Exeter City Council confirmed its decision to abandon Northbrook swimming pool at its executive committee meeting on Tuesday, diving deeper into denial despite a months-long campaign by residents which made clear that its conviction that the community facility should be closed was based on misrepresentations and missing information. To shouts of “rubbish!” from a packed...
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter BBC Neil Stevens has been reported to the police regarding allegations of overspending on his election campaign Bradley Gerrard Local Democracy Reporting Service Infighting in the Reform UK party in Devon has seen two county councillors and an election agent reported to police by a colleague over election expenses....
Miles Davis BBC Devon political reporter Liberal Democrats Dylan Tippetts, who was elected as the Labour councillor for Compton in 2022, has joined the Liberal Democrats Three councillors on Plymouth City Council have left the Labour Party, citing concerns over immigration policies, trans issues and cuts to the winter fuel allowance. Dylan Tippetts, the city’s...
Councillors have unanimously backed a submission which sets out the council’s case for a new unitary authority which includes the city of Exeter. The council will now submit its interim case for the creation of a new unitary authority incorporating the city of Exeter and adjacent areas after it gained cross-party support. The submission recognises...
There will be by-elections in two Exeter City Council wards on 1 May after two City Councillors decided to stand down. The by-elections will take place in the Mincinglake & Whipton ward, where Naima Allcock has stood down, and in Topsham, where Joshua Ellis-Jones has also stood down. People are being advised to contact the...