Category Archives: Romsey

Good result in Romsey: Tory vote collapses behind Lib Dem victory

Good news from the Cupernham by-election in Romsey on my friend Len Gates’s blog: a 7% swing from the Conservatives to the Lib Dems and a victory for Karen Dunleavey:

Candidate
Votes
%
vs. last time

Karen Dunleavey (LD)
793
59.7%
+4.1%pts

C. Lewis (Con)
460
34.6%
-9.8%pts

B. McCabe (UKIP)
73
5.5%
+5.5%pts

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Bus cuts, tuition fees and Michael Portillo

Up bright and early yesterday to join the campaign to save the Romsey-Winchester rail-link bus. This entailed getting the 7.04 a.m. bus to Romsey, putting on a Santa hat, and travelling back at 7.35 a.m. with Sandra Gidley and …

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