What do the local elections tell us about the general election?
It would be unwise to read too much into the council results as a guide to the coming general election.
Local Democracy Reporter
Local Democracy Reporter - all things Swindon Borough Council
Local Democracy Reporter - all things Swindon Borough Council
It would be unwise to read too much into the council results as a guide to the coming general election.
The scale of Labour’s victory in this year’s elections for Swindon Borough Council might not be quite as seismic as last year’s.
Those Swindon voters who took themselves to a polling station yesterday on a cool, gloomy day with rain constantly threatening seemed united by a wish to have their voice heard, and, for some, a sense of duty.
Football clubs and community groups will be able to use the all-weather sports pitches at a Swindon secondary school.
While residents all across Swindon have the ability to vote for both their local borough councillors and the Wiltshire & Swindon Police & Crime Commissioner today, those who live in Chiseldon & Lawn are only able to vote in the PCC election this year.
A nursery school which closed suddenly at the end of March could be converted back into a large house.
Swindon will go to the polls on Thursday, May 2 to vote for a third of the borough councillors and the county's Police and Crime Commissioner.
The details of the design and lay out for more than 200 new houses to be built just south of Highworth have been approved.
The costs of adult social care are threatening to swallow up budgets of councils across the country.
Social workers recruited in India by Swindon Borough Council might be about to go on strike.
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