City Council elections: 3 May 2012 – other wards

TonyOX3

Who’s on twitter (2)

In my earlier post I listed the candidates and councillors in the Oxford City Council wards within the OX3 Headington/Marston/Barton area, showing those who have twitter accounts. I am extending this to the other 18 wards in the City: here are the first nine, Blackbird Leys to Littlemore wards. Please let me know of any errors or omissions.

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Current Councillor standing for re-election
Current Councillor continuing to serve, not due for re-election
Current Councillor standing down, not seeking re-election
Name Party twitter Notes

BLACKBIRD LEYS
David HEARN Conservative    
Alasdair MURRAY Liberal Democrat @alasdairjmurray  
Sarah PETHYBRIDGE Green    
Val SMITH Labour @valsmithoxford Protected account
Van COULTER Labour    

CARFAX
Anne-Marie CANNING Labour @amcanning  
Tim PATMORE Conservative @Tim_Patmore  
Adam RAMSAY Green @AdamRamsay  
Duncan STOTT Liberal Democrat @DuncanStott Blog
Tony BRETT Liberal Democrat @tonybrett Blog
Stephen BROWN Liberal Democrat    

COWLEY
Clare COCHRANE Green    
Judith HARLEY Conservative    
Helen O’HARA Labour    
Mike TAIT Liberal Democrat    
Shah KHAN Labour    
Bryan KEEN Labour    

COWLEY MARSH
Gary DIXON Conservative    
Ben MACONICK Liberal Democrat    
Saj MALIK Labour    
Kevin MEANEY Green @oxkev Blog
Mohammed ABASSI Labour    

HINKSEY PARK
Judy CHIPCHASE Green    
Catherine HODGKINSON Liberal Democrat    
Simon MORT Conservative    
Oscar VAN NOOIJEN Labour @Oscar_VN  
Bob PRICE Labour    

HOLYWELL
Alex HARVEY Labour    
Sam HOLLICK Green @shollick  
Robin McGHEE Liberal Democrat @RobinMcGhee  
Mark MILLS Liberal Democrat @CllrMMills  
Nathan PYLE Liberal Democrat    

IFFLEY FIELDS
Elise BENJAMIN Green @EliseDB  
Doug HALE Liberal Democrat @Doug_Hale Inactive account
Neil PRESTIDGE Conservative    
Richard TARVER Labour    
David WILLIAMS Green    

JERICHO & OSNEY
Colin COOK Labour    
Peter FURTADO Green @pfurtado1543 2 other accounts
Catherine HILLIARD Liberal Democrat    
Bill WILSON Conservative    
Susanna PRESSEL Labour    

LITTLEMORE
Carolyn EVANS Conservative    
Dorian HANCOCK Liberal Democrat    
Matthew SELLWOOD Green @MattSellwood Blog
John TANNER Labour    
Gill SANDERS Labour    

City council elections: 3 May 2012 – Wards in OX3

TonyOX3

Who’s on twitter?

The official list of candidates standing in the local elections to Oxford City Council was published on 4 April. The elections take place on Thursday 3 May. @HeadingtonNews has produced a list of the candidates standing in the six wards which fall within the Headington – Marston – Barton area, and I am grateful for the code from that page which has saved me a fair amount of typing!

My own list is slightly different. I shall be following the campaign on twitter as well as other channels and I thought it would be interesting to see how many of the candidates are themselves tweeters. I already had a dozen or so local councillors and candidates on my oxpolitics list, but starting with the OX3 wards I have searched and found more. Some, I have to say, are not very active – which says nothing at all about their merits as potential councillors. All wards have at least one candidate with a twitter account but the sole one in Quarry & Risinghurst is at present inactive.

So if you want to engage with your local candidates or just follow the campaign, here’s who to follow. I’ll try to make a complete list for the whole of Oxford but I don’t know how soon I’ll be able to do it. Meanwhile if you find any errors or omissions please let me know.

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Current Councillor standing for re-election
Current Councillor continuing to serve, not due for re-election
Current Councillor standing down, not seeking re-election
Name Party twitter Notes

BARTON & SANDHILLS
Alexander Michael CIBULSKIS Liberal Democrat
Graham Edwin LOVELOCK Conservative
Mike ROWLEY Labour & Co-operative Party @redmikerowley Protected account
Mary-Jane SAREVA Green @MarySareva Inactive account
Van COULTER Labour

CHURCHILL
Siddo DEVA Conservative
Julian FAULTLESS Green
Mark Robert LYGO Labour @MarkLygo
Ruth Margaret RUNDLE Liberal Democrat @Ruthr1978 Protected account
Joe McMANNERS Labour @joemcmanners

HEADINGTON
Mark BHAGWANDIN Conservative @markb_gt Occasional blogger
Jane DARKE Labour
Richard John HOWARTH Green
Ruth Elaine WILKINSON Liberal Democrat @RuthWilk Blog & local info
David RUNDLE Liberal Democrat @DavidRundle

HEADINGTON HILL & NORTHWAY

Sietske BOELES Green
Roy DARKE Labour
Nicholas Oliver FELL UK Independence Party
Thomas Anthony KELLEY Conservative
Stephen TALL Liberal Democrat @StephenTall Website
Mohammed ALTAF-KHAN Liberal Democrat @maltafkhan

MARSTON

Sam Anthony FOWKES Liberal Democrat @SamFowkes1
Mick HAINES Independent
Duncan Valentine HATFIELD Conservative
Alistair David Pryce MORRIS Green
Louise UPTON Labour
Mary CLARKSON Labour
Beverley HAZELL Labour

QUARRY & RISINGHURST
Laurence BAXTER Labour
Julia Margaret GASPER UK Independence Party
Raymond Leslie HITCHINS Green
Allen MILLS Conservative
Roz SMITH Liberal Democrat @RoziRogers Inactive account
Dee SINCLAIR Labour

Headington Headlines #56

TonyOX3

Here’s my weekly round-up of local news for 26 March – 1 April —

Sewage spills from a manhole in Osler Road near the junction with St Andrews Road were causing problems at the start of the week but were eventually fixed by Thames Water.

Bob Ford, owner of Headington Homewares, was on BBC Oxford radio on Tuesday afternoon talking about home brewing. Posh Fish re-opened after their recent fire and Café Noir is being redecorated.

Local people were welcomed with free refreshments by the proprietor, Sunder Sandher, at Headington Londis from 12pm on Friday 30 March. @HeadingtonNews posted this picture of Sunder with Andrew Smith MP (notably not eating a pasty).

Last Wednesday night (28 March) a burglar tried to break into homes in Bickerton Road and Beech Road, but was disturbed each time. Shortly afterwards in Woodlands Road a patrolling Police officer noticed a security light come on at a property. He was able to alert the occupiers and shortly afterwards Police detained the intruder and an accomplice nearby. Both are now in custody. (Report via @RuthWilk.)

Oxford University’s plans to buy the Park Hospital site moved forward.

The Lime Walk Players performed Oliver! at the Lime Walk Methodist Hall in New High Street this weekend. They desperately need more men to join their group.

There was a report of criminal damage to two vehicles parked in OXSRAD car park on Saturday.

My favorite Headington-related tweet this week:

Active topics on the Headington & Marston e-democracy forum this week:

  • Area Forums – do they work for you?
  • Charity shops – creating specialist outlets
  • Posh Fish

I try to cover news from the OX3 postcode in Headington and out as far as Barton, Sandhills and Risinghurst (see map). To feed into next week’s summary you can comment on this article, or tweet either with the hashtag #ox3 or @mentioning @TonyOX3.