North Tyneside Councillors Want New Referendum on Mayor's Role" - Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), June 25, 2012doi:10.1039/P29950001197Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)journal of the chemical society perkin transactions
Views of the NorthIT APPEARED history had been made and democracy was shining through at last week's meeting of North Tyneside Council where Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors joined forces to overturn the Conservative mayor's budget by a two thirds majority (The Journal, March 3)....
Labour doesn't like it one bit.THE last thing they want is town halls full of independent councillors led by independent mayors.They were happy for places like Hartlepool, Middlesbrough and North Tyneside to pilot directly-elected mayors because they thought the results were a foregone conclusion....