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Election 2010

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POUNDING the streets . . . Nick “The Flying Brick” Delves is bidding to represent the Monster Raving Loony Party

Flying Brick’s Monster challenge 
ELECTION 2011

THE Flying Brick is his name — and politics is his game.

Shouting messages through his megaphone yesterday, 45-year-old Nick Delves has set his hopes on fighting the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election for the Monster Raving Loony party.

The 6ft 5in larger-than-life character sported a foam top hat and a lab-coat to take to the village streets to find 10 voters to support him in his bid.

Nominations have to be

Date published: 21/12/2010

Election race against time

Election 2011
COUNCIL chiefs have released details of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election and how to register to vote.

The poll has been arranged for Thursday, January 13, with Oldham Council officers rushing to get arrangements in place.

Due to the tight timescales involved — compounded by Christmas and New Year — they are urging people not already...

Date published: 20/12/2010

Hulme casts doubt over polling date

A SADDLEWORTH campaigner has questioned whether Oldham Council will be able to organise the by-election for January 13.

Labour were furious that the Lib-Dems moved a writ to hold the hotly-contested poll early, raising suspicions it was designed to leave them with little time to campaign and deter students on their holidays from voting against the Lib-Dems over tuition...

Date published: 20/12/2010

Conservatives have no chance, claim Lib-Dems

The Liberal Democrats have claimed the Tories have no chance of winning the forthcoming Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election.

Business Secretary Vince Cable believes it is a straight forward fight between his party and Labour.

Mr Cable made the comments in an interview at the weekend. He also denied David Cameron would hold back in the contest not to humiliate the...

Date published: 20/12/2010

Tories keeping it clean

SIGN up . . . chairman of the Conservative Party Baroness Warsi joins the party’s Oldham East and Saddleworth candidate Kashif Ali in signing the pledge

CHAIRMAN of the Conservative Party, Baroness Warsi, joined the party’s Oldham East and Saddleworth candidate Kashif Ali in signing a pledge to keep their campaign clean.

During a visit...

Date published: 20/12/2010

Standing up for England

STEPHEN MORRIS

The English Democrats have announced that Stephen Morris, the party’s North-West chairman, is their candidate for the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election.

Mr Morris (44) is married...

Date published: 20/12/2010

We can work it out

Parties urged to put differences aside

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010

WITH the future of Oldham Council hanging in the balance party leaders are being urged to put their political differences aside and create a so-called “Cabinet Of All Talents”.

Thursday’s local election — for which turnout was 61.1 per cent — saw the ruling Lib-Dems lose their position of power as Labour...

Date published: 10/05/2010

Battling Battye’s back in business

JOHN BATTYE

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010

FORMER Oldham mayor John Battye is back in the council chamber after storming to victory in Failsworth West.

The veteran politician and former Labour group...

Date published: 10/05/2010

Leader hails gains

PARTY time . . . Labour councillors and supporters celebrate their success with victorious Oldham West and Royton MP Michael Meacher

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010

“IT’S great to be back,” said a triumphant Labour group leader Jim McMahon who saw gains in five Oldham wards.

And the group leader said they were now in a...

Date published: 10/05/2010

Lib-Dem leader’s food for thought

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010

“THAT’S just the way the cookie crumbles” — the words of Lib-Dem leader Howard Sykes (right) after his party lost three seats and overall control of Oldham Council.

Labour snatched the three seats from the Lib-Dems, one from the Tories and one independent seat to put them on level pegging with Councillor Sykes’s party with 27 seats each.

The...

Date published: 10/05/2010

Tory shock at Chadderton loss

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010

OLDHAM’S Tory group leader Jack Hulme was left reeling after his party lost the only seat it was fighting.

He said it was a huge blow not only to the party but to losing candidate Phil Rogers, who had spent the last six years representing Chadderton North.

Mr Rogers was visibly shaken by the shock news the seat had been snatched by Labour’s...

Date published: 10/05/2010

Shock defeat for Lib-Dems

WINNER Abdul Malik

Local ELECTIONS 2010

A DEVASTATING blow was served to the Liberal Democrats when former cabinet member for regeneration Mohib Uddin failed to win his seat by 578 votes.

The shock...

Date published: 10/05/2010

Muslim Yasmin makes history

MAKING history . . . Yasmin Toor

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2010

YASMIN Toor made political history when she became Oldham’s first female Asian Muslim to win a place in the council chamber.

The Labour representative for...

Date published: 10/05/2010

What a difference a day makes for Phil

ELECTION 2010

Labour Minister Phil Woolas is facing life in a hung Parliament today after pipping his nearest rival by 103 votes following three exhausting election counts on Friday.

After the first result led to two recounts, Liberal Democrat loser Elwyn Watkins conceded the Oldham East and Saddleworth seat when the marathon 13-hour decider ended late on Friday...

Date published: 10/05/2010

Losing control!


Local voters were in tune with the nation as they delivered a hung council in Oldham.

"That's just the way the cookie crumbles," declared Lib Dem leader Howard Sykes as he saw his party's overall control of Oldham Council disappear with the loss of three seats.

The five-seat Tories and the council's only Independent, Ian Barker, may now hold the balance of power,...

Date published: 07/05/2010

Hanging on!

SCRAPED HOME . . . Labour’s Phil Woolas defeated his Lib-Dem rival Elywn Watkins after two recounts

RICHARD HOOTON, KAREN DOHERTY, JANICE BARKER & MIKE ATTENBOROUGH
ELECTION 2010

Voters deliver a hung parliament

Woolas survives after night of high drama

Meacher and Heyes...

Date published: 07/05/2010

Count me in!

CLOSE one! Phil Woolas retains his seat — just

Woolas wins after nail-biting night

THEY may only have been 103 votes — but still managed to secure the political future of Immigration Minister Phil Woolas shortly after 11am today....

Date published: 07/05/2010

Meacher proud of 11th victory

Veteran Michael Meacher holds on to his seat

RICHARD HOOTON, KAREN DOHERTY, JANICE BARKER & MIKE ATTENBOROUGH

ELECTION 2010

MICHAEL Meacher secured an 11th election victory with only a minor dent to his majority.

And...

Date published: 07/05/2010

Majority cut but Heyes votes stack up

ELECTION 2010

LABOUR’S David Heyes made it three in a row as he swept to victory in Ashton-under-Lyne.

But he saw his 13,952 majority over the Conservatives cut by 4,858 to four figures when the result was declared at 6.14am. All his opponents increased their poll.

Former Oldham councillor Mr Heyes secured his third parliamentary term in the constituency, with...

Date published: 07/05/2010

Bitten by the ballot

OUCH . . . Mr Sutcliffe

ELECTION 2010

Veteran campaigner Jeremy Sutcliffe ended a 40-year record of campaigning without a scratch when he was bitten by a dog.

The former Chadderton North councillor was...

Date published: 07/05/2010

UKIP no-show

ELECTION 2010

Mystery surrounded the UKIP candidate in Oldham West and Royton.

Helen Roberts from West Wirral didn’t appear on the platform with other candidates when the result was declared at 5.55am by Acting Returning Officer Charlie Parker.

Liberal Democrat candidate Mark Alcock said: “She has never been to any of the hustings — in fact I have never seen...

Date published: 07/05/2010

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