One of these is Malvern Hills, a long and thin district which stretches the length of the Herefordshire/Worcestershire boundary; Malvern Hills once included parts of Herefordshire, but those areas were transferred out of the district back in the 1990s. North Hertfordshire district has already got to that stage, with a coalition of Labour (15 plus two vacant seats) and the Lib Dems (13) running the show and the Conservatives (19) in opposition. BBC reporter Sarah Teale was filming news report on sexual harassment She explained how 95% of people say they have been harassed on street Seconds later, man shouted 'sexual obscenities' in. In neighbouring Ashford district the Conservatives won a small majority in 2019 with 26 seats against 11 Ashford Independents, 7 Labour, 2 Greens and an independent. Also here we find the only by-election taking place in the West Midlands region on 4th May. The Test Valley district hugs Hampshires western border, and has a rather narrow Conservative majority at present: the 2019 elections returned 24 Conservatives against 12 Lib Dems and 7 councillors for a new localist party, the Andover Alliance. See if you can spot them below. Manages broadcast media production, broadcasting news on TV and radio, and streaming on the Internet. There are new ward boundaries here. The national political scene affects the local one in the sense that a rising tide lifts all boats, but that doesnt mean that the tide rises to the same level in all harbours. Another councillor who has stepped down from Cambridgeshire county council halfway through their first term is Hilary Cox Condron, an artist and Labour councillor. I enjoyed 10 years presenting and reporting there. Let's quickly move on to the question. There has also been a Conservative split in South Derbyshire, which had quite a comfortable Conservative majority in 2019: 22 seats against 14 for Labour. This beautiful lady seems to be workaholic and concentrating only on her profession instead of finding a perfect partner. In addition, Teale celebrates his birthday on the 7th of March every year and his zodiac sign is Pisces. Great Yarmouth, however, was close in 2019: 20 Conservative councillors, 15 Labour, 3 independents and 1 UKIP. He has not mentioned his personal childhood life anywhere. and I can't think of anything I dont like much. Favourite / worst animal: I adore hippos and have a fear of spiders. In addition, he has presented on sports news on Sky News since June 2010. Plymouth will be a particularly fun council to watch. ", In the clip, Teale can be heard explaining: "An online study showed that a shocking 95% of people said they had been harassed, jeered at, or had obscenities shouted at them in the street and a large proportion said they'd also been groped or grabbed inappropriately in public. Other Hampshire local government districts are better for the Conservatives. Dec 31, 2021. United Kingdom London, Sarah Teale has been with Bbc for 15+ years and is a normal employee, Sarah's role is Broadcast Media Professional, Senior Broadcast Journalist/Presenter BBC East Midlands Today. For our tour of the north-west lets start in Greater Manchester, where the Local Government Boundary Commission have been hard at work. Neighbouring Colchester has been hung for quite a while now and is a very balanced council, with currently 19 Conservative councillors, 15 each for Labour and the Lib Dems and 2 Greens. A coalition of the Lib Dems and independent councillors is currently running Sydney Opera House, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain. Jamie arrived three years later but in slightly less dramatic fashion! The Conservatives still topped the poll in votes cast, but won just 13 seats against 18 independents, 8 councillors from the localist group Its Our County, 7 Greens and 7 Lib Dems. Of which this is possibly the most bizarre. That was after transfers, and Abrahams lead on first preferences was a rather more comfortable 1,021 votes: this comes to just 29%, but under the new mayoral election rules that would have won his seat on a freak vote split against 25% for Allsop, 20% for another independent and 15% for the Conservatives. Southampton has a small Labour majority at present with 26 councillors against 20 Conservatives, 1 Lib Dem and 1 ex-Labour independent; that takes into account a Labour gain at a by-election in Bitterne ward last December. The 2022 elections here were good for Labour, who stand to gain three seats if they are repeated: those wards would be Denby Dale (from the Conservatives), Dewsbury East (from an independent) and Golcar (in western Huddersfield, from the Lib Dems). Tony Samuels, a lawyer who has represented the division since winning a by-election in 2010 and has served as chairman of Surrey county council, is retiring after 13 years service. Favourite politician / historical figure: Shakespeare, last updated: 13/01/2009 at 09:18created: 13/01/2009, BBC East Midlands Today, London Road, Nottingham, NG2 4UU. As with last year. Goodness knows what will happen here. Andy Preston is seeking re-election for a second term. The 2019 local elections reveal a curious geographical divide, with the Conservatives generally performing much better in the western half of the county. The Tory group has comprehensively split and has also lost a number of by-elections, and control of the council has seesawed between a succession of unstable coalitions. Teale earns an average annual salary of between $100,000 and $200,000 as a broadcast journalist. Your email address will not be published. Southend is next to Castle Point district, which is independent-run and there is no prospect of that changing. The Dorset council elected in 2019 had a five-year term and will next face the electorate in 2024, so there are no local elections there either. The city of Cambridge has a Labour majority which is in no danger, and the extremely rural and agricultural Fenland district is safely Conservative. The map above was of the 2019 local election results in Tunbridge Wells, which was seen at the time as a shocking result off the back of a controversial proposal by the council to build a new civic and arts centre on a local park. The Tories failed to contest a recent by-election in the Gaywood Clock ward of Kings Lynn, which doesnt say much for their organisation here; Labour held that seat unopposed. We will continue to fulfil our advertised role of covering all the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order, by returning in less than two weeks time for the first by-election of the municipal year 202324, which will take place in Gloucestershire on Wednesday 17th May. As usual, well commence with the city of Sunderland which takes pride in normally being the first district to declare its results. The Tories have a chance of gaining Waterside and Horsfield ward in Colne from the Lib Dems, but unless they can do significantly better than 12 months ago then Pendle is going to No Overall Control. Whether young or old, veteran or rookie, independent or a member of whatever party, they all served us. I lived around the area for five years before heading to Birmingham for my break into TV. That will transfer power back to Liverpool council, which currently has a large Labour majority with 57 councillors against 12 independent councillors, 11 Lib Dems, 4 Greens and 4 continuing Liberals. Sarah Teale Biography Mini Bio (1) Sarah Teale is known for BBC East Midlands Today (1991). Anyway, no overall control is the norm here, not the exception. An independent/Conservative coalition is in control. There are no elections this year for the other Potteries local authority, Newcastle-under-Lyme. In the next section below, continue reading to learn more about Matt Teales wife. Mention of Sheerness brings us to the last of todays sixteen by-elections, which is for the Sheppey division of Kent county council. In 2019 the Conservatives won 19 seats against 9 Greens, 8 Lib Dems, 3 Labour and 2 independents; the Tories briefly formed a minority administration before all the other groups were able to thrash out a coalition agreement, under a Lib Dem leader. Indeed, if the 2022 results are repeated then the Conservatives would gain both the Wickford localist seats plus two seats from Labour, Pitsea North West and Laindon Park. Out of work the children keep me pretty busy but I also love dancing. Andrews Previews will be in eastern Ormskirk to cover the postponed poll at a later date. This is the year of the cycle where the districts main town (Loughton) has a year off and most of the rural Conservative-voting wards come up for election instead. Burton-on-Trent and Uttoxeter are covered by the East Staffordshire district, which has a rather small Conservative majority. Inspector Ben Lawrence told me "it's devastating" 2 11 Of the three districts up for election, Cotswold has a Lib Dem majority after a controversial Tory administration crashed and burned in 2019, Tewkesbury has a large Conservative majority, and the Forest of Dean is a confusing mess. Interestingly the Lib Dems won the most recent by-election here, gaining a seat in Heybridge West ward which had been vacated by the ejection of independent Councillor Behaving Badly Chrisy Morris. The Rumworth by-election gain for the Conservatives last year probably does not herald a Conservative majority in Bolton; strongly-Muslim wards like Rumworth can do weird things depending what is happening in the local mosques. Last but not least in Surrey we come to the hung Tandridge district at the eastern end of the county, where the Conservatives have been comprehensively routed over the last cycle: in 2022 they won only one ward, Warlingham West, and that ward isnt up this year. Matt celebrates his birthday with his friends and family every year on 7 March. Britain Elects needs to declare an interest here, as our genial host Ben Walker is on the defending Labour slate for Chester City and the Garden Quarter ward. In 2007, Teale covered his last sports report for Central Tonight. The secret mine that hid the Nazis' stolen treasure. A Lib Dem minority administration was initially formed, but this proved to be unstable and was replaced by a Conservative minority administration. The Conservative candidate is Terri Sargent, who previously served as a county councillor for this division from 2009 to 2013. Turning to Devons north coast, the other Lib Dem-run district in the county is North Devon, where the party finished with half the seats in 201921 councillors against 12 Conservatives, 7 independents and 2 Greens and have since picked up a Conservative seat in a by-election to gain a majority. There are currently 21 Conservative councillors, 15 Labour, 9 independents, 5 Lib Dems and one vacant seat; a coalition of everybody except the Conservatives is running the show under a Labour leader. Goodness knows what will happen here. That would be enough to wipe out the Conservative majority, although it would still leave the Tories with half of the 42 seats. As we have seen over the last 14 months and longer, democracy is a fragile thing. Sarah Teale is a presenter of BBC midlands today. Stafford, however, has gone the other way after two Conservative councillors went independent. Matt Teale, known as Matthew James Teale, was born on 7 March 1975 in Worcestershire, United Kingdom. Andrews Previews has told many of their stories over the last twelve months, but there were some councillors whose seats were left vacant after their deaths without a by-election being held, and they are listed here. There are no local elections this year in Northamptonshire. The Conservatives are still the largest group on Waverley council with 23 councillors as of 2019, but they are outvoted by 15 Farnham Residents, 14 Lib Dems, 2 Labour, 2 Green and an independent. Matt stands at an average height of five feet and eight inches tall. The Vale of White Horse has a large Lib Dem majority; that council shares a lot of its back-office functions with South Oxfordshire, which is hung. In the Gloucestershire county council area we miss out Cheltenham, Gloucester and Stroud where there are no polls this year. In 2017 UKIP lost both their seats, which split one to the Conservatives and one to Labour. Most other Nottinghamshire councils have large majorities: for the Conservatives in Newark and Sherwood district and in Rushcliffe, for Labour in Nottingham and Gedling and for the Ashfield Independents in Ashfield. Compare and contrast with the east of the county, where we find three districts which are under No Overall Control. All of these have Labour majorities except for the city of Sheffield, which is hung: the latest composition in the home of snooker has 38 reds, 29 yellows, 14 Greens, 1 blue and a cue-ball or independent councillor, who was elected as Labour. East Kent has rather a lot of hung councils, with only Dover having a Conservative majority at present. A repeat of 2022 would see the Lib Dems confirm a by-election gain from the Conservatives in Cobham and Downside, and also gain Hersham Village, Walton North and Walton South; the Conservatives, meanwhile, have the chance to strike back against the Residents in Molesey East and Weybridge St Georges Hill. Next to Medway is Gravesham council, which is somewhere where the Conservative and Labour votes are so geographically polarised that Labour (thanks to differential turnout) can regularly win council majorities while polling fewer votes than the Conservatives. Senior Broadcast Journalist and Presenter BBC East Midlands Today @ BBC; News Reporter @ BBC East Midlands Today; Reporter and producer @ ITV Central; Skills. Andrew Teale is the Britain Elects Previewer and is webmaster of the Local Elections Archive Project. Elsewhere in Surrey, the Lib Dems also have a majority on Mole Valley council which is all-up this year with radical new ward boundaries; theres nothing in that councils recent results to suggest that a Conservative fightback is on. The 2019 elections to Rother council returned 14 Conservatives, 13 independents, 7 Lib Dems, 3 Labour and a Green councillor; the Conservatives did do a bit better here in the 2021 East Sussex county elections, but they have a long way to recover. Awford was re-elected for his final term in 2021 with 66% of the vote, and a close three-way race for the runner-up spot was won by the Greens on 12%. He is seeking re-election this year as an independent candidate in Altham ward, which was a Conservative gain when it last came up for election in 2021. Crossing into Berkshire, we have polls to West Berkshire council which has a rather slim Conservative majority: the 2019 elections here returned 24 Conservatives, 16 Lib Dems and three Greens. The most recent by-election, in North Evington ward last October, saw Labour not only lose the seat but fall to third place behind the Greens with just 23% of the vote; this in a ward where the Labour slate polled 72% in May 2019. Moving into Worcestershire, we can see a Labour recovery forming in the New Town of Redditch. However, we may need to wait a little while for this council to be settled: the poll for the three seats in the new Rural South ward has had to be postponed after Ian Davis, outgoing OWL councillor for Derby ward in Ormskirk, died before nominations closed. The people of unoccupied Ukraine are literally fighting for their right to live in a country that holds elections rather than stages election-type events. Before we leave Lincolnshire, there is a by-election for the county council to bring you. 8. You can also support future previews by donating to the Local Elections Archive Project (link). If you have a postal vote you should have received it by now; if you intend to vote at a polling station, dont forget to go there between 7am and 10pm on Thursday and take your photo ID with you. Since the 2022 elections Colchester has gained city status as part of the late Queens Platinum Jubilee celebrations, becoming the third city in Essex. Her voice has been utilised for the 'Trafficmaster' in-car information system! The actual. New ward boundaries are coming in for Stockton-on-Tees, which Labour run as a minority. East Cambridgeshire district is a varied area running from the fens of Ely to the higher ground surrounding Newmarket. The first town in Essex to gain city status was Chelmsford, which was a stunning if narrow Lib Dem gain in 2019: the party won 31 seats against 21 Conservatives, 3 independents and 2 South Woodham Ferrers localists. Matt Teale was born and raised along with his parents in childhood in the United States. East Midlands Today is the BBC's regional television news programme for the East Midlands. This year the Conservatives are defending the two ex-Yorkshire West Craven wards, which both voted Lib Dem last year, plus Marsden and Southfield ward in Nelson which voted Labour last year. Another Middlesbrough councillor on the ballot is independent Jon Rathmell, who represents Nunthorpe ward and was leader of one of the councils independent factions, the Middlesbrough Independent Councillors Association, until he got into the Councillors Behaving Badly file: in 2021 Rathmell pleaded guilty to misconduct in public office over forged documents relating to a 2018 firework display which he had organised, and he was given a two-year conditional discharge. Come ready to sweat, and prepare to leave empowered and feeling strong. Control of North Lincolnshire council in 2003 was decided by a single vote giving the Conservatives a 2120 lead over Labour; the 2019 elections here returned a more comfortable Conservative majority of 2716 after the 2019 elections, and the Tories gained a safe Labour seat in Scunthorpes Ashby ward at a 2021 by-election. A Labour fightback does not look on the cards in Hull unless they perform significantly better than in 2022, because if those results are repeated the Lib Dems would gain one further seat in Longhill and Bilton Grange ward. The coalition looks set to increase its majority; a repeat of last years Conservative rout would see Labour gain Baldock Town, Letchworth Grange and Royston Palace to become the largest party on the council, while the Lib Dems would pick up Chesfield ward. donating to the Local Elections Archive Project (link). For similar reasons Labour will be looking for some sort of recovery in North Lincolnshire, which is based on Scunthorpe and takes in a large rural hinterland. This division name does pretty much what it says on the tin, taking in the eastern quarter of the town: it is overlooked by Lumley Castle on the far side of the River Wear. Is the accused innocent or guilty? On the way I have worked as a news trainee, a district reporter, a senior news reporter and sports. The defending Conservative candidate in the county by-election is John Dabell, who is also seeking re-election to the district council in East Grinstead Town ward; independent Mockford, who is a former Conservative member of the district council, is back for another go; and also standing are Andrew Lane for the Lib Dems, Timothy Cornell for Labour and Alex Langridge for the Green Party. As originally envisaged, this is the year of the cycle where all of the UKs second-tier districts which have whole-council elections go to the polls. All the right votes, but not necessarily in the right order. Is Kevin Bieksa Married? Further along the coastal strip, Worthing council now has a large Labour majority and Adur council is not up for election this year. In Pendle, as happened last year, the Conservatives have mislaid their majority just before the council elections as a result of a Conservative seat going vacant: for the second year in a row, there will be two seats up for election in Colnes Vivary Bridge ward this year. Also standing are Mags Lewis for the Green Party, former Leicester South MP Parmjit Singh Gill for the Lib Dems, Steve Score for the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition and independent candidate Rita Patel, who is an outgoing councillor for Rushey Mead ward and was one of the Leicester Labour councillors who was deslected ahead of this years elections. This has been under Conservative minority control since 2021. Teale stands approximately at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall with a moderate weight. So instead Ill focus on the delicate situation in the New Town of Crawley, where Labour have a very small majority: they hold 19 seats against 16 for the Conservatives and a vacant Conservative seat. Four years on the Brexit Partys successors, Reform UK, are a minor player in these local elections with just 470 candidates a figure which includes joint tickets with localist parties in Derby and Bolton. Local elections are local, and this column is here to describe the local scene. Best place in England: Southwold is just beautiful but there are also some gorgeous beaches in South Wales. The other district in the eastern half of Worcestershire, the sprawling Wychavon district which runs from Droitwich to the edge of the Cotswolds, is safely Conservative. Required fields are marked *. Another Devon council where one group finished up with half the seats last time was the tiny and remote Torridge district, which returned 18 independents, 11 Conservatives, 3 Labour, 2 Greens and 2 Lib Dems. Ten of the other councillors are from the Community Campaign (Hart), who run the council jointly with the Lib Dems. He then moved to work as a presenter on Setanta Sports News which was formed y ITN. Those mayors and senior councillors will be from the outgoing rgime, because the new councillors elected on Thursday 4th May will not take up their roles until Tuesday 9th May its normally a day earlier than this, but Monday 8th May is a bank holiday in honour of the Coronation. This council currently has a Conservative lead of 2013 after the Tories almost swept the board in 2021, and for the second year in a row more than half of the Labour group is up for election this year. This page is not available in other languages. Matt Teale is an English broadcast journalist with ITV, Forces TV, and Sky News. Dont miss to subscribe to our new feeds, kindly fill the form below. He was run close by the Conservatives for his final re-election in 2021, winning by just 4640. Also in the foothills of the Pennines is Calderdale council, whose largest town is Halifax but which also extends to Brighouse, Hebden Bridge and Todmorden. South Ribble council is also run by a Labour minority, with 23 Labour councillors, 21 Conservatives, 5 Lib Dems and one vacant seat. The 2022 ward map was even worse for the local Conservatives, who won just two wards in the district last year thats one fewer than Labour. North Kesteven actually returned a majority of independent councillors in 2019, although the independents were not a united bloc and the Conservatives were able to peel enough of them off to stay in control. But we are not funded by the UK TV licence fee. Our final English region this year is also the busiest in terms of the number of councils up. Moving into Norfolk, we come to the cumbersomely-named district of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk which is definitely in play this time.
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