Rochester and Strood Constituency Conservative Association has announced its candidates for the local elections to be held next May.
11 of the 22 candidates selected by party members in the nine ward branches are sitting councillors, with the other half either replacing retiring or de-selected councillors, or contesting seats not currently held by the Conservatives.
The candidates [...]
The Conservative candidate in the River Ward by-election, David Craggs, has beaten Labour’s John Jones by over 70 votes.
With just 25.3% of River Ward’s 5,484 voters either turning out, appointing a proxy or posting their vote, David Craggs secured a 73-vote majority over Labour’s John Jones when votes were declared less than 90 minutes after [...]
Asif Ali Zardari, or, to give him his correct title, President Zardari, has given a frank interview with The Times about Prime Minister Cameron’s recent remarks.
The article, given front page coverage in Saturday’s paper with the headline “Don’t preach to me about terrorists, says Zardari — terrorists killed my wife” (online for Times subscribers), reveals [...]
The FT is reporting that public sector unions are to fight public sector cuts described by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as “painful and controversial”.
Let’s be clear before I continue, however, that I have every sympathy for anyone losing their job, but, sadly, c’est la vie, as the French saying goes. Public sector jobs are [...]
On Wednesday, May 12, at 18:42, a flight departed Heathrow Airport bound for Lisbon, carrying a former Kent fire fighter bound for an undisclosed Lisbon jail.
Garry Mann had been in a bar in Portgual during Euro 2004 when a riot broke out in a nearby street. In what must have seemed like a daze, Mr [...]
