Pugh is standing down in Linford North and Graham Eaton in neighbouring Linford South.Conservatives are optimistic of taking both wards after sweeping aside Linford Lib Dems – one of them former mayor John Monk – in last year's elections.Cllr Pugh, a councillor for 20 years and himself a former mayor, was not available for comment.Cllr Eaton rejected suggestions he feared the Conservatives would end his stint as a councillor after five years, saying he faced increasing commitments elsewhere including his work with the Scouts.Lib Dems spokesman Vanessa McPake said: "No-one is running scared at all."What was "more significant", she said, was that two party candidates – Mike Galloway and Bill Watts – who came close to sacking Labour councillors on Wolverton and Stantonbury in 2006 were re-standing.
However, another surprise Lib Dem absentee from a full list of nominations being published as the Citizen went to press will be Sherington's Pat Seymour, 14 years a councillor and mayor in 2001.McPake said Cllr Seymour wanted to spend more time with her four grandchildren who live abroad.All four Tories up for re-election will defend their seats.Ex-MP Brian White, as revealed in the Citizen, defends Stantonbury for Labour, in place of the retiring Mike Pendry.Their Bletchley and Fenny Stratford candidate, coming in for Tony Mabbott who was de-selected, is residents association leader and former social worker Rita Venn.
05 April 2007
http://www.miltonkeynestoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=415&ArticleID=2226472
LIBERAL Democrats deny two councillors quitting ahead of the May polls are running scared of the Tories.
Alan Pugh is standing down in Linford North and Graham Eaton in neighbouring Linford South.Conservatives are optimistic of taking both wards after sweeping aside Linford Lib Dems – one of them former mayor John Monk – in last year's elections.Cllr Pugh, a councillor for 20 years and himself a former mayor, was not available for comment.Cllr Eaton rejected suggestions he feared the Conservatives would end his stint as a councillor after five years, saying he faced increasing commitments elsewhere including his work with the Scouts.Lib Dems spokesman Vanessa McPake said: "No-one is running scared at all."What was "more significant", she said, was that two party candidates – Mike Galloway and Bill Watts – who came close to sacking Labour councillors on Wolverton and Stantonbury in 2006 were re-standing.
However, another surprise Lib Dem absentee from a full list of nominations being published as the Citizen went to press will be Sherington's Pat Seymour, 14 years a councillor and mayor in 2001.McPake said Cllr Seymour wanted to spend more time with her four grandchildren who live abroad.All four Tories up for re-election will defend their seats.Ex-MP Brian White, as revealed in the Citizen, defends Stantonbury for Labour, in place of the retiring Mike Pendry.Their Bletchley and Fenny Stratford candidate, coming in for Tony Mabbott who was de-selected, is residents association leader and former social worker Rita Venn.
05 April 2007
http://www.miltonkeynestoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=415&ArticleID=2226472
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