BISHOP AUCKLAND TOWN
Clive David Cooper (BNP)
Sharon Roberta Cooper
(BNP)
John Harold Gasston (Con)
Neil Allan Harrison (Lib Dem)
Barbara Laurie (Lab),
Kenneth Manton (Lab)
Colin Raine (Con)
Samuel Zair (Lib Dem)
COUNDON
Dorothy Burn (Lib Dem)
Joan Firby (Con)
Phil Graham (Lab)
John Milner (Con)
Neil Stonehouse (Lab)
Tommy Taylor (Lib
Dem)
CROOK NORTH
John Bailey (Lib Dem)
Louise Brown (Lab)
Louise Brown started her career at Wear Valley Women’s Aid as a Children
and Young People’s worker, offering support in our community with the
many issues which impact on people’s lives, enabling her to work throughout
the community in partnership. Louise has lived in Tow Law for a number
of years and has a deep respect for local traditions and history. Louise
says, “I want to transfer the skills I have developed to represent my
community as a councillor to ensure that the interests of everybody here
are represented.”
Jeff Gale (Lab)
Jeff Gale is one of the two Labour Candidates who are standing for the
Crook North Ward. He has been the Wear Valley District Councillor for
five years and has been Chair of Housing Services for over three years.
Jeff has worked in the local authority spending five years as a shop steward
until the mid-90’s when he became self employed running a shop/café with
his wife until he retired. Jeff says, “If elected I will do my best to
represent and work with everyone in all of our communities within the
ward at the new authority.”
Ron Grogan (Ind)
Patricia Ann Jopling (Lib Dem)
CROOK SOUTH
Jimmy Gooch (Lib Dem)
Gavin Keith Jopling (Lib Dem)
Eddie Murphy (Ind)
Rose Seabury (Lab)
Eddie Tomlinson (Lab)
Eddie Tomlinson is a Durham lad, now a grandfather and proud to have raised
three daughters in the Crook. Eddie has experience as a District Council
and a governor for Hartside Primary. He says " Being on the Wear
Valley Community Network and the LSP has shown me that people want Crook
to be a great place to live and work. I want to help them make that happen."
His career in Local and Central Government has given him an understanding
of how to make things really happen for places like Crook. People working
together in partnership can build a better future for us all.
Kelvin Wilson (BNP)
WEARDALE
Angela Agnes Katherine Bolam (Ind)
Richard Leslie Groves (Lib Dem)
Olwyn Elizabeth Gunn (Lab)
Olwyn Gunn comes from a Weardale family and spent many happy days of her
childhood ‘helping ‘ her Granddad, William (Bill) Dowson build the dry
stone walls in and around Eastgate. Olwyn and Alison Hiles (Lab) want
Weardale to flourish and have a series of priorities which include; Retaining
the once again threatened Weardale Railway; Making sure that the Eastgate
development benefits local people; The continuation of the best ambulance
service for Weardale; High quality education – making sure local school
children do not lose out to other areas of the county both in the programme
Building Schools for the Future and Surestart facilities; Working in partnership
with local people – making themselves available by providing regular meetings
across the area so that they can listen to local views and concerns.
Alison Mary Hiles (Lab)
Alison Hiles grew up in the rural pennines and has worked in the area
for over 30 years. She is proud to have brought up her four daughters
in West Durham and is kept on her toes by her three (and a half) grandchildren.
Alison and Olwyn Gunn (Lab) want Weardale to flourish and have a series
of priorities which include; Retaining the once again threatened Weardale
Railway; Making sure that the Eastgate development benefits local people;
The continuation of the best ambulance service for Weardale; High quality
education – making sure local school children do not lose out to other
areas of the county both in the programme Building Schools for the Future
and Surestart facilities; Working in partnership with local people – making
themselves available by providing regular meetings across the area so
that they can listen to local views and concerns.
Christopher Mark Houghton (Con)
Thomas Richard Mews (Ind)
Anita Savory (Ind)
John Shuttleworth (Ind)
Lesley Shuttleworth (Ind)
Anthony Charles Simpson (Lib Dem)
WEST AUCKLAND
John Ferguson (Lib Dem)
Peter Laws (Con)
Vince Perkins
(Lib Dem)
Jim Tague (Con)
Andrew Hunter Turner (Lab)
Robert
John Yorke (Lab)
WILLINGTON
Kenneth Albert Bowser (Lib Dem)
Becky Brunskill (Con)
John Cunningham (Ind)
Laura Dixon (Con)
David English (Lib Dem)
Anne Hodgson (BNP)
Brian Lesley Myers (Lab)
Local Labour candidates in Willington, Brian Myers and Margaret Pinkney
are proud to represent the controlling party on the current Durham County
Council, a council recently reaffirmed as a 4 star authority. No spin
from them who want to be your councillors because they are hard working,
enthusiastic people with over a decade of senior experience at district
and county levels. Their track record shows they are keen to be involved
in partnership with the communities they represent to ensure that local
residents are consulted and that the local politicians really listen to
those they represent. They are both committed to making the new unitary
council a success and to making sure that the voices of local people are
heard and are determined to act in the best interests of all the villages
they represent. Brian and Margaret both support the Labour policies for,
safer and cleaner streets, healthier communities, better value for money
and a fairer deal for young people.
Margaret Pinkney (Lab)
Local Labour candidates in Willington, Brian Myers and Margaret Pinkney
are proud to represent the controlling party on the current Durham County
Council, a council recently reaffirmed as a 4 star authority. No spin
from them who want to be your councillors because they are hard working,
enthusiastic people with over a decade of senior experience at district
and county levels. Their track record shows they are keen to be involved
in partnership with the communities they represent to ensure that local
residents are consulted and that the local politicians really listen to
those they represent. They are both committed to making the new unitary
council a success and to making sure that the voices of local people are
heard and are determined to act in the best interests of all the villages
they represent. Brian and Margaret both support the Labour policies for,
safer and cleaner streets, healthier communities, better value for money
and a fairer deal for young people.
Julie Snaith (BNP)
WOODHOUSE CLOSE
Alan Anderson (Lib Dem)
Colin Firby (Con)
Richard
Huntington (Lib Dem)
June Elizabeth Lee (Lab)
John Lethbridge (Lab)
Anne Welford (Con)
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