County council updates
Following his 16% vote in yesterday’s Preston City Council election, H&D editor Mark Cotterill today polled 8.8% in the Lancashire County Council for Preston South-East division. Due to redrawing of Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Local News
Corrupt establishments face nemesis in Scotland and Liverpool
With elections now confirmed for May 6th in most of the UK (despite continuing restrictions associated with the pandemic) a spotlight has fallen on two powerful political establishments: the Labour Continue Reading →
Labour councillor resigns after porn charges
A Labour councillor for the Hollinwood ward of Oldham Council has resigned and last week appeared in court facing charges of downloading child pornography. Martin Judd, 25, entered not guilty Continue Reading →
Lib Dems drop mayoral candidate in ‘anti-semitism scandal’
The Liberal Democrats, struggling to hold on to their status as the UK’s third largest political party, have run into a storm over ‘anti-semitism’ as they attempt to select a Continue Reading →
Councils obfuscate Covid-19 statistics
Last week H&D reported detailed statistics behind the headlines about Covid-19 in Oldham, the Lancashire town that is on the brink of lockdown following a renewed surge in cases of Continue Reading →
Oldham heads for lockdown – are councils hiding the truth about Covid spikes?
This week Oldham is facing full lockdown “within days” due to a surge in Covid-19 cases. Two weeks ago residents were told that they must not meet with others in Continue Reading →
Foreign Secretary dismissed London Holocaust memorial as “preposterous”
Following extensive research at The National Archives, Heritage and Destiny can reveal that the original proposal for a London Holocaust Memorial was strongly opposed by three senior Cabinet ministers and Continue Reading →
“The whole idea is preposterous”: the true story behind London’s Holocaust Memorial
In April 1980 Michael Heseltine, Environment Secretary in Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government, wrote to his colleague Lord Carrington, Foreign Secretary, to consult him about plans that Heseltine had been discussing Continue Reading →
Farage candidate quits after IRA link revealed
In response to the developing scandal over the Brexit Party’s number one candidate in North West England, a fellow candidate today resigned from the party’s slate for this month’s European Continue Reading →
Political Vacuum at 2019 Elections
Despite the Great Brexit Betrayal at Westminster, this year’s local elections bear witness to a vacuum where nationalist (and even eurosceptic) politics used to exist. Nominations closed this afternoon with Continue Reading →