Norman's onto a winner at Aintree - Champion Newspapers
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The <strong>Champion</strong> • Wednesday 11 April 2012<br />
Secrecy row over<br />
councillor selection<br />
questioning Councillor Caroline Esterson in<br />
Report by Jim Sharpe<br />
public session of the council th<strong>at</strong> it emerged the<br />
interviews had been help in her husband’s<br />
office, but only Labour councillors knew the<br />
MAGHULL’S newest town councillor, Gwen<br />
Kermode, says she is delighted to represent the<br />
towns she loves, as opposition councillors<br />
criticised her selection as “too secretive.”<br />
She was co–opted to fill the vacancy left when<br />
Labour Councillor Kris Brown resigned his se<strong>at</strong><br />
and defected to the Lib Dems<br />
Mrs Kermode, wife of sitting councillor Steve<br />
Kermode, was one of three people who applied<br />
after no–one called for a by–election.<br />
Lib Dem opposition councillors have claimed<br />
the selection process was shrouded in secrecy –<br />
place and time.<br />
Lib Dem members only found out on the day<br />
of the interviews but with no inform<strong>at</strong>ion as to<br />
who was being interviewed or where.<br />
He said: “The whole process clearly was fixed<br />
up to ensure th<strong>at</strong> both opposition members and<br />
independent council officers were kept in the<br />
dark.”<br />
Leader of the Town Council, Councillor<br />
Caroline Esterson, said Gwen Kermode would<br />
be a “fantastic addition” to the council.<br />
“We had three excellent candid<strong>at</strong>es come<br />
with interviews being held in the constituency forward for interview and after tough<br />
office of local Labour MP, Bill Esterson. questioning she was the successful candid<strong>at</strong>e.<br />
Opposition leader, Councillor Tony “Having lived in Maghull all her life and with<br />
Robertson, does not dispute th<strong>at</strong> Gwen her involvement in the PTA <strong>at</strong> her children’s<br />
Kermode would have been selected anyway – schools and her position as a magistr<strong>at</strong>e Gwen<br />
but says such secrecy was not necessary. is already a leading member of this<br />
Cllr Robertson said it was only after community.”<br />
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