Ahead of the excitement of the general election, Councilbust.com is creating a series of podcasts featuring interviews with the prospective Parliamentary candidates for Southend’s seats. This week, Councilbust.com editor Rachel Charman interviews Julian Ware-Lane (Castlepoint, Lab), Kevin Bonavia (Rochford and Southend East, Lab), and Peter Welch (Southend West, Lib Dem) to talk political apathy,...
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By Rachel Charman David Amess, Conservative MP for Southend West, yesterday called on the Prime Minister to assist with the investigation into the death of Stephen Oliver. Mr Oliver, who was originally from Southend, suffered a sudden heart attack when he was working in Sidari, Corfu, in October last year. Mr Oliver’s mother, Jan...
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The Councilbust.com team is proud to announce the release of its first podcast! Click here to go to the podcast page. Join editor Rachel Charman and news reporter Shane Croucher as they explore the rise of the Southend BNP, the redevelopment of Victoria Circus and York Road Market, and the row between Cllr Jason...
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Much has been made of the use of social media in politics. Barack Obama’s highly-polished use of social media technology such as Facebook is a notable example; Conservative leader David Cameron caused a stir with his regular YouTube webcasts; and here in Southend, local councillors and prospective Parliamentary candidates use Twitter to keep the...
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Opinion: Blogs don’t win elections, but they help
By Rachel Charman This week saw an interesting letter to the Echo from D Allan in Shoebury. In the letter, Allan writes: “From my experience, whether it be a Conservative, Labour or Independent leaflet which has appeared on my doormat, there has always been some form of typo, or grammatical error. “To put people...
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