Also worth adding that the Tories lost half their seats (from 27 to 14 out of 39) and their majority on Newark and Sherwood District Council last year. I do not regard this as a safe Tory seat. (View Post)

I would not be surprised to see Newark flip to Labour. The seat has a history of bouncing back and forth between Tory and Labour. Throughout the Wilson/Heath/Callaghan years it was solidly Labour wit… (View Post)

Yeah but it is so extreme it is worth repeating ;) (View Post)

Agreed. He was a high profile figure and the circumstances of his deatah also add to the news interest. It was certainly the most talked about news at work over the last 24 hours even when it started… (View Post)

I was working at the British Geological Survey back in the mid 80s when a new directive came down that all the specialists had to reapply for their own jobs and that preference would be for those wit… (View Post)