Friday 26 May 2006

Acension Day

Well we (lacking a priest at the mo and possibly for some time to come!) had a guest celebrant for Acension Day yesterday.

He refused to wear a Chasuble (never mind a Maniple!) and looked like he wanted to avoid the thurible, but he seemed a nice enough chap when I bumped into him in the pub afterwards.

Tuesday 23 May 2006

Vicars or lack of them

Apparently the parish priest's post at our church is not going to be replaced because the diocese can't afford to.

Now consider there is a shortage of Liberal Catholic parishes in this city. Of the three that I know of, one is now being church planted by Evos. One is going to have to share clergy with the other (non Liberal Catholic) parishes in its benifice and who knows who is going what is going to happen to us.

Obviously provision for "non FiF" Anglo-Catholics is not of interest to the diocese.

Friday 19 May 2006

AGM and Appointments

Well we had the Council's AGM yesterday, which elects the Lord Mayor for the year and appoints the cabinet, committees and oustide bodys.

I have been reappointed the Chairman of the Scrutiny Board 1 (Finance, Procurement and Value for Money, Human Resources, Corporate and Customer Services, Culture, Leisure and Libraries) and aslo been reapponted as one of the City Council's 3 memebers on the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority. I have been put on the Planning Commitee this year as well instead of the Licensing and Regulatory committee I was on last year.

Friday 5 May 2006

Elections

I retained my seat!




















2006 Election results
for Bablake ward
Candidate's SurnameOther namesPartyResult
Simpson

Peter

Liberal Democrat

761
Williams
Andrew John

Conservative

2368

Youett
Christopher Nicholas

Labour


1213

Result: Williams, Andrew John - Conservative hold



We took control of the city too! (We ran it for the last two years with the Lord Mayor's casting vote, but it is nice to have an outright majority!)


















































Overall Results
PartyNumber of seats 2005/06Current Gains / LossesFinal Total 2006/07
British National Party
0

0

0
Conservative

27

+2


29

Green Party
0

0


0
Independent
1

0

1

Independent Voice of Longford
1

-1


0
Labour

20

-1


19

Liberal Democrat
3

-1


2

Socialist Alternative
2

+1


3