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Telford & Wrekin Council overspend by £4.4m

The Labour administration at Telford & Wrekin have overspent by £4.4m in just one year, having to spend two thirds of the contingency money in the council’s budget to balance the books. The Tory leader, Andrew Eade, asked Labour what

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Posted in Telford News

Tory leader offers Labour a fight (allegedly)

Conservative and Labour borough councillors spent part of last night’s full council meeting arguing with each other resulting in the leader of the Conservatives allegedly offering to take a Labour councillor outside. Cllr Shaun Davies took to Twitter last night

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UKIP Telford & Wrekin raising the bar for online engagement

UKIP Telford & Wrekin launched it’s new website (this one, obviously) a couple of weeks ago and paid some more attention to or previously low-key twitter account at the same time. So how do we compare to the other parties

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Do the Tories have a right to your vote?

Conservative borough councillor, Stephen Burrell, made the bizarre suggestion on Twitter the other day that UKIP shouldn’t contest elections in Telford because we split their vote and let Labour win. @ukiptandw @ukip Hurrah! Lets all celebrate splitting the centre right

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