", In the clip, Teale can be heard explaining: "An online study showed that a shocking 95% of people said they had been harassed, jeered at, or had obscenities shouted at them in the street and a large proportion said they'd also been groped or grabbed inappropriately in public. The citys governance arrangements are complicated, but its fair to say that all parties are involved in some way. Sarah Teale's job functions are Arts and Design, Media & Communications, Leisure What is Sarah Teale's email address? Expect a continued hung council here. Well start our tour of the West Midlands region with a city that has perenially interesting politics, although its not featured too much in this column in recent years. Last year a Conservative-Independent administration was defeated and replaced with a traffic-light coalition, under a Lib Dem leader. Neighbouring Buckinghamshire council uses the county council election cycle, and it will next poll in 2025. A repeat of the 2022 results would see Labour gain Crookes/Crosspool and East Ecclesfield wards from the Lib Dems, but that would still leave them well short of the 43 seats needed for a council majority. He earned his wealth mainly through his career as a journalist. As on the profile of Sara Blizzard, many details can be found on BBC official page. Two councillors in this borough have recently died, but their passings were close enough to the end of the term that the seats have been left vacant to be filled today. Although there are a number of marginal wards here, the small Labour majority in Bury doesnt look in serious danger. In the Gloucestershire county council area we miss out Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud where there are no polls this year. The Wyre Forest district, based on Kidderminster, still has politics which are affected by the Health Concern insurgency of almost 25 years ago but that may be about to change, as Health Concern have finally decided to call it a day and have not nominated any candidates in this years election. A repeat of 2022 would give Labour gains in Priory Vale, Haydon Wick, Penhill and Upper Stratton, St Margaret and South Marston, Lydiard and Freshbrook, and Old Town wards offset by a Conservative gain in Central ward; that would leave the Conservatives and Labour tied on 28 seats each, with an ex-Conservative independent holding the balance of power. Matt Teale was born and raised along with his parents in childhood in the United States. The East Midlands Today reporter said she was "genuinely. West Devon also had a Conservative majority of 1 after the 2019 elections, but the Tories have since picked up a by-election gain in Tavistock North ward. High Peak is next to Derbyshire Dales district, which returned a Conservative majority of one in 2019 that has since disappeared due to a split in the group. Blackpool is another council where Labour has mislaid its majority over the last council term. Turning to Devons north coast, the other Lib Dem-run district in the county is North Devon, where the party finished with half the seats in 201921 councillors against 12 Conservatives, 7 independents and 2 Greens and have since picked up a Conservative seat in a by-election to gain a majority. Well, she is weather presenter, news reporter. Two Conservative councillors are now independent, which wipes out a by-election gain the party made in Loxwood ward from the Lib Dems. Instead of moving TO the capital, it actually meant moving away from London to a tiny place called Ely in Cambridgeshire. Following a by-election gain, the Greens are defending Heavitree ward. Labour recovered from their 2021 wipeout to hold four wards last year, and this year they are defending the same four wards: a repeat of the 2022 results would result in only one change, an independent gain in Freshney ward from the Conservatives. Also in East Suffolk we have a county council by-election in the Felixstowe Coastal division, which takes in most of Felixstowe town and a large expanse of dockland. One welcome innovation is that it is easier to stand in local elections now: your nomination papers only need to be signed by two electors from the ward, down from ten as previously. Western Hertfordshire has been a happy hunting ground for the Lib Dems in recent years. Hughes had represented the county division since 2017 and the Purbrook ward of Havant council since 2015; he is not seeking re-election to Havant council this year and has taken the opportunity to stand down from the county council as well. Thomson was elected to Westmorland and Furness in 2022 on the Labour slate in Old Barrow and Hindpool ward, which Labour won with a 6628 margin over the Conservatives; the task of defending that Labour majority falls to training and education worker Dave Cassidy, who is opposed by the Conservatives Derek Gawne and the Lib Dems Stephen Pickthall. The use of the Single Transferable Vote in the Six Counties makes counting a rather slow process, and there is a significant danger that counts could spill over into the bank holiday weekend. Lets quickly move on to the question. Chichester was once described by the great psephologist Robert Waller as a place where, following the revolution, the Workers Soviet would be Conservative-controlled; but thats not the case at the moment. This beautiful lady seems to be workaholic and concentrating only on her profession instead of finding a perfect partner. The Lib Dems and Greens run the council in coalition, and their electoral pact has been renewed for the 2023 election. Instead Ill focus on the other two Cambridgeshire councils. INSIDE THE VILLAGE: Ron MacLean talks Maple Leafs, gambling and Don Cherry. This was previously introduced in English local elections as a temporary measure during the COVID pandemic; its now permanent, and is a welcome change for those people who have to fill in and process the ever-multiplying forms which make up candidate nomination packs. The whole of Bedford council is also up for election; this is a balanced council, with the 2019 election returning 15 Lib Dems, 11 seats each for the Conservatives and Labour, 2 Greens and an independent. The other hung council in East Sussex is a rather surprising one. The associated council is closely divided between independent and Labour councillors on paper, but in practice the independent councillors are themselves divided into two factions who will bicker with just about anybody, including Mayor Preston. The Conservatives have selected Tom Wootton, who is the outgoing Conservative councillor for the rural Wyboston ward to the north-east of the town. Following an appalling Conservative performance here in 2019, Cheshire East is run by a coalition of Labour, independent and localist councillors which, until his death last year, included Barry Burkhill from that video. The actual comments directed at the presenter have been bleeped out. 2019 was a fairly poor year for the Amber Valley Conservatives, but they did very well here in 2021 and were still gaining council seats last year. The programme is broadcast on BBC One from studios at the BBC's East Midlands broadcasting centre in Nottingham, also home to Radio Nottingham. Lets start by travelling to the New City and, as of last years Platinum Jubilee, it is now officially a city, I just havent bothered to update the map above to reflect that. This returned a Conservative majority in 2019 with 23 seats against 10 Labour and 6 Lib Dems; Labour have since lost a by-election in Whitstables Gorrell ward to the Greens. Overall the Conservatives, Labour and independent councillors are defending four seats each this year: a repeat of the most recent results in the wards up for election would give an 1818 tie between the Conservatives and Labour, with the two Greens and an ex-Labour independent holding the balance of power. Get ready to BYOB - bring your own bags - to the LCBO. At parliamentary level Bedford town forms a marginal Labour constituency while the countryside around it is in the safe Conservative seat of North East Bedfordshire; however, the mayoralty doesnt reflect this. He is famously known as Matt. He was born and raised in the United States by his parents. This year the Conservatives are defending all of the six wards they won last May plus Hagley ward in Rugeley, which didnt poll last year. New ward boundaries make comparisons difficult, but by-election results suggest that the Conservatives may be in some trouble here: they lost two seats to Labour last year, and Brighton and Hoves demographic makeup is really not a good fit for what the Conservative demographic has become. Some good by-election gains by the Conservatives in this term have been cancelled out by defection losses, and a coalition of everybody except the Conservatives is running the council under an independent leader. She is opposed by Lorraine Fagan for Labour and Sam Howlett for the Conservatives. Southend is next to Castle Point district, which is independent-run and there is no prospect of that changing. Medway council might also fall into this category given that the 2019 elections returned 33 Conservatives, 20 Labour councillors and two independents, but Labour have put in some decent by-election results over the last term (gaining a Conservative seat in Strood North) and appear confident of making significant gains. Matt Teale is an English broadcast journalist with ITV, Forces TV, and Sky News. As Sheffield Labour found out a few years ago, tree felling by the council has the capacity to bring a serious electoral backlash; even before that, the Conservatives lost two seats in by-elections in January. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Beyond that is what is likely to be a bright spot for the Essex Conservatives: the New Town of Basildon. The 2019 elections returned 12 Liberal Democrats, 10 Conservatives, 5 Greens, 3 Labour, 3 Henley-on-Thames localists and 3 independents; looking at the 2021 Oxfordshire county elections doesnt suggest much improvement in the Conservative position. Thank you Sarah and the rest of BBC East Midlands today team and technical team for bringing us the to news reports every day bring on 2022. She has been a presenter for BBC East Midlands Today and a news correspondent for Central Television. Also in Elmbridge, the Conservatives are defending a by-election to Surrey county council in the Walton South and Oatlands division. Note: Glenda and Butch Dupons, of Bear Realty, are westofthei.com sponsors. This is your four-yearly (or possibly more frequent) chance to influence the direction of your local district council at the ballot box, and to elect, defeat or re-elect your local representatives. Last but not least in Nottinghamshire is Broxtowe district, which is based on western Nottingham suburbs and satellite towns such as Beeston and Eastwood, on the eastern side of the River Erewash. A minority Labour administration is in control; Labour did well here in the 2021 Derbyshire county council elections and have plenty of target wards for a council majority. Sarah Teale was filming outside a conference on the subject in Nottingham when a man directed a sexual comment towards her. Since the 2022 elections Colchester has gained city status as part of the late Queens Platinum Jubilee celebrations, becoming the third city in Essex. In the centre of the county, Winchester council is run by the Lib Dems and looks very safe; Eastleigh council has a Lib Dem majority which is impregnable. This column covered a by-election last December for the Priory Heath ward of Ipswich, which is the first part of town travellers along the road from Felixstowe will see. Teale graduated with his degree from the University of Nottingham Trent University in Broadcast journalism. It appears from last years result that the Conservatives chance to gain control may have passed: a repeat of 2022 would see Labour gain Three Bridges ward from the Conservatives. Andy Preston is seeking re-election for a second term. The current composition is 28 Conservatives, 12 Lib Dems, 9 independents, 5 Labour and 1 Green; that gives a Conservative majority of one, which rests on independent councillor Nick de Wiggondene-Sheppard rejoining the Tories shortly after the 2022 elections. The most marginal council in West Yorkshire is Kirklees, which covers Huddersfield and Dewsbury along with a large number of smaller towns and villages. The 2021 Derbyshire county elections here were fairly closely fought, and a recent by-election gain in the rural Sutton ward suggests that the Labour machine might not have seized up here yet. High Peak council is based on towns like Glossop, New Mills and Buxton which are within the economic and cultural orbit of Manchester but are part of Derbyshire rather than Cheshire or Lancashire. All of these have Labour majorities except for the city of Sheffield, which is hung: the latest composition in the home of snooker has 38 reds, 29 yellows, 14 Greens, 1 blue and a cue-ball or independent councillor, who was elected as Labour. Its clear from the 2022 results that the Conservatives stand to lose seats, but with the main residents group also having recently split a par score is very difficult to assess: last time Lodge and Sweyne Park/Grange wards in Rayleigh voted for the Rochford District Residents and Hullbridge ward voted Green, but there are no candidates from those parties there this year. Were now quite a long way on from the 2019 elections here which returned 23 Conservatives, 8 Lib Dems, 4 Labour, 2 Greena and 2 independents. Well, the 2019 elections here were affected by the collapse of the large UKIP caucus elected in 2015; the Tories won 16 seats, independents 11, Labour 6, UKIP 5, Tendring First localists 4, Holland-on-Sea and Eastcliff Matters localists 3, 2 Lib Dems and one seat for the Foundation Party (no, me neither). There are no elections in Birmingham this year; of the six other West Midlands metropolitan boroughs, three (Dudley, Solihull and Walsall) have Conservative majorities and three (Coventry, Sandwell and Wolverhampton) have Labour majorities. Like Derby, the Amber Valley district is moving off the thirds electoral cycle this year. Sara studied in East Coventry and trained at the independent Pattison College School in Dance and Drama. Together they have two children, Millie and Isaac. Favourite name for boy / girl: Well I have to go for Millie and Jamie! Indeed, if the 2022 results are repeated then the Conservatives would gain both the Wickford localist seats plus two seats from Labour, Pitsea North West and Laindon Park. According to Glassdoor, the employees make roughly between $47,863 to $141,155 per annum at NBC. This is an urban division covering the Purbrook, Widley and Crookhorn areas, sandwiched between the Portsmouth city boundary to the south, the A3(M) motorway to the east and Waterlooville town centre to the north; it includes much of Fort Purbrook, a nineteenth-century fort built for the defence of Portsmouth and never used in anger. There are no local elections this year for the Cornwall, Somerset or Wiltshire councils or in the city of Bristol. Were now definitely into the ex-coalfield areas of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, which returned Conservative MPs with massive majorities in December 2019. Sarah Teale worked as a reporter/presenter at ITV before working at BBC East Midlands Today for 13 years . The Conservative candidate this time is Sanjay Modhwadia, who won the North Evington by-election last year; I wrote at the time that Modhwadia was a businessman who is campaigning for support for Leicesters textile industry, which made him a perfect fit for a ward which contains a large number of Leicesters textile factories and was one of the areas of the UK hardest-hit by the first COVID wave. The 2019 elections held at a time when the MP for Maidenhead, Theresa May, was Prime Minister returned 23 Conservative councillors, 9 Lib Dems, 3 seats for the curiously-capitalised the Borough first, 3 West Windsor localists, 2 Old Windsor localists and the UKs only councillor for the National Flood Prevention Party. Last but not least in Devon is the city of Exeter, which has a secure Labour majority that doesnt look in any danger. Goodness knows what will happen here. This is a paid announcement DH. We can reasonably expect to see seat gains for Labour, who have clearly improved their position following their poor local election performance in 2019. The most marginal Leicestershire district at present is Blaby which covers a number of Leicesters south-western suburbs, although this looks safe enough based on the 2019 results which gave 25 Conservative councillors against 6 each for Labour and the Lib Dems, a Green and an independent. It wouldnt take much for this council to go hung, but the opposition is rather scattered between independent councillors, Labour and the Lib Dems. Overall, that would increase the ruling coalitions majority. The defending Conservative candidate is William Nunn, who is a former leader of the local Breckland council; he is up against Terry Land for Labour and Josie Ratcliffe for the Lib Dems. The Conservatives are also defending a poor local election performance from that year: most of the low-hanging fruit for their opponents has already gone, and that fact alone should temper expectations for further large losses of Conservative councillors. Last but not least in Essex we come to the New Town of Harlow, where Labour have crashed and burned over this electoral cycle. Back to work and I joined the BBC in 2006 and mix reporting with producing the programme. This council currently has a Conservative lead of 2013 after the Tories almost swept the board in 2021, and for the second year in a row more than half of the Labour group is up for election this year. Replying to . There are only six Rutland Conservative councillors left now; such is the disarray in the local party that they could not even find a candidate to defend a by-election last year in Oakham which the Lib Dems gained without a contest. 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first elections to the present structure of English local government, which came into operation in the following year of 1974. When the realisation dawned that. Talking of Laindon Park brings us to our Essex county council by-election, in the large division of Basildon Laindon Park and Fryerns which covers much of the New Town territory: it corresponds to the Laindon Park, Lee Chapel North and Fryerns wards of Basildon, all of which Labour are defending on the borough council today. Of the three districts up for election, Cotswold has a Lib Dem majority after a controversial Tory administration crashed and burned in 2019, Tewkesbury has a large Conservative majority, and the Forest of Dean is a confusing mess. Rother went into No Overall Control in 2019 as the result of a revolt by Conservative voters in Bexhill-on-Sea, and local sentiment towards the national government might not have been helped by a recent proposal to site a refugee internment camp in Bexhill. Three by-election losses since then (in Park Farm North, Downs North and Highfield wards) have wiped out that majority and left the council hung. Some said the man's comments were just part of an internet craze, while others thought the video had been staged to make a point. Babergh council shares a lot of its back-office functions with Mid Suffolk council, which is looking very interesting this year. National press, including the Independent and New Statesman, covered the story, which was also featured on Australian TV. The 2019 local elections reveal a curious geographical divide, with the Conservatives generally performing much better in the western half of the county. Isaac was born in August 2017. 74-year-old Mary meets up with volunteer Helen Turner who's been ringing her every week over the last 16 months. Some parts of south and west Leicestershire receive Midlands Today, which covers the West Midlands. Newman passed away in December. This division returns two Suffolk county councillors, and it is safe for the Conservatives; in 2021 the Tory slate polled 50% of the vote against 19% for the Lib Dems and 18% for Labour. Blizzard is currently working as a weather presenter and news reporter for BBC news channel. Sarah also has the knowledge of working at Central TV as a news reporter. Labour should reasonably expect to gain an overall majority here. Four years on the Brexit Partys successors, Reform UK, are a minor player in these local elections with just 470 candidates a figure which includes joint tickets with localist parties in Derby and Bolton. The 2021 polls were a clear win for the Conservatives, with the BBCs projected share at 36% for the Conservatives, 29% for Labour and 17% for the Lib Dems. Without further ado, lets get out into the country: In the North East region all councils are holding ordinary elections except Northumberland and Durham. I was 19 and still at university so I have been in broadcasting 10 years now - eek! 2023 BBC. Further, there are no details about her family background and siblings. Whether the council can meet its debt repayments, following the recent surge in interest rates, is not clear. Sarah Teale got married happily to Matt Teale, a Newsreader, and journalist. Also standing are Mike Chandler for the Lib Dems and Oliver McCarthy for the Green Party. This is the year of Redditchs electoral cycle in which Labours best wards do not poll, so the Conservatives are defending nine of the ten seats up for election. Elsewhere in Lancashire, there are secure Labour majorities in Blackburn with Darwen, Chorley and Preston. We will continue to fulfil our advertised role of covering all the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order, by returning in less than two weeks time for the first by-election of the municipal year 202324, which will take place in Gloucestershire on Wednesday 17th May. And it holds a very special memory for me too. One of the results due on Friday is, as stated, that of Britain Elects very own Ben Walker so our coverage of the Friday declarations might well be limited. A repeat of the 2022 results would see the Conservatives gain Hampton Vale ward from the Lib Dems and Orton Longueville and Ravensthorpe wards from Labour, which would put the Tories on 31 out of 60. One of those is Lincoln, which has a secure Labour majority (the city council covers a smaller area than the parliamentary seat); the other is North East Lincolnshire, which is based on the twin towns of Grimsby and Cleethorpes. The Lib Dems Ashley Tilling is also an Elmbridge councillor; he is seeking re-election this year in Weybridge Riverside ward, which covers a very small corner of this division. This former coalmining centre is increasingly turning into a favoured location for Sheffield commuters, and it returned a Conservative majority in 2019: 30 Conservatives, 18 Labour, 3 Lib Dems and 2 independents. Which makes the Tory revolt there even more surprising. There has also been a Conservative split in South Derbyshire, which had quite a comfortable Conservative majority in 2019: 22 seats against 14 for Labour. The East Midlands Today reporter said she was "genuinely shocked" by what the man said. North Kesteven actually returned a majority of independent councillors in 2019, although the independents were not a united bloc and the Conservatives were able to peel enough of them off to stay in control. The path to a Labour majority here probably runs through reversing that by-election loss and gaining Bradwell North and Yarmouth North wards from the Conservatives. This is the only Gloucestershire county division to span the River Severn, taking in 20 rural parishes between Gloucester to the south, Cheltenham to the east and Tewkesbury to the north. A Conservative administration crashed and burned here in 2019, with the Tories holding just 13 seats against 13 independents, 11 Lib Dems, 6 Labour, 4 Portishead Independents and 3 Greens. To replace him on the county council the Tories have selected Mike Whiting, who is currently a Swale councillor for Teynham and Lynsted ward on the mainland but is seeking re-election in Queenborough and Halfway; Whiting is a former Kent county councillor who lost his seat in Swale West division, also on the mainland, two years ago.
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