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LEAFLETGATE UPDATE: Earlier we reported how newly elected Newton, Merseyside Lib Dem councillor David Smith has been reported reaching into people’s front doors and removing rival leaflets during the local elections campaign. After the St Helens local election candidate was recorded on residents' security cameras appearign to wear dark glasses while surreptitiously removing rival camapaign leaflets, he was reported to Merseyside Police and St Helens Council’s monitoring officer, Jan Bakewell. The Electoral Commission have also been informed. According to the...

The Conservatives have lost 1,000 councillors in the local elections and are expected to surpass even the worst predictions. The Liberal Democrats and Greens have made significant gains, with Labour also losing heavily. Early indications suggested it could be a tough day for the Tories as they lost stronghold seats in Essex. But as the day progressed the news went from bad to worse. At the latest count the Tories are down 1,013 seats from 2015. It chimes with worst-case...

With 164 out of 248 council election results declared, the Green Party is celebrating a historic victory and vowing to “carry the Remain banner” into European Parliament elections. The party is up 95 council seats on a record total of 127 councillors so far. As lunchtime declarations were made on Friday, Green Party deputy leader Amelia Womack told The London Economic the party was celebrating a “Green Wave”: "As we head into lunchtime on Friday, with many results still to...

After a disastorous night at the polls the Prime Minister faced a heckler as she was about to make a speech. She was shouted at by a member of the audience as she began her speech to Welsh Conservatives. He could be heard saying  “Why don’t you resign? We don’t want you.” Some of delegates at the Welsh Conservative Conference at Llangollen Pavilion clapped and chanted “out”, in an apparent call for the heckler to be removed, rather than the...

Piccadilly Gardens, in Manchester, has cordoned off after a suspicious package found. Police vans can also be seen in the pictures. A man has been detained by police, GMP said. credit: Robyn McKee A GMP spokesman said: "A cordon is in place in Piccadilly Gardens after reports of a suspicious package were made. "A man aged 26 has been detained by police and enquiries into the incident are ongoing." Thomas Ogden tweeted about the incident, saying: "The police are currently...

The ancient arthropod, whose name means 'thousand feet' in Latin, was so perfectly preserved it has been digitally reconstructed - in stunning detail

A housing boss who was in charge of Grenfell Tower before it went up in flames has been invited to speak at a national housing conference on improving building safety, The Guardian has reported. Sacha Jevans has been asked to lecture on ways to “improve risk management and building safety post-Grenfell” at the event, despite the fact that she worked as the executive director of Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO) when it managed the building and oversaw the...

Pro-Remain parties stormed the 2019 Local Elections yesterday with the Lib Dems and Greens significantly increasing their share of the vote as the main two parties and UKIP lost out. Labour MP David Lammy tweeted that it was an “unambiguously” clear vote for a re-think on Brexit. He said: “The message is clear. We need to square up to the country and tell the truth. Brexit is a disaster and the Leave campaign lied to you.” Early indications suggest The Conservatives...

Former London mayor Boris Johnson allegedly had to delete a tweet claiming he “just voted Conservatives in the local elections” after realising no elections were being held in the capital yesterday. James Felton posted out the deleted message which had appeared on Politwoops- a website which stores all deleted tweets from politicians. The message, which apparently stayed up for just 30 seconds before being deleted, said: "I just voted Conservative in the local elections. Make sure you do too! You’ve...