Top six councils for recycling are all Lib Dem led
As Let’s Recycle reports:
Three Rivers district council was the best local authority in England at recycling in 2021/22…
South Oxfordshire district council had the second highest recycling rate at 62.7%, while the champions of 2020/21 – St Albans district and city council in Hertfordshire – completed the top three with a rate of 62.4%.
Last year, the top four slots were filled by Lib Dem led councils; now it is up to six.
Congratulations to all those Lib Dem teams – and thank you to everyone else whose campaigning also helped elect them.
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Just to add to that: 5th on the list (East Devon District Council) is currently run by a Democratic Alliance of non-Tory councillors in which Lib Dems have a significant stake – and it’s all up for election this May. (A large portion of EDDC lies within Richard Foord’s par;iamentary constituency). The Tories were removed from office in 2019 after more than 40 years of domination.
LIONEL KING, aged 86 years and 9 months is to contest Knowle Ward, Solihull MBC
in response to the appeal by Solihull & Meriden LA for candidates to contest on a broader front than for many years past. Lionel has been a parliamentary candidate at three General Elections and in eight previous local government elections, beginning in Birmingham in 1961. He was a member of Balsall Parish Council 2007-2019. It is possible that he is one of the oldest candidates of any party to be standing in May 2023.