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unusual facts about Borough Council



Borden Grammar School

Aside from the references to the school's location and benefactor, the etymology of 'Swale' can be explained by reference to the local stretch of water, The Swale, which runs between Sittingbourne and the Isle of Sheppey and also lends its name to the local Borough Council.

Local government in Northampton

Northampton Borough Council is the borough council and non-metropolitan district responsible for local government in the large town of Northampton in England.

Roy Perry

Perry graduated from the University of Exeter with a degree in Government and Politics and was formerly a senior lecturer in Politics before entering the profession himself as a member of Test Valley Borough Council from 1979 to 1994.

The Yorkshire Musical Saw Player

Although he works in Information technology for Harrogate Borough Council, he has continued to play the musical saw throughout the UK and is now actively involved in promoting the playing of the saw through workshops and public concerts as well as providing advice to saw makers and composers.


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Andy Morrison

He failed to inform the Department for Work and Pensions and Vale Royal Borough Council in Cheshire that he had £58,000 in his bank account while he was still claiming benefits.

Assid Corban

He was the first Mayor of Waitakere and previously Mayor of the Henderson Borough Council.

Avondale, Auckland

In 1927 the Avondale Borough Council was absorbed into the Auckland City Council.

Bertram Kelly

After finishing his education, Kelly took up electric lighting posts with Midland Railway, London County Council and Hornsey Borough Council.

Bishopshalt School

John Arthur Watts, Conservative MP for Slough from 1983–97, and Leader of Hillingdon Borough Council from 1978–84

Blencogo

Blencogo is a small farming village in Cumbria, England, UK, near Wigton on the Solway plain, in the Allerdale Borough Council area, off the B3502 Wigton to Silloth road.

Bobby McKee

In 2009 McKee led a welcoming delegation to the Catholic Ancient Order of Hibernians at Larne Borough Council headquarters in an attempt to boost cross community relations in the area in what was described as a historic day.

Capita Symonds

In 2001/2 they formed strategic partnerships with Cumbria County Council, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council and four Welsh local authorities.

Caroline Nokes

Nokes was a member of Test Valley Borough Council from 1999 until 2010, when she was elected as a Councillor for the Romsey Extra Ward, serving as the Leisure Portfolio Holder.

Carolyn Comitta

Comitta was first elected to the West Chester Borough Council in 2005, taking-over the Fifth Ward seat vacated by incumbent Democratic Councilwoman Barbara McIlvaine Smith.

Charles Button

When Birkenhead Borough Council was formed in 1888, Button was elected unopposed as the borough's first mayor on 9 May.

Chilwell Olympia

It is run by Broxtowe Borough Council with the aim of meeting the recreational and sporting needs of the locality as well as the physical education needs of the pupils at Chilwell School.

Coate Water Country Park

In 2004, Swindon Borough Council and the University of Bath published plans to develop land next to the park as a new campus.

Corby toxic waste case

The Corby toxic waste case was a court case decided by The Hon. Mr. Justice Akenhead at the High Court of Justice, London, on 29 July 2009 in the case of Corby Group Litigation v. Corby Borough Council 2009 EWHC 1944 (TCC).

Deborah Cadman

Ms Cadman had previously been head of the East of England Development Agency (and presided over its abolition) and before that Chief Executive of St Edmundsbury Borough Council in Suffolk.

Cadman's first Chief Executive post was at St Edmundsbury Borough Council, which gained 'excellent' performing status in 2007 (having previously been 'fair').

Edward Bingham

Bingham's Victoria Cross was auctioned by Sotheby's in 1983 and was purchased by the North Down Borough Council, County Down, who outbid a Canadian millionaire.

Fire and Steel Festival

The event was organised by Secret Millionaire David Jamilly and social entrepreneur and local boxing coach Frankie Wales, in conjunction with Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.

Frank Findlay

He was on the Hamilton Borough Council for 12 years and served as Deputy Mayor for some time.

Hollingbourne Rural District

Bredhurst (part transferred to Gillingham Borough Council in 1933)

Larne Borough Council

In memory of a battle in the town of Musa Qala in Afghanistan in 2006, involving the Royal Irish Regiment, a new regimental march, composed by Chris Attrill and commissioned by Larne Borough Council, was gifted to the regiment on Saturday 1 November 2008 in Larne, during an event in which the regiment was also presented with the 'Freedom of the Borough'.

Local government in Northampton

The leader and cabinet model of decision-making, adopted by the borough council under the Local Government Act 2000, is similar to national government.

Mahlon Morris Garland

He served as vice president of the American Federation of Labor, as member of the Pittsburgh School Board, and as a member of the borough council of Edgewood, Pennsylvania.

Norton Manor Camp

The western part of the site close to the railway was sold off to either commercial developers (including a new production site for Taunton Blackthorn Cider), re-utilised as a cheap trading estate, or sold onwards to Taunton Deane borough council for redevelopment as housing.

On Chesil Beach

Protests by conservationists and a threat by Weymouth and Portland borough council to fine him £2,000 led the author to return the pebbles.

Richard Crawshaw

Crawshaw became active in Liverpool politics in the early 1950s and then becoming a councillor in the 1955 landslide election in Liverpool Borough Council in the Dingle ward which is in Liverpool Toxteth and the council ward was very safe for the Labour party in a marginal seat for the Conservative Party from its creation in 1950.

Richer Dompierre

In 2003, he filed a police complaint alleging that fellow Vision Montreal councillor Ivon Le Duc had attacked him during a heated borough council debate over a proposed move of the Jean-Paul Riopelle sculpture La Joute.

South Ribble

In the 2007 local elections, South Ribble witnessed a landslide Conservative victory, gaining 24 seats to hold 44 of 55 on the borough council.

Swindon Works

In the 1960s, Swindon Borough Council applied to demolish much of the village, but poet and railway enthusiast Sir John Betjeman led a successful campaign to preserve it.

The Borough of Wandsworth Rifle Club

It was in the following year that the club was renamed to the Borough of Wandsworth Rifle Club and the borough council granted a piece of land near the River Wandle of approximately two acres at a nominal rent for the erection of an indoor and outdoor range.

The Phoenix Collegiate

It was only a grammar school at this site for five years, becoming a comprehensive school in September 1969 when West Bromwich borough council (which merged with Warley five years later to form Sandwell) abolished grammar and secondary modern schools in the area.

Tree House, Crawley

It is owned by Crawley Borough Council, and was used most recently as a venue for various Council-run services and voluntary-sector organisations such as a Citizens Advice Bureau and a bereavement counselling service.

Tunbridge Wells West railway station

An agreed corridor was left alongside Linden Park Road to enable any reinstated line to run through the site and a formal agreement was concluded between Tunbridge Wells Borough Council and Lord Sainsbury whereby the company agreed that, if required, they will remove at their own cost any buildings obstructing the path of the railway.

Watford tube station

Their ambition to drive a tunnel under Cassiobury Park, recently purchased by the borough council from the Earl of Essex, was opposed by local politicians.

Whitby Urban District

It comprised the present Whitby Town Council plus Briggswath (the present Scarborough Borough Council wards of Mayfield, Streonshalh and Whitby West Cliff).