Robert Rankin, who represents Hucknall East for Ashfield District Council, resigned in protest at the budget proposed by Tories at the county council. He said the planned £33m of cuts were “a disgraceful attack on the elderly and vulnerable”.
Mark Spencer, Conservative parliamentary candidate for Sherwood, rounded angrily on the councillor.
He told the Evening Post: “I am upset with him for resigning like he has without speaking to any Conservative county councillors about it.
“It seems a little bit of sour grapes because he was not successful in getting elected to the county council. I don’t want to lose any councillors but if I was going to pick one to lose, he would be the one.”
- ThisIsNottingham.co.uk, November 25, 2009.
2. A literary historian has written a book claiming Jane Austen may have become romantically involved with a clergyman while on holiday in Devon.
Although the author never married, the romantic content of many of her novels has fuelled speculation about her life and relationships.
Dr Andrew Norman claims Austen met up with Rev Samuel Blackall in 1802, while she was staying in Sidmouth.
He said his theory was based on Austen’s letters and county records.
Dr Norman, whose biography Jane Austen: An Unrequited Love was published recently, said: “I was puzzled by the fact that Jane Austen wrote about love and people getting together and the anguish involved in that.
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