Jill Hope

Northamptonshire County Councillor for Sixfields - a Lib Dem campaigner working all year round, not just at election time Learn more

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ONE of the regular comments I have encountered on the doorstep as I’ve campaigned in West Hunsbury has been that Northampton town centre is dirty. I’m regularly in Abington Street at 8am and I can absolutely promise you that at that time the street is perfectly clean. Then the people come and they drop litter, […]

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THIS time they’ve gone just a bit too far!

by Jill Hope on 27 April, 2011

During an election campaign there is always a bit of political knockabout. That’s accepted. Sticks and stones etc. But I draw the line at outright lies.

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THE LIB DEMS won control of the Council for the first time in May 2007. It’s the first time the Liberal Party were in power here since the 1920s. On 5 May this year, we proudly defend our four-year record. Before 2007, the Council was run by a disastrous Conservative administration and, for 12 years […]

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THE TORY GROUP on the Borough Council have announced that they want to open up Abington Street to traffic once again. They are proposing opening up the “middle section” of Abington Street as key part of their manifesto for the May local elections. If elected they say they will carry out the work within four […]

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PLANS for the remodelled and expanded Grosvenor Shopping Centre will be on display opposite Superdry in the Grosvenor Centre (Abington Street entrance) on Friday 18 and Saturday 19 March. Lib Dem Councillor Richard Church, who is the Cabinet member responsible commented: “We have been waiting a long time for these plans to be developed, and […]

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