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Mallinder – Labour Candidate Leaflet
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I reproduce below two scans of a leaflet found discarded in Hellaby Ward. If you have the same or similar from any of the political Parties, please scan it as a .jpg and attach it to an email to Rothpol. … Continue reading
Labour out – in Hellaby
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Shabana Ahmed and Jahangir Akhtar are still having difficulty with their website, it would appear from this recent image, taken from the Rotherham Labour Group website? It is also becoming clear labour’s lack of front line troops is acute! These … Continue reading
Hellaby 2014 Omar’s latest leaflet
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Omar Mehban’s election campaign for Hellaby 2014 is getting into gear with his latest leaflet going out now:
Silly Season Short No2
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A fresh piece of ‘silly season’ news. Lynda Donaldson, the Conservative Councillor for Hellaby Ward, has been chosen to fight Sitwell Ward for them in the local elections next year! She must be in doubt of retaining her Hellaby seat … Continue reading
2014 elections – first look at the battleground
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The 2014 Battleground, first look. These are the incumbent Councillors who’s Term of Office, expires May 2014.
| Ward | Incumbent | Party |
| Anston & Woodsetts Ward | Jo Burton | Lab |
| Boston Castle Ward | Rose McNeeley | Lab |
| Brinsworth & Catcliffe Ward | Alan Buckley | Lab |
| Dinnington Ward | Jackie Falvey | Lab |
| Hellaby Ward | Lynda Donaldson | Con |
| Holderness Ward | Gerald Smith | Lab |
| Hoober Ward | Brian Steele | Lab |
| Keppel Ward | Ian Barron | Lab |
| Maltby Ward | Amy Rushforth | Lab |
| Rawmarsh Ward | Shaun Wright | Lab |
| Rother Vale Ward | Richard Russell | Lab |
| Rotherham East | Shaukut Ali | Lab |
| Rotherham West | Jahangir Akhtar | Lab |
| Silverwood Ward | Pat Russell | Lab |
| Sitwell Ward | Tony Mannion | Con |
| Swinton Ward | Neil License | Lab |
| Valley Ward | Dave Pickering | Lab |
| Wales Ward | Jennifer Whysall | Lab |
| Wath Ward | Alan Atkin | Lab |
| Wickersley Ward | Sue Ellis | Lab |
| Wingfield Ward | Keith Goulty | Lab |
Don tries to enlist support over Wickersley Library
Dear RMBC Cllrs Andrew, Astbury and Donaldson,
I am informed that our Wickersley Community Library does in fact fall within the Hellaby Electoral Ward for which you are the duly elected RMBC Councillors. I have also previously sent this same e-mail to the Wickersley Ward Councillors Ellis, Read and Hoddinott for their attention and response.
I have received the attached information relating to planned “changes” (aka “cuts”) to our local libraries service and I am astonished to find that our own magnificent library here at Wickersley which is currently open for 45 hours per week is proposed to be cut to 40 hours per week!.
Our library has 66990 visits per year and 3642 active borrowers (among the highest number according to RMBC’s own figures!
I note with a sense of sarcasm and profound disappointment that by comparison the library in the Aston Ward will INCREASE its hours while it boasts a miniscule amount of support from its host community – Aston Library – currently open for 44.5 hours per week -53155 visits per year – 3158 active borrowers – proposed increase hours to 49 per week.
Once again the residents and ratepayers of Wickersley are destined to be disadvantaged and to see their hours transferred to a community who show nowhere near the level of support as that of Wickersley’s residents and ratepayers.
My feeling is that once again my village is on the receiving end “of the Grald effect”.
Please will you inform me of the following at your earliest convenience –
(a) do you intend to oppose the proposed reduction in Wickersley’s Library hours?
(b) if not, why not?
(c) what specific, measurable, active measures you intend to take to oppose the proposed reduction in Wickersley Library’s hours?
(d) do you intend to organise any public meetings, and when and where, across Hellaby Ward to inform the public of your plans to oppose the proposed reduction in Wickersley Library’s hours?
(e) do you plan to oppose the proposed reduction in Wickersley Library’s hours within –
1. the Rotherham Labour Group, 2. RMBC Cabinet, 3. at full Council Meetings?
(f) if none of the 3 above, please inform me why not.
(g) do you intend to make use of the media to conduct a campaign of opposition to the proposed reduction in Wickersley Library’s hours.
I also note with considerable derision that RMBC are spuriously claiming to be responsible for the creation of the new Wickersley Library, whereas in fact it is my firm belief that the Wickersley Community Centre and Library building is owned by Wickersley Parish Council and was a project that was initiatied and actioned and funded entirely by our Parish Council and that RMBC merely rent space from the Parish Council to use for library purposes!
Yours Sincerely,
Donald H. Buxton
See also:
Library Consultation – What it means for Wickersley – Chris Read’s Response – Is that it?
Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Who Is The Greediest Of Them All?…..
Let the figures speak for themselves!
| Greed by Individual Councillor 2009-10 | |||||
| Rank | Name | 2009-10 | Ward | Up Next Year | |
| 1 | Roger Stone | £45,407.72 | Silverwood | Yes | |
| 2 | Terry Sharman | £34,062.38 | Wingfield | Yes | |
| 3 | Richard Russell | £29,127.27 | Hoober | No | |
| 4 | Gerald Smith | £28,730.15 | Holderness | No | |
| 5 | Mahroof Hussain | £28,670.90 | Boston Castle | No | |
| 6 | Glyn Whelbourn | £28,662.08 | Rawmarsh | No | |
| 7 | Shaun Wright | £28,624.15 | Rawmarsh | No | |
| 8 | Jahangir Akhtar | £28,622.08 | Rotherham West | No | |
| 9 | Ken Wyatt | £28,597.44 | Swinton | No | |
| 10 | Iain StJohn | £26,707.84 | Anston & Woodsetts | Yes | |
| 11 | John Doyle | £26,608.20 | Swinton | Yes | |
| 12 | Dave Pickering | £23,292.72 | Valley | No | |
| 13 | Ann Russell | £23,268.91 | Silverwood | No | |
| 14 | Rose McNeely | £23,186.91 | Boston Castle | No | |
| 15 | Jane Austen | £23,183.41 | Holderness | Yes | |
| Georgina Boyes | £23,183.41 | Rother Vale | No | ||
| 17 | Alex Sangster | £23,182.96 | Wath | Yes | |
| John Gilding | £23,182.96 | Sitwell | Yes | ||
| 19 | Hilda Jack | £23,180.04 | Holderness | No | |
| Peter Wooton | £23,180.04 | Boston Castle | Yes | ||
| 21 | Barry Dodson | £17,821.29 | Rotherham East | Yes | |
| 22 | John Swift | £17,746.45 | Rother Vale | Yes | |
| 23 | Lindsay Johnston | £17,734.79 | Wingfield | No | |
| Paul Lakin | £17,734.79 | Valley | Yes | ||
| Jennifer Whysall | £17,734.79 | Wales | No | ||
| 26 | Alan Atkin | £17,064.05 | Wath | No | |
| JRA Turner | £17,064.05 | Hellaby | No | ||
| 28 | Maurice Kirk | £14,366.66 | Rotherham East | No | |
| Amy Rushforth | £14,366.66 | Maltby | No | ||
| 30 | Frank Hodgkiss | £14,191.06 | Hoober | No | |
| 31 | Josephine Burton | £13,974.74 | Anston & Woodsetts | No | |
| 32 | Reg Littleboy | £13,882.84 | Brinsworth & Catcliffe | Yes | |
| 33 | Shaukat Ali | £13,735.60 | Rotherham East | No | |
| 34 | Pat Russell | £13,640.64 | Silverwood | No | |
| 35 | Ian Barron | £13,596.78 | Keppel | No | |
| 36 | Sheila Walker | £13,588.84 | Keppel | No | |
| 37 | Barry Kaye | £13,570.24 | Keppel | Yes | |
| 38 | Jacqueline Falvey | £13,558.84 | Dinnington | No | |
| Alan Gosling | £13,558.84 | Wath | No | ||
| Jane Hamilton | £13,558.84 | Hoober | Yes | ||
| Jane Havenhand | £13,558.84 | Dinnington | Yes | ||
| 42 | Fred Wright | £13,558.40 | Brinsworth & Catcliffe | No | |
| 43 | Simon Currie | £13,404.13 | Valley | No | |
| Keith Goulty | £13,404.13 | Wingfield | No | ||
| 45 | Simon Tweed | £13,400.75 | Dinnington | No | |
| 46 | Chris McMahon | £12,952.16 | Wickersley | No | |
| 47 | Neil License | £12,772.58 | Swinton | No | |
| 48 | Kath Sims | £12,457.87 | Rotherham West | No | |
| 49 | T Fenoughty | £12,412.54 | Wales | No | |
| 50 | Michael Clarke | £12,306.98 | Sitwell | Dec | |
| Brian Cutts | £12,306.98 | Hellaby | Yes | ||
| Lynda Donaldson | £12,306.98 | Hellaby | No | ||
| John Foden | £12,306.98 | Rotherham West | Yes | ||
| Neil Hamilton | £12,306.98 | Rawmarsh | Yes | ||
| Tony Mannion | £12,306.98 | Sitwell | No | ||
| G Nightingale | £12,306.98 | Rother Vale | No | ||
| G Sharp | £12,306.98 | Wales | Yes | ||
| Ben Slade | £12,306.98 | Maltby | Yes | ||
| Peter Thirlwall | £12,306.98 | Wickersley | Yes | ||
| 60 | Will Blair | £12,303.59 | Maltby | No | |
| John Gamble | £12,303.59 | Brinsworth & Catcliffe | No | ||
| Darren Hughes | £12,303.59 | Anston & Woodsetts | No | ||
| Martyn Parker | £12,303.59 | Boston Castle | No | ||
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| Councillor Greed by Ward 2009-2010. | ||
| Ward totals in descending order. | ||
| Ward | Total | Rank |
| Silverwood | £82,317.27 | 1 |
| Holderness | £75,093.60 | 2 |
| Boston Castle | £75,037.85 | 3 |
| Rawmarsh | £69,593.21 | 4 |
| Swinton | £67,978.22 | 5 |
| Wingfield | £65,201.13 | 6 |
| Hoober | £56,877.17 | 7 |
| Valley | £54,431.64 | 8 |
| Wath | £53,804.30 | 9 |
| Rotherham West | £53,386.93 | 10 |
| Rother Vale | £53,236.84 | 11 |
| Anston & Woodsetts | £52,986.17 | 12 |
| Sitwell | £47,796.88 | 13 |
| Rotherham East | £45,923.55 | 14 |
| Wales | £42,454.31 | 15 |
| Hellaby | £41,681.01 | 16 |
| Keppel | £40,755.86 | 17 |
| Dinnington | £40,518.43 | 18 |
| Brinsworth & Catcliffe | £39,744.83 | 19 |
| Maltby | £38,977.23 | 20 |
| Wickersley | £37,562.73 | 21 |
Extracted from: http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/download/3675/members_allowances_and_expenses_2009-10
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