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STC
Two STC Full Council Meetings — April 2026 Report
STC just beat another record. They achieved a 300% increase in meeting frequency in April 2026 compared to 2025. Three…
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Politics
WHO RUNS STC?
You can pretend that a man can become a woman, but reality is different. You can pretend that the Sun…
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STC
STC councillors attendance in 2025
It took me an insane amount of time to make heads and tails of STC’s attendance record for 2025. But…
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Events
Co-option speech
Once again, I was rejected by the Labour Party politicians at the co-option meeting. No surprise there. Below are links…
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Other
100 Days of the New/Old Shirebrook Town Council
1 April is commonly known as April Fools’ Day, but this year it was also the 100-day anniversary of the…
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Places
WARNING: The Cracking Wall of the Leisure Centre
The photograph above, taken by me on 16 February 2026, shows the exterior north-east wall of Shirebrook Leisure Centre. You…
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Politics
225%: That Is How Change Looks Like
I rarely praise STC, but today is the day. Since Reform and Independent councillors joined STC, there has been a…
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Life
79.9% of your tax goes to…
Oh boy, do I have something special today! For the last two years, I have been fine-tuning my favourite AI…
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STC
Freedom of Information Act – Ignored, Neglected, Broken
At the last electors’ meeting, I asked why the Town Clerk of STC never responds to Freedom of Information Act…
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Politics
DEAR DIARY – TODAY I WAS AT A FULL COUNCIL MEETING
I still can’t get over the fact that people don’t understand that a blog is, in essence, a modern-day diary.…
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STC
LABOUR PARTY IS SCARED
Labour Party councillors chose to ignore STC’s own Co-option Policy and handled the process differently, not only from the established…
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Politics
Old Council vs. New Council: A Tale of Two Cultures
One thing that really shows the difference between the old and current administrations of Shirebrook Town Council is how often…
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STC
Tax rise 2026 – part 2
Today’s article presents the most interesting information about the town’s finances discussed at the last precept meeting of STC. I…
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Politics
Eleventh Tax Rise in Twelve Years
STC just raised taxes. Does it matter how much? Yes, but what matters more is that this is the eleventh…
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STC
!!! 147% increase in payments to pellet delivery contractor
The pellet scandal just got new colours! This enormous increase happened after I lost my seat at STC. A 147%…
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STC
STC Finances in Trouble? Full Council Report (14 Jan 2026)
I feel torn after the last STC Full Council meeting. On one hand, you cannot deny that having an STC…
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STC
STC 2026 shenanigans begin!
Less than ten days before the scheduled Finance & Growth Committee meeting, the Town Clerk cancelled it and convened a…
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Life
2026 – A Year of Choice
When Labour took power from the Conservatives, I wrote an article predicting what the next four years would bring. If…
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Events
Chaos and hope. Hope and chaos. Co-option results.
I started 2025 on this blog with an article titled “2025 – A Year of Hope.” After a full year…
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STC
8 out of 9 candidates co-opted. One rejected.
Care to guess who was rejected? I won’t keep you in suspense — me. Am I disappointed? Yes and no.…
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STC
SHIREBROOK TOWN COUNCIL COLLAPSED – THIRD CHAIR RESIGNED
Yet another Chair of STC has resigned. Sarah Brooks is now the third Leader of Council this year to abandon…
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Life
UNFAIR DIVISION OF SHIREBROOK
If you look at the political map of Shirebrook, you’ll quickly notice a strange, tiny ward at the very top…
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STC
Employment of Close Relatives in STC
I’m trying to prepare for the co-option process as best as I possibly can. So I went onto the Town…
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Places
MAN IN THE PIT – THE SHIREBROOK STATUE
Shirebrook’s statue at Market Square isn’t just a statue—it’s a message. Let me take you to a place without politics,…
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Places
HMO’s Map of Disgrace
There’s a new application for an HMO in Shirebrook, currently with BDC. Predictably, the left-leaning crowd rushes to defend this…
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STC
Abandon the ship… I mean STC!
I thought the era of meetings being adjourned by the Chair had passed. I believed that, despite a few stumbles…
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Other
More HMOs in Shirebrook?
It’s up to you – do you want more HMOs in Shirebrook or not? At this very moment, there is…
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Politics
NO BY-ELECTION. CO-OPTING EXPLAINED
We just saved tens of thousands of pounds. How? All political parties and individual electors in Shirebrook chose not to…
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Events
SHIREBROOK: UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Today, a short article about the Village Hall electors meeting. It was yet another example of the positive change flowing…
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People
TOWN CLERK OF SHIREBROOK TOWN COUNCIL
The STC “civil service” splits neatly into three tribes: Labour Party friends and family, the Town Clerk’s friends and family,…
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