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BBC News
22-05-2025
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Driving ban for Stoke-on-Trent councillor who refused breath test
A councillor who failed to give a breath test when asked to by police has been banned from driving for 12 Kelsall - a former Stoke-on-Trent Conservative councillor who now sits as an independent - represents the Hanford, Newstead and Trentham was charged with the offence of "failing to provide a specimen for analysis – vehicle driver" following an incident in Etruria on 5 December 2024, police was sentenced after a trial at Derby Justice Centre on Thursday. Kelsall's disqualification could be reduced by three months if she satisfactorily completes a course approved by the secretary of state by 21 December, the court said. Follow BBC Stoke & Staffordshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Politics
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Shoot all Tories comment councillor avoids suspension
A former council leader who said "all Tories should be shot" will not be suspended, a committee has Williams made the remarks at an internal Anglesey council meeting in June 2023 before apologising and referring himself to the public services the time he said he was "angry and emotional" about poverty when he made the "crass remark".The ombudsman said the comments "brought the council into disrepute" but, on Friday, the council's standards committee said Williams would be be censured, but not suspended. During the committee's meeting, Williams admitted breaching the code of conduct, which a report also found he had failed to comply an independent councillor, was leader of the council between 2013 and was deputy leader and holder of the education and Welsh language portfolio when he made the gave up his role as deputy leader in the aftermath of making his remark, which were described at the time as "inappropriate and unacceptable" by Dylan Williams, chief executive of the committee heard there were several reasons for the decision to censure Williams, including that the misconduct only occurred once and he reported the matter added that Williams had cooperated to correct the failure and accepted that a change of behavior was necessary, as well as following the code of conduct since the incident.
