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conservative
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But Pat Butler, a school governor and a Conservative county councillor , is less sanguine.
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Yet they must not lose the support of the environmental lobby or local Conservative councillors .
elected
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I have reflected on the position of elected councillors being allowed to become chairmen of college boards.
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Does not the hon. Gentleman think it wrong in principle that elected councillors should be paid such salaries on these corporation bodies?
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Voters also elected new regional councillors .
labour
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Does he agree that it is all about the priorities of Labour councillors ?
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Labour plans schools bid LABOUR councillors are bidding to overturn a decision which stalled reorganisation of Liverpool's special schools.
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Darlington's Labour councillors were locked in negotiations with Kimberly-Clark management months before the company finally decided on Humberside.
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We never see him round here, nor any of the Labour councillors , if it comes to that.
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However, Labour councillors want a review to begin next year.
leading
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A leading councillor said yesterday that the charge is likely to be reduced after consultation currently being carried out.
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A leading councillor is concerned about the way the Government is handing out community care cash.
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Too often the literature gives the impression of leading councillors and officers being a united, cohesive group.
liberal
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The opposition cuts across party boundaries, with Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors all against the scheme.
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He says that the council has already had extra funding, how much more do the labour and liberal democrat councillors want?
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I think people wanted a change and that's why they voted for a liberal democrat councillor .
local
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These are composed largely of local councillors indirectly appointed by their local authority but not directly elected to these bodies.
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The plan has the enthusiastic support of local councillors , who believe it will bring tourism and industry to the area.
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However, most national politicians and local councillors share the civil service preference for the functional and centralized system based on Whitehall.
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The chairman will take up the matter with the local councillors . 2.
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Talk to your local councillor as well, if you feel there is a need which is not being met.
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But local councillors say it's a silly idea.
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But local councillors don't like them.
privy
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Charles I was equally well disposed towards Salisbury and made him a privy councillor in 1626.
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He was created baronet in 1895 and a privy councillor in 1906.
regional
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The project has also been endorsed by 11 of the city's 19 regional councillors including new Chairman Bob Chiarelli.
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In Great Britain there are some 20,650 district and borough councillors and some 4,100 county, regional and islands councillors.
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Voters also elected new regional councillors .
tory
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New chairman, Tory councillor Keith Bland admitted that the council had made mistakes.
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A TORY councillor says Labour advertising on buses in Darlington will put people off using them.
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borough
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A recent report by borough councillor and community health council chairwoman Eleanor Young made the point clearly.
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And a report to Darlington borough councillors says the plans could affect small housing developments to the south of Court Arcade.
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The Sainsbury plans have received wholehearted support from borough councillors anxious to attract a prestigious development to the Grange Road site.
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In Great Britain there are some 20,650 district and borough councillors and some 4,100 county, regional and islands councillors.
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Darlington borough councillors heard the two-storey extension at Walworth Castle Hotel would not affect the ancient part of the building.
city
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On July 17, 11 city councillors were arrested in Reggio Calabria.
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It will be put to city councillors next week at the information and leisure committee meeting.
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The attractions of LET's scheme are easy for city councillors to appreciate.
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It did happen at times but they were usually people who fancied their power, such as city councillors .
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He is a city councillor for the Peartree ward.
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Read in studio A new video that's intended to attract more tourists to Oxford has been condemned by city councillors .
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Former city councillors John Nelson, 49, and Hannah Folan, 47, face one charge each.
county
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Trips abroad: County councillors have claimed £2,087 for trips abroad during the past year.
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Time allowed 00:19 Read in studio A controversial plan for a bypass around Aylesbury has been delayed by county councillors .
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If our county councillors don't look after us then the future is bleak.
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But county councillors claimed it would reduce parental choice by restricting the number of 11-year-old pupils the popular school can recruit.
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The review's been welcomed by the county councillor who represents the Fairford area.
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Durham county councillors decided at a private meeting yesterday that the club building in Duke Street should be repossessed.
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But Pat Butler, a school governor and a Conservative county councillor , is less sanguine.
democrat
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The opposition cuts across party boundaries, with Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat councillors all against the scheme.
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He says that the council has already had extra funding, how much more do the labour and liberal democrat councillors want?
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I think people wanted a change and that's why they voted for a liberal democrat councillor .
district
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He has an adult son, David, and is also a Mid Suffolk district councillor .
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County and district councillors came along and after searching questions, agreed with our plan wholeheartedly and gave us very good advice.
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Phil Hughes, a district councillor and parish councillor, who lives in Bowes parish.
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Meal fees: Wear Valley district councillors are being asked to approve increased charges for meals on wheels and luncheon clubs.
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Local district councillors are furious that they are being forced by the Government to introduce fees for commercial waste collection.
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He also served as a district councillor for eight years, before retiring in July last year.
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Recognising the problem, district councillors have come up with a much needed cash injection to ease the crisis.
parish
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He concluded by thanking vice-chairman Tony Rudgard who has produced the useful monthly newsletter for parish councillors .
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Campaigners now hope parish councillors will abandon their scheme for 30 new lights and accept alternative proposals instead.
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He is a parish councillor , school governor and a member of Yorkshire Water Consultative Committee.
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He spent 33 years as a parish councillor , 24 of them as parish council chairman.
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Phil Hughes, a district councillor and parish councillor, who lives in Bowes parish.
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Traffic moan: Parish councillors at Robin Hood's Bay are calling for policing to be stepped up.
town
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Javier Mugica Astibia, a town councillor in Navarra, by placing a bomb under his van.
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He is a former Whitby town councillor and was elected to Cleveland county council in 1985.
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The town councillors said the fountain was the first of many such gifts that would improve the villagers' quality of life.
ward
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Gresham ward councillor Barry Coppinger has taken up their case.
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elect
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Aldermen were indirectly elected by the councillors for a six-year term and comprised one-quarter of the total council membership.
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They were kidding themselves if they believed they were just electing a bunch of councillors to run local services.
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Besides the elected councillors , members of existing community-based organisations were supposed to take part in the process.
tell
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Mr Newport told councillors that one Monday 146 juggernauts were unloaded at Park Foods.
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The chief executive or clerk of the authority will tell the councillor when they apply to him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a councillor himself, the author would surely have drawn attention to such a reversal.
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He is a parish councillor , school governor and a member of Yorkshire Water Consultative Committee.
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In close touch with the monarch, he was the best informed and most constantly attendant councillor .
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It has been passed round the parish councillors for any information or comments.
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Not until they opened a sealed box in Virginia did they even learn who were to be their councillors.
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The government was concerned that the administration of local services was being politically compromised by more assertive councillors.
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Trips abroad: County councillors have claimed £2,087 for trips abroad during the past year.