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Conservative councillors will meet on Tuesday morning to elect a replacement for Lord Hanningfield
3:19pm Monday 8th February 2010
THE NEW Leader of Essex County Council will be announced tomorrow after crunch talks by Tory councillors.
A Conservative group meeting will take place at 8:30am Tuesday 9 February before a meeting of the full council at 10:00am.
The new leader will be announced, with current deputy leader Peter Martin the front-runner.
Lord Hanningfield, the previous leader, stood down last week after he was charged with fiddling his House of Lords expenses.
For more, see Tuesday's Gazette.
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Flip Flop, Copford says...
3:50pm Mon 8 Feb 10
We all said on this website that Lord Trofface was at it. Can we now turn around the decision on the school closures as it was made by an alledged dishonest thief who only gave a flying hoot about himself?